Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Books are my comfort food!

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

An almost top 10,000 blog!

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Everybody saw this coming.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

The lights are all blinking red.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

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I’d like to pick this up where we left off in December – when we thought we knew what was coming – and finish what we started.

But with a twist.  I’d like to pay special attention to resources that have really stepped up in these past couple of months.

So in this post, I’d like us to:

  • Have you guys supply URLs for items that don’t have a link (raw link helpful, simpler to copy)
  • Add resources that should be on here
  • Remove resources that maybe shouldn’t be on here
  • Call out, and add, any resources that  have really stepped up

For blogs, can we focus on blogs that are really stepping up and are most relevant in this moment?  We don’t need to create the superset of awesome blogs or awesome podcasts.

Alternate Media Sources

Alternate Media Sources was last updated in March of  2025.

Independent News 

Democracy Docket
Democracy Now

MinnPost
Mother Jones
ProPublica
Rewire
Talking Points Memo
TechDirt
Texas Observer
The American Prospect
The Independent
Wired

Substacks & Newsletters

Harry Litman
Heather Cox Richardson
Paul Krugman
Wonkette
Timothy Snyder
Oliver Willis
Brian Buetler Off Message
Will Leitch
James Fallows
Aaron Rupar’s Public Notice
Jay Kuo
Joyce White Vance
Will Bunch
Robert Hubbell’s Today’s Edition
Candidly Tiff
The Downballot
Ian Dunt Striking 13  (UK focus)
The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak  (in-country Ukraine focus)
The Contrarian  (started by Jennifer Rubin and Norman Eisen)
Robert Hubbell’s Today’s Edition newsletter
Jeff Tiedrich
Steve Vladeck
Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Chris Geidner/Law Dork
Sarah Kendzior
Erin Reed
Judd L Popular Information
Simon Rosenberg  (Hopium Chronicles)
The Handbasket
Brad DeLong  (Grasping Reality)
Sherrilyn Ifill
Jim Acosta
Meidas Touch
Karen Attiah

Blogs

Bolts Media
Terry Kanefield
Dear Dean Publishing
Electoral-Vote.com
Daily Kos
Jamelle Bouie
Marcy Wheeler
Digby’s Hullabaloo
Charlie Pierce
Techdirt
404 Media
Informed Consent
Jess Piper
The Professional Left
Rewire
Steve Benen  (MaddowBlog)
The Black Guy Who Tips
Just Security
Lawfare
Dean Baker  (Beat the Press)

 

News

Plain Dealer aka Cleveland Plain Dealer  (news)
Philadelphia Inquirer  (news, non-profit)
Baltimore Banner  (news, non-profit)
Middle East Eye  (news, Middle East focus)
Recombobulation Area  (news, Wisconsin focus)
High Country News  (news, West focus)
The Cascadia Advocate  (news, Pacific Northwest focus)
Deutsche Welle  (International news)
AP News
Mississippi Free Press
Mississippi Today
Tennessee Holler
Christian Science Monitor
Tampa Bay Times
The New Yorker
Dissent Magazine

News Around the World

Canadian Broadcast Corporation  (Canada)

El País  (Spain)

 

Both sides?  https://www.readtangle.com/

Bellingcat

Shopping

Goods Unite Us    iOS app   android app

 

Action

Democracy Forward

Just Security Litigation Tracker

Legal Challenges (Lawfare)

 

Reader Interactions

143Comments

  6. 6.

    RandyG

    Simon Rosenberg – Hopium Chronicles (Substack): https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/

    Extremely action-oriented. Has the ear of all the players in the Democratic Party system, state and federal. (But is evidently not keen at all on the typical consultant class within the party.)

  9. 9.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    I would also caution against relying exclusively on alternative media for news. I noticed tend to have their own group think problems.

    One thing I’ve notice;  for some reason Trump’s and Musk’s relationship with the president of Argentina Javier Milei is never mentioned by left friendly media.  Which is curious because Trump’s policies closely mirror Milei’s. The cynical side of me says that’s because Radical Libertarian  doesn’t get the clicks like word Fascists, even though Radical Libertarian is bad in its’ own way, as 90% in poverty rate bad. Oh and for some reason Radical Libertarians favors the Spanish-Argentina over the native population, odd that, complete mystery.

