AI powered daily tracker of the US slide into authoritarianism
Details
- External ID
- 46754573
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- AI powered daily tracker of the US slide into authoritarianism
- Website domain
- worstdaysofar.com
- Launched
- Jan. 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.09617918313570488
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Authoritarian regimes create crises to saturate our attentionAI can help us fight back by tracking and prioritizing threats to our freedom250+ types of events tracked daily from national coverageCompletely automated and community fundedhttps://www.worstdaysofar.com/Example Daily Situation Report:SITREP - Authoritarian Consolidation (Last Update Jan 24, 7:11 PM)New TodayTactics: Scene access denial -- federal teams block state investigators after lethal force incidents (Minneapolis)Violence/Detention: Border Patrol lethal force -- urban shooting escalates risk during routine immigration operations (Minneapolis) • Stun grenades and tear gas -- crowd control spikes after shootings, raising bystander injury risk (Minneapolis)New YesterdayTactics: Generic POLICE vests -- misidentification enables federal teams to evade accountability during grabs (Minnesota)Lawfare: Grant drawdown toggles -- federal health funding access paused to enforce priority compliance (US) • Sealing special-counsel report -- privilege claims used to suppress scrutiny of executive misconduct (US)Disinformation: National parks passes with leader portrait -- voiding altered passes coerces visible loyalty (US) • Geofenced ICE recruitment memes -- wartime branding accelerates staffing for enforcement surges (US)New This Week ... ...
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Government
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- authoritarianism tracker for citizens
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is an automated news aggregator that ingests RSS/news feeds, classifies them into predefined event categories using an LLM API, and displays the summary on a static Quarto/web dashboard.
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