2010s
The 2010s contain 858 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-12 | Tech Workers Coalition: Establishing Digital Resistance Infrastructure
3 src Tech Workers Coalition · Silicon Valley Employees · Digital Rights Advocates · Rachel Melendes · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-09 | Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler Becomes Acting EPA Administrator After Pruitt Resignation
4 src Andrew Wheeler · Donald Trump · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Faegre Baker Daniels · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-06 | McKinsey Agrees to Repay $74 Million to South Africa's Eskom After State Capture Scandal
3 src McKinsey & Company · Eskom · South Africa · Gupta Family · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-05 | EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Resigns Amid 14 Federal Investigations
3 src Scott Pruitt · Donald Trump · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Andrew Wheeler | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-01 | IRS Launches Virtual Currency Compliance Campaign Using Chainalysis
2 src Internal Revenue Service · Chainalysis · IRS Criminal Investigation | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-27 | Janus v. AFSCME - Supreme Court Strikes Down Public Sector Union Fees, Targeting Teachers' Unions
6 src Justice Samuel Alito · Justice Neil Gorsuch · National Right to Work Foundation · State Policy Network · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-26 | New York Times Discloses McKinsey's $20 Million ICE Contract: Employee Outrage and Internal Crisis
2 src McKinsey & Company · New York Times · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Kevin Sneader · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-23 | Peter Thiel Receives First Putin Meeting Invitation Through Russian Diplomat
3 src Peter Thiel · Vladimir Putin · Daniil Bisslinger · Christian Angermayer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-20 | Trump Signs Executive Order "Ending" Family Separation After International Outcry
4 src Donald Trump · Kirstjen Nielsen · Jeff Sessions · Stephen Miller | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-15 | Amazon aggressively pitches Rekognition facial recognition to ICE during family separation crisis
4 src Amazon · AWS · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-15 | Northrop Grumman Wins $217 Million Cyber Warfare Contract for Unified Platform
3 src Northrop Grumman · U.S. Cyber Command · National Security Agency · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-14 | New York AG Sues Trump Foundation for "Persistent Illegal Conduct" and Coordinating with Campaign
3 src Barbara Underwood · Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Eric Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-11 | Net Neutrality Repeal Officially Takes Effect, Permitting ISPs to Throttle, Block, and Prioritize Content for Payment
3 src Federal Communications Commission · Ajit Pai · Comcast Corporation · Verizon Communications · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-11 | Supreme Court Upholds Ohio's Aggressive "Use It Or Lose It" Voter Purge System
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor · Jon Husted | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-07 | Bayer Completes $63 Billion Monsanto Acquisition: Agricultural Seeds and Chemicals Consolidate Into Big Four Oligopoly
3 src Bayer AG · Monsanto · Department of Justice · Antitrust Division · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-06 | Northrop Grumman Acquires Orbital ATK for $9.2 Billion, Creating Solid Rocket Motor Monopoly
3 src Northrop Grumman · Orbital ATK · Federal Trade Commission · U.S. Department of Defense · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-01 | Trump Family Separation Policy Detains 5,500 Children in Cages
3 src Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · Jeff Sessions · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-31 | European Court Finds Romania and Lithuania Hosted CIA Torture Sites, Orders Damages
4 src European Court of Human Rights · Romania · Lithuania · Central Intelligence Agency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-28 | China grants waves of Ivanka Trump trademarks as she serves in White House; ethics watchdogs flag conflicts
4 src Ivanka Trump · Ivanka Trump Marks LLC · China National Intellectual Property Administration | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-24 | Trump Signs Dodd-Frank Rollback Raising 'Systemically Important' Bank Threshold from $50B to $250B After Industry Lobbying Blitz
3 src Donald Trump · Greg Becker · Silicon Valley Bank · Mike Crapo · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-21 | Epic Systems v. Lewis: Supreme Court Allows Mandatory Arbitration Blocking Class Action Labor Claims
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · Federalist Society · Corporate employers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-16 | Michigan State University Agrees to $500 Million Settlement with 332 Nassar Survivors—Largest University Sexual Abuse Settlement in History
4 src Michigan State University · Lou Anna Simon · John Engler · Larry Nassar · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-15 | Kansas City Fed Approves Reserve Trust Master Account After Alleged Intervention
3 src Sarah Bloom Raskin · Reserve Trust Company · Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City · Esther George · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-14 | Seattle Passes Head Tax on Large Employers—Amazon Threatens Expansion Halt, Washington Post Editorial Aligns with Owner's Interests
