President Trump and his sons are suing the IRS and the Treasury for $10 billion over the illegal leaking of his tax records
On the surface, this looks like long-overdue accountability; a politically motivated IRS contractor leaked confidential tax data to the New York Times, ProPublica and other friendly outlets, which then blasted it to millions of people as part of a coordinated character assassination campaign.
But Trump doesn’t sue lightly, and he certainly doesn’t sue late without reason.
This lawsuit doesn’t just target a “rogue employee”. It targets the institutions themselves, and that’s where things get interesting. Once discovery begins, this stops being about one leak and starts becoming about internal controls, access permissions, oversight failures, political pressure, communications between agencies, and the relationship between the IRS, Treasury and legacy media.
This lawsuit strikes at the credibility of the enforcement arm of the state, the very machinery used for decades to intimidate, punish and financially destroy those who step out of line. If the IRS cannot be trusted to safeguard private data, cannot claim neutrality, and cannot deny political bias, then its authority collapses in the public mind.
This is not Trump seeking revenge, it’s Trump exposing and delegitimising the IRS/Treasury.
One more pillar of the old enforcement state has just been put on trial.
SpaceX and xAI have merged
This is a structural statement about where power is migrating as the old systems visibly strain under their own weight.
When one entity controls launch capability, orbital infrastructure, satellite communications, and now a sovereign AI stack, you’re no longer talking about a company in the conventional sense, you’re talking about infrastructure that increasingly operates above borders, outside traditional choke points, and beyond the reach of slow bureaucracies that were designed for a different era.
Power has never really lived in parliaments or palaces, it lives in whoever controls the rails of civilisation, and those rails are no longer roads, ports, or even undersea cables, they’re launchpads, orbits, data flows, and computing power.
Empires collapse when they become irrelevant, and this merger tells you who understands that and who is already too late.
