Awake in the Margins
Red-penning lies in real time. I fact check, expose propaganda patterns and teach you to spot manipulation before it fools you.
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America.gov: Where the Government Finally Tells the Truth ... Until It Doesn’t (opens the original)
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Yesterday, I watched the launch of America.gov and scratched my head.Wasn’t there already a USA.gov? It’s been the official government information portal since 2000. Why did we need a new one? Who benefits from this? And why is the Airbnb co-founder running it?So, I started digging.America.gov launched Sept. 29 as the Trump administration’s AI-powered front door to the federal government — 29,000 government websites consolidated into one chatbot, b
A Two-Month Truce Is All Trump Got for Fawning Over Xi. What’s He Hiding? Still No Answer. (opens the original)
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Last week, President Trump met Chinese President Xi Jinping on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews, a rare gesture for a visiting head of state, kicking off Xi’s first state visit to Washington in 11 years. The next morning, he posted on Truth Social that Xi “looks strong, vibrant, and fit - Better than ever,” and that “Madam Xi, of course, BEAUTIFUL!” The visit was the warmest any of us have seen him treat a foreign leader
Corruption Is Making the Affordability Crisis Worse. Here’s the Proof. (opens the original)
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The affordability crisis is real. Prices are up and wages haven’t kept pace. But there’s another crisis fueling it. When Pepsi squeezed small grocers out of the market without penalty, prices went up. When Toyota didn’t have to pay a fraud penalty, money stayed in Toyota’s pocket vs. going back to a customer’s. The same administration loudly chasing a fraud problem worth billions is ignoring one worth hundreds of billions. Corruption is one of the documented mechanisms making affordability worse
The Economy Isn’t Working for the Majority of Americans. Trump’s Response: Change the Message & Control Who Reports It (opens the original)
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A man at the gas pump watches the total price climb past what it used to cost to fill a half tank. A woman does the math on a lease renewal that’s shows rent rising again, wondering how the same paycheck somehow covers less every month. These are daily realities for people across America. In fact, a recent Fox News poll found 61% of voters call gas prices a major problem, 62% say the same about groceries and 54% point to housing costs. Only 12% of Americans say their own financial situation is i
The People Writing AI Law Haven’t Even Tried AI. That’s the Whole Problem. (opens the original)
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You wouldn’t want someone who’s never driven a car writing the speed limit, right? You wouldn’t want a surgeon operating on you because they read a pamphlet about it once or because they’re generally a smart person. Smart isn’t the same as trained, and trained isn’t the same as having actually done the thing. There’s a whole genre of TV ads built on that exact joke: ordinary people casually averting a nuclear disaster or nailing a rock star’s stage performance, then crediting their sudden expert
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