Louis DeJoy Begins Serving as Postmaster General Despite Conflicts of Interest

Louis DeJoy officially began serving as the 75th Postmaster General of the United States and USPS Chief Executive Officer, having been unanimously selected by the USPS Board of Governors on May 6, 2020. DeJoy was a major Republican Party megadonor who contributed over $1.2 million to Trump’s …

Amazon announces one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition after George Floyd protests

On Wednesday, June 10, 2020, Amazon announced a one-year moratorium on police use of its Rekognition facial recognition software, shocking civil rights activists and researchers who had spent two years fighting to stop the company from selling surveillance technology to law enforcement. The …

Federal Government Awards Billions in No-Bid COVID PPE Contracts, Often to Politically Connected Companies

In June 2020, NPR analysis revealed that the federal government had awarded over 250 COVID-19 related contracts worth more than $1 million each without full competitive bidding, totaling billions of dollars in federal spending. Many contracts went to companies with no experience in medical …

General Milley Appears with Trump at Lafayette Square After Protest Clearing

Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley accompanied President Trump to Lafayette Square for a controversial photo opportunity at St. John’s Church, following a forcible clearing of peaceful protesters using tear gas and rubber bullets. Dressed in military camouflage, Milley’s presence …

Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout After Zuckerberg Refuses to Remove Trump Incitement to Violence

Facebook employees stage an unprecedented virtual walkout protesting Mark Zuckerberg’s refusal to take action against Trump’s post threatening violence against protesters, stating “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” The employee revolt exposes Facebook’s …

Joe Rogan Signs $100-200 Million Exclusive Deal with Spotify

Spotify signs exclusive multi-year licensing deal with Joe Rogan worth reported $100-200 million, marking largest podcast acquisition and creating financial dependency

Puerto Rico Selects LUMA Energy for $1.5 Billion Grid Privatization Following McKinsey's Recommendations, Quanta Services Connection Raises Questions

The Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnership Authority recommended LUMA Energy—a joint venture between Quanta Services and Canadian Utilities Limited—to operate Puerto Rico’s electrical transmission and distribution system for 15 years in exchange for $1.5 billion, with annual management fees of …

AbbVie Completes $63 Billion Allergan Acquisition: Pharmaceutical Industry Consolidates Into Oligopoly

AbbVie completed its $63 billion acquisition of Allergan after FTC approval requiring divestiture of digestive drug brazikumab to resolve antitrust concerns. The merger created a pharmaceutical giant with combined 2019 revenues of $48 billion and a diversified portfolio spanning immunology, …

Trump Suggests Injecting Disinfectant and UV Light Inside Body as COVID Treatments

During a White House coronavirus briefing on April 23, 2020, President Trump publicly speculated about treating COVID-19 by injecting disinfectant into the human body or inserting ultraviolet light internally, asking “is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a …

Whole Foods Heat Map Tracks Stores at Risk of Unionization Using Diversity and Demographics

Whole Foods Heat Map Tracks Stores at Risk of Unionization Using Diversity and Demographics

On April 20, 2020, Business Insider revealed that Amazon-owned Whole Foods had created an interactive “heat map” system that tracked and scored all 510 of its stores based on their risk of …

CatalanGate Reveals Systematic Pegasus Targeting of 65 Catalan Independence Leaders

Between 2017-2020, the devices of at least 65 Catalan minority politicians and activists are targeted by a sophisticated espionage operation using NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware and Candiru’s surveillance tools, in what becomes known as “CatalanGate.” The victims include current …

Trump Removes Glenn Fine from Pentagon IG, Blocking $2 Trillion CARES Act Oversight

President Trump removed Glenn Fine from his position as acting inspector general for the Defense Department on April 7, 2020, just one week after Fine was selected to chair the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee tasked with overseeing the $2.2 trillion CARES Act stimulus spending. The …

HHS Inspector General Christi Grimm Reports Severe Hospital Shortages, Trump Attacks Her Credibility

Principal Deputy Inspector General Christi Grimm of the Department of Health and Human Services released a report on April 6, 2020, documenting “severe shortages” of COVID-19 testing supplies and “widespread shortages” of personal protective equipment at hospitals nationwide. …

Raytheon-United Technologies Merge Creates $135 Billion Defense Giant, Consolidating Industry Power

On April 3, 2020, Raytheon Company and United Technologies Corporation (UTC) completed a $135 billion merger creating Raytheon Technologies, the world’s second-largest aerospace and defense company behind only Boeing. The merger combined Raytheon’s weapons systems—including the Patriot …

Navy Captain Crozier Fired for Requesting COVID Help for USS Roosevelt Crew

Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly fires Captain Brett Crozier, commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, for sending a letter requesting immediate evacuation of his crew as COVID-19 spreads among nearly 5,000 sailors. Crozier wrote “We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die” in his …

CNP Coordinates National COVID-19 Anti-Lockdown Protest Movement

In April 2020, CNP Action (the 501(c)(4) affiliate of the Council for National Policy) began hosting weekly conference calls to coordinate conservative response tactics to the COVID-19 pandemic, mobilizing Tea Party-like protests against virus-related public safety lockdowns in swing states.

The …

Amazon Fires Christian Smalls for Organizing COVID Safety Protest

Amazon Fires Christian Smalls for Organizing COVID Safety Protest

On March 30, 2020, Amazon fired warehouse worker Christian Smalls hours after he organized a walkout at the Staten Island JFK8 facility to protest inadequate COVID-19 safety measures. The termination occurred during the early, …

PPP launches $800B COVID relief with minimal oversight; $200B+ fraud estimates

The Paycheck Protection Program launched with $800 billion in forgivable loans to support small businesses during COVID-19, but rushed implementation with minimal verification created “the biggest fraud in a generation.” SBA Inspector General estimates $200+ billion in fraudulent loans - …

Senators Burr and Loeffler Accused of Insider Trading After COVID-19 Briefings

Reports emerged that multiple U.S. Senators sold significant amounts of stock after attending classified briefings on the COVID-19 pandemic, but before the public understood the severity of the crisis and before markets crashed. On January 24, 2020, the Senate Committees on Health and Foreign …

Trump Declares National Emergency for COVID-19 After Weeks of Denialism and Delay

President Trump declared COVID-19 a national emergency on March 13, 2020—approximately six weeks after Health Secretary Alex Azar had declared it a public health emergency—finally acknowledging the severity of a pandemic he had spent weeks downplaying and dismissing as a Democratic …

New York Times Exposes Erik Prince's Recruitment of Former Spies for Project Veritas Domestic Intelligence Operations

The New York Times published a detailed investigation revealing that Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, recruited former American and British intelligence officers to conduct domestic espionage operations targeting Democratic political campaigns and …

Trump Wears "Keep America Great" Campaign Hat During CDC Visit, Makes False Testing Claims

President Trump visited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta on March 6, 2020, wearing his red “Keep America Great” campaign hat and delivering a chaotic, politically charged performance that included false claims about testing availability, attacks on …

Facebook Internal Research Confirms Instagram Toxic for Teen Girls, Conceals Findings While Targeting Youth

Facebook’s internal research definitively confirms that Instagram is toxic for teenage girls, causing body image issues, depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts, but the company conceals these findings from the public while continuing to aggressively target youth users to drive engagement …

Trump Calls Coronavirus "Their New Hoax" at South Carolina Rally

At a campaign rally in North Charleston, South Carolina on February 28, 2020, President Trump dismissed Democratic criticism of his administration’s coronavirus response by declaring “this is their new hoax,” comparing it to impeachment and other perceived attacks against him. The …

Fed Vice Chair Clarida Trades Millions Before Rate Cuts

Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Richard Clarida rotated between $1-5 million from Pimco bond funds into stock funds on February 27, 2020, just one day before Fed Chair Powell’s emergency statement about coronavirus risks. Clarida sold multiple ETFs during the market’s COVID-19 downturn and …

