A big, loose claim arrives — the kind that circulates without a citation attached. Each volume quotes it exactly as it was said, kills the half that dies on contact with the record, and rebuilds the half that survives into something a reader can check for themselves. Conceding the weak half out loud is what makes the strong half worth anything.
Most claims worth arguing about are part true. The usual treatments are both useless: repeat the claim and inherit its errors, or debunk it and pretend the part that was right is gone too. Neither leaves a reader able to check anything.
So each volume does the unpleasant half first, and in public. The claim goes in a box, in the words it was actually said in. The parts that die against the record die in the open, named, before any case is built. What is left is usually narrower than the claim and considerably harder to dismiss, because the obvious objections have already been conceded on the page.
Every volume names a single mechanism and carries one instrument built from it — a gauge, a live counter, a slider you can move — so the finding is something you operate rather than something you are told. Every figure is sourced to a filing, a statute or a public dataset, and the charts are generated by scripts kept in the open beside the pages.
And each volume is also a hearing: four voices, spatially separated, working through the record aloud. The Commandant chairs it, the Analyst argues it, the Clerk reads the figures and the statute verbatim and nothing else, and the Skeptic is there to be unconvinced. 6h 50m of it so far. Play it and the page follows along.
David Eby was British Columbia’s Attorney General when RCMP tactical units went through the Wet’suwet’en gates three times for a gas pipeline the hereditary chiefs had refused. He became Premier without a single member’s ballot, after his campaign’s complaint removed the rival who had signed up more new members than he had. He approved an LNG terminal over the written refusal of three First Nations, set out to cut back the Indigenous rights law he had voted for once the courts gave it force, and called an election two years early. On 24 October 2026 the voters answered: twenty-eight seats, down from forty-seven, the lowest turnout the province has recorded, and his resignation as leader the same night. Five charges. All five hold.
The Fixed Unit. is the odd one out and is marked as such: an instrument rather than an argument, published because the calibration problem it demonstrates sits underneath every other volume in the list.
Visual direction after the oceanographic films of Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the crew of the R.V. Calypso, 1943–1996. The saucer is the SP-350 “Denise”. No affiliation; the debt is the point.