Culture • Democracy • Resistance • Safety

Sarah Van Gelder — Common Dreams

Washington Won’t Save Us; Our Neighbors Might

Why the midterms will be won or lost at the community level—and what that means for how we organize now.

Democracy • Executive Power • Impacts • Safety • Violence

Judd Legum and Noel Sims — Popular Information

The $1.7 trillion military budget includes a massive slush fund for Trump’s political allies

Last week, President Donald Trump declared that the federal government cannot afford to spend “any money for day care” because “we’re fighting wars.”

Disinformation • Fascism • Human Rights • Safety • Social Justice and Equity • Violence

Heather Cox Richardson — Letters from an American

Letters from an American

“Get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite. People are being hurt. Families are being ripped apart…and now somebody is dead.”

Culture • Fascism • Human Rights • Safety • Violence • White Supremacy

Dr. Stacey Patton

ICE Is Out Here Shooting White Mothers Now

Are we witnessing the end of whiteness as a buffer against state violence?

Culture • Fascism • Health • Human Rights • Resistance • Safety • Threat Management

Thom Hartmann — The Hartmann Report

Trump’s Christmas message: "Scum" wasn’t just offensive. It was a warning.

The future lays before us now, and if we care about the country our children will inherit, we can’t let this moral vandalism to go unanswered.

Europe • Exile • Global • Human Rights • Safety

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian — The New Yorker (December 8, 2025)

How to Leave the U.S.A.

The number of aggrieved Americans seeking a new life abroad appears to be rising. The Netherlands offers one way out.

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal • Safety • Threat Management • Violence

Nick Turse — The Intercept

U..S. Military Willing to Attack "Designated Terrorist Organizations" Within America, General Says

“If I had no concerns and I was confident in the lawful order, I would definitely execute that order.”

Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Resistance • Safety

Rev. Cameron Trimble — Piloting Faith: An (Almost) Daily Meditation

The Long Work of Courage

A Meditation by Rev. Cameron Trimble

Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Safety • Threat Management

Jim Naureckas — FAIR

FBI Is Making an Enemies List—and Most Corporate Media Didn’t Even Check It Once

Congratulations—you may be headed for Attorney General Pam Bondi’s “list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism.”

Artificial Intelligence • Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Global • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance • Safety • Surveillance • Technology

Rowan Philp — Global Investigative Journalism Network

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

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

Health • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Resistance • Safety • Social Justice and Equity

Resistance Media

Personal Resilience is Resistance

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

Democracy • Resistance • Safety

Sarah Van Gelder — How We Rise, With Sarah

Galvanizing power through joyful, local action

Building power locally is a really key part of it. If you want to be a dictatorship, but you have lots of power centers all over the country choosing their own path, that’s much harder to do.

Democracy • Resistance • Safety • Violence • White Supremacy

Rebecca Solnit — Meditations in an Emergency

No Kings, No Violence: On the Ongoing Misrepresentation of the Left

It’s hard to portray someone dancing in an inflatable frog or chicken costume as a terrorist.

Cyber Security • Human Rights • Safety • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

Gabriel Geiger, Crofton Black, Emmanuel Freudenthal and Riccardo Coluccini — Mother Jones

The Surveillance Empire That Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You

Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

Fascism • Human Rights • Safety • Violence • White Supremacy

Chris Hedges — The Chris Hedges Report

The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk

Martyrs are used by messianic movements to sanctify violence. To show any mercy or understanding toward the enemy is to betray the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending.

Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal • Safety

Jud Legum and Rebecca Crosby — Popular Information

Criminal Propaganda

People form their beliefs largely on what they learn from the media. News reports often reinforce Trump's misleading claims.

Democracy • Democratic Party • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal • Resistance • Safety

Sherrilyn Ifill — Sherrilyn’s Newsletter

Emergency-Gate: Focus on Challenging the Premise of Trump’s Power

There is no trade emergency. There is no migrant emergency. There is no crime emergency. There is only a chilling and determined power grab by the most dangerous man to every occupy the White House. Eyes on 2026.

Democracy • Resistance • Safety • Surveillance • Threat Management

How to Resist

45 Acts of Non-Compliance for Ordinary People

One of the strengths of non-compliance is its accessibility. You don’t need a permit, a megaphone, or a lawyer. You simply need the courage and the conviction to say NO.

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.

Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Safety • Violence

Haaretz

AFP Journalists' Union Warns That Its Reporters Are at Risk of Starvation in Gaza

'Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can recall seeing a colleague die of hunger. We refuse to see them die,' the French news agency's journalists union said.

Disinformation • Environment • Global • Health • Safety • Threat Management

Mark Hertsgaard — The Nation

Americans Should Be More Afraid of Climate Change

Americans still don’t comprehend how imminent, dangerous, and far-reaching the threat is—and journalists are partly to blame.

Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Safety • Threat Management • Violence

Reporters Without Borders

Six months of Trump’s war on the press

This exchange of ideas, tactics, and rhetorical techniques to attack the press has created an apparent authoritarian feedback loop.

Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Safety • Threat Management • Violence

Freedom of the Press Foundation

LA Journalists Reflect on Protest Attacks

Journalists covering recent demonstrations in California have been assaulted, detained, shot with crowd-control munitions, and had their equipment searched — simply for doing their jobs.

Democracy • Human Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Resistance • Safety • Threat Management

Caitlin Vogus — Freedom of Press Foundation

ICE wants to work in secret. We shouldn’t let it

While noncitizen journalists are the easiest targets for now, it’s abundantly clear that the government would like to criminalize journalists it doesn’t like, regardless of the journalists’ residency status.

Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Disinformation • Europe • Safety • Social Media • Technology • Threat Management

Anna Desmarais — euronews

Denmark Fights Back Against Deepfakes

Denmark will give people copyright over their own likenesses as a way to fight back against generated “deepfake” videos, as countries around the world grapple with the rapid rise of AI.

Human Rights • Legal • Safety • Violence • White Supremacy

Sherrilyn Ifill — Sherrilyn’s Newsletter

Masked Terror

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.

Canada • Europe • Exile • Fascism • Global • Human Rights • Safety • Threat Management

Ron Williams

Out of Harm’s Way

As the United States descends more deeply into an authoritarian nightmare, individuals and families are considering the once unthinkable: stay and risk persecution or uproot their lives for another state or country.

Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Safety • Violence

BrieAnna J. Frank — USA Today

Press groups push DHS over potential First Amendment violations during LA protests

Press freedom organizations warn the Department of Homeland Security that federal officers “may have violated the First Amendment rights” of journalists covering protests.

Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Safety • Violence

UN Human Rights Office — un.org

UN Human Rights Office condemns targeting journalists and attacks on hospitals

Directing attacks against protected persons such as journalists is a violation of international humanitarian law and also constitutes a war crime.

Cyber Security • Human Rights • Safety • Social Media • Technology • Threat Management • Violence

Laura Bates — The Guardian

Online brothels, sex robots, simulated rape: AI is ushering in a new age of violence against women

When social media first exploded, we missed our chance to protect women and girls. Now history is repeating itself

Exile • Human Rights • Legal • Safety • Threat Management

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

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.

Democracy • Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Safety • Threat Management • Violence

Irene Khan — United Nations Human Rights Council

UN Human Rights Council Report: Journalists in exile

The security and safety of journalists in exile remain precarious, because of the failure of States to uphold their international obligations.

Press Freedom • Safety • Threat Management

Committee to Protect Journalists — CPJ

Journalist Safety Advisory: Traveling to the US

Educate yourself on border security protocols and learn about your rights when encountering law enforcement at border crossings.

Canada • Democracy • Exile • Fascism • Human Rights • Safety • Threat Management

George Packer — The Atlantic

Be a Patriot

Fleeing America before you are threatened is a lot like obeying in advance.

Democracy • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Safety

Nonviolence Radio — https://wagingnonviolence.org/

When toxic polarization becomes a civil war

International peacebuilder, mediator and scholar John Paul Lederach offers practical wisdom for resisting cycles of division and violence before it's too late.

Canada • Democracy • Exile • Safety

Stuart Braun — DW

'A scary place': Jason Stanley on leaving Trump's America

Philosopher Jason Stanley is among several critics of US President Donald Trump who have left Yale University, and the United States, to work and live in Canada. He equates the new leadership with "fascism."

Cyber Security • Democracy • Disinformation • Global • Safety • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

Stephanie Kirchgaessner — The Guardian

Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats

Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’

Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Legal • Safety • Surveillance • Threat Management

DAVID GILBERT — Wired

How Dan Bongino Went From Infowars to FBI Deputy Director

Dan Bongino rose through the ranks of right-wing media thanks to his unflinching loyalty to Donald Trump and willingness to push baseless conspiracies—including about the FBI.

Exile • Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Safety • Technology

Ananya Bhasin — Committee to Protect Journalists

How an exile newsroom reports on Afghan women

After escaping the country undetected with nearly two dozen newsroom colleagues and family members, they made their way to a refugee camp in Albania. Then, they got to work rebuilding the newsroom they had left behind.

Safety • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

Electronic Frontier Foundation — eff.org

Seven Steps To Digital Security

Digital security is as much of a mindset as it is a toolkit, and there are concepts to consider regardless of whether you're first getting started or you're a seasoned veteran. Before you start seeking out solutions, take a minute to step back and consider the whole picture of what you're trying to accomplish.

Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Safety • Violence

Reporters Without Borders — Reporters Without Boarders

Israel-Gaza war: list of journalists killed in the line of duty in Palestine, Israel and Lebanon

Journalists killed in connection with their work in Gaza, Lebanon and Israel.

Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Global • Human Rights • Press Freedom • Resistance • Russia • Safety • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

Rowan Philp — Global Investigative Journalism Network

Lessons from Investigative Journalists in Exile

“A decade ago, there were international programs for exiled media, ...there has been nothing since, and there is no association of exiled media.”

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