• Democracy • Recommended

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    The Nation

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    Published On: 09/04/2025

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Legal

    Criminal Propaganda

    Jud Legum and Rebecca Crosby

    Popular Information

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    Published On: 09/03/2025

  • Corruption • Human Rights • Recommended • Violence

    Trump Admin Circulating Plan to Transform Depopulated Gaza Into High-Tech Cash Cow

    Brett Wilkins

    Common Dreams

    Under the proposal, the US would take control after "voluntary" relocation of Palestinians from the strip, where proposed projects include an Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone and Gaza Trump Riviera & Islands.

    Published On: 09/01/2025

  • Culture • Recommended • Resistance • Social Media • Technology

    Gavin Newsom on Why He’ll Keep Trolling Trump

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    New York Magazine

    "It’s humiliating, it’s embarrassing. So this is a mirror, and it’s a mirror not just to Trump himself, but to these networks. These are the chatbots for the administration. And it’s not just Fox, it’s One America News, it’s Newsmax, and it’s all the folks in the right-wing media."

    Published On: 08/29/2025

  • Human Rights • Resistance • Safety • Threat Management

    The DC Night Patrols Are Showing Cities How to Fight Trump’s Occupation

    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.

    Published On: 08/29/2025

  • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom

    The White House Is Its Own Media Outlet

    Dhrumil Mehta and C.J. Robinson

    Columbia Journalism Review

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

    Published On: 08/28/2025

  • Democracy • Resistance

    Keep Calm and Protect Democracy

    Micah L. Sifry

    The Connector

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

    Published On: 08/26/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy • Human Rights

    America Tips Into Fascism

    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.

    Published On: 08/25/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Disinformation

    US Wants to “Suppress Dissenting Arguments” Using AI Propaganda

    Sam Biddle

    The Intercept

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

    Published On: 08/25/2025

  • Human Rights • Resistance • White Supremacy

    Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

    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.

    Published On: 08/22/2025

  • Cyber Security • Democracy • Europe • Social Media

    Russia Steps Up Disinformation Efforts as Trump Abandons Resistance

    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.

    Published On: 08/22/2025

  • Democracy • Disinformation • White Supremacy

    Steve Bannon just laid out the MAGA media playbook to subvert the midterms

    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

    Published On: 08/21/2025

  • Democracy • Resistance

    On Not Surrendering in Advance Or At Any Point Thereafter

    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.

    Published On: 08/20/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

    What Bob McChesney Taught Me

    Craig Aaron

    Pressing Issues

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

    Published On: 08/19/2025

  • Democracy • Resistance • Safety

    It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”

    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.

    Published On: 08/19/2025

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