This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pra
A short note here on what I’m covering and why. The political changes we’re seeing across the world are underpinned by technological ones that are now accelerating. For more than a decade, I’ve been trying to investigate and expose these forces. Since 2016 that’s included following a thread that led from Brexit to Trump via a shady data company called Cambridge Analytica and the revelation of a profound threat exploit at the heart of our democracies. But what’s happening now in the US is a paradigm shift: this is Broligarchy, a concept I coined last summer when I warned that what we were seeing was the proposed merger of Silicon Valley with state power. That has now happened. Writing about this from the UK, it’s clear we have a choice: we help lead the fight back against it. Or it comes for us next. Please share this with family and friends if you feel it’s of value. Thank you, as ever, Carol | Carol Cadwalladr via Substack, 10 FEB 2025
ETA APR 2026: For more on what Cadwalladr has reported since the above post, see the "Keep Reading" section below and her writing at The Nerve, the women-owned independent journalism site she co-founded after leaving The Guardian.
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!! UPDATE 22 MAY 26 !!
Former Congressman Denver Riggleman's book about January 6, 2021 -- audio book also available. If you aren't familiar with the $1.776B Trump Administration slush fund (tax-payer dollars) he's discussing, get up to speed via historian Heather Cox Richardson (short explanation below, longer version here).
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UPDATE 14 APR 26
TODAY Congressman and Constitutional scholar Jamie Raskin (D-MD) introduced a bill setting up a 25th Amendment process to remove Trump from office. Yes, there are obstacles. Raskin is forcing the necessary conversation and pushing GOP who are giving Trump cover further into the spotlight. It falls to all Americans to raise our voices. See related post here.
Meanwhile, this APRIL 2026 commentary at The Nerve from Timothy Snyder and reporting from ProPublica are VERY MUCH CONNECTED.
When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests to
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UPDATE 25 AUG 25
Today's remarks from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, calling out Trump's intent to deploy military in U.S. Cities, along with remarks from Anne Applebaum re: authoritarian creep in the United States (not to be confused for the authoritarian Creep in the Oval Office). ETA: This is what became the ICE Surge in Minnesota and elsewhere.
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NECESSARY INTERRUPTION: GET TO WORK
To overcome or even slow the momentum of the forces arrayed against us will require our resolve, and an ecosystem of resistance – litigation, activism, organizing, direct action, communications, political pressure, and our voices raised to speak truth to power. We may not be able to score a knock-out punch, but we can score a series of technical knockouts against our opponents to reduce the intensity of their efforts. This will take all of us, committing to do what we can.
To insist that nothing can be done is to surrender to the pull of inertia. ... People are doing things. You will meet those people when you start doing things. - Sherrilyn Ifill in 'Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything? Yes. And You Can Too.'
