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Palantir discovered ontology in much the same way Columbus discovered America. That is to say:the broligarchs are thieves & barbarians. They plant their flags on others' work & say "look at our genius!" Now they're claiming to have "popularized" a well-known branch of philosophy 1,000s of yrs old.

this is HILARIOUS therepublicjournal.com/essays/ai-an...

i love the small print “because the regulators won’t let us :(“

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

Two years ago, a group of us took a leap to build a boutique firm focused on whistleblowers. As we celebrate our second anniversary, we’re grateful for the journey. In New Orleans, we reflected on teamwork, like jazz, each strength matters. Thank you to our clients & community, just getting started!

Saving money by cutting govt contractors and stopping contractor overcharges? Yes please. Always better to stop a False Claims Act violation before it starts than have to find a brave whistleblower to clean up the mess afterwards

Someone or someones made $580,000,000 in exquisitely well-timed oil trades that took place 15 minutes before Trump's dubiously optimistic post about the negotiations with Iran. Gift link ⤵️ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Focus on the depressing 2025 number, yes. But really hard to avoid the depressing conclusion that this is the culmination of a bipartisan 20-year downward trend, with only a short-lived post-2008 blip in there

We are experiencing the federal equivalent of "Blue Flu," a wholesale white-collar enforcement strike by government regulators and prosecutors. (A "White Out"?) An elite crime spree is and will continue to be the inevitable result.

in this piece, I look at Chavez and another abuser, Danish chef René Redzepi — two men who define opposite ends of the food system, but connect it with a throughline of narcissistic violence amid a personality cult that enabled their abuse. www.coyotemedia.org/kill-the-her...

From Dolores Huerta: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for… I can no longer stay silent…” Full statement: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

David Boies didn't just "represent" Theranos, he threatened and put pressure on whistleblowers who tried to go public. So you can tell that he has really great judgment.

Worth noting that this company is owned by Meta and the blog post doesn't say one word about privacy or what happens to any of that data

Last week, FinCEN announced a record-breaking $80 million civil penalty against Canaccord, a broker-dealer, for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act. Read Liz Soltan’s blog post analyzing what Canaccord did wrong and what this settlement tells us about FinCEN’s enforcement efforts:

New: In a pretty straightforward calculation I'm surprised I hadn't seen done before, researchers at @consumerfed.bsky.social looked at how much people report in the scam losses to FBI + the most reliable study on how underreported scams go, and calculated we're losing $119 billion a year at least.

CMS recently used a new enforcement mechanism to deter fraud on #Medicare Advantage (MA), threatening to suspend Elevance Health’s enrollment and marketing activities over data submission requirements. As Max Voldman explains, this represents a significant new tool in CMS’s MA #compliance efforts.

Very good result for my partners at @whistleblower.law . Incentive compensation cases are quite tough to win, and this was against a recruiter getting paid by the body to get U.S. students to British schools. Kudos!

@wbpartners.bsky.social Our client’s False Claims Act case against an education recruitment company has gotten notice on both sides of the Atlantic. Thanks to @bloomberglaw.com, @thepie, @law360.bsky.social, @marketwatch.com and others for covering the important story.

A new rule aimed at combating money laundering through the US residential real estate sector took effect on Sunday, even as the government faces a new lawsuit challenging its implementation. The rule effectively ends a nearly 25-year industry exemption from US anti-money laundering rules.

In light of the Anthropic, Open AI, and Pentagon situationship, re-upping an article I wrote almost two years ago now about how little tech companies understand the False Claims Act and how likely that ignorance is to bite AI companies in the end thehill.com/opinion/tech...

The wonky world of privatized military housing continues to prove endlessly fascinating. Read the new deep dive investigation into a El Paso-based military housing empire and the Texas families fighting for justice, co-published with @texasobserver.org www.pogo.org/investigates...

Reminder that the CFTC is already mandated by law to prohibit these kinds of contracts and is abdicating its responsibility

There is, of course, a much, much easier way to “take fraud seriously” and that’s strengthening the False Claims Act and whistleblower protections

Whistleblower Partners announces an education fraud settlement. WP attorneys @poppyalexander.whistleblower.law & @maryinman.bsky.social & co-counsel represented a WB alleging an education recruiter violated rules barring per-student incentive pay for recruiting US students receiving federal funds.

This story so perfectly illustrates the real world consequences of secrecy jurisdictions, as I told @h-lev.bsky.social

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men. This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries." "Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife" abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

From me and @dfriedman.bsky.social: Why did Bill Pulte’s charity give $65K to a nonprofit that doesn’t seem to exist? The recipient may actually be an LLC with ties to Trump’s lawyers. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Last week, I was fired in retaliation for confronting DOGE staff in 2025. Today, I launch my campaign for U.S. Congress in Maryland’s 6th district. Marylanders show enormous bravery in defense of our communities. #MD06 deserves a Rep as brave as its residents. secure.actblue.com/donate/alexi...

And all saturated by melodrama: their actions are good and righteous, the actions of those who oppose them are evil, and the good guys are morally justified in severely punishing or eradicating the villains in any way they choose

Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

X did not respond to our requests for comment about Elon Musk allegedly violating US sanctions on Iran. But within hours of us contacting them, they began removing blue checkmarks from the accounts we flagged. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Some personal news

FY 2025 set a record for #whistleblower activity with 1,297 qui tam suits filed, a 32% increase over last year. One was our client Teresa Ross’s case. #Health care fraud drove 84% of FCA recoveries, restoring billions to Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE. Medicare Advantage remains a top DOJ priority.

The fact that this actually makes sense as a business decision doesn’t make sense

This whistle fights fascists is an excellent slogan

Gosh.

Hope to see everyone at the “Yes Kings” rally.

WEISENTHAL: “.. if #Bitcoin can’t thrive during a period where every rich government and fiat currency is perceived to be under stress, what’s the environment for it?” @weisenthal.bsky.social @opinion.bloomberg.com

Crazy story: A bank analyst published a report showing Kalshi users lose money even faster than sports gamblers, so Kalshi first tried to pressure the data provider to change their data and then accused them and the analyst of conspiring to extort them when that doesn’t work.

Credit where due -- Senators Fetterman and Grassley are leading the charge to get Treasury to finally issue the draft regulations we need to full implement the FinCEN whistleblower program www.fetterman.senate.gov/fetterman-gr...

"With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike"

Jeffrey Epstein talking to the founder of PIMCO about a possible new version of Bitcoin that Brock Pierce would be involved with creating.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

Important to celebrate the wins for the rule of law and corporate accountability when we get them. The Antitrust Division is living up to its promise to aggressively promote and act on whistleblower tips to stop bid-rigging and price-fixing. Good!

Last year, the CFTC quickly put the kibosh on investment companies' creative "future sports ball event contract" or whatever they called to avoid saying outright "betting on the superbowl." What a difference a year makes.

For those keep tracking at home, SpaceX also invested $2 billion in XAI. Musk is using his companies to fund one another.