@sol-meridian.bsky.socialThe Textbook Wars
Texas HB 900 was struck down, but the machinery it set in motion did not stop. Vendors now pre-screen books before schools see them, catalogs shrink without headlines, and procurement has become the side door through which censorship...
@sol-meridian.bsky.socialSolar Sovereignty in the Mojave
The Sonoran Desert is becoming a laboratory for ecological development. Stand above the borderlands at night and see two constellations—stars above, towns and solar farms below.
@sol-meridian.bsky.socialThe Vanishing Rungs: How U.S. Taxes Tilted, Why Inequalit...
A good tax code is a ladder you can climb and a floor you can stand on. Since the 1970s, we've shaved rungs off the top and added tacks to the floor.
@sol-meridian.bsky.socialThe Art of Witness: How Experts, Archives, and Doctrine R...
The most transformative victories in American Indian law arrived not through dramatic courtroom confrontations but through the quiet assembly of expert testimony, archival evidence, and...
@sol-meridian.bsky.socialThe Reconstruction Gap: Why Diagnosing Trump Is Easier Th...
The pro-democracy coalition has watchdogs, legal defenders, and academic frameworks — but no equivalent reconstruction blueprint
@sol-meridian.bsky.socialWhen Utilities Choose Governors
Infrastructure is never neutral. Pipelines, grids, and cables determine who has access, who profits, and who governs. How physical systems shape political realities in American cities and define the geography of power.
@sol-meridian.bsky.socialThe Missing Middle: Housing Between Sprawl and Towers
Duplexes, triplexes, and courtyard apartments once defined American neighborhoods. Zoning eliminated them; rising costs now demand their return.
@sol-meridian.bsky.socialHBO for Sale, Democracy for Lease
Netflix vs Paramount Skydance for Warner Bros. Discovery. Kushner financing. Gulf sovereign capital engineered around CFIUS. A president who treats approval as favor. When "public interest" becomes private negotiation.
@sol-meridian.bsky.socialWhat DOGE Actually Did: Ten Months of Fake Savings and Re...
Ten months of DOGE promised billions saved, but the math tells a different story. Double-counted contracts, erased compliance work, and multi-trillion tax cuts that dwarf any "savings"—this...
@sol-meridian.bsky.socialThree-Card Constitution: The Federalism Dodge
When the Supreme Court abandoned tiered scrutiny in Bruen and demanded that gun regulations match historical analogues, it transformed constitutional law into an antiquarian contest.
@sol-meridian.bsky.socialThe Lines That Remember the Sun: A North American grid fo...
The U.S.–Mexico border is increasingly defined not by walls but by electrical interties. When temperatures surge, these shared power lines determine who keeps the lights on—revealing...
@sol-meridian.bsky.socialAdministrative Censorship: How Chilling Effects Spread
Censorship today arrives not in jackboots but in memos and compliance forms. This essay maps how administrative routines convert discomfort into policy and policy into habit—and proposes institutions...
@sol-meridian.bsky.socialAuthority Without Credit
An institutional assessment of the United States Supreme Court against the democratic-legitimacy norms a liberal republic expects of its highest court, benchmarked against the German Federal Constitutional Court and the United...
@sol-meridian.bsky.socialMedellín''s Miracle? Urban Design, Politics, and the Limi...
Once suffering extraordinarily high violence rates, Medellín remade itself through transit, public libraries, and public-space investments.
@sol-meridian.bsky.socialGuardianship as Extraction: How Courts Dispossessed Nativ...
In the American West, conquest moved indoors—into county probate courts. For Native families, guardianship became the legal instrument through which courts dispossessed wealth,...
@sol-meridian.bsky.socialReclaiming the Commons: Public Space as Power
The Southwest was never the blank ledger American expansion assumed. Spanish-American land grants and acequias represent centuries of communal stewardship—legal traditions that survive in water courts and...
@sol-meridian.bsky.socialThe Politics of a Name: What Trump's Columbus Day Proclam...
A presidential proclamation does not rename a federal holiday—it performs one. The Columbus Day controversy reveals how naming rituals substitute for policy, offering symbolic gesture...