Molly Taft — Wired

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

Judd Legum — Popular Information

As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest.

Robert Reich — Robert Reich Substack

Now's the time to start organizing.

Resistance Media — Resistance Media (03/24/2026)

Is the NO KINGS coalition prepared for the national emergency straight ahead of us?

Sarah van Gelder — Truthout

The most reliable form of resilience is not individual wealth or distant institutions, but solidarity.

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

Violence consistently undermines the very influence it seeks to project.

Jim Stewartson — MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy

Paranoia metabolizes humiliation into persecution—and shame into grandiosity.

Chris Hedges — The Chris Hedges Report

Amidst the US-Iran negotiations, Alastair Crooke says, Iran is not incentivized to end the war. Instead, it seeks to upend America's hegemonic dominance of the region — and "break the paradigm."

Garry Kasparov — The Next Move

Hungary's test is on Sunday. America's will come in November.

Julie K Brown — The Epstein Files by Julie K. Brown

The First Lady’s unprecedented public statement about Jeffrey Epstein yesterday raised a lot of questions about what, if anything, is about to be revealed about Donald and Melania Trump’s relationship with the late sex trafficker.

Cristina Stassis — Military Times

Automatic registration into the U.S. military draft pool for eligible men is slated to begin in December 2026.

Jeffrey Sachs — Savage Minds

When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. We will all be the victims of Netanyahu’s plagues and Trump’s bombing of Iran to the stone ages, unless other leaders place limits on these two madmen.

Judd Legum and Noel Sims — Popular Information

Last week, President Donald Trump declared that the federal government cannot afford to spend “any money for day care” because “we’re fighting wars.”

Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz — The New Yorker

New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

Nick Turse — The Intercept

The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U.S. troops killed or wounded during the Iran war, resulting in undercounts.

Nick Akerman — Legal Politics by Nick Akerman

The Post and Courier, published a second article detailing its continuing investigation into a sexual assault allegedly perpetrated by Donald Trump.

Kait Justice — Downwind of Truth with Kait Justice

Three threads, fifty years, a 1973 Sci-Fi novel and the architecture of a sovereign class that answers to no one.

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report (03/25/2026)

A 30-year campaign of intimidation turned watchdogs into lapdogs, and now the consequences are impossible to ignore…

Jeremy Kohler — ProPublica

A Troubling Pattern: Schwartz is one of several nursing home operators convicted of crimes who were granted clemency by Trump.

Timothy Snyder — Timothy Snyder (04/04/2026)

As the war lengthens, the chance that it will be exploited for a coup attempt increases.

Dr Stacey Patton

Every few months now, like clockwork, millions of people pour into the streets chanting the same refrains. Holding the same signs. And reposting the same slogans with a fresh coat of urgency.

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

The shift to fascism isn’t loud or obvious; it’s gradual, justified, and dangerously easy to accept...

CPJ Staff — CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists

The Committee to Protect Journalists is monitoring press freedom violations related to the ongoing military escalation between Israel, the U.S and Iran and its spillover across the Middle East, including its regional and global impact on journalists and media workers.

Timothy Snyder — Thinking About

And the defense of democracy

David Marchese — The New York Times (Gift)

"I get so tired of the idea that progressives have gone too far in asserting that every human being deserves human rights when people are being shot in the streets of Minneapolis."

Chris Hedges — The Chris Hedges Report The Chris Hedges Report

The Iran War has just begun — but already, Iran’s military prowess, and America’s and Israel’s impulsive imperial hubris, is on full display.

Amelia Gentleman — The Guardian

Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, but has left him in exile.

Craig Unger — Craig Unger (February 24, 2026)

Today's Iran crisis didn't start with just the mullahs. It started with a secret deal that Republican operatives made with them— a deal that changed history and has now lead to war.

Doug Bock Clark — ProPublica

“The meeting shows that the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have only grown better organized and are now embedded in the machinery of government.”

Gloria Horton-Young — She Who Stirs the Storm (January 21, 2026)

When warnings are everywhere, and still no one moves.

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

The national debt isn’t the cause of our problems: it’s the receipt. It’s the paper trail of the largest upward transfer of wealth in 250 years of American history…

Mica Rosenberg — ProPublica (February, 9, 2026)

ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

Lawrence Lessig

Anthropic in the cross-hairs.

Jarrod Shanahan — Jacobin

Nine members of the “Prairieland 19,” anti-ICE protesters in Texas who the Trump administration is dubiously accusing of domestic terrorism, are going on trial this week. The case is a test for how easily Trump might criminalize dissent going forward.

Matt Gertz — Media Matters

Trump’s corruption makes capitulation a media business plan.

John Nichols — The Nation

The iconic civil rights leader, who has died at 84, made anti-war and pro-diplomacy politics central to his presidential bids and his lifelong activism.

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

Right now, a host of brilliant, dedicated souls do fantastic work reporting and interpreting the news in independent newsletters, podcasts, magazines and even mainstream media. In other ways, journalism is in an age of slop and slime and decline.

Bill McKibben — The Crucial Years

Take this as your first warning that not only the temperature but the politics of the planet are likely to change dramatically, and soon.

Mark Engler and Paul Engler — The Guardian

The extraordinary level of grassroots solidarity and creative resistance in anti-ICE protests in Minnesota has given people a new appreciation for the power that mass non-cooperation can have in resisting the Trump administration’s drive toward authoritarianism.

Julia Conley , COMMONDREAMS — Truthout

“Germany’s concentration camps didn’t start as instruments of mass murder, and neither have ours; both started as facilities for people the government’s leader said were a problem..."

Amnesty International

“This is a critical moment for humanity, with international law and human rights institutions under attack like never before. The use of misinformation to further delegitimize them poses a profound threat to human rights and the rule of law itself."

Media Benjamin — Counterpunch

Who will win this demonic game Trump and Rubio are playing with the lives of eleven million Cubans?

Matt Shumer — Fortune

We’re past the point where this is an interesting dinner conversation about the future. The future is already here. It just hasn’t knocked on your door yet. It’s about to.

