ICE whistleblower faces retaliation after reporting weapons violations at detention facility

Carlo Jimenez, a Navy Iraq War veteran and ICE supervisory detention officer, reported weapons violations after an officer distributed pocketknives to staff at Montgomery Processing Center in December 2022. Despite weapons being banned, leadership took no action. After Jimenez reported to DHS …

Bipartisan Inspector General protections enacted

Securing Inspector General Independence Act of 2022 enacted as part of NDAA, requiring 30-day advance notice to Congress before IG removal, limiting who can serve as Acting IG, and requiring explanation for failure to nominate replacement. Led by bipartisan coalition including Grassley, Peters, …

January 6th Committee Reveals Social Media Platforms Gave Special Treatment to Conservatives

January 6th Committee investigation found tech platforms systematically bent rules to avoid penalizing conservative content out of fear of political reprisals. Internal documents revealed Facebook maintained “white lists” exempting conservative accounts (Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., …

Trump Launches Massive NFT Collection Generating .4 Million in Initial Sales

Donald Trump launched his “Trump Digital Trading Cards” NFT collection on December 15, 2022, featuring 45,000 digital trading cards priced at 9 each that sold out within 12 hours, generating .4 million in immediate revenue and demonstrating how political figures can exploit supporter …

Trump launches first NFT collection one month after campaign announcement

Trump launches first NFT collection of 45,000 ‘Trump Digital Trading Cards’ for $99 each, selling out in under 12 hours and generating over $16 million in primary sales, marking his crypto debut one month after announcing presidential campaign.

Global Indigenous Democracy and Governance Summit

International conference exploring indigenous democratic practices, highlighting the sophisticated governance models developed by Indigenous peoples across North America. Researchers from multiple disciplines presented evidence of complex democratic institutions in Indigenous societies, challenging …

Twitter Files Release Exposes Systematic Government-Social Media Coordination Infrastructure for Information Control and Democratic Manipulation

Elon Musk’s release of internal Twitter documents (Twitter Files) exposes systematic government-social media platform coordination infrastructure that represents the comprehensive institutionalization of WHIG information control template through digital platform capture and systematic …

Trump Organization Convicted on All 17 Criminal Counts in Tax Fraud Trial

A Manhattan jury convicted the Trump Organization on all 17 criminal counts of tax fraud and falsifying business records after deliberating for approximately one day, marking the first time Donald Trump’s company faced criminal charges, trial, and conviction. The jury found two …

Trump Hosts White Nationalist Nick Fuentes and Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago Dinner

Former President Donald Trump hosted a nearly two-hour dinner at his Mar-a-Lago estate with rapper Kanye West (Ye) and white nationalist Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, sparking widespread condemnation from Republicans and Democrats. Trump claimed he “knew nothing about” Fuentes and that …

Jack Smith appointed Special Counsel to investigate Trump

Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith as Special Counsel to oversee DOJ’s criminal investigations of Donald Trump, three days after Trump announced his 2024 presidential campaign. Smith was tasked with investigating Trump’s role in the January 6 Capitol attack and his …

Global Civil Society Develops Standardized Resistance Documentation Protocol

International NGOs and human rights organizations convened to establish a comprehensive, transnational documentation framework for tracking and resisting democratic backsliding. The protocol creates systematic methodologies for collecting, verifying, and rapidly disseminating evidence of …

New York Adult Survivors Act Creates Window for Carroll to Sue Trump for Battery

New York’s Adult Survivors Act (ASA), signed into law by Governor Kathy Hochul in May 2022, opened a one-year window beginning November 24, 2022, allowing victims of sexual assault to file civil lawsuits regardless of when the abuse occurred, effectively suspending statutes of limitations that …

Elon Musk Completes Twitter Acquisition with Substantial Saudi and Qatari Investment

Elon Musk completed a $44 billion acquisition of Twitter Inc. with significant funding from Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal’s Kingdom Holding Company and Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, raising critical questions about foreign influence over global communication …

