Jimmy Kimmel’s “sin” wasn’t a joke — it was explaining how political violence really works. ABC pulled him for pulling back the curtain. Read The Magician’s Sin: medium.com/@evanplainfi... #CharlieKirk
Evan Plainfield
Evan Plainfield
@evanplainfield.bsky.social
Documenting the new American oligarchy. Writing to restore democratic power. Weekly essays on @Medium about money, power, and the fight for real democracy.
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Tyler Robinson carved his bullet casings with gaming memes and anti-fascist slogans. Not ideology. Algorithmic incoherence. 7 tech CEOs bought seats at Trump's inauguration. Now they stay silent as he blames "leftist ideology" for Kirk's death instead of their radicalization engines. #CharlieKirk
Trump was never a secret Russian agent—he didn’t have to be. His interests and insecurities aligned so perfectly with Putin’s goals that control wasn’t needed. Cultivated alignment, not espionage. 📖 Read more: medium.com/the-future-s... (Satire, but uncomfortably close.) #MAGA
Nothing says 'America First' like shutting down cyber defenses against the country that attacked our elections. But don’t worry, I’m sure this is all just 4D chess and not, you know, treason in plain sight.
GOP seems incapable of reading the neon sign Trump is holding up announcing his alleigance to Putin. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...
📜 The Future Symposium on the Fall of Democracy is live. Democracy rarely falls in a day—it unravels, inch by inch. This project reconstructs the decline in real-time. 🔗 medium.com/the-future-symposium-on-the-fall-of-democracy/welcome-to-the-symposium-dfc9dcdd331b #Democracy #Satire #History
🚨 Musk is privatizing the government 🚨 DOGE isn’t about efficiency—it’s about replacing public services with corporate rule. From NASA to USAID, education to broadband, billionaires are taking over. Will we fight back before it’s too late? 📖 Read more: link.medium.com/9ObR34EL2Qb
The Cult of the CEO is devouring Silicon Valley, and Meta is next. Zuckerberg is doing his best Jack Welch impression: mass layoffs, crushing dissent, and calling it strength. But history tells us where this road leads. Full read here: link.medium.com/b1oCDOps1Qb
Absolutely horrific. This wasn’t just a crime—it was an act of pure, calculated cruelty. Sam Nordquist deserved a life of safety and dignity, not this unimaginable brutality. Anyone still denying the real-world consequences of escalating anti-trans rhetoric needs to wake up.
Five people have been charged with second degree murder over the death of Sam Nordquist, 24, who police say was tortured for more than a month in a case that investigators described as “beyond depraved.”
The Trump admin was forced to restore critical health websites but couldn’t resist slapping a digital scarlet letter on them first. Nothing says 'small government' like using federal agencies to shame vulnerable people.
The Trump admin has posted stigmatizing notes at the top of CDC, HHS and FDA websites it's been forced by a judge to restore. These include websites for people struggling with mental health issues. www.404media.co/trump-admin-...
RFK Jr. isn’t "controversial." He’s a conspiracy theorist whose lies have cost lives. Putting him in charge of public health isn’t just reckless. It’s catastrophic. This isn’t about policy. It’s about dismantling science itself all because he brought Trump 5% of his voters.
The madness of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Billionaires have chipped away at the public sector for decades—now they’re accelerating the demolition. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (#DOGE) isn’t about making gov’t work better—it’s about making sure it barely works at all. 📖 Read more: link.medium.com/F3E2jlofXQb
Welch gutted companies. #Musk is gutting government. The CEO cult wasn’t about ‘efficiency’—it was a hostile takeover of democracy. The question is: Do we fight back or submit? medium.com/@evanplainfi...
Step 1: Cut funding. Step 2: Fire the watchdog. Step 3: Call it ‘efficiency.’ Step 4: Profit.
Paul Martin, the inspector general for the USAID, has been fired after resisting the administration. Just a day ago, his office released a report warning that staff reductions and spending freezes put hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars at risk of misuse and waste. This is the way.
Nothing says ‘limited government’ like tracking every keystroke of the people still allowed to work.
“Those employees who remain are being warned to expect their actions to be surveilled, from their swipes into government facilities to the keystrokes they type on their computers.” Definite Big Brother energy here. www.npr.org/2025/02/11/n...
