Culture • Democracy • Resistance • Safety

Sarah Van Gelder — Common Dreams

Washington Won’t Save Us; Our Neighbors Might

Why the midterms will be won or lost at the community level—and what that means for how we organize now.

Culture • Democracy • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Resistance • White Supremacy

Richard Schrader — Bad Energy

Orban Turns to Dust

What a world, what a world.

Artificial Intelligence • Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Technology

Will Robinson — Will Robinson's Newsletter

AI’s Promise Is Real. So Is the Threat No One’s Talking About.

Beyond deepfakes, bad actors are learning to manipulate search itself - shaping what AI sees, what it surfaces, and ultimately what people believe.

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.

Culture • Environment • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

David Marchese — The New York Times (Gift)

The Interview: Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

"I get so tired of the idea that progressives have gone too far in asserting that every human being deserves human rights when people are being shot in the streets of Minneapolis."

Culture • Disinformation • Exile • Human Rights • Russia • Surveillance

Amelia Gentleman — The Guardian

‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda

Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, but has left him in exile.

Artificial Intelligence • Culture • Democracy • Social Media • Technology

Matt Shumer — Fortune

Something big is happening in AI — and most people will be blindsided

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.

Artificial Intelligence • Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Europe • Social Media • Technology

Ben Quinn — The Guardian

Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star

The avatar, created to deter young people from extremism, has been subverted and is breaking out of niche online silos.

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