Capture lane

Digital & Tech Capture

The Digital & Tech Capture capture lane traces 567 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

567 events From Jan 1, 1970 To Mar 31, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2026-03-31Air Force Awards BlackSky Sole-Source $99M Contract for Next-Gen Satellite Surveillance
BlackSky Technology · Air Force Research Laboratory · Peter Thiel · Mithril Capital
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2026-03-24Palantir and Anduril Developing Core Software for $185 Billion Golden Dome Missile Shield
Palantir · Anduril Industries · SpaceX · Elon Musk · +5
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2026-03-23Sen. Warren Calls Anthropic Blacklist "Retaliation" for AI Safety Positions — Says DOD Trying to Strong-Arm Companies Into Bulk Surveillance
Sen. Elizabeth Warren · Pete Hegseth · Anthropic
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2026-03-22Pentagon-Anthropic Dispute Rekindles Silicon Valley Anti-War Movement — Worker Coalitions Demand Companies Refuse Unrestricted Military AI
tech worker coalitions · Palmer Luckey · Pete Hegseth
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2026-03-21Feinberg Signs Memo Designating Palantir Maven as Official DOD "Program of Record" — Locking in Long-Term Funding Despite Claude Dependency
Steve Feinberg · Palantir · U.S. Army · Pentagon CDAO
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2026-03-20Anthropic Filing Reveals Pentagon Emailed Day After Blacklist Saying Sides Were "Very Close" — Calls DOD Claim of Approval Demand "A Central Falsehood"
Anthropic · Sarah Heck · Thiyagu Ramasamy · Emil Michael · +1
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2026-03-20Army 1st Special Forces Command Renews Clearview AI Facial Recognition Contract Through 2030
Clearview AI · U.S. Army 1st Special Forces Command · Hoan Ton-That · Mission and Installation Contracting Command
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2026-03-19Lawfare Analysis Argues Judge Should Block Government-Wide Ban and "Secondary Boycott" but Allow Pentagon to Stop Buying From Anthropic
Alan Rozenshtein · Judge Rita Lin
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2026-03-18AI Super PAC "Think Big" Spends $2.5M+ in Illinois Primaries With Mixed Results — Fortune Reports AI/Crypto "Mostly Lost"
Think Big PAC · Jobs and Democracy PAC · Greg Brockman · Marc Andreessen
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2026-03-18DOD Files 40-Page Rebuttal Claiming Anthropic Might "Disable Its Technology" During Warfighting Operations Over Corporate Red Lines
Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · Anthropic · Chris Mattei
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2026-03-18Military Users Warn Claude Replacement Could Take 12-18 Months — Pentagon IT Staff "Slow-Rolling" Transition
Pentagon IT staff · defense contractors · Palantir
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2026-03-17~150 Retired Federal and State Judges File Bipartisan Amicus Brief Supporting Anthropic Against Pentagon Blacklist
former federal judges · Anthropic
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2026-03-17Pentagon Confirms Working to Replace Anthropic's Claude — OpenAI Already Deployed, Google Gemini Next in Line
Cameron Stanley · Emil Michael · OpenAI · Google
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2026-03-17Pentagon Plans to Let AI Companies Train Military Models on Classified Intelligence Data — OpenAI and xAI Already Have Agreements
Pentagon CDAO · OpenAI · xAI
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2026-03-16Broad Tech Coalition Files Amicus Briefs Supporting Anthropic — TechNet Warns Procurement Now "Contingent on Political Favor"
TechNet · Sam Altman · OpenAI · Google · +2
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2026-03-16Sen. Warren Questions Pentagon Granting Musk's xAI Access to Classified Military Networks Despite Grok's Harmful Outputs
Sen. Elizabeth Warren · Pete Hegseth · Elon Musk · xAI
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2026-03-16Time/CDT Op-Ed Reveals Pentagon Wanted Anthropic to Help Collect and Analyze Bulk Commercial Data on Americans
Center for Democracy and Technology · Pentagon · Anthropic
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2026-03-16WLFI Governance Vote Passes 99% — $5M Super Node Tier Buys "Direct Access" to Trump-Family Crypto Team
World Liberty Financial · Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Barron Trump · +2
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2026-03-14U.S. Army Awards Anduril $20 Billion Enterprise Contract for AI-Enabled Lattice Platform
Anduril Industries · U.S. Army · Donald Trump Jr. · Peter Thiel · +4
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2026-03-13Pentagon CTO Emil Michael Says "No Chance" of Renewed Anthropic Negotiations, Accuses Company of "Leaking and Bad Faith"
Emil Michael · Anthropic · Pentagon
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2026-03-03OpenAI Revises Pentagon Deal After Surveillance Loophole Backlash, Critics Remain Unconvinced
Sam Altman · OpenAI · U.S. Department of Defense · Katrina Mulligan
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2026-02-27AI Industry Super PACs Deploy $125 Million to Target Pro-Regulation Candidates in 2026 Midterms
Greg Brockman · OpenAI · Andreessen Horowitz · Marc Andreessen · +5
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2026-02-27OpenAI Strikes Pentagon Deal Hours After Trump Blacklists Anthropic, Drawing Backlash
Sam Altman · OpenAI · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · +1
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2026-02-27Trump Blacklists Anthropic, Designates AI Company a Supply Chain Risk to National Security
Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Dario Amodei · Anthropic · +1
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2026-02-26Anthropic Formally Rejects Pentagon Ultimatum, Amodei Holds Red Lines on AI Safety
Dario Amodei · Anthropic · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense
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2026-02-24Hegseth Threatens Anthropic with Defense Production Act Over Military AI Access
Pete Hegseth · Dario Amodei · Anthropic · U.S. Department of Defense
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2026-02-22DHS Shutdown Furloughs 50%+ of Cybersecurity Agency Workforce
CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security)
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2026-02-20DHS Plans Unified Biometric Matching Engine Across Agencies
DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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2026-02-14DHS Shutdown Begins as Congress Fails to Reach Immigration Reform Deal
United States Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · John Thune · Chris Murphy · +2
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2026-02-14Scott Shambaugh Firing Exposes DOGE's Indiscriminate Purge of Technical Expertise
Scott Shambaugh · Department of Government Efficiency · National Institute of Standards and Technology · Elon Musk
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2026-02-13Senate Fails to Advance DHS Funding Bill in 52-47 Vote
United States Senate · John Thune · Chuck Schumer · John Fetterman · +2
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2026-02-07NATO Launches Arctic Sentry Multi-Domain Mission in High North
North Atlantic Treaty Organization · Mark Rutte · Joint Force Command Norfolk · Denmark · +3
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2026-02-05Federal Judge Orders Elon Musk Deposition Over USAID Dismantling, Rejects Apex Doctrine Claims
Elon Musk · Theodore Chuang · United States Agency for International Development · Peter Marocco · +4
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2026-01-30Analysis Shows DOGE Savings Claims Fall Short of $1 Trillion Target, Cost Taxpayers Billions
Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Russell Vought
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2026-01-30DOJ Releases 3.5 Million Pages of Epstein Files, Claims Full Compliance
Department of Justice · Todd Blanche · Pam Bondi · Ro Khanna · +1
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2026-01-29Ten Tech Vendors Offer $600 Million in Discounts to Implement Medicaid Work Requirements
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Donald Trump · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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2026-01-29Trump Proclaims 2026 Year of Celebration and Rededication at National Prayer Breakfast
Donald Trump · White House
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2026-01-28Federal Reserve Refuses to Comply with DOJ Grand Jury Subpoenas Against Powell
Jerome Powell · Federal Reserve · Department of Justice · Jeanine Pirro · +1
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2026-01-28Vought Allocates $15 Million in USAID Funds for Personal Security Detail Through 2026
Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · United States Agency for International Development · U.S. Marshals Service
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2026-01-26Bondi Requests Minnesota Voter Rolls Including Public Assistance Data for ICE Enforcement
Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Minnesota · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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2026-01-23NPR Report Reveals Trump Administration Admits DOGE Accessed Personal Social Security Data Beyond Legal Authority
Department of Government Efficiency · Social Security Administration · Chuck Borges · NPR
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2026-01-21ICE Launches Operation Catch of the Day in Maine
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Janet Mills
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2026-01-20DOJ Court Filing Confirms DOGE Shared Social Security Data to Unauthorized Server
Department of Government Efficiency · Department of Justice · Social Security Administration · Elon Musk
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2026-01-17DOGE Claims $881M in Education Research Contract Cancellations
Department of Government Efficiency · U.S. Department of Education · Institute of Education Sciences · Linda McMahon
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2026-01-14FBI Raids Washington Post Reporter's Home, Seizes Devices in Unprecedented Press Freedom Violation
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Washington Post · Hannah Natanson · Pam Bondi · +1
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2026-01-14Trump Imposes 25% Tariff on Advanced AI Semiconductors Under Section 232
Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Commerce
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2026-01-10DOJ Serves Fed Chair Powell with Grand Jury Subpoena in Unprecedented Criminal Investigation
Jerome Powell · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · Bill Pulte · +1
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2026-01-09Supreme Court Narrows AEDPA Bar on Federal Habeas Claims
U.S. Supreme Court · Sonia Sotomayor · Neil Gorsuch · John Roberts
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2026-01-08House Democrats File Impeachment Articles Against DHS Secretary Noem Over ICE Shooting
Kristi Noem · Robin Kelly · Kevin Mullin · Brad Schneider · +1
