politics
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The Frameworks Tech Forgot, Article 1, exploring AI through the lenses of gender, politics, and justice – because the most important questions about technology were never technical. In 2015, Joy Buolamwini was a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab, building a project she called the Aspire Mirror – a device that would project an…
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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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Pam Bondi didn’t show up to seek justice for Epstein’s survivors today. She showed up to protect the powerful, smear a Holocaust victim’s granddaughter, and play to an audience of one: Donald Trump.
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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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Justice in 2026 has become an ideological mirror. Five weeks ago, a convicted drug kingpin from Honduras was pardoned and hailed as a victim of ‘over-prosecution.’ Today, an indicted dictator in Venezuela was extracted by a 150-aircraft armada for the exact same crimes. The difference isn’t the law – it’s the 303 billion barrels of…
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The health of a democracy is measured not just by the act of voting, but by the assurance that elections are accessible, fair, and free from intimidation. As the 2026 midterm elections approach, a convergence of administrative actions, legal challenges, and strategic planning suggests that the very foundation of this assurance is significantly under threat.…
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In a chilling echo of past rhetoric, Donald Trump’s repeated invocation of the “Insurrection Act” is far more than just rhetoric; it’s a direct threat to American democracy. This is a clear signal of his intent to deploy the military against citizens. With no genuine insurrection unfolding anywhere in the United States, his fixation on…
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I haven’t said much about this. Mostly because I was stunned at the sheer use of force like this in an American city by the US government. In the early morning hours of September 30, 2025, in Chicago’s South Shore community residents of a five-story apartment building were violently awakened by an operation that looked…
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