• Democracy • Featured • Journalism • Legal

    Paramount settles with Trump for $16m over 60 Minutes interview

    Edward Helmore

    The Guardian

    Paramount agreed to pay $16m to Trump’s future library or other cause, but not to him, made no apology

    Published On: 07/02/2025

  • Democracy • Featured • Human Rights • Legal

    “Largest Federal Law Enforcement Agency in the History of the Nation”

    Democracy Now

    Democracy Now

    You will see ICE now being the single largest federal law enforcement agency in the history of the nation, potentially with enough funding to hire more law enforcement agents than the FBI and more detention potentially than the entire Federal Bureau of Prisons.

    Published On: 07/02/2025

  • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Safety

    CPJ outraged at ICE refusal of judge’s order to release journalist Mario Guevara

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    The Spanish-language reporter is currently the only journalist in custody in the U.S. whose arrest was in relation to their work.

    Published On: 07/02/2025

  • Democracy • Featured • Legal

    Taking Away Your Citizenship

    Joyce Vance

    Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

    We’ve moved onto the next phase of the plan, where the Civil Rights Division, the once proud crown jewel of the Justice Department, will participate in stripping naturalized American citizens of their citizenship.

    Published On: 07/01/2025

  • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    Prosecution Against Journalist Endangers Right To Gather News

    Kevin Gosztola

    The Dissenter

    The “government’s interpretation of the Wiretap Act would unleash frivolous litigation and make the Act a magnet for arbitrary and harassing enforcement actions in the future.”

    Published On: 06/30/2025

  • Legal • Safety

    Trump attacks on NRC independence pose health, safety risks

    Edwin Lyman

    Utility Dive

    The exodus of key personnel at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will jeopardize its ability to oversee the nuclear power fleet and slow the licensing of new facilities to a crawl.

    Published On: 06/30/2025

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Global • Human Rights • Legal

    Trump defends Netanyahu, attacks Israeli prosecutors over corruption trial

    Al Jazeera

    Al Jazeera

    US President Donald Trump links US aid to Netanyahu’s corruption trial in fiery post on his social media site.

    Published On: 06/29/2025

  • Legal

    “Disaster Looms”: Justice Jackson’s Warning for the Country

    Pema Levy

    Mother Jones

    “Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more.”

    Published On: 06/27/2025

  • Legal • Violence • White Supremacy

    Masked Terror

    Sherrilyn Ifill

    Sherrilyn’s Newsletter

    We have every right to know the identity of those officers are who are abducting migrants and U.S. citizens from our streets, and under whose authority they are purporting to act.

    Published On: 06/24/2025

  • Democracy • Legal • Recommended

    Why Elon Musk’s Third Party Won’t Get Off the Launchpad

    Center for Ballot Freedom

    The Ticket

    “As long as we have our current system of single-winner plurality elections, third parties have no meaningful chance to do anything more than show up as occasional spoilers.”

    Published On: 06/24/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    The Insurrection Act Explained

    Joseph Nunn

    Brennan Center for Justice

    The law, which lets the president deploy the military domestically and use it for civilian law enforcement, is dangerously vague and in urgent need of reform.

    Published On: 06/10/2025

  • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Recommended • Safety

    Committee to Protect Journalists: Safety Kit

    CPJ

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    Journalists should consider the following digital and physical safety advice to help better protect themselves.

    Published On: 06/03/2025

  • Democracy • Legal • Recommended • White Supremacy

    What was the German Enabling Act?

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

    The Act allowed the Reich government to issue laws without the consent of Germany’s parliament, laying the foundation for the complete Nazification of German society.

    Published On: 06/02/2025

  • Legal • Resistance

    Accountable Policing

    Shea Howell

    James and Grace Lee Boggs Center

    Holding police officers accountable when they commit crimes or violate constitutional rights is one of the most difficult things to do in law.

    Published On: 05/10/2025

  • Corruption • Legal

    The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History

    David Frum

    The Atlantic

    "It is corruption and self dealing on a scale that we've never seen in American history."

    Published On: 05/07/2025

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