A new Silicon Valley military complex is emerging around firms like Palantir, whose AI tools fuse surveillance data for warfare, policing, & border control. This shift concentrates power over security policy in a small group of tech billionaires with little public oversight. fpif.org/planet-palan...

ProPublica reports that senior Trump administration officials attended a summit of election deniers pressing for the president to declare an emergency and take over the midterms. Some of those figures now hold positions influencing federal election policy. www.propublica.org/article/elec...

"In the last five days of September alone, the department blew through $50.1 billion on just grants and contracts. For context, only nine other countries spend that much on the entirety of their defense budget per year." newrepublic.com/post/207555/...

You just know that Fox News or CBS is cooking up an article like this.

Newly revealed emails from Paul Bremer show the Iraq occupation descending into chaos behind the scenes. Overthrowing a govt is one thing—running the country afterward is another. Before talking about regime change in Iran, maybe we revisit what happened in Iraq. www.thetimes.com/article/00b2...

Jamaica is ending its agreement with Cuban doctors who helped staff hospitals and rural clinics. Cuba’s global medical missions provide revenue for Havana while filling physician shortages abroad. Without them, Jamaica’s rural health system could face major gaps. apnews.com/article/jama...

We are like two news cycles away from Trump claiming Iran has Nancy Guthrie, so he has to send in ground troops.

Important piece from The Intercept examining the Paramount–WBD deal and the broader trend it represents: accelerating media consolidation and the growing power of billionaire owners like the Ellison family over major U.S. news institutions. theintercept.com/2026/03/03/c...

ProPublica investigation exposes financial conflicts across the Trump administration. • $175M–$340M in crypto holdings reported by 200+ appointees • Officials traded stocks before policy announcements that moved markets • Dozens failed to disclose former clients www.propublica.org/article/trum...

"Tired of all this winning" yet? 📉 - 2022–2024: Average monthly job gains of 200k+ - Feb 2026: -92k

Removing Noem is just opening a release valve to alleviate political pressure through window dressing, while the architects of the deportation regime remain in place. The figurehead was sacrificed to preserve the system.

"Today, the world’s seven richest individuals are all major media barons, giving them extraordinary control over our media and public square, allowing them to set agendas, and suppress forms of speech they do not approve of." www.mintpressnews.com/the-seven-ri...

Imperial hubris in a nutshell: Demand allies help fight your wars while simultaneously absorbing the fallout—refugees, supply chain disruptions, rising commodity prices. Then expect them to accept higher tariffs to help finance the war you started.

"It could last, you know, six days, six weeks. I doubt six months." - Donald Rumsfeld speaking to US troops in February 2003 on the impending invasion of Iraq

New survey data from ZipRecruiter reveals an alarming trend where more workers are being forced to prioritize immediate employment over salary growth. - 27.3% of new hires took a pay cut - Only 56.4% landed a raise - Signing bonuses hit a 2025 low at 15%

Translation: We have granted our military permission to carry out war crimes.

The 2026 midterms are the next target for Trump’s anti-democratic playbook. Between extreme gerrymandering and plans to seize ballot boxes under "national emergencies," the stage is being set for a power grab that could dismantle congressional oversight for good. newrepublic.com/post/207138/...

23% of Americans can locate Iran on a map. The rest default to the “learn by invasion” model of geography.

Important piece from @juddlegum.bsky.social discussing how billions from the Saudi Public Investment Fund flowed to Jared Kushner’s firm, raising serious questions about conflicts of interest, foreign influence, and who benefits from escalating tensions with Iran. popular.info/p/the-money-...

Great article by @levernews.com detailing how dark-money conservative networks and arms-industry interests have been funneling millions into think tanks pushing for U.S. regime change in Iran, shaping support for the strike despite the risks of prolonged conflict. www.levernews.com/the-shadow-c...

How many more countries does he need to bomb to qualify for the Nobel Peace Prize?

New research confirms that when local newspapers close, corruption thrives: the loss of a major daily is linked to a 6.9% increase in corruption charges. Digital-only outlets have yet to fill the critical accountability gap left by the decline of local news. www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...

"The news came after Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos visited the White House and met with members of President Donald Trump’s staff, raising suspicions about the role the administration may have played in pushing the streaming giant to drop its bid for Warner Bros." www.commondreams.org/news/david-e...

"In the era of the Donroe Doctrine, which explicitly demands unquestioned U.S. primacy and resource monopolies in the Americas, the persistence of a sovereign, anti-imperialist project just 90 miles from Florida is an intolerable ideological irritant." fpif.org/the-court-th...

📉 Labor’s share of the economy: 58% ➡️ 51% 📈 Corporate profits: 6% ➡️ 12% Since 1980, we’ve been producing more and kept less. Through deregulation, gutting labor protections, and corporate tax cuts, our government has actively engineered this massive transfer of wealth.

Even the WSJ is sounding the alarm: Billionaire tax avoidance isn't just a progressive political talking point—it’s a systemic economic problem that now a conservative media outlet like the WSJ is acknowledging.

