Canada • Safety
American family seeks asylum in Canada, citing Trump
Dalson Chen and Jacob Barker
CBC News
A family from Illinois is anxiously awaiting a decision from a Canadian tribunal as they seek asylum north of the border, claiming that America's politics have made them feel unsafe. Kaitlyn and Ted Berg say they made the recent decision to uproot their children as they witnessed the fallout of November's presidential election.
Published On: 03/11/2025
Technology • Threat Management
Hegseth halts cyber operations against Russia, adding to an ugly pattern
Steve Benen
Maddow Blog
Late last week, a publication called The Record, which focuses on news related to cybersecurity, published a report that seemed hard to believe. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the outlet reported, “ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.”
Published On: 03/10/2025
Safety • Threat Management
Mutual Aid
SCOT NAKAGAWA
The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook
Mutual aid is a form of collective care in which communities come together to share resources, provide for one another’s needs, and build systems of support independent of the state or corporate entities.
Published On: 03/10/2025
Safety • Threat Management
Taking Heart
Robert Reich
Robert Reich Substack
A few people I know are coping by remaining in denial. They continue to normalize what’s happening in the familiar terms of Republican versus Democrat, right versus left, conservative versus liberal or progressive.
Published On: 03/09/2025
Democracy • Technology
‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’
CAROLINE HASKINS AND VITTORIA ELLIOTT
Wired
Trey Goff, the chief of staff of the startup nation known as Próspera, tells WIRED that he and other Próspera representatives working under an advocacy group called the Freedom Cities Coalition have been meeting with the Trump administration about the idea in recent weeks. He claims the administration has been very receptive. In 2023, Trump floated the idea of creating 10 freedom cities. Now, Goff says that Próspera’s vision is to create “not just 10, but as many as the market can handle.”
Published On: 03/07/2025
Journalism • Press Freedom
Shattered by a perfect storm: How Trump’s cuts are crippling journalism beyond the United States
Gretel Kahn, Marina Adami, Eduardo Suárez
Reuters Institute
Before Trump’s inauguration, the US government supported independent journalism in more than 30 countries. Most of this funding was channelled through USAID. According to a USAID factsheet recently mentioned by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and now taken offline, the agency funded training and support for 6,200 journalists and assisted 707 outlets.
Published On: 03/07/2025
Democracy
Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way
Brett Wagner
San Francisco Chronicle
The clock is ticking down on a crucial but little-noticed part of President Donald Trump’s first round of executive orders — the one tasking the secretaries of the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security to submit a joint report, within 90 days, recommending “whether to invoke the Insurrection Act.”
Published On: 03/05/2025
Democracy • Legal
Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way
Brett Wagner
San Francisco Chronicle
A joint Department of Defense and Homeland Security report will soon recommend whether or not to invoke the Insurrection Act over illegal migration
Published On: 03/05/2025
Democracy
Insurrection Act of 1807
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
The Insurrection Act of 1807 is a United States federal law[1] that empowers the president of the United States to deploy the U.S. military and federalized National Guard troops within the United States in particular circumstances, such as to suppress civil disorder, insurrection, or rebellion.
Published On: 03/04/2025
Canada • Democracy
‘A scary place’: Jason Stanley on leaving Trump’s America
Stuart Braun
DW
Philosopher Jason Stanley is among several critics of US President Donald Trump who have left Yale University, and the United States, to work and live in Canada. He equates the new leadership with "fascism."
Published On: 03/04/2025