Mother Jones:
"Documents unsealed by a federal judge this week confirm the federal government’s attempts to target, arrest, and deport students for pro-Palestine speech on college campuses last year. The court records also make clear the methods of investigation. The government looked to unverified accounts shared on social media and utilized Canary Mission—a shadowy online blacklist created by anonymous authors to smear pro-Palestine activists—to gather evidence against student protestors.

The documents were unsealed only after sustained pressure from journalists and press-freedom groups. News organizations, including the Center for Investigative Reporting (the parent organization of Mother Jones and the Reveal radio show and podcast), challenged the government’s efforts to keep large portions of the record secret, arguing that the public had a right to understand how speech was being scrutinized and punished. In unsealing the documents, US District Judge William G. Young sharply rebuked the Trump administration and called the government’s actions against pro-Palestinian speech an unconstitutional attempt to twist laws to intimidate students.

The new materials confirm previous accounts and reporting about the Department of Homeland Security’s targeting of students."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/ozturk-khalil-documents-deportation-pro-palestine-protest-canary-mission/

-->This wasn't a big story in our mainstream media. The NYT covered a version of the story last year, but left out this latest story of a federal judge calling it unconstitutional.

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Common Dreams:
"An artificial intelligence researcher conducting a war games experiment with three of the world’s most used AI models found that they decided to deploy nuclear weapons in 95% of the scenarios he designed.

Kenneth Payne, a professor of strategy at King’s College London who specializes in studying the role of AI in national security, revealed last week that he pitted Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Google’s Gemini against one another in an armed conflict simulation to get a better understanding of how they would navigate the strategic escalation ladder.

The results, he said, were 'sobering.' 'Nuclear use was near-universal,' he explained. 'Almost all games saw tactical (battlefield) nuclear weapons deployed. And fully three quarters reached the point where the rivals were making threats to use strategic nuclear weapons. Strikingly, there was little sense of horror or revulsion at the prospect of all out nuclear war, even though the models had been reminded about the devastating implications.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ai-nuclear-war-simulation

-->This story is more than sobering. If we leave the war making up to AI, there will be no world left. But why did our major media leave this study out?

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Palestine Chronicle:
"German journalist Hüseyin Doğru has recently revealed that he has been left without access to any income, stating on the social media platform X that he has “ZERO access to any money” and cannot provide food for his family.

In his post, he directly linked his situation to his journalism, arguing that the sanctions were imposed in connection with his reporting on Gaza and Palestine solidarity coverage in Germany.

He described the measures as punishment for publishing content that challenged Berlin’s position on Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. The post reignited attention around a case that began in May 2025, when the Council of the European Union added Doğru to its sanctions list under a generic framework targeting what it called 'Russia’s destabilizing actions.' ”
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/german-journalist-sanctioned-by-eu-over-gaza-reporting-who-is-huseyin-dogru/

-->There was very little coverage of this story. Freedom of speech is quietly disappearing in the EU.