• Culture • Democracy • Environment • Fascism • Financial • Global • Health • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Recommended • Science • Social Justice and Equity • Technology

    Hostile Takeover

    Kenny Ausubel

    Bioneers

    At this hinge moment when the climate emergency demands an immediate systemic civilizational overhaul, this retrograde counter-revolution is working to drill, baby, drill, make feudalism great again, and colonize Mars.

  • Fascism • Global • Health • Human Rights • Recommended • Violence

    Israeli organizations conclude Israel committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

    Amnesty International

    Amnesty International

    Their unequivocal findings add to the inescapable call for participating states to recognize Israel’s action against Palestinians in Gaza for what it is: genocide.

  • Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Threat Management

    The Strongman’s Test Run, and Why the Next Deployment Will Be Bigger, Longer & Deadlier

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    Deploying troops without police training, defying the courts, and threatening the media, Trump is importing dictator tactics in plain sight and daring Americans to stop him...

  • Democracy • Democratic Party • Executive Power • Fascism • Resistance • Threat Management

    Think Democrats Couldn’t Have Done Anything To Stop Trump’s DC Takeover? Think Again

    Sam Rosenthal

    Progressive Hub

    Democrats could have protected DC by granting statehood when they had the chance.

  • Corruption • Cryptocurrency • Executive Power • Financial • Global

    The Number

    David D. Kirkpatrick

    The New Yorker

    How much is Trump pocketing off the Presidency?

  • Financial • Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended • Social Media • Technology

    A More Perfect Media: Saving America’s Fourth Estate

    Timothy Karr

    freepress.net

    Saving America’s Fourth Estate from Billionaires, Broligarchy and Trump

  • Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections • Executive Power • Legal

    Texas GOP flexes power to shut down Democrats’ last tool of resistance

    Eleanor Klibanoff

    The Texas Tribune

    “To one degree or another, to be successful as a Republican, you have to emulate Trump’s speech, his attitude and take directions from the White House.”

  • Democracy • Europe • Fascism • Human Rights • Resistance

    The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We

    Sarah Sophie Flicker

    The Nation

    Danish resistance didn’t arrive all at once during World War II. But taken as a whole, the Danes’ actions are a testament to what’s possible when we work together to fight fascism.

  • Disinformation • Environment • Global • Health • Safety • Threat Management

    Americans Should Be More Afraid of Climate Change

    Mark Hertsgaard

    The Nation

    Americans still don’t comprehend how imminent, dangerous, and far-reaching the threat is—and journalists are partly to blame.

  • Democracy • Democratic Party • Economy • Elections • Resistance

    A new generation of populists is showing Democrats how to defeat Trump

    Jared Abbott and Bhaskar Sunkara

    The Guardian

    In difficult races, Democrats are leaning into economic populism with promising results

  • Democracy • Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended • Resistance

    Let’s Make the End of CPB the Start of Public Media’s Revival

    Craig Aaron

    Pressing Issues (August, 2025)

    When one door closes, they say, sometimes you have to bring a lot of people to push another one open. Let’s make a plan and meet on the sidewalk. 

  • Culture • Global • Recommended • Technology • Threat Management

    Why Are Silicon Valley’s Utopians Prepping for Collapse?

    Gil Duran

    The Nerd Reich

    Silicon Valley billionaires say tech will create a better future. So, why are many of them quietly preparing luxury doomsday bunkers?

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Economy • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism

    Trump is Getting Desperate

    Paul Krugman

    Paul Krugman

    We're in an extremely dangerous moment.

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Fascism • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    Will journalism become impossible in the U.S.?

    Mark Jacob

    Stop the Presses

    Trump’s war on the free press follows foreign dictators’ playbook.

  • Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal

    Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse

    The New Republic and Greg Sargent

    The New Republic

    A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

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