Decade of record

2020s

The 2020s contain 2567 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.

2567 events From Jan 1, 2020 To May 6, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2020-06-30Espinoza v. Montana - Supreme Court Strikes Down State Bans on Religious School Funding
Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · Justice Samuel Alito · Institute for Justice · +1
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2020-06-25Wirecard Files for Insolvency After €1.9 Billion Goes Missing, Exposing Decade of EY Audit Failure and German Regulatory Capture
Wirecard · Markus Braun · Jan Marsalek · EY · +4
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2020-06-19Oracle BlueKai Exposes Billions of Web Tracking Records in Unsecured Database
Oracle · BlueKai
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2020-06-15Louis DeJoy Begins Serving as Postmaster General Despite Conflicts of Interest
Louis DeJoy · Donald Trump · USPS Board of Governors
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2020-06-10Amazon announces one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition after George Floyd protests
Amazon · AWS · Jeff Bezos
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2020-06-09FBI Expands Dataminr Contract During George Floyd Protests for Social Media Surveillance of Demonstrations
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Dataminr · NYPD · LAPD · +2
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2020-06-09Federal Government Awards Billions in No-Bid COVID PPE Contracts, Often to Politically Connected Companies
Trump Administration · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · U.S. Department of Justice · Congressional Oversight
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2020-06-06Boogaloo Movement Kills Two Law Enforcement Officers: Chan Meme Culture Produces Armed Paramilitary Network
Steven Carrillo
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2020-06-02General Milley Appears with Trump at Lafayette Square After Protest Clearing
General Mark Milley · Donald Trump · Joint Chiefs of Staff · Federal Law Enforcement · +3
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2020-06-01Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout After Zuckerberg Refuses to Remove Trump Incitement to Violence
Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook · Facebook Employees · +1
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2020-05-19Joe Rogan Signs $100-200 Million Exclusive Deal with Spotify
Joe Rogan · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience
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2020-05-15Puerto Rico Selects LUMA Energy for $1.5 Billion Grid Privatization Following McKinsey's Recommendations, Quanta Services Connection Raises Questions
LUMA Energy · Quanta Services · Canadian Utilities Limited · Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnership Authority · +2
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2020-05-15Trump Dismisses State Department Inspector General Steve Linick
Donald Trump · Mike Pompeo · Steve Linick · Eliot Engel · +1
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2020-05-15Trump Fires 5 Inspectors General in 6 Weeks to Block Investigations
Donald Trump · Steve Linick · Michael Atkinson · Glenn Fine · +2
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2020-05-08AbbVie Completes $63 Billion Allergan Acquisition: Pharmaceutical Industry Consolidates Into Oligopoly
AbbVie · Allergan · Federal Trade Commission
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2020-04-28Meatpacking Industry Drafts Its Own DPA Executive Order Forcing Plants Open Despite Worker Deaths
Donald Trump · Tyson Foods · JBS USA · Smithfield Foods · +2
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2020-04-23Trump Suggests Injecting Disinfectant and UV Light Inside Body as COVID Treatments
Donald Trump · William Bryan
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2020-04-20Whole Foods Heat Map Tracks Stores at Risk of Unionization Using Diversity and Demographics
Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Whole Foods
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2020-04-18CatalanGate Reveals Systematic Pegasus Targeting of 65 Catalan Independence Leaders
Citizen Lab · NSO Group · Pere Aragonès · Quim Torra · +3
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2020-04-07Trump Removes Glenn Fine from Pentagon IG, Blocking $2 Trillion CARES Act Oversight
Donald Trump · Glenn Fine · Carolyn Maloney · Mitt Romney · +1
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2020-04-06HHS Inspector General Christi Grimm Reports Severe Hospital Shortages, Trump Attacks Her Credibility
Christi Grimm · Donald Trump · Jason Weida · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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2020-04-03Raytheon-United Technologies Merge Creates $135 Billion Defense Giant, Consolidating Industry Power
