Site Updates
This is a running log of notable changes to this site. Notes on new events, updated events, structural changes and site improvements will show up here. Entries are listed newest to oldest. Routine edits like typo fixes, changes in wording and link repairs will not be recorded.
July 17, 2026: Updates to Site Caching Rules and New Pages Added
I updated the website caching rules in cloudflare to hopefully make it so structural site changes and page edits are picked up automatically by users’ browsers. Currently, a user who accessed the website prior to the Methodology and “Site Updates” pages being added won’t see them appear in the “Explore” section unless they hard refresh the page themselves. Also, pages have a habit of remaining in search results due to cloudflare caching. If I change the title of a page, the cloudflare cache will retain the previous version of that page. Clicking on it in search results will redirect to a “Page not found” error. Hopefully these new cloudflare rules will fix these issues.
I also added new pages.
Events:
-Executive Order 14215 Targets Independent Agencies
Sources:
-Executive Order 14215 - Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies
-Trump claims expanded power over independent agencies
-Trump seeks greater control of independent regulators with his new executive order
Definitions:
-Unitary Executive Theory
July 15, 2026: Source pages now embed archived originals
Source pages have been reworked to show each source as it originally appeared, rather than as text copied into this site. Even though I personally think the text reproductions of sources in this website are “fair use” and transformative as they are part of a larger body of work, this change reduces my exposure to takedown requests from commercial news outlets that could prompt CloudFlare to remove my website.
- The Source Text section of most source pages now displays the Wayback Machine snapshot of the original article or document, preserving its original formatting.
- CourtListener sources are the exception. Court records are public domain and have no clean single page to embed, so those pages keep their curated excerpts.
- A small number of news sources do not yet have an archived snapshot. Their copied text has been removed. Summaries for these sources will be added in a future update.
- Nothing has been lost. Private archival copies of all removed text are retained offline, and every source page continues to link to both the original URL and its archived copy.
- The Methodology page has been updated to reflect the new source format.
- The About page has been updated to reflect this new “Site Updates” page
- This “Site Updates” page has been added.
July 8, 2026: New event, Liberation Day Unilateral Global Tariffs
I added Liberation Day Unilateral Global Tariffs to the timeline. This covers the global tariffs Trump implemented via executive order. It has since been struck down in the Supreme Court.