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Ben Werdmuller
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I lead technology at ProPublica and write speculative fiction. This is a personal account. Every day, I write about tech, democracy, and society at https://werd.io. More about me: https://about.werd.io

A Push to Stop Police Ticketing in Illinois Schools Becomes Urgent in the Trump Era https://werd.io/2025/a-push-to-stop-police-ticketing-in-illinois-schools-becomes

The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s power grab: a coup veiled by chaos https://werd.io/2025/the-guardian-view-on-donald-trumps-power-grab-a-coup

Musk’s Takeover Of The Government’s Computer Systems Needs To Be Understood As A Cyberattack, Or Worse https://werd.io/2025/musks-takeover-of-the-governments-computer-systems-needs-to-be

What's happening right now is right-wing fascism. These people are evil. If it's an encouraging start to you, then, at a bare minimum, we have nothing to say to each other.

Researchers rush to preserve federal health databases before they disappear from government websites https://werd.io/2025/researchers-rush-to-preserve-federal-health-databases-before-they-disappear

Not defending the deportations in the slightest. (I'm pro-immigration, though.) But what's happening right now is next level. It's truly ghoulish.

Imagine being so genuinely empty as a human being that you support a regime that conducts mass deportations and runs concentration camps because they support Bitcoin.

Everyone who supports what is happening right now is a fucking fascist. If that's you, that's what you are.