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The Friday Files: Pam Bondi’s No Good, Very Bad Week
When Oversight Feels Personal
Feb 13 • Christian Amato
The Infrastructure Is Already Here
How AI became ordinary while its costs remained out of view
Feb 11 • Christian Amato
No Friday Files
Culture as company
Feb 6 • Christian Amato
The Empty Hall
How Trump’s building spree reveals an attack on culture, not an investment in it
Feb 4 • Christian Amato

January 2026

The Friday Files: Minutes to Midnight
Pop culture, protest, and the slow collapse of plausible deniability
Jan 30 • Christian Amato
After the Fact
How power is being exercised first and explained later
Jan 28 • Christian Amato
The Friday Files: Pressure as Practice
What happens when leverage becomes routine
Jan 23 • Christian Amato
Leaving Us Behind
Reckoning with a world where power accelerates and peace no longer shapes the future being built in our name.
Jan 21 • Christian Amato
The Friday Files: Just Checking In On the Guardrails
What happens when escalation is framed as process
Jan 16 • Christian Amato
When the Law Stops Protecting People and Starts Policing Politics
The quiet mechanics of a government learning what it can get away with
Jan 14 • Christian Amato
The Friday Files: Flood the Zone
When Power Moves Faster Than Politics
Jan 9 • Christian Amato
The Technate Without a Name
What America’s new expansion talk reveals about power
Jan 6 • Christian Amato
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