Campaign finance absurdity, legislative theater, donor grift, PAC money laundering
Federal agents staged a midnight military raid on a Chicago apartment building, claiming to target a dangerous Venezuelan gang. Their own documents reveal it was actually about squatters. No one was charged with a crime.
Farm labor contractors perfected the art of exploitation through organizational origami: not quite employers, not quite traffickers, but the profitable middlemen making human rights abuses someone else's problem.
Federal grant applications now require libraries and museums to present "uplifting" versions of American history. Orwell called it fiction; Trump calls it policy.