The Gilded Age wasn’t glamorous—it was greed and inequality. Yet Trump embraces a new one, celebrating an era that crushed workers. History shows unchecked capitalism leads to people fighting back. Change happens—but only if we make it. Read more: 🔗 link.medium.com/cLzzZQZFQQb #GildedAge
When you can't legally eliminate an agency, you can still break its quorum. Notice the pattern: 300+ labor cases now frozen at Tesla, Amazon, Starbucks. Institutional paralysis through strategic vacancy - power's favorite workaround since 1935.
A former NLRB member sued President Trump, alleging she was illegally fired from the federal government agency. Gwynne Wilcox, said in a lawsuit that her firing last week violated the National Labor Relations Act reut.rs/4hKiXC3
🚨 #WelchWednesdays begins! 🚨 Jack Welch wasn’t a genius—he was a corporate arsonist who gutted GE, gamed Wall Street & set the stage for today’s CEO emperors. Join me over the next 5 Wednesdays as I unpack the real cost of Welchism. 🔗 link.medium.com/xZ36kKr8JQb
Notice how institutional resistance forms: 20 lawsuits challenging 11 executive orders, legislation targeting Treasury access, oversight hearings. When power moves fast, the bureaucratic battlefield becomes terrain for constitutional conflict.
New Hakeem Jeffries letter to colleagues: "As we prepare to come back into session tomorrow, House Democrats will continue to push back against the far-right extremism that is being relentlessly unleashed on the American people."
Standard Oil wrote the playbook: control infrastructure, eliminate competition, reshape markets. From Rockefeller to Big Tech, power's architecture stays consistent. #AmericanOligarchy Link: link.medium.com/RLb52THWGQb
Pardons aren't just about individual cases - they're about reshaping institutional accountability. When power selectively absolves political violence but can't shield from criminal negligence, we see where system priorities truly lie.
A woman who was pardoned by President Trump for her role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced this week to 10 years in prison for driving drunk and killing a passenger in another car, nearly a year after the riot.
The Tech Industrial Complex isn't new - it's running on Rails laid in the 1870s. From Vanderbilt's tracks to Zuckerberg's algorithms, power's playbook remains consistent. New piece on the patterns that connect America's first corporate empire to today's digital one: link.medium.com/6qk3GIDnxQb
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Trump demanding an apology from a bishop for a sermon on mercy? It’s giving Sadducees demanding validation from Jesus & John the Baptist while clinging to power. The parallels write themselves.
First time i ever heard of someone asking the preacher for an apology for a sermon and I’ve had just a bit of experience with church going. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Important reminder from @ocasio-cortez.house.gov : Rights don’t stop at mass deportations. Protect yourself and others. Know the difference between judicial and non-judicial warrants. Stay informed. 🛑🏠 #ImmigrantRights
You do NOT have to speak to ICE without a JUDICIAL warrant. If they attempt to enter your home or your workplace, ask for a warrant. Sometimes they will try to use other, non qualifying paperwork. They need a warrant. (2/3)
The Gilded Age was a time of vast wealth, breathtaking innovation—and crushing inequality. Sound familiar? History has a lot to teach us about today. 🧵👇 link.medium.com/BcGUK9NqnQb #GildedAge #Inequality
Power has its own rituals - and its own symbolism. A CEO-flanked president declining the Bible isn't rejecting tradition; he's signaling whose gospel really matters in our tech oligarchy. Markets surge as the message lands. #TechIndustrialComplex Link: www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
As tech titans surround today's inauguration, Paine's vision of democratic commerce lies in ruins. The mask slips: those who control our digital and financial infrastructure now stand at the center of political power. My latest: link.medium.com/WN01tX9rjQb #AmericanOligarchy
The symbolism couldn't be clearer: As tech billionaires surround the presidential dais today, we're witnessing the perfect visualization of what Biden just warned about - the merger of political and technological power into a 'tech industrial complex.' (1/5) #TechIndustrialComplex #AmericanOligarchy
The symbolism couldn't be clearer: As tech billionaires surround the presidential dais today, we're witnessing the perfect visualization of what Biden just warned about - the merger of political and technological power into a 'tech industrial complex.' (1/5) #TechIndustrialComplex #AmericanOligarchy
The symbolism couldn't be clearer: As tech billionaires surround the presidential dais today, we're witnessing the perfect visualization of what Biden just warned about - the merger of political and technological power into a 'tech industrial complex.' (1/5) #TechIndustrialComplex #AmericanOligarchy
From the Society of Cincinnati to BlackRock's Aladdin - how America's would-be aristocrats evolved from failed land-based power to algorithmic control. A deep dive into the patterns of oligarchic evolution across American history. link.medium.com/jZvqiRUneQb #AmericanOligarchy