Category: State Repression

Oh God It’s Going To Get SO Much Worse

By Caitlin Johnstone Rightists have spent the last couple of days freaking out and invoking Orwell’s 1984 in response to something their political enemies are doing in America, and for once it’s for a pretty good reason. The Department of Homeland Security has secretly set up a “Disinformation […]

No-Knock Raids Rip a Hole in the Fourth Amendment

“We’re all potential victims.”—Peter Christ, retired police officer Rubber-stamped, court-issued warrants for no-knock SWAT team raids have become the modern-day equivalent of colonial-era writs of assistance. [Click to Tweet] It’s the middle of the night. Your neighborhood is in darkness. Your household is asleep. Suddenly, you’re awakened by […]

Making Mushrooms Legal

By AĂ­da ChĂĄvez The Nation After 50 years of prohibition, some states are starting to challenge the federal government’s policy on psychedelic drugs. In November 2020, voters in Oregon passed a pair of historic drug policy ballot measures. The first was Measure 110, a proposal to decriminalize low-level […]

How the Drug War Dies

By Maia Szalavitz The Nation Just a few decades ago, the left and the right, politicians and the public, universally embraced the criminalization of drug use. But a new consensus has emerged. Annapolis Police Chief Ed Jackson was raised by a single mother in a Baltimore housing project. […]

Meet the Censored: Cherie DeVille

By Matt Taibbi Long before controversies in Canada and Russia saw financial services politicized, porn star Cheri Deville warned about payment processors having too much power over speech. Over the last few years, you may have read stories explaining that Visa and Mastercard were imposing new rules to […]