The White House, Congress and the courts make decisions in your name. We examine what those decisions do, whose interests they serve and how the official explanation survives contact with the evidence. Expect original satire about executive power, legislation, government ethics and Washington’s flexible relationship with accountability.
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Original political satire and commentary · 29 articles
HHS sent the White House a plan that could ease access to compounded peptides despite unresolved safety questions. Federal drug policy is apparently testing a new evidentiary standard: extremely confident gym lighting.
Read The Article →OpenAI and Meta warned federal judges that deepfakes may become impossible to detect reliably. The companies that helped automate reality would now like the courts to check the box marked ‘I am not a fabrication.’
Read The Article →The administration has canceled plans to livestream a military execution, proving that even this White House occasionally locates the off switch.
Read The Article →A judge closed the case against Mexico’s former immigration chief over the Ciudad Juárez detention fire. Families say justice is not finished.
Read The Article →The United States wants the World Bank back in upstream oil and gas, because apparently development finance needed a fossil-fuel loyalty program.
Read The Article →The Supreme Court is deciding whether a Blockbuster-era privacy law still protects people in a world where every website wants to be a tiny surveillance mall.
Read The Article →A state audit finds serious maintenance and enforcement gaps. The response needs money, deadlines and accountability—not partisan excuses.
Read The Article →The White House can settle questions about professional credentials with specifics. Turning a résumé into a loyalty test will not help.
Read The Article →A newly public watchdog report exposes the gap between owning recording equipment and reliably recording what matters.
Read The Article →A court declined to block Trump’s contractor order, while reading it narrowly. The actual ruling is more precise than the political slogan.
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