Democracy
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Why a billionaire who once wrote that ‘freedom and democracy’ are no longer compatible now sits at the center of the federal government’s data infrastructure – and why that matters for the rest of us. In 2009, Peter Thiel published an essay called The Education of a Libertarian. Buried in it was a sentence that…
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On March 25, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14248, ‘Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.’ It’s eleven sections of dense legalese wrapped in the language of fraud prevention and election security. If you read it quickly, it might even sound reasonable. That’s the point. Because what this order actually constructs is an…
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An ICU nurse, legal gun owner, and peaceful protester, Alex Pretti, did everything this country says it values. The state killed him for it. His execution by federal agents in Minneapolis is not an aberration; it is the logical outcome of an administration that has turned a deportation force into a domestic army and is…
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