
Analysis
Corruption • Disinformation • Press Freedom • Social Media
American Oligarchs: The Media Consolidation Timeline
Christopher Armitage
The Existentialist Republic
The sequence documented in Hungary, Russia, and Turkey followed identical steps: media consolidation, implementation of authoritarian policies, controlled information redirecting blame for consequences.
Published On: 10/21/2025
Resistance
Galvanizing power through joyful, local action
Sarah Van Gelder
How We Rise, With Sarah
Building power locally is a really key part of it. If you want to be a dictatorship, but you have lots of power centers all over the country choosing their own path, that’s much harder to do.
Published On: 10/21/2025
Human Rights • Resistance • Violence • White Supremacy
“They’re Not Welcome”: How Chicago Residents Are Resisting Trump’s ICE Invasion
Danny Postel
In These Times
As ICE wreaks chaos and violence in neighborhoods across Chicago, teams of rapid responders are protecting residents and challenging Trump’s attempted occupation...
Published On: 10/16/2025
Human Rights • Legal • Violence • White Supremacy
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days
Nicole Foy
ProPublica
When federal officers roll through communities in the way the Supreme Court permitted, the constitutional rights of both citizens and noncitizens are inevitably violated
Published On: 10/16/2025
Cyber Security • Human Rights • Surveillance • Technology
The Surveillance Empire That Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You
Gabriel Geiger, Crofton Black, Emmanuel Freudenthal and Riccardo Coluccini
Mother Jones
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
Published On: 10/14/2025
Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance
Opinion: Why I’m handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman
NPR
How will the American people find out what is being done at the Pentagon in their name, with their tax dollars, and more importantly, the decisions that may put their sons and daughters in harm's way?
Published On: 10/14/2025
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