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 · 37 articles
Trump sued the BBC for $10 billion. The BBC now wants the plaintiff to appear for a deposition before discovery closes, a feature apparently stored in the premium litigation tier.
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Republicans are planning back-to-back judicial-nomination hearings after the election. Voters may choose a new Senate in November, but the old one would still like to choose judges for life in December.
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Nine former FBI employees say they were fired for work they were assigned to perform on the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation. The new personnel standard seems to be following orders, but only the orders that age well politically.
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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.
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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.’
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