Raytheon · United Technologies Corporation · Greg Hayes · Department of Justice · +1
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2020-04-03Trump Inspector General Friday Night Massacre Systematically Accelerates WHIG Oversight Destruction Precedent for Constitutional Crisis Operations
Donald Trump · Michael Atkinson · Glenn Fine · Mitch Behm · +5
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2020-04-03Trump Uses DPA for PPE Export Ban While Allowing Domestic Profiteering and FEMA Supply Seizures
Donald Trump · Peter Navarro · Jared Kushner · 3M · +1
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2020-04-02Navy Captain Crozier Fired for Requesting COVID Help for USS Roosevelt Crew
Captain Brett Crozier · Thomas Modly · Donald Trump · USS Theodore Roosevelt crew · +2
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2020-04-01CNP Coordinates National COVID-19 Anti-Lockdown Protest Movement
Council for National Policy · CNP Action · Stephen Moore · Heritage Foundation · +4
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2020-04-01MVM Inc operates shadow detention network using hotels and unmarked buildings for children
MVM Inc. · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Hampton Inn & Suites · Sonesta Hotels · +1
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2020-04-01Trump Awards $812M No-Bid COVID Contract to Newly Formed Phlow Corporation
Phlow Corporation · Peter Navarro · Kodak · Donald Trump · +1
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2020-03-30Amazon Fires Christian Smalls for Organizing COVID Safety Protest
Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Christian Smalls · David Zapolsky
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2020-03-27PPP launches $800B COVID relief with minimal oversight; $200B+ fraud estimates
Small Business Administration · U.S. Treasury Department · U.S. Congress
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2020-03-27Trump Orders General Motors to Produce Ventilators Under DPA After Nine-Day Delay Costs Lives
Donald Trump · Peter Navarro · General Motors
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2020-03-19Senators Burr and Loeffler Accused of Insider Trading After COVID-19 Briefings
Richard Burr · Kelly Loeffler · Tucker Carlson
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2020-03-18Trump Invokes Defense Production Act but Refuses to Compel PPE Production as Corporate Lobbying Blocks Emergency Powers
Donald Trump · Peter Navarro · Jared Kushner · U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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2020-03-13COVID-19 Emergency Triggers Student Loan Payment Pause - 44 Million Borrowers Get Relief
Donald Trump · Joe Biden · U.S. Department of Education
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2020-03-13Trump Declares National Emergency for COVID-19 After Weeks of Denialism and Delay
Donald Trump · Alex Azar · Mike Pence
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2020-03-07New York Times Exposes Erik Prince's Recruitment of Former Spies for Project Veritas Domestic Intelligence Operations
Erik Prince · Richard Seddon · James O'Keefe · Project Veritas · +3
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2020-03-06Trump Wears "Keep America Great" Campaign Hat During CDC Visit, Makes False Testing Claims
Donald Trump · Robert Redfield · Alex Azar · Mike Pence · +1
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2020-03-01Facebook Internal Research Confirms Instagram Toxic for Teen Girls, Conceals Findings While Targeting Youth
Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram · Wall Street Journal · +1
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2020-02-28First AFPAC Conference Launches as White Nationalist Alternative to CPAC
Nick Fuentes · Michelle Malkin
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2020-02-28Trump Calls Coronavirus "Their New Hoax" at South Carolina Rally
Donald Trump
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2020-02-27Fed Vice Chair Clarida Trades Millions Before Rate Cuts
Richard Clarida · Federal Reserve Board · Jerome Powell · Elizabeth Warren
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2020-02-21DOJ Declines Criminal Prosecution of Wells Fargo Executives
Department of Justice · William Barr · Wells Fargo
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2020-02-21Wells Fargo Pays $3 Billion, Admits Fraud, No Executives Charged
Wells Fargo · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission
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2020-02-20Axon Launches Axon Air Drone Platform, Integrating Aerial Surveillance into Police Evidence Ecosystem
Axon · Escondido Police Department · DJI
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2020-02-20DOJ Overrules Prosecutors' Roger Stone Sentencing Recommendation After Trump Tweet
