| 2026-05-28 | VP Vance Air Force Academy Commencement Explicitly Endorses Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical on AI in Warfare — 'Decisions Over Life and Death Must Be Made by Humans, Not Machines' — Three Days After Magnifica Humanitas
5 src J.D. Vance · Pope Leo XIV |
| confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | Pentagon CDAO Quintuples Scale AI Contract to $500M Using No-Bid OTA — Eight Months After Original Award
6 src Scale AI · Pete Hegseth · Emil Michael · Alexandr Wang |
| confirmed |
| 2026-05-02 | WLFI Token Hits All-Time Low $0.052 (–85% from Peak) After Bloomberg Exposes 5.9 Billion Secret Token Sale Routing Proceeds to Trump-Affiliated Entities
10 src World Liberty Financial · Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Eric Trump · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-04-15 | Objection.ai Launches: Thiel-Backed AI Tribunal Automates Journalist Targeting, D'Souza Explicitly Frames as Gawker-Model Industrialization Peter Thiel |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-31 | Air Force Awards BlackSky Sole-Source $99M Contract for Next-Gen Satellite Surveillance
4 src BlackSky Technology · Peter Thiel · Mithril Capital |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-26 | Sacks Departs White House AI/Crypto Czar Role; No Successor Named; Policy Disperses to OSTP's Kratsios, PCAST, and Witt at PCADA
9 src David Sacks · Marc Andreessen |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-24 | Palantir and Anduril Developing Core Software for $185 Billion Golden Dome Missile Shield
3 src Palantir · Anduril Industries · SpaceX · Elon Musk · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-23 | Sen. Warren Calls Anthropic Blacklist "Retaliation" for AI Safety Positions — Says DOD Trying to Strong-Arm Companies Into Bulk Surveillance
3 src Elizabeth Warren · Pete Hegseth · Anthropic | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-22 | Pentagon-Anthropic Dispute Rekindles Silicon Valley Anti-War Movement — Worker Coalitions Demand Companies Refuse Unrestricted Military AI
1 src Palmer Luckey · Pete Hegseth | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-21 | Feinberg Signs Memo Designating Palantir Maven as Official DOD "Program of Record" — Locking in Long-Term Funding Despite Claude Dependency
3 src Steve Feinberg · Palantir · U.S. Army |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-20 | Anthropic Filing Reveals Pentagon Emailed Day After Blacklist Saying Sides Were "Very Close" — Calls DOD Claim of Approval Demand "A Central Falsehood"
1 src Anthropic · Emil Michael · Dario Amodei |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-20 | Army 1st Special Forces Command Renews Clearview AI Facial Recognition Contract Through 2030
4 src Clearview AI · Hoan Ton-That |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-19 | Lawfare Analysis Argues Judge Should Block Government-Wide Ban and "Secondary Boycott" but Allow Pentagon to Stop Buying From Anthropic
1 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-18 | AI Super PAC "Think Big" Spends $2.5M+ in Illinois Primaries With Mixed Results — Fortune Reports AI/Crypto "Mostly Lost"
3 src Greg Brockman · Marc Andreessen |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-18 | DOD Files 40-Page Rebuttal Claiming Anthropic Might "Disable Its Technology" During Warfighting Operations Over Corporate Red Lines
2 src Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · Anthropic |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-18 | Military Users Warn Claude Replacement Could Take 12-18 Months — Pentagon IT Staff "Slow-Rolling" Transition
2 src Defense contractors · Palantir |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-17 | ~150 Retired Federal and State Judges File Bipartisan Amicus Brief Supporting Anthropic Against Pentagon Blacklist
2 src Anthropic |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-17 | Pentagon Confirms Working to Replace Anthropic's Claude — OpenAI Already Deployed, Google Gemini Next in Line
3 src Emil Michael · OpenAI · Google |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-17 | Pentagon Plans to Let AI Companies Train Military Models on Classified Intelligence Data — OpenAI and xAI Already Have Agreements
1 src OpenAI · xAI |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-16 | Broad Tech Coalition Files Amicus Briefs Supporting Anthropic — TechNet Warns Procurement Now "Contingent on Political Favor"
3 src Sam Altman · OpenAI · Google · Microsoft · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-16 | Sen. Warren Questions Pentagon Granting Musk's xAI Access to Classified Military Networks Despite Grok's Harmful Outputs
2 src Elizabeth Warren · Pete Hegseth · Elon Musk · xAI |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-16 | Time/CDT Op-Ed Reveals Pentagon Wanted Anthropic to Help Collect and Analyze Bulk Commercial Data on Americans
2 src Pentagon · Anthropic |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-16 | WLFI Governance Vote Passes 99% — $5M Super Node Tier Buys "Direct Access" to Trump-Family Crypto Team
