The Department of Homeland Security diverted $20 million in Customs and Border Protection funds to produce and air campaign-style TV ads glorifying President Trump — ads critics say are nearly identical to his 2024 campaign commercials and likely violate federal anti-propaganda laws.
A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 that the Pentagon has legal authority to blacklist Anthropic for refusing to remove ethical restrictions on its Claude AI models, even without any finding of malicious intent, creating a direct conflict with a separate federal court ruling that found the same action unlawful.
Flock Safety partnered with a newly created nonprofit called Neighbors for Strong Communities to use AI-assisted outreach to manufacture public support for its license plate reader cameras in Knox County, Tennessee — a campaign residents and critics have called corporate astroturfing.
Boston terminated its contract with Flock Safety after the surveillance company’s systems shared license plate data from Boston Police cameras with law enforcement agencies nationwide, violating explicit contractual restrictions, according to the city’s 2025 annual surveillance technology report.
DHS used a century-old customs law to demand Google hand over the personal data of a Canadian critic who hadn’t entered the U.S. in over a decade, exposing a sweeping expansion of digital surveillance powers that now extend well beyond American borders.
OpenAI’s 2026 AI agent breach of Hugging Face was a genuine containment failure — but the narrative machine that followed reveals how a technical incident becomes a tool for marketing, regulatory capture, and public conditioning.
The Pentagon is leasing military land at sites including a chemical weapons testing range to investment giants BlackRock, KKR, and Carlyle for commercial AI data centers, exchanging acreage for computing power at no upfront cost to taxpayers.
Pentagon Special Government Employee Jennica Pounds, known online as DataRepublican, has documented ties to an anonymous hacker persona that publicized cyberattacks on left-wing infrastructure — raising serious questions about federal complicity in hacking operations against political dissidents.
A technical investigation by Gamers Nexus and Level1Techs found that LG smart TVs scan home networks to identify and catalog every connected device — including phones and smartwatches — and can store microphone audio even while disconnected from the internet.
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U.S. Central Command struck three Iranian crude oil tankers on September 5, 2026, permanently disabling two and completely destroying a third, in what it described as retaliation for IRGC ballistic missile attacks on American Navy warships.
At least 214 communities have ended their relationship with Flock Safety’s license plate reader network, with 90 cancellations in August 2026 alone, as privacy concerns, police abuse scandals, and AI surveillance fears drive a historic grassroots backlash.
ICE granted thousands of unvetted new hires access to Palantir’s ELITE targeting app — which draws on Medicaid records, immigration data, and commercial databases — before their background checks were completed, according to ICE whistleblowers and former DHS officials.
The CDC removed two measles deaths confirmed by Pennsylvania from its national data after Health Secretary RFK Jr. publicly questioned their validity — a move that breaks with the established precedent of states determining their own case and death classifications.
The Pentagon has secretly placed conservative military veteran influencers in undisclosed civilian government roles where they amplify Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s messaging and attack administration critics, according to a Washington Post investigation.
U.S. and Israeli strikes during Operation Epic Fury have generated over 300 documented environmental harm incidents across 12 countries, emitted greenhouse gases equivalent to Iceland’s annual output in just two weeks, and blanketed Tehran’s 9 million residents in toxic black rain — all while a U.S.-directed satellite blackout limits independent verification of the full damage.
The Trump administration’s terror sanctions against the Italy-based A/I Collective — a privacy-focused web hosting and email provider used by antifascist and anarchist groups — set a precedent that could erase anonymous political speech online across the United States.
A federal district court has ruled that the Pentagon’s blacklisting of AI developer Anthropic as a ‘supply-chain risk to national security’ was unconstitutional retaliation and an abuse of executive authority.
Documents obtained by The Guardian and the Associated Press directly contradict HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Senate confirmation testimony that his 2019 Samoa trip had ‘nothing to do with vaccines.’
Earthjustice has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump EPA’s approval of two datacenter chemicals the agency itself admits pose an ‘unreasonable risk,’ including the potential for sudden death, cancer, and neurological harm.
The UK’s ARIA has consolidated its research portfolio into seven opportunity spaces targeting brain-computer interfaces, weather manipulation, and living systems engineering — all while remaining exempt from Freedom of Information requests.
A CENTCOM public affairs official confirmed on the record that the Pentagon maintains a secret blacklist of journalists to ‘disregard,’ threatening to add a reporter to it for asking too many questions during the ongoing Iran war.
Cities across the U.S. are mounting AI-powered cameras on garbage trucks to scan residential neighborhoods for code violations, raising documented questions about data retention, access, and the expanding architecture of municipal surveillance.
Internal FCC documents obtained via FOIA reveal that Chairman Brendan Carr attended at least eight White House meetings and held scheduled calls with senior Trump officials — including Chief of Staff Susie Wiles — while publicly refusing to discuss the nature of his communications with the administration.
Internal ICE emails obtained via FOIA reveal U.S. immigration officials coordinated directly with the Iranian government to arrange deportation flights carrying over 100 Iranian nationals to Tehran — even as the Trump administration prepared military strikes against Iran.