Corruption • Disinformation • Executive Power • Violence

Nick Turse — The Intercept

Casualty Cover-Up: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East

The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U.S. troops killed or wounded during the Iran war, resulting in undercounts.

Corruption • Disinformation • Health • Social Justice and Equity

Jeremy Kohler — ProPublica

A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.

A Troubling Pattern: Schwartz is one of several nursing home operators convicted of crimes who were granted clemency by Trump.

Disinformation • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance • Violence

CPJ Staff — CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists

Global press freedom violations during the Iran war

The Committee to Protect Journalists is monitoring press freedom violations related to the ongoing military escalation between Israel, the U.S and Iran and its spillover across the Middle East, including its regional and global impact on journalists and media workers.

Disinformation • Economy • Press Freedom • Violence

Chris Hedges — The Chris Hedges Report The Chris Hedges Report

Imperial Overreach (w/ Alastair Crooke)

The Iran War has just begun — but already, Iran’s military prowess, and America’s and Israel’s impulsive imperial hubris, is on full display.

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.

Disinformation • Europe • Global • Human Rights • Violence

Amnesty International

EU states must retract outrageous attacks on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

“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."

Corruption • Disinformation • Financial • Human Rights • Violence

Sharon Zhang — Truthout

Kushner Reveals Dystopic Plan to Build Data Centers on Ruins of Gaza Genocide

The plan appears to be to finish Israel’s bulldozing of Gaza to make real estate opportunities for investors.

Disinformation • Global • Social Media • Technology • Threat Management

Scot Nakagawa — The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook

Digital Authoritarianism

Lessons from Duterte's Philippines for the United States.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Disinformation • Elections • Executive Power

Jay Kuo — The Status Kuo

Trump’s “Meet the Press” Tantrum Also Revealed His Midterm Plans

His attacks on California’s ongoing vote count are really about challenging the November midterms results.

Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Journalism • Social Media • Technology

Resistance Media

The Coup Starts in Your Feed

How Malicious AI Swarms Could Steal the Midterms

Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Democracy • Disinformation • Economy • Fascism • Financial • Global • Social Media • Surveillance • Technology

Resistance Media

Elon Musk’s $2 Trillion IPO is a Weapon, Not an Investment

What Wall Street Won’t Tell You About the SpaceX Initial Public Offering.

Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Press Freedom • Technology

Gil Duran — The Nerd Reich (04/21/2026)

How to Purge Palantir

And how I got permanently banned from X.

Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Executive Power • Health

The Big Picture and Jay Kuo — The Big Picture

The MAHA-MAGA Breakup

The political marriage brokered by RFK Jr. was doomed from the get-go. And Republicans may pay a steep electoral price in November.

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.

Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Journalism

Judd Legum — Popular Information

The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal

As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest.

Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Russia

Jim Stewartson — MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy

The Enemies He Created: Trump’s Paranoia Spiral

Paranoia metabolizes humiliation into persecution—and shame into grandiosity.

Democracy • Disinformation • Press Freedom

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report (03/25/2026)

From “Fake News” to Full Control: How the GOP Trained the Media to Serve Its Narrative

A 30-year campaign of intimidation turned watchdogs into lapdogs, and now the consequences are impossible to ignore…

Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism

Timothy Snyder — Timothy Snyder (04/04/2026)

The Next Coup Attempt

As the war lengthens, the chance that it will be exploited for a coup attempt increases.

Cyber Security • Democracy • Disinformation • Fascism • Threat Management

Timothy Snyder — Thinking About

The Desire for Terror

And the defense of democracy

Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism

Doug Bock Clark — ProPublica

Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms

“The meeting shows that the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have only grown better organized and are now embedded in the machinery of government.”

Democracy • Disinformation • Economy • Executive Power • Financial

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

The National Debt Is the Evidence of the Crime: Who Pocketed the $38 Trillion?

The national debt isn’t the cause of our problems: it’s the receipt. It’s the paper trail of the largest upward transfer of wealth in 250 years of American history…

Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Journalism • Press Freedom

Matt Gertz — Media Matters

Paramount is mangling CBS — and CNN may be next

Trump’s corruption makes capitulation a media business plan.

Democracy • Disinformation • Financial • Journalism • Press Freedom

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

Journalism Is Dead. Long Live Journalism

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.

Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism

Karl Grossman — FAIR

Rupert Murdoch Heads West

Murdoch’s media machine is the “most dishonest, unprincipled and corrupt of any media empire in the history of the English-speaking world.”

Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Fascism • Russia

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

The Manchurian Billionaire: How Trump’s Rise Mirrors Every Classic Intelligence Takeover

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…

Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Journalism • Social Media

Parker Molloy — The New Republic

The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism

Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do.

Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal

Marc Elias — Democracy Docket

The DOJ's Fulton County Raid to Seize Ballots is Really About Future Elections

The department has demanded this highly sensitive data from all 50 states and has already sued 23 states, including DC, for refusing to comply. Pam Bondi even attempted to leverage the tragic killing of Alex Pretti to obtain this data from Minnesota.

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.

Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal • Russia • Violence

Julian Borger — The Guardian

The ‘Putinization’ of US foreign policy has arrived in Venezuela

Trump is no longer bending the rules – he is demolishing them, with consequences far beyond Caracas.