3 src Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Washington Post · Seattle City Council · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-13 | Trump Reverses ZTE Sanctions After $500M China Loan to Trump Project
3 src Donald Trump · ZTE Corporation · China · Trump Organization · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-10 | Kirstjen Nielsen Defends Family Separation as Deterrent, Later Denies Policy Exists
4 src Kirstjen Nielsen · Jeff Sessions · Stephen Miller · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-08 | Armenian Parliament Confirms Nikol Pashinyan as Prime Minister, Completing Velvet Revolution
3 src Nikol Pashinyan · Armenian Civil Society · Republican Party of Armenia · Armenian Parliament | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-08 | Armenian Velvet Revolution Succeeds: Anti-Corruption Movement Achieves Peaceful Transition
3 src Nikol Pashinyan · Serzh Sargsyan · Armenian Civil Society · Civil Contract Party · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-08 | Ring launches Neighbors app creating crowdsourced surveillance network
3 src Ring · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-04 | Axon Acquires Main Competitor VieVu, Consolidating 80% Control of Police Body Camera Market
3 src Axon · VieVu · Safariland Group · NYPD · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-01 | Bornstein Admits Trump Dictated 2015 Health Letter; Confirms 2017 Records Seizure
6 src Harold Bornstein · Donald Trump · Keith Schiller · Alan Garten | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-01 | U.S. Lifts Argentina Tariffs While Trump Seeks Trademarks
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Argentina | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-22 | Raytheon-Manufactured Bomb Kills 23 at Yemen Wedding, Majority Women and Children
4 src Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-22 | UAE Installs Pegasus Spyware on Khashoggi's Wife's Phone Months Before His Murder
3 src Hanan Elatr · Jamal Khashoggi · UAE Government · NSO Group · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-10 | Judge Finalizes Trump University Settlement After Appeal Resolved, Victims Receive Payments
3 src Gonzalo Curiel · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-10 | Mark Zuckerberg Testifies Before Congress on Cambridge Analytica and Russian Interference
3 src Mark Zuckerberg · US Congress · Facebook · Cambridge Analytica | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-06 | Jeff Sessions Announces "Zero Tolerance" Policy Designed to Separate Families
4 src Jeff Sessions · Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-01 | Operation Guardian Support deploys 4,000 National Guard to border
4 src National Guard · U.S. Border Patrol · Pentagon | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-01 | T-Mobile Executives Spend 95K at Trump Hotel During Merger Review
3 src T-Mobile · John Legere · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-30 | Sinclair Forces Anchors at Dozens of Stations to Read Identical "Fake News" Script
7 src Sinclair Broadcast Group · Local news anchors · John Oliver | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-29 | Fayette County, Georgia becomes first US jurisdiction to deploy Carbyne's Israeli Unit 8200-developed 911 surveillance technology
3 src Fayette County Georgia · Carbyne · Ehud Barak · Lital Leshem · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-28 | VA Secretary David Shulkin Fired After Inspector General Finds Ethics Violations on Taxpayer-Funded European Trip
3 src David Shulkin · Vivieca Wright Simpson · Merle Bari · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-17 | Cambridge Analytica Scandal Exposed by Whistleblower Christopher Wylie
5 src Christopher Wylie · Cambridge Analytica · Facebook · Aleksandr Kogan · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-16 | Facebook Suspends Cambridge Analytica and SCL After Whistleblower Revelations
4 src Facebook · Cambridge Analytica · SCL Group · Christopher Wylie · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-15 | iHeartMedia Files for Bankruptcy with $20 Billion Debt - Conservative Radio Empire Collapses Under Leveraged Buyout Burden
4 src iHeartMedia · Clear Channel Communications · Bain Capital · Thomas H. Lee Partners · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-15 | Toys 'R' Us Liquidation: PE Firms Extract $470 Million, 33,000 Workers Get Nothing
3 src Bain Capital · KKR · Vornado Realty Trust · 33,000 Toys R Us workers | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-13 | Trump Nominates Gina Haspel as CIA Director Despite Role in Torture Program and Evidence Destruction
4 src Gina Haspel · Donald Trump · Mike Pompeo · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-10 | Zeynep Tufekci Exposes YouTube as "The Great Radicalizer": Recommendation Algorithm Systematically Pushes Users Toward Extremism
3 src Zeynep Tufekci · Guillaume Chaslot · YouTube · Google | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-08 | Major GOP Donors' Company Receives Unexplained Tariff Exemption
4 src Reyes Holdings · Trump Administration · Republican donors | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-06 | Office of Special Counsel Recommends Disciplining Kellyanne Conway for Hatch Act Violations
