Saturday, May 30, 2026


 
I sent this to Gillibrand, Schumer & Riley, as well, and anyone who wants to share it? We are also SNAIL MAILING it.
(IN)Justice John Roberts
"Dear Justice Roberts,
"It has come to my attention through your various media appearances that your feelings are hurt — that people view you and your Court as political actors, which you insist is not an accurate understanding of what the Court does.
"So let me resolve the confusion: the misunderstanding is yours, not ours.
"People believe your Court is political because it is and acts so in plain view of the nation.
"You unleash unlimited corporate money into elections by inventing constitutional protections for concentrated wealth. You dismantle voting protections while dining with the very political movement that benefits from their destruction. You expand presidential immunity in ways conveniently favorable to a corrupt executive you have rewarded with extraordinary deference, 90% deference. And then you perform public astonishment when Americans recognize your pattern.
"Your Court did not merely 'interpret' the Constitution. It selectively hollowed it out whenever democratic participation threatened entrenched power.
"Citizens United accelerated America’s transformation into an oligarchy where billionaires and corporations wield more political influence than millions of citizens combined. Shelby County gutted the Voting Rights Act, after which states moved with remarkable speed to burden the very voters the Act was designed to protect. The immunity ruling signaled that sufficient power can place a president beyond meaningful accountability.
"Then you publicly mourn the collapse of trust. What exactly did you think would happen?
"Legitimacy is not something a court grants itself while issuing ideologically convenient outcomes wrapped in constitutional language — when the public is fortunate enough to even receive a full opinion instead of another consequential ruling buried in the shadow docket.
"Legitimacy is earned through restraint, consistency, ethical seriousness, and fidelity to principle even when principle is inconvenient to power.
"This is precisely the credibility your Court squandered. We understand perfectly well what we have been watching. We all see you and your court and its role in what our nation has become.
"And we are furious — not because we are too ignorant to understand constitutional law, but because we are capable of reading the Constitution you claim to defend- while watching this Court repeatedly twist it to serve its own ideological will.
"History will remember this era. And it will remember you and your Court- not as a guardian of constitutional democracy, but as a key institution that eroded it. That is already your legacy, so stop whining- you earned a nation's scorn."
Elizabeth Layton

Thursday, May 28, 2026


Are you missing the trees for the forest?
Peter Thiel co-founded Palantir in 2003 with a stated mission to make Western liberal democracy legible to itself through data, a formulation that contained within it the entire logic of what followed: the conversion of surveillance capacity into governance capacity, and the positioning of private actors as the architects of that conversion.
 
Larry Ellison built Oracle into the world's second-largest software company and then, through the acquisition of Cerner in 2022, into the custodian of the largest integrated healthcare records database in the United States, a position he has leveraged into federal contracts that place Oracle's infrastructure at the center of the government's health, financial, and administrative data architecture.
 
Mark Zuckerberg built the world's largest behavioral surveillance system under the name of a social network, producing a real-time map of human associational relationships, political expressions, and behavioral patterns that government agencies access through legal process, data broker intermediaries, and the structural fact that Meta's platforms are where organizing happens.
 
Elon Musk acquired the platform through which political resistance most visibly organizes, eliminated the content moderation architecture that previously created friction between speech and surveillance, and simultaneously obtained operational access to federal administrative data systems through his role in the executive branch's efficiency initiative.
 
Alex Karp, Palantir's CEO, built the connective tissue: the data integration and analysis platform that takes what Oracle stores, what Meta produces, what X amplifies, and what federal agencies collect, and routes it through a unified analytical architecture whose outputs power immigration enforcement, law enforcement intelligence, child welfare risk scoring, healthcare surveillance, and financial crime investigation simultaneously.
 
These actors compete with each other. They sue each other, outbid each other for government contracts, and position themselves publicly as operating toward different ends. Those conflicts are genuine at the level of short-term and mid-term corporate interest. They are irrelevant at the level of structural consequence.
 
What these five actors share is not a coordination agreement. What they share is a common political project whose success depends on the same conditions: the elimination of meaningful regulatory constraint on algorithmic governance, the federalization of AI infrastructure as a national security interest that places it beyond ordinary democratic accountability, the consolidation of data control under private corporate architectures that governments can access but cannot govern, and the suppression of the organized community resistance that would otherwise impose accountability on that consolidation.
These conditions do not require their cooperation. They require only that none of them act to undermine them, and none of them has.
 
