Researcher Christopher McCurdy Did Not Disclose Kratom Conflicts of Interest — ProPublica

University of Florida professor Christopher McCurdy has accepted travel reimbursements, donations to his university’s foundation and funding for symposiums from the American Kratom Association. None of this is mentioned in the papers he publishes...

 https://www.propublica.org/article/kratom-legalization-christopher-mccurdy-research-conflict-of-interest-aka

Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon picks raise questions over Trump family business ties

The appointments by the US defense secretary not only appear to increase the influence of rightwing ideologues, autonomous weapons manufacturers, and one-time clients of authoritarian states on the world’s most powerful arsenal, but to potentially put the financial interests of the US president’s family at the heart of setting US strategic priorities...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/11/pete-hegseth-pentagon-picks-trump-family-business

 

Analysis: Alito Made Up To $2.9 Million From Fossil Fuel Assets While Serving on Top Court – Mother Jones

Yet the justice won’t recuse himself from key oil and gas cases…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/samuel-alito-ethics-conflicts-interest-fossil-fuel-oil-gast-investments-supreme-court-recusal/

 

Trump’s stock trade report: a corruption roadmap

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Iyf0cr-F1tY

Rep. Levin: Corruption Chronicles #21

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lHcflgPIo2k

 

FCC Officials Took Gifts From Paramount While It Had Business Before Them — ProPublica

Expensive Gifts: Despite regulating broadcast media, FCC commissioners have accepted pricey tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala from CBS or its parent company, now Paramount. 

Conflict of Interest: Ethics experts say that by accepting the gifts, FCC commissioners are compromising the agency’s impartiality and should avoid acting on Paramount’s pending merger. 

Mixing Business and Pleasure: After voting for a Paramount merger, Commissioner Olivia Trusty took tickets worth over $12,000. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has accepted tickets worth at least $63,000...

 https://www.propublica.org/article/paramount-mergers-fcc-kennedy-center-gala 

Trump’s Most SHOCKING CORRUPTION Yet: The Scandal No One’s Talking About

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fIhD5CGTO9Q

Tim Miller: I Was Wrong About Impeachment. It's Time.

Tim Miller takes on Trump's 327 unreported stock trades made the day before his surprise tariff pause—and why Tim has come around on impeachment. He also breaks down the July 4th speech from Mayor Mamdani that even this ex-Republican appreciated. 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s4KBlO5I-g

 

Trump made more than $2.2bn last year. Experts say this extraordinary haul is only part of the story

“The general populace accepts at this point that he is corrupt, will be making money any way he can, and the government will let him do so,” Libowitz said. “So I think people have just kind of accepted this is what’s going to happen.”…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/01/trump-earnings-as-president

 

Jared Kushner Helped Make This Mess in Iran While Making a Mess of Money – Mother Jones

Kushner proselytized Bibi’s claim that Iran was weeks, if not days, away from building a nuclear weapon—a view widely dismissed by nuclear experts—and appeared naive as to how the Iranians negotiate. His antipathy toward Tehran was no secret. According to author Andrea Bernstein, Kushner bonded with the dictator of the United Arab Emirates over their mutual loathing of Iran long before the UAE began bankrolling his firm. But Trump wasn’t troubled by his team’s inexperience, ineptness, or conflicts of interest. Kushner, Netanyahu, and the other Iran hawks got their way, resulting in America’s greatest humiliation on the global stage since the Iraq War...

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/jared-kushner-iran-peace-deal-negotiations-mou-memorandum-understanding-sanctions-oil-strait-hormuz-surrender-failure-defeat-conflict-interest/

 

Sen. Ossoff on Trump's family business dealings: 'It is really mind blowing’

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/je_pz-BYqrQ

US threatens to reconsider role in Bosnia and Herzegovina amid rift with Europe

At the same time, Trump’s relatives and associates have increasingly been pursuing business interests in Bosnia, which included a visit by the US president’s son, Donald Trump Jr, to the main Bosnian Serb town of Banja Luka in April as a guest of Dodik’s son...

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/06/us-threatens-to-reconsider-role-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina-amid-rift-with-europe 

 

Supreme Court HIT with NEW SCANDAL as Alito Treasury Link REVEALED!!!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHHSuqryp2c

Duffy’s ‘Great American Road Trip’ raises ethics questions : NPR

Sherman wants to know how much time the secretary — and government staff — spent on the project. And he says Duffy's insistence that it didn't cost taxpayers raises even more questions. 

"If he's saying that this is a work project or that he did work on the project, then taxpayer funds should be paying for it," he adds. "And if it's a vacation or some kind of personal trip, then certainly industry should not be paying for it."…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/05/12/nx-s1-5818190/sean-duffy-road-trip-reality-show-sponsors

 

 

Trump’s Puppet at the CFTC DEFENDS Don Jr’s Kalshi Cash-in

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oQdttmT5rb0

As the Federal Government Rushes Toward AI, Here Are Three Cautionary Tales — ProPublica

I’ve studied how the federal government has handled — and mishandled — this transition over the past two decades, and my reporting offers some cautionary tales and valuable lessons as policymakers encourage the use of AI and federal agencies adopt the technology.

 https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-government-ai-cautionary-tales

 

Firm backed by Trump sons tries to sell drone interceptors to Gulf states being attacked by Iran

"These countries are under enormous pressure to buy from the sons of the president so he will do what they want," said Richard Painter, a former chief White House ethics lawyer under George W Bush. "This is going to be the first family of a president to make a lot of money off war – a war he didn't get the consent of Congress for."…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/02/eric-trump-drones-gulf-states-iran

What do you think of this new healthcare advisory committee? #healthcare...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8fWSyX60Mv4

 

Trump’s New DHS Pick Markwayne Mullin Made MILLIONS on Stock Trades in Congress

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JsMaxiic79Y

 

Documents Reveal Ties Between Trump Officials and Industries They Regulate — ProPublica

Thousands of companies are jockeying for billions of dollars in Defense Department contracts to build a shield designed to intercept and destroy missiles launched against the United States. 

But amid the intense competition, a handful of firms have an important inside connection...

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-financial-disclosures-steve-feinberg