Sure, what're the requirements? System/knowledge/etc

All pleading you do is special, chief

Not usually the proximate cause, but when you tease out individual threads you often end up at billionaire-funded efforts, up to and including the campaign funding structure of the republican party which is actively harming all three of those projects.

Writing this out, and doing the research to fill in my blanks, was interesting for my own thinking.

Makes me realize the depth of the failure in the US right now, where both modes have broken down. No one is keeping law abreast with society right now. Article III is unwilling, and II incapable.

its also, crucially, made all of us worse. some of us by a lot, others by just a little. but a piece of all of us has rotted away by necessity of having to accept this in order to go on with our lives, or by refusing to accept it and bearing the strain of that

The Supreme Court majority has decided that they are the fact-finders, and the facts are what they want them to be, and quite frankly if District Courts disagree, they can pound sand because they're not the ones in charge.

They're right about the last part. But the damage they're doing is longterm.

Some incredible details in this piece
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted