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Daylight Saving Time was not invented for farmers or by Benjamin Franklin. It was dreamed up by a New Zealand bug collector, championed by an obsessed British golfer, and weaponized by the German Empire during World War I.
The world's top 25 billionaires paid a 3.4% true tax rate on their ballooning fortunes. The median American pays 14%. Here is what taxing extreme wealth correctly would look like — and the staggering list of things we could fund.
AI data centers are drinking billions of gallons of freshwater while 4 billion people already face water scarcity. The dystopian resource wars may be closer than we think, just not the ones Hollywood predicted.
OpenAI deleted its ban on military use, lobbied the Trump administration to rank the world by US tech loyalty, took a Pentagon contract when Anthropic refused on ethics grounds, and is now showing you ads. What exactly are you still paying for?
How a single asset manager ended up controlling $12.5 trillion, voting shares in nearly every major company, and getting hired by the government to run crisis policy. This is not a conspiracy. This is just what concentrated power looks like when nobody stops it.
How a CIA-backed startup built the data infrastructure powering immigration raids, predictive policing, and global warfighting while maintaining a veneer of respectability
Billionaires don’t just have money. They have political leverage, media megaphones, and climate veto power.
How automated license plate readers sold as neighborhood safety are quietly building a nationwide mass surveillance infrastructure with zero consent
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