Karl Grossman — FAIR

Murdoch’s media machine is the “most dishonest, unprincipled and corrupt of any media empire in the history of the English-speaking world.”

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

Debt, ego, sexual compromise, and fear: why Trump’s behavior makes sense only when you realize he’s been in Putin's pocket for years…

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

At the very heart of almost all our crises is a conflict between two worldviews, the worldview in which everything is connected and the world of isolated individualism, of social darwinism and the war of each against each.

Sharon Zhang — Truthout

The plan appears to be to finish Israel’s bulldozing of Gaza to make real estate opportunities for investors.

Dario Amodei — darioamodei.com

Humanity needs to wake up, and this essay is an attempt—a possibly futile one, but it’s worth trying—to jolt people awake.

Parker Molloy — The New Republic

Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do.

Ron Williams

“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there “is” such a thing as being too late..."

Marc Elias — Democracy Docket

The department has demanded this highly sensitive data from all 50 states and has already sued 23 states, including DC, for refusing to comply. Pam Bondi even attempted to leverage the tragic killing of Alex Pretti to obtain this data from Minnesota.

Committee to Protect Journalists — CPJ

It is highly unusual for a journalist to be charged with a felony in relation to their reporting.

Isaac Stanley-Becker — The Atlantic (Gift)

The Minnesota governor warns of a national unraveling.

Ta-Nehisi Coates — Vanity Fair

Pretti and Good were labeled “domestic terrorists” of The Homeland—rhetoric employed by the administration to justify the state taking life, by associating the dead with national villainy.

Ben Quinn — The Guardian

The avatar, created to deter young people from extremism, has been subverted and is breaking out of niche online silos.

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.

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.

Christopher Armitage — The Existentialist Republic

Elected officials who refuse to use their power should lose it.

Garrett M. Graff — Wired

With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.

Robert Reich

A heartfelt thanks to the truth-telling prime minister to our north.

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.’

W. A. Lawrence — Glass Empires by W. A. Lawrence

Rogan spent years grooming Trump’s base to equate toxic masculinity with strength and authoritarianism with safety. In 2026, that conditioning is locked in with force.

The Big Picture and Jay Kuo — The Big Picture

Will Trump screw with the midterms? Will they be free and fair? Will we even have them?

Claire Finkelstein — The Guardian

Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania.

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…

Shalom Auslander — The New York Times (Gift)

I miss the comfort of believing Germans were different.

Seth Stern and Chip Gibbons — The Guardian

The trend of invading newsrooms, in violation of federal law, has now spread to the highest levels of the federal government

Rachael Levy and Alexandra Ulmer — Reuters (April 10, 2025)

Silicon Valley investors propose Greenland as a libertarian 'freedom city'

Giri Nathan — Defector

This is a man who used to cry while watching Garden State. Now he posts numbered lists in defense of fascism.

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’

Timothy Karr — Pressing Issues

How the First Amendment plays an essential role in exposing the truth about Renee Good’s tragic death in Minneapolis.

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.

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.”

Dr. Stacey Patton

Are we witnessing the end of whiteness as a buffer against state violence?

Anne Applebaum — Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum

This is a criminally short-sighted policy. For seventy years, American prosperity and influence have been based on a network of allies who worked with us, not because they were coerced, but because they shared our values.

Jonah Valadez — The Intercept

President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of getting out of foreign wars. He keeps talking about starting more of them.

Chris Hedges — The Chris Hedges Report

Our decaying empire stumbles forward like a wounded beast, unable to learn from its disasters, crippled by arrogance and incompetence, torching the rule of law and fantasizing that indiscriminate industrial violence will regain a lost hegemony.

Carole Cadwalladr — How to Survive the Broligarchy

The next days and weeks are a test. What, if anything, will survive the blast zone of what is not just a military campaign but a targeted disinformation strike?

Amy Walker and David Gritten — BBC

INGOs run or support most of Gaza's field hospitals and primary healthcare centres, emergency shelter responses, water and sanitation services, nutrition stabilisation centres for children with acute malnutrition, and critical mine action activities.

The New York Times — The New York Times (Gift)

"I stand alongside you, the tens of thousands gathered here in Lower Manhattan, warmed against the January chill by the resurgent flame of hope."

Via AP — Independent

While Buddhism has branched into a number of sects over the centuries, its rich tradition of peace activism continues

George A. Polisner — Leadership Matters

For decades, Republicans have relied on a rebranded cycle of political marketing—Silent Majority, Reagan Revolution, Moral Majority, Tea Party, MAGA—all designed to divide voters along emotional fault lines while stealthily consolidating wealth and power at the top.

Sonali Kolhatkar — Truthout

Given the increasing number of U.S. citizens caught in ICE’s dragnet, organizers are warning that attacks on immigrants are just the beginning.

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

The future lays before us now, and if we care about the country our children will inherit, we can’t let this moral vandalism to go unanswered.

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian — The New Yorker (December 8, 2025)

The number of aggrieved Americans seeking a new life abroad appears to be rising. The Netherlands offers one way out.

Dan Rather and Team Steady — Steady

What happened inside “60 Minutes” this weekend

W. A. Lawrence — Glass Empires By W. A. Lawrence (12/11/25)

Tom Homan bragged he was "enjoying" deportations that separated 5,500 children from parents. Now he implements Heritage policies funded by €50 million from Russian crude oil sales.

Dr. Stacey Patton

The public is being shown just enough to know the truth, and to understand that nothing is going to happen.

Christopher Armitage — The Existentialist Republic

What would you do if watching an election be cancelled or stolen in real time?

Nick Turse — The Intercept

“If I had no concerns and I was confident in the lawful order, I would definitely execute that order.”

Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy, photography by Peter DiCampo — ProPublica

Rubio issued sweeping stop-work orders to aid programs worldwide. Musk declared that his DOGE team had fed USAID “into the woodchipper.”

W. A. Lawrence — Glass Empires By W. Lawrence

How Miller's Legal Architecture Ensures Constitutional Protections Arrive After They Matter.

