IRS Audit Revenue Plunged 35%. The Rich Won.
The government that promised the rich would finally get their due quietly dismantled the only department with the teeth to enforce the promise. "An obvious fact: If you get rid of auditors, you raise …
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Trump Buys a Fifth of Venezuela for the Pentagon
A president who kidnapped a foreign head of state now holds, on paper, a hundred-year claim to a fifth of his victim's oil. He calls it the biggest deal in world history. The gas prices say otherwise.…
Let Data Reign. Let the Ratepayers Pay.
The president called the people refusing a data center in their town "backwards and poor." His own party's senators did the math, and they did not like the answer. "No, Mr. President, the 75% of Ameri…
Trump Told Fans to Buy. The Numbers Say They Lost.
A consumer watchdog counted up what happened to the money of the people the president told to go buy his coins. The total was a number the White House declined to contest. "I am not a fan of Bitcoin a…
Trump Bombed an Island No One Hit
The president bombed a place that was never hit, with a video no plane filmed, and then told the country the enemy was finished. "Mr. Trump's tweets are laughable, and conditions in Kharg are calm and…
Trump Turns to the FCC to Silence the Polls
When a president can't stand to see his own approval rating, the natural instinct is to silence the people measuring it, not to improve the numbers. The Trump administration chose the first option, an…
Trump Admin Pushes Deal to Sell Part of Yosemite
A 150-year rule of American public land is being broken by a road that isn't even very long. "This is an attack on the American people that own this national park. It would also be unlawful and a cour…
Trump Renamed a Lake. Google Obeyed.
An 80-year-old president signs a paper to rename a body of water, and Google, of all companies, obliges. "The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declar…
DHS Said She Lied About Her Baby. The Papers Disagree.
A woman lost her son in a cage, was told she was lying about it, and now the government's own paperwork says otherwise. "Wow so this is all garbage claims. This is FALSE. She had FULL medical, prenata…