The insanity continuum

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 16:44:00 -0800

Madness spins unchecked,
Echoes shatter silent minds—
Ruin wakes, and smiles.

Of all the things that transpired in the last two weeks, this judgement by the Supreme Court in the US will perhaps be the most damaging in the long-term. While the world’s attention is focussed on the economic damage of the Trump tariffs, the preeminent court in the US just gave the authoritarians even more power to act with impunity. At this point, why bother with laws? Why pretend like the courts matter? The partian judges who are fine accepting bribes now get to hand over judicial power to the fascists.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a dissent, identified how much is at stake: “The implications of the government’s position” are “that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal. History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but this nation’s system of laws is designed to prevent, not enable, their rise.”

Chaos on Shivanand Velmurugan — Product leader. Systems thinker.

The insanity continuum