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Arkansas's governor made a white gamer the face of welfare, and part of the right revolted. What the data say about who's on aid, who works, and the wage gap.

[SECTION 601] No. 021 | The Welfare Villain: Who Really Gets Aid And Who Gets Blamed

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SECTION 601 Field Manual No. 021, The Welfare Villain: Who Really Gets Aid And Who Gets Blamed. Headline: THE FACE CHANGED. THE SCRIPT DIDN'T. THE PAYCHECK STALLED.. KNOW WHO IS REALLY ON AID Illustration: A lone armchair under a spotlight on an empty stage with a game controller and spilled cheese puffs, dark spotlights in the rigging above
October 2, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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Social media studied what its apps did to kids and kept building. It took seven years and an $18B settlement. Now AI. What's documented, and the rules we need.

[SECTION 601] No. 020 | Built To Hook: What Social Media Knew And The AI Rules We Need

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SECTION 601 Field Manual No. 020, Built To Hook: What Social Media Knew And The AI Rules We Need. Headline: THEY KNEW. IT WAS BUILT IN. NOW IT'S AI.. GOVERN IT BEFORE IT HOOKS US Illustration: A giant phone-shaped monolith with a slot machine on its screen and a fishhook hanging from its top, surrounded by discarded phones
October 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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A rapper said two words in a stadium. NFL owners objected, the promoter dropped him, four openers quit. What's documented, what's disputed, and who held the veto.

[SECTION 601] No. 019 | Stadium Veto: Who Decides What Artists Can Say About Gaza

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SECTION 601 Field Manual No. 019, Stadium Veto: Who Decides What Artists Can Say About Gaza. Headline: TWO WORDS. ONE PHONE CALL. NO MORE STAGE.. WHO DECIDES WHAT THE STAGE CAN SAY Illustration: An empty stadium at night with one microphone lit on the stage, floodlights turned away, and glowing gold luxury suites above with cables running down to the stage
September 30, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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The Iran war is good business for some: record contractor backlogs, $2.6B in oil bets under DOJ review, envoys with Gulf money. What's documented and what isn't.

[SECTION 601] No. 018 | War Pigs: Who Profits From The Iran War

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SECTION 601 Field Manual No. 018, War Pigs: Who Profits From The Iran War. Headline: THE WAR IS GOOD BUSINESS FOR SOME.. FOLLOW THE WAR MONEY Illustration: A building-sized piggy bank made of warship plates with radar-dish ears, coins pouring into its back slot, empty missile tubes at its feet
September 29, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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His own defense lawyer now runs the DOJ, and the Epstein files are still being withheld while a judge threatens contempt. What's confirmed, what's only claimed.

[SECTION 601] No. 017 | The Epstein Firewall

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SECTION 601 Field Manual No. 017, The Epstein Firewall. Headline: HIS OWN DEFENSE LAWYER NOW RUNS THE DOJ AND WON'T RELEASE THE FILES. The Epstein Firewall. Illustration: A wall of digital flame blocking a vault door covered in black redaction bars, a broken gavel at its base
September 29, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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Genocide is a legal word with five defined acts, not a percentage. Most of Gaza's case isn't bombs: famine, banned aid groups, a wrecked fertility clinic.

[SECTION 601] No. 016 | Gaza: Genocide Beyond The Bombs

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SECTION 601 Field Manual No. 016, Gaza: Genocide Beyond The Bombs. Headline: GENOCIDE IS A LEGAL WORD, NOT A FEELING.. COUNT THE ACTS, NOT THE PERCENT Illustration: A giant hourglass full of flour stands in a field of rubble, its neck choked with barbed wire so only a trickle falls through
September 26, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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The FBI got hacked. Again. A crew says it got in through FBIJobs.gov and took agents' home addresses and family details. Third hit on the bureau this year.