The absence of a single unified corporate entity is not a gap in this architecture. It is a design feature. A merged mega-corporation would create a single point of accountability, a single target for regulatory action, a single actor whose exposure would compromise the entire system. The distributed architecture is more resilient precisely because it is distributed. When Palantir's ICE contracts produce public outrage, Oracle's healthcare data infrastructure continues operating. When Meta faces congressional scrutiny over its surveillance practices, Palantir's law enforcement contracts expand. When Musk's government access generates political opposition, Thiel's political investments work to ensure that the officials responsible for oversight remain structurally aligned with the infrastructure's expansion.
 
The distribution of the system across competing corporate entities, each with its own political relationships, its own public narrative, and its own apparent independence from the others, is what makes the system difficult to name, difficult to challenge, and nearly impossible to dismantle through the accountability mechanisms that democratic governance provides.
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 The Same Families Who Tried to Overthrow FDR Are Running The Government Right Now

A documented trail of money, think tanks, and personnel from the 1933 Business Plot to Project 2025.

 In 1933, a circle of Wall Street financiers allegedly hatched a plan to overthrow Franklin Roosevelt. They didn’t want to kill him. They wanted to keep him in his chair, smiling for photographs, while a puppet official — controlled by the men who paid for the operation — ran the country.

This was the during height of the Great Depression. For the average American, life was one in four men out of work, and the other three terrified they were next. Families lived in shacks made of scrap wood and tar paper. Children went to school hungry. Men walked miles every day looking for work that didn’t exist.


Much like today — the wealthiest 1% owned more than the bottom 40% combined — and these men had the nerve to call Roosevelts ideas dangerous.

Americans were suffering, and close to revolting, and FDR knew it. So, he started to put laws into place to help the average American instead of the ultra-wealthy. And the billionaires were pissed. So they started to scheme. The scheme (known as the Business Plot) failed. The scheme collapsed when the general they recruited refused to play along and reported it to Congress. No one was prosecuted. The ambition, however, never died. 

 That plan took nearly a century to complete. You may know it was “Mandate for Leadership” or “Project 2025.” 

The same families whose fortunes bankrolled opposition to the New Deal — the capitalists who bankrolled an attempted government coup in the 1930s — have funded a network of think tanks, legal societies, and personnel databases that accomplish something the original capitalists could only dream of.

So, to give you some context.

In America, anyone that didn’t live in an industrialists or wall-street financiers family was in a crisis. They were starving to death. So, FDR enacted what was known as the New Deal. This was not one single law, but a collection of programs built around three goals: Relief, Recovery, and Reform. Relief meant getting immediate help to the suffering. Recovery meant restarting the economy. Reform meant changing the rules so it could never get this bad again. 

The Civilian Conservation Corps put hundreds of thousands of young men to work. The Tennessee Valley Authority brought electricity to seven states. The FDIC insured ordinary people’s bank deposits for the first time, so their money was protected. The SEC put the government in charge of watching the stock market. The WPA gave 8.5 million people jobs, and they built roads, bridges, schools, and parks with their own hands. 

And for the worker everything changed. For the first time, the government drew a line in the dirt and said: you cannot be worked to death for nothing.

The new deal gave workers the right to unionize, the 8-hour workday, a minimum wage., the abolition of child labor, and a Social Security check waiting for you if you lived long enough to stop working.

That is why America didn’t revolt. Not because people stopped being angry but because for the first time in a generation, it appeared that the government was visibly, concretely, undeniably on their side. 

This was a direct assault on the idea that the government owed the rich everything and the poor nothing. It helped by putting millions back to work, stabilizing banks, feeding the hungry, and for the first time in a generation, making ordinary people feel like this country actually belonged to them.

The Plot and the People Behind It

The Business Plot, as it came to be known, was not hatched by fringe actors. The men named in congressional testimony (Grayson M.-P. Murphy (a Morgan banker), Irénée du Pont, John W. Davis (J.P. Morgan’s chief counsel), and former Democratic National Committee chairman John Jacob Raskob were among the most powerful financiers in America.

They hated Roosevelt’s New Deal.

When their coup failed, they got up, and decided to try again. In 1934, the same cast founded the American Liberty League, the “respectable” face of elite opposition to the New Deal. The du Pont family provided roughly 30% of its funding.

