You should also see the very well-sourced (and better-organized) post List of Atrocities committed by US authorities on Github.

Some recommended books:

Animals

Companion animals

The Black Man's Dog: The Social Context of Breed Specific Legislation - Ann Linder, Animal Law Review (2018)

Racism and the American Pit Bull - Yasmin Nair, Current Affairs (September 19, 2016)


Farm animals

Inside big beef's climate messaging machine: confuse, defend, and downplay - Joe Fassler, The Guardian (May 3, 2023)


Big Brother is watching you

(fuck George Orwell though)

ACAB

"Warrior mindset" police training proliferated. Then, high-profile deaths put it under scrutiny. - Max Hauptman, The Washington Post (August 12, 2021)

I Learned to Think Like a "Warrior Cop" - Justin Peters, Slate (August 28, 2020)

A sexy outfit can get you arrested in Phoenix - especially if you're Black or trans - Katya Schwenk, Phoenix New Times (Jully 14, 2023)


Nice try, FBI

The FBI's Persecution of Sidney Poitier - Jenn Dize, Rolling Stone (February 26, 2023)

How an FBI Informant Derailed Denver's BLM Movement - Kelly Weill, The Daily Beast (February 7, 2023)

How Angela Davis Ended Up on the FBI Most Wanted List - Antonio Mejías-Rentas, History (January 25, 2023)


Not today, CIA

The CIA's New Nord Stream Narrative Is Terrifying - Jeet Heer, The Nation (June 21, 2023)

How the CIA tortured its detainees - Oliver Laughland, The Guardian (May 20, 2015)

Teen Vogue's CIA writer and the anti-communist left - ∞ Genders 4 Black Communisms, Medium (April 24, 2020)


Capitalism

Animal "agriculture"

Inside big beef's climate messaging machine: confuse, defend, and downplay - Joe Fassler, The Guardian (May 3, 2023)


Finance

Inside TurboTax's 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free - Justin Elliott and Paul Kiel, ProPublica (October 17, 2019)


Fossil fuel

#ExxonKnew - last accessed August 14, 2023


Labor

REI workers face protracted union fight - Alina Selyukh, NPR (July 5, 2023)


Transportation

As Rail Profits Soar, Blocked Crossings Force Kids to Crawl Under Trains to Get to School - Topher Sanders and Dan Schwartz, ProPublica (April 26, 2023)


Environment

Climate change

#ExxonKnew - last accessed August 14, 2023


Conservation

The Public Lands Restoration Apocalypse - Katie Fite, CounterPunch (January 15, 2021)


Pollution

Defensiveness and Demagoguery in East Palestine - Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson with Matthew Cunningham-Cook, Citations Needed (March 1, 2023)


Fascism


Moms for Liberty

"Never apologize": How Moms for Liberty teaches its members to spin the media - Bianca Seward and Gabe Gutierrez, NBC News (July 1, 2023)

Moms for Liberty members have been linked to incidents of harassment and threats around the country - Olivia Little, Media Matters for America (April 11, 2023)

Moms for Liberty newsletter quotes Adolf Hitler, complains about being labeled "extremist" - Rex Huppke, USA Today (June 22, 2023)

This isn't the first time Moms for Liberty has quoted Hitler - Olivia Little, Media Matters for America (June 23, 2023)


Foreign policy


Peace Corps

How the US government sold the Peace Corps to the American public - Wendy Melillo, The Conversation (June 10, 2020)


Russia/Ukraine

The CIA's New Nord Stream Narrative Is Terrifying - Jeet Heer, The Nation (June 21, 2023)


War crimes

Barack Obama Is A War Criminal - Prince Williams, Harvard Political Review (September 29, 2021)


Fuck the troops

Seriously

"I thought they'd kill us": how the US navy devastated a tiny Puerto Rican island - Wilfred Chan, The Guardian (May 1, 2023)


Healthcare

COVID-19

CDC meeting, intended to mark covid progress, sees virus cases of its own - Dan Diamond, The Washington Post (April 28, 2023)

Moms for Liberty members have been linked to incidents of harassment and threats around the country - Olivia Little, Media Matters for America (April 11, 2023)


Drugs

Broken Homes of the Drug War - David Helps, Protean Mag (February 25, 2022)

More People Die of Overdoses After Cops Seize Drugs: Study - Manisha Krishnan, Vice (June 15, 2023)


Hospitals

Dying while black: Perpetual gaps exist in health care for African-Americans - Yolonda Wilson, The Conversation (February 5, 2019)


Housing

Gentrification

Broken Homes of the Drug War - David Helps, Protean Mag (February 25, 2022)


Homelessness

San Diego passes homeless camping ban - The San Diego Union-Tribune (last updated June 17, 2023)


Immigration

Fuck ICE

ICE Continues to Abuse and Traumatize Under Biden. Immigrants Are Fighting Back. - Rebecca Talbot and Panagioti Tsolkas, Truthout (March 27, 2022)


Racism

Anti-Blackness

Black People in the US Were Enslaved Well into the 1960s - Antoinette Harrell and Justin Fornal, Vice (February 27, 2018)

Carolyn Bryant Donham Dies at 88; Her Words Doomed Emmett Till - Margalit Fox, The New York Times (April 27, 2023)

The Black Man's Dog: The Social Context of Breed Specific Legislation - Ann Linder, Animal Law Review (2018)

Dying while black: Perpetual gaps exist in health care for African-Americans - Yolonda Wilson, The Conversation (February 5, 2019)

The FBI's Persecution of Sidney Poitier - Jenn Dize, Rolling Stone (February 26, 2023)

How an FBI Informant Derailed Denver's BLM Movement - Kelly Weill, The Daily Beast (February 7, 2023)

How Angela Davis Ended Up on the FBI Most Wanted List - Antonio Mejías-Rentas, History (January 25, 2023)

Indian Severalty (the Dawes and Curtis Acts) and Black Indian Freedmen - Marshall Greenlaw, BlackPast (July 16, 2017)

Racism and the American Pit Bull - Yasmin Nair, Current Affairs (September 19, 2016)

Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat - J. Sakai (1989)

A sexy outfit can get you arrested in Phoenix - especially if you're Black or trans - Katya Schwenk, Phoenix New Times (Jully 14, 2023)

The Slavery Detective of the South - Akil Gibbons, Vice (last accessed August 14, 2023)

Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America - James Allen and John Littlefield (2022)


Education

State affirmative action bans helped White, Asian students, hurt others - Janice Kai Chen and Daniel Wolfe, The Washington Post (June 29, 2003)


Healthcare

Dying while black: Perpetual gaps exist in health care for African-Americans - Yolonda Wilson, The Conversation (February 5, 2019)


Law

Why the Nazis Loved America - James Whitman, Time (March 21, 2017)


Race is a social construct

Race - The Power of an Illusion - Larry Adelman, PBS (April 2003)


Racial violence

Carolyn Bryant Donham Dies at 88; Her Words Doomed Emmett Till - Margalit Fox, The New York Times (April 27, 2023)


Whiteness

How the Term "White Trash" Reinforces White Supremacy - Lucas Lynch, Clippings (September 12, 2016)


Religious bigotry


Islamophobia

Hindu Nationalist Lobbyists on Capitol Hill Are Growing in Influence - Azad Essa, Jacobin (March 4, 2023)


Sexism

Law

A sexy outfit can get you arrested in Phoenix - especially if you're Black or trans - Katya Schwenk, Phoenix New Times (Jully 14, 2023)