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The Long Game Against Public Education

Public education in America is under serious threat — not just from political rhetoric, but from two pivotal Supreme Court cases that could redefine what “public” even means. In Drummond v. Oklahoma and Mahmoud v. Montgomery County, SCOTUS will consider whether religious schools deserve public funding and whether parents can legally opt their children out […]

Shingles Dementia, Health Agency Firings, Trump Tariffs Fallout on What MATAs This Week

What MATAs This Week (So Far): Fires, Fear, and Focus 🔥🧠📉 If you’ve been refreshing the blog all week wondering,“Where’s the Monday drop? It was election day too! (I was on TikTok) Where’s Joe Bob with his Bullshit-O-Meter about the firings? Where’s Liberty with her porch wisdom about the shingles article?” You weren’t alone. We’ve been […]

Signal Lost: What the Full Transcript Really Reveals

Data Resistance and Analysis Blog by Quin Halliwell “We are currently clean on OPSEC.”— Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a chat that accidentally included a journalist. On Tuesday, it was a scandal.Today, it’s a verified breach of national security—and the receipts are public. Thanks to The Atlantic’s release of the full Signal transcript, we now […]

Helping You Understand the Data Deception

How Federal Economic Numbers Are Being Manipulated By Quin Halliwell Data is supposed to be neutral. Numbers don’t lie, right? Well, that depends on who’s counting—and who’s deciding which numbers you get to see. 📊🔍 Over the past few months, the federal government has been quietly reshuffling how it reports key economic indicators, making it […]