June 22, 2026 What Breaks First? And What Comes Next? Marty's Notebook Hi all, Over the past several months, we have been spending a lot of time with the idea of civic pollution. At Netcentric Campaigns, we use that term to describe the buildup of forces that make it harder for people to understand the world together: misinformation, distrust, institutional strain, shrinking civic space, and systems that reward conflict before comprehension. That diagnosis still feels important. In some ways,...