Re: If this doesn't wake you up and make you do the RIGHT thing...

I somewhat agree, i doubt centralized Bitcoin pool can handle government pressure forever. For example, https://b10c.me/observations/08-missing-sanctioned-transactions/ state some pool likely to intentionally exclude certain transaction.

I wonder if these transactions have ever been included.

Yes, since not all pool intentionally exclude certain TX/address. For example, TXID 262025e73812fc68b6514ea366abf463147176c7867e5853f117aded58c30e0e which excluded by ViaBTC on block #808660 included on next block which mined by Foundry USA.