The League distributed over five million publications, built 345 college chapters, and mounted constitutional challenges to New Deal legislation. They argued that programs like the Wagner Act (that gives Americans the right to unionize) violated property rights and exceeded federal power.

The arguments were sophisticated, but the goal was unchanged… they needed to protect their concentrated wealth from democratic interference. Roosevelt won in a 1936 landslide. The League dissolved, but the donor network didn’t.

Following the Money

What followed was not coincidence but continuity that is documented in foundation tax filings, archival papers, and three generations of overlapping board memberships.

The Foundation for Economic Education, America’s first modern free-market “think tank,” launched in 1946 with trustees and board members drawn from the executive ranks of General Motors, Chrysler, and DuPont.

The American Enterprise Institute, founded as the League was collapsing, carried the same agenda in a more ‘academic’ wrapper. The AEI still exists today — where members lobby for pharmaceutical companies who later “donated” them hundreds of thousands of dollars among other ultra-wealthy corporations.

Interesting Fact: Dr. Sally Satel, the AEI scholar exposed by ProPublica for publishing articles that downplayed OxyContin's role in the opioid crisis while citing research paid for by that company, was later sponsored by Vice President JD Vance's nonprofit, Our Ohio Renewal, which paid for her year-long residency in Appalachian Ohio.

Then came the John Birch Society. Founded in 1958, its charter members included Fred Koch — father of Charles and David — and Harry Bradley, whose foundation would become one of conservatism’s largest funders. Pierre S. du Pont III provided a direct family link across organizations. 

Fred Koch had built refineries for both Stalin and Hitler before becoming a fierce anti-communist; his son Charles held a lifetime JBS membership until 1968.

The Mellon-Scaife line is the most traceable of them all.

Andrew Mellon (Treasury Secretary under three presidents and a Liberty League donor) passed his fortune and his politics down through his family.

His grand-niece’s son, Richard Mellon Scaife, contributed approximately $900,000 to the Heritage Foundation in its founding year.

By 1998, his foundations had given Heritage more than $23 million. His total documented giving to conservative causes exceeded $340 million. Koch, Bradley, and Olin foundations added tens of millions more to Heritage and to the Federalist Society, the organization that moved originalism constitutional theory from the ‘legal fringe” group to the Supreme Court majority.

Fred Koch had built refineries for both Stalin and Hitler before becoming a fierce anti-communist; his son Charles held a lifetime JBS membership until 1968.

The Mellon-Scaife line is the most traceable of them all.

Andrew Mellon (Treasury Secretary under three presidents and a Liberty League donor) passed his fortune and his politics down through his family.

His grand-niece’s son, Richard Mellon Scaife, contributed approximately $900,000 to the Heritage Foundation in its founding year.

By 1998, his foundations had given Heritage more than $23 million. His total documented giving to conservative causes exceeded $340 million. Koch, Bradley, and Olin foundations added tens of millions more to Heritage and to the Federalist Society, the organization that moved originalist constitutional theory from the ‘legal fringe” group to the Supreme Court majority.

  • The Liberty League declared its mission to “defend and uphold the Constitution” and “foster the right to work, earn, save, and acquire property.”

  • The Federalist Society’s stated objectives are “checking federal power, protecting individual liberty and interpreting the Constitution according to its original meaning.”

The same argument. The same families. The same money.


The Vessel

The Business Plot’s fatal flaw was its crudeness. They wanted to take control pay paying 500,000 starving veterans to march on Washington.

What the donor network eventually understood (thanks to Lewis Powell’s 1971 memorandum to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) was that you don’t need an army. You need a system.

The Heritage Foundation's Mandate for Leadership is a conservative “governing manual” that tells an incoming president exactly what to do and how to do it. It started in 1979 and Reagan was the first president to run with it. He handed copies to his whole cabinet on day one and stacked his administration with the people who wrote it.

Tax cuts, deregulation, shrinking federal agencies it all came from that book. Reagan later called Heritage a "vital force" in his presidency.

The Mandate For Leadership document is a 900-page, department-by-department manual for dismantling the federal administrative state, written by over 350 former officials, ready for a president’s signature on Day One.

The America First Policy Institute has prepared hundreds of additional executive orders. The Claremont Institute provides the legal structure through the Unitary Executive Theory, which argues a president should have total control over the federal workforce and government. No more checks and balances. 

 


The final part is personnel.