Rev. Cameron Trimble — Piloting Faith: An (Almost) Daily Meditation

A Meditation by Rev. Cameron Trimble

Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims — Popular Information

LTF has already secured more than $100 million, including $50 million from venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz and another $50 million from OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman.

The Big Picture and Todd Beeton — The Big Picture

Jared Kushner is so back, and what he's up to should concern us all.

Jim Naureckas — FAIR

Congratulations—you may be headed for Attorney General Pam Bondi’s “list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism.”

Marianne Williamson — TRANSFORM with Marianne Williamson (12/01/25)

Nothing less will be sufficient.

The Big Picture and Jay Quo — The Big Picture

A decision over who Trump can fire will reshape how our entire government functions.

Olga Lautman

The United States is no longer acting as an independent power. It is behaving like a Kremlin satellite executing the foreign policy goals of a regime that has spent decades trying to dismantle the West...

Dr. Stacey Patton

Why a few hundred dollars per child won’t fix housing, tuition, or poverty—and how billionaire generosity disguises the systems keeping kids poor.

A project led by Prof. Francesca Bria with xof-research.org — The Authoritarian Stack (11/21/2025)

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

Dean Baker — The National Memo

If Trump gives Fed Chair Hassett a call telling him that he wants the interest rate to be 1.0 percent, Hassett will respond with a “Yes Sir.”

Federick Joseph — In Retrospect

Being here in a time that pushes us toward performance and harm.

Carole Cadwalladr — How to Survive the Broligarchy (November 16, 2025)

Yesterday, I published on the "Great AI Bubble". Today, Silicon Valley's Dr Evil dumps his stock

Laura Flanders

I was near two ICE operations this Thanksgiving. One I saw, the other I didn’t.

Drew Hinshaw, Benoit Faucon, Rebecca Ballhaus, Thomas Grove, Joe Parkinson — The Wall Street Journal

The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.

Paul Waldman — Public Notice

Turns out they're not in it for Trump, they're in it for themselves.

Robert Booth — The Guardian

Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years

Hafiz Rashid — The New Republic

A new report reveals the FBI’s frantic “special redaction project” when they thought the Epstein files would be released.

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

When this bubble bursts, the collapse won’t hit Google’s coders — it’ll hit the electricians, nurses, teachers, retirees, renters, and low-income families who never got a penny from the boom…

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

Many Republicans saw that Trump was in decline, possibly rapid decline, and that their future lay not in the slavish deference we've seen for nine years but in separating themselves from him.

Genevieve Guenther — The Guardian

The fingerprints of Russia and Saudi Arabia are all over the decision text in Brazil. But a group of nations led by Colombia and the Netherlands offer hope

Anna Merlan — Mother Jones

After feuding with Trump, the congresswoman resigns and casts doubt on the QAnon conspiracy theory she once promoted on her way out the door.

Michael Moore

Basically, the Nuremberg idea was: No one is above the law — not even states. Not even powerful leaders.

Rowan Philp — Global Investigative Journalism Network

“Everything we knew as an industry has been destroyed. So we don’t stand still. This is a time for radical collaboration.”

Paul T Shattuck — Progressive Strategy Now (April 12, 2025)

What if staying human is one of the most powerful and most unappreciated forms of resistance? Shaping tomorrow and defeating tyranny takes more than big protest events and macro strategies.

John Knefel and Sophie Lawton — Media Matters

Steve Bannon was loud about Epstein disclosure — until emails revealed his own very cozy relationship

Kai Proschan — TransLash (January 22, 2025)

In light of growing hostility and anti-trans legislation across the U.S., many transgender people are seeking safe havens —whether by relocating to more trans-friendly areas within the U.S. or by moving abroad.

Timothy Snyder — Thinking About (November 1, 2025)

And What Comes After (Updated)

Lara Witt & Maya Schenwar — Truthout

Anger and bigotry are profitable models if you rewire people’s brains to be driven by fear.

Sharon Lerner — ProPublica

Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.

Marianne Williamson — TRANSFORM w/ Marianne Williamson

The next Vietnam or Iraq could be lurking in the Caribbean…

Anne Applebaum — The Atlantic (Gift) October 27, 2025

Modern authoritarian regimes often offer not a unified propaganda line but rather contradictory versions of reality... The cumulative effect is to leave citizens with no clear idea of what is actually happening.

George Monbiot — The Guardian

Of the world’s 10 most popular online shows, a Yale study shows eight have spread climate science denial.

Dr. Stacey Patton

No African American studies. No women’s studies. No queer studies. No sociology of race. No equity-focused education courses. No history courses on segregation. No public health instruction on racial disparities. No discussions of gender identity in psychology, medicine, social work, or literature.

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

When we place Trump’s bizarre, unprecedented secrecy next to Epstein’s emails in which the billionaire pedophile tells European and Russian contacts that he could offer “insight” into Trump, the outlines of a deeply troubling possibility emerge.

Noah Hurowitz — The Intercept

Exchanges about Trump between a reporter and Epstein raise questions about what the New York Times knew and when.

The Ink

We look at the sprawling, infuriating Epstein email dump and ask what this rare glimpse into the dark heart of oligarchic minds might mean for our broken system.

Jay Kuo — The Status Kuo

Evidence for Trump’s direct participation may exist among the Epstein files that haven’t been released yet. That may explain why the Justice Department reviewed them for any mention of Trump and has tried to stonewall their full release.

Dana Nuccitelli, Yale Climate Connections — Attention to the Unseen

Of all the techniques in the climate denier’s playbook, Rogan relies most heavily on conspiracy theorizing.

Peter Olney and Rand Wilson — Labor Notes (October 16, 2025)

For workers to survive Trump’s MAGA moment and build a fighting labor movement for the future, both electoral politics (something old) and militant actions to disrupt business as usual (something new for many unions) will be key.

