California, Colorado and Illinois have passed laws that make age classification part of your phone and computer. Privacy advocates warn that once this system is in place, it could make more invasive forms of identity verification much easier to expand.

Police agencies in at least 10 states have spent more than $920,000 in opioid settlement money on automated license-plate readers, including Flock cameras. 

Anthropic is building out a corporate intelligence operation that monitors activists, tracks protests near company executives and facilities, and in some cases alerts law enforcement before a crime has occurred.

New York City just created the nation’s first Office of Worker Power, offering a new model for how local government can help workers organize, understand their rights and rebuild collective power.

Laura Berlin built a tool showing which companies do business with ICE. Organizers used it to pressure contractors and banks. Then the database showed up in a federal intelligence bulletin.

Libraries are taxpayer funded, efficient, humane community service centers and public education hubs that serve everyone equally. We must continue to protect them.

We spoke with Pamela Zimba about the housing gap facing formerly incarcerated women, what reentry actually requires after years spent inside and how The Lilac House is building a place for women to navigate what comes next.

Citizens Revival organizer Tripp Gomez talks with Hyvemind about rebuilding civic life, strengthening local connection and creating a weekend rooted in the people and places that hold a community together.

Power has long been hiding the extent of the climate crisis because it really is ‘that bad.’ But that’s not a call to throw our hands up. It’s a call to throw power out. 

Two young Black men died in Mississippi within a year. Their families sought independent autopsies, federal scrutiny and answers beyond the initial public accounts. In both cases, important parts of the record remain unresolved.

This nonprofit mails used books to readers at no cost, creating a new route to reading for people who live far from libraries, cannot afford to buy books or face other barriers to accessing them.

The public is paying to build private computing power, and it is paying in electricity, water and money. 

The pursuit of ‘high-quality training data’ at any cost is a window into the psychoses that drive modern tech oligarchs who view all as subservient to profit and ‘progress.’

New Trump rules place political appointees between researchers and federal grant money. They’re forbidden from appealing to peer review, which is to say ‘science.’

Meet Anita Tension, the New England-based performer who uses ‘feral burlesque’, costume engineering and queer spectacle to challenge beauty standards while building new spaces for creative access and exchange.

The public is paying to build private computing power, and it is paying in electricity, in water and in money. 

On July 7, 2026, Hyvemind received an official statement and video from Ana Bell following the conviction of her brother, Daniel Sanchez-Estrada.

Dr. Emily Schoerning’s American Resiliency transforms anxieties about a rapidly changing climate into functional communities working to brace for what’s coming.

In Port Townsend, Washington, artist and grief worker AJ Hawkins is pairing retail with peer support, disability education and mutual aid to build a more caring community around grief and mortality.

What else could the money spent on the Iran War have been used for to benefit the American public? Why does no one in power seem to even be asking?