Corruption • Fascism • Financial • Global • White Supremacy

David Futrelle — The Nation

What’s Really Behind Peter Thiel’s Panicked Move to Argentina

Some tech observers think that the Palantir overlord sees the end times coming, but his real motivation is likely much more mundane and self-interested.

Fascism • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom

Jake Johnson — Common Dreams

Lebanese PM Condemns Israel’s Killing of Journalist Amal Khalil as ‘Clear-Cut War Crime’

Israel’s targeting of media professionals in the south while they are performing their professional duties is no longer a matter of isolated incidents; rather, it has become a proven pattern.

Democracy • Economy • Executive Power • Fascism • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

What Happens If "They" Win?

The generations that defeated fascism in the 1770s, 1860s, and 1940s understood something simple but profound: democracy survives only if ordinary people are willing to defend it. Are we today?

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.

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

Richard Schrader — Bad Energy

Orban Turns to Dust

What a world, what a world.

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.

Corruption • Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Violence

Henry A. Giroux — LA Progressive (04/24/2026)

When Gangster Capitalism Becomes Government

Socialism or barbarism, democracy or gangster rule, shared futures or organized cruelty. History opened the question. What remains is whether people will answer it.

Democracy • Elections • Europe • Fascism

Jason Stanley — Front Left

Hungary shows the US needs a progressive to beat fascism

And not an American Peter Magyar.

Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Digital Rights • Fascism • Surveillance

Elizabeth Spiers — The Nation

Palantir’s Manifesto Promises a Dystopian Future

The tech company’s CEO Alex Karp delivers a self-serving broadside that’s steeped in oligarchic hubris and authoritarian nihilism.

Democracy • Elections • Fascism • Human Rights • ICE • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity • Threat Management

Resistance Media — Resistance Media (03/24/2026)

An Urgent Message to Indivisible

Is the NO KINGS coalition prepared for the national emergency straight ahead of us?

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 • Elections • Europe • Fascism • Global

Garry Kasparov — The Next Move

Hungary Is America in Miniature

Hungary's test is on Sunday. America's will come in November.

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.

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.

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • ICE • Violence

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

“ICE Was My Idea”: The Kind of Moment History Writes About Later

The shift to fascism isn’t loud or obvious; it’s gradual, justified, and dangerously easy to accept...

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 • Europe • Fascism • Violence • White Supremacy

Gloria Horton-Young — She Who Stirs the Storm (January 21, 2026)

The Perfect Storm

When warnings are everywhere, and still no one moves.

Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • ICE • Legal • Violence

Mica Rosenberg — ProPublica (February, 9, 2026)

The Children of Dilley

ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

Democracy • Fascism • ICE • Resistance

Mark Engler and Paul Engler — The Guardian

The key to defeating Trump? Mass non-cooperation

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.

Democracy • Fascism • Human Rights • ICE • Violence

Julia Conley , COMMONDREAMS — Truthout

Trump Admin to Spend $40B to Turn Warehouses Into Massive Immigration Jails

“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..."

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 • Fascism • Human Rights • Social Justice and Equity • Violence • White Supremacy

Ron Williams

Let's Never Forget Who We Are

“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there “is” such a thing as being too late..."

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.

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • ICE • Journalism • Press Freedom

Committee to Protect Journalists — CPJ

CPJ condemns arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort over Minnesota protests coverage

It is highly unusual for a journalist to be charged with a felony in relation to their reporting.

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • ICE • Violence • White Supremacy

Isaac Stanley-Becker — The Atlantic (Gift)

Tim Walz Fears a Fort Sumter Moment in Minneapolis

The Minnesota governor warns of a national unraveling.

Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • ICE • Resistance • Violence • White Supremacy

Ta-Nehisi Coates — Vanity Fair

The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good

Pretti and Good were labeled “domestic terrorists” of The Homeland—rhetoric employed by the administration to justify the state taking life, by associating the dead with national villainy.

Democracy • Fascism • Health • Human Rights • ICE • Resistance • Violence • White Supremacy

Robert F. Worth — The Atlantic (Gift)

Welcome to the American Winter

In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

Culture • Fascism • Human Rights

Dr. Stacey Patton

Christian Nationalists Have Decided Monks Walking for Peace Are on a One-Way Trip to Hell

The religion that claims to follow a poor, itinerant teacher who walked everywhere, who owned nothing, who told people to put down their swords, now produces followers who cannot tolerate the sight of men doing precisely that. Walking. Owning little. Practicing peace. Not demanding shit. Not conquering and colonizing. Just being.

