• 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

  • Culture • Democracy • Legal • Resistance

    Our Silence Will Not Protect Us

    Diane Yentel

    Shelterforce

    You don’t know who needs to hear your voice right now, who needs to see your leadership, but I guarantee you that someone does, and that your courage will bolster theirs.

    Published On: 06/05/2025

  • 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

  • Exile • Human Rights • Legal

    Asylum for Trans Brits and Americans: We Need to Talk

    Jenny List

    https://transrescue.org/asylum-for-trans-brits-and-americans-we-need-to-talk

    There are still plenty of options for leaving the USA or the UK which do not involve asylum, and we believe at the time of writing that they represent a far better choice.

    Published On: 05/08/2025

  • 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

  • Legal

    Look to the Judges

    Steven Beschloss

    America, America

    While Trump despicably denies his duty to uphold the Constitution, let's take strength from judges who oppose his regime's illegal actions.

    Published On: 05/05/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    A Massive Power Grab Could Help North Carolina Republicans Steal an Election

    ARI BERMAN

    Mother Jones

    A new GOP majority on the state election board could overturn a state Supreme Court race

    Published On: 05/02/2025

  • Legal • Threat Management

    If leaders stay silent, the US won’t survive Trump’s next 100 days

    Robert Reich

    The Guardian

    We are tottering on the edge of dictatorship. Powerful voices across institutions, from politics to academia and religion, must speak out

    Published On: 04/30/2025

  • Legal

    The New “National Defense Area” At The Southern Border

    Mark Nevitt

    Just Security

    The creation of a National Defense Area marks an extraordinary shift in the military’s role from indirectly supporting law enforcement to actively serving in a law enforcement capacity.

    Published On: 04/29/2025

  • Legal

    Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center

    Nader Hashemi

    New Lines Magazine

    A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk.

    Published On: 04/23/2025

  • Legal • Resistance

    US Philanthropists Warn Against Capitulating to Trump

    David Smith

    The Guardian

    Foundation leaders say charitable organisations could be next in the firing line – but must ‘stand together’ to resist

    Published On: 04/19/2025

  • Democracy • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    Why the Fight for Local Journalism Matters

    Joel Simon

    Columbia Journalism Review

    To sustain this new system, Thornton told me, nonprofit news organizations need diversified funding from membership, sponsorship, events, and philanthropy, which will need to support local media in perpetuity, the way they do the arts.

    Published On: 04/16/2025

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    2025 Press Freedom Predators

    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.

  • 11/07/2025

    Civic Works: Two Projects, One Theme

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    What are we doing here, folks?

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  • 10/07/2025

    The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

    The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

  • 10/07/2025

    The Insurrection Act Explained

    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.