[SECTION 601] No. 015 | The FBI Hack Job

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SECTION 601 Field Manual No. 015, The FBI Hack Job. Headline: THE FBI GOT HACKED. AGAIN.. WHO GUARDS THE GUARDS' DATA? Illustration: A 16-bit video game villain with a cybernetic face and a federal badge above the words: FBI: ALL YOUR FILES ARE BELONG TO US.
September 26, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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A WWE boardroom is running U.S. education policy. Linda McMahon halved the Education Department's staff and is swapping in a curated patriotic curriculum. Her husband's sex-trafficking case just went to sealed arbitration.

No. 014 | The Education Smackdown

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SECTION 601 Field Manual No. 014, The Education Smackdown. Headline: SCHOOL'S OUT FOREVER BY DESIGN. A WWE BOARDROOM IS WRITING THE LESSON PLAN Illustration: A voodoo-doll style figurine of Education Secretary Linda McMahon in a purple blazer, holding a WWE championship belt and a microphone, next to a banner reading EDUCATION SMACKDOWN and a torn memo reading SCHOOL'S OUT FOREVER
September 26, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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The White House banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico for their coverage. ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox refused to take their place. A judge restored access 6 days later. It started with one word on a map.

No. 013 | The White House Press Ban

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SECTION 601 Field Manual No. 013, The White House Press Ban. Headline: THE PRESS WAS BANNED FOR REPORTING FACTS ACCESS IS NOW A LOYALTY TEST Illustration: An empty press briefing room with three front-row chairs wrapped in glowing magenta chain and padlocked, cracked press badges leaking cyan light on the floor, the blue backdrop split by a jagged crack
September 26, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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One ordinary data center draws 3x an NFL stadium's game-day peak, around the clock, every day. The AI buildout is growing 27% a year and households in PJM are paying ~$16-18/month more for it.

No. 012 | The Data Center Power Plunder

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September 26, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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Every federal judge can face a misconduct complaint except the nine on the Supreme Court. Their ethics code has no enforcement at all. Two reform bills, 18-year terms and 13 seats, are on the table and stalled.

No. 011 | The Runaway Supreme Court

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September 26, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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AI investment hit 4.5x its pre-boom level in 3 years, steeper than the railway and dot-com manias. Nvidia is guaranteeing $105B of its own customer's buildout, and 9 in 10 firms can't measure a productivity gain yet.

No. 010 | The AI Circle of Death

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September 26, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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Trump fired the Kennedy Center board, named himself chairman, and wanted his name on the building. A federal judge said that's illegal. The board voted to close the building anyway.

No. 009 | The Kennedy Center Takeover

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September 26, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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"I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." Peter Thiel, 2009. He later hired and funded J.D. Vance. The blueprint's author was an inaugural guest of honor.

No. 008 | The Anti-Democracy Blueprint

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September 26, 2026 at 1:38 AM
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7 councils in 6 states cancelled Flock surveillance contracts this summer, every one after residents spoke at public comment. The datacenter raising your bill gets approved in that same room.

No. 007 | Your Power Is Local

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September 26, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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They stopped measuring the disaster damage. Climate Central did, so someone still is.

No. 006 — Overheated: EPA repealed the science, coal plants stay open for the AI boom, your water bill is paying for it.

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September 26, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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They knew. They shipped it anyway.

TikTok's own docs: kids hooked after ~260 videos, under 35 min. Its teen time limit cut use by 1.5 min a day. Then 2026: a $6M jury verdict and a $17.1B Meta settlement.

No. 005 | Sweet As Candy
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September 26, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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Justice was not for sale. It was bought.

$1.6B in undisclosed stock to Leonard Leo's trust. $5.8M in gifts to Clarence Thomas, one trip disclosed. A dark-money pipeline that picked the judges, then the cases.

No. 004 | The Scheme
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September 26, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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A sheathed sword cuts no king.

The full U.S. Constitution, every Article and Amendment, annotated in red at the clauses being run over right now: emoluments, appropriations, due process. Every claim sourced.

No. 003 | The Constitution Under Siege
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September 26, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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Flock logs every plate, suspect or not. Axon turns body-cam footage into AI-tagged records. Leonardo's SignalTrace tracks your car by your phone's radio signals, plate or no plate.

No warrant at the point of collection.

No. 002 | The Surveillance Dragnet
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September 26, 2026 at 12:37 AM