• Democracy • Featured • Human Rights • Legal

    “Largest Federal Law Enforcement Agency in the History of the Nation”

    Democracy Now

    Democracy Now

    You will see ICE now being the single largest federal law enforcement agency in the history of the nation, potentially with enough funding to hire more law enforcement agents than the FBI and more detention potentially than the entire Federal Bureau of Prisons.

    Published On: 07/02/2025

  • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Safety

    CPJ outraged at ICE refusal of judge’s order to release journalist Mario Guevara

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    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.

    Published On: 07/02/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

    ICE wants to work in secret. We shouldn’t let it

    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.

    Published On: 07/02/2025

  • Democracy • Featured • Legal

    Taking Away Your Citizenship

    Joyce Vance

    Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

    We’ve moved onto the next phase of the plan, where the Civil Rights Division, the once proud crown jewel of the Justice Department, will participate in stripping naturalized American citizens of their citizenship.

    Published On: 07/01/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Disinformation • Featured

    A Pro-Russia Disinformation Campaign Is Using AI to Fuel a ‘Content Explosion’

    David Gilbert

    Wired

    Consumer-grade AI tools have supercharged Russian-aligned disinformation as pictures, videos, QR codes, and fake websites have proliferated.

    Published On: 07/01/2025

  • Human Rights • Threat Management

    After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage

    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.

    Published On: 07/01/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy • Europe

    Why Hungary and Orbanism Must Never be a Model for the U.S.

    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.

    Published On: 06/30/2025

  • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    Prosecution Against Journalist Endangers Right To Gather News

    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.”

    Published On: 06/30/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Europe

    Denmark Fights Back Against Deepfakes

    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.

    Published On: 06/30/2025

  • Legal • Safety

    Trump attacks on NRC independence pose health, safety risks

    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.

    Published On: 06/30/2025

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Resistance

    The Rage of Billionaires and the Frenzy to Stop Zohran Mamdani

    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.

    Published On: 06/30/2025

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Global • Human Rights • Legal

    Trump defends Netanyahu, attacks Israeli prosecutors over corruption trial

    Al Jazeera

    Al Jazeera

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

    Published On: 06/29/2025

  • Legal

    “Disaster Looms”: Justice Jackson’s Warning for the Country

    Pema Levy

    Mother Jones

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

    Published On: 06/27/2025

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Journalism

    Bill Moyers Kept the Faith in Democracy. We Need His Example More Than Ever.

    John Nichols

    The Nation

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

    Published On: 06/27/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Disinformation • Technology

    A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy

    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.

    Published On: 06/27/2025

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