Heritage has spent tens of millions building a database of thousands of pre-vetted political loyalists ready to fill the roughly 4,000+ open-positions — many of which the administration has already opened up with DOGE in 2025. The way they do this is through Schedule F. Which is a policy to reclassify 50,000 career civil servants as at-will employees, removable by any president who gives an inconvenient order.

Schedule F is something we first saw during the first Trump administration, and he brought it back with an executive order on day one of the second.

The structure is complete: think tanks write the policy, the personnel database installs the staff, and Federalist Society-vetted judges uphold the result in court. The president provides the electoral mandate and the signature. He doesn’t need to know how the Department of the Interior works.

 

 

  

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

 
A new WIRED investigation exposes how federal agencies, including the DHS and FBI along with fusion centers nationwide, are now tracking what they call “anti-tech extremists.”
The label is broad enough to potentially include ordinary citizens raising concerns about AI job displacement, data centers consuming massive amounts of power and water, and the rapid expansion of unchecked technology.
More than 1,000 pages of internal documents reviewed by WIRED reveal intelligence reports that link public opposition to AI and data centers with “anti-tech violent extremism.”
Indicators flagged in these reports include attending town hall meetings, taking photos near construction sites, participating in local budget discussions, and sharing information online about rising electricity costs or environmental strain.
This monitoring comes as residents in at least 42 states push back against data center projects that strain local infrastructure and drive up energy prices.
Most of these groups operate through legal channels and civic participation.
Yet fusion center assessments appear to lump them in with fringe movements, sometimes drawing loose connections to historical extremists.
The scale of this worries civil liberties advocates.
Law enforcement is documenting protected activities such as public dissent, neighborhood organizing, and criticism of major tech companies.
Experts point out this approach mirrors earlier surveillance efforts that later drew criticism for overbreadth and chilling legitimate speech.
To be clear, any actual violence deserves investigation and prosecution.
But treating widespread, reasonable anxiety about job losses, privacy erosion, and the environmental toll of Big Tech infrastructure as a form of extremism represents a significant shift in priorities.
It suggests that questioning elite-driven technological change could now place individuals on the radar of domestic intelligence efforts.
With AI systems spreading quickly and data centers multiplying across communities, the public has every right to debate these changes without fear of being labeled a threat.
Americans should not have to worry that voicing concerns will land them in threat assessments.
This development deserves close attention and greater transparency from those directing these programs.
As I have said , numerous times over the last fourteen years... The increasing militarization of the police is designed to turn the police force into an army of occupation for the totalitarian take down of our country...