Resistance Media

Compassion, empathy, anger, grief and joy are some of the most powerful acts of resistance available to us

Katrina Vanden Heuvel, John NIchols for The Nation — The Nation

If Zohran Mamdani governs as he campaigned, he will prove that the people have the power to shape their own future.

Marianne Williamson — TRANSFORM with Marianne Williamson (10/12/2025)

Purification of the American heart is the key to our worldly salvation.

Ari Paul — FAIR (9/19/2025)

This TikTok deal is not just about money. It’s about control of the political narrative.

Krista Tippett — The Pause

Some are calling it a new “organ” of the body. Some are calling it “the second brain.” It may be, in ways we keep unlocking, the very epicenter of quality of health and of life.

Closer to the Edge and Rook T. Winchester — Closer to the Edge

That deal wasn’t justice; it was choreography. The money-laundering indictment that could’ve exposed his financial enablers was boxed up and buried...

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

Trump appears well aware of his weakness, his collapsing poll numbers, and the precipice the American economy is teetering at the edge of.

Mike Brock — Notes from the Circus

The entire Democratic establishment infrastructure built on donor dependency and focus-group optimization and managing coalitions through accommodation—all of it dead.

Dr. Stacey Patton

We are watching a government experiment in population management using stress, scarcity, and biology to keep people too tired to fight back.

Christopher Armitage — The Existentialist Republic

Power no longer exclusively manufactures agreement. American oligarchs and their media companies have now learned to manufacture the allowable form of disagreement itself.

David A. Graham — The Atlantic (Gift)

Our election system is reaching a breaking point.

Jesse Hirsh — Metaviews: Future of Authority

Understanding Hybrid Civil War

Michael Sainato — The Guardian

Trump ally Laura Loomer took credit for Sami Hamdi’s detainment in move denounced as ‘affront to free speech’

Natalie Jonas — Open Secrets

The proposed amendment to the state Constitution redefines what is considered legitimate business activity and acceptable corporate donations by limiting corporate charters.

Michael Beyea Reagan — In These Times

Wall Street destroyed New York City’s social welfare economy in 1975. Avoiding that fate under Mayor Mamdani will require popular movements to discipline the super rich.

Amy Kroin — Free Press

“The urgent task is to build a public-media system capable of resisting autocracy and restoring democracy.”

Chris Hedges — The Chris Hedges Report

It’s clear that the architects of mass surveillance and the military industrial complex are beginning to coalesce in unprecedented ways within the Trump administration...

Dr. Stacey Patton

They told us this would happen.

Anil Dash — anildash.com

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, released their own browser called Atlas, and it actually is something new: the first browser that actively fights against the web.

The New Republic and Greg Sargent — The New Republic

Donald Trump is rapidly transforming the presidency into a massive Bribe Delivery System.

A.J. Schumann — Counterpunch

Across continents, workers are organizing to do what ballots alone have not: enforce the public will. It’s time American workers join our peers abroad by reclaiming strikes as part of our own democratic tradition.

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.

Norman Solomon — Tom Dispatch

How Corporate Democrats Led to the Trump Era.

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.

Judd Legum — Popular Information

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

Frank Rich — New York Magazine

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

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

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...

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

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

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?

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.

Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo — Politico

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

Mark Jacob — Stop the Presses

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

Tom Perkins — The Guardian

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

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.

Daniel Pinchbeck — Liminal News

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

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.

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

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

Jeffrey Chester — techpolicy.press

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

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.

Robert Reich — Robert Reich Substack

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

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...

Dell Cameron — Wired

Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

Christopher Armitage — The Existentialist Republic

Is it legal? Is it possible? And can we afford to wait and find out?

Dan Froomkin — Press Watch

A massive civil rights violation right in front of our eyes -- if we don't avert them

Lev Parnas — Lev Remembers

Today, our country is facing a test that cannot be ignored. Donald Trump has weaponized fear, division, and hate. He thrives on vengeance, not forgiveness. He demands loyalty not to the Constitution, not to the people, but to himself.

Aaron Mak — Politico

It’s Wikipedia’s turn in the “free speech” washing machine.

Vittoria Elliott — Wired

As the Trump administration threatens them, liberal nonprofits have been quietly preparing to do everything from surrendering 501(c)(3) status to relocating outside the US.

Nell Greenfieldboyce — NPR

British primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall's decades of research on chimpanzees in the wild changed perceptions of relations between humans and animals.

David Adler — The Nation

I hope that fellow Jews will join me in redefining their approach to atonement and move toward courageous action to put an end to this horrific genocide.

Whitney Curry Wimbush — The American Prospect

Multiple labor unions sued the OMB director for abusing his position and pushing an extremist Project 2025 agenda.

Brett Wilkins — Common Dreams

The synthetic performer, says SAG-AFTRA, is “a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers—without permission or compensation.”

Christopher Armitedge — The Existential Republic

Here's how we stop it from happening.

Jeff Sharlet — Scenes from a Slow Civil War

A close reading of "NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7: Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence"

Jake Lahut — Wired

The Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the same way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil.

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

This is not law and order: it's monarchy enforced by fear and lawsuits…

Sian Cain and Oliver Holmes — The Guardian

Removal of late-night show criticised as part of Trump administration’s attack on critical voices in media, academia and business

United in Advance

"Organizations should not be attacked for carrying out their missions or expressing their values in support of the communities they serve. We reject attempts to exploit political violence to mischaracterize our good work or restrict our fundamental freedoms, like freedom of speech and the freedom to give."

Jim Stewartson — Mind War

That is not politics, that is a criminal conspiracy to destroy the opposition party before an election you would otherwise lose. It is a Reichstag Fire Decree by any other name.

Gil Duran — The New Republic

This is where apocalyptic rhetoric always leads. When political opponents become evil, cosmic enemies, persecution, and violence become a sacred duty.

Oliver Holmes and agencies — The Guardian

US vice-president encourages ‘calling out’ anyone who celebrates Kirk’s murder, including notifying employers

Karen Attiah — The Golden Hour by Karen Attiah

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Eric Lipton, David Yaffe-Bellany, Bradley Hope, Tripp Mickle and Paul Mozur — New York Times (Gift)

A lucrative transaction involving the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm and an agreement giving the Emiratis access to A.I. chips were connected in ways that have not been previously reported.

