Artificial Intelligence • Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Europe
Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star
Ben Quinn
The Guardian
The avatar, created to deter young people from extremism, has been subverted and is breaking out of niche online silos.
Published On: 01/25/2026
Corruption • Democracy • Threat Management
The Last Election
Chris Hedges
The Chris Hedges Report
The presidential election in 2024 may be the last free vote taken in the United States. Dictatorships only hold elections with predetermined outcomes or do not hold them at all. Trump is no exception.
Published On: 01/22/2026
Democracy • Human Rights • ICE • Legal • Violence
Hidden DHS Policy Encourages ICE Agents to Break into Homes without Warrants
Whistleblower Aid
Whistleblower Aid
“This administration’s secretive policy advocates conduct that the Supreme Court has described as ‘the chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed’ – that is the warrantless physical entry of a home.’
Published On: 01/21/2026
Culture • Featured • Human Rights
Christian Nationalists Have Decided Monks Walking for Peace Are on a One-Way Trip to Hell
Dr. Stacey Patton
Dr. Stacey Patton
The religion that claims to follow a poor, itinerant teacher who walked everywhere, who owned nothing, who told people to put down their swords, now produces followers who cannot tolerate the sight of men doing precisely that. Walking. Owning little. Practicing peace. Not demanding shit. Not conquering and colonizing. Just being.
Published On: 01/21/2026
Democracy • Human Rights • Violence • White Supremacy
Why Has ICE Turned Minneapolis Into a Battlefield?
Thom Hartmann
The Hartmann Report
Why the largest-ever ICE operation isn’t just about immigration, but about who gets to walk freely in America’s cities and who pays with their lives…
Published On: 01/15/2026
Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Disinformation • Social Media • Surveillance
My Final Message Before I’m on an FBI Watchlist: Palantir, Epstein, & The New York Times
Juan Sebastian Pinto
Ziggurat
ICE brings the hybrid warfare and terror we brought to Gaza back home. It's time to learn where it comes from, how it works, who enables it, and how to fight back.
Published On: 01/09/2026
Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Europe • Social Media
‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture
Ashifa Kassam
The Guardian (December 27, 2025)
‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture
Extremist messaging now woven into music and YouTube videos, with one expert saying: ‘You can be radicalised sitting on your couch’Published On: 01/09/2026
Disinformation • Human Rights • Violence
Letters from an American
Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
“Get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite. People are being hurt. Families are being ripped apart…and now somebody is dead.”
Published On: 01/08/2026
Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended • Resistance
Let’s Make the End of CPB the Start of Public Media’s Revival
Craig Aaron
Pressing Issues (August, 2025)
When one door closes, they say, sometimes you have to bring a lot of people to push another one open. Let’s make a plan and meet on the sidewalk.
Published On: 01/07/2026