3 src Kellyanne Conway · Donald Trump · Henry Kerner · Roy Moore · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-01 | Facebook Lobbies Irish Government to Weaken GDPR Enforcement, Creates EU Data Protection Haven
4 src Facebook · Irish Data Protection Commission · Enda Kenny (Irish Taoiseach) · Max Schrems · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-01 | HUD Secretary Ben Carson Spends $31,000 in Taxpayer Funds on Dining Room Furniture, Violates Federal Law
3 src Ben Carson · Candy Carson · Helen Foster | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-01 | James Biden Receives $600K from Distressed Healthcare Company, Pays Joe Biden $200K Same Day
3 src James Biden · Joe Biden · Americore Health · Sara Biden | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-01 | Sulayem Visits Epstein's 71st Street Residence with Bannon and Barak — Phase 1 Channel Continues Active During Phase 3 Capital Operationalization (EFTA00856066)
2 src Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem · Jeffrey Epstein · Steve Bannon · Ehud Barak · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-01 | TRM Labs Founded to Provide Blockchain Intelligence to Governments and Financial Institutions
3 src TRM Labs · Esteban Castano · Rahul Raina | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-01 | Trump Tariff Exemption Process Shows Political Favoritism
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Veljko Fotak · Hye Seung Grace Lee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-02-27 | Amazon acquires Ring for over $1 billion, creating foundation for private surveillance network
3 src Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Jamie Siminoff · Ring | confirmed | |
| 2018-02-26 | Texas Leads 20 Republican States in Lawsuit Seeking to Eliminate Entire ACA
6 src Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · Judge Reed O'Connor · 20 Republican State Attorneys General · California Attorney General Xavier Becerra · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-02-16 | Mueller Indicts 13 Russians and Internet Research Agency for Election Interference
3 src Robert Mueller · Internet Research Agency · Yevgeny Prigozhin · Russian Government | confirmed | |
| 2018-02-05 | Trump's CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney Shuts Down Equifax Investigation, Exposing Regulatory Capture
3 src Mick Mulvaney · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Equifax · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-02-02 | Federal Reserve Imposes Unprecedented Asset Cap on Wells Fargo
3 src Federal Reserve · Janet Yellen · Wells Fargo Board | confirmed | |
| 2018-02-01 | Former CIA Director John Brennan Joins NBC/MSNBC as Analyst and WestExec Advisors, Building Intelligence-Media-Consulting Pipeline
4 src John Brennan · NBC News · MSNBC · WestExec Advisors · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-02-01 | Research Shows YouTube Recommends Conspiracy Theories 80% More Than Factual Content
4 src YouTube · Google · University of California Berkeley researchers · Harvard researchers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-25 | New York Times Reveals Trump Ordered McGahn to Fire Mueller; Trump Subsequently Demands McGahn Deny Story and Create False Record
3 src Donald Trump · Don McGahn · Rod Rosenstein · Robert Mueller | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-24 | Alex Azar Confirmed as HHS Secretary After Doubling Insulin Prices at Eli Lilly
4 src Alex Azar · Eli Lilly · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Ron Wyden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-24 | Larry Nassar Sentenced to 40-175 Years After 156 Victim Impact Statements; Rachael Denhollander's Powerful Testimony
5 src Larry Nassar · Rosemarie Aquilina · Rachael Denhollander · Aly Raisman · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-22 | Pennsylvania Supreme Court Strikes Down Congressional Map as Unconstitutional Partisan Gerrymander
4 src Pennsylvania Supreme Court · League of Women Voters · Pennsylvania General Assembly | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-11 | Trump Calls Haiti and African Nations 'Shithole Countries' in Bipartisan Immigration Meeting
4 src Donald Trump · Dick Durbin · U.N. Human Rights Office · African Union | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-07 | Dan Elwell Becomes Acting FAA Administrator After Boeing Executive Career
6 src Dan Elwell · Federal Aviation Administration · Michael Huerta · Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao · +8 | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-01 | Agriculture Committee Captured by Agribusiness - $523M Lobbying Shapes Farm Bill
3 src Glenn Thompson · David Scott · House Agriculture Committee · American Farm Bureau Federation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-01 | Amazon Pays Zero Federal Income Tax Again on $11.2 Billion Profit—Receives $129 Million Tax Rebate
3 src Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-01 | Apple Receives Special Tariff Exemptions After CEO Cultivates Trump Relationship
4 src Donald Trump · Tim Cook · Apple Inc. | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-01 | Clarence Thomas Attends Koch Network Donor Summit - Supreme Court Ethics Violations
2 src Clarence Thomas · Koch Network · Council for National Policy | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-01 | Grayshift Secures Major Contracts with ICE, DEA, and FBI for GrayKey Technology
3 src Grayshift · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Drug Enforcement Administration · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-01 | Peter Thiel's Early Intelligence Role: FBI Informant and Russian Diplomatic Contacts
