Nothing screams "working for the American people" like spending their tax dollars to make commercial ads praising yourself while everyone else struggles to afford groceries.

Brazilian stocks are soaring because investors see Bolsonaro as an opportunity. They’re betting on Brazil’s economy opening further to foreign capital through the familiar neoliberal playbook: deregulation and privatization for investors, austerity and cuts to social spending for everyone else.

Notice how the headline frames Cuba as the potential lawbreaker: a ship is “intercepted” while “smuggling” oil into the country. What the headline obscures is that the U.S. is the one violating international law by imposing an oil blockade on Cuba and hijacking oil shipments bound for the island.

What Kushner meant to say is that he is not conflicted about pursuing his own personal interests.

Not even The Onion could make this up: Before deciding whether to intervene in Venezuela, Trump reportedly spent hours consulting an AI chatbot about how Venezuelans would react to his plan to invade the country and overthrow Maduro.

It feels like an oxymoron to say Hegseth is “weaponizing” the military. Yet that is exactly what he is doing: using the fight against “wokeness” as a pretext to purge senior leaders who muster an ounce of resistance or raise the slightest objection and replace them with ideological loyalists.

No evidence to support your claim > Invoke “national security” No legal justification > Invoke “national security” Facing resistance > Invoke “national security”

Microsoft cut its tax bill by roughly 82%, from $14.1B to $2.5B, even as its income soared. Across the corporate sector, tax payments are down 25% ($96B).

This is what happens when A.I. is optimized for profit rather than harm reduction: DraftKings developed models to identify gamblers most likely to lose money and targeted them with promotions, while efforts to use similar technology to identify gamblers likely to become addicted were shelved.

“National Security” is the euphemism they deploy when they have no logical argument or empirical evidence to justify their position. Instead of providing evidence, they invoke “National Security” to push through their agenda.

Trump accidentally said the quiet part out loud and admitted the U.S. is “repressive” when it comes to journalism. Less than 24 hours later, he demonstrated exactly what he meant by banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House.

For decades, the political project has been remarkably consistent: Cut taxes for the wealthy → reduce public revenue → increase deficits → use the resulting debt to justify cutting social programs. This not a non-political fiscal policy choice. It's a mechanism for redistributing wealth upward.

Nothing says "fixing the system" quite like banning everyone else and declaring yourself the sole exception.

We've entered a new phase of surveillance capitalism where the government doesn't just collect information about you. It can analyze your behavior, determine that you're statistically suspicious, and use that assessment to initiate a police encounter.

For years, Silicon Valley’s tech leaders told us they were uniquely qualified to reshape society and rewrite the social contract. Now they are asking the government to regulate the technology they’re building because even they are starting to worry about what they have unleashed.

Corporate profits just hit a record 13.2% of GDP. Wages simultaneously fell to a record-low 41.1%. This is the political economy of modern capitalism: record profits, a shrinking share for workers, and corporations spending billions on political donations and lobbying to maintain the status quo.

The SEC is officially arguing that banning private equity from bribing public officials "stifles free speech." First Citizens United equated campaign donations with free speech, and now anti-corruption guardrails are being erased under the exact same logic.