Economy • Environment • Financial • Global • Health • Science

Resistance Media — Resistance Media (04/16/2026)

A Ticking Time Bomb: War and Climate Are About To Collide

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.

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 • Environment • Global • Health • Technology

Molly Taft — Wired

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations

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.

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.

Environment • Global • Health • Science • Threat Management

Bill McKibben — The Crucial Years

An El Niño is Brewing

Take this as your first warning that not only the temperature but the politics of the planet are likely to change dramatically, and soon.

Environment • Global • Health • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Resistance • Science

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

When Love Thy Neighbor Is a Cry of Resistance

At the very heart of almost all our crises is a conflict between two worldviews, the worldview in which everything is connected and the world of isolated individualism, of social darwinism and the war of each against each.

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.

Exile • Health • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Safety

Kai Proschan — TransLash (January 22, 2025)

Trans Relocation Guide: Finding Trans Asylum and Safe Havens

In light of growing hostility and anti-trans legislation across the U.S., many transgender people are seeking safe havens —whether by relocating to more trans-friendly areas within the U.S. or by moving abroad.

Health • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Resistance • Safety • Social Justice and Equity

Resistance Media

Personal Resilience is Resistance

Compassion, empathy, anger, grief and joy are some of the most powerful acts of resistance available to us

Fascism • Health • Human Rights • Safety • Violence

Dr. Stacey Patton

Starving You is the Point: The Neuroscience of Hunger and Obedience in America

We are watching a government experiment in population management using stress, scarcity, and biology to keep people too tired to fight back.

Environment • Global • Health • Russia • Safety • Threat Management

Karl Grossman and Harvey Wasserman — Counterpunch

Putin’s UnPeaceful Atom

The Ukraine war has underscored yet another “Peaceful Atom” pitfall known for decades—the threat of a rogue nation turning atomic reactors into weapons of apocalyptic mass terror...

Democracy • Health • Personal Resilience • Resistance

Lori Corbet Mann — Your Time Starts Now

Why Anchored Hope is Not The Thing With Feathers

Hope isn’t something we wait for. It’s something we build — together, deliberately, even when we don’t feel it.

Fascism • Global • Health • Human Rights • Safety • Violence

Doctors Without Borders

As mass starvation spreads across Gaza, our colleagues and communities we work with are wasting away

An aid worker providing psychosocial support spoke of the devastating impact on children: “Children tell their parents they want to go to heaven, because at least heaven has food.”

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

Mark Hertsgaard — The Nation

Americans Should Be More Afraid of Climate Change

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

Health • Human Rights • Legal • Regulations • Threat Management

Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and Andrea Suozzo — ProPublica

After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage

A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Environment • Health • Resistance

George A. Polisner — Leadership Matters

Nation of Fear

How many believe that the representative democracy in the United States is healthy, strong, and working well as we evolve toward a “more perfect Union”?

Democracy • Executive Power • Health

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

The Broken Man Who’s Breaking America

Once constrained by grown-ups in the room, Trump now surrounds himself with suckups. The result? A perfect storm of immaturity, cruelty, and power…

Global • Health • Human Rights • Violence

Katherine Wilkens — Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Is Humanitarian Aid a Tool to Advance the “Trump Plan” in Gaza?

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation fails to meet minimum international standards for aid delivery.

Economy • Environment • Global • Health • Science • Technology

Al Gore — Ted Talks

Why climate action is unstoppable

In this urgent and hard-hitting talk, Nobel Laureate Al Gore thoroughly dismantles the fossil fuel industry’s narrative of "climate realism," contrasting their misleading claims with the remarkable advancements in renewable energy.

Economy • Environment • Health • Science • Technology

Science News Staff — Science

Trump’s proposed budget would mean ‘disastrous’ cuts to science

Key research budgets would shrink by one-third to one-half in 2026 spending plan

Disinformation • Environment • Health • Safety

Tom Philpott — Mother Jones

How MAHA Poisons the Food Movement

RFK Jr. could make legitimate critiques of the ways we grow and process food appear crackpot.

Democracy • Fascism • Health • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Safety

Gabor Mate — The Guardian

We Each Have a Nazi in Us

We need to understand the psychological roots of authoritarianism

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