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“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

― Howard Zinn

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Resistance Media

The Coup Starts in Your Feed

How Malicious AI Swarms Could Steal the Midterms

Published On: 06/03/2026

Resistance Media

Elon Musk’s $2 Trillion IPO is a Weapon, Not an Investment

What Wall Street Won’t Tell You About the SpaceX Initial Public Offering.

Published On: 05/12/2026

Resistance Media — Resistance Media (04/16/2026)

A Ticking Time Bomb: War and Climate Are About To Collide

The world’s continued dependence on fossil fuels is at the heart of every aspect of this emerging polycrisis - driving oil wars, climate destruction and famine.

Published On: 05/10/2026

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David Futrelle — The Nation

What’s Really Behind Peter Thiel’s Panicked Move to Argentina

Some tech observers think that the Palantir overlord sees the end times coming, but his real motivation is likely much more mundane and self-interested.

Published On: 06/03/2026

Sarah Van Gelder — Common Dreams

Washington Won’t Save Us; Our Neighbors Might

Why the midterms will be won or lost at the community level—and what that means for how we organize now.

Published On: 05/22/2026

Harold Meyerson — American Prospect

Hawaii Just Found a Way to Keep Corporations Out of Politics

A new law makes clear that corporations derive their powers from states, and they don’t necessarily include the right to spend on elections.

Published On: 05/18/2026

Andy Kroll — ProPublica (Oct. 17, 2025)

What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President

From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that insiders say they feel like “he is the commander in chief.”

Published On: 05/12/2026

Richard Schrader — Bad Energy

Orban Turns to Dust

What a world, what a world.

Published On: 05/03/2026

Gil Duran — The Nerd Reich (04/21/2026)

How to Purge Palantir

And how I got permanently banned from X.

Published On: 05/03/2026

Andrew Perez — Zeteo

Graham Platner Will Be Maine’s Democratic Senate Nominee

Zeteo broke the news of Platner’s campaign launch. Now the anti-war, anti-Israel oysterman is Democrats’ presumptive Senate nominee in Maine, after Governor Janet Mills suspended her candidacy.

Published On: 04/30/2026

William J. Barber, II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove — Our Moral Moment

Why Authoritarians Fear Moral Resistance

Where to look for hope as the legal victories of America’s moral movements are dismantled.

Published On: 04/30/2026

The Big Picture and Jay Kuo — The Big Picture

The MAHA-MAGA Breakup

The political marriage brokered by RFK Jr. was doomed from the get-go. And Republicans may pay a steep electoral price in November.

Published On: 04/28/2026

Henry A. Giroux — LA Progressive (04/24/2026)

When Gangster Capitalism Becomes Government

Socialism or barbarism, democracy or gangster rule, shared futures or organized cruelty. History opened the question. What remains is whether people will answer it.

Published On: 04/27/2026

Jason Stanley — Front Left

Hungary shows the US needs a progressive to beat fascism

And not an American Peter Magyar.

Published On: 04/26/2026

Christopher Armitage — The Existentialist Republic (04/22/2026)

The Chief Justice and His Wife Took $20 Million From Firms He Rules On. I'm Filing for His Disbarment Today.

The men and women running this system built their careers on the assumption that nobody was paying attention. We noticed.

Published On: 04/24/2026

Elizabeth Spiers — The Nation

Palantir’s Manifesto Promises a Dystopian Future

The tech company’s CEO Alex Karp delivers a self-serving broadside that’s steeped in oligarchic hubris and authoritarian nihilism.

Published On: 04/23/2026

Jake Johnson — Common Dreams

Lebanese PM Condemns Israel’s Killing of Journalist Amal Khalil as ‘Clear-Cut War Crime’

Israel’s targeting of media professionals in the south while they are performing their professional duties is no longer a matter of isolated incidents; rather, it has become a proven pattern.

Published On: 04/23/2026

Mitch Jackson — Uncensored Objection. Law. Facts. No Spin.

Minutes Before Trump Speaks, Someone Gets Rich: The BBC Just Exposed The Insider Trading Operation The White House Wants Buried

The evidence shows a consistent pattern of trading spikes minutes and hours before Donald Trump moves the markets with his mouth. The evidence is not complicated. The evidence is in the timestamps.

Published On: 04/23/2026

Ken Klippenstein

Death by A.I.

New "Autonomous Warfare Center" will automate targeted killings.

Published On: 04/22/2026

Will Robinson — Will Robinson's Newsletter

AI’s Promise Is Real. So Is the Threat No One’s Talking About.

Beyond deepfakes, bad actors are learning to manipulate search itself - shaping what AI sees, what it surfaces, and ultimately what people believe.

Published On: 04/22/2026

Molly Taft — Wired

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

Published On: 04/22/2026

Judd Legum — Popular Information

The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal

As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest.

Published On: 04/20/2026

Robert Reich — Robert Reich Substack

How to Impeach the Bastard, for Real

Now's the time to start organizing.

Published On: 04/13/2026

Resistance Media — Resistance Media (03/24/2026)

An Urgent Message to Indivisible

Is the NO KINGS coalition prepared for the national emergency straight ahead of us?

Published On: 04/13/2026

Sarah van Gelder — Truthout

What Do Authoritarians Fear Most? People Who Stick Up for Each Other.

The most reliable form of resilience is not individual wealth or distant institutions, but solidarity.

Published On: 04/12/2026

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

Flowers Bloom on Soldiers' Graves: Lessons in Power and Consequence

Violence consistently undermines the very influence it seeks to project.

Published On: 04/12/2026

Jim Stewartson — MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy

The Enemies He Created: Trump’s Paranoia Spiral

Paranoia metabolizes humiliation into persecution—and shame into grandiosity.

Published On: 04/12/2026

Chris Hedges — The Chris Hedges Report

America’s Suez Crisis

Amidst the US-Iran negotiations, Alastair Crooke says, Iran is not incentivized to end the war. Instead, it seeks to upend America's hegemonic dominance of the region — and "break the paradigm."

Published On: 04/11/2026

Garry Kasparov — The Next Move

Hungary Is America in Miniature

Hungary's test is on Sunday. America's will come in November.

Published On: 04/10/2026

Julie K Brown — The Epstein Files by Julie K. Brown

Could a former Brazilian model be the whistleblower Melania is afraid of?

The First Lady’s unprecedented public statement about Jeffrey Epstein yesterday raised a lot of questions about what, if anything, is about to be revealed about Donald and Melania Trump’s relationship with the late sex trafficker.

Published On: 04/10/2026

Cristina Stassis — Military Times

Automatic registration for US military draft-eligible men to begin in December

Automatic registration into the U.S. military draft pool for eligible men is slated to begin in December 2026.

Published On: 04/08/2026

Jeffrey Sachs — Savage Minds

Trump and Netanyahu: Two Madmen Playing God

When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. We will all be the victims of Netanyahu’s plagues and Trump’s bombing of Iran to the stone ages, unless other leaders place limits on these two madmen.

Published On: 04/07/2026

Judd Legum and Noel Sims — Popular Information

The $1.7 trillion military budget includes a massive slush fund for Trump’s political allies

Last week, President Donald Trump declared that the federal government cannot afford to spend “any money for day care” because “we’re fighting wars.”

Published On: 04/07/2026

Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz — The New Yorker

Sam Altman May Control Our Future - Can He Be Trusted?

New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

Published On: 04/06/2026

Nick Turse — The Intercept

Casualty Cover-Up: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East

The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U.S. troops killed or wounded during the Iran war, resulting in undercounts.