• Corruption • Democracy

    Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms is Already Under Way

    David A. Graham

    The Atlantic (Gift)

    Our election system is reaching a breaking point.

    Published On: 10/28/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

    Manufacturing Dissent: How America’s Most Popular “Opposition” Media Protects Oligarch Power

    Christopher Armitage

    The Existentialist Republic

    Power no longer exclusively manufactures agreement. American oligarchs and their media companies have now learned to manufacture the allowable form of disagreement itself.

    Published On: 10/28/2025

  • Human Rights • Safety • Violence

    Starving You is the Point: The Neuroscience of Hunger and Obedience in America

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    We are watching a government experiment in population management using stress, scarcity, and biology to keep people too tired to fight back.

    Published On: 10/28/2025

  • 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

  • Democracy • Violence • White Supremacy

    The US Civil War of 2025

    Jesse Hirsh

    Metaviews: Future of Authority

    Understanding Hybrid Civil War

    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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