Mark Ramm: Debugging the Future @theramm.substack.com · 15/09/2026A customs summons went to a payments clearinghouse demanding "any and all records" on four labor and climate organizations. None of them were served. None were told. No judge reviewed it: not because anyone cut a corner but because that's how the instrument was built. 122
Mark Ramm: Debugging the Future @theramm.substack.com · 26/06/2026My latest post on substack. open.substack.com/pub/theramm/...open.substack.comMake Yourself Expensive: A Field Guide to Shrinking Your Data FootprintAsked under oath last week whether he would commit to not buying Americans’ location data without a warrant, the Director of the FBI declined. 021
Mark Ramm: Debugging the Future @theramm.substack.com · 20/06/2026Pope Leo XIV warned of a private power that exceeds the State and answers to no one. Three weeks later, a leak exposed the guest list of Thiel's secret society: Treasury, a NATO commander, the data-broker chairman, the senator who regulates him. theramm.transparencycascade.org/p/the-power-...theramm.transparencycascade.orgThe Power the Pope Warned About Has a Guest ListThe Thiel's Dialog group leak reveals a private power outside the institutions meant to govern it 0111
Mark Ramm: Debugging the Future @theramm.substack.com · 06/06/2026My analysis of the common threads across the 175 counties with ice detention related fights I have documented. Would love some feedback. detention-pipeline.transparencycascade.org/tactics/detention-pipeline.transparencycascade.orgPlaybook & Counter-Playbook · Detention PipelineEarly-warning system for ICE detention facility expansion 011
Mark Ramm: Debugging the Future @theramm.substack.com · 01/06/2026New substack post in the "Second Sermon" series that dives into Jesus and his teaching on Imperialism, this time taking the Pope's encyclical as a jumping off point. theramm.transparencycascade.org/p/the-pope-f... 141
Mark Ramm: Debugging the Future @theramm.substack.com · 07/05/2026A city found out their warehouse was sold to DHS by reading the newspaper. Rockefeller Group paid $12M in 2023, sold to ICE for $70M cash, 483% markup, 1,500-bed detention facility. The mayor was never told. That's not a failure, it's the process working as designed. theramm.substack.com/p/surprisetheramm.substack.comSurpriseA city found out their warehouse was sold to DHS by reading the newspaper. That’s not a failure of process. It’s the process working as designed. 052
Mark Ramm: Debugging the Future @theramm.substack.com · 05/05/2026Just posted my latest update on the detention center pipeline tracker webstite. Thousands of signals of potential ICE collaboration combine to provide coverage of nearly 2000 counties with known risk factors, and 129 local fights tracked. detention-pipeline.transparencycascade.org 053
Mark Ramm: Debugging the Future @theramm.substack.com · 28/04/2026The FBI Director told Congress fewer than 100 Epstein documents mention Trump. The NYT counted the DOJ's own release: 38,000+ references across 5,300+ files. That's not a mistake. That's the operating system. theramm.substack.com/p/kash-patel...theramm.substack.comKash Patel: Ten days, four scandalsInside the timeline of the embattled FBI director. 052
Reposted by Mark Ramm: Debugging the Futureyarkot.bsky.social @yarkot.bsky.social · 15/04/2026How ICE is skirting oversight, laws, and regulation in building, acquiring, funding, using detention camps - an interview by @andrawatkins.bsky.social of @markramm.bsky.social (links in the text accompanying the video): theramm.substack.com/p/the-regime... #AwarenessMatters #DemocracyMatterstheramm.substack.comThe Regime Is Still Building Concentration Camps. They’re Hiding It Better. With Mark RammA recording from Mark Ramm and Andra Watkins's live video 043
Mark Ramm: Debugging the Future @theramm.substack.com · 15/04/2026A rebranded British mercenary firm and a military logistics company nobody can explain just split $1.35B in ICE detention contracts. Neither has ever run a detention facility. Full investigation: theramm.substack.com/p/the-mercen...theramm.substack.comThe Mercenaries: GardaWorld, KVG, and the $1.35 Billion Nobody Was WatchingThe Detention Pipeline launched two days ago. It has already found two contractors with no detention experience splitting $1.35 billion in ICE contracts — awarded through a military procurement vehicl 034
Reposted by Mark Ramm: Debugging the Futureyarkot.bsky.social @yarkot.bsky.social · 11/04/2026See also: bsky.app/profile/mark... 031
Mark Ramm: Debugging the Future @theramm.substack.com · 14/04/2026open.substack.com/pub/theramm/... Here is my new data journalism project. I am tracking multiple signals that help track ICE cooperation signals by county.open.substack.comIs Your County Being Targeted for a New ICE Detention Facility?The leaked proposal I covered shows a new blueprint for how to build detention center capacity. Now, I’m releasing the tool I built to watch the whole country. 053
