2020s
The 2020s contain 2567 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-20 | FDA Commissioner Califf's Pharmaceutical Industry Revolving Door Scrutinized Robert Califf · Food and Drug Administration · Verily Life Sciences · Joe Manchin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-20 | FTC Sues Big Three PBMs for Artificially Inflating Insulin Prices Through Rebate Schemes Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · CVS Caremark · Express Scripts · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-20 | HHS Awards Palantir $12M SHARE BPA Task Order for ACF Unaccompanied Children Bureau Expansion — Task Order 75P00124F37005 Palantir Technologies · Department of Health and Human Services · Administration for Children and Families · Office of Refugee Resettlement · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-19 | General Dynamics Virginia-Class Submarine Program Revealed to Be $17 Billion Over Budget with 2-3 Year Delays General Dynamics · Huntington Ingalls Industries · Ken Calvert · Carlos Del Toro · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-16 | Sean Combs arrested on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges Sean Combs · Department of Justice · SDNY · Federal Prosecutors | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-13 | State Department Exposes RT as Fully Integrated Russian Intelligence Operation with Embedded Cyber Capabilities State Department · Antony Blinken · RT (Russia Today) · U.S. Treasury Department · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-09 | Big Lots Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Stranding Blue Owl-Owned Distribution Centers Later Sold to DHS for ICE Detention Big Lots · Blue Owl Capital · Oak Street Real Estate Capital · Nexus Capital Management · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-09 | Vance Spreads Debunked Anti-Haitian Immigrant Hoax in Springfield, Ohio J.D. Vance · Haitian immigrants · Springfield Police · Bryan Heck · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-06 | Dick Cheney Endorses Democrat Kamala Harris, Calls Trump 'Greatest Threat to Republic' Dick Cheney · Kamala Harris · Donald Trump · Liz Cheney | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-05 | Tenet Media Shuts Down, YouTube Terminates Channels, Blaze Media Fires Lauren Chen After DOJ Indictment Exposure Tenet Media · Tayler Hansen · Lauren Chen · Tim Pool · +9 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-04 | DOJ Unseals Indictment Revealing $10 Million Russian Funding of Tenet Media Influencers Department of Justice · RT (Russia Today) · Tenet Media · Tim Pool · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-04 | Justice Department Seizes 32 Russian Disinformation Domains Mimicking U.S. News Sites, Exposes Kremlin Operation Directed by Putin Aide Department of Justice · Merrick Garland · Sergei Kiriyenko · Vladimir Putin · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-01 | Anduril Deploys 300th Autonomous Surveillance Tower at U.S.-Mexico Border Anduril Industries · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Palmer Luckey | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-01 | Pennsylvania SCIPNet deploys Carbyne APEX across four counties, becoming first state NG911 system with $3.5 million contract South Central Inter-County Phone Network Pennsylvania · Carbyne · Adams County Pennsylvania · Cumberland County Pennsylvania · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-31 | OpenAI Signs AI Safety Institute Testing Agreement Sam Altman · OpenAI · U.S. AI Safety Institute · NIST · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-29 | Kylian Mbappé Twitter Account Hacked to Promote $464M Crypto Pump-and-Dump Scam Kylian Mbappé · Unknown Hackers · Sahil Arora | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-22 | Former Rep. Mike Gallagher Joins Palantir as Head of Defense After Resigning Congress Mike Gallagher · Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · Peter Thiel · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-20 | Defense Contractors Market Ukraine War as "Battle-Tested" Surveillance Technology Proving Ground Anduril Industries · Palantir Technologies · Clearview AI · Defense Industry | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-16 | Humana Pays $90 Million to Settle First-of-Its-Kind Medicare Part D Fraud Case for Fraudulent Bidding Humana · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Department of Justice · Steven Scott (whistleblower) | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-15 | Grok AI Implements Enhanced Safety Protocols After Regulatory Pressure Elon Musk · xAI · AI Ethics Review Board · U.S. AI Safety Institute | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-13 | JD Vance Writes Foreword for Project 2025 Architect's Book JD Vance · Kevin Roberts · Heritage Foundation · Paul Dans · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-09 | Oracle Agrees to $115 Million Settlement Over Mass Surveillance Data Brokerage Oracle · Judge Richard Seeborg · Irish Council for Civil Liberties | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-08 | Anduril Announces Arsenal-1: $1 Billion Weapons Manufacturing Facility in Ohio Anduril Industries · Palmer Luckey · State of Ohio | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-05 | Federal Judge Rules Google is Illegal Monopolist in Landmark Search Antitrust Decision Judge Amit Mehta · Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-03 | Trump Publicly Endorses Georgia Election Board Members at Atlanta Rally, Sparking Electoral Integrity Concerns Donald Trump · Janice Johnston · Rick Jeffares · Janelle King · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-01 | Larry Ellison Buys $277 Million Florida Resort Near Mar-a-Lago, $450M Total Investment Larry Ellison · Oracle · Donald Trump · Manalapan | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-30 | Paul Dans departs as Project 2025 director amid campaign controversy Paul Dans · Kevin Roberts · Heritage Foundation · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-23 | House Oversight Releases Damning PBM Report After 32-Month Investigation: Anticompetitive Policies Exposed U.S. House Oversight Committee · James Comer · Adam Kautzner · David Joyner · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-20 | Vance White Nationalist Social Media Connections Exposed J.D. Vance · Raw Egg Nationalist · Bronze Age Pervert · Richard Hanania · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-18 | DaVita Pays $34 Million to Settle Third Kickback Case in Decade, Revealing Systematic Fraud Business Model DaVita · Dennis Kogod · Department of Justice · DaVita Rx | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-17 | SEC Files Securities Fraud Lawsuit Against Former DWAC CEO Patrick Orlando Securities and Exchange Commission · Patrick Orlando · Digital World Acquisition Corp · Trump Media & Technology Group | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-16 | xAI Faces Major Criticism Over Grok AI Safety Failures Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-15 | J.D. Vance Named Trump's VP Pick, Completing Thiel's Political Investment J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-15 | Judge Cannon dismisses Trump classified documents case, rules Jack Smith appointment unconstitutional Aileen Cannon · Jack Smith · Donald Trump · Clarence Thomas · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-15 | Trump Selects Vance as VP Running Mate Donald Trump · J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-15 | xAI Implements Comprehensive AI Safety Protocols in Response to Investigations Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-13 | X Algorithm Modified to Amplify Musk and Right-Wing Content Following Trump Endorsement Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Timothy Graham · Mark Andrejevic · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-12 | Georgia State Election Board Passes Illegal Rules to Disrupt 2024 Election Georgia State Election Board · Janelle King · Janice Johnston · Rick Jeffares · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-11 | Judge Merchan Postpones Trump Sentencing to September After Supreme Court Immunity Ruling Juan Merchan · Donald Trump · Alvin Bragg | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-09 | Brennan Center warns Georgia SB 189 spurs mass voter challenges Brennan Center for Justice · Georgia Legislature · True the Vote · Right-wing activists · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-09 | FTC Report Reveals PBM Oligopoly: Top 3 Control 80% of Market, Extract $7.3 Billion Through Markups Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · CVS Caremark · Express Scripts · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Paul Dans Departs Project 2025, Kevin Roberts Takes Leadership Paul Dans · Kevin Roberts · Donald Trump · Chris LaCivita · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Paul Pelosi Visa Stock Sale Controversy Paul Pelosi · Nancy Pelosi · Rick Scott · Visa Inc. · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Supreme Court Grants Broad Presidential Immunity in Trump v. United States, Creating King-Like Powers U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · Justice Samuel Alito · +10 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Supreme Court Trump Immunity Ruling Institutionalizes WHIG Constitutional Crisis Precedent into Permanent Oligarchic Governance Framework Supreme Court of the United States · Chief Justice John Roberts · Donald Trump · Justice Clarence Thomas · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-30 | EU Regulators Launch Comprehensive Investigation into Grok AI Data Privacy Practices Elon Musk · xAI · Irish Data Protection Commission · European Data Protection Board · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-28 | SCOTUS overrules Chevron deference (Loper Bright v. Raimondo) Supreme Court of the United States · Chief Justice John Roberts · National Marine Fisheries Service | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-27 | SCOTUS limits SEC use of in-house tribunals for civil penalties (SEC v. Jarkesy) Supreme Court of the United States · Securities and Exchange Commission · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Neil Gorsuch (concurring) · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-27 | SCOTUS stays EPA 'Good Neighbor Plan' for cross-state smog program Supreme Court of the United States · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Justice Neil Gorsuch · Justice Amy Coney Barrett (dissent) · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-27 | Supreme Court Rejects $6B Purdue Pharma Settlement Granting Sackler Family Immunity from Opioid Lawsuits U.S. Supreme Court · Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-27 | Supreme Court Rejects Sackler Immunity in 5-4 Decision, Blocks Bankruptcy Shield U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · Ketanji Brown Jackson · Brett Kavanaugh · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-26 | Meta Fixes Bug in Political Content Filter on Instagram and Threads Meta · Instagram · Threads | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-26 | SCOTUS: Plaintiffs lack standing in social-media coercion case (Murthy v. Missouri) Supreme Court of the United States · Justice Amy Coney Barrett · Justice Samuel Alito · Justice Clarence Thomas · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-15 | Academic Evidence Reveals Systematic Corruption in Hurricane Katrina Education Privatization Louisiana State Legislature · Charter School Advocates · Right-Wing Think Tanks · New Orleans School Board | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-15 | xAI Implements Controversial AI Safety Framework Amid Industry Scrutiny Elon Musk · xAI · The Midas Project · AI Safety Experts · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-13 | SCOTUS: No standing in challenge to mifepristone changes (FDA v. AHM) Supreme Court of the United States · Food and Drug Administration | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-01 | Flock Safety Network Expands to 5,000+ Police Departments Performing 20 Billion Monthly Vehicle Scans Flock Safety · Garrett Langley · American Civil Liberties Union · Electronic Frontier Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-30 | Apprentice Producer Bill Pruitt's NDA Expires, Reveals Trump Used N-Word on Camera Bill Pruitt · Donald Trump · Mark Burnett | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-30 | Trump Convicted on All 34 Felony Counts - First Former President Convicted of Crimes in U.S. History Donald Trump · Juan Merchan · Alvin Bragg | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-29 | Treasury Releases First NFT Illicit Finance Risk Assessment Warning of Money Laundering Vulnerabilities U.S. Treasury Department · FinCEN | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-22 | House Oversight Launches Comprehensive Investigation into Grok AI's Safety and Government Deployment Robert Garcia · Stephen Lynch · Elon Musk · xAI · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-22 | Regulatory Bodies Begin Investigating Grok AI Safety Practices Elon Musk · xAI · Senator Elizabeth Warren · Rep. Don Bacon · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-21 | Trump campaign begins accepting cryptocurrency donations Trump Campaign · Cryptocurrency industry | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-15 | xAI Announces Enhanced Safety Protocols for Grok Chatbot at AI Seoul Summit Elon Musk · xAI · AI Ethics Consultants · Boaz Barak · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-14 | DOJ Finds Boeing Breached Deferred Prosecution Agreement After Door Plug Blowout Department of Justice · Boeing · Federal District Court · Criminal Division Fraud Section · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-13 | French officials dispute Noem's claim about canceling Macron meeting Kristi Noem · Emmanuel Macron · Élysée Palace | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-13 | Michael Cohen Testifies Trump Personally Directed Hush Money Scheme and Reimbursement Cover-Up Michael Cohen · Donald Trump · Allen Weisselberg · Juan Merchan | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-07 | Stormy Daniels Testifies in Graphic Detail About Sexual Encounter, Trump Visibly Angry Stormy Daniels · Donald Trump · Juan Merchan | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-06 | Steward Health Care Declares Bankruptcy After Private Equity Extracts $1.3 Billion, At Least 15 Patient Deaths Linked to Substandard Care Steward Health Care · Ralph de la Torre · Cerberus Capital Management · Medical Properties Trust · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-03 | Noem caught lying about meeting Kim Jong Un in memoir Kristi Noem · Kim Jong Un | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-01 | Second Boeing Whistleblower Joshua Dean Dies Suddenly at 45 from MRSA Infection Joshua Dean · Spirit AeroSystems · Boeing · John Barnett | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-26 | Noem reveals she killed 14-month-old dog and goat in memoir Kristi Noem | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-24 | Anduril Wins Air Force Contract for Autonomous Fighter Jet Program Anduril Industries · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · Palmer Luckey · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-24 | Chamber of Commerce Sues FTC to Block Non-Compete Ban, Challenging Agency Authority U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Business Roundtable | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-23 | Axon Releases Draft One AI System to Automate Police Report Writing from Body Camera Audio Axon · OpenAI · Microsoft · Electronic Frontier Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-23 | Biden Administration Finalizes Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Rule Despite Fierce Industry Opposition and Republican