Can’t say this enough. Alternative media are really stepping up to fill the void left by mainstream media. They need all the support we can give them. Explore on your own, follow BlueSky accounts that post useful content, share and comment widely.
— David Palumbo-Liu (@palumboliu.bsky.social) February 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I’m no Amy Siskind by any measure (she is doing the Lord’s work…writing the Weekly List. Nor am I a Heather Cox Richardson writing a daily Letters from an American. But I will continue to share links I find from credible (non-knee bending) sources. Read, share, skim through the headlines.
- Tulsi Gabbard confirmed as intelligence head despite fears of pro-Russia stance– Next E.O. – Change name to The United State of Russia.
- And next. RFK Jr. just in time – Ohio Reports First Human Case of Bird Flu
- Why federal courts are unlikely to save democracy from Trump’s and Musk’s attacks – “As Chief Justice John Marshall said in his landmark 1803 Marbury v. Madison ruling, “It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is…But the courts alone will not be sufficient. The courts are like an antibiotic on a cut, helping healing and staving off further infection. They cannot keep a grievously wounded patient alive. For this, a robust political strategy is necessary. It is in all Americans’ hands collectively to make sure that the constitutional structure is not just enforced, but also sustained.”
- Married Women Could Be Stopped From Voting Under SAVE Act – OR REALLY ALL AMERICANS HOLY VOTER SUPPRESSION but if this is the headline that get people to notice, so be it.
- DOGE Is Hacking America – “This is beyond politics—this is a matter of national security. Foreign national intelligence organizations will be quick to take advantage of both the chaos and the new insecurities to steal U.S. data and install backdoors to allow for future access.”
- ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online – “Provide monitoring and analysis of behavioral and social media sentiment (i.e. positive, neutral, and negative).” This includes regular updates on the “total number of negative references to ICE found in social media” from week to week.”
- Congressional Democrats Are Failing Us – “The right’s knee-jerk outrage drives engagement straight back to our pages, putting our message in front of people who wouldn’t normally seek it out. Instead of fearing the backlash, we should be using it to break through to the voters we actually need to reach.”
- Dozens of CFPB Workers Fired in After-Hours Blitz – “Some affected employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were notified with an email that addressed them as [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division].” People dismantling agencies who can’t even figure out a fucking mail merge.
- Rhode Island OMB Funding Freeze Challenge – State of New York v. Trump – Ball, back in regime court. Motion to undeny request pending.
- Fraud and Musk – “When Trump was sworn into office, Musk’s six corporations were under more than 32 continuing investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies…Most of these cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the agencies that initiated them are being defanged by Musk and Trump.”
- The Plot Against America: How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America – “The infrastructure being built isn’t meant to serve democratic ends—it’s meant to make democracy itself obsolete.”
- All Apologies’ – “The folks that heeded this idealistic call made a real difference in this world: many of the problems that seemed so insurmountable in our early twenties are now much more mitigated as we sail into our mid-fifties. At least they were until a couple of weeks ago.”
- As Trump and Musk Upend Washington, Congressional Phones Can’t Keep Up – “Senators were informed this week that the Senate phone system was receiving 1,600 calls per minute, a sharp increase from the usual 40 calls a minute, according to officials who received the private notification and spoke about it on the condition of anonymity.”
This.
I scream “IT’S ETHNIC CLEANSING” or “LIES” or “ILLEGAL” out loud – often – and I consider myself in the mainstream- adjacent media world. I see the articles come through but refuse to click. (Archive.today has proven to be helpful for topics I can’t find another similar source for.)
— All Things Jennifer (@allthingsjennifer.bsky.social) February 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Amplify information friends. While we still can.
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