Artificial Intelligence • Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Technology
AI’s Promise Is Real. So Is the Threat No One’s Talking About.
Will Robinson
Will Robinson's Newsletter
Beyond deepfakes, bad actors are learning to manipulate search itself - shaping what AI sees, what it surfaces, and ultimately what people believe.
Artificial Intelligence • Environment • Global • Health • Technology
New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
Molly Taft
Wired
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.
Fascism • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom
Lebanese PM Condemns Israel’s Killing of Journalist Amal Khalil as ‘Clear-Cut War Crime’
Jake Johnson
Common Dreams
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.
Corruption • Democracy • Executive Power • Legal
The Chief Justice and His Wife Took $20 Million From Firms He Rules On. I’m Filing for His Disbarment Today.
Christopher Armitage
The Existentialist Republic (04/22/2026)
The men and women running this system built their careers on the assumption that nobody was paying attention. We noticed.
Corruption • Democracy • Economy • Executive Power • Financial
Minutes Before Trump Speaks, Someone Gets Rich: The BBC Just Exposed The Insider Trading Operation The White House Wants Buried
Mitch Jackson
Uncensored Objection. Law. Facts. No Spin.
The evidence shows a consistent pattern of trading spikes minutes and hours before Donald Trump moves the markets with his mouth. The evidence is not complicated. The evidence is in the timestamps.
Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Journalism
The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal
Judd Legum
Popular Information
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.
Economy • Environment • Global • Health • Impacts • Original
A Ticking Time Bomb: War and Climate Are About To Collide
Resistance Media
Resistance Media (04/16/2026)
The world’s continued dependence on fossil fuels is at the heart of every aspect of this emerging polycrisis - driving oil wars, climate destruction and famine.
Corruption • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom
A Single Newspaper Reported Investigating Trump’s Sexual Assault of a Minor
Nick Akerman
Legal Politics by Nick Akerman
The Post and Courier, published a second article detailing its continuing investigation into a sexual assault allegedly perpetrated by Donald Trump.
Corruption • Democracy • Executive Power • Legal • Surveillance
Is the Barr Family Blocking The Epstein Investigation Because It Would Expose What’s Being Built Right Now?
Kait Justice
Downwind of Truth with Kait Justice
Three threads, fifty years, a 1973 Sci-Fi novel and the architecture of a sovereign class that answers to no one.
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War is 100% “America” and Michigan Wants its Fair Share
Questioning war and why we fight is imperative. It will require a courageous confrontation with a powerful taboo, a palpable force field that snarls and growls. But this is the end of the line. War at this scale is ecocide, a death wish.





