2020s
The 2020s contain 2812 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-15 | First Criminal Trial of Former U.S. President Begins - Trump Faces 34 Felony Counts in Manhattan
4 src 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
4 src 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
4 src 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
3 src 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
4 src 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
4 src Google DeepMind · Baroness Beeban Kidron · Des Browne · UK AI Safety Institute | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-22 | Candace Owens Fired from Daily Wire After Antisemitism Controversy
2 src Candace Owens · Ben Shapiro · Jeremy Boreing · Daily Wire | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-22 | Irish Data Protection Commission Launches Grok AI Regulatory Investigation
3 src 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
3 src 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
4 src Elon Musk · xAI · AI Safety Researchers · GSA AI Safety Team · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-19 | SCOTUS allows Texas SB 4 to take effect temporarily
5 src 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
3 src 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
4 src John Barnett · Boeing · Charleston County Coroner · Charleston Police Department · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-05 | Treasury Department Sanctions Intellexa Consortium and Tal Dilian
4 src 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
4 src Donald Trump · Ed Lindsey · Janelle King · Georgia Republican Lawmakers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-01 | Tunisia Dissolves Democratic Municipal Councils Under Authoritarian Consolidation
3 src 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
9 src 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
3 src Department of Justice · UnitedHealth Group · UnitedHealthcare · Optum | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-23 | Federal Agents Charge Two with $400,000 NFT 'Rug Pull' Money Laundering Scheme
3 src 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
3 src Wayne LaPierre · National Rifle Association · Wilson "Woody" Phillips · John Frazer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-22 | AI Regulatory Bodies Begin Scrutiny of xAI's Grok
3 src 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
4 src 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
4 src Stanford HAI Researchers · Elon Musk · xAI Team · AI Ethics Researchers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-15 | Chicago Terminates ShotSpotter Contract After Years of Criticism
3 src Brandon Johnson · ShotSpotter · Chicago Police Department | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-15 | First Major Grok AI Safety Failure Documented
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src Joe Biden · Miguel Cardona | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-11 | Ukrainian intelligence confirms systemic Russian military use of Starlink
5 src Russian military · Ukrainian intelligence · Elon Musk · SpaceX · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-09 | Meta makes political content non-recommended by default on Instagram and Threads
4 src Meta · Instagram · Threads | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-08 | Michael Mann Wins Defamation Lawsuit After 12-Year Battle Against Climate Deniers
4 src 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
5 src Joe Rogan · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-01 | Russian Military Systematically Acquires and Uses Starlink Terminals in Ukraine
3 src 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
4 src 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
3 src Ring · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-17 | Kirk and Wallnau Announce Courage Tour Partnership — TPUSA Faith + NAR Revival Infrastructure Merged for 2024 Election
6 src Charlie Kirk · Lance Wallnau · Mario Murillo · TPUSA Faith · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-16 | JetBlue-Spirit Merger Blocked by Court, Rare Victory for Biden Antitrust Enforcers
3 src Department of Justice · JetBlue Airways · Spirit Airlines · Judge William Young | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-15 | Independent AI Safety Researchers Publish Initial Grok AI Safety Assessment
3 src 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
3 src 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
4 src 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
4 src 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)
4 src 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
3 src Loretta Preska · Virginia Giuffre · Ghislaine Maxwell · Bill Clinton · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-01 | Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events
4 src 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
13 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
4 src 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
3 src 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
3 src Northrop Grumman · U.S. Congress · Senate Armed Services Committee · House Armed Services Committee | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-27 | Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Dalfen Industrial Acquire Roxbury NJ Warehouse from Adler Roxbury LLC — Off-Market JLL Deal; Price Undisclosed
4 src Goldman Sachs Asset Management · Dalfen Industrial · Adler Roxbury LLC · Adler Development | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-18 | FTC and DOJ Release 2023 Merger Guidelines Rejecting Consumer Welfare Standard
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice · Lina Khan · Jonathan Kanter | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-15 | AI Safety Experts Reveal Grok Vulnerability Patterns
