Report: ICE wasted millions, endangered detainees in largest immigration facility : NPR

A new federal watchdog report has found severe violations at one of the country's largest immigration detention centers, including millions of dollars wasted, detainee health endangered, and the destruction or loss of evidence in a detainee death investigation...

 https://www.npr.org/2026/06/10/nx-s1-5853534/report-ice-wasted-millions-endangered-detainees-in-largest-immigration-facility

Noem DHS Scheme EXPOSED, More Than a Billion Dollars

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4ZF7b2asXBY

We’re going after fraud make healthcare more affordable? #healthcare #fr...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7YkwkIWkpcQ

 

Waste Fraud & Lobster Tails | Paula Poundstone

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

 

Mining’s toxic timebomb: dams full of poisonous waste are dotted around the world. What happens when they burst?

While tailings dams are meant to last for ever, extreme weather events are making many unstable – with devastating consequences for nature and humans…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/13/minings-toxic-timebomb-dams-full-of-poisonous-waste-are-dotted-around-the-world-what-happens-when-they-burst-aoe

 

Doge-ish comes to Florida: a DeSantis loyalist is going after ‘waste’ in Democratic cities

 "We're the largest Democratic county in Florida. We have 2 million people and nine county commissioners, all of us Democrat. So is it a coincidence we're the first county they Doge'd, or that he announced the results before they had any data?" he said. 

In addition to Broward, Ingoglia has appeared in recent days in several other Democratic-run municipalities, making broad allegations of fraud and excessive spending. But analysts say there is little evidence, other than a few individual examples of comparatively small amounts going towards LGBTQ+ events or diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives… "

Even Ingoglia admits he hasn't found any wasteful spending, but they're going after the things they like to go after, like Pride parades, DEI initiatives, things the DeSantis base is against. 

"And going after his enemies allows him to ignore how he has wasted money on things like Alligator Alcatraz, a tax holiday for assault weapons, going after Disney in lawsuits that he keeps losing."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/12/blaise-ingoglia-doge-florida-ron-desantis

 

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows

Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is 'unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism'…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/08/uk-plastic-waste-exports-to-developing-countries-rose-84-in-a-year-data-shows

Senate Financial report shows the huge waste caused by DOGE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9QMf9D0sLc

 

Opinion | The Waste Musk Created - The New York Times

"On the edge of a lush jungle here in West Africa, the heavy metal doors of a warehouse creak open. Inside are boxes piled high with millions of doses of medicines donated by Merck and other pharmaceutical companies for a United States aid program. Yet the medications are gathering dust, and some are approaching their expiration dates and may have to be destroyed, at immense expense. 

It's an excellent example of the waste that President Trump claims was rife in the United States Agency for International Development. ("Absolutely obscene," as he put it in February.) But this waste of drugs exists only because his administration shut down U.S.A.I.D. and canceled plans to distribute these medicines, even though the pills cost America nothing and are ready to use…"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/opinion/waste-musk-trump.html

 

 

Michael Lewis on Amazing Government Workers (Al Franken podcast)

From the start of Donald Trump's second term, he's been eager to cut the federal workforce. So, Elon Musk headed the newly minted DOGE to begin slashing tens of thousands of jobs.

Our friend, Michael Lewis, author of "The Big Short" and, most recently, "Who is Government?," joins us to share stories of public servants who not only improved this country but have saved countless lives. Those improvements and breakthroughs could only have happened through the power and effectiveness of a strong government. 

Lewis warns of the long-term consequences of dismantling agencies like USAID and removing oversight mechanisms. The public might not immediately feel these impacts, but the results will eventually be catastrophic, particularly for vulnerable populations worldwide. Lewis explains that DOGE was never about fraud, waste, and abuse. It's always been about ideology, power, and money. 
Interview: 

https://youtu.be/pl0Eh0DlQps?si=RYu_p6xpCNq3OoWi

Rep. Porter Plays "JeoparDOD" to Expose Waste at the Pentagon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJhf6l1nB9A

Rich Nations Are Burying the Developing World in Plastic Waste – Mother Jones

"Toxic chemicals from these plastics are poisoning communities," said Therese Karlsson, a science and technical adviser for the nonprofit International Pollutant Elimination Network, or IPEN...

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/03/rich-countries-nations-waste-plastic-exports-chemical-contamination/

Biden Administration to Impose Financial Restrictions for Chip Makers - The New York Times

Guidelines to be released Tuesday will include firm financial requirements to try to ensure that chip makers don't waste federal money...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/27/us/politics/chips-act-biden-commerce-department.html

Tax money wasted: From Trump to 'Don't Say Gay,' GOP costs Americans

Tax money goes down the drain when Republicans wage unwinnable wars on the Constitution, the rule of the law and their fellow human beings...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnists/2022/04/15/trump-dont-say-gay-hidden-tax/9534566002/

Free Returns Are Complicated, Laborious, and Gross - The Atlantic

… All of that unwanted stuff piles up. Some of it will be diverted into a global shadow industry of bulk resellers, some of it will be stripped for valuable parts, and some of it will go directly into an incinerator or a landfill...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/free-returns-online-shopping/620169/

British TV investigation reveals massive destruction of unused items by Amazon - The Washington Post

…One ex-employee told ITV News that workers were expected to get rid of an estimated 130,000 items a week. The broadcaster described the practice as "waste on an astonishing level."…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/06/23/amazon-uk-warehouses-destroy-items/

Canada is banning all plastic straws, cutlery by end of next year - The Hill

The country is aiming to achieve zero plastic waste by 2030.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/environment/520071-canada-is-banning-all-plastic-straws-cutlery-by

Trump's bad bet on hydroxychloroquine leaves U.S. sitting on millions of worthless pills

Four months after Donald Trump first began pushing the idea that his “common sense” said that hydroxychloroquine was a “game changer” in treating COVID-19, the whole waste of time, effort, and lives has come to a sorry end with the FDA pulling the emergency authorization for use of the malaria drug as a coronavirus treatment. Trump repeatedly flogged the drug in daily coronavirus task force meetings (back when Trump wasn’t dismissing the pandemic completely) with the catch phrase “What do you have to lose?” Trump even claimed that he was actually taking the drug himself, in a manner never approved by the FDA, to prevent catching COVID-19.....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/6/18/1954065/-Trump-s-bad-bet-on-hydroxychloroquine-leaves-U-S-sitting-on-millions-of-worthless-pills

The Trump Administration Paid Millions for Test Tubes — and Got Unusable Mini Soda Bottles — ProPublica

The plastic tubes supplied for coronavirus testing by Fillakit, a first-time federal contractor with a sketchy owner, don’t even fit the racks used to analyze samples. And they may be contaminated anyway.....
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-trump-administration-paid-millions-for-test-tubes-and-got-unusable-mini-soda-bottles

Revolutionary recycling? New technology turns everyday trash into plastic treasure - The Washington Post

UBQ Materials says its process can profitably help tackle the world's huge waste problem.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/classic-apps/revolutionary-recycling-a-new-technology-turns-everyday-trash-into-plastic-treasure/2019/11/18/8517d1ea-025e-11ea-9518-1e76abc088b6_story.html