Outspoken News

01/06/2026

Five years after January 6, the evidence finally landed plainly.
And it barely broke through the noise. This essay looks at what happened when accountability met distraction, and what kind of power starts to emerge when democracy is treated as inefficiency instead of obligation.

Link in bio.

01/02/2026

First Friday of 2026. A new mayor sworn in beneath City Hall. An outgoing one posting like he’s not done talking yet. Bad Bunny making history. A fleet of yachts doing what fleets of yachts do. Friday Files is up. Link in bio.

12/31/2025

We published a new essay closing out 2025.

It looks at how the news cycle accelerated this year, how attention moved, and what gets lost when everything becomes a spike. It’s also a reflection on writing through that cycle instead of reacting to it.

Ending the Year Without Letting It Disappear.

Link in bio.

12/18/2025

The Vanity Fair portraits unsettled people for a reason.

They removed the choreography that usually protects power.

No flattering distance. No softening. No performance to hide behind.

When the staging disappears, the face has to carry the moment.

And frozen faces can’t.

This piece isn’t about vanity.

It’s about authority, aesthetics, and the cost of freezing time.

New Outspoken. Link in bio.

12/12/2025

Calibri is out. Times New Roman is back. Broadway can’t afford friction. Hollywood wants efficiency, not artists. New York primaries are turning into accountability tests. And power is getting very comfortable saying the quiet part out loud.

This week’s Friday Files looks at culture, control, and who gets replaced when institutions stop pretending.

Read it. Link in bio.

12/11/2025

Miami always felt like the place that could outrun the world.
Sun, delusion, Zumba on the beach; and somehow none of the rules applied.

But this week?
The bubble burst.

Miami said no to Trump’s candidate.
Georgia flipped a district he won by 12.

People aren’t voting for parties, they’re voting for relief.

The cost of living is the new political identity.

If Democrats want a future, this is the moment to build it.

The escape is over.
The accounting begins.

New Outspoken, link in bio.

12/05/2025

This week’s Friday Files is live. Zillow hid flood risk. Netflix bought Hollywood. Algorithms started pricing your life. Peace got rebranded. Quiet moves. Loud consequences. Link in bio.

12/04/2025

A Trump +22 district just held by 9.
Still a win.
Also, a warning.
Full piece in bio.

Tennessee’s nine-point hold and the early burn of the next midterms.

11/26/2025

Culture isn’t a side hustle. It’s a $1.2 trillion power block. That’s why the culture war feels so intense right now. Once culture became a core economic engine, it also became a political battleground.

Part II of our Outspoken series is live: The Economics of the Culture War

A look at how money, meaning, and power now collide in the creative economy.

A $1.2 trillion industry, and a fight over who gets to shape the public mind.

11/20/2025

America is missing the plot.

While everyone argues about AI hype and TikTok trends, one billionaire has quietly positioned himself to control the cloud, the algorithm, the media, and the surveillance tools that will shape public life.

Larry Ellison is not just a donor. He is Trump’s digital partner. And the deals flowing his way are remaking the country’s information system.

Oracle’s three-hundred-billion-dollar OpenAI contract. Project Stargate’s AI supergrid. The TikTok takeover. Paramount. Possibly CNN.

This is not business as usual.
This is a blueprint for a government-aligned media ecosystem developed through acquisition rather than censorship.

Read the full essay on Outspoken:

A look at the AI dealmaking and media takeovers that are writing the rules of our new information state.

11/18/2025

The U.S. isn’t quietly building a deportation policy: it’s building a domestic surveillance infrastructure. The kind that fuses databases, tracks movement, assigns risk scores, and can be repurposed at the push of a button.

Immigration is the test case.

The system that comes after is the concern.

New essay on Outspoken.

America isn’t sliding into authoritarianism, it’s engineering it.

11/11/2025

Zohran Mamdani, the rapper once known as Young Cardamom, just became New York’s mayor.
�He ran on the belief that art is infrastructure, that rent and creativity are linked, and that the city’s cultural workers deserve a seat at the table.

He campaigned in poetry.�Now he’ll have to govern in prose.

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Zohran Mamdani campaigned in poetry. Now he’ll have to govern in prose.