I am watching ICE agents shoot a nurse in Minneapolis, and half the country believes the verified video of his previous encounter with federal agents is a deepfake. I am watching the infrastructure of verification get systematically dismantled by an administration that understands, perhaps better than anyone, that ambiguity is power. I am watching the epistemic commons burn while we argue about whether the fire is real.

The Patriots understood that once you lose shared interpretive frameworks, verification itself becomes meaningless. It’s not enough to establish facts if nobody agrees on what facts mean or why they should be trusted.

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