The Guardian

The reporting we cite

42 stories, each opening at its source.

• The Guardian (July 26, 2024) — quoting the church-state language on the Opus Dei-affiliated site directly
• The Guardian — Mississippi attorney general rules fatal police shooting of one-year-old as 'justified'
• The Guardian: Florida governor suspends former close ally over child sexual abuse charges (DeSantis called Caruso ‘a legend’)
• Advance is Reddit’s largest shareholder — Guardian, Reddit IPO
• Guardian · June 28, 2026 investigation (AutoMonitor 539-line script analysis)
• The Guardian: MSNBC's Chris Matthews compares Sanders win to Nazi invasion
• The Guardian on the state of production a month after deadline
• The Guardian — 'The Montreal brainwashing experiments' (Allan Memorial / Cameron)
• The Guardian — The making of Elon Musk (March 10, 2025)
• The Guardian — Musk, Thiel, apartheid South Africa (January 26, 2025)
• Guardian coverage of the historical record: How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power (Sept. 25, 2004)
• The Guardian — adviser to far-right Latin American leaders arrested (Aug 19, 2026)
• The Guardian — Altman halted the order requiring Trump to give the BBC financial data (Aug 2026)
• The Guardian — 'collective punishment': Israeli forces take over Hebron homes, thousands displaced
• The Guardian — veterans call the casualty reclassification a 'huge disrespect'; concerns over survivor benefits and care (July 27, 2026)
• The Guardian (17 Jan 2005) — Ofsted head accused of Islamophobia over attack on Muslim schools
• The Guardian — 33 Democrats voted in favor
• The Guardian on the filing
• The Guardian — Who is Louis Mosley, the man tasked with defending Palantir against its critics? (May 9, 2026)
• 'FBI director admits agency is buying location data on Americans' (The Guardian, Mar. 18, 2026) — contemporaneous account of Patel's sworn admission at the Worldwide Threats hearing
• The Guardian — Meta strikes deal with Zuckerberg to help him foot the California billionaire tax
• The Guardian (producer) — secret systems revealed in the new film NAZA
• Lachlan’s control of News Corp and Fox Corp — Guardian, Sept 2025
• Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain, Revealed: US Spy Operation That Manipulates Social Media, The Guardian, March 17 2011
• Reddit $50M round with Andreessen and Thiel — Guardian, Oct 2014
• The Guardian — 'Tidal wave of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn' (ChemSec; immersion cooling; chip fabrication)
• The Guardian — 'JD Vance writes foreword for Project 2025 leader's upcoming book' (July 24, 2024)
• The Guardian — Texas prisons ban The Color Purple and Monty Python, but Mein Kampf is fine
• Bari Weiss’s rise and CBS repositioning — Guardian analysis
• The Guardian — the pre-state minority status of Zionism among Jews (<1% in 1914; ~90% support Israel's existence today) and the book's figures (Arendt, Shlaim)
• The Guardian — New Mexico authorities search Zorro Ranch; DOJ refused to cooperate
• The Guardian — Kenneth Stern, lead drafter, on the definition being weaponized against campus speech
• The Guardian — review of 2025 book on Trump and the mob (contains Trump's longstanding denials)
• The Guardian — Israeli pathologist admits organs harvested without consent (2009)
• The Guardian (Stephen Buranyi) — 'Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?' (Elsevier/RELX margins)
• The Guardian — schools in England must recognise antisemitism as a distinct category of harm (the review and its IHRA recommendation)
• The Guardian — ex-IDF commander says Palestinian casualties exceed 200,000 (Sep 12, 2025)
• The Guardian — US Senate blocks resolution demanding accountability over Israeli violence in the West Bank (Sept 2026)
• Guardian coverage, May 15, 2016
• The Guardian — Senatobia fired its police chief who reportedly used racial slurs (September 2026)
• The Guardian — Mississippi town jailed a 10-year-old Black boy for public urination (2023)
• The Guardian — UK regulator FCA to investigate how it handled Epstein whistleblower

