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Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

Flowers Bloom on Soldiers' Graves: Lessons in Power and Consequence

Violence consistently undermines the very influence it seeks to project.

Analysis • Culture • Democracy • Fascism • Global

Jeffrey Sachs — Savage Minds

Trump and Netanyahu: Two Madmen Playing God

When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. We will all be the victims of Netanyahu’s plagues and Trump’s bombing of Iran to the stone ages, unless other leaders place limits on these two madmen.

Analysis • Democracy • Impacts • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

Dr Stacey Patton

“No Kings," No Risk, No Change. The Protest Ritual That Lets America Feel Brave Without Doing Anything

Every few months now, like clockwork, millions of people pour into the streets chanting the same refrains. Holding the same signs. And reposting the same slogans with a fresh coat of urgency.

Analysis • Exile • Human Rights • Safety • Social Justice and Equity • Threat Management

Ed Pilkington — The Guardian

Meet the new American refugees fleeing across state lines

Americans have often moved between states for opportunities. Now they’re being forced to uproot themselves to escape hostile forces under Trump

Analysis • Europe • Exile • Global • Human Rights • Safety • Threat Management

Alice Kantor — Bloomberg

Americans in Race for European Residency

The rush to secure passports and visas comes as many countries tighten immigration rules.

Analysis • Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal

Brett Wagner — San Francisco Chronicle

Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way

A joint Department of Defense and Homeland Security report will soon recommend whether or not to invoke the Insurrection Act over illegal migration

Analysis • Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism

Brett Wagner — San Francisco Chronicle

Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way

The clock is ticking down on a crucial but little-noticed part of President Donald Trump’s first round of executive orders — the one tasking the secretaries of the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security to submit a joint report, within 90 days, recommending “whether to invoke the Insurrection Act.”

Analysis • Democracy • Digital Rights • Disinformation • Journalism

Oliver Darcy — Status

Trumpocalypse Now

After years of warnings about what Donald Trump would do if he returned to power, the president is dismantling institutions, warping law enforcement agencies, seeking retribution on his critics, treating undocumented immigrants with cruelty, imposing and threatening seismic tariffs, and openly musing about seizing foreign territories. The American experiment is convulsing before our eyes. And yet, you wouldn't quite realize it from the tone of the news coverage.

Analysis • Democracy • Digital Rights • Elections • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

CHRIS LEHMANN — The Nation

The MAGA Assault on the Media Is Picking Up Steam

Trump’s courts-based intimidation campaign against the press descends from handiwork of one of his most prominent Silicon Valley backers, venture capitalist and neo-reactionary ghoul Peter Thiel.

Analysis • Democracy • Digital Rights • Elections • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

Adrienne LaFrance — The Atlantic

Capitulation is Contagious

The brave few who stood up to the magnates of the Gilded Age came to mind this month, when Ann Telnaes, a Washington Post cartoonist, resigned over the paper’s refusal to publish a cartoon in which she skewered today’s titans of industry—Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Post, among them.

Analysis • Journalism

SCOT NAKAGAWA — The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook

Put On Your Own Oxygen Mask And Help Others Once You Are Out of Immediate Danger

When an authoritarian regime takes over, NGOs, advocacy nonprofits, and activist organizations face significant threats.

Analysis • Democracy • Executive Power • Technology

Barbara McQuade — THE CONTRARIAN

Meta’s Abandonment of Fact-Checking Empowers a President Who Traffics in Lies

Certainly, people can debate policy issues and the virtues of candidates, but fact-checking is another matter. There is such a thing as truth.

Analysis • Democracy • Digital Rights • Disinformation • Elections • Journalism • Technology

Sheera Frenkel — New York Times

Liberals Are Left Out in the Cold as Social Media Veers Right

Hundreds of thousands of posts lauding Mr. Trump’s victory filled Truth Social, the social platform that the president-elect owns. Speculation about what the new administration would accomplish ran rampant on X, which is owned by Elon Musk. Gab, Parler and other right-wing social media sites were flooded with thousands of memes glorifying Mr. Trump.

Analysis • Digital Rights • Disinformation • Journalism • Social Media • Technology

GEORGE A. POLISNER — https://bomdia.substack.com