8 src World Liberty Financial · Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Barron Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-14 | U.S. Army Awards Anduril $20 Billion Enterprise Contract for AI-Enabled Lattice Platform
4 src Anduril Industries · U.S. Army · Donald Trump Jr. · Peter Thiel · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-13 | Pentagon CTO Emil Michael Says "No Chance" of Renewed Anthropic Negotiations, Accuses Company of "Leaking and Bad Faith"
4 src Emil Michael · Anthropic · Pentagon |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-05 | SEC Settles Tron Fraud Case — Rainberry Pays $10M, Justin Sun Personal Charges Dismissed With Prejudice
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Justin Sun · Tron Foundation · World Liberty Financial |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-03 | OpenAI Revises Pentagon Deal After Surveillance Loophole Backlash, Critics Remain Unconvinced
6 src Sam Altman · OpenAI · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-27 | AI Industry Super PACs Deploy $125 Million to Target Pro-Regulation Candidates in 2026 Midterms
7 src Greg Brockman · OpenAI · Andreessen Horowitz · Marc Andreessen · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-27 | OpenAI Strikes Pentagon Deal Hours After Trump Blacklists Anthropic, Drawing Backlash
5 src Sam Altman · OpenAI · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-27 | Trump Blacklists Anthropic, Designates AI Company a Supply Chain Risk to National Security
6 src Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Dario Amodei · Anthropic · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-26 | Anthropic Formally Rejects Pentagon Ultimatum, Amodei Holds Red Lines on AI Safety
5 src Dario Amodei · Anthropic · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-24 | Hegseth Threatens Anthropic with Defense Production Act Over Military AI Access
5 src Pete Hegseth · Dario Amodei · Anthropic · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-22 | DHS Shutdown Furloughs 50%+ of Cybersecurity Agency Workforce
3 src DHS (Department of Homeland Security) |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-20 | DHS Plans Unified Biometric Matching Engine Across Agencies
3 src DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-14 | DHS Shutdown Begins as Congress Fails to Reach Immigration Reform Deal
3 src United States Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · John Thune · Chris Murphy · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-14 | Scott Shambaugh Firing Exposes DOGE's Indiscriminate Purge of Technical Expertise
3 src Department of Government Efficiency · National Institute of Standards and Technology · Elon Musk |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-13 | Senate Fails to Advance DHS Funding Bill in 52-47 Vote
3 src United States Senate · John Thune · Chuck Schumer · John Fetterman · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-07 | NATO Launches Arctic Sentry Multi-Domain Mission in High North
3 src North Atlantic Treaty Organization · Mark Rutte · Denmark · United Kingdom · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-05 | Federal Judge Orders Elon Musk Deposition Over USAID Dismantling, Rejects Apex Doctrine Claims
3 src Elon Musk · United States Agency for International Development · Department of Government Efficiency · Marco Rubio |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-30 | Analysis Shows DOGE Savings Claims Fall Short of $1 Trillion Target, Cost Taxpayers Billions
3 src Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Russell Vought |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-30 | DOJ Releases 3.5 Million Pages of Epstein Files, Claims Full Compliance
4 src Department of Justice · Todd Blanche · Pam Bondi · Ro Khanna · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-29 | Ten Tech Vendors Offer $600 Million in Discounts to Implement Medicaid Work Requirements
2 src U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Donald Trump · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-29 | Trump Proclaims 2026 Year of Celebration and Rededication at National Prayer Breakfast
2 src Donald Trump · White House | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-28 | Federal Reserve Refuses to Comply with DOJ Grand Jury Subpoenas Against Powell
3 src Jerome Powell · Federal Reserve · Department of Justice · Jeanine Pirro · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-28 | Vought Allocates $15 Million in USAID Funds for Personal Security Detail Through 2026
3 src Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · United States Agency for International Development · U.S. Marshals Service |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-26 | Bondi Requests Minnesota Voter Rolls Including Public Assistance Data for ICE Enforcement
2 src Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Minnesota · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-23 | NPR Report Reveals Trump Administration Admits DOGE Accessed Personal Social Security Data Beyond Legal Authority
3 src Department of Government Efficiency · Social Security Administration · NPR |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-21 | ICE Launches Operation Catch of the Day in Maine
