WHO PROFITS.
WHO PAYS.
This site tracks the systems making America harder to live in: billionaire capture, political grift, low wages, unaffordable housing, broken healthcare, media manipulation, and the money flowing through all of it.
WHAT IS LIVE NOW
U.S. public debt outstanding
Treasury Debt to the Penny, recorded March 26, 2026.
Federal minimum wage
Effective July 24, 2009 and still current as of March 30, 2026.
Median weekly earnings
Full-time wage and salary workers, 2025 annual average.
U.S. homeownership rate
Fourth quarter 2025 national rate from the Housing Vacancy Survey.
Median new-home sale price
New single-family houses sold in January 2026.
FOLLOW THE RECORD
Follow the record, not the outrage cycle.
These pages stay open as living files. Each track starts with a public-record spine, then widens into stories, timelines, and source stacks that readers can inspect for themselves.
USDA, GAO, and budget records show how low wages, low hours, food assistance, and giant retailers can end up sitting in the same loop.
Housing and wealth records show how ownership is slipping away from the current generation while cash and assets keep concentrating at the top.
Spending, ownership, billing, and industry payment records show how a system can get richer while patients get squeezed harder.
FDA monitoring, warning letters, raw-food contamination findings, and label limits show why the pet food business deserves much harder scrutiny.
Food Chemicals
The food-chemicals story runs through additives, GRAS exceptions, pesticide residues, packaging chemicals, and the slow post-market cleanup that happens after products are already everywhere.
Ultra-Processed Food
The strongest public evidence here starts with the NIH feeding trial and widens into obesity, chronic disease risk, and a food environment built around convenience and overconsumption.
Insect Collapse
Insect decline is tied to habitat removal, lawn culture, herbicides, pesticide drift, and simplified farm landscapes that strip food webs from the bottom up.
Restaurant Takeover
This page follows the giant distributors and giant chains squeezing independent restaurants through scale, leverage, and expansion.
Mind Control
This reporting follows how social platforms, influencers, concentrated media, and AI systems shape what people believe before they ever open a primary source.
Media Ownership
Ownership, mergers, and platform control show how a small number of firms shape what millions of Americans see and hear.
STORIES FROM THE EVIDENCE
David Hoch Was Not A Neutral Source In The Shirley Video
Star Tribune identified Shirley's mystery 'David' as David Hoch. Hearing attachments and later reporting show he was not just a random local guide but an ideological and political source with his own record.
Nick Shirley's 'Independent' Brand Runs Through A Bigger Network
Shirley's current public stack includes donation asks, a tipline, an audience funnel, a support hub with Bitcoin and merchandise language, documented staged content, House GOP information feeders, and direct White House and congressional platforming.
Nick Shirley's Pattern Started Before Minnesota
A documented White House laborer stunt, an official White House roundtable appearance, and later State of the Union guest treatment show that Minnesota was not a one-off. It fit an existing pattern.
WHAT WE WILL NOT FAKE
THE RECORD BASE
Federal debt and cash datasets published by the Treasury Department.
Current federal minimum wage guidance and history.
Weekly earnings tables and release materials for wage benchmarks.
Quarterly homeownership and vacancy rates.
National data on new-home sales, inventories, and prices.