I like Breaking Points, although there is a lot of editorializing I don’t agree with. BBC world service. I’m not on Twitter anymore but friends send me links.
THANK YOU. All I can say is your substack is a breath of fresh air from a fellow Gen X TX artist chick (uh oh, can I still say chick? HA fuck it I don't care🤣), and tackles all the angst I've had for the last few years. Thanks for the recommendations here as well!
Glad to know about your sources. I always want to know what Chris Hedges thinks – another brilliant, experienced journalist squeezed out of the NYT (after he voiced opposition to the 2003 invasion of Iraq). Caitlyn Johnstone is great, especially re- free speech issues. I find zerohedge useful – while their opinions re- BLM et al. appall, they do value and share up-to-date info and analysis re- financial and economic matters. Craig Murray (https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/ ) is excellent on the Assange case.
(In general, no faction will voluntarily disclose its own corruption or mistakes, so I agree, one must hear from all of them to begin to piece together what might really be going on.)
Yes, he's another go-to for me. I think his legal background strengthens his analyses re- systemic matters (checks & balances, due process) as well as fundamental rights.
I think posts like this are where things can start to change and small groups of ppl can have actual conversations about topics that just stay about the topic at hand and not devolve into the 7th Circle of Hell...I really do love the PBS Newshour and Jane Ferguson's on the ground coverage from the Afghanistan withdrawal and now her reporting from Ukraine is important to me...also, I do love the Friday discussions between Judy and two columnists, currently Jonathan Capehart and David Brooks...the Texas Standard on npr is interesting and then I actually glean bits of content to fill in some blanks from art newsletters, like Hyperallergic...I also like Hilton Als and read a lot of his writing and follow him on IG...Cathy Horyn was a fashion journalist of reknown at the NYT for years and she had her own "cancellation" before that became a usual solution...but her daily/weekly column was fascinating to read bc she had a vast encyclopedia of fashion and cultural knowledge, but even more than her, many regular commenters on each post were themselves encyclopedias and it never got nasty or became a circle jerk...I would comment from time to time and if I could engage with these very knowledgable and respectful folks, I considered it a win...and there were plenty of opposing viewpoints...I'll see someone's name "trending" and I'll do some digging into why they have been singled out and I'll read some "problematic" things they were accused of saying...Bari Weiss being one...her Op-Ed piece in the NYT about the anonymous Jezebel article on Aziz Ansari was interesting and I agreed with her...then I started to see articles about her being "problematic"...I've read through some of the pieces in question and though I don't always agree, I find her compelling...when James Bennet was fired after (he was fired and you cannot tell me differently) publishing that Tom Cotton piece, I think from that day on, I've felt really differently towards the NYT...and my stomach actually hurt bc it felt so wrong...to me and especially after reading his piece, Tom Cotton is way more terrifying than any current Republican du jour...he should not fly under any radar bc the viewpoints he has are dangerous and need to be followed, so they can be challenged...I also have known of the trans man and former porn performer, Buck Angel, for many years and a close friend also knows him...he has become the frequent target of intercommunity trans hate and has been banned from IG recently and just got back on...I still do not understand that one...as far as I am aware, from my cis-gender view, he has been a goddamn brave pioneer for decades and fierce advocate for his community...I don't know...but I am very thankful to have you back on the interwebs and engaging in all of the conversations you have been so far, here...I do know where I DON'T get my news and if a friend shares an article with me, I read where it's from and then let them know what that source actually is and to take the "news" with less than a grain of salt...I have no idea what is to be done bc the task at hand is seemingly insurmountable, but creating smaller spaces to have reasonable discussions is my thought...just discussion amongst ppl who may not agree but def trust each other to not grab a kitchen knife, or a smartphone...thanks for the list of suggestions posted below...I'll visit a few of their feeds...until the next topic...Thx
You, my dear Christina, are a brave woman. There are very few people among big-time media who would dare write:
"But by 2020, certain topics and facts became either inarguable woke religion or totally verboten in our formerly sober press: pandemic safety theater, the discredited 1619 Project, the more violent branch of antifa and the more trolly and actually homophobic branch of transactivism, and calls to defund the police; the overall self-flagellating scene moved that “let’s-destroy-all-our-institutions” ball into the end zone. "
I noticed during Big Bad Don that the NYT was all about him. I guess he sold papers or clicks. NPR is so identity and virtue driven I punch out except for Tx Standard and ATC. I survey NYT, Wapo, DMN, Watch Sunday Talk, local Tv news at 10. We’ve kept up an old HS friends thread since email was new and a few of us are still at it and we have arguments about culture, politics, Apes, Academia and share articles from publications from TLS to Weird Science. I’ve drifted away from Glasstire except I still check the listings, speaking of, what ever happened to local listings art or music, I used to hear music listings on the Ticket but both shows that did them haven’t started back in 2022. I hear bands were in town after the fact. I get ads from who I follow on gram, and FB, I check trending on Twitter, since the Ukr war I’ve looked at Pravda some to see what it’s saying. I remain septical about what’s put before me in the MSM. “Defund the police” was a boon to Republican candidates as are shout downs like the one at UNT and violent antifa (or whatever the movement that doesn’t exist is called) They thrive on that stuff.