France Fines Clearview AI €20 Million for GDPR Violations and Unlawful Biometric Surveillance

France’s data protection authority (CNIL) imposed a €20 million fine on Clearview AI - the maximum penalty allowed under GDPR Article 83 - for unlawful processing of biometric data through its facial recognition technology. The CNIL found that Clearview had collected over 20 billion images …

Alex Jones Ordered to Pay $965 Million in Sandy Hook Defamation Trial

A Connecticut jury awarded $965 million in damages to families of Sandy Hook victims, representing the largest defamation verdict against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. The landmark decision stemmed from Jones’ repeated false claims that the 2012 school shooting was a ‘hoax’, …

Sinclair Broadcasting Reaches 40% of US Households Through Local News Monopoly

Sinclair Broadcast Group now operates 193 TV stations reaching 40% of American households, using local news infrastructure to push synchronized conservative propaganda through must-run segments

Musk Begins Regular Contact with Vladimir Putin

Wall Street Journal reports Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Vladimir Putin since late 2022, with conversations covering “personal topics, business and geopolitical tensions,” while holding top-secret clearance for SpaceX contracts.

Elon Musk begins regular contact with Vladimir Putin

Elon Musk began regular direct communication with Vladimir Putin while controlling critical US infrastructure through SpaceX and Starlink, creating unprecedented foreign influence over defense and communications systems.

NY Attorney General Files $250 Million Fraud Lawsuit Against Trump Organization

New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a comprehensive 220-page civil lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court against Donald Trump, his three adult children (Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka), former CFO Allen Weisselberg, former controller Jeffrey McConney, and ten Trump Organization entities, …

Biden Announces $10K-$20K Student Loan Forgiveness Plan - 43 Million Borrowers Eligible

President Joe Biden announced on August 24, 2022, a sweeping student loan forgiveness plan that would cancel up to $20,000 in federal student debt for Pell Grant recipients and up to $10,000 for other borrowers earning less than $125,000 annually ($250,000 for couples), potentially benefiting 43 …

Ethics board finds Noem may have engaged in misconduct and conflict of interest

South Dakota’s Government Accountability Board voted unanimously that there was sufficient evidence Governor Kristi Noem had committed malfeasance and engaged in a conflict of interest regarding her intervention in her daughter’s appraiser license application. The board found evidence of …

Barre Seid Donates $1.6 Billion to Leonard Leo Dark Money Network

Chicago businessman Barre Seid provided an unprecedented $1.6 billion donation to Leonard Leo’s Marble Freedom Trust through a strategic stock transfer of Tripp Lite to Eaton Corporation. This donation, the largest known to a political advocacy group in U.S. history, potentially avoided …

Oracle Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over "Surveillance Machine" Tracking 5 Billion People

Three privacy rights advocates filed a class action lawsuit against Oracle Corporation on August 19, 2022, in the Northern District of California, alleging that the company operates a “worldwide surveillance machine” that has compiled detailed digital dossiers on approximately 5 billion …

Allen Weisselberg Pleads Guilty to 15 Felonies, Agrees to Testify Against Trump Organization

Allen Weisselberg, the longtime Chief Financial Officer of the Trump Organization who served the company for nearly five decades, pleaded guilty in New York state court to 15 felony counts related to a 15-year tax fraud scheme, admitting he failed to pay taxes on $1.7 million in income including …

Treasury Sanctions Tornado Cash with Chainalysis Providing Analysis

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions Tornado Cash, adding the decentralized cryptocurrency mixer to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List with multiple cryptocurrency addresses as identifiers. This landmark action marks the first time OFAC has …

FBI executes search warrant at Mar-a-Lago

FBI agents executed an unprecedented search warrant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, recovering 33 boxes containing 11 sets of classified documents, including top secret and sensitive compartmented information. The search followed Trump’s failure to return all classified materials …

