• Democracy • Featured • Health • Human Rights • ICE • Resistance • Violence • White Supremacy

    Welcome to the American Winter

    Robert F. Worth

    The Atlantic (Gift)

    In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

    Published On: 01/25/2026

  • Artificial Intelligence • Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Europe

    Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star

    Ben Quinn

    The Guardian

    The avatar, created to deter young people from extremism, has been subverted and is breaking out of niche online silos.

    Published On: 01/25/2026

  • Corruption • Democracy • Threat Management

    The Last Election

    Chris Hedges

    The Chris Hedges Report

    The presidential election in 2024 may be the last free vote taken in the United States. Dictatorships only hold elections with predetermined outcomes or do not hold them at all. Trump is no exception.

    Published On: 01/22/2026

  • Democracy • Human Rights • ICE • Legal • Violence

    Hidden DHS Policy Encourages ICE Agents to Break into Homes without Warrants

    Whistleblower Aid

    Whistleblower Aid

    “This administration’s secretive policy advocates conduct that the Supreme Court has described as ‘the chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed’ – that is the warrantless physical entry of a home.’

    Published On: 01/21/2026

  • Culture • Featured • Human Rights

    Christian Nationalists Have Decided Monks Walking for Peace Are on a One-Way Trip to Hell

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    The religion that claims to follow a poor, itinerant teacher who walked everywhere, who owned nothing, who told people to put down their swords, now produces followers who cannot tolerate the sight of men doing precisely that. Walking. Owning little. Practicing peace. Not demanding shit. Not conquering and colonizing. Just being.

    Published On: 01/21/2026

  • Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaking at podium

    Canada • Democracy • Economy • Global • Resistance

    O Canada

    Robert Reich

    Robert Reich

    A heartfelt thanks to the truth-telling prime minister to our north.

    Published On: 01/21/2026

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Violence • White Supremacy

    Why Has ICE Turned Minneapolis Into a Battlefield?

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    Why the largest-ever ICE operation isn’t just about immigration, but about who gets to walk freely in America’s cities and who pays with their lives…

    Published On: 01/15/2026

  • Technology • White Supremacy

    Greenland ‘Freedom City’? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north

    Rachael Levy and Alexandra Ulmer

    Reuters (April 10, 2025)

    Silicon Valley investors propose Greenland as a libertarian 'freedom city'

    Published On: 01/14/2026

  • Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Disinformation • Social Media • Surveillance

    My Final Message Before I’m on an FBI Watchlist: Palantir, Epstein, & The New York Times

    Juan Sebastian Pinto

    Ziggurat

    ICE brings the hybrid warfare and terror we brought to Gaza back home. It's time to learn where it comes from, how it works, who enables it, and how to fight back.

    Published On: 01/09/2026

  • Recording ICE Isn’t ‘Violence’ – It’s a Constitutionally Protected Act of Journalism

    Timothy Karr

    Pressing Issues

    How the First Amendment plays an essential role in exposing the truth about Renee Good’s tragic death in Minneapolis.

    Published On: 01/09/2026

  • Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Europe • Social Media

    ‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture

    Ashifa Kassam

    The Guardian (December 27, 2025)

    ‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture
    Extremist messaging now woven into music and YouTube videos, with one expert saying: ‘You can be radicalised sitting on your couch’

    Published On: 01/09/2026

  • Disinformation • Human Rights • Violence

    Letters from an American

    Heather Cox Richardson

    Letters from an American

    “Get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite. People are being hurt. Families are being ripped apart…and now somebody is dead.”

    Published On: 01/08/2026

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended • Resistance

    Let’s Make the End of CPB the Start of Public Media’s Revival

    Craig Aaron

    Pressing Issues (August, 2025)

    When one door closes, they say, sometimes you have to bring a lot of people to push another one open. Let’s make a plan and meet on the sidewalk. 

    Published On: 01/07/2026

  • Legal • Recommended • Resistance • Violence

    ICE Agents Can Be Charged With Murder

    David Dayen

    The American Prospect

    As a killing in Minneapolis is documented, the law clearly stipulates that federal agents do not have universal immunity.

    Published On: 01/07/2026

  • Global • Violence

    The List of Countries Trump is Threatening With War Keeps Growing

    Jonah Valadez

    The Intercept

    President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of getting out of foreign wars. He keeps talking about starting more of them.

    Published On: 01/06/2026

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