2020s
The 2020s contain 2567 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-15 | Chicago Terminates ShotSpotter Contract After Years of Criticism Brandon Johnson · ShotSpotter · Chicago Police Department | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-15 | First Major Grok AI Safety Failure Documented Elon Musk · xAI · AI Safety Researchers · Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-15 | xAI Grok AI Faces Initial Government Safety Scrutiny Elon Musk · Tech Regulators · xAI · GSA AI Safety Team · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-12 | Biden Approves $136 Billion in Targeted Student Debt Relief - 3.7 Million Borrowers Through Alternative Programs Joe Biden · Miguel Cardona | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-11 | Ukrainian intelligence confirms systemic Russian military use of Starlink Russian military · Ukrainian intelligence · Elon Musk · SpaceX/Starlink | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-09 | Meta makes political content non-recommended by default on Instagram and Threads Meta · Instagram · Threads | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-08 | Michael Mann Wins Defamation Lawsuit After 12-Year Battle Against Climate Deniers Michael Mann · Rand Simberg · Mark Steyn · Competitive Enterprise Institute · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-02 | Joe Rogan Signs New $250 Million Spotify Deal, No Longer Exclusive Joe Rogan · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-01 | Russian Military Systematically Acquires and Uses Starlink Terminals in Ukraine Elon Musk · Vladimir Putin · Russian military · Starlink · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-26 | Jury Awards E. Jean Carroll $83.3 Million in Second Defamation Trial Against Trump E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Lewis Kaplan · Roberta Kaplan | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-24 | Ring ends 'Request for Assistance' feature allowing police to request user footage Ring · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-16 | JetBlue-Spirit Merger Blocked by Court, Rare Victory for Biden Antitrust Enforcers Department of Justice · JetBlue Airways · Spirit Airlines · Judge William Young | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-15 | Independent AI Safety Researchers Publish Initial Grok AI Safety Assessment xAI · Independent AI Safety Researchers · Elon Musk · Samuel Marks · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-15 | Systematic Supreme Court Ethics Violations Exposed: Thomas-Crow Revelations Reveal Institutional Corruption Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow · Senate Judiciary Committee · ProPublica | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-05 | Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 Door Plug Blows Out at 16,000 Feet, Exposing Continued Boeing Safety Failures Alaska Airlines · Boeing · Spirit AeroSystems · Federal Aviation Administration · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-05 | Boeing 737 MAX Scandal Summary - 346 Deaths, $2.5B Fine, Zero Executive Prosecutions Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration · 346 crash victims · Dennis Muilenburg · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-04 | House Oversight minority report: at least $7.8M from 20 foreign governments to Trump businesses (partial records) U.S. House Committee on Oversight (Minority Staff) · Donald J. Trump / Trump Organization · Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-03 | Jeffrey Epstein Associates Documents Released to Public Loretta Preska · Virginia Giuffre · Ghislaine Maxwell · Bill Clinton · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-01 | Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events Clarence Thomas · Koch Network · Charles Koch · David Koch · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-01 | New Hampshire LLC Structure Enables Corporate Tax Avoidance While 81% of Businesses Pay No State Business Tax New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration · New Hampshire Legislature · Limited Liability Companies | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-01 | Oracle Spends $11 Million on Federal Lobbying, Focuses on TikTok Data Storage Deal Oracle · U.S. Senate · Senate Commerce Committee · Senate Intelligence Committee | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-01 | Union Membership Collapses to 9.9%, Completing 70-Year Labor Destruction Campaign American workers · Bureau of Labor Statistics · U.S. unions | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-31 | Biden Leaves 14 Inspector General Positions Vacant, Some for Over 2,000 Days Joe Biden · Joseph Cuffari · Project on Government Oversight · Inspectors General | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-31 | Investigation Reveals $6.6 Million in Gifts to Supreme Court Justices Supreme Court Justices · Fix the Court · Harlan Crow · Paul Singer · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-31 | Northrop Grumman Spends $10.86 Million on Lobbying with 29 Revolving Door Officials Northrop Grumman · U.S. Congress · Senate Armed Services Committee · House Armed Services Committee | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-18 | FTC and DOJ Release 2023 Merger Guidelines Rejecting Consumer Welfare Standard Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice · Lina Khan · Jonathan Kanter | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-15 | AI Safety Experts Reveal Grok Vulnerability Patterns AI Safety Researchers · David Rozado · xAI · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-15 | Security Experts Raise Alarms About Grok AI's Lack of Safety Guardrails Elon Musk · xAI · AI Safety Researchers · Kristian Hammond · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-14 | Vance Introduces College Endowment Accountability Act: 35% Excise Tax on Large University Endowments JD Vance · Ron Wyden · U.S. Senate | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-12 | Trump Launches Third 'Mugshot' NFT Collection Generating $9.9 Million Revenue Donald Trump · NFT INT LLC | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-11 | Vance Endorses Claremont Institute's 'Up from Conservatism' at Capitol Hill Event J.D. Vance · Michael Anton · Jeremy Carl · Arthur Milikh · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-07 | Washington Post Workers Strike Against Bezos—First Walkout in Nearly 50 Years Over Job Cuts and Stalled Negotiations Washington Post Guild · Jeff Bezos · Patty Stonesifer · Washington Post | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-01 | Chamber of Commerce Sues FTC Over 'Black-Box Environment' Lack of Transparency U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Suzanne Clark | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-01 | Vance Endorses Claremont Institute Authoritarian Policy Document J.D. Vance · Claremont Institute | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-21 | Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao Plead Guilty to Money Laundering in $4.3 Billion DOJ Settlement Changpeng Zhao · Binance · Department of Justice · Merrick Garland · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-20 | ICIJ Cyprus Confidential Investigation Exposes Wyoming as Premier U.S. Tax Haven Overtaking Delaware International Consortium of Investigative Journalists · ConnectedSky · Wyoming Legislature · OpenCorporates · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-14 | Class Action Lawsuit Alleges UnitedHealth Uses AI with 90% Error Rate to Deny Medicare Advantage Claims, Causing Patient Deaths UnitedHealth Group · NaviHealth · UnitedHealthcare | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-09 | Senate Judiciary Subpoenas Harlan Crow Over Thomas Gifts After Resistance Senate Judiciary Committee · Dick Durbin · Harlan Crow · Clarence Thomas · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-08 | Tenet Media Officially Launches Conservative Content Network with Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson and Others Tenet Media · Lauren Chen · Liam Donovan · Tim Pool · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-06 | Trump Takes Stand in NY Fraud Trial, Delivers Combative Testimony Calling Case "Witch Hunt" Donald Trump · Arthur Engoron · Letitia James · Trump Organization · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-04 | xAI Launches Grok with Minimal Safety Guardrails Elon Musk · xAI · Anthropic | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-02 | Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted on All Counts in 'One of the Biggest Financial Frauds in American History' Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · Alameda Research · U.S. Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-10-25 | Mike Johnson Elected Speaker of the House: A Christian Nationalist Becomes Second in Line to the Presidency Mike Johnson · David Barton · WallBuilders | confirmed | |
| 2023-10-09 | Dataminr Provides LAPD Real-Time Surveillance of Gaza War Protests, Expanding First Amendment Monitoring Dataminr · LAPD · Talia Jane | confirmed | |
| 2023-10-05 | Metro Emergency Communications deploys Carbyne AI-powered 911 system in Provo, Orem, and Lindon, Utah Metro Emergency Communications Utah · Carbyne · Provo Utah · Orem Utah · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-10-02 | IronNet Cybersecurity Collapses Into Bankruptcy, Former NSA Director Alexander's $1.2B Venture Implodes Keith Alexander · IronNet Cybersecurity · LGL Systems Acquisition Corp · C5 Capital · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-10-02 | IronNet Files for Bankruptcy: Former NSA Director Keith Alexander's $1.2B Cybersecurity Venture Collapses, SEC Charges Follow Keith Alexander · IronNet Cybersecurity · Securities and Exchange Commission · Matthew Olsen | confirmed | |
| 2023-10-01 | Russian RT Employees Begin Funneling Money Through Tenet Media to US Influencers RT (Russia Today) · Tenet Media · Tim Pool · Benny Johnson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-09-26 | FTC Sues Amazon for Illegal Monopoly Maintenance Through Anti-Discounting and Seller Coercion Federal Trade Commission · Amazon · Andy Jassy · 17 State Attorneys General | confirmed | |
