James Gleick

Imagine a system of government where the final arbiters of everything are a tiny group of judges with lifetime tenure, and these judges are allowed to take money from people on whose cases they rule.

Crazy, right? https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/25/neil-gorsuch-colorado-property-sale-00093579

Law firm head bought Gorsuch-owned property

The Supreme Court justice did not report the identity of the purchaser, whose firm has had numerous cases before the court.

POLITICO
Apr 25, 2023 at 6:00pmWeb
Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®Apr 25, 2023
@JamesGleick Certain moneyed interests identified and exploited the Supreme Court zero-day hack around disclosures decades ago, it turns out.
Show threadVoronApr 25, 2023
@JamesGleick @DrJackBrown because people have been comfortable they have ignored systemic flaws and problems for a long, long time
Show threadSteve VladApr 25, 2023
@JamesGleick 🤦🏼‍♂️ Oh for fucks sake….
Show threadInfiniteOneApr 25, 2023
@JamesGleick @wmclark This is America, from the Birth. Need not imagine anything, other than people just needing to wake up from the “American Dream.”
Show threadKris SamselApr 25, 2023
@JamesGleick i’m going to call it like it is.
Dystopian. 500 human beings can die on the street from poverty, everyday. Thousands get gun down, in four months from guns.
Corruption so rampant, most isn’t being addressed.
What do you call this insane society that we’re living in?
Show threadUnprecedented 2023Apr 25, 2023
@JamesGleick incest.
Show threadjoe•iuculano Apr 25, 2023

@JamesGleick
So where is America heading?

Why did the name "Judge Dredd" cross my mind?

«Judge Dredd is a law enforcement and judicial officer in the dystopian future city of Mega-City One, which covers most of the east coast of North America. He is a "street judge", empowered to summarily arrest, convict, sentence, and execute criminals.»

Courtesy: Wikipedia

Show threadonecaliberalApr 26, 2023
@JamesGleick And we can’t do anything about it because, reasons.