• Corruption • Disinformation • Human Rights • Violence

    Kushner Reveals Dystopic Plan to Build Data Centers on Ruins of Gaza Genocide

    Sharon Zhang

    Truthout

    The plan appears to be to finish Israel’s bulldozing of Gaza to make real estate opportunities for investors.

    Published On: 02/01/2026

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Original • Violence • White Supremacy

    Let’s Never Forget Who We Are

    Ron Williams

    Resistance Media (January 19, 2026)

    “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there “is” such a thing as being too late..."

    Published On: 01/31/2026

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Social Media

    The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism

    Parker Molloy

    The New Republic

    Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do.

    Published On: 01/31/2026

  • Democracy • Europe • Exile

    There Is No Pleasure in Being Right

    LaDonna Witmer

    The Long Scrawl

    When it all comes tumbling down.

    Published On: 01/31/2026

  • Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Technology • Threat Management

    The Adolescence of Technology

    Dario Amodei

    darioamodei.com

    Humanity needs to wake up, and this essay is an attempt—a possibly futile one, but it’s worth trying—to jolt people awake.

    Published On: 01/31/2026

  • Democracy • Recommended • Resistance

    After the Devastation of Trump’s First Year, These Popular Rebellions Offer Hope

    Sarah van Gelder

    Truthout (January 24, 2026)

    Elections, labor, mutual aid, and local organizing wins in 2025 point to strategies that can work in the coming year.

    Published On: 01/30/2026

  • Democracy • ICE • Journalism • Press Freedom

    CPJ condemns arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort over Minnesota protests coverage

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    CPJ

    It is highly unusual for a journalist to be charged with a felony in relation to their reporting.

    Published On: 01/30/2026

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Legal

    The DOJ’s Fulton County Raid to Seize Ballots is Really About Future Elections

    Marc Elias

    Democracy Docket

    The department has demanded this highly sensitive data from all 50 states and has already sued 23 states, including DC, for refusing to comply. Pam Bondi even attempted to leverage the tragic killing of Alex Pretti to obtain this data from Minnesota.

    Published On: 01/30/2026

  • Democracy • ICE • Recommended • Resistance • Violence • White Supremacy

    The Nation Nominates Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize

    The Editors of The Nation

    The Nation

    With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for “the positive affirmation of peace.”

    Published On: 01/29/2026

  • Democracy • ICE • Violence • White Supremacy

    Tim Walz Fears a Fort Sumter Moment in Minneapolis

    Isaac Stanley-Becker

    The Atlantic (Gift)

    The Minnesota governor warns of a national unraveling.

    Published On: 01/28/2026

  • Human Rights • ICE • Resistance • Violence • White Supremacy

    The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good

    Ta-Nehisi Coates

    Vanity Fair

    Pretti and Good were labeled “domestic terrorists” of The Homeland—rhetoric employed by the administration to justify the state taking life, by associating the dead with national villainy.

    Published On: 01/26/2026

  • Democracy • Featured • Health • Human Rights • ICE • Resistance • Violence • White Supremacy

    Welcome to the American Winter

    Robert F. Worth

    The Atlantic (Gift)

    In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

    Published On: 01/25/2026

  • Artificial Intelligence • Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Europe

    Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star

    Ben Quinn

    The Guardian

    The avatar, created to deter young people from extremism, has been subverted and is breaking out of niche online silos.

    Published On: 01/25/2026

  • Culture • Human Rights

    Christian Nationalists Have Decided Monks Walking for Peace Are on a One-Way Trip to Hell

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    The religion that claims to follow a poor, itinerant teacher who walked everywhere, who owned nothing, who told people to put down their swords, now produces followers who cannot tolerate the sight of men doing precisely that. Walking. Owning little. Practicing peace. Not demanding shit. Not conquering and colonizing. Just being.

    Published On: 01/23/2026

  • Disinformation • Legal • Press Freedom • Recommended

    New Legal Documents Show Marco Rubio Targeted Students for Op-Eds and Protesting

    Jessica Washington

    The Intercept

    Rubio accused students including Mahmoud Khalil of supporting terrorism, but records unsealed after litigation by The Intercept undermine his claims.

    Published On: 01/23/2026

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