Dangerous Minds, Please Kill Me, as I type listening to Yo La Tengo live playing requests for the Todd o Phonic Todd fundraiser on WFMU, just to say, of topic, I don't subscribe to a music service
Yes, Peter. The dem party is losing voters by the second with all of this. But if you try to sound the alarm over it (because the idea of four more years of Trump is truly way worse than alarming), you are told you are a traitor.
I glance at the Washington Post and NYTimes...headlines. (I subscribe to Post.) But frankly, as a friend says, you really "hate" read them....in other words, "How are you lying to me today".
Also Dallas Morning News which is good. And I glance at Wall Street Journal and Drudge. I also read the great website "Why Evolution is True" as well as Rod Dreher in American Conservative.
But my main newsources has become substacks......and I have a bunch I subscribe to like:
Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning.....great for genetics and history
Fisted by Foucault........very sharp commentary
Common Sense with Bari Weiss
Matt Taibbi
Glenn Greenwald
Freddie De Boer
Ed West from the Wrong Side of History (really great historian)
I have a friend from Bosnia. She lived through the siege of Sarajevo. She's old enough to have grown up under Tito in the former Yugoslavia. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we've had a few conversations about it. She's angry with NATO and thinks "Ukraine has always been part of Russia". While I disagree with her completely, I try to understand her point of view. I think her story is a microcosm of the way our world has become "Balkanised". If we look at the history of Eastern Europe in the twentieth century, we can begin to understand how nations and lives are torn apart by political extremes. Without reiterating it here, I just wish to point out how so many of the former Warsaw Pact nations have reacted against Soviet institutional abuse by becoming right-wing, sometimes racist, ultra-nationalist. In Ukraine, for example, just a few years ago, there were neo-Nazi events and demonstrations that attracted racists and white supremacists from everywhere. It seemed like Ukraine was becoming a right-winger's paradise. Poland and Hungary have right-wing governments, and they, weirdly enough, exhibit clear signs of anti-semitism and islamophobia. To add to the cognitive dissonance, Israel is friendly with both nations. Now Israel is shuffling its feet between Russia and Ukraine. Here, I want to inject my own bit of whataboutism: I have a hard time reading and listening to all the righteous rhetoric from America about Ukrainian resistance when the Palestinian resistance has been either demonised as anti-semitic or simply ignored. War crimes are war crimes, no matter who commits them. US policy in the Middle East, in my opinion, has been criminal for decades. How many thousands of people have been killed in Iraq, not just since Dubya invaded, but since Clinton enacted no-fly zones and sanctions, killing and starving kids? Why do people get angry about Kiev while being blasé about Gaza? Don't misunderstand me...I abhor the Russian behavior in Ukraine, but even in my own country, France, BDS has been discouraged by the government. In Germany, criticism of Israel borders on being illegal. If anything good comes out of this Ukraine crisis, I hope, among other things, the US and the EU will reconsider their policies toward Israel and Palestine. I listen to and read sources from the UK, France, Germany, and I recommend The Analysis-News from the US. Kyle Kulinski is a smart guy too. Breaking Points as well. Although I am an old leftie, I admire the knowledge and opinions of Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, formerly of the US State Department and the US Army.
EC has has always had my heart. Nick Lowe wrote it. I never name drop because it's gross, BUT I HAVE TO TELL YOU: once upon a time I had a job that put me in contact with these kinda geniuses, and one of the best phone conversations in my life was a two-hour chat with NL.
