Police agencies in at least 10 states have spent more than $920,000 in opioid settlement money on automated license-plate readers, including Flock cameras. 

New York City just created the nation’s first Office of Worker Power, offering a new model for how local government can help workers organize, understand their rights and rebuild collective power.

Power has long been hiding the extent of the climate crisis because it really is ‘that bad.’ But that’s not a call to throw our hands up. It’s a call to throw power out. 

The public is paying to build private computing power, and it is paying in electricity, water and money. 

The pursuit of ‘high-quality training data’ at any cost is a window into the psychoses that drive modern tech oligarchs who view all as subservient to profit and ‘progress.’

New Trump rules place political appointees between researchers and federal grant money. They’re forbidden from appealing to peer review, which is to say ‘science.’

The public is paying to build private computing power, and it is paying in electricity, in water and in money. 

On July 7, 2026, Hyvemind received an official statement and video from Ana Bell following the conviction of her brother, Daniel Sanchez-Estrada.

What else could the money spent on the Iran War have been used for to benefit the American public? Why does no one in power seem to even be asking?

This first installment of The Trillion Dollar Man examines SpaceX’s public listing as a case study in how retirement defaults, index rules and founder-controlled governance can place ordinary workers’ savings inside companies they may never choose or meaningfully influence

For 36 years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has challenged the surveillance, censorship and corporate control shaping modern life online.

Trump’s ‘UFC Freedom 250’ celebration felt like a hyperreal living satire in an age where pointing out that things feel like satire has become tiresome.

As protections under the Voting Rights Act are stripped back, voter dilution has become one of the clearest threats to Black political power.

Inside the Coalitions, Revenue Models and Shared Technologies Redefining Power in Media.

For the first time in 120 years, the U.S. Forest Service is being gutted. A handout to oligarchs, its HQ will be moved to Utah where logging and mineral interests dominate.

The Making of Deepfake Abuse—and the Lonely Men Behind It.

How AI image tools, platform design and global distribution networks have enabled non-consensual sexual imagery to scale faster than enforcement.

The tech-fraud’s endlessly growing lump of monopoly money is a case study for why Western institutions are in terminal collapse.

A look at the growing gap between economics, business + tech headlines and the everyday experience.

Technology, transcendence and the fear of death.