David Sacks spent a year writing White House AI policy. Now he’s backing a $100M PAC to elect people who’ll protect it. Total AI midterm spending tops $300M.
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A DOGE Employee Allegedly Walked Out of the Social Security Administration with Your Data on a Thumb Drive
A former DOGE engineer allegedly left the SSA with data on 500 million Americans on a thumb drive. When a colleague raised legal concerns, he said he’d get a pardon.
Read MoreThe EPA’s Chemical Safety Office Is Run by the Chemical Industry’s Former Lobbyists
The people who spent their careers fighting EPA chemical regulations are now running the EPA chemical safety office. Their ethics holds just expired. Zero enforcement actions taken.
Read MoreThe 26-Year-Old Who Fired the Ethics Lawyers Is Now Running Pentagon AI
Gavin Kliger got caught with illegal stock holdings at the CFPB, fired the lawyers who flagged it, and just got named Pentagon Chief Data Officer. During a war.
Read MoreThe War Powers Act Is a Joke and Everyone Knows It
Congress has voted eight times on Iran war powers since June. Eight failures. The War Powers Act hasn’t stopped a president from going to war since World War II, and it won’t start now.
Read MoreThe Government Is Erasing History From National Parks
Someone leaked the spreadsheet. 880 national park exhibits under review. 542 flagged. The pattern? Every exhibit about Black, Indigenous, or colonized Americans. The Interior’s response? Threatening the employees who exposed it.
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