Seth Stern — The Guardian

The hiring of Kenneth Weinstein as an ombudsman hands the US president a seat at the editors’ desk

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.

David Gilbert — Wired

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

Dake Kang and Yael Grauer — Associated Press

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

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.

Craig Aaron — Pressing Issues

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

Anne Applebaum — The Atlantic

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

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…

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.

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.

Dave Zirin and Chuck Modiano — The Nation

With only their cell phones, medical kits, and the confidence to assert their rights, volunteer night patrols follow and record the armed troops who have taken over the capital.

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.

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

Dhrumil Mehta and C.J. Robinson — Columbia Journalism Review

The Trump administration is publishing articles that are top-ranked on Google News.

Micah L. Sifry — The Connector

Instead of "catastrophizing" ourselves into despair, pay attention to the regime's weaknesses, including among the MAGA base.

Sam Biddle — The Intercept

The U.S. is interested in acquiring machine-learning technology to carry out AI-generated propaganda campaigns overseas.

Garrett Graff — Doomsday Scenario

Whether we can come back from this moment is a story yet unknown. But it’s clear today America is different and, even if we fight our way back, it will never be the same again.

Riley Stuart and Anna-Maria Tesfaye — The New York Times (Gift)

The Kremlin has begun a campaign to sway the parliamentary election in Moldova in what could become a new model of election interference online.

Alex Skopic — Current Affairs

Cory Doctorow’s new book is an insightful diagnosis of how Big Tech is making every app and website worse—even if his solutions leave something to be desired.

Clint Smith — The Atlantic

We must make a record of those forces that seek to erase us and erase our histories so that future generations know we did not simply accept it. Our ancestors’ words remind us that we never have.

John Knefel, Research Sophie Lawton — Media Matters

The right-wing media plan for undermining the 2026 elections includes pushing for ICE to stalk polling sites and sending a band of election deniers on tour

Cassidy Steele Dale — Think Future

An imperfect explanation that might make sense.

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context.

Chris Armitage — The Existential Republic

Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.

Craig Aaron — Pressing Issues

“If you act like change for the better is impossible, you guarantee it will be impossible.”

Will Robinson — Will Robinson's Newsletter

A for-profit disinformation ecosystem — from Fox News to Breitbart to localized digital outlets — now aggregates 40–50 million loyal consumers, shaping narratives and fueling authoritarian populism.

Haddy Gassama — ACLU

An immigration detention site at Fort Bliss will hold thousands. It could be the largest immigration detention site in the country.

How to Resist

One of the strengths of non-compliance is its accessibility. You don’t need a permit, a megaphone, or a lawyer. You simply need the courage and the conviction to say NO.

The Big Picture and Jay Kuo — The Big Picture

Trump intends to undo the will of the voters in next year’s midterm elections. But there’s still time and a way to stop him.

Aaron Regunberg — The New Republic

Having failed to learn the key lesson from last year’s defeat, party leaders are promoting moderate candidates to run against populist progressives in next year’s elections.

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

Deploying troops without police training, defying the courts, and threatening the media, Trump is importing dictator tactics in plain sight and daring Americans to stop him...

Sam Rosenthal — Progressive Hub

Democrats could have protected DC by granting statehood when they had the chance.

Eleanor Klibanoff — The Texas Tribune

“To one degree or another, to be successful as a Republican, you have to emulate Trump’s speech, his attitude and take directions from the White House.”

David D. Kirkpatrick — The New Yorker

How much is Trump pocketing off the Presidency?

Jared Abbott and Bhaskar Sunkara — The Guardian

In difficult races, Democrats are leaning into economic populism with promising results

Sarah Sophie Flicker — The Nation

Danish resistance didn’t arrive all at once during World War II. But taken as a whole, the Danes’ actions are a testament to what’s possible when we work together to fight fascism.

Paul Krugman

We're in an extremely dangerous moment.

Mark Jacob — Stop the Presses

Trump’s war on the free press follows foreign dictators’ playbook.

Brian Tyler Cohen

The latest move by SCOTUS is a "five alarm fire"

The New Republic and Greg Sargent — The New Republic

A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

Dan Froomkin — Press Watch

The tariffs are not the product of serious policymaking. They are the irrational and capricious result of Trump’s delusional thinking.

David Voreacos and Chris Strohm — Bloomberg

Wyden’s staff has pursued a “follow the money” strategy as it investigates the flow of funds in and out of Epstein’s accounts...

Elie Mystal — The Nation

The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.

Esther Eriksson von Allmen — CREW

“By continuing to financially support anti-democratic lawmakers, these companies and trade groups fail to grasp the serious business consequences of such a dangerous political trajectory.”

Lori Corbet Mann — Your Time Starts Now

Hope isn’t something we wait for. It’s something we build — together, deliberately, even when we don’t feel it.

Laura Flanders — Laura Flanders Substack

We must radically recommit to public media before every newsroom, every voice, is up for sale to the highest bidder or the ruling party’s favorite mogul. The time is now.

Ron Williams

The environment for press freedom in the United States is entering a perilous new phase. The attacks have been unprecedented, widespread and continue to escalate.

Doctors Without Borders

An aid worker providing psychosocial support spoke of the devastating impact on children: “Children tell their parents they want to go to heaven, because at least heaven has food.”

Olga Lautman — Olga Lautman Substack

And YES, Russia attacked the 2016 election to install Trump

Greg Sargent — The New Republic

The Oregon Democrat said that his investigators had discovered that four big banks had flagged to the Treasury Department $1.5 billion in potentially suspicious money transfers involving Epstein, much of which appeared to be related to his massive sex-trafficking network.

Haaretz

'Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can recall seeing a colleague die of hunger. We refuse to see them die,' the French news agency's journalists union said.

Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims — Popular Information

Trump has the authority to take actions that will drive the price of bitcoin higher. If recent history is any guide, that is exactly what Trump will do.