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-20 | DOJ Court Filing Confirms DOGE Shared Social Security Data to Unauthorized Server
3 src Department of Government Efficiency · Department of Justice · Social Security Administration · Elon Musk |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-17 | DOGE Claims $881M in Education Research Contract Cancellations
3 src Department of Government Efficiency · U.S. Department of Education · Linda McMahon |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-16 | DOJ Files Notice of Corrections in AFSCME v. SSA Admitting DOGE Unauthorized SSA Data Access — Key Prosecutorial Predicate for State Computer-Crime Charges
3 src Social Security Administration · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-14 | FBI Raids Washington Post Reporter's Home, Seizes Devices in Unprecedented Press Freedom Violation
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Washington Post · Hannah Natanson · Pam Bondi · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-14 | Trump Imposes 25% Tariff on Advanced AI Semiconductors Under Section 232
2 src Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Commerce |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-10 | DOJ Serves Fed Chair Powell with Grand Jury Subpoena in Unprecedented Criminal Investigation
3 src Jerome Powell · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · Bill Pulte · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-09 | Supreme Court Narrows AEDPA Bar on Federal Habeas Claims
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Sonia Sotomayor · Neil Gorsuch · John Roberts |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-08 | House Democrats File Impeachment Articles Against DHS Secretary Noem Over ICE Shooting
3 src Kristi Noem |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-07 | General Matter Wins $900M DOE Contract for HALEU Uranium Enrichment at Paducah
4 src Department of Energy · Peter Thiel · Founders Fund |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-06 | Seven NATO Allies Issue Joint Statement Defending Greenland's Sovereignty Against US Threats
4 src North Atlantic Treaty Organization · Mette Frederiksen · Emmanuel Macron · France · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-05 | Israeli Security Cabinet Approves 'Operation Iron Strike' Against Iran
2 src Benjamin Netanyahu · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-03 | US Military Invades Venezuela, Captures President Maduro in Predawn Raid
4 src Donald Trump · Nicolas Maduro · Pete Hegseth · Stephen Miller · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-24 | Trump Declares Support for Rate Cuts 'Litmus Test' for Fed Chair Nominees
2 src Donald Trump · Jerome Powell | | confirmed |
| 2025-12-23 | Botched DOJ Redactions Allow Public to Copy-Paste Hidden Epstein File Text
2 src Department of Justice · Jeffrey Epstein |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-18 | FY 2026 NDAA Sections 1651-1652 Codify Trump Golden Dome Missile Defense Policy, Lock In 2,440-Vendor Ecosystem Including SpaceX $2B Satellite Constellation
4 src U.S. Congress · 119th Congress · Senate Armed Services Committee · House Armed Services Committee · +7 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-18 | Johnson Sends House Home for Recess, Delays ACA Subsidy Vote Despite Democratic Demands
7 src Mike Johnson · Hakeem Jeffries · House Republicans · House Democrats |
| reported |
| 2025-12-11 | DHS Secretary Noem Confronted Over Veteran Deportations in Contentious Congressional Hearing
3 src Kristi Noem |
| reported |
| 2025-12-09 | Federal Judge Orders Release of Ghislaine Maxwell Grand Jury Materials Under Epstein Files Transparency Act
3 src Paul Engelmayer · Ghislaine Maxwell · Department of Justice · Donald Trump · +1 |
| reported |
| 2025-12-08 | Human Rights Groups Document Systematic Torture at Fort Bliss Immigration Detention Facility: 45+ Detainees Report Beatings, Sexual Abuse, Crushed Testicles, and Coerced Deportations
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · American Civil Liberties Union · Human Rights Watch |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-08 | Paramount Skydance Launches $108.4 Billion Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery with Saudi, Qatari, and UAE Backing
5 src David Ellison · Larry Ellison · Saudi Public Investment Fund · Qatar Investment Authority · +7 |
| reported |
| 2025-12-02 | Dell Family Announces $6.25 Billion Donation to Trump Accounts in Largest Private Child Investment
4 src Michael Dell · Donald Trump · U.S. Treasury Department |
| reported |
| 2025-11-25 | House Judiciary Democrats Release Report Exposing Trump Family's $800 Million Cryptocurrency Empire Built on Foreign Influence and Self-Dealing
4 src Jamie Raskin · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Trump Family · +17 |
| reported |
| 2025-11-20 | Trump Threatens Six Democratic Congress Members with Execution for Reminding Military of Duty to Refuse Illegal Orders
5 src Donald Trump · Elissa Slotkin · Mark Kelly · Chris DeLuzio · +7 |
| reported |
| 2025-11-17 | Judge Finds Halligan Misrepresented Law and Used Tainted Evidence in Comey Grand Jury
3 src William Fitzpatrick · Lindsey Halligan · James Comey · Department of Justice · +2 |