Corruption • Democracy • Democratic Party • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Social Justice and Equity • Threat Management

Chris Hedges — The Chris Hedges Report

The Last Election

The presidential election in 2024 may be the last free vote taken in the United States. Dictatorships only hold elections with predetermined outcomes or do not hold them at all. Trump is no exception.

Executive Power • Fascism • Legal • Resistance • Violence

Christopher Armitage — The Existentialist Republic

Increasing Calls From the Public Saying “Fight or Resign”

Elected officials who refuse to use their power should lose it.

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • ICE • Legal • Violence

Whistleblower Aid

Hidden DHS Policy Encourages ICE Agents to Break into Homes without Warrants

“This administration’s secretive policy advocates conduct that the Supreme Court has described as ‘the chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed’ – that is the warrantless physical entry of a home.’

Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Fascism • Technology • White Supremacy

W. A. Lawrence — Glass Empires by W. A. Lawrence

Joe Rogan Trained Men to Accept Authoritarianism

Rogan spent years grooming Trump’s base to equate toxic masculinity with strength and authoritarianism with safety. In 2026, that conditioning is locked in with force.

Corruption • Cyber Security • Democracy • Disinformation • Elections • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal

The Big Picture and Jay Kuo — The Big Picture

Trump Is Screwing with the Midterms. Will He Succeed?

Will Trump screw with the midterms? Will they be free and fair? Will we even have them?

Democracy • Fascism • Threat Management

Claire Finkelstein — The Guardian

We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start

Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania.

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Violence • White Supremacy

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

Why Has ICE Turned Minneapolis Into a Battlefield?

Why the largest-ever ICE operation isn’t just about immigration, but about who gets to walk freely in America’s cities and who pays with their lives…

Europe • Fascism • Human Rights • ICE • Violence

Shalom Auslander — The New York Times (Gift)

They Were Ordinary Germans. We Are Ordinary Americans.

I miss the comfort of believing Germans were different.

Disinformation • Fascism • ICE • Violence

Giri Nathan — Defector

JD Vance Is A Hog That’ll Eat Any Slop

This is a man who used to cry while watching Garden State. Now he posts numbered lists in defense of fascism.

Disinformation • Fascism • Human Rights • Safety • Social Justice and Equity • Violence

Heather Cox Richardson — Letters from an American

Letters from an American

“Get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite. People are being hurt. Families are being ripped apart…and now somebody is dead.”

Culture • Fascism • Human Rights • Safety • Violence • White Supremacy

Dr. Stacey Patton

ICE Is Out Here Shooting White Mothers Now

Are we witnessing the end of whiteness as a buffer against state violence?

Executive Power • Fascism • Global • Violence

Jonah Valadez — The Intercept

The List of Countries Trump is Threatening With War Keeps Growing

President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of getting out of foreign wars. He keeps talking about starting more of them.

Democracy • Fascism • Global • Human Rights • Violence

Chris Hedges — The Chris Hedges Report

America the Rogue State

Our decaying empire stumbles forward like a wounded beast, unable to learn from its disasters, crippled by arrogance and incompetence, torching the rule of law and fantasizing that indiscriminate industrial violence will regain a lost hegemony.

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.

Culture • Fascism • Health • Human Rights • Resistance • Safety • Threat Management

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

Trump’s Christmas message: "Scum" wasn’t just offensive. It was a warning.

The future lays before us now, and if we care about the country our children will inherit, we can’t let this moral vandalism to go unanswered.

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal • Safety • Threat Management • Violence

Nick Turse — The Intercept

U..S. Military Willing to Attack "Designated Terrorist Organizations" Within America, General Says

“If I had no concerns and I was confident in the lawful order, I would definitely execute that order.”

Democracy • Fascism • Legal • Threat Management

W. A. Lawrence — Glass Empires By W. Lawrence

The Government Can Empty Your Bank Account Tomorrow. No Judge Required

How Miller's Legal Architecture Ensures Constitutional Protections Arrive After They Matter.

Corruption • Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Financial • Global • Human Rights

The Big Picture and Todd Beeton — The Big Picture

The Disturbing Return Of The Prodigal Son-In-Law

Jared Kushner is so back, and what he's up to should concern us all.

Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Safety • Threat Management

Jim Naureckas — FAIR

FBI Is Making an Enemies List—and Most Corporate Media Didn’t Even Check It Once

Congratulations—you may be headed for Attorney General Pam Bondi’s “list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism.”

Fascism • Human Rights • Violence

Laura Flanders

A Tale of Two ICEs

I was near two ICE operations this Thanksgiving. One I saw, the other I didn’t.

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