ICE Agents Film Minnesota Protesters & Immigrants as Part of Massive Facial Recognition Push
“It’s being used on the street in ways that are dangerous, that are totally unprecedented in this country, and that are, frankly, blatantly illegal."
Trump Threatens to Use Insurrection Act Against Demonstrators in Minnesota
The Insurrection Act empowers the president to deploy the US military domestically to suppress civil unrest.
FBI in the Crosshairs: Trump Considers Axing Loyalist Patel as Agency Targets ‘Traitor’ Democrats
In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to…
Miller Says He and Trump Will Use Law Enforcement to ‘Dismantle’ the Left After Kirk Shooting
“Trump explicitly threatened to use the state to target anyone he and MAGA scapegoat for Kirk’s murder,” said New Republic writer Greg Sargeant.
New ‘Thought Policing’ Bill May Let Rubio Strip Passports from US Citizens Over Political Speech
One environmental attorney said that the EPA proposal “prioritizes chemical industry profits and utility companies’ bottom line over the health of children and families across the country.”
JD Vance’s Revealing Debate on X
Michael Tracey and Zaid Jilani discuss Jilani's recent spat with Vice President JD Vance on X over due process.
John Kiriakou: The Slide Into Authoritarianism
The loss of civil liberties is almost always incremental. On a flight home from Greece, the author recently ran into an increasingly familiar and menacing problem.
Glenn Greenwald: House Speaker Mike Johnson Enables Warrantless Spying on Americans
The Speaker voted against warrants, permitting the national security state to continue unfettered spying on civilians.
ACLU Slams House for Latest Plan to Ban TikTok and Stifle Free Speech
By American Civil Liberties Union WASHINGTON — The House Energy and Commerce Committee announced it would be voting on a bill this Thursday that would effectively ban TikTok in the…
What If Our Society Valued Civics as It Does Entertainment?
The people of good will and the tools of democratic transformation are available or attainable but mostly latent in our existing civic institutions.
Missing Links in Textbook History: Defining Democracy
"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy yet, that did not commit suicide." — John Adams in a letter to John…
Glenn Greenwald: France Descends Into Authoritarianism Following Protests
By Glenn Greenwald / Rumble Following the recent protests against police in France, the French government has taken steps to implement increasingly repressive measures in the forms of mass surveillance…
Father of Gonzalo Lira, American Jailed in Ukraine, Speaks Out Against ‘Political Imprisonment’
US citizen Gonzalo Lira faces a long prison term in Ukraine for criticizing the country’s government. Shunned by the US government, his father is fighting to stop the “slow death…
What the UK’s Arrest of a French Publisher Means for Public Intellectuals the World Over
The detention of Ernest Moret raises urgent questions about British authorities’ targeting public intellectuals at the request of other nations.