February 2026
February 2026
February 2026
Civil Service / OPM Rule Change
- Federal Register — Improving Performance, Accountability, and Responsiveness in the Civil Service
- AERA Highlights —Trump Administration Issues Final Rule on “Schedule Policy/Career” Positions
- Government Executive — Agencies internally pan OPM’s bid to overhaul federal performance management
Medicaid Financing Rule (CMS)
DOE & Environmental Review
- Federal Register — Categorical Exclusion for Advanced Nuclear Reactors
- U.S. Department of Energy (NEPA Notice) — Notice of New Categorical Exclusion for Advanced Nuclear Reactors
Watch the full episode, "Epstein Files Release: Federal Rule Changes You Didn't See."
January 2026
February 2026
February 2026
3I/ATLAS
- NASA Science, 2025. “Comet 3I/ATLAS Facts and FAQs.”
- Live Science, 2025. “No, comet 3I/ATLAS hasn’t exploded — and no, that doesn’t mean it’s an alien spaceship.”
- SETI Institute, 2025.“Breakthrough Listen observations of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.”
- Reuters, 2025. “NASA releases images of comet 3I/ATLAS, rejects alien spacecraft rumors.”
End of Year Policy Whiplash
- The Guardian, 2025. “Trump backs away from deploying National Guard in Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland.”
- ABC News, 2025. “HHS freezing child care payments to all states after Minnesota fraud allegations.”
Venezuela Oil & Quiet Institutions
- Reuters, 2026. “Ousted Maduro pleads not guilty to U.S. narcotics charges after capture; further strikes possible, Trump says.”
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 2026. “CPB Board votes to dissolve organization in act of responsible stewardship.”
- Brookings, 2026 — Making sense of the U.S. military operation in Venezuela
- U.S. Senate (Markey), 2026. “Senator Markey statement on dissolution of Corporation for Public Broadcasting.”
- OPEC, n.d. “Venezuela.”
Watch the full episode, “Comet Wrap-Up, Policy Whiplash & Venezuela’s Oil Shadow.”
December 2025
December 2025
December 2025
Biometrics
NASA & Project Blue Beam
- Planetary Society, 2024. "NASA’s FY 2025 Budget"
- SpacePolicyOnline, 2024. "NASA’s FY2025 Budget Request Stuck at FY2023 Level."
- NASA, 2024. "FY 2025 Budget Summary"
- Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2023. "Federal Prisoner Statistics"
THCA & Private Prisons
- Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2023. "Federal Prisoner Statistics"
- U.S. Sentencing Commission, 2024. "Drug Data Reports"
- DOJ OIG, 2023. "Monitoring of Contract Prisons"
- DEA, 2020. "Hemp Interim Final Rule"
Watch the full episode, “USA Awakened — The Shutdown Wasn’t the Pause. It Was the Update.”
November 2025
December 2025
December 2025
Official Brief
- NASA, 2025. Comet 3I/ATLAS
- Space.com, 2025. “New interstellar object 3I/ATLAS: Everything we know about the rare cosmic visitor.”
- The Planetary Society, 2025. “Studying a distant visitor: What we know about Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS.”
Speculation & Media Tsunami
- Live Science, 2025. “Here we go again! Controversial paper questions whether interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is ‘possibly hostile’ alien tech in disguise.
- New York Post, 2025. “Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS now turning green as something is ‘switched on’ as it nears Sun.”
- New York Post, 2025. “Comet 3I/ATLAS: Manhattan-sized interstellar object is covered in a layer of CO₂, shocking scientists.”
- The Times of India, 2025. “Scientists call 3I/ATLAS a rare ‘Black Swan’ object…”
Spacecraft Watchlist
Watch the full episode, “Visitor Not on the Guest List: Alien comet, Project Blue Beam or a perfect excuse to map the whole sky?”
October 2025
December 2025
October 2025
Shutdown
- Reuters, 2025. "White House tells agencies to prepare mass firing plans ahead of possible shutdown."
- Reuters, 2025. "Government shutdown nears with no deal; Trump threatens workforce layoffs."
- Reuters, 2025. "House Republicans eye $88 million in security funding post–Kirk killing in stopgap bill."
- Spectrum News 1, 2025. "House lawmakers given $10,000/month for personal security (pilot extended)."
SCOTUS + FTC Power Shifts
- U.S Supreme Court, 2025. Trump vs. Slaughter
- SCOTUSblog, 2025. "Supreme Court allows Trump to fire FTC commissioner (case coverage)."
- FTC, 2025. "Chegg to pay $7.5M to settle allegations over unlawful cancellation practices."
Amazon Prime
- FTC, 2025. "Amazon Refunds (official refunds hub + timeline)."
- FTC Consumer Advice, 2025. "Who’s eligible for a refund from Amazon?"
- Reuters, 2025. "Amazon to pay $2.5B to settle Prime deception allegations."
- WIRED, 2025. "Amazon will pay $2.5B to settle FTC suit alleging dark patterns."
- AARP, 2025. "What the Amazon Prime settlement means for customers."
Watch the full episode, “September Overshadowed: What happened last month while you were fearing the government shutdown”