• Human Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour

    Michael Sainato

    The Guardian

    Trump ally Laura Loomer took credit for Sami Hamdi’s detainment in move denounced as ‘affront to free speech’

    Published On: 10/26/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy • Legal

    Fifteen years after Citizens United, the Montana Plan poses the latest challenge to dark money

    Natalie Jonas

    Open Secrets

    The proposed amendment to the state Constitution redefines what is considered legitimate business activity and acceptable corporate donations by limiting corporate charters.

    Published On: 10/25/2025

  • Human Rights • Resistance • Safety

    What are we doing here, folks?

    Heather Cox Richardson

    Letters From An American

    It appears the administration is using those Americans who depend on food assistance as pawns to put more pressure on Democrats to cave to Trump’s will.

    Published On: 10/25/2025

  • Democracy • Economy

    The Biggest Threat to Mamdani’s Agenda Isn’t Trump—It’s Wall Street

    Michael Beyea Reagan

    In These Times

    Wall Street destroyed New York City’s social welfare economy in 1975. Avoiding that fate under Mayor Mamdani will require popular movements to discipline the super rich.

    Published On: 10/23/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Surveillance • Technology

    The Rise of the Thielverse and the Construction of the Surveillance State

    Chris Hedges

    The Chris Hedges Report

    It’s clear that the architects of mass surveillance and the military industrial complex are beginning to coalesce in unprecedented ways within the Trump administration...

    Published On: 10/23/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    The Defunding of Public Media Is Hitting Local Stations Hardest

    Amy Kroin

    Free Press

    “The urgent task is to build a public-media system capable of resisting autocracy and restoring democracy.”

    Published On: 10/23/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy

    Trump’s Vile New $230 Million Shakedown of DOJ Just Got Even Worse

    The New Republic and Greg Sargent

    The New Republic

    Donald Trump is rapidly transforming the presidency into a massive Bribe Delivery System.

    Published On: 10/22/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Technology

    ChatGPT’s Atlas: The Browser That’s Anti-Web

    Anil Dash

    anildash.com

    OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, released their own browser called Atlas, and it actually is something new: the first browser that actively fights against the web.

    Published On: 10/22/2025

  • Violence • White Supremacy

    Trump’s Mass Pardon of White Nationalists Turned Into a Death Warrant for Hakeem Jeffries

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    They told us this would happen.

    Published On: 10/22/2025

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Resistance

    America is Overdue for a General Strike

    A.J. Schumann

    Counterpunch

    Across continents, workers are organizing to do what ballots alone have not: enforce the public will. It’s time American workers join our peers abroad by reclaiming strikes as part of our own democratic tradition.

    Published On: 10/22/2025

  • Democracy

    Victims Without Victimizers

    Norman Solomon

    Tom Dispatch

    How Corporate Democrats Led to the Trump Era.

    Published On: 10/21/2025

  • Resistance

    Galvanizing power through joyful, local action

    Sarah Van Gelder

    How We Rise, With Sarah

    Building power locally is a really key part of it. If you want to be a dictatorship, but you have lots of power centers all over the country choosing their own path, that’s much harder to do.

    Published On: 10/21/2025

  • Corruption • Disinformation • Press Freedom • Social Media

    American Oligarchs: The Media Consolidation Timeline

    Christopher Armitage

    The Existentialist Republic

    The sequence documented in Hungary, Russia, and Turkey followed identical steps: media consolidation, implementation of authoritarian policies, controlled information redirecting blame for consequences.

    Published On: 10/21/2025

  • Safety • Threat Management • Violence • White Supremacy

    ICE boosts weapons spending 700%

    Judd Legum

    Popular Information

    A Popular Information investigation reveals tens of millions in new ICE spending on guns, chemical weapons, and explosives.

    Published On: 10/20/2025

  • Democracy • Economy

    The Power Breaker

    Frank Rich

    New York Magazine

    Why the Democratic Party, the New York Times, and the donor class got Zohran Mamdani so wrong.

    Published On: 10/17/2025

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