 7 Laws and Standards That Require The United States to Cut Off All Weapons to Israel

Tuesday, May 26, 2026

They're Getting Rich. You're Getting Replaced. And Nobody Is Stopping It.
Let's start with what Elon Musk wants you to believe.
He wants you to believe that artificial intelligence is going to make everyone rich. That when the robots take your job, the government will send you a check. That this is all going to work out fine and you shouldn't worry about it and you definitely shouldn't fight it.
Here's what he's not telling you.
Elon Musk helped elect the politicians who just cut your food stamps. Who just gutted Medicaid. Who just made it harder to qualify for unemployment. The same political movement that spent years telling you government handouts were immoral is now asking you to trust that when AI takes your job, those same politicians will write you a check every month.
Does that sound right to you?
While Musk was reassuring you, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the biggest AI companies in the world, said publicly that AI could eliminate half of all entry level white collar jobs within one to five years and push the unemployment rate to 20%. The CEO of Microsoft AI said most white collar work will be fully automated within the next 12 to 18 months. Standard Chartered bank just announced it was cutting 8,000 jobs and replacing them with AI. In the memo announcing those cuts, they called the workers being eliminated "lower value human capital." (Reuters, May 20, 2026)
Lower value human capital. That's you. That's your kids. That's your neighbor who has worked the same job for 15 years.
These are not fringe predictions from doomsayers. These are the people building this technology telling you exactly what it is going to do. And the investors lining up to buy SpaceX at a $1.5 trillion valuation and Anthropic at its first quarterly profit are not doing it because they think AI is going to make your life better. They are doing it because they think AI is going to make them incomprehensibly rich. (Wall Street Journal, May 24, 2026)
Now here's the part that should make you furious.
Most people hear "20% unemployment" and think about the people without jobs. That's not the whole picture. Not even close.
Here's what 20% unemployment actually means for everyone else. For you.
It means your employer has 50 applications on file for your position the day you think about asking for a raise. So you don't ask. The person next to you doesn't ask either because you've both done the math. It means benefits get cut and you accept it because the alternative is joining the 20% who have nothing. It means mandatory overtime with no extra pay because you're grateful to still be there. Unsafe conditions you don't report. Managers you don't challenge. Abuse you absorb in silence because you have a mortgage and kids and no other options.
When enough people are desperate for work, desperation becomes the market price for labor. Every worker in America takes a pay cut whether they lose their job or not. Every worker loses the one thing that actually gave them power at the bargaining table. The ability to walk away.
That is not a side effect of what's coming. That is the point.
A workforce that can't say no is a workforce that will accept whatever it's offered. Longer hours. Lower wages. Fewer benefits. No unions. No complaints. Just gratitude for the privilege of still being employed while everyone around them drowns.
This is the dream. Not your dream. Theirs.
The billionaire class and the top 10% don't just benefit from AI replacing workers. They benefit from AI threatening to replace workers. You don't even have to fire everyone to break the back of American labor. You just have to make everyone afraid that they're next. Keep that fear alive and wages stay down, benefits stay gone, and nobody makes a sound about any of it.
That's not a conspiracy theory. That's just leverage. And right now every bit of it is shifting away from you and toward the people who already have everything.
Think about your town. Think about the people you know who are already one bad month away from real trouble. Now imagine the job market gets three times harder overnight. Imagine your kid graduates college and finds out the entry level jobs that used to exist for new graduates have been automated away. Imagine your employer knows that for every one of you sitting in that chair, there are thirty people outside who would take it for less. Imagine what that does to your ability to ask for anything at all.
That's not a dystopian fantasy. That's the math. And the people running these companies have already done it.
71% of Americans say AI is moving too fast. Two thirds of Americans do not trust the government to make sure AI is used appropriately. Twice as many Americans are pessimistic about AI as are optimistic. 60% of adults under 30 are worried AI will replace jobs they depend on. The people living in the real world, not the boardrooms, see exactly what is coming. (Economist/YouGov, May 12, 2026. CBS News, May 22, 2026)
So what did Donald Trump do about it?
He scrapped the only executive order that would have created even a voluntary framework for testing the most dangerous AI systems before release. Killed it at the last minute. His reason: he didn't want anything getting in the way of American competitiveness. (NBC News, May 21, 2026)
Translation: he didn't want anything getting in the way of his donors' profits.
The order wasn't even aggressive. It was voluntary. It just asked AI companies to cooperate with the government on testing advanced models before releasing them to the public. That was too much. That was a "blocker." So it's gone.
Meanwhile the most advanced AI model currently in existence has already demonstrated the ability to autonomously discover thousands of severe cybersecurity vulnerabilities in leading operating systems and web browsers. No regulation. No oversight. Just trust us. (NBC News, May 21, 2026)
Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, issued a sweeping document this week comparing this moment to the Tower of Babel. He said the concentration of immense digital power in the hands of a few private actors must be countered. He said humans risk being reduced to "mere cogs in a system driven toward ever greater efficiency." He called mass unemployment caused by AI "a true social calamity" and demanded robust legal frameworks and independent oversight right now. (Wall Street Journal, May 25, 2026)
The Pope said that.
Donald Trump said it might slow us down.
In the Great Depression, unemployment hit 25%. The suffering was so widespread and so visible that the country had no choice but to respond. We built Social Security. Unemployment insurance. Labor protections. The entire modern American safety net came out of that crisis because enough people were hurting that doing nothing was no longer survivable for any politician.
This time the disruption is coming faster than any of that can be rebuilt. And the people in charge are not building a safety net. They are actively tearing apart what's left of the one we already have, while the same people dismantling it promise you a check that will never come.
20% unemployment. Those are the words coming out of the mouths of the people who built this technology. Not critics. Not alarmists. The builders.
And not one person in Washington with the power to do anything about it is doing anything about it.
You should be worried.
You should be angry.
And the next time a billionaire tells you not to fight this, asks you to trust the process, promises you it will all work out, you should ask them one simple question.
Worked out for who?
Because the math is already done. The money is already moving. The jobs are already disappearing. And the people cashing in on all of it made very sure that the people who were supposed to protect you stepped aside first.
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Sources: Reuters, May 20, 2026. Wall Street Journal, May 23-25, 2026. NBC News, May 21, 2026. Economist/YouGov, May 12, 2026. CBS News, May 22, 2026.
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