Corey Bennett (BadgerNews)

My AI-assited process for creating opinion pieces on BadgerNews: I come up with an idea I want to explore. Claude goes on a deep research assignment based on my parameters. If the data tells a story, I give Claude a couple-paragraph outline — how I want the article organized, the argument I'm making, the specific data points I want hit and how I want them hit. Claude gives me a first draft with sources. I then ask Claude to verify all referenced material didn't originate behind a paywall that still exists. (Had to pull some really juicy anti-Fickell quotes from high school coaches out of my latest "8 Wins or Bust" article for exactly this reason.) I open every link and confirm none of the claims were hallucinated. Then I proofread and edit — swapping out word choices, restructuring syntax where it doesn't sound like me, and fine-tuning the argument. Then I publish with a source list. Am I perfect? No. I'll make mistakes. If someone flags one, I'll correct it. That does not include AI photo artifacts — I don't care about those. What I do care about is your privacy. I turned off Google Analytics (which Netlify prompts you to enable by default) so that you are not gratuitously tracked because you committed the crime of wanting to read some Wisconsin Badger content. I also care that people understand what the website is and is not so that I can publish content ethically within my lane. Both are covered in the site footer and the About page. This process is how I put out three well-researched articles with my voice yesterday on a whim, redlined four contracts, refreshed some templates, performed a couple regulatory risk assessments, bought a new guitar, and went to the park with my wife and kids. All in one day. So if your reaction is "AI wrote that" — that is partly true. I think this is what responsible and effective AI use looks like in 2026. I would encourage you to explore what AI can do for your work and your life. The tools are there for you to experiment with.

i do not care if Trump's comments result in nothing tonight. no one who even thinks of saying the phrase "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" should be allowed to operate an ice cream stand, nevermind the most powerful office on the planet

Bro 😭 Iranians 🇮🇷 are literally vibing in the nuclear power plant city of Bushehr which Donald Trump has threatened to blow up. These people fear absolutely nothing 👏

Speaker Johnson, we are calling on you to bring the House back to DC IMMEDIATELY! The Cabinet needs to invoke the 25th Amendment. But Congress can’t just sit on its hands and wait for that to happen when the President is threatening to commit war crimes TONIGHT. This is all hands on deck—Democrats, Republicans, Independents—AMERICANS must look at using any and every tool to stop the President and his unauthorized war including the 25th Amendment, Impeachment, and War Powers Resolutions. The world is watching, and history will remember.

I've taught European history for 30 years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we have front-row seats.

@StateDept All I hear is "I'm blackmailed".

SECRETARY RUBIO: The whole world has been impacted unfortunately because Iran is violating every law known by striking commercial vessels in the Straits of Hormuz. Iran is a regime that doesn’t believe in laws, rules, or anything like that. It’s a state sponsor of terrorism.

The Vice President is abroad campaigning for a dictator. The President is threatening to wipe out an entire civilization. Congress is on recess. This is a total collapse of American moral leadership — at a historic scale.

I choose my words intentionally. I detest hyperbole. And I believe I am a reasonable voice who presents facts in a measured, responsible, and level-headed manner. To say what I am about to say weighs heavily and is not said lightly or with partisan bias. It is time for the 25th Amendment to be exercised and Donald Trump removed from office. He is destroying our country and has destabilized the entire world. His actions are reckless and are directly endangering the lives, prosperity, and security of Americans. This cannot continue and is unsustainable in the current global environment. In addition to his erratic behavior, I believe he is suffering from dementia and is unable to carry out the Constitutional duties required of the President of the United States of America. I call upon Congress and the President’s cabinet to stop this madness now, before it is too late. (This is my personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect that of my employer, DoD, or any organization I am associated with.)

I want to be clear. I do not actually think Trump is going to vaporize Iran tonight at 8pm. But I do think that any president making such a threat publicly for bargaining should be impeached and removed.

If you are in the US military please watch this before this evening. PLEASE REFUSE ILLEGAL ORDERS.

An American president threatening the death of an ancient civilization is in some ways the end of the 250-year moral experiment of a constitutional republic that the framers saw as a model for all mankind.

@janschakowsky Ok, get your colleagues together to get his ass out of office.

Constituents are calling my office in tears. They are scared. This is what dangerous rhetoric does. It spreads fear and uncertainty. Republicans must stand with Democrats and speak out against this unhinged madness. Silence is cowardice.

I just can't believe the guy who attacked his own capital would be this crazy.

We need to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump. Threatening war crimes is a blatant violation of our constitution and the Geneva Conventions.

We cannot let our differences result in complete anarchy and deliberate indifference to pure evil that is so clearly outside of any partisan boundaries-as loose as those may be right now.

THIS. We can all spread the word that this is unacceptable. Use this platform as a force for good.

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

Even if Trump is "bluffing," the US may never come back from this. Whether you voted for him or not, the rest of the world sees this guy as our collective will. To everyone else, we are a landmass teeming with viciousness. We have a very high bar to prove that's not true.

Congress is meant to be a check on the President. For 15 months, Congress has been nowhere to be found. History books will be written about one of the weakest Congress' in American history.

We don’t need punditry from you, Senator. We need you to call for, and take, action: call for 25th amendment, call for impeachment, organize protests, *do* something.

🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 TUCKER CARLSON: “If you work in the White House, or in the U.S. Military, now it's time to say ‘NO’ to the president. No, In case you're thinking about using some weapon of mass destruction against the population of Iran. And if given the order, say ‘I'm not carrying it out.’ Figure out the codes on the [nuclear] football yourself because everything hangs in the balance right now. This is not hysteria, this is 100% real.”