DOJ Declines Criminal Prosecution of Wells Fargo Executives

The Department of Justice announces it will not bring criminal charges against any Wells Fargo executives for their roles in the fake accounts scandal, instead accepting a deferred prosecution agreement with the corporation. Despite Wells Fargo’s admission that “top Community Bank …

DOJ Overrules Prosecutors' Roger Stone Sentencing Recommendation After Trump Tweet

On February 20, 2020, federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Roger Stone, longtime Trump adviser and political operative, to 40 months in prison for lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstruction of justice. The sentencing came at the conclusion of an unprecedented political controversy …

Larry Ellison Hosts Trump Fundraiser at California Estate, Raises $7 Million

Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison hosted President Donald Trump at his Rancho Mirage, California estate on February 19, 2020, for a high-dollar campaign fundraiser that raised approximately $7 million for Trump’s reelection campaign. Attendees paid $100,000 for a golf outing and photo opportunity …

YouTube Terminates Nick Fuentes Channel for Hate Speech Violations

YouTube permanently terminated white nationalist Nick Fuentes’ channel for violating its hate speech policies, marking the beginning of widespread deplatforming across major tech platforms. Fuentes had built a significant following through his “America First” livestream show, which …

2020 Congressional COVID Insider Trading Scandal Exposes Systemic Corruption

On February 13, 2020, several U.S. senators were investigated for potentially violating the STOCK Act by selling stock after receiving private briefings about the COVID-19 pandemic, but before the market crash on February 20, 2020. Senator Richard Burr and his wife sold between $628,000 and $1.72 …

Bill Barr Intervenes to Reduce Sentences for Trump Allies Stone and Flynn

Attorney General Bill Barr personally intervened to reduce sentencing recommendations for Trump allies Roger Stone and Michael Flynn, causing four career prosecutors to withdraw from Stone’s case in protest and one to resign from DOJ entirely. After prosecutors recommended 7-9 years for …

Trump Fires Impeachment Witnesses Vindman and Sondland in Coordinated Retaliation Purge

President Trump orchestrated a coordinated purge of impeachment witnesses on February 7, 2020, just two days after his Senate acquittal, firing both Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland in unmistakable retaliation for their truthful congressional testimony. Vindman, the …

Senate Acquits Trump Despite Proven Abuse of Power; Romney Only Republican to Convict

The Senate voted to acquit President Donald Trump on both impeachment articles on February 5, 2020, despite overwhelming evidence that he abused his power by pressuring Ukraine to announce investigations into Joe Biden while withholding military aid. On Article I (Abuse of Power), the vote was …

Senate Votes 51-49 to Block Witnesses in Impeachment Trial, Ensuring Trump Acquittal

The Senate voted 51-49 on January 31, 2020 to block witness testimony and document production in President Trump’s impeachment trial, making it the first Senate impeachment trial in American history conducted without witnesses or new evidence. Only two Republicans—Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan …

Raytheon Profits Surge on Iran War Fears, CEO Cites Strong International Patriot Missile Demand

On January 30, 2020, Raytheon reported better-than-expected quarterly profits driven by surging international weapons demand, with company executives explicitly citing US-Iran tensions as a growth driver. The earnings announcement came just weeks after the January 3, 2020 US drone strike killing …

New York Times Exposé Reveals Clearview AI's 3 Billion Photo Surveillance Database

New York Times journalist Kashmir Hill published a groundbreaking exposé titled “The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy As We Know It,” revealing that Clearview AI had scraped 3 billion faces from Facebook, YouTube, Venmo, and millions of other websites without anyone’s …

Rep. Chris Collins Sentenced to 26 Months for Insider Trading From White House Lawn

Former U.S. Representative Chris Collins (R-NY) was sentenced to 26 months in federal prison, one year of supervised release, and a $200,000 fine by Judge Vernon S. Broderick for insider trading and making false statements to the FBI. Collins, who was the first member of Congress to endorse Donald …

Pelosi Transmits Impeachment Articles to Senate After 28-Day Strategic Delay

Speaker Nancy Pelosi transmitted the articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate on January 16, 2020, ending a 28-day delay strategy designed to pressure Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to establish fair trial procedures. In a solemn ceremony in the Speaker’s office, …

