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

  • Democracy

    Victims Without Victimizers

    Norman Solomon

    Tom Dispatch

    How Corporate Democrats Led to the Trump Era.

    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

  • Safety • Threat Management • Violence • White Supremacy

    ICE boosts weapons spending 700%

    Judd Legum

    Popular Information

    A Popular Information investigation reveals tens of millions in new ICE spending on guns, chemical weapons, and explosives.

    Published On: 10/20/2025

  • Democracy • Economy

    The Power Breaker

    Frank Rich

    New York Magazine

    Why the Democratic Party, the New York Times, and the donor class got Zohran Mamdani so wrong.

    Published On: 10/17/2025

  • Resistance • Violence • White Supremacy

    No Kings, No Violence: On the Ongoing Misrepresentation of the Left

    Rebecca Solnit

    Meditations in an Emergency

    It’s hard to portray someone dancing in an inflatable frog or chicken costume as a terrorist.

    Published On: 10/16/2025

  • 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

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Social Media

    I’m handing out pro-democracy grades to the media

    Mark Jacob

    Stop the Presses

    The Guardian gets an A, the NY Times gets a C, CBS gets an F

    Published On: 10/14/2025

  • 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

  • Democracy • Economy • Resistance

    Democratic US Senate candidate seeks to replicate Mamdani’s success

    Tom Perkins

    The Guardian

    Abdul El-Sayed’s bid for Michigan senator centers on bold leftwing populism similar to the NYC mayoral candidate

    Published On: 10/13/2025

  • Culture • Resistance

    No Kings, No Fear: Building the America We Deserve

    Will Robinson

    Will Robinson's Newsletter

    The No Kings marches are a spark. What we do next — how we meet, organize, and protect each other — will determine whether they light a movement that lasts.

    Published On: 10/12/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Technology

    How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Occult

    Daniel Pinchbeck

    Liminal News

    How Dominion's sale, the AI bubble, and ecological collapse reveal the occult logic behind America's authoritarian acceleration

    Published On: 10/11/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Digital Rights • Surveillance

    Trump’s TikTok Deal Would Further Entrench Big Tech Surveillance

    Jeffrey Chester

    techpolicy.press

    The proposal would allow Trump’s political allies to operate TikTok in the US without significant reforms and safeguards.

    Published On: 10/10/2025

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