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  • Recommended • Safety • Violence • White Supremacy

    Charlie Kirk’s Murder Is a Tragedy and a Disaster

    Ben Burgis, Meagan Day

    Jacobin

    The assassination of Charlie Kirk threatens to embolden the far right and provide Donald Trump with a pretext for crushing dissent.

    Published On: 09/11/2025

  • Human Rights • Violence • White Supremacy

    The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk

    Chris Hedges

    The Chris Hedges Report

    Martyrs are used by messianic movements to sanctify violence. To show any mercy or understanding toward the enemy is to betray the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending.

    Published On: 09/11/2025

  • Violence • White Supremacy

    ‘War Is Here’: The Far-Right Responds to Charlie Kirk Shooting With Calls for Violence

    David Gilbert

    Wired

    Prominent far-right figures and elected officials have called for vengeance following the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

    Published On: 09/10/2025

  • Democracy • Economy • Recommended • Resistance

    Should Democrats Shut Down the Government?

    Robert Reich

    Robert Reich Substack

    Keeping the U.S. government funded now is to participate in the most atrocious misuse of the power of the United States in modern times.

    Published On: 09/09/2025

  • Democracy • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

    Six Impossible Things That Might Save Journalism

    Craig Aaron

    Pressing Issues

    It’s time to dream up a media future that millions of people will fight for.

    Published On: 09/09/2025

  • Corruption • Human Rights • Legal

    Jeffrey Epstein & JPMorgan: How the Largest U.S. Bank Enabled the Sexual Predator’s Crimes

    Amy Goodman

    Democracy Now

    The Times reports JPMorgan processed more than 4,700 transactions for Epstein totaling more than $1.1 billion, including payments to some of the women who were sexually trafficked.

    Published On: 09/09/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Human Rights • Surveillance • Technology

    Silicon Valley Enabled Brutal Mass Detention and Surveillance in China

    Dake Kang and Yael Grauer

    Associated Press

    American technology made up nearly every part of China’s surveillance apparatus, AP found.

    Published On: 09/09/2025

  • Democracy • Global • Journalism • Press Freedom

    America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars

    Anne Applebaum

    The Atlantic

    The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments that manipulate and suppress information.

    Published On: 09/05/2025

  • Democracy • Recommended

    What Makes Democrats So Afraid of Zohran Mamdani?

    Chris Lehmann

    The Nation

    With Trump’s power grabs escalating, the Democratic establishment is still taking the time to fret over a rising star in its own party.

    Published On: 09/04/2025

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Legal

    Criminal Propaganda

    Jud Legum and Rebecca Crosby

    Popular Information

    People form their beliefs largely on what they learn from the media. News reports often reinforce Trump's misleading claims.

    Published On: 09/03/2025

  • Democracy • Resistance

    From Silence to Spotlight: How a Democratic Shadow Cabinet Could Break Trump’s Spell

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    Voters don’t rally behind policy papers: they rally behind leaders they can see and believe in. Democrats must end the era of weak, divided messaging and rise with a chorus of commanding voices…

    Published On: 09/03/2025

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Resistance

    Emergency-Gate: Focus on Challenging the Premise of Trump’s Power

    Sherrilyn Ifill

    Sherrilyn’s Newsletter

    There is no trade emergency. There is no migrant emergency. There is no crime emergency. There is only a chilling and determined power grab by the most dangerous man to every occupy the White House. Eyes on 2026.

    Published On: 09/01/2025

  • Corruption • Human Rights • Recommended • Violence

    Trump Admin Circulating Plan to Transform Depopulated Gaza Into High-Tech Cash Cow

    Brett Wilkins

    Common Dreams

    Under the proposal, the US would take control after "voluntary" relocation of Palestinians from the strip, where proposed projects include an Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone and Gaza Trump Riviera & Islands.

    Published On: 09/01/2025

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Human Rights • Resistance • White Supremacy

    Step Back and Take It In: the US is Entering Full Authoritarian Mode

    Jonathan Freedland

    The Guardian

    Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. But now it’s time to call it what it is

    Published On: 08/29/2025

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Slain L.A. Times columnist Ruben Salazar matters more than ever, 55 years later

    Gustavo Arellano

    L.A. Times

    No one was around when I finally got to Salazar’s niche, in a section of the cemetery called the Alcove of Time. A simple bronze plaque included the accent over the “e” in “Rubén,” which his Times byline never had. Instead of Spanish wine, I brought a flask of mezcal — I don’t think he would have minded the stiffer drink in this 2025.

    Published On: 08/29/2025

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