Analysis

  • Palantir’s Surveillance State Is Already Being Built

    Carole Cadwalladr

    How to Survive the Broligarchy

    Peter Thiel enters the chat.

    Published On: 06/02/2025

  • How Hitler Legalized His Dictatorship in One Vote

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

    The Act allowed the Reich government to issue laws without the consent of Germany’s parliament, laying the foundation for the complete Nazification of German society.

    Published On: 06/02/2025

  • Palantir’s Government Data Grab Threatens Civil Liberties

    Sheera Frenkel and Aaron Krolik

    The New York Times

    Mr. Trump could potentially use such information to advance his political agenda by policing immigrants and punishing critics...

    Published On: 05/30/2025

  • ICE Bypasses Warrant Rules via Local Camera Networks

    Jason Koebler, Joseph Cox

    404 Media

    Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.

    Published On: 05/27/2025

  • Why America’s Progressives Must Stay and Fight

    Ross Barkan

    New York Magazine

    Fleeing is a cheap, ego-flattering maneuver; it helps no one. This is not the late Weimar period or Nazi Germany.

    Published On: 05/21/2025

  • Exile, Resistance, and the Fight Beyond Borders

    Rebecca Solnit

    Meditations in an Emergency

    Some leave authoritarian regimes because of persecution. But some leave to fight from out of reach of the regime, and examples abound including from occupied France during the Second World War and Latin American countries ruled by dictators in the 1970s and 1980s.

    Published On: 05/20/2025

  • Nonprofit Killer Provision Removed—But Threat Remains

    Brett Wilkins

    Common Dreams

    "Because authoritarians love using censorship to silence opposition, it's likely gonna keep rearing its head," warned one rights group.

    Published On: 05/19/2025

  • Trump’s White House Wire Is State Propaganda

    Olga Lautman

    olgalautman.substack.com

    The White House launches a taxpayer-funded “news wire” to push state propaganda

    Published On: 05/15/2025

  • Why Tariffs Won’t Save Working-Class America

    Robert Reich

    https://robertreich.substack.com

    A big lie is at the heart of Trump’s tariffs

    Published On: 05/13/2025

  • How AI Became Authoritarianism’s Most Powerful Weapon

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    AI is not just another tech revolution. It’s the perfect storm of surveillance, manipulation, and digital obedience...

    Published On: 05/12/2025

  • States Hold the Data DOGE Really Wants

    Nicole Schneidman

    If you can keep it

    If state governments surrender their datasets, there’s no telling how they could be abused

    Published On: 05/12/2025

  • Pope Leo XIV Champions Press Freedom and Peace

    Sarah Ventre

    NPR

    We must say 'no' to the war of words and images; we must reject the paradigm of war,"

    Published On: 05/12/2025

  • Trump’s Orders Threaten Police Accountability

    Shea Howell

    James and Grace Lee Boggs Center

    Holding police officers accountable when they commit crimes or violate constitutional rights is one of the most difficult things to do in law.

    Published On: 05/10/2025

  • How Strongmen Silence Truth and Manufacture Myths

    Ruth Ben-Ghiat

    Lucid

    How autocrats protect their claims to be the sole arbiters of truth

    Published On: 05/08/2025

  • Why Asylum Is Not the Answer for Trans Brits and Americans

    Jenny List

    https://transrescue.org/asylum-for-trans-brits-and-americans-we-need-to-talk

    There are still plenty of options for leaving the USA or the UK which do not involve asylum, and we believe at the time of writing that they represent a far better choice.

    Published On: 05/08/2025

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