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Trump has bought more than $100m in bonds in office, disclosure shows
John Power, Al Jazeera English
Trump's investments include Meta, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, and T-Mobile, according to filing.
Aug 21, 2025, 4:41 AM
The White House Keeps a ‘Loyalty’ Scorecard for Companies: Report
Matt Novak, Gizmodo.com
Remember Nixon's enemies list?
Aug 15, 2025, 4:45 PM
Trump’s Pick for Stats Chief Loves This Nazi Warship & Is Bad at Math
Danielle Han, Jezebel
It also looks like he was at the Capitol on January 6. Sweet!
Aug 14, 2025, 1:48 PM
Intel CEO Responds to Trump’s Threat
Bruce Gil, Gizmodo.com
Intel’s chief executive says there is a lot of ‘misinformation’ circulating about his past.
Aug 8, 2025, 7:35 PM
Weaponizing the Watchdog
Walter M. Shaub Jr., The New York Review of Books
Donald Trump’s fascist takeover of government is a comprehensive affair, and sometimes it’s the little things that reveal just how thoroughly his administration has been dismantling our democratic infrastructure. On June 16 Trump nominated the thirty-year-old…
Aug 7, 2025, 11:30 AM
Democrats ask how Trump’s government will regulate Trump Mobile
Lauren Feiner, The Verge
When a Trump-branded phone on a Trump-branded mobile network launches sometime this year (if all goes according to plan), US regulators will face what's become a recurring conundrum in Donald Trump's presidency: how to regulate a product with ties to the head…
Aug 5, 2025, 3:03 PM
Donald Trump Jr.’s Drone Ventures Could Make a Killing — Thanks to Dad’s Big Beautiful Budget
Ellen Ioanes, The Intercept
After Trump was reelected, his son took stakes in several drone companies. They’re now raising ethics concerns. The post Donald Trump Jr.’s Drone Ventures Could Make a Killing — Thanks to Dad’s Big Beautiful Budget appeared first on The Intercept.
Jul 28, 2025, 9:00 AM
Federal workers say they're exhausted, anxious, and left in the dark after 6 months of DOGE
Allie Kelly,Nicole Einbinder,Alice Tecotzky,Ayelet Sheffey,Juliana Kaplan, Business Insider
6 months into DOGE, Business Insider spoke with 22 federal workers who stayed. They're mourning fired colleagues and trying to find a way forward.
Jul 18, 2025, 9:47 AM
Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard Are Wasting Resources Trying To Root Out Gov’t Employees Who Just Aren’t MAGA Enough
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
In the Trump administration, every political appointee is now their own personal Richard Nixon. Simply being some of the most powerful people in the world is never enough for Trump and those in his inner circle. If you can’t demand complete loyalty from every…
Jul 15, 2025, 5:55 PM
Attorney General Pam Bondi fires top Justice Department ethics official
Alexander Mallin, ABC News
Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired one of the top officials tasked with advising her and other senior DOJ officials of their ethical obligations, a source confirms.
Jul 14, 2025, 8:53 PM
Pam Bondi Fires DOJ's Top Ethics Advisor and Misspells His Name in Letter
Lauren Tousignant, Jezebel
Joseph Tirrell's termination letter didn't explain why he was being terminated, but he posted it on LinkedIn Monday morning, which showed his name spelled “JOSPEH,” not Joseph.
Jul 14, 2025, 1:46 PM
America Has Never Seen Corruption Like This
Casey Michel, The Atlantic
Trump’s Qatari jet was just the beginning.
Jul 10, 2025, 2:59 PM
10 Sunday Reads
Barry Ritholtz, Ritholtz.com
Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • The first rule in Trump’s Washington: Don’t write anything down: A new culture of secrecy in government is taking root — among career staffers and new political appoint…
Jul 6, 2025, 10:30 AM
Corruption Database – DJT
codeddarkness, Github.com
Corruption database. Contribute to codeddarkness/taco_pardons development by creating an account on GitHub.
Jun 30, 2025, 10:18 PM
Kristi Noem Secretly Pocketed Cash From Dark Money Group: Report
Nikkimccannramirez, Rolling Stone
The Homeland Security secretary didn’t disclose $80,000 she accepted during her time as South Dakota's governor, according to ProPublica
Jun 30, 2025, 3:02 PM
US environment agency employees say Trump administration undermining mission
Valerie Volcovici, Yahoo Entertainment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Nearly 300 current and recently terminated employees of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published a declaration of dissent on ...
Jun 30, 2025, 12:06 PM
Trump Is Doing Crypto Corruption With a Billionaire Leader of Fake Country: Report
Miles Klee, Rolling Stone
Trump's crypto deals with Justin Sun, a Chinese billionaire who wants recognition for Liberland, a micronation in Europe, raises ethical concerns.
Jun 27, 2025, 7:30 PM
We Have All Become Too Comfortable With Corruption
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
For years, we’ve written about the concept of “soft corruption,” which is the idea that there are certain actions that may not mean the full definition of corrupt practices in the legal sense, but are so obviously corrupt that they make people more cynical to…
Jun 26, 2025, 8:32 PM
A Military Ethics Professor Resigns in Protest
Tom Nichols, The Atlantic
Over the course of several months, Pauline Shanks Kaurin concluded she no longer had the academic freedom necessary for doing her job.
Jun 25, 2025, 12:18 PM
National Park Service Invites Americans To Disappear ‘Disparaging’ History From Public Places
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
The Trump Administration(s) aren’t simply content to declare satire dead. Trump’s reappearance in the Oval Office demands we dig up the corpse and desecrate it. And while we’re desecrating that corpse, why not desecrate a few national landmarks? That’s the pi…
Jun 24, 2025, 10:43 PM
Donald Trump Completely Destroyed The White House Rose Garden, And These Before-And-After Photos Are Unthinkable
Hilary Hanson, Buzzfeed
President Donald Trump has vowed to pave over the grass...
Jun 23, 2025, 8:06 PM
ICE Is Now Trying To Convince Congress Members It Needs 72-Hours Notice Before Facility Inspections
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
This was never an issue before, but it’s suddenly an issue now that ICE has gone full Gestapo to keep up with Trump’s mass deportation demands. ICE’s tactics — unmarked vehicles, masked officers, and untargeted raids of any place that might contain foreigners…
Jun 23, 2025, 5:49 PM
The New Danger in Trump’s Washington: Honoring Federal Employees
Russell Berman, The Atlantic
Can recognition for outstanding work suddenly be a bad thing?
Jun 18, 2025, 6:16 PM
Forget superintelligence – we need to tackle 'stupid' AI first
New Scientist
Tech CEOs and politicians alike are preparing for the day that superintelligent AI takes over, whilst failing to deal with the issues in front of them – from copyright to autonomous killing machines
Jun 18, 2025, 6:00 PM