  10. 10.

    Larch

    I follow several of the resources already listed, but here are two more.

    Blog: Steve Benen’s MaddowBlog does a great job of bringing the context, history, and potential implications of select news events each weekday.

    SubStack: For the economy wonks,  Brad DeLong’s Grasping Reality is full of analysis about how the economy works – or doesn’t – and why MAGA/Republican economic “theories” are bullsh*t.

  11. 11.

    WaterGirl

    I can’t think of the name right now for the group with Marc Elias on the board that is fighting a bunch of the legal battles.

    Not Democracy Docket, something else.

  21. 21.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @WaterGirl: I am suggesting don’t really on them exclusively. those you got listed are good sources but they tend to be focused.  I found British media pretty good on reporting on American news.

  23. 23.

    Sasha

    For news, I’d add the Tampa Bay Times, which is published by the Times Publishing Company, which is owned by The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a nonprofit journalism school.

  24. 24.

    RandyG

    I’ve heard some good things about a Top 10,000 political blog called Ballonna Juice, or something like that.

  31. 31.

    laura

    Just my old white lady unwanted and inconvenient opinion, but maybe some Black People? Ragnorak Lobster is excellent at aggregating, Phil Lewis, CandidlyTiff, angryBlacklady, audrelawdamighty for starters. Please, I appreciate all you have done and all you are doing Watergirl, but it would behoove us, as Americans to listen to more not white voices. Much appreciated. Each are on bluesky

    Also, Tennessee holler is missing the r on your link above.

  33. 33.

    HopefullyNotcassandra

    This is an excellent idea!  Thank you, Water Girl

    Just Security is news focused on security issues.

    The home base link is

    https://www.justsecurity.org/

    The site has compiled and updated lawsuits filed against this administration’s executive orders.  It is searchable and includes links to public legal findings. 

    https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/

    I also find Lawfare useful on the on-going legal issues.

    https://www.lawfaremedia.org/

  35. 35.

    mary s

    Norm Ornstein:

    https://contrarian.substack.com/

    Also, I’ve always found that Dean Baker’s blog, Beat the Press, gives me clarity about media coverage of economic issues — especially when it comes to the wide swath of policies that might lead to a more equitable economy but that are almost *never* discussed by the media or by politicians. Lately he’s been focusing a lot on President Trusk’s economic lies and lunacy.

    https://cepr.net/series/dean-bakers-beat-the-press/

  36. 36.

    Geminid

    @laura: Propane Jane is pretty good too. I ran into her through Ragnarok Lobster who as you say is a good aggregator.

    Mr. Lobster also introduced me to some solid White Liberal voices like New Yorker Tom Watson (guitarwatson.bsky.social) and Magdi Jacobs aka Mangy Jay.

  37. 37.

    suzanne

    You need a category for podcasts! Know Your Enemy, Past Present Future, Stay Tuned, and many more.

  41. 41.

    MN Grubert

    @WaterGirl:  Do you guys like the idea of focusing the lists on allies in this new world?

    Yes.

    I see LGM didn’t make the cut. Not arguing they should, but I’ll admit a guilty pleasure in lurking there now and then.

    Whenever I can deal with the doom.

  43. 43.

    MN Grubert

    @laura:  it’s important to be precise ( not criticizing you )

    angryBlacklady  is not the same as Angry Black Woman, who I followed a bit before realizing she was, unlike angryBlacklady,  more heat then light.

    Imani Gandy is the geniune article.

  44. 44.

    Steve LaBonne

    @MN Grubert: I think it should be there. I visit now and then and amid the nonsense one can definitely glean useful information. Especially from Cheryl Rofer’s posts, of course.

  45. 45.

    MN Grubert

    @Steve LaBonne:   Eric’s “Visits a Grave” series are first-rate.

    And Cheryl of course.. a few others.

    A few of the old time FP folk get a bit tiresome, and the comments vary wildly..  sometimes great, sometimes a cesspool of snark and petty arguments.

    Oh well… omlet.. eggs.

  46. 46.

    chemiclord

    And I think the fundamental problem between us and them, and why a “propoganda network, but for the left” is such a heavy to impossible lift.

    We have all these non-mainstream options, and it’s a list that is growing.

