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 • 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.
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.
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.