Jack Hopkins — Jack Hopkins Now

While MAGA melts down over Epstein, Trump gives the mob a chew toy—and lays the groundwork for something darker.

Max Tani — Semafor

Changes in viewership habits and advances in technology have given this generation of right-leaning entertainers an opportunity to break through.

Allison Gill — muellershewrote.com

Inside the chaotic review process of the Epstein and Maxwell files at the Bureau

Jeff Jarvis — Medium

Mass media are dead: corrupted, complicit, malign, worthless

Jon Passantino — Status

The optics are hard to ignore: a top-rated show, led by one of Trump’s most vocal critics, axed just weeks after Paramount settled a lawsuit with Trump and began courting conservative media figures for leadership roles in the post-merger company.

Mark Hertsgaard — The Nation

Americans still don’t comprehend how imminent, dangerous, and far-reaching the threat is—and journalists are partly to blame.

Maya Yang — The Guardian

PBS chief says cuts package ‘goes against the will of the American people’ as smaller outlets could face total closure

Reporters Without Borders

This exchange of ideas, tactics, and rhetorical techniques to attack the press has created an apparent authoritarian feedback loop.

Colby Hall — Mediaite

What does it mean when the most-watched media outlet in America is more interested in appeasing a politician than informing its audience?

Article 19

"Beyond immediate censorship and surveillance fears, Spain risks normalising Huawei tools and technologies in ways that are detrimental to human rights and fundamental freedoms in the EU and around the world."

James B. Greenberg — James's Substack

Once in place, the system doesn’t sit idle. It seeks new uses.

Jen Rice — Democracy Docket

Republicans already hold 25 out of Texas’ 38 congressional seats – a much higher share of seats than their vote-share in the state should net.

Democracy Docket

Today, rather than standing up for voting access, Trump's DOJ is supporting and defending voter suppression laws and bringing new lawsuits to impose stricter voting rules.

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

We must call this what it is: a full-scale assault on our economy, our democracy, and the peaceful world order that’s prevented a third world war for nearly 80 years…

John Feffer — Common Dreams

It’s the opposite of Trump, who was interested only in building a vehicle for his own self-advancement. Musk is far more dangerous.

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

The mainstream media are overall failing to raise the alarm, failing to connect the dots, failing to show how all the injuries add up to profound danger to the nation's people, its institutions, and its environment.

Hope Hodge Seck — Mother Jones

For troops experiencing ethical dilemmas, following one’s conscience can be costly.

Chris Hedges — The Chris Hedges Report

The Trump administration’s refusal to release the Epstein files and videos is done not only to protect Trump, but the ruling class. They all belong to the same club.

Janine Jackson — FAIR

CounterSpin interview with Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats

Freedom of the Press Foundation

Journalists covering recent demonstrations in California have been assaulted, detained, shot with crowd-control munitions, and had their equipment searched — simply for doing their jobs.

Jacob Silverman — The Nation

The strange saga of a shadowy UAE company’s $100 million investment in World Liberty Financial, the Trump-aligned crypto trader.

Corey Hutchins — NiemanLab

The report from Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack finds that more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist.

Mark Bauer — Rank The Vote

Getting RCV on the ballot isn’t easy. It’s a complex, legally binding process. The campaign must collect hundreds of thousands of valid signatures in a tight window of time. Every volunteer counts.

Adam Harris — The Guardian

Barber, the co-chair of the revived Poor People’s campaign, a national movement to challenge inequality in all its forms through moral protest and policy change, has spent years preparing people for moments like this.

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg — Truthout

Conscientious objector applications surge under Trump as military members fear becoming “the saber that he’s rattling.”

Caitlin Vogus — Freedom of Press Foundation

While noncitizen journalists are the easiest targets for now, it’s abundantly clear that the government would like to criminalize journalists it doesn’t like, regardless of the journalists’ residency status.

Committee to Protect Journalists

The Spanish-language reporter is currently the only journalist in custody in the U.S. whose arrest was in relation to their work.

Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and Andrea Suozzo — ProPublica

A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

George A. Polisner — Leadership Matters

How many believe that the representative democracy in the United States is healthy, strong, and working well as we evolve toward a “more perfect Union”?

Norman Solomon — Roots Action

The oligarchs accustomed to such governance are furious that the nation’s capital of capitalism is in danger of serving people instead of megaprofits.

Edwin Lyman — Utility Dive

The exodus of key personnel at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will jeopardize its ability to oversee the nuclear power fleet and slow the licensing of new facilities to a crawl.

Anna Desmarais — euronews

Denmark will give people copyright over their own likenesses as a way to fight back against generated “deepfake” videos, as countries around the world grapple with the rapid rise of AI.

Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope — Columbia Journalism Review

Launching the Covering Climate Now media collaboration, he urged fellow journalists to “tell the story so people get it.”

Kevin Gosztola — The Dissenter

The “government’s interpretation of the Wiretap Act would unleash frivolous litigation and make the Act a magnet for arbitrary and harassing enforcement actions in the future.”

Michael Maya — Just Security

Those who praise Orban and argue that Hungary provides a useful model for the United States are gravely misguided or worse.

Al Jazeera

US President Donald Trump links US aid to Netanyahu’s corruption trial in fiery post on his social media site.

Steven Lee Myers and Stuart A. Thompson — The New York Times

Content generated by AI has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters and discrediting the democratic process.

John Nichols — The Nation

The legendary journalist believed that speaking truth to power was the essential underpinning of an embattled American experiment.

Pema Levy — Mother Jones

“Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more.”

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

Once constrained by grown-ups in the room, Trump now surrounds himself with suckups. The result? A perfect storm of immaturity, cruelty, and power…

Steven Levy — Wired

While star reporters continue to flock to Substack, subscription fatigue is only getting worse.

Anand Giridharadas — The.Ink

This was not an airwaves campaign. It was a stoop campaign. As obvious as this might seem, it’s a lesson that keeps going unlearned.

