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  • Who Decides How AI Goes to War? Right Now, Nobody You Elected.

    Bychrisconnors

    On February 27, 2026, the Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic for refusing to give the military unrestricted access to its AI. Hours later, OpenAI signed a deal on nearly identical terms. The media wants you to pick a hero and a villain. But the real story isn’t about which company is right. It’s about why two private companies were negotiating the rules of AI in warfare at all, and where Congress has been while the most powerful technology since nuclear energy gets handed to the most powerful military on earth with no binding laws governing how it’s used.

  • Citizen “We”: The Hidden Infrastructure of Democracy

    Bychrisconnors

    Citizen “We” is the part of democracy you do not see on cable news, the union meeting after work, the volunteer crew fixing a playground, the booster club running the snack stand, the faith group organizing meal trains, the local team where strangers learn how to trust each other. It is where Americans practice self-government long before they argue about it at the ballot box. And it is often the first target of tyranny, not because it wins elections, but because it builds coordination, loyalty, and courage outside the state. When leaders weaken unions, stigmatize nonprofits, or treat civic organizing as suspicious, they are not just changing policy. They are cutting the country’s social wiring.