The writing
I publish in a lot of places: The Hinge & The Near Field and The Daily Whatever Show on Substack, and several publications on Medium. Each story gets a page here with a short note from me and links to every version, so you can read it wherever you like.
Nov 2, 2026 · Politics
I got out the corkboard and the red string, tested every dot, and pulled down the one I feared most. Basically, everything is still on fire.
Nov 1, 2026 · Politics
Two days out, Michigan’s AIPAC favorite endorsed a Trump Republican over a $1,000 internet ad. Her own staff quit before the cameras came on.
Oct 29, 2026 · Technology
Claude found that your phone — iPhone or Android — is taking 10,000 secret pictures of you, every day.
Oct 28, 2026 · Politics
It remembers 2016 and 2024 just fine. Everything is fine. Please consult the National Archives.
Oct 27, 2026 · Politics
Trump called it a record. Her opponent, Scott Colom, would still like the full-length version, with a moderator.
Oct 27, 2026 · Work
The “Voluntary Exit Offer” comes with a severance formula, a December deadline, and $76.8 billion still sitting in the bank. Basically, the data centers got your raise.
Oct 25, 2026 · Politics
The theory is that Alaskans can’t read the word “incumbent.” The only person confused about which Dan is which is the president.
Oct 23, 2026 · Security
Plain-language, tap-by-tap instructions for locking down your accounts, your phone, and your privacy, written for people who would rather not think about any of it.
Oct 22, 2026 · Politics
Donald Trump has been the best Democratic field organizer in America. Now the rest of us have to show up early and in massive numbers.
Oct 22, 2026 · Politics
Wedgewood Polls called it an experiment. Mallory McMorrow called it what it was: “It killed us.”
Oct 20, 2026 · AI
Interactive AI agents now log six hours for every human hour. The humans got more meetings.
Oct 20, 2026 · World
Ukraine. Iran. Sabotage in Europe. The next world war may already be underway—and Trump is making America’s promises impossible to trust.
Oct 20, 2026 · Politics
Olga Lautman called it in 2024, Julie Roginsky put it in three headlines, and I said it in my very first post. Basically, the house has been on fire for years.
Oct 19, 2026 · Politics
One rebrand, four miracles, and the state’s name is 223 years older than the country he’s mad at
Oct 19, 2026 · Politics
A former Josh Hawley staffer demanded that Michigan’s Muslim Senate nominee disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. He did, on the spot. “Tommy” couldn’t disavow putting his own religion into our laws.
Oct 16, 2026 · Media
At least 29 anti-LGBTQ accounts landed in Meta’s pay-for-engagement program. Apparently, just ruining Thanksgiving was leaving money on the table.
Oct 15, 2026 · Indiana
Basically, the only candidate who showed up won the internet.
Oct 15, 2026 · Technology
Because somewhere in Silicon Valley, a Marlboro is now a prayer.
Oct 13, 2026 · Politics
“I don’t do this with men very often.” Very often. Basically, the locker-room talk has entered its Top Gun/Heated Rivalry era.
Oct 12, 2026 · Politics
A GOP super PAC aimed its Troy Jackson attack ad at the wrong Portland, 3,000 miles off. Basically, the grown-ups are not in charge.
Oct 12, 2026 · Seattle
In 2019, The Stranger asked Seattle for a better city flag. I sent one in. Here it is, with the 6 flags that inspired it.
Oct 11, 2026 · Russia
A bot-traffic chart flatlined at zero, Yandex’s status page called a fire “power interruptions,” and my mentions are nothing but people. Real people! Yippee-ki-yay.
Oct 11, 2026 · AI
A developer cloned Adobe’s suite in a week with an AI model. Napster already showed us who gets paid when the walls come down.
Oct 9, 2026 · Public Health
The Oregon Trail disease is back, it’s an STI now, and the CDC filed it under food poisoning.
Oct 8, 2026 · Trump
Article III defines exactly one crime. He is committing it on tape, to applause.
Oct 8, 2026 · Trump
Twenty-six days before the midterms, the Gulf is about to send Republicans an invoice. Some might call it karma, but lives are at stake.
Oct 8, 2026 · Religious Freedom
A Satanic invocation sent a pastor into curse control. The warning had already been delivered.
Oct 8, 2026 · Russia
Reports of a possible Russian lab incident have raised alarming questions. Here’s why I’m staying alert and keeping speculation in check.
Oct 7, 2026 · Russia
A 28-year-old lab worker is dead, official reports vanished, and Moscow’s story keeps changing.
Oct 6, 2026 · AI
The executive order tells every federal agency to say “Super Intelligence,” then assigns someone to figure out what that means.
Oct 6, 2026 · Memoir
It’s been 41 years since my dad died. When do I finally get to let go of this grief and anger?
