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Excited to announce the launch of Labyrinth Insights, a strategic research platform focused on policy and public accountability.
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United CEO Scott Kirby spent much of 2025-2026 courting Trump’s & the GOP approval.
Ahead of likely Dem. midterm gains, Kirby now signals support for a wealth tax.
This rhetorical shift seems to represent a company trying to avoid accountability. 🧵
fortune.com/2026/10/20/unite…
It’s also worth noting that despite United being based in Illinois, Kirby chooses to live in Texas; Unlike Illinois, Texas does not have a state income tax.
Kirby’s supposed concern for ordinary Americans is hard to square with United’s conduct.
This is a company that has been jacking up bag fees and been willing to cause deliberate chaos at O’Hare at passengers’ expense to gain extra gate access.
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Club for Growth wants the FCC to let AI-generated robocalls spam phones ahead of the midterms.
As we noted in August: constant robocalls are less an issue of “government can’t keep up with technology” and more “regulators side with carriers who want to avoid liability.”
.@SenSchumer is right to be worried. As early as this week, the FCC could unleash a flood of unwanted robocalls as voters are already inundated with this junk.
The last thing people want just weeks before an election is their phones overrun with AI slop.
Telecom providers have fought hard to make sure they're not held liable for robocall traffic.
Corporate-friendly regulators have made sure the rules work in their favor.
The result: Americans spammed day-in, day-out with fraudulent calls and messages.
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NEW: Robocalls are a scourge in the U.S., costing Americans billions and leaving many to avoid even legitimate calls in fear of falling victim
Carriers have long fought robocall regulations. Now state AGs are urging the FCC to hold them accountable labyrinthinsights.com/fcc-ov…
NEW: The Trump-era FTC's reported plan to probe sports betting - while conveniently leaving out Kalshi and Polymarket - makes a mockery of the process.
It also exposes the hollowness of FTC chair Ferguson's populist posturing.
labyrinthinsights.com/insigh…
While Ferguson's FTC feigns selective interest in probing betting markets, the Trump admin. is working to crush any state that tries to hold Kalshi/Polymarket accountable.
From September:
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Prediction markets’ political influence has shielded them from accountability.
But their lobbying tactics and alliance with Trump could become a liability amid growing public recognition of gambling harms.
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ICYMI - Public response to CFTC docket, lawmaker efforts show efforts to regulate prediction markets are gaining steam amid insider trading concerns.
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Ugh
NEW: Hegseth’s conduct has put the DOD under renewed and deserved scrutiny. The next administration must curb private interests’ influence at the Pentagon.
This means closing SGE/HQE disclosure loopholes and narrowing OTA procurement exemptions.
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Pentagon reforms to curb industry influence must address contractor waste.
In 2011, a commission found $31 - 60 billion was lost to waste & fraud in wartime contracting. But a year later, agencies had acted on (or planned to act on) fewer than half of its recommendations.
The OCC, Trump’s bank regulator, is giving politically connected crypto firms conditional charter approvals while weakening oversight of banks.
Instead of guarding against the next financial crisis, it is giving Trump-linked crypto interests a federal seal of approval. (1/3)
Trump's crypto company is on its way to becoming a bank. Who regulates it?
A Trump appointee that Trump can fire at will.
This is corruption.
motherjones.com/politics/202…
The conflict of interest issues are obvious:
- The OCC gave preliminary conditional approval to World Liberty’s proposed trust bank.
- An entity affiliated with Trump and his family members own 38% of the company.
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NEW: The OCC, tasked with overseeing bank misconduct, has paused fair-lending exams and limited its employees powers.
But it's still found time to pursue Trump’s “debanking” crusade while giving crypto companies conditional trust charter approvals. labyrinthinsights.com/insigh…
It's worth noting that, while the crypto lobby's alliance with Trump has helped them evade regulatory scrutiny, it's finally proving a political liability:
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NEW: Once seen as likely to pass, the crypto lobby-backed CLARITY Act now looks unlikely to pass the Senate. Trump’s personal crypto profiteering has turned the industry’s alliance with his administration into a liability. 🧵
labyrinthinsights.com/clarit…
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NEW: Marketed as a user-friendly shopping assistant, Meta's Muse push consumers to pay more - and make disfavored companies invisible.
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NEW: Marketed as a user-friendly shopping assistant, Meta's Muse push consumers to pay more - and make disfavored companies invisible.
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As we noted in August:
Trump put a former airline lobbyist in charge of the DOT. As Secretary, Sean Duffy has:
- Killed a plan to make airlines pay for delays
- Stopped enforcing refunds for renumbered flights
- Pushed to weaken airfare transparency
Airlines are no longer required lodging, meals, or other assistance when delays or cancellations.
Starting October 19, under 14 CFR 234.4, rule is to reduce the number of disruptions for which airlines provide amenities or compensation.
federalregister.gov/document…
