An insurer ran a 'ghost network' of non-existent mental health providers for years, got caught, and settled for pocket change. The system isn't broken—it's working exactly as designed.
Campaign finance absurdity, legislative theater, donor grift, PAC money laundering
A nine-year-old's Disney vacation turned into 113 days of detention. She decorated her testimony with rainbows and hearts. America decorated its conscience with receipts and razor wire.
A PAC with a name longer than a Victorian novel's subtitle and principles thinner than its filing paperwork joins the grand tradition of virtue-signaling cash vacuums.
The PAC FOR POPULIST CONSERVATISM files with the FEC, proving once again that nothing says 'grassroots uprising' quite like proper regulatory compliance and a D.C. law firm.
A progressive PAC in the Santa Monica Mountains filed with the FEC as 'DEMOCRATES'—proving that even revolutionary vanguards need spell-check.
Colorado legalized weed, built a regulated market, then watched hemp lobbyists exploit a Farm Bill loophole to sell chemically identical intoxicants at gas stations. Prohibition's zombie corpse strikes again.
Deputy AG Todd Blanche allegedly owned $159K in crypto while dismantling DOJ's crypto enforcement. Six senators noticed. The other 94 were busy. Welcome to regulatory capture: now with blockchain.
Labor hero Cicih Sukaesih fought Nike's sweatshops in the '90s and won the PR war. Her reward? Living on charity while Nike sells $200 sneakers. This is what victory looks like in late capitalism.
Nike claims Indonesian workers earn nearly double minimum wage. Workers say it's not enough to live on. Both statements are true, which tells you everything about corporate math and nothing about morality.
Nike claims factory workers earn double minimum wage. Workers in Indonesia and Cambodia say that's "bullshit." Welcome to Swoosh Mathematics, where numbers mean whatever the marketing department needs them to mean.
Idaho ranks dead last nationally in child death autopsies because it lets funeral directors moonlight as coroners. Turns out libertarian principles can't determine cause of death.
After only thirty years of documented abuse and neglect, New York lawmakers have finally noticed their guardianship system is a Kafkaesque nightmare. Their solution? A task force and the absolute minimum effort possible.
In 1967, the KKK bombed Beth Israel in Jackson, Mississippi. In 2026, an arsonist burned it again. Same building. Same hatred. Same cosmic joke on anyone who believed "Never Again" meant anything.