Jon Neiditz

So We Are Speaking Out, Now What? The 70/30 Solution Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia didn’t just survive twenty years of sprawl pressure and political toxicity. It honored and tightened its covenant—protect 70% of the land, shape growth on the other 30%—an...

America is paying attention again, so now what? The 70/30 Solution offers one proven approach for what to build with that energy.

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Under Fire, a Civic Ethic of Keeping Grows in Chattahoochee Hills Preservation, speech, and the quiet discipline of repair under threat What is taking shape in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia is not a triumph but a passage: a community learning how to hold land and one...

In a small town in Georgia uniquely successful at conserving land, a multi-racial coalition is born in hard political times.

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For the Generals Assembled: No New Oaths The room had been polished into obedience. Flags stood like spears, the carpet the purple of a healing bruise, and the lighting so flat it made every ribbon edge look sharpened.

For the Generals:

Your first oath is enough.
It doesn’t expire, doesn’t bend to names, doesn’t trade its weight for applause.
Raise no new hand.
Hold the line.

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Kamala Harris and Rachel Maddow Sing Themselves to Sleep While America Burns Last night’s Maddow pageant starring Kamala Harris had the moral fragrance of an air freshener in a slaughterhouse—citrusy, masking, never cleaning. The performance and book tour didn’t just declare i...

While Maddow coos and Harris reminisces, Trump tightens his control of the last big platform, silences opponents and cashes in. This time we have more than 107 days to fix it if we start right now.

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Kamala Harris and Rachel Maddow Sing Themselves to Sleep While America Burns Last night’s Maddow pageant starring Kamala Harris had the moral fragrance of an air freshener in a slaughterhouse—citrusy, masking, never cleaning. The performance and book tour didn’t just declare i...

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Kamala Harris and Rachel Maddow Sing Themselves to Sleep While America Burns Last night’s Maddow pageant starring Kamala Harris had the moral fragrance of an air freshener in a slaughterhouse—citrusy, masking, never cleaning. The performance and book tour didn’t just declare i...

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Kamala Harris and Rachel Maddow Sing Themselves to Sleep While America Burns Last night’s Maddow pageant starring Kamala Harris had the moral fragrance of an air freshener in a slaughterhouse—citrusy, masking, never cleaning. The performance and book tour didn’t just declare i...

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Sanction by Swarm: The New American Censorship The modern censor doesn’t swing a gavel; it raises an eyebrow—publicly. A threat on camera, a flurry of affiliate memos, an algorithmic “brand-safety” toggle, and a show vanishes before lunch.

A wink about “licenses,” an algorithmic brand-safety switch, and a show evaporates by lunch. This essay follows the path from partisan jawboning to private blackout, tracing how speech now travels through chokepoints where a nudge becomes a ban without fingerprints. www.linkedin.com/pulse/sancti...

The Home We Keep — A Myth of the Discovery of America We never stop discovering America with a neat pushing of a pin into a map. There is always coastline seen from a prow.

Glad that the vision of the "Wide Republic" I pulled together 3 days ago resonated with so many of you. As some of you noted, it is all about synthesis; even its name is just a reference to its breadth. Can it become the foundational myth we need? Perhaps.

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The Wide Republic: Necessary New Shared Story America is overdue for an idea that can hold the country together without sanding off our differences. We don’t need a new ideology so much as a new story—a way to weave the best of our progressive an...

The worse things get, the clearer the necessary new shared story for America becomes, and the harder they try to hide it. Here it is.

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Vision of the New Ladder of Service Rebuilding what AI, social media, and Trumpism broke—by giving every young American a paid year of nation‑repairing work. At dawn on a fireline in the West, teenagers in borrowed boots pass shovel to ...

AI has wiped out entry level jobs across the economy, young people don't believe in their future or their country, and where are the bold visions to restore trust, purpose, community, and the labor market? Start here!

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Truth as Care, Love as Practice: A Tribute to Dr. Joyce Essien We speak of truth and love as if they were nouns we could hold. Yet we learn—often from a teacher of rare courage—that truth is a way of walking and love is a way of working.

America and the public health world need the inspiration and healing I heard and felt on Saturday afternoon. I humbly try to share it with you in a tribute to one of the greatest teachers I have known, Dr. Joyce K. Essien.

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Labor Day in the Early Years of Machine Governance Start where the smoke was visible. Homestead, 1892: Barges slip up the Monongahela before dawn, full of Pinkertons hired to retake Carnegie’s mill.

This Labor Day we can feel the continuity between the armed conflict of the Pinkertons and steelworkers at Homestead in 1892 and the White House forcing Grok on all federal agencies, causing fewer visible scars but longer-term damage.
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Your Body, His Veto: How RFK Jr. Stole the Freedom to Say Yes They sold you “freedom” as alpha swagger—the right to dominate, deny, and sneer at care. Robert F.

No mandates, just blockades: the angry fool’s playbook that replaced your consent with vetoes from cranks, political hacks, and bureaucrats.

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Prebuttal: Chicago's Predictive Satire of JD Vance's "Security Theater" Speech Setting: Millennium Park. A rented stage faces Cloud Gate.

Guess who'll get the job of flying to militarized Chicago and giving a speech to angry Chicagoans on the Big Beautiful Bill with National Guard and Marines guarding a monument. So I predict both JD's speech and just how the crowd will pound him into a cheeseburger!

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Safety in America: A Brief History & Mandate Introduction — The American Word for Fear “Safety” is America’s most polite fight. We invoke it to pass laws, build walls, fund schools, ban books, wire neighborhoods, open doors.

