A viral claim says Republicans are taking $880 billion from food and healthcare to give to the richest 0.1%. The truth is more complex—and more devastating. This essay unpacks the real numbers, centers the people most affected, and asks what it means to live in a system that

From the Shoulder of the Highway, Where the Bus Is on Fire Let’s say you’re a cloud engineer. Or a content strategist. Or a professional of any stripe, squinting into the AI horizon, wondering if your job’s going to survive the year. You scroll LinkedIn. You scan

Thousands filled the streets on April 5, 2025—chanting, marching, organizing. Online, the energy burned bright. But the Democratic National Committee? Silent. This isn’t a callout. It’s a question: What does absence mean in a moment like this, and who decides what counts as movement?

We like to think of inclusion as an open door—broad, welcoming, boundaryless. But as Erik Summerfield recently argued, every act of inclusion is also an act of exclusion. To draw a circle is to define its edge. That’s not a flaw. That’s a feature of design. Erik’

April 6, 2025 – Portland, Oregon I checked the front pages this morning—Fox News, Washington Post, New York Times. Nothing. No mention of the Hands Off protests that rolled through dozens of cities yesterday, including a 10,000-strong crowd that took over Portland’s bridges and waterfront. Nothing above

Several economists and economic analysts have adopted a cautious, observational stance regarding the effects of the recent tariffs implemented by the Trump administration as of April 5, 2025. While few use the phrase “wait and see” explicitly, many institutional responses imply this approach: * Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell In early

In the middle of the noise—tariffs spiking, discourse splintering, social feeds spinning into spectacle—we watched the Brian Eno documentary. And what struck me wasn’t the music. It was the silence. It was the space Eno left between notes. The slow, deliberate drift of sound that required attention