• Democracy • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

    Whither Colbert? Whither Democracy

    Jeff Jarvis

    Medium

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

    Published On: 07/19/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended

    Colbert’s Termination is a Corporate Assault on Dissent

    Jeff Cohen

    Common Dreams

    In recent months, we’ve seen one media conglomerate after another offer what amounted to multimillion-dollar bribes to Trump by settling frivolous Trump lawsuits that these companies could not possibly have lost in court.

    Published On: 07/19/2025

  • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    ‘Devastating’: US Public Broadcasters Condemn Trump Cuts

    Maya Yang

    The Guardian

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

    Published On: 07/18/2025

  • Disinformation • Global • Threat Management

    Americans Should Be More Afraid of Climate Change

    Mark Hertsgaard

    The Nation

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

    Published On: 07/18/2025

  • Disinformation • Journalism

    Fox News Hosts Pretend the Biggest MAGA Story Doesn’t Exist

    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?

    Published On: 07/17/2025

  • Democracy • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    Six months of Trump’s war on the press

    Reporters Without Borders

    Reporters Without Borders

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

    Published On: 07/17/2025

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Legal • Safety

    The Architecture of Fear: How Detention Becomes a Template for Control

    James B. Greenberg

    James's Substack

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

    Published On: 07/16/2025

  • Cyber Security • Democracy • Europe • Global

    Spain: Huawei must not be allowed access to wiretap data in the EU

    Article 19

    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."

    Published On: 07/16/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Dems to Fight Texas’ ‘Illegal, Unconstitutional and Egregious Effort to Rig the Elections’

    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.

    Published On: 07/15/2025

  • Global • Human Rights • Recommended

    The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food

    Hana Kiros

    The Atlantic

    Despite the administration’s repeated promises to continue food aid, and Rubio’s testimony that he would not allow existing food to go to waste, even more food could soon expire.

    Published On: 07/14/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift

    Democracy Docket

    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.

    Published On: 07/14/2025

  • Journalism • Resistance • Social Media

    Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning

    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.

    Published On: 07/13/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy • Legal

    Trump, Epstein and the Deep State

    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.

    Published On: 07/12/2025

  • Human Rights • Legal • Resistance

    Is the US Military Poised to Experience a New Surge in Conscientious Objectors?

    Hope Hodge Seck

    Mother Jones

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

    Published On: 07/12/2025

  • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    LA Journalists Reflect on Protest Attacks

    Freedom of the Press Foundation

    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.

    Published On: 07/11/2025

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    It’s now up to the media, to outside organizations, and to whistleblowers to keep reporting the slide into kleptocracy to the public.