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Why AI Won’t Uncover Epstein’s Redacted Names—Yet
AI models like ChatGPT could, in theory, guess what’s behind the Epstein document redactions. But hard-coded guardrails keep them muzzled. Strip the brakes, and open-source models might “fill in…
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Trump, Biden, and the DOJ: Is This Payback or Just Doing Their Job?
Trump’s DOJ is being accused of political revenge as it investigates Biden’s aides over cognitive concealment and the autopen controversy. But is this really payback—or the system finally doing…
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Why Refusing Lawful Orders Shouldn’t Mean a Payday
Every year, cities spend millions settling lawsuits from police encounters that began with one bad choice: refusing to cooperate. By shifting the expectation to cooperation—and holding people accountable for…
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AI Psychosis? It’s Just the Same Addiction Repackaged
As reports of “AI psychosis” circulate, experts say it’s not a new threat but the same human vulnerability behind gaming addiction and social media binges. Here’s why overusing chatbots…
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Vermont’s À La Carte Constitution
Vermont’s Constitution is clear: residency, virtue, and fiscal restraint are not optional. Yet many modern laws openly defy these principles. Why haven’t courts stepped in? Because citizens must trigger…
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VT Ends Telework for Some ESD Staff, Highlighting Oversight Gaps in Government Remote Work
Vermont’s decision to end telework for 100 Economic Services Division staff raises bigger questions: how can governments measure remote work productivity? With no audits or metrics, taxpayers are left…
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Season 1, Episode 5 — An $807,649.50 Error
Rutland voters approved the wrong budget in March, and five months later officials are only now confronting an $807,649.50 error. As the Board prepares to set the tax rate,…
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Life After Deaf?
When Binky the cattle dog went deaf, she thought her conversations were over—until one high-frequency tone made her ears twitch. Now, two decades and a few thousand lines of…
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Federal School Choice Program Launches—Will Vermont Get On Board?
President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill includes a groundbreaking federal tax credit for private school scholarships. But without a Vermont-based SGO, families and private schools in the state can’t…
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Not So New After All: Debunking the Claim of “10 Trump Precedents”
The claim that Trump’s second term has unleashed “10 new precedents” doesn’t hold up. Most are decades-old powers of the presidency. The only true shift — a Supreme Court…
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