| reported |
| 2025-11-06 | FAA Announces 10% Air Traffic Reduction at 40 Airports Due to Shutdown
2 src Sean Duffy · Federal Aviation Administration · Department of Transportation |
| reported |
| 2025-11-04 | Axon acquires Carbyne for $625 million, consolidating Israeli 911 surveillance tech with US police body camera giant
3 src Axon · Carbyne · Ehud Barak · Peter Thiel |
| confirmed |
| 2025-11-04 | DHS Releases Mobile Facial Recognition App for Local Police to Identify Immigration Status
3 src DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection |
| reported |
| 2025-11-04 | Memphis Residents Report Widespread Racial Profiling by Trump's Federal Police Task Force
3 src U.S. Marshals Service · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Guard |
| reported |
| 2025-11-03 | Trump Administration Announces 2027 Medicaid Work Requirements Affecting Nearly 5 Million
2 src CMS · Trump · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| reported |
| 2025-11-01 | PJM December 2025 capacity auction hits record $333/MW-day; data centers account for 40% ($6.5B) of total $16.4B cost
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-31 | Anduril's Autonomous Fighter Jet Completes First Flight Test
2 src Anduril Industries · U.S. Air Force · Palmer Luckey |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-27 | Elon Musk's xAI Launches Grokipedia to Challenge Wikipedia with AI-Generated Content
3 src Elon Musk · xAI |
| reported |
| 2025-10-24 | Crusoe closes $1.375B Series E at >$10B valuation; Mubadala Capital co-leads, putting UAE sovereign-adjacent capital at developer layer of Stargate Abilene
7 src |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-20 | Musk's DOGE Uploads Hundreds of Millions of Americans' SSA Data to Unsecured Cloud
2 src Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · Charles Borges · Social Security Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-18 | Trump Posts AI Video Dumping Feces on 7 Million "No Kings" Protesters, Defended by Johnson and Vance as "Satire"
4 src Donald Trump · Mike Johnson · J.D. Vance · protesters |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-16 | Planet Labs Wins $12.8M NGA Contract for AI Maritime Surveillance in Asia-Pacific
6 src Founders Fund · National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · National Reconnaissance Office |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-16 | Ring partners with Flock Safety and Axon, reversing privacy commitments and expanding police surveillance
3 src Ring · Amazon · Flock Safety · Axon · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-10 | Musk's Boring Company Accused of 800 Environmental Violations in Las Vegas
2 src Elon Musk |
| reported |
| 2025-10-07 | NIST Suspends All Facial Recognition Testing During Government Shutdown
2 src National Institute of Standards and Technology · U.S. Department of Commerce |
| reported |
| 2025-10-07 | White House Withdraws CFTC Nominee Brian Quintenz After Winklevoss Conflict
2 src White House · CFTC |
| reported |
| 2025-10-05 | Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman Negotiates Harvard Research Funding Restoration
3 src Blackstone · Harvard University · White House · Trump Administration |
| reported |
| 2025-10-01 | DHS and CMS Share Personal Data of 79 Million Medicaid Patients With ICE
2 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) |
| reported |
| 2025-10-01 | VA Awards Palantir $385M Contract for Veterans Data Platform Integrating HHS, DoD, SSA, and IRS Data
1 src Palantir · Department of Veterans Affairs · Department of Health and Human Services · Department of Defense · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-09-30 | ICE Awards $1.4 Billion in Surveillance Contracts in Single Month, Highest in 18 Years
2 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
| reported |
| 2025-09-30 | SpaceX and xAI Purchase Thousands of Unsold Cybertrucks Before Tax Credit Deadline
2 src SpaceX · xAI · Tesla · Elon Musk |
| reported |
| 2025-09-30 | Trump Signs Pediatric Cancer AI Executive Order After Cutting Billions in Research Funding
3 src Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| reported |
| 2025-09-29 | HUD Fires Two Civil Rights Lawyers Who Exposed Fair Housing Enforcement Gutting
2 src U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development |
| reported |
| 2025-09-29 | YouTube Pays Trump $24.5M to Settle Suspension Lawsuit, $22M for White House Ballroom
2 src Donald Trump · YouTube · Google · Meta · +1 |
| reported |
| 2025-09-26 | Supreme Court Allows Trump to Withhold $4B in Foreign Aid Through Illegal 'Pocket Rescission'
2 src U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Elena Kagan · Mike Johnson · +1 |
| reported |
| 2025-09-26 | White House Solicits Input on Dismantling AI Regulations to Boost Industry
2 src White House |
| reported |
| 2025-09-25 | DOJ Sues Six States to Seize Voter Data Including Social Security Numbers and Driver's Licenses
2 src Department of Justice · Civil Rights Division · California · Minnesota |
| reported |
| 2025-09-25 | Microsoft Terminates Israeli Unit 8200's Azure Access for Mass Surveillance of Palestinian Civilians
4 src Microsoft · Israeli Defense Forces |
| reported |