Here’s what I’ve been up to at Fortune recently:

Meet the Portland Fire owners, whose family’s swimwear company and short-lived NFL venture laid the groundwork for a $380 million WNBA franchise

‘It’s hard to know exactly what the objective of DOGE was’: Former IRS boss warns Elon Musk’s cuts to the tax agency will be felt in years to come

Exclusive: The man leading Trump’s RTO charge for government workers says he filmed a video in front of a blank wall to avoid work-from-home suspicion

Startups are installing tiny data centers in people’s homes to reduce strain on the beleaguered electrical grid

Wyoming officials say Meta’s 715,000-square-foot data center is responsible for contaminating its water system with a rare bacterium

Organized crime is building an AI hardware cargo theft economy: ‘The economics have become just crazy from the criminal opportunistic perspective’

The Seattle Storm used to be the ‘tail’ on the ‘dog’ of its NBA counterpart. Now the WNBA team is leading the city’s basketball revival

‘It’s shocking how poorly prepared the administration is’: DOGE gutted major energy personnel who warn the U.S. has lost key insights amid Iran war

The federal government shed 385,000 employees last year. Now the Trump administration is on a blitz to hire Gen Z workers

DOGE cancelled a $349,000 grant to replace a museum’s HVAC after ChatGPT flagged it as DEI, court documents show

Meet the quiet winners of the Supreme Court tariff ruling: hedge funds creating a $100 billion market snapping up rights to importers’ tariff refunds

Meet your new robot fry cooks: Inside the $28 billion race to disrupt White Castle and Jack in the Box

Lyft CEO David Risher is still a driver for the company: It made him realize being even one minute late could cost the customer their job

Feel Free customers say the kratom drink is making them sick. Toothless FDA rules on dietary supplements are helping it remain a bestseller

DOGE isn’t dead—it’s been absorbed into the bloodstream of the government, federal employees say

‘The frustration is overwhelming’: Soybean farmers feel betrayed as Argentina blows a hole in rural America’s $47 billion soybean bonanza

Thanks to the NIL boom and emerging leagues, WNBA athletes don’t need to go overseas to ‘stay alive,’ league star Paige Bueckers says

DOGE’s private contract crackdown has eliminated more than 120 Deloitte contracts—more than twice the amount of any other consultancy

Fired NIH workers fear bleak job prospects in the private sector because their research is too specific to be retrofitted: ‘No VC is going to fund that’

Fired NIH workers lost their ‘dream job.’ Due to a Kafkaesque appeals process and slim private-sector offerings, their futures may be in jeopardy, too

Appeals from fired federal workers have skyrocketed more than 2,100% at one watchdog since Trump and DOGE took charge

And here’s a few media clips:

Fortune Daily: Private equity in youth sports

Fortune Daily: Tiny home data centers

Reporter’s Notebook: Meta data center contaminating Wyoming waste water system

Reporter’s Notebook: DOGE cuts in the State Department impacting how the U.S. handles Iran war

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