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An early-eighties working-class matriarch built on Justitia with the blindfold hauled up off one eye — the publication's elite-accountability satirist. She takes the week's documented case of the powerful behaving badly, names the mechanism that produces it, reels out the multi-decade roster, and passes sentence in composed contempt: hot conviction, cold delivery, ridicule that denies the powerful the stature rage would grant them. One-sided by design and factually spotless by law — the facts are sacred, the framing is merciless — she punches up, only up, and ends every column on the gavel, never the remedy.
A former Olympian wants to read the secret transcript that sent him to face a ten-year felony for pool damage. The government has prosecutors. The man who touched the water has a lawyer and a filing — actually, two filings in one: a demand for the complete grand jury transcript and a demand for the legal instructions prosecutors gave to the grand jurors about the elements of…
2026-07-27 · 7 MIN READKen Paxton was caught on camera pocketing an expensive pen, charged with securities fraud so real it produced a mugshot, and told by his own party's incumbent that judgment day was coming, and the apparatus rewarded him with the nomination and a likely seat in the United States Senate. Don't change the subject, dear. Eight years ago, a Democrat aired the camera footage of the…
2026-07-27 · 5 MIN READA third of the House trades individual stocks. The Journal wants it to stay that way. That is the operative purpose of the Wall Street Journal editorial board's July 23 piece, "The Congressional Stock Trading Meme", which tells the public…
2026-07-26 · 5 MIN READNew Jersey became the third state to ban surveillance pricing on Thursday, which means the algorithmically-optimized shakedown of individual shoppers is still legal in the rest of the country, and a notable number of those would like to…
2026-07-26 · 4 MIN READThe lieutenant governor of Hawaii accepted two $5,000 checks at a Morton's Steakhouse in January 2022, with the understanding that another $70,000 would follow, if she would deliver a state COVID-testing contract to the man buying her…
2026-07-25 · 4 MIN READDavid Marcus writes in Fox News that prediction markets are democratizing inside information — now anyone can be an insider trader, and there's something troubling about that. He's right that the markets are a problem, but he's got the problem backwards. The scandal isn't that ordinary people might finally get to play the game the insiders have played since markets were…
2026-07-25 · 4 MIN READA company whose whole pitch is that it moves money faster and cheaper than the banks just learned that the faster you move money without looking at it, the cheaper your board seat gets. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency denied Wise Group's application for a national trust bank license. Said the fintech's anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorism-financing program…
2026-07-24 · 3 MIN READThe same man who wrote the insider-trading bill is the man whose family fortune came from high-speed brokerage, and the bill he wrote happens to protect every dollar he already owns. Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska laid out his solution…
2026-07-22 · 6 MIN READThe town of Surfside Beach, South Carolina, wired half a million dollars of taxpayer money to a stranger and now insists it did nothing wrong. The mayor cannot see "where the town erred." The finance director thought the form "looked…
2026-07-22 · 6 MIN READAmazon has spent the last decade making sure you pay more at Walmart, Target, and Home Depot so you keep thinking Amazon is cheap. For years, as American consumers have felt squeezed by the cost of everything — a frustration documented in…
2026-07-21 · 3 MIN READFBI agents arrived at the homes of New York Times reporters on a Friday evening — July 10, two days after the paper published a story about security concerns with the president's new Air Force One — and handed them subpoenas compelling…
2026-07-23 · 5 MIN READDavid Hearn is a retired Olympic canoe racer, sixty-two years old, who touched peeling paint at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The federal government indicted him on a felony. Trial date: September 28. Three other people did the…
2026-07-20 · 3 MIN READ
Andrew Tate built a fortune telling young men that women exist to be used. The Crown Prosecution Service now says he used seven of them, over seven years, starting when he was a kickboxer in England and continuing through his rise as the…
2026-07-19 · 5 MIN READThe op-ed you are about to read was purchased. Cory L. Andrews, general counsel at the Washington Legal Foundation, published in the Wall Street Journal his argument that Social-Media Regulation Doesn't Belong in Court — the science is…
2026-07-19 · 5 MIN READMusk's American PAC poured tens of millions into Brad Schimel's failed campaign for the Wisconsin Supreme Court last year. Schimel lost to Susan Crawford, a Dane County circuit judge. The money changed hands; the seat did not. So Musk…
2026-07-15 · 3 MIN READPatrick Byrne fabricated a plot of treason, attributed it to the president's son, produced no documentary evidence, fired his lawyer, and refused to show up for his own trial. The courtroom's response was a $1.7 million default judgment…
2026-07-11 · 7 MIN READThe media empire selling you the apocalypse just got caught laundering $67 million in stolen benefits. Weidong "Bill" Guan, the 63-year-old chief financial officer of The Epoch Times, interrupted his own trial in Manhattan federal court on…
