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Judge Leonie Brinkema's gavel hitting a mahogany bench, a legal document with $1.776 Billion visible in the foreground, high-contrast black-and-white documentary style, 4K HDR, professional photography, harsh office lighting, wide-angle lens.

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Judge Blocks Slush Fund While Border Guards Starve #

Judge Leonie Brinkema sat in her Virginia courtroom on Friday and threw a wrench into the administration's private piggy bank. Brinkema issued an injunction blocking the disbursement of a $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund, a pot of taxpayer cash designed to settle the President’s personal lawsuits against the IRS. The Department of Justice is now barred from transferring money or considering claims from the fund, which former federal prosecutor Andrew Floyd described in his lawsuit as a slush fund on a…

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They Fired Your Team and Replaced Them With Bots #

Zeb Evans stood before his remaining staff at ClickUp and announced that the era of the human employee is ending. The CEO of the $4 billion software startup confirmed he laid off 22% of his workforce on May 22 to make room for 3,000 internal AI agents. This creates a…

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US Military Kills Two Hundred in Pacific Boat Strikes #

General Francis L. Donovan watched the color video feed on Friday as a suspected drug boat disintegrated in the Eastern Pacific. This latest strike killed three men, pushing the total death toll of the military’s high-seas campaign above 200 people. Southern Command confirmed the lethal kinetic strike targeted a vessel…

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Bitdeer Dumps Every Single Bitcoin to Fund AI Power #

206 Bitcoin left the wallets of Bitdeer during the week ending May 29, leaving the company with a balance of zero. For fourteen straight weeks, the world's largest self-mining operation…

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New Zealand Fires Nine Thousand Humans to Fund Frigates #

Nicola Willis, the Finance Minister of New Zealand, announced a budget on May 28 that prioritizes the steel of the navy over the survival of the civil service. The government…

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In Brief #

Apple Demands Secret Federal Documents

Apple is asking a federal judge to force the U.S. government to turn over documents from 14 agencies to defend itself in a DOJ antitrust case. The company argues the United States is illegally refusing to produce its own internal records relevant to the smartphone monopoly claims.

MIT Finds Cheap Way to Extract Lithium

Researchers at MIT have developed a low-temperature process for extracting battery-grade lithium from spodumene rock. The closed-loop technique could cut extraction costs in half, making hard rock mining competitive with brine water and securing American mineral sovereignty.

Wegovy Linked to Sudden Blindness Risk

Medical studies have linked the popular weight-loss drug Wegovy to a risk of sudden blindness, even as Eli Lilly slashes prices to expand market reach. The metabolic divide is deepening as the elite seek physiological transcendence despite the mounting biological costs.

Adani Fraud Charges Dropped by DOJ

The U.S. Department of Justice has dismissed criminal fraud charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani following a $275 million civil settlement. The move signals the administration’s prioritization of sovereign corporate alliances over regulatory enforcement during the global energy crisis.