The midterms did not change the war. This week the empire went after Miller, Hegseth, Musk, and Huang — a purge of America’s creators. Judy’s class shows how Colbert wriggled France free of Amsterdam. Our job is to get Americans onto the Ark.
Hamilton called him "the great Colbert." Judy Hodgkiss shows how a French minister's canals, credit, and Academy of Sciences began to wriggle France free of Amsterdam — and how that design reached the Erie Canal.
Jensen Huang has resigned from Nvidia after a Chinese spy scandal, and Democrats are preparing to put Elon Musk under oath. Barbara Boyd argues both are part of the same purge of America's creators, with the Huang scandal as its Russiagate.
The midterms did not change the war. This week the empire went after Miller, Hegseth, Musk, and Huang — a purge of America’s creators. Judy’s class shows how Colbert wriggled France free of Amsterdam. Our job is to get Americans onto the Ark.
November 9–15, 2026 · Your week behind + the week ahead
The midterms did not change the war. It is still sovereign nations against the British imperial system, which today calls itself the global order.
This week that system went after the people President Trump needs. They smeared Stephen Miller the day he became Chief of Staff. The House sent an impeachment of Pete Hegseth to committee. Democrats are preparing to put Elon Musk under oath, and Jensen Huang is already gone from Nvidia.
Barbara names the pattern: a purge of America’s creators. Judy Hodgkiss’s class shows the older method — how Colbert used canals, credit, and science to wriggle France free of Amsterdam.
The empire is hunting the builders. Our job is to get Americans to see the Ark that Trump built, and put them on it.
Voters felt the pain. Too few could see the productive future beyond it. Our post-election shows confront that gap; Saturday’s space vision and American System class give us something concrete to explain—and organize for Monday’s after-action review.
Chatham House wants London to go around American voters. Voters from Quebec to Germany are answering back. The coup plans are out in the open. Audi builds in Georgia as Volkswagen plans 100,000 job cuts. Tomorrow, we vote.
Chatham House frets Trump will be "unshackled" after the midterms. Bessent already hit the empire's banks for $1.2 billion, and Hamilton's playbook is back: grow first, honor the debt on America's terms.
Two systems faced off this week: an American mine-to-mill build-out, and a British system that hoards diesel and sells a country for parts. The pump is not the ballot.
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