Someone on Reddit just did the investigative journalism that apparently none of our major news outlets bothered to do. They traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and lobbying records across 45 US states and discovered something that’s simultaneously shocking and utterly predictable: the company behind those age verification bills is the same company that profits from collecting your data.

Let me say that again more clearly: Meta, a company whose entire business model revolves around hoovering up personal information, has been actively lobbying for laws that would require even more data collection. And they’ve dressed it up as “protecting the children.”

Scrolling through the news this morning, I came across something that made me put down my latte and stare at the screen for a good minute. ICE is planning to track over 180,000 immigrants with ankle monitors, and - surprise, surprise - the company making these devices donated at least $1.5 million to Trump. It’s the kind of story that perfectly encapsulates everything that’s gone wrong with how we do politics these days.