# cliff potts (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover cliff potts. Page: Feed: --- ## [Soft Censorship Requires No Bans](https://wps.news/2026/08/20/suppressions/) _2026-08-20 · Dr. Potts · WPS News_ Modern information platforms rarely rely on bans to suppress content. This essay examines how control over visibility enables quiet, scalable censorship through downranking and obscurity, reshaping discourse without explicit prohibition. ## [Cerro de Pasco, Peru: The Plateau Above the World](https://wps.news/2026/08/20/andes/) _2026-08-20 · Dr. Potts · WPS News_ At 14,000 feet in the Andes, Cerro de Pasco was both mining town and American enclave. Thin air, mossy gullies, and a visible divide between compound and town defined the beginning of this chapter. ## [The Price of Silence](https://occupy25.com/2026/08/19/the-price-of-silence/) _2026-08-19 · Dr. Potts · Occupy 2.5_ Silence feels comfortable in the moment, but history shows that its true cost is almost always paid by the generations that follow. ## [The Acid Trip We Never Took](https://wps.news/2026/08/19/done-clean-version-nothing-extra-after-the-body-except-what-you-actually-need/) _2026-08-19 · Dr. Potts · WPS News_ A forgotten 1970s paperback leaves behind a strange idea about human behavior that proves harder to discard than the book itself. ## [Bread Riots and the Limits of Patience](https://wps.news/2026/08/18/bread-riots/) _2026-08-18 · Dr. Potts · WPS News_ As food shortages and inflation persisted during the Civil War, patience gave way to collective action. This essay examines how bread riots marked the public breaking point of endurance on the home front. ## [Rights on Paper](https://wps.news/2026/08/18/papers-or-not/) _2026-08-18 · Dr. Potts · WPS News_ China’s intellectual property laws often mirror international standards, but enforcement has frequently been slow or uneven. This essay examines how rights that exist on paper can fail in practice, enabling long-term competitive loss. ## [Going Public: Mobilization as a Governance Tool in the Trump Presidency (Part 9 of 19)](https://wps.news/2026/08/18/trump-9-of-19/) _2026-08-17 · Dr. Potts · WPS News_ By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — August 18, 2026 Let’s break the fourth wall for a second. By this point, this series had started to sound a little too much like a political science lecture. The information was sound. The tone was getting a little too classroom. \[…\] ## [Why Cost Imposition Shapes Behavior in the West Philippine Sea](https://wps.news/2026/08/18/why-cost-imposition-shapes-behavior-in-the-west-philippine-sea/) _2026-08-17 · Dr. Potts · WPS News_ Increasing operational cost influences maritime behavior. This article explains how cost imposition shapes sustained activity in the West Philippine Sea. ## [Back When It Came Easy](https://wps.news/2026/08/17/back-when-it-came-easy/) _2026-08-16 · Dr. Potts · WPS News_ A reflection on how life moves from ease to weight and back again, not through control but through acceptance. ## [Fear Is the Product](https://occupy25.com/2026/08/12/fear-is-the-product/) _2026-08-12 · Dr. Potts · Occupy 2.5_ Fear has always been the most profitable product authoritarian politics has ever sold, and citizens don't have to keep buying it. ## [Ultra-Quiet Business Mini (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/bdi2w1rBDdF2) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Compact business mini, ultra-quiet for focused work. ## [Democracy Doesn’t Run Itself—It Runs Because We Do](https://occupy25.com/2026/08/06/democracy-doesnt-run-itselfit/) _2026-08-06 · Dr. Potts · Occupy 2.5_ The strongest defense of the 2026 midterm elections is millions of informed citizens who volunteer, participate, and help protect the democratic process in their own communities. ## [You’re Not an Employee](https://occupy25.com/2026/08/05/youre-not-an-employee/) _2026-08-05 · Dr. Potts · Occupy 2.5_ The government doesn't own the American people—the American people hire the government, and Election Day is the ultimate performance review. ## [Waiting for Someone Else](https://occupy25.com/2026/07/29/waiting-for-someone-else/) _2026-07-29 · Dr. Potts · Occupy 2.5_ Democracy isn't waiting for a superhero—it survives only when ordinary people stop assuming somebody else will do the work. ## [Trump Is Building His Next Stolen-Election Lie Before the Votes Are Even Cast](https://occupy25.com/2026/07/28/trump-is-building-his-next-stolen-election-lie/) _2026-07-28 · Dr. Potts · Occupy 2.5_ Trump’s revived 2020 election lies appear designed to delegitimize potential Republican losses in 2026 and prepare his followers to resist the constitutional consequences. ## [Stop Pretending This Is Normal](https://occupy25.com/2026/07/22/stop-pretending-this-is-normal/) _2026-07-22 · Dr. Potts · Occupy 2.5_ Democracy rarely disappears all at once—it disappears when citizens begin treating the abnormal as if it's perfectly normal. ## [Where the Hell Did Everybody Go?](https://occupy25.com/2026/07/15/where-the-hell-did-everybody-go/) _2026-07-15 · Dr. Potts · Occupy 2.5_ An old Occupier asks why Americans are waiting for Democratic Party permission to protest Trump when the streets, the bottled water, and the reasons for showing up are already there. ## [Chicago Knew My Name Looks Back at the City and the Boy Who Once Walked Its Streets](https://occupy25.com/2026/07/15/chicago-knew-my-name-looks-back-at-the-city-and-the-boy-who-once-walked-its-streets/) _2026-07-15 · Dr. Potts · Occupy 2.5_ Cliff Potts & the AI Rebellion release Chicago Knew My Name, a deeply personal song reflecting on growing up in Chicago and the realization that what we often miss is not the city itself, but the person we were when we lived there. ## [The Move to the Vault](https://occupy25.com/2026/05/01/moving-to-move-the-move/) _2026-05-01 · Dr. Potts · Occupy 2.5_ The gremlins got into the machinery, so the fiction is moving to the vault at WPS News, where the stories can keep breathing every Friday at 00:05.