Roger Stone settles DOJ civil lawsuit for $2.1 million

Roger Stone and wife settled DOJ civil lawsuit for $2.1 million over unpaid taxes (2007-2018) and alleged fraudulent transfers. DOJ claimed Stones used Drake Ventures entity and Bertran Trust to evade $1.7M in taxes and hide assets from IRS collection efforts, funding their political influence …

DHS Inspector General Reveals Secret Service Deleted January 6th Texts After Oversight Request

DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari disclosed Secret Service erased text messages from January 5-6, 2021, during a “device replacement program” after oversight officials requested electronic communications. Despite requesting month of records for 24 personnel, Secret Service provided …

Ring admits providing police with warrantless access to user footage 11 times in 2022

In response to questions from Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Amazon vice president Brian Huseman disclosed in a July 1 letter that Ring had provided police with user camera footage on 11 occasions during 2022 without obtaining user consent or court warrants. Amazon justified these warrantless …

Roger Stone Settles $2.1 Million Tax Fraud Case Over Drake Ventures Shell Company

Department of Justice settles civil lawsuit with Roger Stone for $2.1 million over fraudulent transfers through Drake Ventures LLC, a Delaware shel…

Oracle Launches "Project Texas" with TikTok, $1 Billion Data Storage Partnership

TikTok and Oracle formally launched “Project Texas” in July 2022, a comprehensive data isolation initiative designed to address U.S. national security concerns by migrating all American user data to Oracle’s cloud infrastructure and establishing new corporate structures to limit …

Trump allegedly orders deletion of Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage

Carlos De Oliveira told a Trump employee in Mar-a-Lago’s audio closet that “the boss” wanted the surveillance server deleted after DOJ subpoenaed footage on June 24. De Oliveira and Walt Nauta had inspected cameras on June 25, walking through tunnels with flashlights. This alleged …

January 6th Committee Exposes "Big Rip-Off" - $250 Million Fraudulent Fundraising Scheme

House January 6th Committee’s second hearing revealed Trump raised $250 million post-election through fraudulent “Official Election Defense Fund” that never existed. Committee found Trump’s team sent up to 25 fraudulent fundraising emails daily, raising $100 million in first …

Nine of Thirteen Axon Ethics Board Members Resign After Company Announces Taser-Equipped Drones Without Consultation

On June 6, 2022, nine members of Axon’s thirteen-member AI and Policing Technology Ethics Board resigned in protest after the company announced plans to develop Taser-equipped drones for deployment in schools to respond to mass shootings. The resigning members—including founding chair Barry …

Christina Bobb signs false attestation that all classified documents returned

Trump attorney Christina Bobb signed a certification stating that all classified documents requested by the May 11 grand jury subpoena had been returned to the government. The attestation, drafted by Evan Corcoran, proved false when the FBI found 103 additional classified documents during the August …

Palantir Deploys AI Targeting and Intelligence Systems in Ukraine

On June 1, 2022, Palantir CEO Alex Karp crossed the border from Poland into Ukraine and met President Volodymyr Zelensky in the presidential palace bunker, becoming the first major Western tech CEO to visit since Russia’s February invasion. Karp told Zelensky they could work together “in …

Ed Coristine fired from cybersecurity firm for leaking company secrets

Edward Coristine, then 16, was fired from his internship at cybersecurity firm Path Network for allegedly leaking internal company information to competitors. Path founder Marshal Webb stated “This is unacceptable and there is zero tolerance for this.” Shortly after Coristine’s …

UK Fines Clearview AI £7.5 Million for Breaching Data Protection Laws

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fined Clearview AI £7.5 million for breaching UK data protection rules by creating an online database of over 20 billion images of people’s faces collected from publicly available sources on the internet and social media without …

