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Erectivus 2026: A First Amendment Stress Test, Filed by the Book

Erectivus 2026: Flag Day, Power, and a Fully Erect First Amendment Most threats to free speech don’t arrive with jackboots and bullhorns. They arrive wrapped in procedure, paperwork, and “reasonable” restrictions. Age-verification laws. Book removals. Quiet limits on who gets to speak, where, and how—always justified as protection. Erectivus 2026 exists to test whether the First Amendment still functions when …

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AI, Literal Compliance, and the Disappearing Human Buffer in Municipal Systems

Most discussions about AI in government focus on speed, efficiency, or automation. That misses the real shift. The most consequential change AI introduces to municipal governance is perfect literalism. AI doesn’t just make review faster. It makes review complete, exact, and unforgiving. The End of Institutional Slack Municipal systems evolved with several quiet assumptions: No one reads everything. No one …