Podcast Episode · The Daily Beans · April 13 · Bonus · 18m

A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history.

We need a moratorium on AI data centers NOW. Here’s why.

“We do purchase commercially available information.”

Hegseth said "family after family" of service members killed urged the administration to “not stop until the job is done." President Donald Trump made a similar claim earlier this month.

And a dance of the knuckleheads on Capitol Hill

Democrats must oppose the SAVE Act and the filibuster

I was intending to take tonight off, but there’s big news—I mean, aside from all the other big news—that I want to make sure gets attention.

A memo shows Jeffrey Epstein was the subject of a previously undisclosed U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration investigation targeting him and 14 others for suspicious money transfers possibly linked t...

New Wyden Bill Would Force Treasury to Turn Over Epstein Files

Continuing Epstein Investigation, Wyden Releases New Analysis Detailing How Top JPMorgan Chase Executives Enabled Epstein’s Sex Trafficking Operation

Or, why America is on its own

The data engineer started as a casual reader of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Then he became obsessed, and built the most extensive network graph of the sexual predator’s shadowy world.

He wants “patriotic” coverage of the Iran war. He doesn’t understand: In a democracy, coverage that asks difficult questions of the government is itself “patriotic.”

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Republicans typically lead on the economy, national security, and immigration. Trump is squandering the GOP’s traditional strength on all three.