• Democracy • Violence

    This Is What Trump Does When His Revolution Sputters

    Anne Applebaum

    The Atlantic

    At each obstacle, after each catastrophe, the turn to violence becomes that much swifter, the harsh decisions that much easier.

    Published On: 06/11/2025

  • Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Featured • Press Freedom • Recommended • Surveillance

    How a Small Investigative Team Is Fighting the Growing Cyber Surveillance Threat

    Rowan Philp

    Global Investigative Journalism Network

    The tide of sophisticated surveillance tools and their sinister applications is poised to overwhelm watchdogs, tech platforms, and regulators.

    Published On: 06/10/2025

  • Democracy • Threat Management

    Martial Law Explained

    Tim Lau, Joseph Nunn

    Brennan Center for Justice

    Martial law has been declared more than 60 times in U.S. history, mostly by state and local officials. However, the concept has no established definition.

    Published On: 06/09/2025

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Resistance

    Sunday Thought

    Robert Reich

    Robert Reich Substack

    To be brave and nonviolent in the face of tyranny, to be strong and restrained, to resist with our hearts filled with anger but not succumb to that anger — is terribly difficult.

    Published On: 06/08/2025

  • Recommended • Safety • Threat Management

    Trump’s Nuclear Power Obsession

    Karl Grossman and Harvey Wasserman

    CounterPunch

    Yet while prices and production times for renewable sources plummet, Trump and his anti-green minions have been vigorously assaulting the wind, solar and other green energy technologies.

    Published On: 06/06/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation

    The Rule of Idiots

    Chris Hedges

    The Chris Hedges Report

    In the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality.

    Published On: 06/06/2025

  • Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Violence

    UN Human Rights Office condemns targeting journalists and attacks on hospitals

    UN Human Rights Office

    un.org

    Directing attacks against protected persons such as journalists is a violation of international humanitarian law and also constitutes a war crime.

    Published On: 06/06/2025

  • Culture • Democracy • Legal • Resistance

    Our Silence Will Not Protect Us

    Diane Yentel

    Shelterforce

    You don’t know who needs to hear your voice right now, who needs to see your leadership, but I guarantee you that someone does, and that your courage will bolster theirs.

    Published On: 06/05/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy • Europe

    The US Right Is Coming for the UK—With Crypto in Hand

    Peter Geoghegan

    Democracy for Sale

    Nigel Farage, Peter Thiel and how authoritarian tech fantasies are becoming political reality

    Published On: 06/04/2025

  • Economy • Global • Technology

    Why Climate Action is Unstoppable

    Al Gore

    Ted Talks

    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.

    Published On: 06/04/2025

  • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Recommended • Safety

    Committee to Protect Journalists: Safety Kit

    CPJ

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    Journalists should consider the following digital and physical safety advice to help better protect themselves.

    Published On: 06/03/2025

  • Democracy • Featured

    Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America

    Ava Kofman

    The New Yorker

    The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.

    Published On: 06/02/2025

  • Featured • Technology

    The Dark Lord of Silicon Valley

    Carole Cadwalladr

    How to Survive the Broligarchy

    Peter Thiel enters the chat.

    Published On: 06/02/2025

  • Democracy • Legal • Recommended • White Supremacy

    What was the German Enabling Act?

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

    The Act allowed the Reich government to issue laws without the consent of Germany’s parliament, laying the foundation for the complete Nazification of German society.

    Published On: 06/02/2025

  • Surveillance • Technology

    Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

    Sheera Frenkel and Aaron Krolik

    The New York Times

    Mr. Trump could potentially use such information to advance his political agenda by policing immigrants and punishing critics...

    Published On: 05/30/2025

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