    For a conservative, their links are like this:

    Fox News (Maybe Newsmax if you’re THAT hardcore)
    Facebook and/or Twitter

    That’s it. Makes it a LOT easier to have a unified message.​​

  47. 47.

    George Kennan Was Right

    Some of the best political writing you’ll find, both opinion and analysis, is on the “sports blog” Defector. I’m including links to recent politically focused articles that cover ground I’m not seeing anywhere else, or not with the same quality of writing and editing. All of it’s good, but a special pointer to the irreplaceable Diana Moskowitz, whose writing on all issues involving Title IX – funding, impact, sexism, and results good and bad –  has been thorough, relevant, readable, and frankly unique in the journalism biz.

    I strongly recommend adding https://defector.com to the list of relevant sites for Balloon Juice readers. I did not receive compensation for this recommendation. I just love good writing, especially with a bite to it.

    An Interview With A Fired NOAA Director | Defector

    Chuck Schumer Is Responsible | Defector

    An Interview With A Fired NOAA Budget Analyst | Defector

    What The Corrections Officer Strike Means To Incarcerated People Like Me | Defector

    Women’s Sports Happened By Accident, And Could Be Taken Apart On Purpose | Defector

    And, because I like baseball caps AND Kelsey McKinney’s writing, New Era delenda est.

    Wow, Perfect! A Hat You Can’t Read! | Defector

  48. 48.

    laura

    @Gretchen: Yes Gretchen, of that I am aware, but “this post” is asking for input and I again unwanted and inconveniently am asking that this blog consider hearing from more not white voices.

  52. 52.

    Gretchen

    Jess Piper has been watching Republicans destroy Missouri for decades. When people say, surely they’re not destroying the US economy on purpose, would they? She says they’re following the plan that worked in Missouri:

    ”Why in the world would anyone want to destroy rural America either by creating conditions to hurt small farmers or close rural schools? Because they want to sell off rural parts to the highest bidder. Because if they can drive people out of rural spaces, or make them so desperate that they’ll accept any job at any pay rate, they can bring in large corporate farms and there is no one to protest the environmental impacts or force them to pay their fair share in taxes.”

  53. 53.

    WaterGirl

    @laura:  Added the R.

    Are they only on BlueSky?  I wasn’t including BlueSky on this list.

    If they have websites or newsletters, can you include URLs?

    thanks!

  54. 54.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @MN Grubert:

    (g)Loomis’s grave series *was* good and highly entertaining early on.  But it turned into a lot of very poorly done research and nothing but a series of petty asides about pertinent subjects like his hatred of Mountain Dew, etc.

    Having said that, one of the other of the Three Stooges there, Lemeaux, was noted for his obits.  And I gotta say, I’d swear he did an obit on Lee Atwater, obviously decades after his death, that I can’t find (assuming I’m right and he did one), that’s a masterpiece in sticking a shiv into a dead man who most deservedly deserved the shiv.  One thing I always wished they’d do is have some kind of link to all the obits he’s done over the years.  I think they did that with the ‘grave’ series but can’t recall.

  55. 55.

    BeautifulPlumage

    Karen Attiah has a podcast and uses Bluesky. She’s a Global Columnist at WAPO but I find her work well-written. She’s another black voice: karenattiah.substack.com (“On writing, fighting, and beauty in dark times.”), @karenattiah.bsky.social.

    Ed Zitron has a newsletter, podcast, and bluesky account. He really digs into the AI bubble happening now and other techy/Silicon Valley stuff: wheresyoured.at, linktr.ee/betteroffline, @edzitron.com.

    I agree that a podcast category would be good.

  61. 61.

    Jerszy

    Has anyone else been having problems lately with the formatting of Digby’s Hullabaloo? I can’t get it to load right – have to scroll down and then it chops off most of the top post, then must scroll up and down to try to read.

  62. 62.

    WaterGirl

    @BeautifulPlumage: I’m thinking more political stuff than AI would be.  Should it be broader than that?  I’m thinking information and action related to what’s happening.

    Thoughts on that are welcome.

  64. 64.

    suzanne

    @WaterGirl: Podcasts are where all the energy is right now. Of course, the is may change….. but they’re the most vital medium of the moment!

  65. 65.

