Aaron Keating

How Musk and Trump Are Working to Consolidate Government Data About You (Gift Article) Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts.

My fellow Americans: Does this seem like something likely to protect or enhance your right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Or more like something a dictatorship would want to use for whatever purpose suits it? Read (no paywall) and decide for yourself: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

Paul Krugman is Wrong Why don't liberal pundits understand what's happening?

Wonder why this is happening? Because "Trump’s seemingly irrational policies...are not designed to succeed within the old paradigm, but to accelerate its failure. The tariffs are not economic tools—they are weapons in a class war, disguised as nationalist policy." More: substack.com/home/post/p-...

"It Can't Happen Here" Says the Country Where It's Happening. The real message of "First They Came"

The first two lines of Niemoller’s famous poem “First They Came” are likely not what you remember -- and the author is not some anti-fascist hero, either. Its significance today lies in both when he wrote it, as well as what he put down on paper. www.joewrote.com/p/it-cant-ha...

Yes. A corollary: this 2023 study surveyed 27,000+ people age 18-24 around the world and found those who first owned smartphones in elementary school reported much worse mental health in adulthood than those who got the devices later in their teens. sapienlabs.org/wp-content/u...

YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator

"We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone."

The list grows: Musk's minions have taken over the General Services Administration, a critical government agency that manages federal offices and technology. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Musk aides have locked workers out of Office of Personnel Management computer systems:
www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

USAID security chiefs were on leave after trying to stop Musk’s team from accessing classified info: www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Elon Musk’s task force has gained access to sensitive Treasury payment systems: www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

There's a coup underway right now, folks. Department by department, system by system, the federal government is being overthrown and overtaken by tech-oligarchs: