Safety • Threat Management • Violence
The $1.7 trillion military budget includes a massive slush fund for Trump’s political allies
Judd Legum and Noel Sims
Popular Information
Last week, President Donald Trump declared that the federal government cannot afford to spend “any money for day care” because “we’re fighting wars.”
Published On: 04/07/2026
Culture • Democracy
Trump and Netanyahu: Two Madmen Playing God
Jeffrey Sachs
Savage Minds
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.
Published On: 04/07/2026
Corruption • Disinformation • Recommended • Violence
Casualty Cover-Up: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East
Nick Turse
The Intercept
The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U.S. troops killed or wounded during the Iran war, resulting in undercounts.
Published On: 04/01/2026
Corruption • Disinformation • Recommended
A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.
Jeremy Kohler
ProPublica
A Troubling Pattern: Schwartz is one of several nursing home operators convicted of crimes who were granted clemency by Trump.
Published On: 03/30/2026
Democracy • Featured • Resistance
“No Kings,” No Risk, No Change. The Protest Ritual That Lets America Feel Brave Without Doing Anything
Dr Stacey Patton
Dr Stacey Patton
Every few months now, like clockwork, millions of people pour into the streets chanting the same refrains. Holding the same signs. And reposting the same slogans with a fresh coat of urgency.
Published On: 03/28/2026
Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended • Resistance
Global press freedom violations during the Iran war
CPJ Staff
CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists is monitoring press freedom violations related to the ongoing military escalation between Israel, the U.S and Iran and its spillover across the Middle East, including its regional and global impact on journalists and media workers.
Published On: 03/19/2026
Culture • Personal Resilience • Resistance
The Interview: Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here
David Marchese
The New York Times (Gift)
"I get so tired of the idea that progressives have gone too far in asserting that every human being deserves human rights when people are being shot in the streets of Minneapolis."
Published On: 03/07/2026
Disinformation • Press Freedom • Violence
Imperial Overreach (w/ Alastair Crooke)
Chris Hedges
The Chris Hedges Report The Chris Hedges Report
The Iran War has just begun — but already, Iran’s military prowess, and America’s and Israel’s impulsive imperial hubris, is on full display.
Published On: 03/07/2026
Global • Human Rights • Legal • Violence
The Real Epstein Bombshell Isn’t at DOJ: It’s at Treasury
Resistance Media
Resistance Media (February, 7, 2026)
There is another set of files, that if made public, could finally and fully explode this coverup and bring the proverbial walls tumbling down. They are sitting in the US Treasury Department and being withheld by Secretary Scott Bessent.
Published On: 03/06/2026
Corruption • Democracy • Recommended
They Built It. Now They Want to Bomb It.
Craig Unger
Craig Unger (February 24, 2026)
Today's Iran crisis didn't start with just the mullahs. It started with a secret deal that Republican operatives made with them— a deal that changed history and has now lead to war.
Published On: 03/02/2026
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Global press freedom violations during the Iran war
The Committee to Protect Journalists is monitoring press freedom violations related to the ongoing military escalation between Israel, the U.S and Iran and its spillover across the Middle East, including its regional and global impact on journalists and media workers.
- 02/18/2026
The Prairieland 19 Case is a Test for Criminalizing Dissent
Nine members of the “Prairieland 19,” anti-ICE protesters in Texas who the Trump administration is dubiously accusing of domestic terrorism, are going on trial this week. The case is a test for how easily Trump might criminalize dissent going forward.





