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- We Need To Talk About Tucker
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- Project Spotlight: CNN Is Missing From Its Own Merger
Last July, on a stage owned by Paramount, in front of a camera owned by Paramount, a man employed by Paramount told several million people that his employer had just handed the President of the United States sixteen million dollars, and tha
- The True Cost of Trump Accounts
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- The Nvidia Spy Scandal Is Worse Than It Looks
Picture a data center in Malaysia, a building made for racks of servers that glow and hum around the clock.
- Theranos Isn’t About Elizabeth Holmes
On September 11, 2003, exactly two years after the attacks that redefined American biosecurity, a nineteen-year-old Stanford sophomore named Elizabeth Holmes filed her first patent application.
- Russia Is Coming for the Midterms
Seven days after the networks called the 2020 election for Joe Biden, Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow, Senator Lindsey Graham, Sean Hannity, a lawyer working with the conservative election group True the Vote, and Oracle founder Larry Ellison go
- Elon Musk Dumped Shivon Zilis the Week He Joined the Pentagon
This investigation comes from The Drey Dossier Live, where I work through stories like this one in real time every Tuesday at 5 p.m. Pacific and 7 p.m. Central here on Substack and YouTube.
- America.gov is Changing How You Vote
At three in the morning a government website showed me a countdown clock with nine hours and twelve minutes remaining.
- The National ID Nobody Voted For
Twenty-five years ago today, the United States entered the most frightened period in its modern history, and Americans who had spent the previous decade watching the internet pull more of their lives onto computers were suddenly being asked
- The Charlie Kirk Data Machine
Ten hours after Charlie Kirk was shot, a new government website appeared in a public certificate log: fbi-kirk-tipline.previews.ndstudio.gov.
- The Medical Center Under Trump’s Ballroom
On Friday afternoon, Chief Justice John Roberts gave Trump exactly what his ballroom project needed, more time to become too finished to stop.
- We Need To Talk About Tucker
Last weekend, seven people ate dinner in Maine and announced a political movement.
- Project Spotlight: CNN Is Missing From Its Own Merger
Last July, on a stage owned by Paramount, in front of a camera owned by Paramount, a man employed by Paramount told several million people that his employer had just handed the President of the United States sixteen million dollars, and tha
- The True Cost of Trump Accounts
This is part of my ongoing investigation into the National Design Studio. Please see parts one and two .
- Trump is lying about the Reflecting Pool
There is a baseline hum of Trump pageantry that most of us have learned to tune out like a screensaver, where everything is the greatest and the most beautiful and it adds up to nothing.
- Elon Musk's Secret Surgery Center
Think of something you have never said out loud.
- A Letter From Drey
I spend a great deal of my life reading other people’s mergers, contracts, ownership charts, and corporate filings, which means I should probably be numb by now to the way power rearranges itself on paper before the rest of us feel it in pu
- Trump Built A New Passport.gov Website
A continuation of my reporting on the National Design Studio and the proliferation of .gov sites it has registered to the executive branch.
- I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
- What We Caught in Beijing
COVID-19 left scars on this country we have never properly named, and it’s getting harder to pretend they’ve gone anywhere.
- Genesis Mission: The Manhattan Project for AI. Kind of.
The last time I wrote to you about the ballroom, the ballroom was the lid.
- You're Paying for Trump’s Ballroom
I was on a train from D.C.
- How Larry Ellison and Gulf Money Just Bought Your News
It is 11:15pm Saturday night and I am in the SEC’s EDGAR database, which is a sentence I never thought I would type twice in one month, and yet here we are.
- Why Iran's Blockade Is an Oracle Story
If you have been following this newsletter, you know I have spent a long time tracking Oracle through nearly every corner of American infrastructure, from the Cerner rebuild to the Stargate contracts to the Warner Brothers merger.
- It’s Time. Drey V. Oracle
The Third Amendment Case Nobody's Filed Yet
- The Shy Girl AI Scandal Is Way Worse Than You Think
The weeds are already being decided.
- The War That Funded A Merger
We are on day 27 of the war with Iran, and somewhere in that fog there is a truth about alliances that nobody in Washington will say out loud: you do not investigate your wartime partners.
- 91 Percent Human: The Shy Girl AI Scandal
When I was nineteen, I wrote a poem about flowers that never blossomed.
- Do No Harm (Terms and Conditions May Apply)
“Whatever I see or hear in the lives of my patients, whether in connection with my professional practice or not, which ought not to be spoken of outside, I will keep secret, as considering all such things to be private.”
- Lyin' Country Safari
Larry Ellison owns a private island in Hawaii, a Forbes Five Star oceanfront resort in Palm Beach that he paid $277 million for, and a wellness retreat in Rancho Mirage where 22 rooms sit on 230 acres and the cheapest night runs $2,500.
- The Cloud Is a Battlefield, and You're Enlisted
On March 1, 2026, Iranian drones hit three Amazon data centers in the UAE and Bahrain.
- The Merger That Needed A War
I need your focus for a few minutes on something that slipped through the noise today, and may not get another window soon.
- We Should All Be Freaking Out About CNN
On Monday night, Paramount submitted a new bid for Warner Bros.
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