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2026-01-07General Matter Wins $900M DOE Contract for HALEU Uranium Enrichment at Paducah
General Matter · Department of Energy · Peter Thiel · Founders Fund · +2
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2026-01-06Seven NATO Allies Issue Joint Statement Defending Greenland's Sovereignty Against US Threats
North Atlantic Treaty Organization · Mette Frederiksen · Emmanuel Macron · Olaf Scholz · +4
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2026-01-05Israeli Security Cabinet Approves 'Operation Iron Strike' Against Iran
Benjamin Netanyahu · Israeli Security Cabinet · Donald Trump
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2026-01-03US Military Invades Venezuela, Captures President Maduro in Predawn Raid
Donald Trump · Nicolas Maduro · Pete Hegseth · Delta Force · +2
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2025-12-24Trump Declares Support for Rate Cuts 'Litmus Test' for Fed Chair Nominees
Donald Trump · Jerome Powell · Kevin Hassett · Kevin Warsh
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2025-12-23Botched DOJ Redactions Allow Public to Copy-Paste Hidden Epstein File Text
Department of Justice · Richard Indyke · Virgin Islands · Jeffrey Epstein
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2025-12-18Johnson Sends House Home for Recess, Delays ACA Subsidy Vote Despite Democratic Demands
Mike Johnson · Hakeem Jeffries · Steve Scalise · Pete Aguilar · +2
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2025-12-11DHS Secretary Noem Confronted Over Veteran Deportations in Contentious Congressional Hearing
Kristi Noem · Seth Magaziner · Sae Joon Park · Jim Brown · +2
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2025-12-09Federal Judge Orders Release of Ghislaine Maxwell Grand Jury Materials Under Epstein Files Transparency Act
Paul Engelmayer · Ghislaine Maxwell · Department of Justice · Donald Trump · +1
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2025-12-08Human Rights Groups Document Systematic Torture at Fort Bliss Immigration Detention Facility: 45+ Detainees Report Beatings, Sexual Abuse, Crushed Testicles, and Coerced Deportations
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · American Civil Liberties Union · Human Rights Watch · +3
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2025-12-08Paramount Skydance Launches $108.4 Billion Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery with Saudi, Qatari, and UAE Backing
David Ellison · Larry Ellison · Saudi Public Investment Fund · Qatar Investment Authority · +12
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2025-12-02Dell Family Announces $6.25 Billion Donation to Trump Accounts in Largest Private Child Investment
Michael Dell · Susan Dell · Donald Trump · U.S. Treasury Department
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2025-11-25House Judiciary Democrats Release Report Exposing Trump Family's $800 Million Cryptocurrency Empire Built on Foreign Influence and Self-Dealing
Jamie Raskin · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Trump Family · +22
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2025-11-20Trump Threatens Six Democratic Congress Members with Execution for Reminding Military of Duty to Refuse Illegal Orders
Donald Trump · Elissa Slotkin · Mark Kelly · Chris DeLuzio · +9
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2025-11-17Judge Finds Halligan Misrepresented Law and Used Tainted Evidence in Comey Grand Jury
William Fitzpatrick · Lindsey Halligan · James Comey · Department of Justice · +3
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2025-11-06FAA Announces 10% Air Traffic Reduction at 40 Airports Due to Shutdown
Sean Duffy · Federal Aviation Administration · Air Traffic Controllers · Department of Transportation
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2025-11-04Axon acquires Carbyne for $625 million, consolidating Israeli 911 surveillance tech with US police body camera giant
Axon · Carbyne · Ehud Barak · Peter Thiel · +1
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2025-11-04DHS Releases Mobile Facial Recognition App for Local Police to Identify Immigration Status
DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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2025-11-04Memphis Residents Report Widespread Racial Profiling by Trump's Federal Police Task Force
U.S. Marshals Service · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Guard · Memphis Safe Task Force
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2025-11-03Trump Administration Announces 2027 Medicaid Work Requirements Affecting Nearly 5 Million
CMS · Trump · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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2025-10-31Anduril's Autonomous Fighter Jet Completes First Flight Test
Anduril Industries · U.S. Air Force · Palmer Luckey
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2025-10-27Elon Musk's xAI Launches Grokipedia to Challenge Wikipedia with AI-Generated Content
Elon Musk · xAI
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2025-10-20Musk's DOGE Uploads Hundreds of Millions of Americans' SSA Data to Unsecured Cloud
Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · Charles Borges · Social Security Administration
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2025-10-18Trump Posts AI Video Dumping Feces on 7 Million "No Kings" Protesters, Defended by Johnson and Vance as "Satire"
Donald Trump · Mike Johnson · JD Vance · Kenny Loggins · +2
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2025-10-16Planet Labs Wins $12.8M NGA Contract for AI Maritime Surveillance in Asia-Pacific