Where their work appears on this site

• A Distinction Without Separation →
• The Faculty Factor, audited →
• Boycott Israel, Lose Your Funding →
• 'MAGA's man in Latin America,' charged with a murder-for-hire →
• How the CIA Engaged in Unethical Human Experimentation →
• Facts on the Ground →
• Genocide? Ethnic cleansing? The case for and against each label →
• In Our Names →
• A sitting federal judge's second job: defending Israel →
• Kohen Wiley →
• The Freakout →
• No Conflict of Interest →
• Projection →
• Mein Kampf Is Fine. The Color Purple Isn't. →
• The Billionaire Flight Myth →
• The Casualty Count: The Pentagon's Disappearing Iran-War Dead →
• The Closed Door →
• The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
• The Data Center Next Door →
• The Ellison Press →
• The enclosure of knowledge: paywalling the research base →
• The Epstein Deaths Ledger →
• The National Design Studio →
• The Palestine Laboratory: field-tested on Gaza, sold to the world →
• The Report They Voted Down →
• The Shopping Cart →
• The System and Its Cogs →
• Trump and the Mob →
• The Austerity Myth →
• CIA Crimes →
• The Epstein Class →
• The Far-Right International →
• Israeli Influence on the United States →
• Looting the American Public →
• Media Ownership →
• Policing the Poor →
• The Pretoria Playbook →
• Sowing Division →
• Surveillance State(s) and the Criminalization of Dissent →
• The Corporate State →
• The Dulles Blueprint →
• The Tech Right →
• The Untouchables →
• Too Big to Jail →
• Who Controls What You Get to Know →

How we graded the claims built on their work

55 FACT · 3 PROBABLY TRUE · 4 SOME SMOKE. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.

1. 'A distinction without separation, a union without confusion' — church and state, in their own words

   FACT
   A Distinction Without Separation →

2. A one-year-old was killed by police over a diapers shoplifting call — and no one was ever charged.

   FACT
   Kohen Wiley →

3. A state legislator who voted to make child rape a death-penalty crime — and whom the governor called ‘a legend’ — is charged with molesting a child.

   FACT
   Projection →

4. Advance is Reddit’s largest shareholder (~30%)

   FACT
   Media Ownership →

5. AutoMonitor: the 539-line custom code on ndstudio.gov itself

   FACT
   The National Design Studio →

6. Chris Matthews compared Sanders’s Nevada win to the Nazi conquest of France — then apologized on air.

   FACT
   The Freakout →

7. DOJ missed the December 19, 2025 deadline

   FACT
   The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →

8. Dr. Ewen Cameron erased patients' minds at the Allan Memorial Institute — CIA-funded, MKUltra Subproject 68.

   FACT
   How the CIA Engaged in Unethical Human Experimentation →

9. Elon Musk — Pretoria, 1971, and the schools he attended

   FACT
   The Pretoria Playbook →

10. First-party proxy routing designed to evade adblockers

    FACT
    The National Design Studio →

11. Fritz Thyssen and the Union Banking Corporation seizure

    FACT
    The Dulles Blueprint →

12. He is a documented strategist behind the hemisphere's far-right wave.

    FACT
    'MAGA's man in Latin America,' charged with a murder-for-hire →

13. He is a life-tenured federal judge appointed by Trump.

    FACT
    A sitting federal judge's second job: defending Israel →

14. Hebron, October 2026: a whole city sealed and nearly 4,000 people displaced — after an attack that killed two soldiers.

    FACT
    Facts on the Ground →

15. How a death is classified isn't cosmetic — it affects the family's benefits.

    FACT
    The Casualty Count: The Pentagon's Disappearing Iran-War Dead →

16. In 2005, as chief inspector, Bell singled out Muslim schools — and was accused of Islamophobia by his own inspectors' account.

    FACT
    No Conflict of Interest →

17. It was co-written by a Democrat and a Republican — and 33 Democrats crossed over to pass it.

    FACT
    Boycott Israel, Lose Your Funding →

18. Katie Phang's lawsuit against Todd Blanche (Phang v. Blanche)

    FACT
    The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →

19. Kevin Roberts — Heritage president, Project 2025 architect, and his Opus Dei-linked institutions

    FACT
    A Distinction Without Separation →

20. Leonard Leo — 'barbarians, secularists and bigots' under 'the influence of the devil'

    FACT
    A Distinction Without Separation →

21. Louis Mosley — Palantir’s UK and Europe chief and the family name he inherited

    FACT
    Surveillance States →

22. March 18, 2026: the FBI director confirmed it under oath — and would not stop.

    FACT
    The Shopping Cart →

23. Meta's own SEC filing arranged for Zuckerberg to pay a potential Prop 40 bill — and to stay in California.

    FACT
    The Billionaire Flight Myth →

24. NAZA is a real, award-winning documentary by Israeli filmmakers, built on 24 insider testimonies.

    FACT
    The System and Its Cogs →

25. News Corp: the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, HarperCollins

    FACT
    Media Ownership →

26. No Privacy Impact Assessment. No System of Records Notice.

    FACT
    The National Design Studio →

27. Operation Earnest Voice — the CENTCOM sock-puppet contract (2010 to 2016)

    FACT
    Sowing Division →

28. Peter Thiel — Frankfurt, Swakopmund, and the German-language school

    PROBABLY TRUE
    The Pretoria Playbook →

29. Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen in the 2014 Reddit round

