The Children of Dilley
Mica Rosenberg
ProPublica (February, 9, 2026)
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
Published On: 02/24/2026
The National Debt Is the Evidence of the Crime: Who Pocketed the $38 Trillion?
Thom Hartmann
The Hartmann Report
The national debt isn’t the cause of our problems: it’s the receipt. It’s the paper trail of the largest upward transfer of wealth in 250 years of American history…
Published On: 02/24/2026
Journalism Is Dead. Long Live Journalism
Rebecca Solnit
Meditations in an Emergency
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.
Published On: 02/16/2026
The key to defeating Trump? Mass non-cooperation
Mark Engler and Paul Engler
The Guardian
The extraordinary level of grassroots solidarity and creative resistance in anti-ICE protests in Minnesota has given people a new appreciation for the power that mass non-cooperation can have in resisting the Trump administration’s drive toward authoritarianism.
Published On: 02/15/2026
Trump Admin to Spend $40B to Turn Warehouses Into Massive Immigration Jails
Julia Conley , COMMONDREAMS
Truthout
“Germany’s concentration camps didn’t start as instruments of mass murder, and neither have ours; both started as facilities for people the government’s leader said were a problem..."
Published On: 02/14/2026
EU states must retract outrageous attacks on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
Amnesty International
Amnesty International
“This is a critical moment for humanity, with international law and human rights institutions under attack like never before. The use of misinformation to further delegitimize them poses a profound threat to human rights and the rule of law itself."
Published On: 02/13/2026
War is 100% “America” and Michigan Wants its Fair Share
Deb Hansen
Riverwisedetroit.org (Fall 2025)
Questioning war and why we fight is imperative. It will require a courageous confrontation with a powerful taboo, a palpable force field that snarls and growls. But this is the end of the line. War at this scale is ecocide, a death wish.
Published On: 02/12/2026
When Love Thy Neighbor Is a Cry of Resistance
Rebecca Solnit
Meditations in an Emergency
At the very heart of almost all our crises is a conflict between two worldviews, the worldview in which everything is connected and the world of isolated individualism, of social darwinism and the war of each against each.
Published On: 02/02/2026