"Such oligarchic capture is the predictable culmination of what’s essentially a pay-to-play system where the highest bidder takes all. Under this regime, what Americans hear, see, and read is increasingly dictated by a handful of billionaires with their own agendas." lpeproject.org/blog/the-ame...

"Since 1975, $79 trillion in wealth had been transferred from the bottom 90% to the top 1%........In 2023 alone, $3.9 trillion in wealth was siphoned from working Americans to the richest Americans" www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

Local police are becoming a "deportation force." Through the 287(g) program, ICE has deputized 13,000+ local officers to enforce federal immigration law. Agreements have surged from 135 to 1,400+ in just one year. www.npr.org/2026/02/17/n...

Art of the Deal! I guess this is what they had in mind when they preach trickle down economics.

The top 0.00001% (19 people) now hold $3.4 Trillion. 💸 Look at the vertical spike since 2020. This small group now controls as much wealth as the entire bottom 50% of the U.S. combined. 📊

With Venezuela destabilized and Maduro removed, Cuba has lost its key trading partner. In the wake of the coup in Venezuela, Washington has moved to intensify pressure on Cuba. 🧵

In the past year at the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos has: - Spiked the Harris endorsement - Gutted the newsroom with massive layoffs - Authorized a $40M Amazon deal for a Melania doc - Limited the Post's opinion pages to only promoting "Free Markets & Personal Liberties" fair.org/home/like-me...

Trump just handed corporate polluters their biggest win in decades — gutting the EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act. This is the culmination of years of lobbying: weaken the rules, sideline the science, and let industry write the terms of its own oversight. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

With Maduro gone and Venezuela’s oil under U.S. "oversight," Mexico is the only thing standing between Cuba and a potential humanitarian collapse. 🇲🇽⚖️🇨🇺

"Noem routinely berated staff if she saw Homan on TV and kept track of both their appearances to make sure she was on TV more than him, according to people familiar with the matter." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"Meanwhile, the domestic legitimacy of the US state has cratered, and trust in major US institutions — the media, the universities, the state itself — is at an all-time low. Only 17 percent of Americans trust their government to “do what is right.” jacobin.com/2026/02/us-i...

Innovation under capitalism has one goal: lower labor costs to raise corporate profits. We are more productive than ever, but the owners are pocketing the difference.

"Trump’s escalation is the cornerstone of his administration’s “Donroe Doctrine,” a 21st-century revival of the 1823 Monroe Doctrine that declares the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean to be US property." savageminds.substack.com/p/trumps-ult...

Trump has Cuba in his crosshairs. 🇨🇺 Washington is using tariffs to force Mexico to abandon Cuba. By cutting off oil lifelines following the coup in Venezuela, the US is intentionally engineering a humanitarian crisis. Read the full article here: populareducationblog.substack.com/p/trumps-new...

Step 1: Use a "financial reset" as a pretext to fire journalists covering race, labor, and grassroots activism. Step 2: The "surviving" editorial board immediately pivots to lecture the public on why they must comply with the federal deportation machine.

"The list, produced by Border Patrol’s parent agency Custom and Border Protections, shows that the majority of weapons shipped to Minneapolis (and which arrived two weeks ago) are intended to battle protesters." www.kenklippenstein.com/p/in-ices-wa...

"Since 1960, some 600,000 Cuban medical professionals have provided free health care in over 180 countries. The government of Cuba has assumed the lion’s share of the cost of its medical internationalism, a huge contribution to the Global South" jacobin.com/2025/03/cuba...

Trump’s latest tariff threats put Cuba’s energy lifeline and the island’s economy under renewed strain. With oil shipments threatened, Cuba confronts a looming humanitarian and economic crisis that could rival the 1990s Special Period. populareducationblog.substack.com/p/trumps-new...

"The goal of the US government has been to asphyxiate the Cuban economy as a means of undermining the Cuban Revolution and bullying Cubans into relinquishing their sovereignty and right to self-determination." jacobin.com/2023/06/us-c...

2,255 measles cases in 2025. 416 in January alone. This is the direct result of the Trump administration’s war on science. By gutting vaccine schedules and elevating ideologues, they have traded 25 years of progress for a public health catastrophe.

A naval blockade isn't a "measure"—it's an escalation that risks lives and regional stability. The Trump admin is willing to trigger a massive humanitarian crisis just to prove it can control the trade of sovereign nations. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Removing Maduro was just the first step. Now, US oil companies are angling for a total restructure of the Venezuelan state to ensure that human rights and labor laws never get in the way of extraction. This is what modern-day colonialism looks like. populareducationblog.substack.com/p/what-oil-e...

Larry Ellison’s data-mining is the backbone of modern state surveillance. This isn't just "tech"—it’s a billionaire-funded system designed to eliminate privacy and monitor the public for profit. www.levernews.com/larry-elliso...

Trump’s tariffs aren't being paid by foreign countries—they are a $200B tax hike on the working class. A new study shows Americans are footing 96% of the bill, as corporations protect their profits by passing every cent of the cost down to consumers. time.com/7353475/trum...