Oh yeah. Rockpile was amazing too. Speaking of Texas When I Die, here's a great rendition of a tune by my late friend Richard Dobson, whose birthday was yesterday. He spent his last years in Switzerland, but, like me, his heart was still back there. Dave Edmunds backs up Carlene Carter, who once said "I put the cunt in country music". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7ysRu1gT4s
I like Breaking Points, although there is a lot of editorializing I don’t agree with. BBC world service. I’m not on Twitter anymore but friends send me links.
BBC, yes. I left that one out. I follow it, too.
this is a problem: https://www.persuasion.community/p/how-the-bbc-risks-eroding-its-neutrality?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo5MzQ5NzUxLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo1MjI4MDU4NCwiXyI6IjRzTkVZIiwiaWF0IjoxNjUwMjkzMDc3LCJleHAiOjE2NTAyOTY2NzcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi02MTU3OSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.zEwoSGvrKDCcCieEe3qpuaggrCATlGxXfaK-8vmASRA&s=r
THANK YOU. All I can say is your substack is a breath of fresh air from a fellow Gen X TX artist chick (uh oh, can I still say chick? HA fuck it I don't care🤣), and tackles all the angst I've had for the last few years. Thanks for the recommendations here as well!
and hello! from your fellow Texas chick. love that
Glad to know about your sources. I always want to know what Chris Hedges thinks – another brilliant, experienced journalist squeezed out of the NYT (after he voiced opposition to the 2003 invasion of Iraq). Caitlyn Johnstone is great, especially re- free speech issues. I find zerohedge useful – while their opinions re- BLM et al. appall, they do value and share up-to-date info and analysis re- financial and economic matters. Craig Murray (https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/ ) is excellent on the Assange case.
(In general, no faction will voluntarily disclose its own corruption or mistakes, so I agree, one must hear from all of them to begin to piece together what might really be going on.)
"no faction will voluntarily disclose its own corruption or mistakes": Glenn Greenwald is having a good week, in this regard.
Yes, he's another go-to for me. I think his legal background strengthens his analyses re- systemic matters (checks & balances, due process) as well as fundamental rights.
Local crime news from local news sources around the world. It's news you can trust!
HI Christina, I just saw this twitter thread and thought it would interest you alot as it has to do with that NYTimes editorial and its timing....
https://twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1505244798453698564
well look at that!
I think posts like this are where things can start to change and small groups of ppl can have actual conversations about topics that just stay about the topic at hand and not devolve into the 7th Circle of Hell...I really do love the PBS Newshour and Jane Ferguson's on the ground coverage from the Afghanistan withdrawal and now her reporting from Ukraine is important to me...also, I do love the Friday discussions between Judy and two columnists, currently Jonathan Capehart and David Brooks...the Texas Standard on npr is interesting and then I actually glean bits of content to fill in some blanks from art newsletters, like Hyperallergic...I also like Hilton Als and read a lot of his writing and follow him on IG...Cathy Horyn was a fashion journalist of reknown at the NYT for years and she had her own "cancellation" before that became a usual solution...but her daily/weekly column was fascinating to read bc she had a vast encyclopedia of fashion and cultural knowledge, but even more than her, many regular commenters on each post were themselves encyclopedias and it never got nasty or became a circle jerk...I would comment from time to time and if I could engage with these very knowledgable and respectful folks, I considered it a win...and there were plenty of opposing viewpoints...I'll see someone's name "trending" and I'll do some digging into why they have been singled out and I'll read some "problematic" things they were accused of saying...Bari Weiss being one...her Op-Ed piece in the NYT about the anonymous Jezebel article on Aziz Ansari was interesting and I agreed with her...then I started to see articles about her being "problematic"...I've read through some of the pieces in question and though I don't always agree, I find her compelling...when James Bennet was fired after (he was fired and you cannot tell me differently) publishing that Tom Cotton piece, I think from that day on, I've felt really differently towards the NYT...and my stomach actually hurt bc it felt so wrong...to me and especially after reading his piece, Tom Cotton is way more terrifying than any current Republican du jour...he should not fly under any radar bc the viewpoints he has are dangerous and need to be followed, so they can be challenged...I also have known of the trans man and former porn performer, Buck Angel, for many years and a close friend also knows him...he has become the frequent target of intercommunity trans hate and has been banned from IG recently and just got back on...I still do not understand that one...as far as I am aware, from my cis-gender view, he has been a goddamn brave pioneer for decades and fierce advocate for his community...I don't know...but I am very thankful to have you back on the interwebs and engaging in all of the conversations you have been so far, here...I do know where I DON'T get my news and if a friend shares an article with me, I read where it's from and then let them know what that source actually is and to take the "news" with less than a grain of salt...I have no idea what is to be done bc the task at hand is seemingly insurmountable, but creating smaller spaces to have reasonable discussions is my thought...just discussion amongst ppl who may not agree but def trust each other to not grab a kitchen knife, or a smartphone...thanks for the list of suggestions posted below...I'll visit a few of their feeds...until the next topic...Thx
Lotta good names on your list; and good points. Thank you for this.
