A judge blocks a defense blacklisting as retaliation against a critic

Claim

A judge blocked the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic, ruling that national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics, while Texas paused funding for license-plate cameras ahead of a $30 million surveillance exposé.

Reporting date: 2026-08-29 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to August 29, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)