https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev A source-backed ledger of American institutional damage: what happened, who did it, how bad it was, how long the harm may last, and what the strongest counterargument is. Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:56:28 GMT https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/ledger/korematsu-judicial-ratification-internment/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#korematsu-added-to-historical-ledger Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The historical backfill now separates Executive Order 9066 from the Supreme Court's Korematsu decision, with a Library of Congress U.S. Reports source and a mapped legal record. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/expansion-plan/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#benchmark-scan-adds-fiscal-market-sources Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The expansion roadmap now adds CBO budget and economic data plus Robert Shiller market data for long-run fiscal, valuation, and crisis comparisons. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/support/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#monetization-paths-added-to-high-intent-pages Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Rankings, ledger search, and card pages now show firewall-safe support products, while sponsor and newsletter links use public environment URLs when configured. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/share/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#font-loading-improved-production-lighthouse Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The site now preloads publication fonts without blocking first paint. Production Lighthouse moved to 99 performance with 100 accessibility, best practices, and SEO. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/ledger/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#ledger-card-article-metadata-added Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Ledger card pages now emit article OpenGraph metadata, canonical URLs, image alt text, section, and tag fields for cleaner launch previews. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/data-spine/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#naep-grade-4-snapshots-added Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The data spine now pulls national-public NAEP Grade 4 reading and math current/prior scores, with caveats separating measured achievement from school-closure causality. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/data-spine/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#fred-macro-credit-snapshots-added Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The data spine now pulls no-key FRED CSV rows for the Treasury yield curve, Baa corporate spread, federal funds rate, and S&P 500 context, with explicit limits on vintage and total-return use. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/data-spine/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#fec-bulk-files-added-to-seed-snapshots Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The data spine now parses the 2026 FEC candidate master, adds DIME and Bridging Divides to the target registry, and marks CourtListener as credentialed API access. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/expansion-plan/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#historical-peer-source-backfill-widened Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The ledger now adds Missouri Compromise, Nullification, Kansas-Nebraska, secession, Civil War habeas, and Bush v. Gore benchmark cards, plus a wider peer-source plan for money, violence, courts, and state-local records. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/historical-eras/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#historical-backfill-six-benchmark-cards Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The historical ledger now adds the Fugitive Slave Act, Wilmington 1898, the 1924 immigration quota law, Watergate, Citizens United, and Shelby County with primary or official source anchors. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/data-spine/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#public-data-snapshots-widened Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The data spine now adds Federal Register executive-order metadata, USAspending obligations, Nonprofit Explorer search, Internet Archive records, and Hugging Face dataset discovery. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/data-dictionary/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#methodology-caveats-added Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Cards now surface caveats for press use, advocacy sources, index limits, dataset coverage, unresolved legal posture, and provisional status. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/data-dictionary/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#source-roles-added Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Evidence entries now label whether a source is primary proof, a denominator, analytical context, discovery, salience, or a counterargument. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/expansion-plan/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#peer-tracker-data-source-scan-expanded Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The roadmap now adds Federal Register, GovInfo, ACLED, Bridging Divides, OpenSecrets, CourtListener, legal trackers, and democracy-index lessons to the public ingest plan. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/data-dictionary/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#court-posture-records-added Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Cards with mapped court records now show case name, court, docket, posture, holding, caveat, and source links. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/data-dictionary/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#claim-metadata-added Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Every card now exposes a claim ID, evidence quality, factual maturity, legal posture, scoring maturity, jurisdiction, and source mix. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/expansion-plan/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#benchmark-scan-widened Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The expansion plan now compares document databases, legal trackers, democracy indexes, election-threat datasets, polling datasets, and public-data sources. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/ledger/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#historical-backfill-post-911 Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Seven more cards now cover Reconstruction rollback, Chinese Exclusion, WWI speech repression, McCarthyism, Vietnam, mass incarceration, and Iraq. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/historical-eras/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#founding-era-backfill-1763 Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Six early cards now cover the Proclamation Line, Stamp Act, Coercive Acts, Articles weakness, slavery compromises, and Shays' Rebellion. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/sources/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#challenged-wire-sources-retired Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Crime context, Jan. 6 clemency, law-firm targeting, and inspector-general firing cards now cite FBI, DOJ, White House, Federal Register, and court records instead of challenged Reuters pages. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/ledger/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#historical-backfill-started Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Eight source-backed historical ledger cards now seed the 1798-2008 backfill, including Indian Removal, Dred Scott, Plessy, EO 9066, the Patriot Act, and the financial crisis. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/sources/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#official-records-replaced-weak-2026-sources Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Election-administration, Trump-family crypto, and NYC rent-guideline cards now use court, OGE, company, and city-board records instead of relying on challenged Reuters pages. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/sources/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#primary-legal-records-added Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Birthright-citizenship and emergency-tariff cards now cite official Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit, and Federal Circuit records for legal posture. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/data-spine/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#public-data-snapshots-expanded Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The static data page now includes CPI, payroll employment, Treasury fiscal-year deficit, and Voteview polarization alongside unemployment, debt, and VIX. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/share/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#credits-share-kit Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The site now has a public credits page for art and party icons plus a share kit for launch links and the default social card. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/launch/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#launch-note Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT How to read the ledger, how to challenge a score, and what must be finished before the July 4 public release. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/sources/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#source-health-audit-added Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT The source registry now has a repeatable URL health audit and new official legal anchors for unstable 2025-2026 claims. https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/data-spine/ https://america-status-ledger.pages.dev/updates/#opensecrets-data-spine Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT OpenSecrets is now listed as an influence-money source, with FEC bulk data kept as the primary federal campaign-finance record.