4 src AI Safety Researchers · David Rozado · xAI · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-15 | Security Experts Raise Alarms About Grok AI's Lack of Safety Guardrails
3 src 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
4 src JD Vance · Ron Wyden · U.S. Senate | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-12 | Trump Launches Third 'Mugshot' NFT Collection Generating $9.9 Million Revenue
3 src Donald Trump · NFT INT LLC | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-11 | Vance Endorses Claremont Institute's 'Up from Conservatism' at Capitol Hill Event
4 src 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
3 src 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
3 src U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Suzanne Clark | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-01 | Vance Endorses Claremont Institute Authoritarian Policy Document
4 src 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
5 src 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
2 src 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
3 src UnitedHealth Group · NaviHealth · UnitedHealthcare | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-13 | Supreme Court adopts first-ever Code of Conduct — non-binding, unenforceable, no external oversight 5 src | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-09 | Senate Judiciary Subpoenas Harlan Crow Over Thomas Gifts After Resistance
5 src 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
2 src 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"
4 src Donald Trump · Arthur Engoron · Letitia James · Trump Organization · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-04 | xAI Launches Grok with Minimal Safety Guardrails
3 src 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'
3 src 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
3 src Mike Johnson · David Barton · WallBuilders | confirmed | |
| 2023-10-09 | Dataminr Provides LAPD Real-Time Surveillance of Gaza War Protests, Expanding First Amendment Monitoring
2 src Dataminr · LAPD · Talia Jane | confirmed | |
| 2023-10-05 | Metro Emergency Communications deploys Carbyne AI-powered 911 system in Provo, Orem, and Lindon, Utah
3 src 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
5 src 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
2 src 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
4 src 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
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Amazon · Andy Jassy · 17 State Attorneys General | confirmed | |
| 2023-09-15 | Doug Wilson Speaks at Vance-Founded American Moment Event in Dirksen Senate Office Building
3 src Doug Wilson · Saurabh Sharma · Nick Solheim · JD Vance · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-09-13 | Charlie Kirk Platforms Lance Wallnau at TPUSA Faith Pastors Summit, San Diego — NAR/Seven Mountains Integration
5 src Charlie Kirk · Lance Wallnau · TPUSA Faith · Rob McCoy | confirmed | |
| 2023-09-08 | Fifth Circuit Finds Biden Administration Violated First Amendment Through Social Media Coercion
4 src 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
4 src 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
4 src X · Twitter · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-28 | QIA Buys Witkoff's Park Lane Hotel for $623M — Phase 4 Cross-Family Capital Predicate (14 Months Before Witkoff Peace-Envoy Appointment)
2 src Steve Witkoff · Witkoff Group · Qatar Investment Authority · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-25 | DHS S&T Awards SAIC $59.2M DEBIASE Contract — Largest R&D Award in Leaked Dataset Funds Biometric Scaling from Airports to Land/Sea Ports
8 src Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) · DHS Science and Technology Directorate · DHS Biometric and Identity Technology Center (BI-TC) | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-24 | Trump Surrenders at Fulton County Jail, Mugshot Taken - First Presidential Mugshot in History
4 src Donald Trump · Fani Willis | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-15 | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Receives Top Secret Clearance for Intelligence Community
3 src 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
4 src Donald Trump · Fani Willis · Rudy Giuliani · Mark Meadows · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-12 | Regulatory Enforcement Actions Drop Substantially in 2023: A Strategic Shift
4 src Regulatory Enforcement Division · Industry Trade Groups · Congressional Oversight | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-12 | SEC Enforcement Actions Decline in FY 2024 After Peak in FY 2023
3 src 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
5 src 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
4 src 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
6 src 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
2 src 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
3 src Elon Musk · Twitter · X · Center for Countering Digital Hate · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-19 | IRS Whistleblowers Testify Hunter Biden Investigation Was Obstructed by DOJ
4 src Gary Shapley · Joseph Ziegler · Hunter Biden · David Weiss · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-18 | SEC Charges DWAC with Securities Fraud, Imposes $18 Million Penalty
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
4 src Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-01 | Trump Crypto Empire Raises Major Constitutional Conflict of Interest Concerns
4 src 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
5 src 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
9 src U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Neil Gorsuch · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · +12 | confirmed |