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Missouri Governor Denounces Out-of-State Money While Taking $1.9M From Delaware Nonprofit

Same money, same opacity, different adjective—the distinction is whose amendment passes.

Oracle Laid Off 21,000 People to Borrow $45 Billion for AI Infrastructure

The workers who got laid off paid for the data centers.

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Meta's Employee Surveillance System Leaked Private Conversations After Promising Tight Controls

They're spying on people to teach AI to replace them.

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Volunteers Brought Fish Back to a Dead Stream. Now They Face Two Years in Jail.

The Agency watched the stream die for decades, then showed up to investigate the cleanup.

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