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  • 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

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Human Rights • Violence

    Plenary Power: The Final Step in Trump’s American Autocracy

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    How the Insurrection Act could become the 21st-century Enabling Act, with six justices and the GOP standing by…

    Published On: 10/10/2025

  • Where It’s All Heading: The Fascist Right Post-Trump

    Jared Yates Sexton

    jaredyatessexton.substack.com

    Waiting on MAGA supporters to just turn isn’t just a losing strategy, it’s an action, or inaction more specifically, that makes the possibility of an overtly Neo-Nazi turn in U.S. politics much, much more likely.

    Published On: 10/10/2025

  • Human Rights • Safety • Threat Management • White Supremacy

    Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats

    Sharon Otterman

    The New York Times (Gift)

    Mark Bray was teaching courses on anti-fascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. He left the country Thursday night.

    Published On: 10/08/2025

  • Democracy • Legal • Recommended

    The Insurrection Act Explained

    Joseph Nunn

    Brennan Center for Justice

    The law, which lets the president deploy the military domestically and use it for civilian law enforcement, is dangerously vague and in urgent need of reform.

    Published On: 10/07/2025

  • Recommended • Resistance • Safety • Violence

    The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

    Tom Nichols

    The Atlantic (Gift)

    The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

    Published On: 10/07/2025

  • Global • Safety • Threat Management

    Putin’s UnPeaceful Atom

    Karl Grossman and Harvey Wasserman

    Counterpunch

    The Ukraine war has underscored yet another “Peaceful Atom” pitfall known for decades—the threat of a rogue nation turning atomic reactors into weapons of apocalyptic mass terror...

    Published On: 10/06/2025

  • Democracy • Threat Management • Violence

    Trump’s Plan To invoke the Insurrection Act

    Robert Reich

    Robert Reich Substack

    The direction we’re going is either martial law or civil war.

    Published On: 10/06/2025

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