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To partially address CBS News pulls ’60 Minutes’ segment; correspondent blasts ‘political’ decision and ‘60 Minutes’ censored for not protecting Trump – The Trump administration sent innocent people to a torture camp. The head of CBS News blocked a 60 Minutes report on the story because it’s too focused on the facts – See also …
Below the Belt – We created a searchable database for the Epstein Files, including everything the DOJ wants hidden. “The repository will continue to grow as the Trump administration releases hundreds of thousands more documents from the investigation into Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. The US Department of Justice on Friday [December 19, 2025] published a …
The Washington Post [no paywall]: “How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nation’s sprawling bureaucracy…“It isn’t easy to fire federal employees,” her co-worker told her. “We have all these protections. We’ll be okay.” He was wrong. The United States’ 2.4 million federal employees were about to get caught up …
“The Trail Status Program Report, obtained by The Washington Post, [no paywall] concludes public lands are deteriorating quickly after the Trump administration cut staff. Trails maintained by the U.S. Forest Service nationwide are being “abandoned” and deteriorating rapidly, threatening visitor safety, after the Trump administration cut staff, according to an internal report obtained by The …
Follow up to Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich and Susie Wiles, JD Vance, and the “Junkyard Dogs”: The White House Chief of Staff on Trump’s Second Term Jeffrey Epstein Fallout Friendship With Trump Epstein’s Grand Jury Records Maxwell’s Grand Jury Materials How Epstein Got Rich Files to …
The Inclusive Forum on Carbon Mitigation Approaches (IFCMA) has released the first edition of its Climate Policy Database, providing unprecedented detail on how governments are tackling climate change through policy action. With validated data covering 38 out of 60 countries so far, and around 1 600 carbon mitigation policy instruments, the Database offers granular insights …
Anne Applebaum – “I needed several days to absorb the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy, to re-read it, to listen to reactions, to compare it to the first Trump administration’s National Security Strategy, published in 2017. My conclusion, published in the Atlantic (gift link here), is that it isn’t really a strategy document at all: …
Data is Beautiful: “This was difficult to map. It is the circular flow of capital through the AI infrastructure economy. I’m one of the co-founders of PlotSet and I created this. Data Sources: All data collected from SEC filings, official company press releases, and verified financial news reports (Bloomberg, WSJ, TechCrunch). Where AI-specific revenue wasn’t …
The New York Times (Gift Article): Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center. “The Trump administration said it will be dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, one of the world’s leading Earth science research institutions. The center, founded in 1960, is responsible for many of the biggest …
Privacy Guides sits down with technology journalist Taylor Lorenz to decipher a slate of bills – including KOSA, the SCREEN Act, the App Store Accountability Act, and ongoing efforts to repeal Section 230 – being fast-tracked through Congress which threaten free speech, privacy, and your right to freely access information on the internet. There are …
The New York Times – Full Transcript of President Trump’s Speech on the Economy – The president sharply attacked his predecessor while insisting that his own record contained nothing but victories. The New York Times – “The president cited misleading statistics to insist, wrongly, that prices were coming down. President Trump praised what he portrayed …
Note – “Chris Whipple, the author of this feature told Anderson Cooper that all of the interviews with Susie Wiles were on the record and tape-recorded. He compared the confluence of factors to a lightning strike. “She knew I was working on a book at the outset,” he said, and “when I told her that …