Mark Ramm: Debugging the Future @theramm.substack.com · 09/04/2026Everything I've documented about America's mass detention system — from culture to contract, from arrest to autopsy, from the border to Minneapolis. One investigation index. Eight layers. All sourced. theramm.substack.com/p/the-detent...theramm.substack.comThe Detention Architecture: An InvestigationEverything The RAMM has documented about America’s mass detention system — from culture to contract, from arrest to autopsy, from the border to Minneapolis. 011
Mark Ramm: Debugging the Future @theramm.substack.com · 07/04/2026I published a piece this morning documenting the removal of every military official whose job was to say no. Hours later: "A whole civilization will die tonight." Civilians are forming human chains around power plants. The deadline is 8 PM. theramm.substack.com/p/hegseth-re...theramm.substack.comHegseth Removed The Circuit BreakersPete Hegseth and the Trump Administration have the guardrails as threats escalate. 042
Reposted by Mark Ramm: Debugging the Futureyarkot.bsky.social @yarkot.bsky.social · 07/04/2026This from @markramm.bsky.social is stunning, concerning. #AwarenessMatters #DemocracyMatters open.substack.com/pub/theramm/... 277
Mark Ramm: Debugging the Future @theramm.substack.com · 29/03/2026Liberty in chains. Resigned to arrest because she had “failed to disperse.” Smiling because she knows exactly what she is doing. The chains are part of the costume. The zip ties make the metaphor real. 064
Reposted by Mark Ramm: Debugging the Futureyarkot.bsky.social @yarkot.bsky.social · 13/03/2026This series is worthwhile investigative reading from @markramm.bsky.social AwarenessMatters Liberty, Truth, Justice Matter. Caring, Competent Community Matters. DemocracyMatters. open.substack.com/pub/theramm/...open.substack.comSeries Index: After the ArrestA 7-part investigative series into the immigration detention system 022
Mark Ramm: Debugging the Future @theramm.substack.com · 17/02/2026My latest article. Jenn Budd has been telling us about Border Patrol for years. We should pay attention, the evidence backs her story and her message (that border patrol is a criminal organization) is important. open.substack.com/pub/theramm/...open.substack.comBorder Patrol: A Criminal Organization Disguised as a Federal AgencyA former Border Patrol agent explains the culture that killed Alex Pretti 152
Mark Ramm: Debugging the Future @theramm.substack.com · 12/02/2026Bondi called Rep. Massie "Trump derangement syndrome" — for asking about Epstein survivors. He co-authored the transparency law. Asked why survivors weren't warned before their names were released. Her response: attack him.theramm.substack.comPam Bondi Called a Republican “Trump Derangement Syndrome” for Asking About EpsteinThe Attorney General's 5-hour testimony revealed who this DOJ protects—and who it exposes. 031
Mark Ramm: Debugging the Future @theramm.substack.com · 09/01/2026The Four Thresholds open.substack.com/pub/theramm/...open.substack.comThe Four ThresholdsWhen Law Enforcement Becomes a Paramilitary Force 031
Mark Ramm: Debugging the Future @theramm.substack.com · 04/01/2026Trump announced the Venezuela invasion as a drug war at 4 AM. By noon he was talking about oil companies spending "billions." The pretext lasted 12 hours. 122
Mark Ramm: Debugging the Future @theramm.substack.com · 24/12/2025The DOJ released a letter they'd known was fake since 2020, let it spread for hours, then exposed it. This isn't incompetence—it's strategic contamination. When you mix verified evidence (flight logs, $851K overtime, flagging directives) with known fakes, both become suspect. That's the trap. 121
Mark Ramm: Debugging the Future @theramm.substack.com · 24/06/2025MERGENCY BRIEFING: The Supreme Court just used its shadow docket to greenlight deportations to war zones. In a 6-3 unsigned order, the majority rewarded the executive branch for openly defying lower court orders. It's a case of democratic backsliding in plain sight. #SCOTUS #ConLaw 172
Mark Ramm: Debugging the Future @theramm.substack.com · 24/06/2025This is because he is now in the pocket of the Saudi government. theramm.substack.com/p/the-600-bi...theramm.substack.comThe $600 Billion Question: How Saudi Arabia Bought American Foreign PolicyPart 1 of "The 2025 Constitutional Crisis" series 020
Reposted by Mark Ramm: Debugging the FutureBirgitta B @birgitta410.bsky.social · 24/06/2025I wrote a guest post on The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/two-years-... rounding up 2 years of using AI coding assistants - how they evolved; ways of working; impact I see on speed, quality and team flow; and some thoughts on the futurenewsletter.pragmaticengineer.comLearnings from two years of using AI tools for software engineeringHow to think about today’s AI tools, approaches that work well, and concerns about using them for development. Guest post by Birgitta Böckeler, Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks 1165