Corruption • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom

Dan Rather and Team Steady — Steady

One Courageous Correspondent

What happened inside “60 Minutes” this weekend

Disinformation • Executive Power • Global • Human Rights • Violence

Marianne Williamson — TRANSFORM w/ Marianne Williamson

Dark Clouds Over Venezuela

The next Vietnam or Iraq could be lurking in the Caribbean…

Cyber Security • Disinformation • Press Freedom • Social Media • Surveillance • Technology

Ari Paul — FAIR (9/19/2025)

As Ellison Buys Out TikTok, US Moves Toward One-Party Media

This TikTok deal is not just about money. It’s about control of the political narrative.

Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal • Violence

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

Will the 2028 Election Even Happen? Is There a Plot to Use the Insurrection Act to End Democracy?

Trump appears well aware of his weakness, his collapsing poll numbers, and the precipice the American economy is teetering at the edge of.

Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

Christopher Armitage — The Existentialist Republic

Manufacturing Dissent: How America’s Most Popular “Opposition” Media Protects Oligarch Power

Power no longer exclusively manufactures agreement. American oligarchs and their media companies have now learned to manufacture the allowable form of disagreement itself.

Democracy • Disinformation • Fascism • Violence • White Supremacy

Jesse Hirsh — Metaviews: Future of Authority

The US Civil War of 2025

Understanding Hybrid Civil War

Disinformation • Europe • Exile • Fascism • Human Rights • Safety • Threat Management • White Supremacy

Sharon Otterman — The New York Times (Gift)

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats

Mark Bray was teaching courses on anti-fascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. He left the country Thursday night.

Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Threat Management • Violence

Robert Reich — Robert Reich Substack

Trump’s Plan To invoke the Insurrection Act

The direction we’re going is either martial law or civil war.

Corruption • Disinformation • Executive Power • Journalism • Press Freedom

Seth Stern — The Guardian

The real bias monitor at CBS is Donald Trump

The hiring of Kenneth Weinstein as an ombudsman hands the US president a seat at the editors’ desk

Corruption • Democracy • Democratic Party • Disinformation • Economy • Executive Power • Fascism • Financial • Human Rights

Garrett Graff — Doomsday Scenario

America Tips Into Fascism

Whether we can come back from this moment is a story yet unknown. But it’s clear today America is different and, even if we fight our way back, it will never be the same again.

Cyber Security • Democracy • Disinformation • Europe • Russia • Social Media • Technology

Riley Stuart and Anna-Maria Tesfaye — The New York Times (Gift)

Russia Steps Up Disinformation Efforts as Trump Abandons Resistance

The Kremlin has begun a campaign to sway the parliamentary election in Moldova in what could become a new model of election interference online.

Disinformation • Social Media • Technology

Alex Skopic — Current Affairs

Why the Internet is Turning to Shit

Cory Doctorow’s new book is an insightful diagnosis of how Big Tech is making every app and website worse—even if his solutions leave something to be desired.

Democracy • Disinformation • Fascism • Human Rights • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity • Violence • White Supremacy

Clint Smith — The Atlantic

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

We must make a record of those forces that seek to erase us and erase our histories so that future generations know we did not simply accept it. Our ancestors’ words remind us that we never have.

Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Fascism • White Supremacy

Cassidy Steele Dale — Think Future

When (or Will) MAGA Ever See the Light?

An imperfect explanation that might make sense.

Artificial Intelligence • Cryptocurrency • Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Disinformation • Europe • Executive Power • Human Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Resistance • Russia • Safety • Social Media • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management • Violence

Ron Williams

The Resistance Will Be Reported (Updated November 12, 2025)

The environment for press freedom in the United States is entering a perilous new phase. The attacks have been unprecedented, widespread and continue to escalate.

Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal • Threat Management

Jack Hopkins — Jack Hopkins Now

The Truth Behind Trump's "Arrest Obama" Distraction

While MAGA melts down over Epstein, Trump gives the mob a chew toy—and lays the groundwork for something darker.

Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Legal

Allison Gill — muellershewrote.com

The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI

Inside the chaotic review process of the Epstein and Maxwell files at the Bureau

Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Safety • Threat Management • Violence

Reporters Without Borders

Six months of Trump’s war on the press

This exchange of ideas, tactics, and rhetorical techniques to attack the press has created an apparent authoritarian feedback loop.

Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Human Rights • Legal

Chris Hedges — The Chris Hedges Report

Trump, Epstein and the Deep State

The Trump administration’s refusal to release the Epstein files and videos is done not only to protect Trump, but the ruling class. They all belong to the same club.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Disinformation • Elections • Journalism • Press Freedom • Social Justice and Equity

Janine Jackson — FAIR

‘Media and Corporate Power Structures See Genuine Democracy as a Terrible Danger’

CounterSpin interview with Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats

Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Disinformation • Europe • Safety • Social Media • Technology • Threat Management

Anna Desmarais — euronews

Denmark Fights Back Against Deepfakes

Denmark will give people copyright over their own likenesses as a way to fight back against generated “deepfake” videos, as countries around the world grapple with the rapid rise of AI.

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