• Global • Human Rights • Recommended

    The Waste Musk Created

    Nicholas Kristof

    The New York Times

    Have our hearts grown so icy that we don’t care as the world’s richest men crush the world’s poorest children?

    Published On: 06/24/2025

  • Legal • Violence • White Supremacy

    Masked Terror

    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.

    Published On: 06/24/2025

  • Democracy • Legal • Recommended

    Why Elon Musk’s Third Party Won’t Get Off the Launchpad

    Center for Ballot Freedom

    The Ticket

    “As long as we have our current system of single-winner plurality elections, third parties have no meaningful chance to do anything more than show up as occasional spoilers.”

    Published On: 06/24/2025

  • Human Rights • Violence • White Supremacy

    The US has entered a new phase of political violence

    J Oliver Conroy

    The Guardian

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

    Published On: 06/22/2025

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Safety • Violence

    ICE Believes it will Never Face Accountability Again

    Garrett Graff

    Doomsday Scenario

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

    Published On: 06/20/2025

  • Economy • Featured • Recommended

    Your favorite campgrounds, hiking trails, and forests could soon be up for auction

    Joseph Winters

    Grist

    Republicans want to make 250 million acres of public lands eligible for sale to housing developers.

    Published On: 06/18/2025

  • Economy • Human Rights • Resistance

    Working folks build food solutions, while Congress slashes SNAP

    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.

    Published On: 06/16/2025

  • Global • Human Rights • Violence

    Is Humanitarian Aid a Tool to Advance the “Trump Plan” in Gaza?

    Katherine Wilkens

    Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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

    Published On: 06/12/2025

  • Human Rights • Press Freedom • Violence

    Press groups push DHS over potential First Amendment violations during LA protests

    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.

    Published On: 06/11/2025

  • Democracy • Violence

    This Is What Trump Does When His Revolution Sputters

    Anne Applebaum

    The Atlantic

    At each obstacle, after each catastrophe, the turn to violence becomes that much swifter, the harsh decisions that much easier.

    Published On: 06/11/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    The Insurrection Act Explained

    Joseph Nunn

    Brennan Center for Justice

    The law, which lets the president deploy the military domestically and use it for civilian law enforcement, is dangerously vague and in urgent need of reform.

    Published On: 06/10/2025

  • Recommended • Safety • Threat Management

    Trump’s Nuclear Power Obsession

    Karl Grossman and Harvey Wasserman

    CounterPunch

    Yet while prices and production times for renewable sources plummet, Trump and his anti-green minions have been vigorously assaulting the wind, solar and other green energy technologies.

    Published On: 06/06/2025

  • Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Violence

    UN Human Rights Office condemns targeting journalists and attacks on hospitals

    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.

    Published On: 06/06/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy • Europe

    The US Right Is Coming for the UK—With Crypto in Hand

    Peter Geoghegan

    Democracy for Sale

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

    Published On: 06/04/2025

  • Economy • Global • Technology

    Why Climate Action is Unstoppable

    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.

    Published On: 06/04/2025

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