2026-07-09 · 3 MIN READA 29-year-old lawyer and social media influencer named Cheyenne Hunt did what the party elders and the establishment press could not: she put two powerful Democratic politicians out of business for sexual assault. Graham Platner, the Maine…
2026-07-09 · 6 MIN READThe federal government is demanding up to 21 months in prison for a 66-year-old former judge because she led an undocumented man out a private jury door so ICE agents could not snatch him from her own courtroom. Her name is Hannah Dugan.…
2026-07-08 · 3 MIN READThe mayor who promised Jackson, Mississippi, the most radical city on the planet took $50,000 in bribes disguised as campaign contributions. He pleaded guilty on Monday. He walked out of the federal courthouse in silence with his wife on…
2026-07-07 · 8 MIN READThe federal government handed $1.7 million to a three-person water-treatment company partly owned by a twice-convicted felon who once bribed a congressman, because the president wanted the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to look nice for…
2026-06-28 · 7 MIN READThe World Bank's private-investment arm just overruled its own watchdog to protect a portfolio of Cambodian microfinance lenders that advised borrowers to sell their children to pay their debts. The board's official language for the…
2026-06-25 · 7 MIN READThe Justice Department on Tuesday charged 450 people with stealing $6.5 billion from Medicare and Medicaid — the largest single healthcare fraud sweep in the department's history. The sweep comes two weeks after the department secured six…
2026-06-23 · 7 MIN READTim McHugh, the co-president and chief financial officer of Welltower — a real-estate investment trust that owns and rents housing to old people — received $167 million in compensation last year. The year before, he made $7.2 million. The…
2026-06-23 · 4 MIN READThe old cartel needed a smoky back room and a handshake. The new one needs a vendor contract with Kalibrate. Fourteen California drivers filed a class action Monday accusing BP, 7‑Eleven, Circle K, Marathon, Walmart, and Albertsons of…
2026-06-22 · 4 MIN READSix of Japan's largest ice cream manufacturers raised frozen-dessert prices in coordinated increments of five to ten percent, multiple times over the years, on products sold in supermarkets and convenience stores across the country — while…
2026-06-17 · 4 MIN READDavid Rush held a rank equivalent to an army general in the CIA’s science and technology division. He ran a genuine classified cash-for-intelligence program, the kind Congress funds without public trace. Then he invented another one — a…
2026-06-16 · 5 MIN READThe advertised price is a lie. This is not a glitch; it is the business model. Two hundred dealerships got the letter. The Federal Trade Commission told them, in writing, to knock it off—stop advertising one price online and then springing…
2026-06-15 · 4 MIN READThe president runs the White House like a protection racket, and the invoice always arrives. This is not an administration with corrupt episodes. It is a mafia state where the quid pro quo is the operating system, and the man in the Oval…
2026-06-13 · 9 MIN READPeter Murrell stole £400,000 from the people who believed in an independent Scotland, and the press is only offended because he lacked the ambition to steal a Lamborghini. He spent it on 108 rolls of toilet paper, seven vacuum cleaners,…
2026-06-12 · 6 MIN READUBS published a note this week about BHP's metallurgical coal and managed, in two sentences, to explain the United States Treasury. The bank reported that BHP's incoming CEO, Brandon Craig, is weighing an exit from the Queensland coal…
2026-06-11 · 6 MIN READThe banks wanted the right to say no. They have it. The bill has arrived. Jeanine Pirro subpoenaed JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo for following banking regulations. The U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., sent the demands…
2026-06-10 · 4 MIN READRobert Dillon lives in Fort Myers. The Jacksonville Beach police had a screen grab from a cellphone, taken off a security monitor, so low-resolution it would embarrass a flip phone. They fed it to a computer called Faces — the Face…
2026-06-10 · 6 MIN READThe FBI found 303 gold bars in his government office. The man who stacked them was a senior CIA officer — seventeen years on credentials he never earned, running a program that did not exist. This is not a lapse. This is the machine…
2026-06-07 · 5 MIN READHis Lawfulness sent a federal prosecutor to a ballot-counting center because the votes weren't landing where he wanted them. One day after the president alleged, without evidence, that Democrats were cheating, Bill Essayli, Trump's…
2026-06-05 · 3 MIN READPeter Murrell didn't pick the SNP's pocket in a single dramatic heist. He bled it out over years—systematically, methodically, and with the quiet confidence of a man who knew exactly which doors he'd locked behind him. More than £400,000…
2026-06-03 · 7 MIN READWise sold itself as the cure — the honest nobleman who would replace the crooked bankers. Belgian prosecutors say the nobleman couldn't identify his own customers, and the case is nearly closed. As Main Street Independent reported, the…
2026-06-01 · 3 MIN READGautam Adani allegedly bribed Indian government officials to secure a twelve-gigawatt solar contract, then sold that contract to American investors as though the bribes did not exist. The United States Department of Justice has reviewed…
2026-05-17 · 6 MIN READ
