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This is The Daily Grift - a new daily podcast from me, Rachel Hurley. It’s news for people who are sick of the news. Every morning, I dig through the day’s biggest political stories and find the grift - the corruption, the cover-ups, the hypocrisy, the money trails, the quiet power grabs that both parties should find outrageous but somehow nobody is talking about. I connect the dots so you don’t have to. No spin, no sides - just receipts.
Today’s episode: TSA agents haven’t been paid in five weeks but found time to build a quiet surveillance pipeline feeding your flight data to ICE. A jury just handed Meta its Big Tobacco moment with internal documents showing they knowingly hooked children. The feds are buying your cell phone location data without a warrant through a loophole Congress left wide open. And Minnesota still can’t get the names of the federal agents who killed two American citizens. Every one of these stories is the same story.
Hit play.
In other news: The Army will take your bad knees, your weed conviction, and your 42-year-old spine – but not your trans identity. Meanwhile, Tennessee is building a public database of trans patients’ medical records and calling it “transparency.” Two stories this week about who gets to exist in public and who gets erased from it.
Hegseth Kicked Out the Queers to Replace Them With Potheads and Old Dudes
The Army raised its maximum enlistment age to 42 and dropped the Pentagon-level waiver for marijuana convictions. The recruiting pipeline is so broken they’ll take anyone – except the 15,000 trans troops Pete Hegseth already fired. Replacing that expertise will take 20 years and cost $18 billion.
Read the full story ->
Tennessee’s “Transparency” Bill Is a Trans Registry With Extra Steps
HB 754 requires doctors to hand over trans patients’ prescription dates, dosages, counties, and full psychiatric histories to the state – which then publishes it all online in downloadable format. The bill doesn’t need names when it has everything else. Doctors who refuse face license suspension.
Read the full story ->
The full investigation lives at rachelandthecity.com. Start with the suspects, or dig into the GriftMatrix.
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By RachelandthecityThis is The Daily Grift - a new daily podcast from me, Rachel Hurley. It’s news for people who are sick of the news. Every morning, I dig through the day’s biggest political stories and find the grift - the corruption, the cover-ups, the hypocrisy, the money trails, the quiet power grabs that both parties should find outrageous but somehow nobody is talking about. I connect the dots so you don’t have to. No spin, no sides - just receipts.
Today’s episode: TSA agents haven’t been paid in five weeks but found time to build a quiet surveillance pipeline feeding your flight data to ICE. A jury just handed Meta its Big Tobacco moment with internal documents showing they knowingly hooked children. The feds are buying your cell phone location data without a warrant through a loophole Congress left wide open. And Minnesota still can’t get the names of the federal agents who killed two American citizens. Every one of these stories is the same story.
Hit play.
In other news: The Army will take your bad knees, your weed conviction, and your 42-year-old spine – but not your trans identity. Meanwhile, Tennessee is building a public database of trans patients’ medical records and calling it “transparency.” Two stories this week about who gets to exist in public and who gets erased from it.
Hegseth Kicked Out the Queers to Replace Them With Potheads and Old Dudes
The Army raised its maximum enlistment age to 42 and dropped the Pentagon-level waiver for marijuana convictions. The recruiting pipeline is so broken they’ll take anyone – except the 15,000 trans troops Pete Hegseth already fired. Replacing that expertise will take 20 years and cost $18 billion.
Read the full story ->
Tennessee’s “Transparency” Bill Is a Trans Registry With Extra Steps
HB 754 requires doctors to hand over trans patients’ prescription dates, dosages, counties, and full psychiatric histories to the state – which then publishes it all online in downloadable format. The bill doesn’t need names when it has everything else. Doctors who refuse face license suspension.
Read the full story ->
The full investigation lives at rachelandthecity.com. Start with the suspects, or dig into the GriftMatrix.
// Go Deeper on rachelandthecity
Latest Posts
Pete Hegseth
Corruption of Power
The Breakdown
If this kind of work matters to you, the tip jar is always open:Venmo | PayPal | Ko-fi
Get full access to Rachelandthecity at rachelandthecity.substack.com/subscribe