government ethics
Joshua Morris (opens on the publisher’s site)
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Judge Sara Hill called Flock-style ALPR history indiscriminate mass surveillance and suppressed a warrantless month of travel data.
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Proposition 42 would forbid a new state tax on owning personal property, including retirement accounts, and would limit taxes that reach backward.
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Plain-English notes on California's November 3, 2026 ballot measures, from the Official Voter Information Guide and the ballot text.
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Proposition 41 pairs public audits of certain new special taxes with a rule against parking new state taxes outside the spending limit.
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A New Mexico jury found nearly 44 million Facebook privacy violations after other states released those claims inside a child-safety settlement.
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Proposition 40 is a proposed one-time billionaire wealth tax, plus a threshold declaration for resident tax filers. This note reads the November 2026 ballot text, not the commercials.
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A federal judge ruled the Anthropic blacklisting unlawful. The harder question is what “unlawful” means when consequences arrive before the courts.
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A paper on “agentic flooding” shows AI making government services easier to navigate. Friction was the rate limiter; the worst response is rebuilding that burden on purpose.