This guy!

In 2025 the US still claims to be the world’s only true superpower; its support and weaponry has helped keep Russia from the gates of Kyiv without firing a shot or placing a single US soldier on the ground. www.aei.org/articles/unr...

The Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71 ended with the Treaty of Frankfurt in 1871, which saw France lose territory in Alsace and Lorraine. Ultimately, these wars ended with negotiated capitulation. opil.ouplaw.com/display/10.1...

The Crimean war ended with another Treaty of Paris in 1856 and involved Russia agreeing to the neutrality of the Black Sea and the loss of the territories it had captured from the Ottoman empire. opil.ouplaw.com/display/10.1...

“It broke the myth that all whites were racist,” he says, because “for a lot of people in our community, it was the first time they ever had direct contact with any white person.”

The city demolished housing projects that hadn’t even suffered storm damage, eliminating thousands of affordable units at the height of a housing crisis:

As Fouts explains;

Much of what turned Katrina “from a disaster to a tragedy” (as Rahim said) was the way that lawmakers, city officials, and local business groups chose to use the opportunity to reinforce the city’s worst inequalities:

In the aftermath, while some like Rahim were organizing relief efforts, white communities focused on keeping out Black storm refugees. ProPublica explains: www.propublica.org/article/post...

Common Ground attracted legions of volunteers from outside the city and became a symbol of solidarity and self-determination. Nevertheless, Rahim sees the tragedy of Katrina as a critical “turning point to the right” because:

This level of data integration means that government officials can use potential future risks to justify present action. The predictive turn in governance aligns with a broader shift toward what some scholars call “preemptive security." academic.oup.com/ips/article-...

And the monitoring of anti-war protesters during the Vietnam era are just a few. sk.sagepub.com/ency/edvol/t...

U.S. history provides warning examples: The mass surveillance of Muslim communities after 9/11; time.com/6097712/musl...

However, the political and social stakes are different in public governance. Centralized, attribute-based searching, whether by location, immigration status, tattoos or affiliations, creates the capacity for mass profiling. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This can involve mapping a suspected gang member’s network; www.nola.com/auth0-redire...

Gotham is not simply a database. It takes fragmented data, scattered across various agencies and stored in different formats, and transforms it into a unified, searchable web. assets.applytosupply.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/g-cloud-14/d...

I am a researcher who studies the intersection of data governance, digital technologies and the U.S. federal government. scholar.google.com/citations?us...

‘Naples is dead’: How overtourism is hollowing out Italian cities: Rising numbers of visitors are swamping the locals, making housing scarce, increasing pollution and even emptying churches. 🧵2/2 www.politico.eu/article/napl...

‘Naples is dead’: How overtourism is hollowing out Italian cities: 🧵 Rising numbers of visitors are swamping the locals, making housing scarce, increasing pollution and even emptying churches. www.politico.eu/article/napl...

"I think many Americans wrongly believe there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from “democracy” to “authoritarianism.” Instead, this is exactly how it happens — a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, a presidential diktat unchallenged." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Aligning property rights with current political power and defending that "corporate power should become the organizing force in society." They seek to assert inequality not as an accident, but as a structure. qz.com/1007144/the-...