What a Difference a Week Makes
We weren't the only ones frustrated.
I don’t know if you noticed, but during last week’s podcast, things got a little tense. Even though we expected the new regime to be a waking nightmare, the speed and intensity of the executive orders, crazy statements, and little DOGEys running amok took a toll on us.
Which of course, was the point. They want us to feel helpless. Paralyzed. And if they can make us fight each other, we have less energy to fight the real enemy.
And that was before the chaos unleashed on the weekend. By Monday, we were contending with the Muskovite hackers getting carte blanche from the new Treasury Secretary to rummage through the Federal payments system (accessing our Social Security numbers and other personal information), the threat of 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, the shutdown of USAID, targeting the Department of Education…
…you get the picture.
But on Monday, something shifted. Our Democratic leaders - who may have been busy all along strategizing - visibly began to fight back. And citizens around the country began taking to the street. And just like that, the narrative that “the resistance is dead”… DIED. Something we talked about in THIS week’s podcast (in which we were almost chill).
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More Alternate News and Resources
Our list of independent journalists, writers, and other resources grew out of our frustration and anger at the way legacy media sane washed MAGA, downplayed the dangers of Project 2025, and basically tanked public opinion of the way the Biden-Harris Administration governed the country.
We were already subscribers to folks like Aaron Rupar and Judd Legum, but had some huge gaps in our news diet after cancelling The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. So we looked for sources who could fill that vacuum - and discovered that there are dozens of professionals who are doing the work outside the big media companies (not surprising when you remember how much they have been downsizing over the last several years).
And while we were putting together our own diet of news sources, we heard from friends who wanted to do the same - so we put together our document and put it out there back in December. Since then, we’ve updated it every week or so: like when Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman left the New York Times and began sharing his thoughts in a newsletter… or last week, when Jim Acosta got forced out of CNN and launched a new independent news show on Substack… or when Marisa Kabas scooped the mainstream media on the new regime’s plans to freeze Federal funds.
Kabas’ Handbasket newsletter is one of the latest additions to the document. And as the regime seeks to make us ignorant by erasing entire departments devoted to providing the public with valid information, we will continue to search out experts who can fill in those gaps.
View the latest version of the document here.
One Last Thing