Roger Stone · Donald Trump · William Barr · Aaron Zelinsky · +4
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2020-02-20Trump Fires Acting DNI Joseph Maguire After Intelligence Briefing That Russia Prefers Trump in 2020
Joseph Maguire · Donald Trump · Shelby Pierson · Richard Grenell · +1
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2020-02-19Larry Ellison Hosts Trump Fundraiser at California Estate, Raises $7 Million
Larry Ellison · Donald Trump · Oracle · Republican Party
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2020-02-14YouTube Terminates Nick Fuentes Channel for Hate Speech Violations
Nick Fuentes
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2020-02-132020 Congressional COVID Insider Trading Scandal Exposes Systemic Corruption
Richard Burr · Kelly Loeffler · James Inhofe · Dianne Feinstein · +1
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2020-02-11Bill Barr Intervenes to Reduce Sentences for Trump Allies Stone and Flynn
Bill Barr · Roger Stone · Michael Flynn · Donald Trump · +1
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2020-02-07Trump Fires Impeachment Witnesses Vindman and Sondland in Coordinated Retaliation Purge
Donald Trump · Alexander Vindman · Yevgeny Vindman · Gordon Sondland · +2
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2020-02-07Trump Fires Lt. Col. Vindman from NSC in Retaliation for Impeachment Testimony
Donald Trump · Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman · Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman · National Security Council · +3
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2020-02-05Senate Acquits Trump Despite Proven Abuse of Power; Romney Only Republican to Convict
Mitch McConnell · Mitt Romney · Donald Trump · Senate Republicans
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2020-01-31Bolton Book Manuscript Reveals Trump Directly Tied Ukraine Aid to Biden Investigation
John Bolton · Donald Trump · Mitch McConnell · Senate Republicans
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2020-01-31Senate Votes 51-49 to Block Witnesses in Impeachment Trial, Ensuring Trump Acquittal
Mitch McConnell · Mitt Romney · Susan Collins · Senate Republicans · +1
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2020-01-30Raytheon Profits Surge on Iran War Fears, CEO Cites Strong International Patriot Missile Demand
Raytheon · Greg Hayes · Saudi Arabia · Iran · +1
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2020-01-18New York Times Exposé Reveals Clearview AI's 3 Billion Photo Surveillance Database
Kashmir Hill · Clearview AI · Hoan Ton-That · New York Times
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2020-01-17Rep. Chris Collins Sentenced to 26 Months for Insider Trading From White House Lawn
Chris Collins · Cameron Collins · Donald Trump · Vernon S. Broderick
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2020-01-16Pelosi Transmits Impeachment Articles to Senate After 28-Day Strategic Delay
Nancy Pelosi · Mitch McConnell · Adam Schiff · Donald Trump
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2020-01-09Boeing Internal Messages Released - "Designed by Clowns, Supervised by Monkeys"
Boeing employees · Federal Aviation Administration · Department of Justice · House Transportation Committee · +1
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2020-01-07Rep. Pramila Jayapal Launches Congressional Inquiry Into McKinsey's ICE Contracts and Detention Recommendations
Pramila Jayapal · McKinsey & Company · Kevin Sneader · House Judiciary Committee · +1
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2020-01-01ALEC's Education Privatization Campaign Achieves Dominance - Model Legislation Controls Voucher Landscape Nationwide
American Legislative Exchange Council · ALEC Education and Workforce Development Task Force · K12 Inc. · Koch Industries · +6
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2020-01-01CEO Pay Ratio Reaches 351-to-1 Versus Average Worker, Up from 21-to-1 in 1965
CEOs · Corporate boards · Workers
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2020-01-01Dialysis Industry Systematically Steers Patients Away from Home Dialysis and Toward High-Profit Commercial Insurance
DaVita · Fresenius · American Kidney Fund · Richard Blumenthal · +1
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2020-01-01McKinsey Advised Purdue on "Turbocharging" OxyContin Sales, Targeting High-Volume Prescribers
McKinsey & Company · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family
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2020-01-01OECD Estimates Google Avoids $7B+ Annually Through Tax Havens
OECD · Google · Alphabet · Tax Justice Network · +1
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2020-01-01Wage Theft Steals More from Workers Than All Other Property Crime Combined
Corporate employers · Low-wage workers · U.S. Department of Labor · State labor agencies
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