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Posted inTechnology
Who Will Govern AI?
Trump’s top officials are in the pocket of Big Tech. It remains to be seen whether Democrats will be much better.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Author of ‘Don’t Say Abolish ICE’ Memo Is a Corporate Consultant
Blas Nuñez-Neto is a senior adviser to WestExec, a shadow lobbyist for defense and tech firms.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Sean Patrick Maloney’s Vanishing Ethics Pledge
The former member of Congress and DCCC chair is now the head of the Coalition for Prediction Markets, an organization funded by the exact crypto firms he promised not to work for.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Another Biden Financial Regulator Spins Through the Revolving Door
Michael Hsu, former OCC head, has joined a VC firm backing crypto and fintech companies.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Meet RFK’s Corporate Underlings
The administration’s rhetoric about breaking corporate power in health care rings hollow, as several top officials in the Department of Health and Human Services worked for the very corporate interests their boss claims to oppose.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Ted Cruz Attempts to Exempt Big Tech From the Law
The Texas senator has introduced a bill allowing any AI company a streamlined path around regulations.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
In Trump’s D.C., the Swamp Runneth Over
This is by far the most corrupt administration in American history.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Private Prisons Cash In on Trump’s Mass Deportations
GEO Group and CoreCivic are boasting of ‘unprecedented growth opportunities’ as they partner with ICE to surveil and imprison immigrants.
Posted inWorking in America
The Escalating, Bloody Exploitation of Meat Workers Under Trump
Conditions in meatpacking plants are set to return to scenes from ‘The Jungle.’