The latest batch of state and federal privacy proposals lands with a familiar thud. National outlets chase the big-tech narrative—how Meta adjusts, how Google lobbies, how Apple markets itself as the privacy champion. Those stories sell ads. What they skip…
Author: Alfred Dunn
The Quiet Shift in How Your Data Is Handled Something odd has been happening in statehouses across the country. While most of us were busy tracking the news cycle’s latest meltdown, lawmakers from Sacramento to Hartford got down to the…
The Accidental Exposure On March 11, 2025, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg received a text message adding him to a Signal group chat. He shouldn’t have been there. Neither should the journalists who eventually read what was inside. The group…
A Rule That Changed Everything, Overnight In April 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services did something nursing homes have been bracing for and dreading in equal measure. They finalized a mandate requiring every facility receiving Medicare and Medicaid…
The Numbers That Don’t Add Up Around 75,000 federal workers accepted voluntary buyout offers by February 2025. That figure comes from the Office of Personnel Management, the same agency that tracks every promotion, every hire, every separation across the federal…
The short version: this matters more than the headline suggests. SillyTavern 1.12 vs Agnai vs Janitor AI: Which AI Roleplay Platform Actually Wins in 2026? The History Most Reviews Skip Understanding where we are today requires knowing where we came…
The Setup: What Actually Happened in January 2026 Senate Democrats reintroduced the Equal Rights Amendment ratification resolution in early January 2026. Not a new amendment. Not a fresh proposal. A resolution asking Congress to acknowledge that Virginia’s 2020 ratification vote…
The Quiet Rollout I got the call from a dispatcher I’ve known for eight years. She wanted to talk off the record about something that had been bothering her since September. “We didn’t have a meeting about this,” she said….
The Numbers That Should Have Broken the Internet By mid-2025, the CDC had confirmed 70 human cases of H5N1 in the United States. Let that sink in. A single case in 2022. Seventy in one year. I started making calls…
The Exemption Explosion Last February, during what should have been a routine Louisville Metro Police Department oversight hearing, city council members got their answer to a question that had been nagging at them for months. When LMPD denied 94 percent…
The Numbers That Should Alarm You Four hundred eighty-three cases across 23 states in just three months. That is the CDC’s count for the first quarter of 2026, and it represents the highest quarterly total since measles was officially declared…
The Numbers Nobody’s Connecting The Department of Government Efficiency made headlines when it announced massive federal workforce reductions. By February 2025, over 75,000 federal employees had been terminated or placed on leave. That’s the story everyone covered. What they mostly…