In this episode of Filtered with TJ Walker, we connect five big stories under one theme: how powerful people and institutions dodge blame while everyone else absorbs the cost.

1. NYC’s progressive surveillance state – Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani inherits and embraces one of the most expansive camera networks on earth, built in partnership with tech billionaires and defense contractors. Crime is down; civil-liberties questions remain.
2. Brexit’s economic faceplant – Seven years on, the numbers are in: weaker growth, stagnant trade and lost investment. Yet almost nobody in the political class says, “We were wrong.”
3. E-bikes and the quiet crash epidemic – Trauma doctors are seeing injuries that look like motorcycle wrecks, not bike falls. Fatality risks, head injuries and kids riding 30+ mph “e-motos” with no helmets — we dig ...