Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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Meritocracy is luck pretending to be virtue
Meritocracy has one decent instinct buried inside it: effort should matter.
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The software supply chain runs on unaudited YAML
The most dangerous code in a modern software project may not look like code at all. It may be a few lines of YAML in .github/workflows, wired to run tests, publish packages, sign releases, touch…
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The Education Department is being hollowed out around disabled children
The Trump administration is trying to make a civil rights office disappear without admitting what disappears with it. On June 16, the Education Department announced four new "partnerships" that send…
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Congress handed ICE a blank check for three years
I keep coming back to one ugly fact: on June 10, Congress did not just fund immigration enforcement. It handed ICE and CBP a three year runway of nearly $70 billion and then pretended that was…
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The surveillance law can expire and the spies keep working
The House did something rare on Thursday: it failed to rubber stamp a warrantless surveillance extension. The official roll call says H.R. 9238 failed 198 to 218 on June 11, 2026, even though the…
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New York should make data centers pay their way
New York just moved toward the country’s first statewide moratorium on new large data centers, and the anger behind it is not fake. On June 5, the state legislature passed the Responsible Data Center…
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Trump gutted CISA and the keys ended up on GitHub
The agency that tells the rest of the country how to handle secrets left its own secrets on public GitHub.
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Family values do not include charging disabled people for living at home
A government that claims to believe in family values should not punish disabled adults for living with family. But that is exactly what the Trump administration is preparing to do.
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If freedom disappears when you get sick, it was never freedom
A freedom that evaporates the moment you get sick was never much of a freedom.
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The DOJ's anti-Christian bias report is a demand for Christian privilege
The Trump Justice Department released its "anti-Christian bias" report on Thursday, and the title alone tells you the scam. This is not a civil liberties audit. It is a federal argument that when the…