• Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation

    Robert Booth

    The Guardian

    Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years

    Published On: 11/27/2025

  • Revolutionary Weather (and the Baboon in the Ruins)

    Rebecca Solnit

    Meditations in an Emergency

    Many Republicans saw that Trump was in decline, possibly rapid decline, and that their future lay not in the slavish deference we've seen for nine years but in separating themselves from him.

    Published On: 11/25/2025

  • Stay Human: 80 Tiny Moves for Everyday Resistance in the Authoritarian Harm Complex

    Paul T Shattuck

    Progressive Strategy Now (April 12, 2025)

    What if staying human is one of the most powerful and most unappreciated forms of resistance? Shaping tomorrow and defeating tyranny takes more than big protest events and macro strategies.

    Published On: 11/21/2025

  • Maria Ressa Calls for ‘Radical Collaboration’ to Combat Misinformation and Preserve Press Freedom

    Rowan Philp

    Global Investigative Journalism Network

    “Everything we knew as an industry has been destroyed. So we don’t stand still. This is a time for radical collaboration.”

    Published On: 11/21/2025

  • My Afternoon With The Last Living Prosecutor of Nazi War Criminals

    Michael Moore

    Michael Moore

    Basically, the Nuremberg idea was: No one is above the law — not even states. Not even powerful leaders.

    Published On: 11/21/2025

  • The Right Funds Its Media. Can Progressive Philanthropy Meet the Moment?

    Lara Witt & Maya Schenwar

    Truthout

    Anger and bigotry are profitable models if you rewire people’s brains to be driven by fear.

    Published On: 11/19/2025

  • The Pentagon’s Preferred Propaganda Model

    Anne Applebaum

    The Atlantic (Gift) October 27, 2025

    Modern authoritarian regimes often offer not a unified propaganda line but rather contradictory versions of reality... The cumulative effect is to leave citizens with no clear idea of what is actually happening.

    Published On: 11/16/2025

  • Epstein Gave NYT Journalist Tips About Trump, Why Did They Never Get Reported?

    Noah Hurowitz

    The Intercept

    Exchanges about Trump between a reporter and Epstein raise questions about what the New York Times knew and when.

    Published On: 11/14/2025

  • Did Epstein’s Knowledge of Trump Become Putin’s Most Dangerous Weapon ?

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    When we place Trump’s bizarre, unprecedented secrecy next to Epstein’s emails in which the billionaire pedophile tells European and Russian contacts that he could offer “insight” into Trump, the outlines of a deeply troubling possibility emerge.

    Published On: 11/14/2025

  • Leaked Texas A&M Document Exposes a Chilling Blueprint

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    No African American studies. No women’s studies. No queer studies. No sociology of race. No equity-focused education courses. No history courses on segregation. No public health instruction on racial disparities. No discussions of gender identity in psychology, medicine, social work, or literature.

    Published On: 11/14/2025

  • Dark Forces are Preventing us from Fighting the Climate Crisis

    George Monbiot

    The Guardian

    Of the world’s 10 most popular online shows, a Yale study shows eight have spread climate science denial.

    Published On: 11/14/2025

  • 2025 Press Freedom Predators

    Reporters Without Borders

    Reporters Without Borders

    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.

    Published On: 11/07/2025

  • Civic Works: Two Projects, One Theme

    George Polisner

    civ.works

    civ.works will be a subscriber-supported, ad-free social network that does not betray subscriber trust by selling or sharing data with marketers or sinister political operatives.

    Published On: 11/07/2025

  • Urgent Times Call for Something Old And Something New from the Labor Movement

    Peter Olney and Rand Wilson

    Labor Notes (October 16, 2025)

    For workers to survive Trump’s MAGA moment and build a fighting labor movement for the future, both electoral politics (something old) and militant actions to disrupt business as usual (something new for many unions) will be key.

    Published On: 11/06/2025

  • Personal Resilience is Resistance

    Resistance Media

    Resistance Media

    Compassion, empathy, anger, grief and joy are some of the most powerful acts of resistance available to us

    Published On: 11/05/2025

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    The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

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    Jimmy Kimmel’s reinstatement shows the power of noncooperation

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