    FACT
    Media Ownership →

30. PFAS: the AI boom is driving a surge in 'forever chemicals' — in the cooling fluid and in the chips themselves.

    FACT
    The Data Center Next Door →

31. PostHog session recording on trumprx.gov and trumpaccounts.gov

    FACT
    The National Design Studio →

32. Project 2025 — 100+ groups, and a foreword by the Vice President

    FACT
    A Distinction Without Separation →

33. Texas prisons ban ~10,000 books — and Mein Kampf and David Duke are allowed.

    FACT
    Mein Kampf Is Fine. The Color Purple Isn't. →

34. The apartheid schooling system is documented; what each of the three men was personally taught in the classroom is not

    SOME SMOKE
    The Pretoria Playbook →

35. The catch-all is 'racial content' — the clause used to ban Freakonomics.

    FACT
    Mein Kampf Is Fine. The Color Purple Isn't. →

36. The CBS News turn: buying The Free Press, installing Bari Weiss, canceling the Late Show

    FACT
    Media Ownership →

37. The CBS News turn: buying The Free Press, installing Bari Weiss, canceling the Late Show

    FACT
    The Ellison Press →

38. The core fact that dismantles the conflation: Jewish anti-Zionism is a deep, once-mainstream tradition.

    FACT
    In Our Names →

39. The Epstein/Zorro Ranch parallel is structural — the same four walls, a different gate.

    PROBABLY TRUE
    The Closed Door →

40. The four public NDS sites and one internal site

    FACT
    The National Design Studio →

41. The honest balance: this is a minority tradition, and even its own figures evolve and disagree.

    FACT
    In Our Names →

42. The IHRA definition the report defends: 11 examples, 7 of them about Israel.

    FACT
    The Faculty Factor, audited →

43. The justification — 'the car drove at officers' — is contradicted by an independent autopsy.

    FACT
    Kohen Wiley →

44. The mitigation, stated fairly: his whole industry was mob-controlled, and he was never charged.

    FACT
    Trump and the Mob →

45. The National Design Studio is chartered under 5 U.S.C. 3161, the same authority as DOGE

    FACT
    The National Design Studio →

46. The National Design Studio's six components are staffed by former DOGE personnel

    FACT
    The National Design Studio →

47. The officer fired into a car that was leaving the lot — with the baby visibly held up inside.

    FACT
    Kohen Wiley →

48. The organ admission of 2009 — and a contested modern claim.

    SOME SMOKE
    The Palestine Laboratory: field-tested on Gaza, sold to the world →

49. The public pays three times — and the publisher keeps tech-beating margins.

    FACT
    The enclosure of knowledge: paywalling the research base →

50. The review is real, it answers a real problem, and it pushes a contested definition into every school.

    FACT
    No Conflict of Interest →

51. The scale and the conditions: mass death, siege, starvation, and the destruction of the means of life.

    FACT
    Genocide? Ethnic cleansing? The case for and against each label →

52. The Senate rejected a resolution requiring a report on nine Americans killed in the West Bank.

    FACT
    The Report They Voted Down →

53. The state attorney general ruled it 'justified' — four months later, with the footage still not released.

    FACT
    Kohen Wiley →

54. The tip and the arrest: Rickard's 1962 phone call to South African police

    PROBABLY TRUE
    CIA Crimes →

55. The vote.gov copy on White House infrastructure since September 17, 2025

    FACT
    The National Design Studio →

56. This department has a documented recent record — including a chief fired for racial slurs.

    FACT
    Kohen Wiley →

57. Three documented facts about the National Design Studio

    FACT
    The National Design Studio →

58. Tier A · Simon Andriesz (2026) — the whistleblower, dead as his disclosure went live.

    SOME SMOKE
    The Epstein Deaths Ledger →

59. Traditionalist Catholics and evangelicals, converging on one project

    SOME SMOKE
    A Distinction Without Separation →

60. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles oversees the National Design Studio

    FACT
    The National Design Studio →

61. Who decides: largely mailroom staff, under a written TDCJ policy.

    FACT
    Mein Kampf Is Fine. The Color Purple Isn't. →

62. Who is making this argument: a Pulitzer-winning biographer, in a serious book, honestly framed.

    FACT
    In Our Names →