Backlash Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · American Health Care Association · LeadingAge · Kim Reynolds · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-23 | Justice Department Pays $138.7 Million Settlement Over FBI's Failure to Investigate Nassar Allegations U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · W. Jay Abbott · Michael Langeman · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-15 | First Criminal Trial of Former U.S. President Begins - Trump Faces 34 Felony Counts in Manhattan Donald Trump · Juan Merchan · Alvin Bragg · Todd Blanche · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-26 | DJT Stock Begins Trading as Trump Owns Majority of $8.4 Billion Media Company Donald Trump · Trump Media & Technology Group · NYSE · Digital World Acquisition Corp · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-26 | Fifth Circuit re-blocks Texas SB 4 pending appeal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · Chief Judge Priscilla Richman · State of Texas · Biden Administration | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-25 | H5N1 Bird Flu First Detected in U.S. Dairy Cattle in Texas USDA · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Food and Drug Administration · Texas Department of Agriculture | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-25 | Homeland Security Launches Major Sex Trafficking Investigation Against Sean Combs U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Sean Combs · Federal Prosecutors · U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-25 | UK Lawmakers Accuse Google of Breaking AI Safety Pledge with Gemini 2.5 Pro Release Google DeepMind · Baroness Beeban Kidron · Des Browne · UK AI Safety Institute | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-22 | Candace Owens Fired from Daily Wire After Antisemitism Controversy Candace Owens · Ben Shapiro · Jeremy Boreing · Daily Wire | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-22 | Irish Data Protection Commission Launches Grok AI Regulatory Investigation Elon Musk · Irish Data Protection Commission · X Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-21 | DOJ Sues Apple for iPhone Monopoly Maintained Through Ecosystem Lock-In and Developer Restrictions Department of Justice · Apple · Tim Cook · 16 State Attorneys General | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-20 | Musk's xAI Grok Faces Mounting Safety Scrutiny, Secures $200M Pentagon Contract Elon Musk · xAI · AI Safety Researchers · GSA AI Safety Team · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-19 | SCOTUS allows Texas SB 4 to take effect temporarily Supreme Court of the United States · State of Texas · Biden Administration · Justice Samuel Alito · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-15 | State Department Develops Advanced Internal Resistance and Preservation Protocols State Department · Career Diplomats · Foreign Service Officers · Department of State Leadership | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-09 | Boeing Whistleblower John Barnett Found Dead During Deposition, Ruled Suicide John Barnett · Boeing · Charleston County Coroner · Charleston Police Department · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-05 | Treasury Department Sanctions Intellexa Consortium and Tal Dilian U.S. Treasury Department · Office of Foreign Assets Control · Tal Jonathan Dilian · Sara Aleksandra Fayssal Hamou · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-01 | Trump Pressures Georgia Lawmakers to Capture State Election Board Donald Trump · Ed Lindsey · Janelle King · Georgia Republican Lawmakers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-01 | Tunisia Dissolves Democratic Municipal Councils Under Authoritarian Consolidation Kais Saied · Tunisian municipal councils · Tunisian opposition · Ennahda party | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-01 | Wyoming Legislature Passes Second Coal Tax Cut in Two Years, Sacrificing $20 Million Annually to Subsidize Declining Industry Wyoming Legislature · Mark Gordon · Black Hills Energy · Powder River Basin Coal Producers | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-27 | DOJ Launches Antitrust Investigation of UnitedHealth's Vertical Integration Strategy and Optum Physician Acquisitions Department of Justice · UnitedHealth Group · UnitedHealthcare · Optum | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-23 | Federal Agents Charge Two with $400,000 NFT 'Rug Pull' Money Laundering Scheme Devin Alan Rhoden · Berman Jerry Nowlin Jr. · HSI · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-23 | Jury finds NRA, Wayne LaPierre liable for corruption; $6.35M damages ordered Wayne LaPierre · National Rifle Association · Wilson "Woody" Phillips · John Frazer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-22 | AI Regulatory Bodies Begin Scrutiny of xAI's Grok Elon Musk · xAI · Federal Trade Commission · Irish Data Protection Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-16 | Judge Engoron Issues $454 Million Fraud Judgment Against Trump, Bans NY Business Operations Arthur Engoron · Donald Trump · Letitia James · Donald Trump Jr. · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-15 | AI Ethics Study Highlights Systemic Bias and Misinformation Risks in Grok AI Stanford HAI Researchers · Elon Musk · xAI Team · AI Ethics Researchers · +1 | confirmed |