On June 6, 2025, the Trump administration signed a new directive: the Executive Order on Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity. It replaces two earlier presidential orders, Obama’s 2015 framework and Biden’s January 2025 update, and claims to "streamline and refocus" the federal approach to digital threats.
By the time 2026 rolls around I’m going to bet more people than ever will be highly motivated to vote now that they’ve seen the consequences of assuming things will just work out without actually participating. You can’t fix stupid, but the upside is that we don’t need an awful lot more people to wake up and support democracy to put our country back on track.
Thank you, the consequences are obvious.
Unfortunately, people who should read it don't. And then there's another problem: people can come to different opinions based on the same facts.
Unfortunately, this means that you can't convince them with facts.
By the time 2026 rolls around I’m going to bet more people than ever will be highly motivated to vote now that they’ve seen the consequences of assuming things will just work out without actually participating. You can’t fix stupid, but the upside is that we don’t need an awful lot more people to wake up and support democracy to put our country back on track.