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Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Press Freedom • Technology

Gil Duran — The Nerd Reich (04/21/2026)

How to Purge Palantir

And how I got permanently banned from X.

Fascism • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom

Jake Johnson — Common Dreams

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Israel’s targeting of media professionals in the south while they are performing their professional duties is no longer a matter of isolated incidents; rather, it has become a proven pattern.

Corruption • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

Nick Akerman — Legal Politics by Nick Akerman

A Single Newspaper Reported Investigating Trump's Sexual Assault of a Minor

The Post and Courier, published a second article detailing its continuing investigation into a sexual assault allegedly perpetrated by Donald Trump.

Democracy • Disinformation • Press Freedom

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report (03/25/2026)

From “Fake News” to Full Control: How the GOP Trained the Media to Serve Its Narrative

A 30-year campaign of intimidation turned watchdogs into lapdogs, and now the consequences are impossible to ignore…

Disinformation • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance • Violence

CPJ Staff — CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists

Global press freedom violations during the Iran war

The Committee to Protect Journalists is monitoring press freedom violations related to the ongoing military escalation between Israel, the U.S and Iran and its spillover across the Middle East, including its regional and global impact on journalists and media workers.

Disinformation • Economy • Press Freedom • Violence

Chris Hedges — The Chris Hedges Report The Chris Hedges Report

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The Iran War has just begun — but already, Iran’s military prowess, and America’s and Israel’s impulsive imperial hubris, is on full display.

Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Journalism • Press Freedom

Matt Gertz — Media Matters

Paramount is mangling CBS — and CNN may be next

Trump’s corruption makes capitulation a media business plan.

Democracy • Disinformation • Financial • Journalism • Press Freedom

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

Journalism Is Dead. Long Live Journalism

Right now, a host of brilliant, dedicated souls do fantastic work reporting and interpreting the news in independent newsletters, podcasts, magazines and even mainstream media. In other ways, journalism is in an age of slop and slime and decline.

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • ICE • Journalism • Press Freedom

Committee to Protect Journalists — CPJ

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

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

Fascism • Human Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

Michael Sainato — The Guardian

ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour

Trump ally Laura Loomer took credit for Sami Hamdi’s detainment in move denounced as ‘affront to free speech’

Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Press Freedom • Social Media • Surveillance • Threat Management

Jeffrey Chester — techpolicy.press

Trump’s TikTok Deal Would Further Entrench Big Tech Surveillance

The proposal would allow Trump’s political allies to operate TikTok in the US without significant reforms and safeguards.

Artificial Intelligence • Cryptocurrency • Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Disinformation • Europe • Executive Power • Human Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Resistance • Russia • Safety • Social Media • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management • Violence

Ron Williams

The Resistance Will Be Reported (Updated November 12, 2025)

The environment for press freedom in the United States is entering a perilous new phase. The attacks have been unprecedented, widespread and continue to escalate.

Democracy • Executive Power • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

Edward Helmore — The Guardian

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

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

Environment • Journalism • Press Freedom

Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope — Columbia Journalism Review

Bill Moyers Helped Break the Media’s Climate Silence

Launching the Covering Climate Now media collaboration, he urged fellow journalists to “tell the story so people get it.”

Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Threat Management

Kevin Gosztola — The Dissenter

Prosecution Against Journalist Endangers Right To Gather News

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.”

Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom • Russia • Social Media • Technology • Threat Management

Steven Lee Myers and Stuart A. Thompson — The New York Times

A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy

Content generated by AI has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters and discrediting the democratic process.

Democracy • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Social Justice and Equity

John Nichols — The Nation

Bill Moyers Kept the Faith in Democracy. We Need His Example More Than Ever.

The legendary journalist believed that speaking truth to power was the essential underpinning of an embattled American experiment.

Executive Power • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Threat Management

Margaret Sullivan — The Guardian

The loss of editorial freedom at 60 Minutes is a sorry milestone

As with so many of the red alerts – lawsuits, threats, changes in long-held practices that protect the public’s right to know – the problem involves Donald Trump’s overweening desire to control the media.

Democracy • Journalism • Press Freedom

Katherine Jacobsen — Committee to Protect Journalists

Alarm bells: Trump’s first 100 days

The United States is now at a critical juncture concerning both the future of freedom of the press and democratic institutions more broadly.

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