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Elon Musk dumped Shivon Zilis and her drone company might be why (LIVE)
Thursday, October 8, 2026 • Duration 02:16:23
There's trouble in paradise at the brain chip farm. According to recent reports, Elon Musk dumped Shivon Zilis, the mother of four of his kids and who is the Director at Neuralink. She announced it herself after an automated account caught Elon unfollowing her, leading her to post a few screenshots of messages between the two.
But what she chose to share has me asking a few questions... is this whole breakup staged? What is Neuralink trying to launch now?
We have a lot of catching up to do. Join me at 5pm Pst / 7pm Central
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The national ID nobody voted for
Friday, September 11, 2026 • Duration 27:28
This video is about how a government sign-in page can become a national identity system.
Twenty-five years after the United States rejected a centralized national ID, the federal government is moving hundreds of public services onto Login.gov. Behind the familiar login screen is a growing identity infrastructure capable of connecting government records, verifying people who are not present, labeling accounts for suspected fraud, tracking browsers, and deciding who gets through the door.
I followed Greg Hogan from the system Elon Musk used to reach two million federal employees, through his testimony over DOGE’s access to federal personnel records, and into his new role expanding Login.gov toward what officials have called a “globally recognized identity platform.”
I also went through Login.gov’s code, federal directives, procurement records, court findings, and an unexplained increase from 100 million to 180 million accounts. What emerges is not one dramatic announcement, but a national identity system being assembled one agency, contractor, software switch, and fraud-prevention measure at a time.
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[https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/the-national-id-nobody-voted-for]
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The Charlie Kirk Data Machine
Wednesday, August 26, 2026 • Duration 21:36
This video is about how a public crisis can become a data asset.
A politically charged shooting can generate thousands of videos, photos, identities, locations, witness accounts, and movement records. Those materials can feed the systems that turn people into searchable patterns: faces, trajectories, associations, vehicles, accounts, organizations, and networks.
I followed the timeline around the Charlie Kirk case, from White House technology infrastructure and federal voter-data demands to FBI digital-media intake and the network-focused policies that followed.
Read the companion investigation: [https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/the-charlie-kirk-data-machine?]
Opening footage credit:
How Surveillance Tech is Used to Oppress Palestinians Through Apartheid? By Amnesty International.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTPvFIV_KzA&t=649s]
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The medical center under Trump’s ballroom
Saturday, August 22, 2026 • Duration 30:22
Twenty-four hours before the White House announced Trump’s ballroom, the administration gathered more than sixty healthcare and technology companies to begin building a new national health-data system. A year later, Trump says the ballroom sits over an integrated military complex containing a hospital and medical facilities.
The Supreme Court has allowed construction to continue while it considers the case. I went through the court filings, architectural drawings, CMS code, and Trump’s own statements to understand what they are building, how they are paying for it, and what Congress can still do.
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We need to talk about Tucker
Friday, August 7, 2026 • Duration 39:28
Seven people had dinner in a cabin in Maine and announced a movement for the forgotten American. The cabin belongs to the man at the head of the table — so does the network the manifesto aired on, the survival store advertised during it, and the gold company with his name on the paperwork. His own lawyers won a case by arguing no reasonable viewer takes him at his word. I took his lawyers at their word and spent a week checking everyone else at the table too.Some of them read real. That's what makes it worth twenty minutes.
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Project Spotlight: CNN is missing from its own merger
Sunday, August 2, 2026 • Duration 28:02
Three sovereign wealth funds are buying thirty-eight and a half percent of the new Warner Brothers Paramount, one of them chaired by the man American intelligence concluded ordered the murder of a Washington Post columnist. But don't worry, they promised not to touch the newsrooms.
The promise covers the broadcast stations and CBS News. I searched the entire FCC petition for the words Cable News Network and got zero results, because CNN is cable, cable has no license, and a license is the only thing Washington can take away.Every piece of work you would have to finish before selling a news network is finished. Everyone responsible says nothing has been decided.
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Trump Addresses the Nation: Fact-Checks + Breakdown - Ep. 6
Saturday, July 18, 2026 • Duration 01:09:00
Trump's not the only one full of surprises tonight. Join me as I will be going live tonight at 9 pm ET to watch President Trump's primetime address on elections and voting machines in real time; fact-checking as it happens and connecting it to the reporting I've been doing on National Design Studio. Join me right before 9.
Helpful reading before: https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-second-votegov-and-its
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the true cost of Trump Accounts
Wednesday, July 15, 2026 • Duration 33:11
The Treasury Department has handed the account of every newborn in America to Robinhood, a stock-trading app carrying the largest fine in the history of its own regulator. But hey, it's free to use!
The account opens the day your child is born, seeded with a thousand dollars of federal money, and to open it a parent hands over a biometric faceprint that Robinhood keeps forever, processed by an outside vendor named Persona whose entire government dashboard was found sitting on a public server this February, running 269 checks and filing secret reports to the Treasury's financial-crimes unit.
The savings account seems to be the wrapper for a permanent data file on your child. And the government is already working with hospitals to open one automatically for every baby, before a single form is signed.
So, I went looking for what "free" actually costs: thedreydossier.substack.com/p/the-true-cost-of-trump-accounts
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LIVE: DOGE's redesign got caught spying, now it sells you "privacy" - Ep. 4
Wednesday, July 8, 2026 • Duration 01:14:00
The Guardian just confirmed my reporting: a White House office has been quietly tracking Americans on federal sites for passports, voter registration, and prescription drugs. One day later, that same office shipped a "privacy" tool the internet is calling historic. Tonight I break down the timing that doesn't add up, the contradiction in their own words, and who actually built it. LIVE at 7PM Central (8 ET / 5 PT)
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My original investigation: https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-second-votegov-and-its
The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/28/government-website-visitor-tracking-surveillance-fears
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Trump is lying about the Reflecting Pool
Saturday, July 4, 2026 • Duration 21:15
"They took some form of knife or blade, and put a 250 foot long gash into the beautiful facade of what took so much work, competence, and money to build and complete." Facade is definitely one word for it.
The government paid somewhere between 6.8 and 14.6 million dollars to repaint the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall. Same contract, same job, two different federal databases, eight million dollars apart. That was the first thing that did not add up.
Then it got worse... so I stopped following the money and started following the water.
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