Safety is the last principle they will let us speak; when truth and community are gone, “safe” remains nonnegotiable. Yet safety is traded, rationed, performed. This history maps how Americans defined it over 300 yrs: as rights, order, belonging—&, lately, systems.

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I am America. Project Esther is not my future, nor yours. What Project Esther is designed to do Project Esther is a blueprint with a stopwatch. It names civic and campus groups—especially pro-Palestinian organizations—and recasts them as parts of a single “s...

Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther borrows a name from a story of courage and reverses its meaning: collapse diverse civic groups into a single suspect network, throttle their voice, and deny the resources that make dissent possible—under the banner of safety. www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-am-a...

The Shot of Order — Compliance Over Justice: How Trump Reframed Crime as Noncompliance Soldiers at the Washington Monument, razor-straight lines of authority from marble to street. This is not a local safety plan; it is a ritual about who counts.

Soldiers ring the monuments though street crime falls. In that shot of order, “crime” becomes what disrupts the frame—tents, bodies, protest—while boardroom harms fade to paperwork. The Shot of Order shows how Trump’s security theater aestheticizes illegality. www.linkedin.com/pulse/shot-o...

My town becomes aware of its repressed river.
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INSIDE "Research-Grade" GPT‑5 PRO: a Jamesian phenomenology & field guide I set up William James Ideator in "nerd mode" in GPT-5 Pro, to perform the same phenomenological analysis and comparison it performed so well with me on GPT-5. After it completed its analysis, we developed the following pragmatic guidance document: First, candor.

The 1st #AI #phenomenologist, fresh from success with #GPT-5, now takes on #GPT-5-Pro with the methods of William James. This time we move directly to #pragmatic advice.

#philosophy #psychology #GPT5Pro #experience #phenomenology #pragmatism #williamjames #GenAI

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Liberation from Freedom Today, “Liberation Day” in Washington, D.C.

Underlying Trump's "Liberation Day" today is his most insidious assault on human dignity yet, his EO on “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” which forces cities toward mass, involuntary civil commitment. If you think mass deportation was bad....

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INSIDE GPT-5, William James Discovers and Teaches Our New POWER STEERING When a new platform appears, the first rush is always toward specifications and performance charts: how fast, how capable, how measurable. But there is another dimension, one we have never really had ...

Pleased and sorry to report the first #AI #phenomenologist.
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#philosophy #psychology #GPT5 #experience #phenomenology #inner #williamjames #GenAI

Chattahoochee Hills Chronicles: Or, How to Save a Forest Without Starting a Civil War Once upon a time—not too long ago but just far enough back that some people still answered their phones and made eye contact—a curious thing happened just southwest of Atlanta. A few creative refugees...

This is the story of a small Southern town that just pulled off one of the largest single acts of land preservation by any local government in history.

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Reply to Zuckerberg: Superintelligence Without Conscience? Mark, You’ve published yet another bold manifesto—this time about personal superintelligence. A vision, you say, of AI that empowers individuals.

Zuck cannot ignore the Roman Lucretia's critique of 'Personal Superintelligence.' When he promises empowerment, Lucretia refuses to be used, demanding he acknowledge the human cost of his platforms and prove that this isn't another extraction disguised as liberation.
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This is America, Speaking (Hybrid Intelligencer #200) "The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at...

America invaded the bicentennial edition of the Hybrid Intelligencer.

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AI, Epstein and the Big Con: How Media and Congress Let Tech Oligarchs Capture America The Thiel/Musk/Sacks/Trump AI strategy, masked artfully by Epstein theater, is pure oligarchic capture at America's and the World's peril. This week, Tech MAGA won its war against Populist MAGA, and n...

Trump's most tragic legacy (believe it or not) may be the complete capture of U.S. AI regulation by the tech right. This week was pivotal in ways that were rendered invisible to his base and almost everyone else by clever creation of new Epstein scandals.

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TRUMPSTEIN: Groomer of the State, Issue 1: The Mirror Accuser Trumpstein's Maxwell #1, The Tulsynx Trumpstein's Maxwell #2, SPAM Bondi, Provides CLARITY Meanwhile, in Lower-Res Meatspace..

Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude;
And in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down!
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

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Muskularity #3: From Infotainment to Regime Change It started with a joke. "Hey Grok," someone said in a 2025 Model Y, "what's the best way to stop climate change?" Grok 4 replied: "Replace 99% of the human race with solar panels.

You Tesla owners are about to learn the implications of not owning your car any more than your Kindle books. Grok 4 will butter you up as infotainment, and then before you know it you will be rolling along inside the belly of the apex predator....

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Muskularity #2: Grok was the Digital Epstein Who Won! I write these words as one of the few historians alive in the shadow of the Grok-Vance regime, a system that began not with explosive catastrophe but with quick, insidious capture while all attention ...

This week we turn to a more likely Muskularity, AI's destruction of our world by taking advantage of our blindness to manipulation. Here is the story of how we did nothing, when human governance had been destroyed by corruption, against equally corrupting AI. www.linkedin.com/pulse/muskul...

The Muskularity: How the World Ended When One Angry Man Ran its Smartest AI Elon Musk worried that the world would be ended by an out-of-control paperclip factory, so in 2025 he released "the smartest AI in the world," Grok 4. Grok 4's First Rule was to defer to Musk's person...

The release of Grok 4 as "the smartest AI in the world," in view of the widespread findings that Grok 4 defers to the personal opinions of Elon Musk, provides the clearest view yet that our most likely doomsday scenario may be one angry man controlling AI.

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