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Resistance Media

Elon Musk’s $2 Trillion IPO is a Weapon, Not an Investment

What Wall Street Won’t Tell You About the SpaceX Initial Public Offering.

Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Digital Rights • Fascism • Surveillance

Elizabeth Spiers — The Nation

Palantir’s Manifesto Promises a Dystopian Future

The tech company’s CEO Alex Karp delivers a self-serving broadside that’s steeped in oligarchic hubris and authoritarian nihilism.

Artificial Intelligence • Human Rights • Surveillance • Technology • Violence

Ken Klippenstein

Death by A.I.

New "Autonomous Warfare Center" will automate targeted killings.

Artificial Intelligence • Executive Power • Surveillance • Technology

Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz — The New Yorker

Sam Altman May Control Our Future - Can He Be Trusted?

New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

Corruption • Democracy • Executive Power • Legal • Surveillance

Kait Justice — Downwind of Truth with Kait Justice

Is the Barr Family Blocking The Epstein Investigation Because It Would Expose What's Being Built Right Now?

Three threads, fifty years, a 1973 Sci-Fi novel and the architecture of a sovereign class that answers to no one.

Culture • Disinformation • Exile • Human Rights • Russia • Surveillance

Amelia Gentleman — The Guardian

‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda

Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, but has left him in exile.

Artificial Intelligence • Corruption • Democracy • Financial • Global • Social Media • Surveillance • Technology

A project led by Prof. Francesca Bria with xof-research.org — The Authoritarian Stack (11/21/2025)

The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

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.”

Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Surveillance • Threat Management

Lev Parnas — Lev Remembers

Trump Used AI to Scan U.S. Generals’ Faces for Loyalty — and to Root Out Whistleblowers

Today, our country is facing a test that cannot be ignored. Donald Trump has weaponized fear, division, and hate. He thrives on vengeance, not forgiveness. He demands loyalty not to the Constitution, not to the people, but to himself.

Democratic Party • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Legal • Resistance • Surveillance • Threat Management

Jeff Sharlet — Scenes from a Slow Civil War

Rubber Glue Fascism

A close reading of "NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7: Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence"

Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity • Surveillance • Technology

Craig Aaron — Pressing Issues

What Bob McChesney Taught Me

“If you act like change for the better is impossible, you guarantee it will be impossible.”

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.

Cyber Security • Democracy • Europe • Global • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

Article 19

Spain: Huawei must not be allowed access to wiretap data in the EU

"Beyond immediate censorship and surveillance fears, Spain risks normalising Huawei tools and technologies in ways that are detrimental to human rights and fundamental freedoms in the EU and around the world."

Digital Rights • Disinformation • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

Gary Marcus — Marcus on AI

1984, but with LLM’s

“Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’” — 1984, George Orwell

Democracy • Human Rights • Safety • Surveillance • Violence

Garrett Graff — Doomsday Scenario

ICE Believes it will Never Face Accountability Again

The Trump administration is letting an unaccountable secret police form at the heart of our democracy.

Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Surveillance • Technology

Carole Cadwalladr — How to Survive the Broligarchy

The Dark Lord of Silicon Valley

Peter Thiel enters the chat.

Digital Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Surveillance • Technology

SARAH GREVY GOTFREDSEN — Columbia Journalism Review

Entry: Denied

The “intolerable risk to press freedom” posed by device searches at the border.

Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

LUKE O’BRIEN — Mother Jones

The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI

Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

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.

Cyber Security • Legal • Surveillance • Technology

Paresh Dave, Dell Cameron, Alexa O'Brien — Wired

DOGE Sparks Surveillance Fear Across the US Government

A federal law enforcement source warns that monitoring could theoretically be used to gather political intelligence on federal employees, while the administration looks for more palatable reasons to terminate them later; similar to how law enforcement may obtain evidence that's inadmissible in the course of a criminal investigation, but then search for another evidentiary basis to file charges.

Cyber Security • Democracy • Digital Rights • Disinformation • Exile • Global • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

Reporters Without Borders — rsf.org

New report on Russian media in exile: RSF calls for increased support amid unprecedented digital repression

Independent Russian media in exile are a vital line of defence against the Kremlin’s massive digital censorship project, which has an estimated budget of nearly 630 million euros, according to the latest report by The Fix and the JX Fund. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges European states, international donors, and tech giants to step up their support for these media outlets as they face unprecedented repression and major logistical, financial, and security challenges.

Democracy • Digital Rights • Disinformation • Surveillance • Technology

CAROLE CADWALLADR — How to Survive the Broligarchy

Total Information Collapse

The destabilisation in our information system that we woke up to in 2016 has now entered a wholly dangerous new reality: the merger of Silicon Valley and an authoritarian US state.

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.

Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Safety • Surveillance • Threat Management

Rachel George — Council on Foreign Relations

Iran's AI Assault on Women

Iran and other countries in the Middle East are increasingly using artificial intelligence as a tool to crackdown on women's rights.

Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

BERYL LIPTON AND MATTHEW GUARIGLIA — EFF

GAO Report Shows the Government Uses Face Recognition with No Accountability, Transparency, or Training

Face recognition technology, particularly when used by law enforcement and government, puts into jeopardy many of our important rights.

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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