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White House chief of staff Susie Wiles told Attorney General Todd Blanche to hold off on going after abortion pills until after the midterms, because they know that if you saw the plan, you’d vote against it.That’s from the Washington Sun, where a senior administration official said:“No one wants us taking any real action before the midterms.” That is a wild way to talk about your own agenda. People usually talk like that about a surprise party or a bank job. Wiles reportedly warned that going after the pill now woul...

Pete Hegseth just put Elon Musk in charge of planning America’s future wars, then launched a brand new four-star command to buy the robots to fight them. The Secretary of Defense rolled it all out Wednesday at Quantico in a speech he called the State of the Force, which sounds like a Star Wars sequel that went straight to streaming.It’s called Project Meridian. Musk, Anduril founder Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich get 120 days to map out the future of war:“from subterranean depths to the cislunar frontier.” Cislunar means between here and...

Trump launched a government AI to answer Americans’ questions, and when it said Joe Biden won 2020, somebody shut those answers off before Trump even finished his launch speech. Next year, the plan is for you to apply for your passport, Medicare and student loans through this thing, and on day one, it got censored for telling the truth about him.It’s called America.gov, and Trump promised on stage it would help you “accurately and quickly.” It did both, right up until the accuracy was about him.Who won in 2020? Biden, 306 to 232. Can Trump run agai...

A Cornell student says seven fraternity brothers drugged her and raped her for hours, and Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten read her report and decided it was consensual. She’s now suing Cornell, the fraternity and all seven men, and you’ve probably never heard a word about it.Here’s what her lawsuit says. In October 2024, she went to the Chi Phi house to see a friend. He and another brother pressured her into taking ketamine. Two men became three, and three became seven. At 1:42 in the morning, one of them allegedly invited the rest o...

Welcome back to This Week in Tyranny. While you were watching Trump kiss the authoritarian ass of China’s Xi Jinping, and US troops in dress uniforms got down on their hands and knees to smooth his red carpet, Homeland Security’s hunt for illegal voters in Nevada came up empty, the US and Russia gutted a UN rule keeping humans in charge of AI weapons, China got its hands on F-35 parts, hackers broke into the FBI, the Park Service went scouting for a ballpark in Grand Teton, ICE hid record arrests, and you paid for a Trump ad...

Hey fam, welcome back to the Gilead Gazette, where the men running this country have decided my body is a group project, and somehow I’m the only one who doesn’t get a vote.This week: Trump’s pick to run the FDA won’t say an IUD isn’t an abortion, chatbots quietly make women sound dumber at work, anti-abortion groups throw a fiftieth birthday party for the law that took abortion away from poor women, Tennessee makes a mom carry a baby with no brain until her own life is in danger, and the religious...

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is demanding that Planned Parenthood “identify under oath all pregnant women” it helped get abortion pills, and hand over the medical files of trans patients while it’s at it. He’s the same shitbag who took Tennessee’s ban on care for trans kids to the Supreme Court and won, and one landmark wasn’t enough for the scrapbook.He also wants them to “identify your employees, officers, or agents who are responsible for the content of your website.” My dude, you’re hunting down whoever updates the FAQ page. The attorney general o...

Tennessee is about to execute an abuse survivor it spent her whole life failing, and Governor Bill Lee says it’s happening next Wednesday.Quick note: the apps bury videos that use the real word for what was done to her, so I’m saying “assaulted.” You know what I mean. The algorithm is more upset about the word than anyone who could have stopped it ever was about the act.Her name is Christa Pike. She’d be the first woman Tennessee has executed since 1819, back when the state’s mental health system was a jar of lee...

JD Vance just kicked 750,000 people off Obamacare, and one of his red flags for fraud is that they never went to the doctor.Vance and Dr. Oz rolled this out Tuesday as a fraud crackdown, and Oz walked us through the red flags. These people signed up through a broker, their premiums were fully covered by tax credits, and they never filed a claim. They had health insurance and didn’t use it. Healthy customers who never file claims aren’t a scam. They’re the reason the insurance company can afford your kid’s broken arm. Oz is a...

Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon can’t count its own war dead and can’t read a satellite photo, and on February twenty eighth it put two Tomahawk missiles into an elementary school in Iran and killed at least a hundred and twenty three children.That was seven months ago. What’s new is Friday, when Bloomberg got officials inside the investigation to talk.The school sits in Minab, on the Strait of Hormuz. Two hundred and sixty kids. It was built almost ten years ago on ground that used to belong to an Iranian naval unit, wh...

