• Corruption • Democracy

    Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms is Already Under Way

    David A. Graham

    The Atlantic (Gift)

    Our election system is reaching a breaking point.

    Published On: 10/28/2025

  • Human Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour

    Michael Sainato

    The Guardian

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

    Published On: 10/26/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy • Legal

    Fifteen years after Citizens United, the Montana Plan poses the latest challenge to dark money

    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.

    Published On: 10/25/2025

  • Human Rights • Resistance • Safety

    What are we doing here, folks?

    Heather Cox Richardson

    Letters From An American

    It appears the administration is using those Americans who depend on food assistance as pawns to put more pressure on Democrats to cave to Trump’s will.

    Published On: 10/25/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Surveillance • Technology

    The Rise of the Thielverse and the Construction of the Surveillance State

    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...

    Published On: 10/23/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    The Defunding of Public Media Is Hitting Local Stations Hardest

    Amy Kroin

    Free Press

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

    Published On: 10/23/2025

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Resistance

    America is Overdue for a General Strike

    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.

    Published On: 10/22/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy

    Trump’s Vile New $230 Million Shakedown of DOJ Just Got Even Worse

    The New Republic and Greg Sargent

    The New Republic

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

    Published On: 10/22/2025

  • Violence • White Supremacy

    Trump’s Mass Pardon of White Nationalists Turned Into a Death Warrant for Hakeem Jeffries

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    They told us this would happen.

    Published On: 10/22/2025

  • Safety • Threat Management • Violence • White Supremacy

    ICE boosts weapons spending 700%

    Judd Legum

    Popular Information

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

    Published On: 10/20/2025

  • Resistance • Violence • White Supremacy

    No Kings, No Violence: On the Ongoing Misrepresentation of the Left

    Rebecca Solnit

    Meditations in an Emergency

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

    Published On: 10/16/2025

  • Human Rights • Resistance • Violence • White Supremacy

    “They’re Not Welcome”: How Chicago Residents Are Resisting Trump’s ICE Invasion

    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...

    Published On: 10/16/2025

  • Human Rights • Legal • Violence • White Supremacy

    More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days

    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

    Published On: 10/16/2025

  • Social Media • White Supremacy

    ‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

    Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo

    Politico

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

    Published On: 10/14/2025

  • Cyber Security • Human Rights • Surveillance • Technology

    The Surveillance Empire That Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You

    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.

    Published On: 10/14/2025

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