Ellie Leonard

A recording from Ellie Leonard’s live video

For forty years the answer was “how will you pay for it.” Then $4 trillion appeared for three companies that lose money—no vote, no debate. Here’s the receipt.

Plus: Dr. Oz says America is “under-babied.” Dana DuBois says it’s motherless. And the AI data centers next door are drinking your well dry.

Howard Lutnick says his ties to Epstein were meaningless and inconsequential. The files tell a more enmeshed story. Ellie Leonard lays out why she thinks the full record is being kept from us.

It costs nothing, it cuts fuel demand, and it puts money back in workers’ pockets. So why won’t the managerial class allow it?

Whose water, whose power, whose backyard? Inside the real cost of the $650 billion AI buildout—and the fight against it.

It sounds like a fever dream. It’s actually David Shuster’s top five AI satire clips of the week, and you’ll be singing the number one by Monday.

The special counsel Lev Parnas used to travel with is now coming for Obama, Comey, Brennan, and Clapper.

The cushion runs out in August. The CEOs already know. Here’s what is actually happening to the American economy — and the question no politician has yet had the nerve to ask.

Kait Justice connects Musk’s “anomaly in the matrix” to a piece of NSA-grade math Epstein was hunting code-breakers to apply — and Ellie Leonard takes Howard Lutnick’s deposition to the woodshed.