Welcome back to This Week in Tyranny. While you were watching Ed Sheeran throw Macklemore off his own tour and the entire internet pick a side in about nine minutes, which is still faster than the House of Representatives moved on anything this week.This week: Trump converted his vanity arch into a weapons depot, the Pentagon is undercounting the American dead in Iran, a chatbot almost started a war with China, the Space Force admitted it has weapons in orbit, the Bureau of Land Management has been quietly taking applications to put twelve data centers on...

Hey fam, welcome back to the Gilead Gazette, where apparently every woman in America now needs a permission slip, and I think mine got lost in 2022.This week: a mom who needed the state’s permission to leave for an abortion and didn’t get it, ICE losing count of the miscarriages in its own custody, a Michigan gym class that wants a note about your daughter’s period, a cop who used a license plate camera to help a domestic violence suspect find his accuser, and Florida’s attorney general arguing that surrogacy is slavery. Let’s get into...

The family of a Texas woman who died begging for an abortion is suing Ken Paxton. It’s the first lawsuit in this country over a death caused by an abortion ban, and it names the attorney general who is currently running for Senate.Her name was Tierra Walker. Thirty-seven years old, a dental assistant in San Antonio, a wife, and a mom to a kid named JJ. In 2021 she developed preeclampsia and lost twins. So when she found out she was pregnant again in September of 2024, with uncontrolled blood pressure, diabetes, and seizures nobody could explain, sh...

Hackers ripped a Flock license plate camera off a pole, copied everything inside it, and found out it isn’t just watching your car. It’s built to spot you. Joseph Cox and Dhruv Mehrotra at 404 Media and WIRED went through the code, and this is the first real look inside the cameras going up over roads all across the country.Here’s how it works. When anything moves, the camera fires off a burst of photos, about twenty eight for a normal car and more than a hundred for some. One camera, over about three weeks of log...

Women are dying of ectopic pregnancies at nearly double the rate they were before Roe fell, and the climb is steepest in states that banned abortion. It’s the CDC’s own data, sitting in a federal database for years, and nobody in government said a word until ProPublica pulled it this week.Leitaea Lowrimore spent a week bleeding through four hospitals in Oklahoma and Arkansas with a pregnancy growing in the wrong place, and a doctor told her he couldn’t take it out because it might get him, quoting her lawsuit, “10 years in the poky...

Welcome back to This Week in Tyranny. While you were watching America bet forty billion dollars on football through prediction markets, which are legally not gambling because somebody renamed them.This week: the president made a stadium swear an oath to cheat, ICE is coming to your polling place, the Pentagon is reading troops’ medical files to find the trans ones, Border Patrol is pulling your bank statements to decide who gets pulled over, and the Interior Department found a way to run the Park Service layoffs a judge already blocked. Let’s get into it.I...

Hey fam, welcome back to the Gilead Gazette, where I spend my Saturdays going through the receipts on what the men running this country did to women all week.This week, an argument to take the vote away from American women went mainstream. Texas moved its maternal death report to four weeks after the midterms. Louisiana spent Wednesday in federal court trying to end mail order abortion pills in all fifty states. And Indiana argued in front of its own Supreme Court that its religious freedom law was never meant for Jews.Let’s get in...

More Americans have now been killed by the air at Ground Zero than were killed by the planes. Nearly ten thousand of them. And they are dead because the people in charge told them it was safe to breathe when it wasn’t.The attacks killed 2,977. Since then the Victim Compensation Fund has tied nearly 10,000 more deaths to illnesses people got from the dust, 5,892 of those cancer. About 400,000 people breathed it in. The federal health program is treating 145,275 of them right now, and that number goes up every year.Christine Todd Whitman ran the EPA at...

Eighty one people in Kansas have been arrested over unpaid medical bills, at the request of the OB-GYN who treated them. His name is Roger Marshall. He is a United States senator, and Kansas can vote him out in eight weeks.His campaign calls him Doc Marshall and advertises his deep appreciation and passion for the sanctity of life. The New York Times went through Kansas court records. He and his practice sued more than seven hundred patients, garnished paychecks, froze bank accounts, and charged eighteen percent annual interest on bills as small as one hundred and...

Robert F. Kennedy Junior’s Health Department canceled sixteen grants last month, including the program trying to keep Black babies alive in the Arkansas Delta, and told the people running it the money’s going to erectile dysfunction instead.I read that three times. NOTUS has the letters.The Office of Minority Health killed sixteen grants worth thirty eight million dollars, more than half of what it had, and everybody was already two years in. The letters went out August twenty fifth, all basically identical, which is the care you bring when you’ve decided the ou...