UPDATE: Medicare freeze beneficiary secretly donates $2.5 million to Trump ballroom

Earlier this year, Popular Information broke the news that Extremity Care – a company that sells bandages to Medicare for thousands of dollars per square inch – donated $5 million to MAGA Inc., President Trump’s super PAC, on February 24.

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Is Bitcoin the Future of Money?

Libertarians and leftists alike predict a world of competing digital currencies.

The Staying Power of Crypto’s Political Machine

SBF is going to jail, but the crypto machine remains king in the 2024 elections.

The Great Unknown About The U.S. Weapons Deluge In Ukraine

The military isn’t properly tracking what happens to the billions’ worth of weapons being sent to Ukraine, even though the country has a history of illicit arms diversions.

The Plutocrats’ Plot To Control America

Under the banner of voting reform, a tycoon’s plan could give the rich even more power to buy elections.

The Koch Network Is Killing Rail Safety

The billionaire-backed Koch network is leading efforts to stonewall the bipartisan Railway Safety Act.

Hospitals owned by private equity are harming patients, reports find

Hospital ratings dive and medical errors rise when private equity firms are in charge.

The Supreme Court's Relentless Corruption

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two related cases, Loper Bright v Raimondo and Relentless v Department of Commerce, in which conservatives are trying to do away with 40 years of Supreme Court precedent and basic common sense by shifting responsibility for the most minute details of government regulation – think “exactly how much chicken feces can safely be in the wings you eat during the Super Bowl,” and then keep in mind that there are an inconceivably large number of similarly complex decisions that help keep you alive and healthy – from the hundreds of thousands of scientists and subject matter experts employed by federal government agencies to the various Matt Gaetzes and Lauren Boeberts who comprise the United States Congress and, perhaps even more frighteningly, to the nine members of the Supreme Court itself.

The Conservative Legal Movement’s Latest, Wildest Attack on Government As We Know It

In Loper Bright v. Raimondo, a Supreme Court built to gut the administrative state has a chance to make your drinking water a little more poisonous.