Boeing Internal Messages Released - "Designed by Clowns, Supervised by Monkeys"

Boeing released hundreds of internal messages to Congressional investigators and the FAA on January 9, 2020, revealing that employees knew the 737 MAX was unsafe, mocked regulators, and conspired to deceive certification authorities. In one April 2017 exchange, just before the aircraft’s first …

Rep. Pramila Jayapal Launches Congressional Inquiry Into McKinsey's ICE Contracts and Detention Recommendations

U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Vice Chair of the House Judiciary Committee on Immigration and Citizenship, writes to Kevin Sneader, Global Managing Partner of McKinsey & Company, demanding detailed information about the firm’s work with ICE. The letter requests specific …

OECD Estimates Google Avoids $7B+ Annually Through Tax Havens

By 2020, OECD analysis of multinational corporate tax avoidance identified Google among the most aggressive tax avoiders globally, with the company systematically avoiding an estimated $7+ billion annually in taxes through profit shifting to tax havens—maintaining an effective global tax rate under …

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg Fired Over 737 MAX Disasters, Keeps $62 Million Despite 346 Deaths

Boeing’s Board of Directors fired CEO Dennis Muilenburg on December 23, 2019, over his handling of the 737 MAX crisis that killed 346 people in two crashes. Despite presiding over the deadliest corporate safety scandal in aviation history, Muilenburg departed with approximately $62 million in …

Trump Signs Defense Bill Creating Space Force

President Trump signed the $738 billion National Defense Authorization Act on December 20, 2019, which established the United States Space Force as the sixth branch of the U.S. military. The new military service, first created since the Air Force in 1947, will initially comprise 16,000 active-duty …

House Votes to Impeach Trump on Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress

The House of Representatives voted on December 18, 2019 to impeach President Donald Trump on two articles: Abuse of Power (230-197-1) and Obstruction of Congress (229-198-1), making Trump only the third president in American history to be impeached. Article I charged that Trump “solicited the …

Conservative Lawsuit Forces Wisconsin to Purge 200,000 Voters Before 2020 Election

A Wisconsin judge orders the state Elections Commission to immediately remove over 200,000 voters from registration rolls following a lawsuit by the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL). The purge targets voters flagged as potential “movers” based on data …

New York Loses ExxonMobil Climate Fraud Lawsuit in Major Accountability Failure

On December 10, 2019, Justice Barry Ostrager of the New York State Supreme Court ruled that New York Attorney General Letitia James “failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that ExxonMobil made any material misrepresentations” regarding climate change risks to investors. The …

ProPublica Exposes McKinsey's ICE Work Through FOIA Lawsuit: 1,500 Pages Reveal Detention Cost-Cutting Proposals

ProPublica publishes a bombshell investigation co-published with The New York Times revealing the full extent of McKinsey’s controversial work with ICE, based on 1,500 pages of documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The documents expose that McKinsey proposed cuts in …

Fiona Hill Testifies - Giuliani Ran Shadow Ukraine Policy for "Domestic Political Errand"

Former National Security Council Russia expert Dr. Fiona Hill delivered searing testimony on November 21, 2019, exposing how Rudy Giuliani ran a shadow Ukraine policy for Trump’s “domestic political errand” that undermined U.S. national security and advanced Russian interests. …

Sondland Testifies - "Was There a Quid Pro Quo? The Answer Is Yes. Everyone Was in the Loop."

EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland delivered blockbuster testimony on November 20, 2019, explicitly confirming the quid pro quo at the heart of Trump’s first impeachment and implicating the highest levels of the administration. In opening remarks that devastated Trump’s defense, Sondland …

OMB Official Mark Sandy Testifies on Ukraine Aid Freeze, Reveals Two Colleagues Resigned Over Concerns

Mark Sandy, a career Office of Management and Budget (OMB) official serving as deputy associate director for national security programs, testified to House impeachment investigators on November 16, 2019, revealing that two of his OMB colleagues resigned in protest over concerns that Trump’s …