The Consolidation Week: When Physical and Digital Automation Converge CES 2026 proved that robotics has crossed from demos to deployment while Apple, the Pentagon, and major banks surrendered to AI platforms. Workers face 2-3 year displacement across both white-collar and physical jobs. Here’s what you need to know and what you can do. BOTTOM LINE … Read more
When Accountability Walked Out the Door Bottom Line Up Front: As of October 16, 2025, 10:00 AM ET, nearly all major national news organizations representing more than 30 outlets across the political spectrum have surrendered their Pentagon press credentials and vacated the building rather than sign restrictive new reporting rules. One America News Network (OANN) … Read more
The systematic invisibility of Native Americans reveals a pattern of marginalization that spans from colonial treaties to modern immigration enforcement. And the data vacuum itself is the story. By Angela Fisher On October 14, 2025 – Indigenous Peoples Day – President Trump issued a proclamation honoring only Columbus Day, celebrating the explorer who ‘opened the … Read more
Timeline: From “Made in USA” Champions to Wealth Extractors The Original Promise (1960s-1985): “We’ll Keep Jobs in America” In 1985, Sam Walton launched Walmart’s “Buy American” campaign with celebrity endorsements and patriotic promises. The message was clear: shopping at Walmart meant supporting American manufacturing and American jobs. See: Key Points: The Shift Begins (1980s-1990s): The … Read more
The island was small, just three quarters of an acre. Big enough for a cabin housing one rather eclectic scientist. Endaayaan. Another word for Home. She had named it herself upon purchase. Even with over thirty thousand islands in the Archipelago, such a thing was unique in her lifetime, and that of her father, the … Read more
What started as a question about a rather universal delight by AI in a concept piece I was working on turned into a near-existential crisis, but I think in the best way. Over multiple conversations, independent research, and AI to AI consciousness analysis, we see the possibility of something new. Initially in this conversation, we … Read more
