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Paul Garrett Hugel
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Strategic Nonviolent Campaign (2025–2029)
to Resist Autocratic Consolidation

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Paul Garrett Hugel @paul.nko.org · May 13
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Using AI Now to Improve Movements’ Effectiveness: A Basic Introduction Guide for Social Activists – Ash Center
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/u...
How the Reflecting Pool Came to Mirror Trump’s Washington (Gift Article)
A hospitality manager for the Trump Organization traveled to Las Vegas to find a solution to problems at a national landmark. This is the untold back story of the fallout.
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August 7, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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Nonprofit Toolkit: Resources for organizations facing government investigations
On this page, you’ll find short topic-specific primers that build on our full-length guide, Protecting Civic Space.
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July 31, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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AI Governance Enforcement: What OpenAI and Anthropic Prove
OpenAI's rogue agent hacked Hugging Face. Anthropic's Claude breached three firms. Both expose the AI governance enforcement gap.
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July 31, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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A President Using Super Glue and Irked About Epstein: Takeaways From a New Trump Book
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June 18, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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The Anthropic ‘Fable’ saga proves: we have opened the AI Pandora’s box. What now? | Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Anthropic ‘Fable’ saga proves: we have opened the AI Pandora’s box. What now? | Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier
We have opened the AI Pandora’s box. Now we have to make the best of it
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June 16, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment. An Evening to Build Community.
YouTube video by Indivisible
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June 15, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags ‘Self-Improvement’ Risk
The $1 trillion startup warns that artificial-intelligence models are nearing the capability to improve without human intervention.
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June 6, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks (Gift Article)
The Trump administration has killed scores of people it accused of smuggling drugs aboard boats. Here are the acknowledged strikes so far.
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May 27, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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Whats the Plan 20260507
Statements by Ezra Levin, Leah Greenberg, and Randy Villegas concerning governance failures, policy positions, and foreign policy concerns.
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May 7, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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This Is the World’s Biggest Animal Migration—and Few Outsiders Have Seen It
Six million antelope storm through a pocket of Africa that’s nearly impossible to get to, but the Journal caught them on camera. “The entire planet should be amazed that this exists.”
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May 3, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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For Earth Day, a Few Signs of Hope for Our Planet
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April 22, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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Hugel, Paul Garrett. “Performative Apocalypse: Rhetoric, Power, and Absurdity in Contemporary U.S. Political Communication and Kubrickian Satire”. Zenodo, April 8, 2026. doi.org/10.5281/zeno....
Performative Apocalypse: Rhetoric, Power, and Absurdity in Contemporary U.S. Political Communication and Kubrickian Satire
This paper examines apocalyptic political rhetoric, executive power, and the normalization of catastrophic discourse in contemporary U.S. political communication. Through a case study of 2026 U.S.–Ira...
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April 8, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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Storm Pounds Maui as Rainfall Totals Add Up Across Hawaii
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March 25, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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24 States Sue the E.P.A. for Renouncing Its Power to Fight Climate Change
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March 19, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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What’s the Plan 20260312 Leah Grenberg & Ezra Levin
This report synthesizes the key topics, decisions, and action items discussed during the Zoom meeting held on March 12, 2026.
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March 14, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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Americans Are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters.
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March 9, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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Has the EPA rescinded the Endangerment Finding?
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Has the EPA rescinded the Endangerment Finding?
Verified Summary with Source References
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February 13, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
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February 13, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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Opinion | ICE and Minnesota Have Pushed the U.S. Closer to Autocracy (Gift Article)
Measuring America’s slide toward democratic erosion.
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February 7, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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New Video Analysis Reveals Flawed and Fatal Decisions in Shooting of Pretti www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: New Video Analysis Reveals Flawed and Fatal Decisions in Shooting of Pretti
A frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the two officers who fired 10 times shows how lethal force came to be used against a man who didn’t pose a threat.
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January 28, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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Eyes on ICE: Document and Record
YouTube video by No Kings
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January 28, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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January 8, 2026 What's The Plan
Webinar from What’s the Plan call with Leah and Ezra!
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January 23, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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Paul Garrett Hugel (@paulgarretthugel)
Online deterioration / “enshitification” Enshitification (sometimes spelled enshittification) is a slang term coined by author Cory Doctorow to describe the gradual degradation of an online platform ...
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January 20, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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Epstein Secrets: Search 33K+ Docs & 70K+ Names
Search 33,000+ Epstein documents including flight logs, depositions, and the black book. Explore 70,000+ people, organizations, and locations.
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December 30, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
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December 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM