"Anti-communism became an unavoidable feature of American life after the First Red Scare wreaked injustice across the country between 1917 and 1920, but the young Herrick would more frequently endure outright antisemitism. The bullying he faced solidified his political commitment to solidarity."

"Only one of the defendants — Benjamin Song — was accused of firing on law enforcement (he ultimately received a 100-year sentence). Yet the state pointed to fireworks as evidence that all of those present were part of a malignant plot."

Protests against the immigration crackdown took place nationwide, more than 90% of the 412 documented incidents occurred in five metropolitan areas: Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Newark, and Portland. Researchers note those cities have sanctuary policies and durable protest movements.

A new report details the devastating impact of chemical irritants and other 'crowd-control weapons' during anti-ICE rallies. inkstickmedia.com/deep-dive-th...

"In his autobiography, Herrick brushed off the possibility that he 'inadvertently' let the names of 'innocents' slip and begged for forgiveness, but there, too, the resentment soaked through. 'But where were you, my dear comrades, when harm was done me?' he wrote. 'I still await your apologies.'"

From Inkstick's archives: Trump blames the left for political violence, even as his own rhetoric has been echoed in the manifestos of mass shooters. inkstickmedia.com/why-anti-fas...

"Ninety years ago, a young American communist named William Herrick crossed the Atlantic Sea with dreams of killing fascists. He returned with a bullet in his spine and resentment for his old comrades. Decades later, he'd become a novelist and turn his pen against the left he once championed."

'Beyond Madison Township, a diverse coalition of watchdogs and activists have come together to stage what’s sometimes known as a “site fight” against the planned weapons factory, uniting under the name No Ohio Anduril Plant.' inkstickmedia.com/in-ohio-who-...

In Germany, Volkswagen's CEO has said that the company “will not produce any weapons. In late April, Rafael Advanced Systems and Volkswagen reportedly signed an agreement to produce Iron Dome missile parts at the Osnabrück factory. inkstickmedia.com/as-germany-r...

As a young communist, William Herrick volunteered to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War. Decades later, he became a novelist and controversially turned his pen against the left. inkstickmedia.com/the-american...

"This model of authoritarianism on security and democratic rights, combined with neoliberal shock therapy and destruction of the social state, is now the dominant model for the right in Latin America." inkstickmedia.com/trump-monroe...

Attention, Inkstick readers: We have a survey, and we want to hear directly from you about our newsroom's future. tally.so/r/GxgQxe

From Volkswagen to Mercedes, Germany's struggling auto industry is embracing defense production — even as workers question what they're being asked to build. inkstickmedia.com/as-germany-r...

Israel's assault on Lebanon has killed 4,000+ people and continues to be a major obstacle to regional peace. As the Trump administration refuses to use its leverage to stop it, Congress must assert its war powers to cut off U.S. military support for deadly, destructive violence. @inkstickmedia.com

A growing dispute over water access has led Islamabad to invoke its historical connections to the ancient Indus Valley Civilization. It won’t help. inkstickmedia.com/pakistans-do...

"Leverage exists. The question is whether Washington will use it to actually end the war, or whether it will keep absorbing Israel’s vetoes while calling the result diplomacy, and asking Lebanon — and the American people — to pay the price." inkstickmedia.com/the-us-canno...

In @inkstickmedia.com podcast, Sandra Alloush speaks about the impact of a violent control she was subjected to by German officers at the French-German border. Supported by ECCHR, @freiheitsrechte.org and @enareurope.bsky.social, she has submitted a complaint. inkstickmedia.com/when-emergen...

The United States has the tools to stop Israel's deadly violence in Lebanon. Why won't it use them? inkstickmedia.com/the-us-canno...

"Between Oct. 31 and Nov. 4, 2022, one week before Ukrainian forces re-entered Kherson, approximately 11,000 works were removed from the museum’s collection."

Every summer for nearly a quarter century, the Government Accountability Office has handed Congress a report card on the Pentagon’s most expensive weapons. This year’s audit looks similar to past editions: The DoD “continues to struggle to deliver technologies quickly and within budget.”

“There is a real orchestrating of instability and organized crime fueled by the Noboa administration and his closest allies, intentionally, to justify the arrival of US boots on the ground and the complete revoking of any civil liberties."

In May, we reported on the local pushback to a massive ICE detention center. The story has taken yet another turn. By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social inkstick.substack.com/p/in-arizona...

"A truce is better for both countries than a new escalation of tit-for-tat tensions, which would be damaging to US business and consumers while still failing to address the US’s overall economic imbalances." inkstickmedia.com/after-the-tr...

“This is not how you manage migration. This is how you make violence very normal. And when state violence is normalized against one group, it is very easily spread to others“, says Sandra Alloush in the podcast 👇 She was subjected to a violent border control and filed a case against Germany.

The Government Accountability Office says the Pentagon's still failing to deliver weapons technologies 'quickly and within budget.' inkstickmedia.com/deep-dive-th...

We're building something new — and we'd like your help getting it right. inkstick.substack.com/p/help-us-sh...

"On Jan. 3, 2026, two months after the NSS was released, Trump launched a military attack on Venezuela in which US forces captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores from a safe house. This has paved the way for a rapidly expanding US intervention in Venezuela."

Is dialogue between the US and China proof of progress, or is it largely symbolic? inkstickmedia.com/after-the-tr...

"After CBS broadcast photographs of American soldiers abusing detainees at the Iraqi prison in 2004, public support for the war fell sharply, in what other scholars had called 'one of the sharpest drops in wartime approval rates in the last half century.'"

NEW: I wrote for @inkstickmedia.com about how Trump's aggressive push for a new Monroe Doctrine is sparking resistance in Latin America. inkstickmedia.com/trump-monroe...

As US-backed governments across Latin America deepen military cooperation and economic austerity, workers, students, and Indigenous movements are pushing back. inkstickmedia.com/trump-monroe...

"In January last year, Larue finally found out what was behind all the zoning machinations: Anduril was planning a 5,000,000-square foot facility dubbed 'Arsenal-1' in his hometown. Governor Mike DeWine claimed that the plant would be the largest job creation project in state history."

"Germany’s internal border checks were supposed to be temporary. Introduced in 2015 as an emergency response amid the sharp rise in refugees and migrants reaching Europe, they’ve now become a familiar part of daily life across much of the continent."

CTEC's @jason-blazakis.bsky.social is quoted in @inkstickmedia.com on the Prairieland "Antifa cell" case out of Fort Worth. He warns of the chilling effect on speech. inkstickmedia.com/antifa-trial...

Quoted in @inkstickmedia.com on the Prairieland "#Antifa cell" sentencing. 30 to 100 years. Prosecutors leaned heavily on Signal chats and zines to prove shared beliefs, not conduct. That should worry anyone who cares about free speech. inkstickmedia.com/antifa-trial...

Russia’s occupation forces have seized at least 1.7 million cultural objects from Ukraine, while the toll on museums and historic collections keeps rising. inkstickmedia.com/the-art-russ...

"Anduril’s own valuation doubled to more than $60 billion over the past year as investors saw the company as a key beneficiary of the administration’s eagerness to ramp up weapons purchases and expand the military-industrial base with a swath of new facilities."

Europe promised a continent without internal borders. Today, checkpoints, delays, and police searches have quietly become part of everyday life. inkstickmedia.com/when-emergen...

"The main problem is that drones are very cheap to produce, but expensive to shoot them down –– either with interceptors, using other drones, or spoofing (cyberattack that deceives a drone’s navigation system with fake GPS or radio signals)."

"Anduril has become the leader of the pack of a new cohort of tech firms-turned defense contractors rapidly gaining influence and contracts from the Pentagon, including, most notably, for the 'Golden Dome' missile shield that’s become the hallmark weapons project of the second Trump era."

"Beijing and Washington have turned to the language of emergency to expand executive power, but there is a larger question: When governments rule through crisis, what happens to the people caught between?"

"In the meantime, the pair learned who was behind the land buying spree in their hometown. It was Anduril, the nine-year-old weapons manufacturer founded by a video game developer who formerly worked at Facebook." inkstickmedia.com/in-ohio-who-...

Anduril is literally writing laws to prevent people from fighting back. Excellent reporting by @tkbarnes.bsky.social for @inkstickmedia.com

New research probes whether Americans are moved by international law or the moral outrage of civilian deaths in conflicts. inkstickmedia.com/deep-dive-do...

“The pattern of frequent moves that military families experience makes it really hard for military spouses to maintain a career, let alone a job. So the career progression is hard for them. So many military spouses are underemployed even if they have a job.”

"Sally Hayden’s new book is a collection of nine real-life love stories from places that have experienced myriad forms of tragedy and pain — political instability, natural disasters, exclusionary societies, war ..."

Newly released emails show a lobbyist for autonomous weapons manufacturer Anduril drafted legislative language exempting the company's Ohio factory from local referendum challenges after residents repeatedly tried to force votes on real estate developments. By: @tkbarnes.bsky.social

"In Ukraine, men aged between 25 and 60 are eligible for mobilization into the army. Half of Kharkiv Opera’s musicians are exempt from the draft. Still, anxiety lingers. Younger players, when not sent to the front, leave for Western Europe, instruments in hand."

"I leave my building and head out into the street. Outside a man stands motionless staring at the sky. Two fighter jets move effortlessly through the clouds. He glances at me and says, with irony, 'Hell has arrived.'"

In a new book, reporter Sally Hayden travels the globe to find love amid war, economic crises, and disasters. inkstickmedia.com/searching-fo...