Sherrilyn Ifill — Sherrilyn’s Newsletter

We have every right to know the identity of those officers are who are abducting migrants and U.S. citizens from our streets, and under whose authority they are purporting to act.

J Oliver Conroy — The Guardian

The political temperature is dangerously high – and shows few signs of cooling.

Gary Marcus — Marcus on AI

“Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’” — 1984, George Orwell

Ron Williams

As the United States descends more deeply into an authoritarian nightmare, individuals and families are considering the once unthinkable: stay and risk persecution or uproot their lives for another state or country.

George A. Polisner — Leadership Matters

But sure, let's have a parade!

Garrett Graff — Doomsday Scenario

The Trump administration is letting an unaccountable secret police form at the heart of our democracy.

Gwen Frisbie-Fulton — The Gander

Instead of trying to fix this broken system, Congress is punishing the victims of its malfunctioning and is slashing SNAP to enact tax cuts for the rich.

Katherine Wilkens — Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation fails to meet minimum international standards for aid delivery.

BrieAnna J. Frank — USA Today

Press freedom organizations warn the Department of Homeland Security that federal officers “may have violated the First Amendment rights” of journalists covering protests.

Tim Lau, Joseph Nunn — Brennan Center for Justice

Martial law has been declared more than 60 times in U.S. history, mostly by state and local officials. However, the concept has no established definition.

Robert Reich — Robert Reich Substack

To be brave and nonviolent in the face of tyranny, to be strong and restrained, to resist with our hearts filled with anger but not succumb to that anger — is terribly difficult.

UN Human Rights Office — un.org

Directing attacks against protected persons such as journalists is a violation of international humanitarian law and also constitutes a war crime.

Chris Hedges — The Chris Hedges Report

In the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality.

Diane Yentel — Shelterforce

You don’t know who needs to hear your voice right now, who needs to see your leadership, but I guarantee you that someone does, and that your courage will bolster theirs.

Al Gore — Ted Talks

In this urgent and hard-hitting talk, Nobel Laureate Al Gore thoroughly dismantles the fossil fuel industry’s narrative of "climate realism," contrasting their misleading claims with the remarkable advancements in renewable energy.

Peter Geoghegan — Democracy for Sale

Nigel Farage, Peter Thiel and how authoritarian tech fantasies are becoming political reality

Laura Bates — The Guardian

When social media first exploded, we missed our chance to protect women and girls. Now history is repeating itself

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...

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.

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.

Robert Reich — https://robertreich.substack.com

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

Sarah Ventre — NPR

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

Nicole Schneidman — If you can keep it

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

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.

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.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat — Lucid

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

John Feffer — Institute for Policy Studies

Netanyahu is about to escalate, yet again, his war crimes in Gaza.

Taylor Lorenz — usermag.com

Piker's detention occurs against a backdrop of increasing scrutiny of political activists and commentators, especially those who challenge the administration’s policies on Israel.

David Frum — The Atlantic

"It is corruption and self dealing on a scale that we've never seen in American history."

Scot Nakagawa — The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook

Lessons from Duterte's Philippines for the United States.

Anand Giridharadas — The.Ink

Some reflections on Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s playbook for a post-Trump America

Judd Legum — Popular Information

The Trump Organization has announced new developments in the UAE, Qatar, India and Vietnam. But none in the United States.

Closer to the Edge — https://closertotheedge.substack.com

Miller’s worldview is binary: loyal or enemy. He doesn’t understand diplomacy, nuance, or restraint. He understands retribution.

Steve Schmidt — https://steveschmidt.substack.com

Yesterday, the United States Department of Defense released an AI-generated image venerating the leadership and strength of Pete Hegseth. Of course, there were problems, including the three fingers on one hand, but it doesn’t really matter how many fingers there are because the Party will tell you how many there are.

Mike Brock — https://www.notesfromthecircus.com

Why the Global Democratic Community Must Respond Before It’s Too Late

Katherine Jacobsen — Committee to Protect Journalists

The United States is now at a critical juncture concerning both the future of freedom of the press and democratic institutions more broadly.

Climate Action Campaign

By cutting carbon pollution and accelerating the transition to clean energy, we will improve public health and create a more resilient economy and a more sustainable future for all.

Mark Nevitt — Just Security

The creation of a National Defense Area marks an extraordinary shift in the military’s role from indirectly supporting law enforcement to actively serving in a law enforcement capacity.

Irene Khan — United Nations Human Rights Council

The security and safety of journalists in exile remain precarious, because of the failure of States to uphold their international obligations.

Ed Pilkington — The Guardian

Americans have often moved between states for opportunities. Now they’re being forced to uproot themselves to escape hostile forces under Trump

Ari Honarvar — Yes Magazine

For more than four decades, Iranians have resisted through underground clubs, labor strikes, and other everyday acts of defiance.

Closer to the Edge

“The most powerful way to change the world is to secretly commit little acts of compassion. You must behave as if your every act, even the smallest, impacted a thousand people for a hundred generations. Because it does.”

Committee to Protect Journalists — CPJ

Educate yourself on border security protocols and learn about your rights when encountering law enforcement at border crossings.

Joel Simon — Columbia Journalism Review

To sustain this new system, Thornton told me, nonprofit news organizations need diversified funding from membership, sponsorship, events, and philanthropy, which will need to support local media in perpetuity, the way they do the arts.

David Kirp — San Francisco Chronicle

No one, except perhaps the authors of Project 2025, could have predicted that the so-called guardrails of democracy were made of papier-mâché, that this country could so quickly be teetering on the precipice of autocracy.

Timothy W. Ryback — The Atlantic

By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards.

SARAH GREVY GOTFREDSEN — Columbia Journalism Review

The “intolerable risk to press freedom” posed by device searches at the border.

DAVID BAUDER — Associated Press

A federal judge ordered the White House on Tuesday to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events, affirming on First Amendment grounds that the government cannot punish the news organization for the content of its speech.

Miranda C. Spencer — FAIR

If you relied on articles and broadcasts from the legacy national news media during early 2025, you wouldn’t know the extent of grassroots action prompted by this discontent.

