On Friday, January 31, the alarms started to sound on social media, particularly Bluesky. Federal workers in DC and regional offices were receiving severance offers or layoff notices in their email clients after 5pm. Young men claiming to work for Elon Musk’s DOGE project were entering Federal office buildings in numbers, and gaining access to server rooms. They reportedly entered Treasury and ASAID first. In the 4 hours or so it took me to ride an Amtrak train from New York to Boston, I saw the final end of the American empire commence.

It was a sudden and shocking turn of events. The executive was taking full control of the bureaucratic state and bypassing Congress. Offices that were funded to remain open per the 2025 budget were being closed

Since that Friday, life in this nation has been hell. Each weekend, another Federal agency is shrunken or shut down. Each week, the Trump administration commits an atocity or makes a fateful policy decision,. A guiding principle of these actions appears to be finding and cutting-off the sources for tolerance and respect in our culture (which they disparage as “wokeness”). This has led to a sudden stop to Federally-funded research as well as funding and reimbursements for higher education. The wokeness nust be stopped at any cost.

And now, on April 14, it has come to this - willful contempt of both a Federal District judge and the Supreme Court.

This nation can make anyone a slave by kidnapping them and forcibly fly them to either Panama or El Salvador. We are paying those two nations to take in slaves that they own and can do what they with to them.

I have written for years that this nation under Donald Trump is not sustainable. It is breaking apart. I don’t know if this republic can withstand another 80 days of this, given what the last 80 have brought. It’s collapsing so quickly, it’s fairly violent.

The damage already done has been catastrophic and will span decades. There aren’t enough days in our lifetimes to put this nation back together. It would be better to have a revolution or civil war to blow up what’s left so some of us can start over.

I think war is coming. Not midterms. War.