Kansas City’s $600 Million Royals Check: The Stadium Grift With a Faster Effective Date
United States – April 14, 2026 – Kansas City is lining up $600M in bonds for the Royals, and the fine print reads: pay up, no vote, no refunds.
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OMB’s Budget Bonfire: NASA Science Gets Nearly Halved
United States – April 14, 2026 – The White House draft is trying to squeeze NASA’s science side by about half, and I smell OMB-style grift in the paperwork smokehouse.
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Medicaid as a Monthly Check-In: Work Rules, Late Instructions, Big Consequences
United States – April 13, 2026 – States are being told to enforce Medicaid work hours by 2027, but key definitions arrive later and the compliance burden lands on enrollees.
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The White House Quit Fighting the NIH Overhead Cap. The War on Public Science Just Changed Tactics.
United States – April 13, 2026 – They dropped the NIH overhead cap appeal, but kept the anti-university playbook. Same donors, new levers, fewer receipts.
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Congress Tries to Patch an Ethics Leak With Expulsion Votes
United States – April 13, 2026 – Congress is drowning in scandal, and the rush to expel members is testing whether due process is a right or a loophole.
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Swalwell Says He Will Resign. Congress Still Can’t Tell Justice From Theater.
United States – April 13, 2026 – Rep. Eric Swalwell says he will resign after sexual misconduct allegations, as the Ethics Committee opens an investigation and the House starts …
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FISA Court Finds More Cheating: The FBI’s Section 702 Audit Trail Stays Missing
United States – April 13, 2026 – Smoke in the air: a classified FISA court opinion says the FBI kept violating Section 702 US person query safeguards, and the audit trail still …
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Mortgage Rates Hold Steady on April 13, 2026: 30-Year Purchases at 6.406%
United States – April 13, 2026 – Mortgage rates hover around 6.4%, and the same old insiders want you to call expensive housing “normal” while your payment climbs.
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Trump’s new ‘citizenship list’ order is not election security. It is a federal choke collar.
United States – April 13, 2026 – Trump’s EO builds shadow voter lists and threatens prosecutions. It is ballot-box control dressed up as ‘integrity.’
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Soot Standard, Court Standard: EPA Gets Sued for Slipping on PM2.5
United States – April 13, 2026 – Smoke in the lungs and grift in the halls. Now the soot cops sue EPA for doing the job later, and I am furious.
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