illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”

Doechii at the #BETAwards

I don’t have the vocabulary to label what ~this~ 🤷🏻‍♂️ is but it feels like a subtly significant moment in our descent into totalitarianism that will end up in a history book even if we don’t blink twice at it today.

We’re living in hell

The DOGE takeover deepens the view of government data as a resource exploited by a few elite (and private) actors, write Eric Gordon and Neil Kleiman. But especially at state and local levels, we can still reclaim civic tech from power brokers and give it back to the people, they write.

“Anything a writer writes should be written with the urgency of what they would write if someone were holding a gun in their mouth…”

Now, more than ever.

It has been maddening to watch the US news media stumble & fail abysmally to appropriately label the actions of the Trump regime as grossly incompetent & fascistic. I am grateful, however, to see outlets like @wired.com continue to provide highly relevant and urgently needed journalism like this. 🙏🏻

NEW: In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies.

By @alecmac.bsky.social

The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law