    WaterGirl

    Okay, I’ve been updating as we go.

    Can you guys fill in the blanks for URLS that are missing.

    Also, someone mentioned belingcat, but no link or anything.

  67. 67.

    laura

    @WaterGirl: What’s inconvenient about it?

    It’s inconvenient (or so it seems to me) because there seems to be a pronounced aversion to hearing opinions from or about Black People on this blog- I would point to the pushback ProfessorBigfoot gets on the regular, that Imani Gandy left, that moments ago Gretchen informed me that if One wanted to hear from Black voices they could seek out a bluesky starter pack. I do not know what else to say about the casual or unknowing racism on this blog other than it just makes me increasingly feel like I should spend my time elsewhere.

  69. 69.

    WaterGirl

    @laura: For what it’s worth, I didn’t see that BlackSky reference from Gretchen the way you did.  I saw it as helpful info for BlueSky peeps who want to hear more black voices.

    I also don’t see a lot of pushback on Professor Bigfoot recently – it seems to me that has settled down.  Do you think I’m wrong about that?

    Which is not to say that there isn’t unknowing racism.   I’m sure there is.

  70. 70.

    prostratedragon

    @WaterGirl:

    You are looking for suggestions on media for those countries?

    Yeah, don’t know much beyond UK and one of the Toronto papers, just isolated artivles I’ve seen from other places, but suspect foreign views are going to become vital.

    Good idea, perhaps greenland, too? :-)

    Hey, why not?

  79. 79.

    rikyrah

    Any FrontPager going to tackle the happenings in Delaware where Apartheid Clyde is trying to have the rules changed so that they can overrule the judge who stopped his 56 Billion dollar payday.

  81. 81.

    zhena gogolia

    @WaterGirl: The debate has flared up again at the end of Betty Cracker’s most recent thread. (Full disclosure: I’m a participant.)

  82. 82.

    Lobo

    Call your Reps:

    • Thank them for holding strong on CR vote.
    • Encourage them to using their voice.

    Call your Senators:

    • Vote against all nominees
    • Quorum Calls
    • Holds
    • Filibuster

    Make them work for it.

    Messages:

    • Schumer needs to go.(or Senator Guac as I call him)
    • How many children have to die or be disabled due to measles
    • How many people have to be disappeared?
    • How many elderly have to suffer if they don’t receive their SS check.
  83. 83.

    WaterGirl

    I will alphabetize the lists within sections and will post it again tomorrow.  With some questions. :-)

    I like the idea of news from countries like Canada and Mexico and Greenland and France and all the countries we are currently fucking with.  So if you think that’s a good idea, maybe we can add to that section.

  84. 84.

    Emily B.

    I followed Sarah Kendzior on Twitter during the first Trump administration, but it seemed to me that her every post about a new Trump atrocity was basically: “As I predicted…”

    If others are finding her work useful now, please set me straight.

  89. 89.

    MazeDancer

    Was going to add Handbasket and Hopium, will now support their inclusion.

    Daily Beans Podcast, by Allison Gill of Mueller She Wrote fame, is a safe way to get news. They report and rant at the same time. You don’t feel so alone.

    There is uplift with a daily suggestion of action in a “Good Trouble” section. And an actual daily “Good News” section.

    https://www.dailybeanspod.com

    Have to say, even though this thread is about alt media, I shall be bereft when I can’t listen to the Rachel Maddow Show daily. At least she will be available weekly, and we will also have Lawrence.

  92. 92.

    rebelsdad

    @WaterGirl: somewhat related note- I’ve been thinking of starting my own news and politics blog, what’s a good platform these days? DuckDuckGo suggests Blogger and FYWP

  101. 101.

    Delicate Butterfly

    @WaterGirl:

    Pickleball has always been political.  The elites at Big Tennis have always tried to marginalize us.

    Unfortunately lots of people who call themselves progressives (even Balloon Juice commenters!) refuse to acknowledge our community.

    Biden started an outreach to the pickleball community: https://apnews.com/article/jill-biden-election-older-voters-bingo-pickleball-40e6ea0e97990bb10e8827f5d1dc706b but sadly, Harris did not take up the torch.  Is that why she got 6,250,000 fewer votes than Biden did just a few years before?  Hard to say but worth investigating.

  103. 103.

