• Culture

    ‘Founders Films’ aims to remake Hollywood with patriotism, Palantir and Ayn Rand

    Max Tani

    Semafor

    Changes in viewership habits and advances in technology have given this generation of right-leaning entertainers an opportunity to break through.

    Published On: 07/21/2025

  • Corruption • Legal

    The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI

    Allison Gill

    muellershewrote.com

    Inside the chaotic review process of the Epstein and Maxwell files at the Bureau

    Published On: 07/20/2025

  • Press Freedom

    Colbert and Capitulation

    Jon Passantino

    Status

    The optics are hard to ignore: a top-rated show, led by one of Trump’s most vocal critics, axed just weeks after Paramount settled a lawsuit with Trump and began courting conservative media figures for leadership roles in the post-merger company.

    Published On: 07/19/2025

  • Democracy • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

    Whither Colbert? Whither Democracy

    Jeff Jarvis

    Medium

    Mass media are dead: corrupted, complicit, malign, worthless

    Published On: 07/19/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended

    Colbert’s Termination is a Corporate Assault on Dissent

    Jeff Cohen

    Common Dreams

    In recent months, we’ve seen one media conglomerate after another offer what amounted to multimillion-dollar bribes to Trump by settling frivolous Trump lawsuits that these companies could not possibly have lost in court.

    Published On: 07/19/2025

  • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    ‘Devastating’: US Public Broadcasters Condemn Trump Cuts

    Maya Yang

    The Guardian

    PBS chief says cuts package ‘goes against the will of the American people’ as smaller outlets could face total closure

    Published On: 07/18/2025

  • Disinformation • Global • Threat Management

    Americans Should Be More Afraid of Climate Change

    Mark Hertsgaard

    The Nation

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

    Published On: 07/18/2025

  • Disinformation • Journalism

    Fox News Hosts Pretend the Biggest MAGA Story Doesn’t Exist

    Colby Hall

    Mediaite

    What does it mean when the most-watched media outlet in America is more interested in appeasing a politician than informing its audience?

    Published On: 07/17/2025

  • Democracy • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    Six months of Trump’s war on the press

    Reporters Without Borders

    Reporters Without Borders

    This exchange of ideas, tactics, and rhetorical techniques to attack the press has created an apparent authoritarian feedback loop.

    Published On: 07/17/2025

  • Cyber Security • Democracy • Europe • Global

    Spain: Huawei must not be allowed access to wiretap data in the EU

    Article 19

    Article 19

    "Beyond immediate censorship and surveillance fears, Spain risks normalising Huawei tools and technologies in ways that are detrimental to human rights and fundamental freedoms in the EU and around the world."

    Published On: 07/16/2025

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Legal • Safety

    The Architecture of Fear: How Detention Becomes a Template for Control

    James B. Greenberg

    James's Substack

    Once in place, the system doesn’t sit idle. It seeks new uses.

    Published On: 07/16/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Dems to Fight Texas’ ‘Illegal, Unconstitutional and Egregious Effort to Rig the Elections’

    Jen Rice

    Democracy Docket

    Republicans already hold 25 out of Texas’ 38 congressional seats – a much higher share of seats than their vote-share in the state should net.

    Published On: 07/15/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift

    Democracy Docket

    Democracy Docket

    Today, rather than standing up for voting access, Trump's DOJ is supporting and defending voter suppression laws and bringing new lawsuits to impose stricter voting rules.

    Published On: 07/14/2025

  • Corruption • Global • Human Rights

    America on the Brink

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    We must call this what it is: a full-scale assault on our economy, our democracy, and the peaceful world order that’s prevented a third world war for nearly 80 years…

    Published On: 07/14/2025

  • Global • Human Rights • Recommended

    The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food

    Hana Kiros

    The Atlantic

    Despite the administration’s repeated promises to continue food aid, and Rubio’s testimony that he would not allow existing food to go to waste, even more food could soon expire.

    Published On: 07/14/2025

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  • 06/02/2025

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  • 05/15/2025

    The Rise of State Media in Trump’s America

    The White House launches a taxpayer-funded “news wire” to push state propaganda

  • 05/12/2025

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