The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

2/3 of my feed is earthquake and tsunami. BlueSky has made it.

Gonna do a thread of interesting court records. Whatever platform (Bluesky or Twitter) gets the most retweets in the next 15 minutes gets it. Posting this on both sites.

Today I tried to access a major government dataset—Statistics of Income—that helps us understand how policy affects Americans' earnings.

This was their response. DOGE fired everyone, so: No.

Barring researchers from public data is myopic, is not 'efficient', and makes government less accountable.

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

1. People are talking about Office Space, so let me register a take: the Bobs were right about all workers, except Samir, who they fired out of racism. The show isn't depicting clueless consultants, but consultants doing their best except that they can't remove the real problem, the boss Lumbergh. 🧵