Timelines
Hand-curated swimlane views — actor by actor, year by year. Each is a story you can read in five minutes and share as a URL.
These are named timelines — each composes a small set of actors on a shared time axis to make a single argument visible. Read top to bottom. Click any event to enter its full record.
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The Project 2025 architects
Eleven named figures, one think tank, and a transition team blueprint that became governance in real time.
Forty years of court-packing as a deliberate institutional projectThe Federalist Society pipeline to SCOTUS
From Reagan-era founding through the six-three majority — the named architects and the justices they delivered.
How one decision restructured American politics in fifteen yearsCitizens United and what came after
The Roberts Court ruling on January 21, 2010 — and the cascade of dark money, super PACs, and constitutional erosion that followed.
Private prisons, ICE contracts, and the architecture of mass deportationThe detention industrial complex
Two corporations, one agency, and a quarter-century of building the infrastructure that 2025 weaponized.
The same person, restaffed for velocityTrump 1.0 vs Trump 2.0
Both terms on one chart. The first term was chaotic, the second is operational. The difference is the personnel.
Decades of access, granted by elites, protected by prosecutorsThe Epstein network's institutional reach
Jeffrey Epstein's operation depended on institutional cooperation — from a U.S. Attorney's secret non-prosecution agreement to a sitting prince's flight log. The named figures who enabled it.
How a sitting president pumped his own tokenThe crypto cascade
World Liberty Financial, the $TRUMP and $MELANIA memecoins, the dismantling of crypto enforcement — and the named figures who made each happen.
The Kremlin's twelve-year project to corrode the American electorateRussian interference, 2014–2026
Vladimir Putin and the named American operatives, from troll farms through Manafort through Mueller through 2024.
Twelve years after the disclosures, the architecture has only grownThe surveillance state, Snowden to today
Edward Snowden's 2013 disclosures led to one major reform and a decade of expansion. The named agencies and contractors that built the system.