4 src Peter Thiel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Vladimir Putin · Daniil Bisslinger · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-01 | Putin-Linked Company Receives Tariff Exemption Until Public Outcry
4 src Donald Trump · Elizabeth Warren · Russian oligarch · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-31 | Google Moves $23B to Bermuda Tax Haven in Single Year
4 src Google · Alphabet · Sundar Pichai · Dutch authorities (disclosure) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-22 | Trump Signs Tax Cuts and Jobs Act - Corporate Rate Permanently Slashed from 35% to 21%, Pass-Through Deduction, Estate Tax Exemption Doubled, $1.9 Trillion Added to Deficit
10 src Donald Trump · Paul Ryan · Mitch McConnell · Kevin Brady · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-21 | DeVos Replaces Full Debt Relief With Earnings-Based Formula - Corinthian Victims Get Pennies on Dollar
3 src Betsy DeVos · U.S. Department of Education | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-18 | Great Northern Paper Bankruptcy Leaves 1,000 Maine Workers with Pennies on Dollar of Promised Pensions
3 src Brookfield Asset Management · Cate Street Capital · Great Northern Paper Company | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-14 | FCC Under Ajit Pai Repeals Net Neutrality in 3-2 Party-Line Vote
3 src Ajit Pai · Donald Trump · Verizon Communications · Mignon Clyburn · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-11 | Betsy DeVos Blocks Debt Relief for 200,000 Defrauded For-Profit College Students Despite Career Staff Recommendations
4 src Betsy DeVos · U.S. Department of Education · Corinthian Colleges · ITT Technical Institute | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-04 | Trump reduces Bears Ears National Monument by 85% to open lands for extraction
3 src Donald Trump · Ryan Zinke · Bureau of Land Management · Navajo Nation · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-03 | CVS-Aetna $69 Billion Merger Announced: Vertical Integration Wave Consolidates PBM Power
3 src CVS Health · Aetna · Larry Merlo · Mark Bertolini · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-01 | Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to FBI About Russian Contacts
3 src Michael Flynn · Robert Mueller · Sergey Kislyak · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-24 | Trump Installs Mick Mulvaney as CFPB Acting Director, Beginning Systematic Gutting of Consumer Protection Agency
4 src Mick Mulvaney · Donald Trump · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-20 | Amazon Launches AWS Secret Region for CIA and Intelligence Community
3 src Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-20 | Nebraska PSC Approves Keystone XL Pipeline Route Despite Eminent Domain Controversy and Landowner Opposition
7 src Nebraska Public Service Commission · TransCanada Corporation · Bold Nebraska · Jane Kleeb · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-05 | MBS Launches Ritz-Carlton Mass Arrests of 200+ Saudi Royals After Kushner's Late-Night Riyadh Visit — $100B in Assets Seized; Phase 2 Operational Climax
2 src Mohammed bin Salman · Jared Kushner · King Salman · Saudi royal family | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-05 | Paradise Papers Expose Global Elite's Systematic Offshore Financial Manipulation
3 src Appleby · Estera · Queen Elizabeth II · Wilbur Ross · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-05 | Paradise Papers Reveal Commerce Secretary Ross Concealed Stake in Russian-Linked Shipping Company
3 src Wilbur Ross · Kirill Shamalov · Gennady Timchenko · Vladimir Putin | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-01 | Accenture delivers 58 hires for $297M ICE contract
4 src Accenture Federal Services · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS Office of Inspector General · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-01 | Kushner Shares Classified Intel Leading to Saudi Mass Arrests
3 src Jared Kushner · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-10-30 | Mueller Indicts Paul Manafort and Rick Gates on 12 Counts Including Conspiracy Against the United States
3 src Paul Manafort · Rick Gates · Robert Mueller | confirmed | |
| 2017-10-28 | First QAnon Post on 4chan's /pol/: Chan Culture's Conspiracy Architecture Produces a Mass Political Movement
3 src Q (anonymous poster) | confirmed | |
| 2017-10-26 | Trump Declares Opioid Public Health Emergency Without Requesting Any New Funding
3 src Donald Trump · Eric Hargan · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2017-10-05 | CFPB Finalizes Payday Lending Rule Requiring Ability-to-Repay Assessment After Industry Spent $13 Million Lobbying
4 src Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Community Financial Services Association of America · Jeb Hensarling | confirmed | |
| 2017-10-05 | George Papadopoulos Becomes First Trump Campaign Official to Plead Guilty in Mueller Probe
4 src George Papadopoulos · Joseph Mifsud · Robert Mueller · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2017-10-03 | Whitefish Energy Wins $300M No-Bid Puerto Rico Contract Despite 2 Employees
3 src Whitefish Energy · Ryan Zinke · Puerto Rico · PREPA · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-10-01 | ICE Credits McKinsey with 'Quantifiable Benefits': Increased Deportations and Reduced Detention Time
5 src McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Migrant detainees | confirmed |