Policy Twelve pages of a pharmaceutical tariff proclamation are unreadable in both of the Federal Register's own copies of the document federalregister.govTwelve consecutive pages of the Federal Register's own record of a presidential tariff proclamation contain no readable text, in either of the two separate government pipelines that produced that reco… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 1Share
insurancejournal.comPolicy unitedhealth killed the audit program that found its own $200 million in bad medicare charges insurancejournal.comunitedhealth had an internal audit program that found 200 million dollars in medicare charges the company couldnt actually justify. instead of fixing that, an amended shareholder lawsuit says board ch… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
patch.comPolicy middletown's mayor said no to flock's drone deal after residents showed up patch.com20 to 30 people showed up to a middletown hearing and told the mayor no on flock's drone deal, and mayor eugene nocera actually listened - contract's dead, city says it will look at other options that… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Policy 31 newsrooms' unions are telling usa today to drop palantir poynter.orgnearly 800 reporters across 31 unions and 18 states just told their own bosses no - drop the Palantir deal. usa today announced the partnership on an earnings call like it was good news, from the same… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
wusf.orgPolicy flock just made its own safeguards mandatory wusf.orgflock says the audit logs and case codes stop being optional and start being mandatory on january 1st, and the data retention window shrinks from 30 days down to 7 untill somebody attaches a case numb… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Policy the pentagon handed palantir $244 million and skipped the part where you explain why defenseone.comthe pentagon just handed palantir up to $243.9 million through 2027, no bid, and the memo authorizing it skips every reason the law actually requires - no urgency, no sole source, no nothing, they jus… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
consumerfinance.govPolicy CFPB has recorded no new enforcement action in 360 days, and says it currently cannot lawfully draw more fundsThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's public enforcement-actions feed recorded no new item for 360 days between August 21, 2025 and a snapshot taken August 16, 2026. In a federal court filing dat… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Policy states passed medical debt protections. the new brief says patients mostly cannot get at them commonwealthfund.orgcommonwealth fund actually went and checked what those new state medical debt laws are doing, and it turns out the protections exist mostly on paper - patients are almost never told they qualify, and … Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Policy newburgh's flock ban failed, and the reason is the part other towns should read wamc.orgnewburghs council tried to cancel its flock contract monday, and the vote occured without the votes to actually do it - three yes, the rest balking not because they like the cameras but because nobody… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Policy DTE put $18 million behind keeping Ann Arbor from voting on its own power company. It is now suing the city clerk michiganpublic.orgVolunteers with Ann Arbor for Public Power spent months gathering signatures to put a city-owned electric utility on the November ballot, and the city clerk certified them. DTE Energy's opposition gro… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
404media.coPolicy ice is paying lexisnexis millions so palantir can find your neighborhood 404media.coICE is buying more access to LexisNexis records, and 404 media got the actual number: millions of dollars, feeding straight into a Palantir system called ELITE that helps the agency pick which neighbo… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Policy flock wanted your uber driver's dashcam reading plates too 404media.coa leaked flock presentation pitched turning about 350,000 uber, lyft, and delivery dashcams into rolling plate scanners, so your ride home could have doubled as a cops camera without you ever knowing.… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Policy GAO finds fraud-risk assessment missing for five of the 20 largest state-administered federal programs gao.govThe Government Accountability Office reviewed the 20 largest federally funded, state-administered programs, together accounting for about $1.1 trillion in fiscal year 2025 obligations, and found that … Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Policy somebody clapped at a data center meeting, so emporia moved the meetings online and cut public comment 404media.coin emporia, kansas a resident got charged with disorderly conduct and interference with police for clapping at a july 22 commission meeting about a 1,000-acre gigawatt data center, and the city's resp… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Policy EPA proposes rescinding drinking-water limits for four PFAS chemicals, citing a legal reversal tied to pending litigation and the Loper Bright decision federalregister.govOn May 20, 2026, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed rescinding its 2024 regulatory determinations, health-based goals, and enforceable drinking-water limits for four PFAS chemicals - PF… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Policy Former Census Bureau supervisor sentenced to two years for $790,000 kickback scheme, less than half of what prosecutors soughtCamille Jones, 47, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, a former supervisory official at the U.S. Census Bureau, was sentenced on July 16, 2026, to two years in prison (24 months) and one year of supervised r… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Policy the sec bought more than a billion airline ticket records, and the airlines are the ones who sold them 404media.co404 Media put a FOIA request into the SEC and got back documents showing the agency bought access to what it described as more than a billion airline ticketing records - not just US flights, but fligh… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
techdirt.comPolicy somebody leaked the list of every surveillance tool ice has on the shelf techdirt.com404 media got hold of an internal ICE directory - basically a shopping catalog of the surveillance tech the agency can pull off the shelf. per the document, that includes phone location data pulled of… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
gov.ukPolicy Rural families heating with oil can now claim £9,000 to swap the boiler for a heat pump gov.ukFor rural homes off the gas grid, an oil boiler has long meant riding out every fossil fuel price spike with no easy way off. As of 21 July, the government's Boiler Upgrade Scheme has raised its grant… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
commission.europa.euPolicy On July 31, the EU starts making companies fix the things you already own commission.europa.euCome July 31, the tired ritual of binning a broken fridge and buying a new one gets much harder to justify across the European Union. A new right-to-repair law obliges manufacturers to fix the things … Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Policy the aclu counted flock's cameras: 100,000 of them, and nearly 60 towns already saying no democracynow.orgThe ACLU put out a report this week on Flock, the license-plate camera company, and the number that stuck with me is 100,000 - that is how many of its cameras the report counts, run by more than 5,000… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Policy These are the things 80% of Americans Agree OnEnd gerrymandering Ban Wall Street from buying single-family homes Ban congresspeople from becoming lobbyists Ban congresspeople from trading stocks Create a minimum tax for billionaires Close th… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0SnapShare
Policy the LAPD just walked away from Flock's cameras techcrunch.comthe LAPD - third largest police department in the country and one of Flock's biggest goverment customers - just let its three year license plate camera contract expire, citing "serious concerns around… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Policy Farmers just won the right to fix their own John Deere tractors ftc.govFor years, John Deere kept the software tools that fix its tractors locked away with authorized dealers, so a farmer with a broken machine and a harvest waiting could do little but pay someone else to… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Policy six states passed medical debt laws this year. the feds went quiet, so the states got loudIndiana, Louisiana, Maine, Oregon and Washington all enacted medical debt laws this year, with Hawaii's on the governor's desk. Louisiana capped interest on medically necessary care at 3%. Maine flat … Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