    Ryan

    I’d add Zeteo on the independent media front, and Tara Palmeri just launched The Red Letter on Substack.

  104. 104.

    rebelsdad

    @laura: I’m so yt I get moonburns at night and even I can see the way Black voices are pushed aside here. But then again I’m still butthurt about ABL deciding to leave because of the commentariat she encountered.

  105. 105.

    WaterGirl

    @Ryan: I thought I just read something bad about Tara Palmeri in the past couple of days.

    But I don’t remember the details of what it was, but it seemed like she was either selling out or whitewashing what Trump has been doing.  Does anyone know what I might be thinking of?

  108. 108.

    Gloria DryGarden

    My friend D suggests bradblog.
    bradblog.com

    He likes a lot of your listed blogs
    also Mary trump YouTube videos, daily, really stepping up.  YouTube.com/@MaryTrumpMedia

     

    what about DW for news? Deutsche welt. Sorry I don’t have link.

    mark Thompson on YouTube has also stepped up. Often he host David k johnson, who is also great. YouTube.com/@themarkthompsonshow

    Thanks to pal D

  110. 110.

    NotMax

    @NotMax

    Case in point. Good, compact read.

    “What Trump Wants to Do with Greenland Is a Mystery to Me”

    U.S. President Donald Trump has cast a covetous gaze at Greenland. But why? In an interview, Greenland expert Paul Bierman explains why the exploitation of natural resources on the island is difficult, expensive and has generally not been profitable. Source

  111. 111.

    Delicate Butterfly

    @WaterGirl:

    Oh, I’m sorry, she had kind of an unusual name so I just assumed she was the same person who represented J.P. Morgan in their efforts to evict a senior citizen in San Francisco.

    My apologies.

  116. 116.

    Redshift

    @NotMax:

    “What Trump Wants to Do with Greenland Is a Mystery to Me”

    Since I am a firm believer in Trump’s Razor (if there are a number of possible explanations, the stupidest one is the most likely to be true), I will never be convinced that it’s not that he saw a Mercator projection and thinks he’d be more than doubling the land area of the US.

  118. 118.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: I’m sure you know I know that, right?

    I don’t think that statement from her puts her in a good light.  What do you think about that?

  120. 120.

    Redshift

    I understand that we’re mostly focused on political news here, but local news is also a problem. (All news being national helps Republicans, since they already have a national “news” source that helps their side.)

    It’s not as bad a problem as being in a news desert, but the WaPo is basically my hometown newspaper, so when calls go up to dump them over their atrocious politics coverage and sucking up to oligarchs, I’m in a tough spot. Several areas around me have local or micro news sites or papers, but as far as I can tell Fairfax County doesn’t. So if anyone is aware of one that I haven’t found…

  121. 121.

    glc

    1. Link for The American Prospect – https://prospect.org/

    (Personally I bookmark https://prospect.org/topics/david-dayen as Dayen’s posts tend to be more concrete and focused  – and the other articles show in the sidebar.)

    2. Cory Doctorow’s blog for the tech/economic side  https://pluralistic.net/ (balances Delong, and vice versa).

    3. Ken White’s feed at bluesky, not quite a blog but certainly an aggregator and commenter, particularly on the legal side where so much is happening. https://bsky.app/profile/kenwhite.bsky.social

    Also quite a bit of snark mixed in.

    4. And for straight news -even US news – one should include The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/international?INTCMP=CE_INT

    Personally I would avoid  the opinion sections as that tends here and there toward the insane or the insipid, though rarely both at the same time. But they have a refreshing habit of describing things in forthright terms rather than hinting that their sources are probably lying somewhere down in the 10th paragraph.

    5A. If you want to hear pointed invective, Cat Valente on Substack. https://catvalente.substack.com/

    Not exactly a recommendation, just a remark. She does fury well.

    5B. Of more substantial value here is Heather Cox Richardson on Substack at https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-18-2025

    who will tell you, in measured tones,  things you already know, but your neighbors may not. Of particular value to recovering Republicans.

  122. 122.

    Glory b

    @WaterGirl: BUT this has been a thing since the primary was “stolen” from Bernie! Twice!

    I’ve pointed out to a few lefties that Biden was broke before Super Tuesday, so he obviously want the selection of the billionaire corporate overlords, but they ignore me.

