🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

SCOOP: ICE, HSI, and DHS are getting side-door access to the nationwide system of Flock license plate cameras by asking local police to perform lookups for them, new public records show. ICE does *not* have a contract to use this surveillance tool itself 404media.co/ice-taps-into-…

Rare details shared by DOGE engineer Sahil Lavingia after getting the "boot" from DOGE—& a level of candor not found in DOGE's PR appearances. "DOGE was more like having McKinsey volunteers embedded in agencies rather than the revolutionary force I'd imagined." sahillavingia.com/doge

👀👀👀👀

Curtis Yarvin, it turns out, spends a lot of his time overcome by emotion, sobbing in France. Great profile by Ava Kofman: newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

Every Sunday, the print classifieds in metro newspapers are full of listings for tech jobs that aren't actually open. It's a window into a deeply flawed corner of US immigration law that hurts both US and foreign workers, yet has endured for decades. I decided to explore further:

ICYMI: Musk says that he's stepping back from DOGE, but the White House is requesting $45 million in funding for DOGE moving forward, as well as 150 employees

The team behind Trump's World Liberty Financial project (his kids) & the team behind the $Trump memecoin, (Trump pal Bill Zanker who co-authored Trump's 2007 book "Think Big & Kick Ass") are fighting over who has the *official* Trump crypto wallet. nytimes.com/2025/06/03/tec…

The Trump administration tapped a 22 year old—whose only leadership experience comes from a stint at Model United Nations—to oversee the main hub for terrorism prevention at the Department of Homeland Security. propublica.org/article/trump-…

It’s interesting it took three days to sort this out.

We have added 23 staffers to our DOGE tracker, taking the total to 109. We have also revealed the makeup of the DOGE team at the Defense Department, a group made up primarily of tech startup founders. propublica.org/article/doge-e…

It's striking that exactly one member of DOGE—Sahil— has given a real/serious interview to the press over the last 6 months.

The only DOGE operative to be fired (for giving a candid interview), & the only DOGE operative to give serious interviews to the press. It's Sahil Lavingia, speaking to Bobby Allyn about how there's less waste & fraud than DOGE had initially thought. npr.org/2025/06/20/nx-…

Masked agents arrested Iranian Christian asylum seekers in LA. They throw a sobbing woman on the ground. Their pastor tries to intervene, & is threatened with arrest. "We fled because of our faith" Good coverage from Andy Olsen in Christianity Today: christianitytoday.com/2025/06/ice-ar…

PBS just released a new documentary about Hannah Arendt. It's fantastic - & has incredible archival footage of Hitler on the campaign trail. pbs.org/wnet/americanm…

Fascinating piece on a mass deportation drive you don't often here about: since March 2024, Iran has deported over 1 million Afghans back to Afghanistan. Many are returning to a country they barely know, after spending decades across the border. context.news/socioeconomic-…