Planet Labs · Founders Fund · National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · National Reconnaissance Office · +1
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2025-10-16Ring partners with Flock Safety and Axon, reversing privacy commitments and expanding police surveillance
Ring · Amazon · Flock Safety · Axon · +1
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2025-10-10Musk's Boring Company Accused of 800 Environmental Violations in Las Vegas
Elon Musk · Boring Company · Nevada Regulators
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2025-10-07NIST Suspends All Facial Recognition Testing During Government Shutdown
National Institute of Standards and Technology · U.S. Department of Commerce
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2025-10-07White House Withdraws CFTC Nominee Brian Quintenz After Winklevoss Conflict
Brian Quintenz · Tyler Winklevoss · Cameron Winklevoss · White House · +2
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2025-10-05Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman Negotiates Harvard Research Funding Restoration
Stephen Schwarzman · Blackstone · Harvard University · White House · +1
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2025-10-01DHS and CMS Share Personal Data of 79 Million Medicaid Patients With ICE
U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · State Attorneys General Coalition
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2025-10-01VA Awards Palantir $385M Contract for Veterans Data Platform Integrating HHS, DoD, SSA, and IRS Data
Palantir · Department of Veterans Affairs · Department of Health and Human Services · Department of Defense · +2
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2025-09-30ICE Awards $1.4 Billion in Surveillance Contracts in Single Month, Highest in 18 Years
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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2025-09-30SpaceX and xAI Purchase Thousands of Unsold Cybertrucks Before Tax Credit Deadline
SpaceX · xAI · Tesla · Elon Musk
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2025-09-30Trump Signs Pediatric Cancer AI Executive Order After Cutting Billions in Research Funding
Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · MAHA Commission
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2025-09-29HUD Fires Two Civil Rights Lawyers Who Exposed Fair Housing Enforcement Gutting
Palmer Heenan · Paul Osadebe · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development · Fair Housing Office
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2025-09-29YouTube Pays Trump $24.5M to Settle Suspension Lawsuit, $22M for White House Ballroom
Donald Trump · YouTube · Google · Meta · +1
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2025-09-26Supreme Court Allows Trump to Withhold $4B in Foreign Aid Through Illegal 'Pocket Rescission'
U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Elena Kagan · Mike Johnson · +1
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2025-09-26White House Solicits Input on Dismantling AI Regulations to Boost Industry
White House · Office of Science and Technology Policy
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2025-09-25DOJ Sues Six States to Seize Voter Data Including Social Security Numbers and Driver's Licenses
Department of Justice · Civil Rights Division · California · Michigan · +4
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2025-09-25Microsoft Terminates Israeli Unit 8200's Azure Access for Mass Surveillance of Palestinian Civilians
Microsoft · Brad Smith · Unit 8200 · Yossi Sariel · +3
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2025-09-25Tesla Launches FSD V14 with Musk Claiming System 'Feels Sentient'
Tesla · Elon Musk
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2025-09-25Trump Approves TikTok Deal Giving Control to Allies Ellison and Murdoch, Demands Billions
Donald Trump · Larry Ellison · Oracle · Rupert Murdoch · +4
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2025-09-25Trump Signs Executive Order Approving TikTok Deal with Oracle Partnership
Donald Trump · White House · Oracle · ByteDance · +1
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2025-09-23Axon Acquires Prepared for $800-900 Million, Adding AI-Powered 911 Call Processing to Complete Surveillance Pipeline
Axon · Prepared · Rick Smith
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2025-09-23Meta Launches Super PAC to Fight AI Regulation at State Level
Meta · Mark Zuckerberg
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2025-09-19SEC Drops Fraud Cases Against Trump Clemency Recipients, Abandoning Victims
Paul Atkins · Devon Archer · Trevor Milton · Carlos Watson · +2
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2025-09-18Education Department Inspector General Probes DOGE's Illegal Access to Student Loan Data
Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · Education Department · Inspector General
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2025-09-18ICE Homeland Security Investigations Signs $3 Million Contract with Magnet Forensics for GrayKey Technology
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Homeland Security Investigations · Magnet Forensics · Grayshift · +1
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2025-09-17FCC Chair Brendan Carr Threatens ABC License Revocation, Disney Suspends Kimmel 'Indefinitely'
Brendan Carr · Jimmy Kimmel · ABC · Disney · +2
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2025-09-15Wall Street Journal: FEMA Paralyzed by Noem's Approval Requirements as Disaster Victims Wait
Kristi Noem · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency
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