Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Recommended • Violence
War is 100% “America” and Michigan Wants its Fair Share
Deb Hansen
Riverwisedetroit.org (Fall 2025)
Questioning war and why we fight is imperative. It will require a courageous confrontation with a powerful taboo, a palpable force field that snarls and growls. But this is the end of the line. War at this scale is ecocide, a death wish.
Democracy • Fascism • Human Rights • ICE • Violence
Trump Admin to Spend $40B to Turn Warehouses Into Massive Immigration Jails
Julia Conley , COMMONDREAMS
Truthout
“Germany’s concentration camps didn’t start as instruments of mass murder, and neither have ours; both started as facilities for people the government’s leader said were a problem..."
Democracy • Disinformation • Financial • Journalism • Press Freedom
Journalism Is Dead. Long Live Journalism
Rebecca Solnit
Meditations in an Emergency
Right now, a host of brilliant, dedicated souls do fantastic work reporting and interpreting the news in independent newsletters, podcasts, magazines and even mainstream media. In other ways, journalism is in an age of slop and slime and decline.
Disinformation • Europe • Global • Human Rights • Violence
EU states must retract outrageous attacks on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
Amnesty International
Amnesty International
“This is a critical moment for humanity, with international law and human rights institutions under attack like never before. The use of misinformation to further delegitimize them poses a profound threat to human rights and the rule of law itself."
Artificial Intelligence • Culture • Democracy • Social Media • Technology
Something big is happening in AI — and most people will be blindsided
Matt Shumer
Fortune
We’re past the point where this is an interesting dinner conversation about the future. The future is already here. It just hasn’t knocked on your door yet. It’s about to.
Democracy • Fascism • ICE • Resistance
The key to defeating Trump? Mass non-cooperation
Mark Engler and Paul Engler
The Guardian
The extraordinary level of grassroots solidarity and creative resistance in anti-ICE protests in Minnesota has given people a new appreciation for the power that mass non-cooperation can have in resisting the Trump administration’s drive toward authoritarianism.
Disinformation • Financial • Global • Human Rights • Legal • Violence
The Real Epstein Bombshell Isn’t at DOJ: It’s at Treasury
Resistance Media
Resistance Media (February, 7, 2026)
There is another set of files, that if made public, could finally and fully explode this coverup and bring the proverbial walls tumbling down. They are sitting in the US Treasury Department and being withheld by Secretary Scott Bessent.
Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Fascism • Russia
The Manchurian Billionaire: How Trump’s Rise Mirrors Every Classic Intelligence Takeover
Thom Hartmann
The Hartmann Report
Debt, ego, sexual compromise, and fear: why Trump’s behavior makes sense only when you realize he’s been in Putin's pocket for years…
Environment • Global • Health • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Resistance • Science
When Love Thy Neighbor Is a Cry of Resistance
Rebecca Solnit
Meditations in an Emergency
At the very heart of almost all our crises is a conflict between two worldviews, the worldview in which everything is connected and the world of isolated individualism, of social darwinism and the war of each against each.