  123. 123.

    Delicate Butterfly

    @WaterGirl:

    Wait, so that might be her?

    I guess you and I have different definitions of “ally” because I don’t think someone who uses their law degree on behalf of J P Morgan to evict senior citizens from their houses is progressive or liberal by any stretch of the imagination.

    I can’t think of any sort of behavior that is more morally reprehensible than that, well, maybe with the exception of cat juggling.

  124. 124.

    Scout211

    @WaterGirl: AnneLaurie calls her a journamalistic botfly.

    That should tell you something.  LOL

    I thought I had remembered that she called her a gadfly but then I found this.

     

    Per the NYTimes (adjust your expectations accordingly), journamalistic botfly Tara Palmeri has decided to rebrand “After a few years of writing what she called a “niche newsletter for Washington insiders,” [Puck]… Palmeri decided she wanted to reach a wider audience. A much wider audience. She’s taking her reporting to YouTube.” And, of course, she also has a Substack! As a Puck subscriber (I’m guessing), I got her teaser post, chosen (I’m sure) for maximum meme-ability: “Fear and Loathing in the West Wing: Inside the revolt against Elon Musk“:

  125. 125.

    Redshift

    Aside from my personal situation, I think how we’re responding to the death spiral of local news would be another worthy topic for discussion. It’s a serious issue for democracy — some campaign professional I was listening to a while back was talking about how it’s one of the reasons why presidential and statewide candidates don’t campaign in as many places as they used to. Without a local paper or news station, it’s hard to figure out who they can contact (if anyone) so people will know that they’re coming. It used to be simple. And part of why Republicans have become more extreme is that they’re all campaigning on Fox, not in their districts.

    In addition to that, there’s a lack of reporting on local government, corruption, etc. It’s fine to say the MSM suck, burn it all down, but we need something to replace it, and mostly having nothing isn’t good for us.

  126. 126.

    WaterGirl

    @Delicate Butterfly:

    Wait, so that might be her?

    I’m saying I am not familiar with that court case.  I am not an attorney and I’m not going to spend a lot of time trying to figure out if that is the ABL that we know and love.

    The person we know, who was a front-pager here is definitely an ally.

  127. 127.

    Gloria DryGarden

    More resources and suggestions from my pal D

    commondreams.org

    was that already on your list? Good up to date articles, long time running news site.

    indivisible.org

    is there a reason it’s not included on these lists?

    also, too five calls app. scripts to call your reps. Talking points, current issues To express and opine about

    5calls.org

    anyone have a good experience w them? D uses it for almost daily calls.

    also fifty fifty, we heard about it, looking for link r now. Protests, organizing. Will come back when we find it.

  132. 132.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @Redshift: yes! I’ll check w D. But I remember, they helped organize the fifty states protest we had

    next big protest event is April 5. Cool.

  136. 136.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @charon: ooh, thank you. These look cool.

    i wish I had a news summary service, a group of 50 friends, each one reads, listens to or watches one of the listed sources, the writes a few sentence summary of the main point.
    it’s just too much otherwise, like a full time job for retired people w extra time, people who don’t have to don’t get to work, and people w desk jobs who have any spare time to glance online between other tasks and deadlines.

    is there anyone doing such a news summary service that’s valid and gets to the important stuff? I’m told democracy now does.
    who do others trust for a quickie news catch up?

  137. 137.

    Timill

    @Gloria DryGarden: To some extent, that’s what my RSS reader does for me: gets new articles from a number of sources and shows me the headlines and the first few lines of each. If I choose, I can then open the article in a separate tab and read it at my leisure.

     

    Substacks send me email; mailing lists send me email. Sometimes friends send email…

  138. 138.

    Ramalama

    @Redshift: Thanks, I feel this way too. Every time I re-watch The Wire there’s a part in me dying all over again. I care and think about the real industry often enough. But a series like that has me wallowing.

    You’re a journalist?

  139. 139.

    Ramalama

    I’ve cut back on reading the news, but I guess many people are taking measures not to get too overwhelmed.

    Dan Froomkin’s presswatchers.org for your consideration.

  143. 143.

    WaterGirl

    No longer checking this thread, as there is a newer one today on the same effort..

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