| 2023-09-08 | Fifth Circuit Finds Biden Administration Violated First Amendment Through Social Media Coercion Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · White House · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-09-01 | FTC Issues Policy Statement on Orange Book Patent Gaming: Pharmaceutical Evergreening as Unfair Competition Under Section 5 Federal Trade Commission · Andrew N. Ferguson · Food and Drug Administration · Amphastar · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-29 | X reverses 2019 ban, allows U.S. political ads; verified accounts prioritized in recommendations X/Twitter · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-24 | Trump Surrenders at Fulton County Jail, Mugshot Taken - First Presidential Mugshot in History Donald Trump · Fani Willis | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-15 | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Receives Top Secret Clearance for Intelligence Community Oracle · Intelligence Community · U.S. Department of Defense · Central Intelligence Agency | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-14 | Fulton County DA Fani Willis Indicts Trump and 18 Co-Defendants on Georgia RICO Charges Donald Trump · Fani Willis · Rudy Giuliani · Mark Meadows · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-12 | Regulatory Enforcement Actions Drop Substantially in 2023: A Strategic Shift Regulatory Enforcement Division · Industry Trade Groups · Congressional Oversight | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-12 | SEC Enforcement Actions Decline in FY 2024 After Peak in FY 2023 SEC Division of Enforcement · Financial Regulatory Agencies · Congressional Oversight Committees | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-08 | Maui Wildfires Kill Over 100 as Corporate Water Diversions and Land Development Create Tinderbox; Governor Suspends Native Water Rights After Disaster Josh Green · West Maui Land Company · Glenn Tremble · Kaleo Manuel · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-01 | Jack Smith Indicts Trump on 4 Federal Counts for January 6 Conspiracy to Overturn Election Donald Trump · Jack Smith · Mike Pence · Rudy Giuliani · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-01 | Thiel-Backed goTenna Contracted for "Off-Grid Facial Recognition" with U.S. Air Force goTenna · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · In-Q-Tel · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-31 | Joe Rogan Promotes January 6 False Flag Conspiracy Theory, Claims FBI Orchestrated Insurrection to Frame Trump Joe Rogan · Ray Epps · Federal Bureau of Investigation · House Select Committee on January 6 | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-23 | Twitter Transformed to X with Systematic Content Moderation Rollback and Political Weaponization Elon Musk · Twitter/X Platform · Center for Countering Digital Hate · Eddie Perez · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-19 | IRS Whistleblowers Testify Hunter Biden Investigation Was Obstructed by DOJ Gary Shapley · Joseph Ziegler · Hunter Biden · David Weiss · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-18 | SEC Charges DWAC with Securities Fraud, Imposes $18 Million Penalty Securities and Exchange Commission · Digital World Acquisition Corp · Trump Media & Technology Group | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-10 | FTC Loses Microsoft-Activision Challenge, $69 Billion Merger Approved Despite Opposition Federal Trade Commission · Microsoft Corporation · Activision Blizzard · Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-01 | Amazon Refuses to Bargain with JFK8 Union, Pioneering Refuse-to-Bargain Union-Busting Tactic Amazon · Amazon Labor Union · National Labor Relations Board · Chris Smalls | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-01 | RFK Jr claims COVID was ethnically targeted bioweapon sparing Jews and Chinese Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-01 | Trump Crypto Empire Raises Major Constitutional Conflict of Interest Concerns Donald Trump · Trump Media & Technology Group · World Liberty Financial · MGX · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-01 | US Adds Intellexa and Cytrox to Entity List for Cyber Exploit Trafficking US Commerce Department · Bureau of Industry and Security · Intellexa S.A. · Cytrox Holdings Crt · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-30 | Supreme Court Allows Religious Exemptions from Anti-Discrimination Laws in 303 Creative v. Elenis U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Neil Gorsuch · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · +12 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-30 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden Student Loan Forgiveness 6-3 - Protects Debt System Against Democratic Relief John Roberts · Joe Biden · Elena Kagan | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-29 | FBI Arrests Three in "Trust Social" Investigation for DWAC Insider Trading Michael Shvartsman · Gerald Shvartsman · Bruce Garelick · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-29 | Shvartsman Brothers and Bruce Garelick Charged in $22.9 Million DWAC Insider Trading Scheme Michael Shvartsman · Gerald Shvartsman · Bruce Garelick · Rocket One Capital · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-29 | Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action in College Admissions in Students for Fair Admissions Decisions U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · Justice Samuel Alito · +12 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-27 | Supreme Court Rejects Dangerous "Independent State Legislature" Theory in Moore v. Harper US Supreme Court · North Carolina Legislature · Democracy advocates | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-26 | SVB Executives Sold $84 Million in Stock Before Bank Collapse Greg Becker · Daniel Beck | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-26 | Unconfirmed Report of Trump, Musk, and MBS Meeting Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Mohammed bin Salman | reported | |