Ed Simon — Time

Where the Enlightenment promised liberty, emancipation, equality, and solidarity, “Dark Enlightenment” offers servitude, hierarchy, bondage, and ruthlessness.

MacKenzie Sigalos — CNBC

Fresh off its victories in the 2024 election cycle, the crypto industry is going big in Florida.

Alice Kantor — Bloomberg

The rush to secure passports and visas comes as many countries tighten immigration rules.

MAX UFBERG — Fast Company

Yet Bluesky isn’t just a repository for social media’s disaffected. It’s also the best example of how “federation”—a buzzy Silicon Valley term that describes a structure wherein multiple independent groups collaborate to share information—can build a more equitable and independent social media experience.

Peter Guo and Mithil Aggarwal — NBC News

Chinese state media are celebrating President Donald Trump’s move to gut Voice of America and other U.S. government-funded news outlets that push back against authoritarian regimes.

András Pethő — Atlantic

Much of what the U.S. president has done to curb independent media echoes the Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán’s playbook.

KAYLA GOGARTY — Media Matters

As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, the influence of this media ecosystem becomes more prominent — and Media Matters has found that the most popular of this content is overwhelmingly right-leaning.

Dalson Chen and Jacob Barker — CBC News

A family from Illinois is anxiously awaiting a decision from a Canadian tribunal as they seek asylum north of the border, claiming that America's politics have made them feel unsafe. Kaitlyn and Ted Berg say they made the recent decision to uproot their children as they witnessed the fallout of November's presidential election.

Tonya Mosely — Fresh Air

In his book Murder the Truth, author David Enrich explores how Justice Thomas' words coincide with a surge in legal threats and litigation against journalists and media outlets.

SCOT NAKAGAWA — The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook

Mutual aid is a form of collective care in which communities come together to share resources, provide for one another’s needs, and build systems of support independent of the state or corporate entities.

Kara Swisher — The Atlantic

Silicon Valley’s titans have decided that ruling the digital world is not enough.

Brett Wagner — San Francisco Chronicle

A joint Department of Defense and Homeland Security report will soon recommend whether or not to invoke the Insurrection Act over illegal migration

Tom Philpott — Mother Jones

RFK Jr. could make legitimate critiques of the ways we grow and process food appear crackpot.

The Center for Ballot Freedom — The Ticket

Without a healthy party system, you’re basically left with either violence or autocracy as the way disagreements get resolved.

Gil Duran — thenerdreich.com

Memo details how Elon Musk has orchestrated a stunning takeover of the U.S. government

Mike Brock — notesfromthecircus.com

Teams of young tech operatives are systematically dismantling democratic institutions and replacing them with proprietary artificial intelligence systems. Civil servants who raise legal objections are being removed. Government databases are being migrated to private servers. Decision-making power is being transferred from elected officials and career bureaucrats to algorithms controlled by a small network of Silicon Valley elites.

Global Project Against Hate and Extremism — globalextremism.org

In this new more permissive online environment, an investigation by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) has discovered neo-Nazi activity flourishing on Instagram, including degrading hate speech, antisemitic conspiracism, and even Nazi symbols being used to sell merchandise.

David Fenton — Framelab

The oil, coal, and gas industries are now effectively running all branches of government.

Ananya Bhasin — Committee to Protect Journalists

After escaping the country undetected with nearly two dozen newsroom colleagues and family members, they made their way to a refugee camp in Albania. Then, they got to work rebuilding the newsroom they had left behind.

GEORGE A. POLISNER — https://bomdia.substack.com

Hint: It's Dangerously Corroded

Gabor Mate — The Guardian

We need to understand the psychological roots of authoritarianism

Dave Troy — The Washington Spectator

In May, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced H.R. 8421, the “Federal Reserve Abolition Act” which aims to “abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and the Federal Reserve banks” and repeals the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, the law that created the Federal Reserve System. ...This bill, as designed, would end the current dollar system and introduce a new financial system rooted in a gold-backed dollar and cryptocurrencies.

Electronic Frontier Foundation — eff.org

Digital security is as much of a mindset as it is a toolkit, and there are concepts to consider regardless of whether you're first getting started or you're a seasoned veteran. Before you start seeking out solutions, take a minute to step back and consider the whole picture of what you're trying to accomplish.

Morgan Meaker — Wired

In Yanis Varoufakis’ latest book, the former Greek finance minister argues that companies like Apple and Meta have treated their users like modern-day serfs.

Rachel George — Council on Foreign Relations

Iran and other countries in the Middle East are increasingly using artificial intelligence as a tool to crackdown on women's rights.

Reporters Without Borders — Reporters Without Boarders

Journalists killed in connection with their work in Gaza, Lebanon and Israel.

Jonathan Taplin — Vanity Fair

In an excerpt from his new book, The End of Reality, the author warns about the curses of AI and transhumanism, presenting the moral case against superintelligence.

JIM HEINTZ AND DASHA LITVINOVA — AP News

Meduza, an independent news website that has been critical of Russia’s military action in Ukraine was declared “undesirable” by the government Thursday, effectively outlawing its operation within the country as part of the Kremlin’s latest crackdown on dissent.

Reporters Without Borders

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has used the mirror site technology of its Collateral Freedom operation to unblock access to Meduza, the most popular Russian independent news website.

Rowan Philp — Global Investigative Journalism Network

“A decade ago, there were international programs for exiled media, ...there has been nothing since, and there is no association of exiled media.”

Jennifer Robinson, Dr Keina Yoshida — Article 19

What might a feminist approach to the protection of journalists look like? What concrete benefits might it bring? And could it provide solutions to the well-documented – and highly gendered – abuse that women journalists face every day?

Gene Demby — NPR

This is an opportunistic movement — which means that even though Trump seems to be able to incite these people, it does not mean he has the power to call them off.

Robert Gass — robertgass.com

Smart strategic thinking and technical skills are no guarantee of emotional maturity and balance.