• Disinformation • Global • Health • Recommended

    When Bill Gates Yelled At Me About Climate Change

    David Fenton

    FrameLab

    Bill Gates was yelling and screaming at me. Turning beet red. Waving his arms. Bullying, condescending, mocking. In public, no less.

    Published On: 11/14/2025

  • Corruption • Disinformation

    The Storm Is Here

    Jay Kuo

    The Status Kuo

    Evidence for Trump’s direct participation may exist among the Epstein files that haven’t been released yet. That may explain why the Justice Department reviewed them for any mention of Trump and has tried to stonewall their full release.

    Published On: 11/13/2025

  • Corruption • Disinformation

    MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: The beginning of the end of Trump?

    The Ink

    The Ink

    We look at the sprawling, infuriating Epstein email dump and ask what this rare glimpse into the dark heart of oligarchic minds might mean for our broken system.

    Published On: 11/13/2025

  • Global • Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended • Surveillance

    2025 Press Freedom Predators

    Reporters Without Borders

    Reporters Without Borders

    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is unveiling the profiles of 34 press freedom predators who attacked journalists and the right to information in 2025. What do they have in common? A hatred of press freedom.

    Published On: 11/07/2025

  • Disinformation

    How Joe Rogan Misleads Listeners About Climate Change

    Dana Nuccitelli, Yale Climate Connections

    Attention to the Unseen

    Of all the techniques in the climate denier’s playbook, Rogan relies most heavily on conspiracy theorizing.

    Published On: 11/07/2025

  • Recommended • Resistance • Social Media • Technology

    Civic Works: Two Projects, One Theme

    George Polisner

    civ.works

    civ.works will be a subscriber-supported, ad-free social network that does not betray subscriber trust by selling or sharing data with marketers or sinister political operatives.

    Published On: 11/07/2025

  • Democracy • Economy • Resistance

    Urgent Times Call for Something Old And Something New from the Labor Movement

    Peter Olney and Rand Wilson

    Labor Notes (October 16, 2025)

    For workers to survive Trump’s MAGA moment and build a fighting labor movement for the future, both electoral politics (something old) and militant actions to disrupt business as usual (something new for many unions) will be key.

    Published On: 11/06/2025

  • Human Rights • Resistance • Safety

    Personal Resilience is Resistance

    Resistance Media

    Resistance Media

    Personal resiliency and the cultivation of strong personal and collective emotional health is a major factor in actively resisting the control of autocrats.

    Published On: 11/05/2025

  • Democracy • Resistance

    From Mission Impossible to Mister Mayor

    Katrina Vanden Heuvel, John NIchols for The Nation

    The Nation

    If Zohran Mamdani governs as he campaigned, he will prove that the people have the power to shape their own future.

    Published On: 11/04/2025

  • Cyber Security • Press Freedom • Social Media • Surveillance

    As Ellison Buys Out TikTok, US Moves Toward One-Party Media

    Ari Paul

    FAIR (9/19/2025)

    This TikTok deal is not just about money. It’s about control of the political narrative.

    Published On: 11/03/2025

  • Culture • Democracy • Human Rights • Resistance

    Only Angels Can Slay Dragons

    Marianne Williamson

    TRANSFORM with Marianne Williamson (10/12/2025)

    Purification of the American heart is the key to our worldly salvation.

    Published On: 11/03/2025

  • Corruption • Legal

    Follow the Money: The Epstein Files They Didn’t Want You to See

    Closer to the Edge and Rook T. Winchester

    Closer to the Edge

    That deal wasn’t justice; it was choreography. The money-laundering indictment that could’ve exposed his financial enablers was boxed up and buried...

    Published On: 11/01/2025

  • Health • Personal Resilience • Safety

    On Staying Grounded

    Krista Tippett

    The Pause

    Some are calling it a new “organ” of the body. Some are calling it “the second brain.” It may be, in ways we keep unlocking, the very epicenter of quality of health and of life.

    Published On: 11/01/2025

  • Democracy • Violence

    Will the 2028 Election Even Happen? Is There a Plot to Use the Insurrection Act to End Democracy?

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    Trump appears well aware of his weakness, his collapsing poll numbers, and the precipice the American economy is teetering at the edge of.

    Published On: 10/31/2025

  • Democracy

    The Democratic Establishment Is a Dead Man Walking

    Mike Brock

    Notes from the Circus

    The entire Democratic establishment infrastructure built on donor dependency and focus-group optimization and managing coalitions through accommodation—all of it dead.

    Published On: 10/30/2025

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