| 2023-06-23 | Jack Smith grants immunity to fake electors for testimony against Trump Jack Smith · Michael McDonald · Jim DeGraffenreid · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-20 | ProPublica Reveals Samuel Alito's Undisclosed Luxury Trip with Billionaire Paul Singer Samuel Alito · Paul Singer · Elliott Investment Management · Leonard Leo · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-20 | Shell Company Network Analysis Links Cryptocurrency to Kleptocracy Infrastructure BitMEX · Arthur Hayes · Ben Delo · Samuel Reed · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-15 | AT&T partners with Carbyne as authorized reseller, integrating Israeli surveillance tech into national telecom infrastructure AT&T · Carbyne · Ehud Barak · AT&T Ventures | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-14 | Commerce Department Designates Erik Prince's Frontier Services Group as National Security Threat for PLA Support—Five Years After Carbyne Co-Founder Worked There Bureau of Industry and Security · Frontier Services Group · Erik Prince · CITIC Group · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-08 | Allen v. Milligan reaffirms Voting Rights Act §2; orders additional majority-Black district in Alabama Supreme Court of the United States · State of Alabama · DOJ Civil Rights Division | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-08 | Trump indicted on 37 federal charges for classified documents Donald Trump · Jack Smith · Walt Nauta · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-02 | YouTube stops removing false claims about past U.S. elections YouTube · Google | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-01 | House Select Committee Exposes McKinsey Work for Chinese Military While Advising Pentagon McKinsey & Company · House Select Committee on the CCP · John Moolenaar · Marco Rubio · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-31 | FTC fines Ring $5.8 million for employees' illegal surveillance of customers' private videos Ring · Amazon · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-30 | Second Circuit Reverses District Court, Reinstates Sackler Immunity Deal U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-10 | Senate Hearing Exposes PBM Insulin Profiteering: 75% of Sales Go to Rebates and Fees Bernie Sanders · Senate HELP Committee · Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen · Paul Hudson · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-09 | Jury Finds Trump Liable for Sexual Abuse and Defamation of E. Jean Carroll, Awards $5 Million E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Lewis Kaplan | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-09 | Tucker Carlson Announces Move to Twitter/X, Forgoes $25 Million to Break Non-Compete Tucker Carlson · Elon Musk · Twitter/X · Fox News · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-04 | Proud Boys, Oath Keepers Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy for January 6 Proud Boys · Oath Keepers · Enrique Tarrio · Stewart Rhodes · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-01 | Tennessee Renews $168 Million CoreCivic Prison Contract Despite Deaths and Fines, Exposing Corporate Capture CoreCivic · Bill Lee · Tennessee Department of Correction · Tennessee State Building Commission | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-26 | Ukraine Launches Brave1 State-Backed Defense and Surveillance Technology Platform Ukraine Ministry of Digital Transformation · Ukraine Ministry of Defence · Brave1 Cluster | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-22 | Palantir Partners with Ukraine Prosecutor to Process War Crimes Evidence Using AI Palantir Technologies · Ukraine Prosecutor General's Office · Andriy Kostin | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-19 | Trump Second NFT Collection Sells Out While Revealing Substantial Digital Asset Income Donald Trump · NFT INT LLC · CIC Digital LLC | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-12 | Yemeni Civilians File Lawsuit Against Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and General Dynamics for Enabling War Crimes Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · General Dynamics · Yemeni civilians · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-06 | ProPublica Exposes Two Decades of Undisclosed Thomas-Crow Gifts ProPublica · Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-06 | ProPublica reveals decades of luxury travel/gifts to Justice Thomas; 2023 Judicial Conference narrows hospitality exemption Justice Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow · Judicial Conference of the United States | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-06 | Tennessee House Expels Two Black Lawmakers in Racist Suppression of Gun Control Protest Tennessee House Republicans · Justin Jones · Justin Pearson · Gloria Johnson · +2 | confirmed |