April 2026 The events of January 6th did not emerge from a vacuum. They were the visible output of a years-long process of norm erosion, base hardening, and the mainstreaming of conspiratorial and nationalist grievance — a process that relied heavily on a specific cognitive architecture: the simultaneous denial and acceptance of increasingly radical ideas. …
Category Archives: Living in the Anthropocene
The Panic of Purity: Multiculturalism
White nationalism does not survive on confidence. It survives on panic. At its core, the ideology is less a movement than a mood—a chronic, simmering fear that the world is slipping out of grasp. And nowhere is that fear more naked than in its fixation on race, reproduction, and white motherhood. Strip away the slogans …
The Commons You Didn’t Know You Lost: Canvas, Accessibility, and the Enclosure of Teaching
Universal Design as a Politics of Standardization Universal Design originated as a genuinely progressive intervention. Rooted in disability rights activism, it challenged the prevailing retrofit model of accessibility, which treated disability as an afterthought and accommodation as charity. The promise was ambitious: design systems usable by the widest range of people from the outset, building …
Early Reflections on Authoritarianism
First Thoughts
Common Sense Gun Control and Ken Calvert — CA41
Inland Rep. Ken Calvert says video games, loss of faith help fuel gun violence… and how is this is policy? HR 8: The Bipartisan Background Checks Act (2019, 2021): Calvert voted against the measure. HR 1446: Enhanced Background Checks Act (2021): Calverty voted against the measure.
Meet Science Incompetent — Ken Calvert
Can someone really trust someone that has failed to understand the economic implications of climate change? Failed his constituents. Failed his state. Failed a minimum level of ethical values.
Mismatch: Calvert and Health Care
According to Ken Calvert, the shameful republican from SoCal who voted to reject the certification and support an insurrection, wants you to believe that he wants to solve the health care problem in the USA. The real question is what does he think the problem is? Apparently, he thinks getting reasonably priced prescription drugs is …
Calvert’s Total Failure to address Climate Change
Climate Change and Ken Calvert
Insulin and Inelastic Market Failures of Ken Calvert
Ken Calvert fails the public good
Ken Calvert Fails California’s Immigration Reform Needs
There are always sheep in every party. And Ken Calvert is a perfect example. Now, I don’t have anything against sheep, but applied to humans, the meaning is clear: If a group cannot or will not act independently, they might be considered sheep. In this case, the fears of associated with immigration continues to poorly …
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