Grand jury issues subpoena demanding all classified documents from Trump

A federal grand jury issued a subpoena requiring Trump to return all documents “bearing classification markings” in his possession. This legal demand came after the National Archives discovered classified materials in boxes retrieved from Mar-a-Lago. Trump’s alleged failure to …

Chainalysis Raises $170 Million at $8.6 Billion Valuation in Series F

Chainalysis announces a $170 million Series F financing led by GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, bringing its valuation to $8.6 billion and cementing the company’s position as the largest enterprise SaaS company in the cryptocurrency industry. The funding round represents another …

Trump Org and Inaugural Committee pay $750,000 to settle D.C. AG lawsuit over hotel overcharges

The D.C. Attorney General announced a $750,000 settlement resolving allegations that the Presidential Inaugural Committee and Trump Organization improperly overpaid for event space at the Trump International Hotel in January 2017. Defendants denied wrongdoing as part of the settlement.

Amazon Defeats Second Staten Island Union Vote at LDJ5 Facility 618 to 380

Amazon Defeats Second Staten Island Union Vote at LDJ5 Facility 618 to 380

On May 2, 2022, workers at Amazon’s LDJ5 sorting facility on Staten Island voted 618 to 380 against joining the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), delivering a significant defeat to the upstart union just one month after its …

Warren Report Reveals 672 Pentagon and Congressional Officials Now Lobby for Defense Contractors

Senator Elizabeth Warren released a comprehensive report analyzing the defense contractor revolving door, identifying 672 cases where the top 20 defense contractors employed former government officials, military officers, members of Congress, and senior legislative staff. The analysis found that 91% …

Trump Endorses Vance Following Thiel's $15 Million Strategic Political Investment

In April 2022, Donald Trump endorsed J.D. Vance for the Ohio Senate race, a pivotal moment facilitated by Peter Thiel’s unprecedented $15 million investment in the Protect Ohio Values SuperPAC. This financial backing marked the most expensive single Senate candidate support in state history, …

Tornado Cash Integrates Chainalysis Tool to Block OFAC-Sanctioned Addresses

Tornado Cash, the decentralized cryptocurrency mixer designed to enhance transaction privacy, integrates Chainalysis’s oracle contract to block OFAC-sanctioned addresses from accessing the dapp. This controversial move represents a significant compromise of the privacy tool’s core …

Amazon Injury Rate Double Warehouse Industry Average - 6.8 Per 100 Workers

Amazon Injury Rate Double Warehouse Industry Average - 6.8 Per 100 Workers

On April 12, 2022, the Strategic Organizing Center (SOC)—a coalition of four major labor unions—released a comprehensive report analyzing Amazon’s worker injury rates using federal OSHA data. The report revealed that …

Peter Thiel Provides $15 Million to J.D. Vance's Ohio Senate Campaign

Peter Thiel contributes record-breaking $15 million to J.D. Vance’s Ohio Senate campaign through Protect Ohio Values PAC, largest single investment…

Heritage Foundation Launches 2 Million Project 2025 Initiative

The Heritage Foundation launched its comprehensive 2025 Presidential Transition Project in April 2022, a strategic initiative to prepare conservative policy recommendations and personnel for a potential new administration. Led by Heritage President Kevin Roberts and initially directed by Paul Dans, …

Amazon JFK8 Workers Vote to Form Company's First U.S. Union in Historic Victory

Amazon JFK8 Workers Vote to Form Company’s First U.S. Union in Historic Victory

On April 1, 2022, workers at Amazon’s massive JFK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island voted 2,654 to 2,131 to form the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), creating the first unionized Amazon facility in the United …

FDA Commissioner Confirmed Amid Pharmaceutical Industry Ties Controversy

Dr. Robert Califf confirmed as FDA Commissioner by a narrow Senate vote of 50-46, highlighting ongoing concerns about pharmaceutical industry regulatory capture. Historical evidence suggests a systemic ‘revolving door’ between FDA and pharmaceutical companies, with approximately 27% of …