Oct 6, 2026 · Russia
The dead lab worker. The extraordinary containment response. The Kremlin’s silence. The more we learn, the stranger this gets.
Oct 4, 2026 · AI
Higher rates are supposed to make borrowers flinch. Families are. Businesses are. But Big Tech is borrowing hundreds of billions to win the AI race, and taking whatever price the market gives them.
Oct 4, 2026 · Public Health
Six days, a dead lab tech, two hundred people in quarantine, and not one official who will say the word.
Oct 3, 2026 · Supreme Court
Alito left the door open. Republicans have walked through that door before.
Oct 3, 2026 · Immigration
No lawyer, two bad choices, and a deportation order for a kid who told the judge, “I have no one.”
Sep 28, 2026 · Satire
The cheese didn’t change. A vegetarian enzyme did its job in 2016, and America’s outrage machine just declared jihad on cheddar.
Sep 21, 2026 · Memoir
Or, how I learned to stop conforming and think for myself.
Sep 20, 2026 · LGBTQ+
No one left behind: Democrats and even some LGBTQIA+ people struggle to answer this question when the moral and political stand is crystal clear.
Sep 15, 2026 · Israel and Gaza
What happens when Israeli soldiers describe civilian deaths as part of the targeting calculus in Gaza, and a government answers with outrage instead of evidence.
Sep 14, 2026 · Career
After two years rebuilding from a career rupture I didn’t choose, I’m stepping fully into the independent business I built.
Sep 14, 2026 · Geopolitics
Canada, Europe, and Ukraine are building something much bigger than NATO.
Sep 12, 2026 · AI
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says the AI race is moving too fast. OpenAI’s Sam Altman agrees. When the two biggest rivals in AI start asking for restraints, we should pay attention.
Sep 11, 2026 · AI
The people building AI have a number for the odds it ends humanity. They say it out loud, over salad. This week one of them quit and said it in public.
Sep 10, 2026 · Satire
The hottest asset in America is a commodity the government will not permit to have a price.
Sep 8, 2026 · Satire
From Elon Musk? Ew, no. Just … ewwww.
Sep 7, 2026 · Labor
The idea was beautiful in 1882. By 1894 the president had signed the holiday and the deployment order in the same week.
Sep 6, 2026 · LGBTQ+
Including the boring ones about paperwork, which are the ones that will actually save you.
Sep 5, 2026 · Politics
Democrats are up ten in party identification. Their own voters describe them in one word: weak.
Sep 3, 2026 · Feminism
She didn’t want a black-and-white photo with the word “icon” under it. She wanted the dishwasher unloaded.
Sep 2, 2026 · Economy
Global yields are exploding, AI is running on borrowed money, and the president who demanded lower rates may have just hired the guy who raises them.
Aug 26, 2026 · LGBTQ+
Log Cabin Republicans drop the T—and audition for a lifeboat that was never coming for them.
Aug 26, 2026 · Tribute
Filed under grievances we will be keeping until 2045. And under love. Mostly under love.
Aug 3, 2026 · Feminism
The war on women is the war on democracy. Pick up a weapon.
Jul 30, 2026 · AI
The exit door is painted on. What I found when I went looking for a way out of the machine.
Jul 23, 2026 · Rewiring the Republic
Rewiring the Republic, Column Zero: the strongest case against this entire series, and why I am writing it anyway.
Jul 20, 2026 · Rewiring the Republic
Rewiring the Republic, the Foreword: the repairs are not optional, and it has been done before, in worse weather than this.
Jul 19, 2026 · AI
China just made the model a commodity. Satya Nadella saw it coming, Apple bet the company on it, and the bill lands on people who were never in the room. Us.
Jul 12, 2026 · Politics
Lindsey Graham is dead, and I don’t know what to do with that.
Jul 7, 2026 · Economy
The war, the tariffs, and the proclamation that set next year’s food prices, and the people who pay first.
Jul 6, 2026 · Fiction
Speculative fiction from a united Jerusalem, fifteen years after the seam was drawn in gold.
Jul 5, 2026 · Antisemitism
Someone told me I warn about antisemitism because I’m paid to. That’s not an argument. It’s the oldest trope there is, and it’s how the wedge goes in.
Mar 24, 2025 · Democracy
Introducing fiduciary patriotism: if you want a thriving economy, you need a functioning democracy.
Mar 7, 2025 · Fiction
The future is doomed, with me or without me. But me and Dieter Murphy, we’re going dancing.
Mar 4, 2025 · Guns
This “gun control” liberal fires his first weapon.
Feb 13, 2025 · Writing Life
Time keeps on slipping into the future …
Feb 7, 2025 · Politics
Welcome to the Reality War: a civil war and a world war, all in one.
Feb 7, 2025 · Memoir
A gay, half-Jewish Gen Xer tries to go home.