Democracy • Economy • Europe • Executive Power • Global
We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower
Garrett M. Graff
Wired
With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.
Democracy • Fascism • Threat Management
We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start
Claire Finkelstein
The Guardian
Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania.
Culture • Fascism • Human Rights
Christian Nationalists Have Decided Monks Walking for Peace Are on a One-Way Trip to Hell
Dr. Stacey Patton
Dr. Stacey Patton
The religion that claims to follow a poor, itinerant teacher who walked everywhere, who owned nothing, who told people to put down their swords, now produces followers who cannot tolerate the sight of men doing precisely that. Walking. Owning little. Practicing peace. Not demanding shit. Not conquering and colonizing. Just being.
Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • ICE • Legal • Violence
Hidden DHS Policy Encourages ICE Agents to Break into Homes without Warrants
Whistleblower Aid
Whistleblower Aid
“This administration’s secretive policy advocates conduct that the Supreme Court has described as ‘the chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed’ – that is the warrantless physical entry of a home.’
Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Europe • Social Media
‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture
Ashifa Kassam
The Guardian (December 27, 2025)
‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture
Extremist messaging now woven into music and YouTube videos, with one expert saying: ‘You can be radicalised sitting on your couch’
Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Human Rights • Violence • White Supremacy
Why Has ICE Turned Minneapolis Into a Battlefield?
Thom Hartmann
The Hartmann Report
Why the largest-ever ICE operation isn’t just about immigration, but about who gets to walk freely in America’s cities and who pays with their lives…
Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Legal • Recommended • Resistance • Violence
I talked Trump out of invoking the Insurrection Act. He’ll do it this time — but we can stop him.
Miles Taylor
defiance.news
America needs to prepare for the coming constitutional crisis. However, it's not hopeless. It's time to go on legal offense.
Democracy • Executive Power • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Threat Management
The FBI’s raid of journalist’s home was the product of decades of backsliding
Seth Stern and Chip Gibbons
The Guardian
The trend of invading newsrooms, in violation of federal law, has now spread to the highest levels of the federal government
Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Democracy • Disinformation • Social Media • Surveillance • Technology
My Final Message Before I’m on an FBI Watchlist: Palantir, Epstein, & The New York Times
Juan Sebastian Pinto
Ziggurat
ICE brings the hybrid warfare and terror we brought to Gaza back home. It's time to learn where it comes from, how it works, who enables it, and how to fight back.
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‘I’ll leave with my head held high’ | Hispanic journalist facing deportation pens letter
The American Civil Liberties Union has been seeking Mr. Guevara’s release from retaliatory detention in a federal district court and are asking the court to free him immediately before he is deported at any moment.”