You, my dear Christina, are a brave woman. There are very few people among big-time media who would dare write:
"But by 2020, certain topics and facts became either inarguable woke religion or totally verboten in our formerly sober press: pandemic safety theater, the discredited 1619 Project, the more violent branch of antifa and the more trolly and actually homophobic branch of transactivism, and calls to defund the police; the overall self-flagellating scene moved that “let’s-destroy-all-our-institutions” ball into the end zone. "
So, thank you.
I noticed during Big Bad Don that the NYT was all about him. I guess he sold papers or clicks. NPR is so identity and virtue driven I punch out except for Tx Standard and ATC. I survey NYT, Wapo, DMN, Watch Sunday Talk, local Tv news at 10. We’ve kept up an old HS friends thread since email was new and a few of us are still at it and we have arguments about culture, politics, Apes, Academia and share articles from publications from TLS to Weird Science. I’ve drifted away from Glasstire except I still check the listings, speaking of, what ever happened to local listings art or music, I used to hear music listings on the Ticket but both shows that did them haven’t started back in 2022. I hear bands were in town after the fact. I get ads from who I follow on gram, and FB, I check trending on Twitter, since the Ukr war I’ve looked at Pravda some to see what it’s saying. I remain septical about what’s put before me in the MSM. “Defund the police” was a boon to Republican candidates as are shout downs like the one at UNT and violent antifa (or whatever the movement that doesn’t exist is called) They thrive on that stuff.
Dangerous Minds, Please Kill Me, as I type listening to Yo La Tengo live playing requests for the Todd o Phonic Todd fundraiser on WFMU, just to say, of topic, I don't subscribe to a music service
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/113670
Yes, Peter. The dem party is losing voters by the second with all of this. But if you try to sound the alarm over it (because the idea of four more years of Trump is truly way worse than alarming), you are told you are a traitor.
I glance at the Washington Post and NYTimes...headlines. (I subscribe to Post.) But frankly, as a friend says, you really "hate" read them....in other words, "How are you lying to me today".
Also Dallas Morning News which is good. And I glance at Wall Street Journal and Drudge. I also read the great website "Why Evolution is True" as well as Rod Dreher in American Conservative.
But my main newsources has become substacks......and I have a bunch I subscribe to like:
Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning.....great for genetics and history
Fisted by Foucault........very sharp commentary
Common Sense with Bari Weiss
Matt Taibbi
Glenn Greenwald
Freddie De Boer
Ed West from the Wrong Side of History (really great historian)
Tara Hanley
Dispatch
Heather Cox Richardson
Abigail Shrier
Jesse Singal
Michael Tracy
others...
I also subscribe to UnHerd.
we have a lot of overlap!
wow! awesome. ha dot stop and catch my mind-wind a couple times. thanks!
democratic liberals or liberal democrats?
I have a friend from Bosnia. She lived through the siege of Sarajevo. She's old enough to have grown up under Tito in the former Yugoslavia. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we've had a few conversations about it. She's angry with NATO and thinks "Ukraine has always been part of Russia". While I disagree with her completely, I try to understand her point of view. I think her story is a microcosm of the way our world has become "Balkanised". If we look at the history of Eastern Europe in the twentieth century, we can begin to understand how nations and lives are torn apart by political extremes. Without reiterating it here, I just wish to point out how so many of the former Warsaw Pact nations have reacted against Soviet institutional abuse by becoming right-wing, sometimes racist, ultra-nationalist. In Ukraine, for example, just a few years ago, there were neo-Nazi events and demonstrations that attracted racists and white supremacists from everywhere. It seemed like Ukraine was becoming a right-winger's paradise. Poland and Hungary have right-wing governments, and they, weirdly enough, exhibit clear signs of anti-semitism and islamophobia. To add to the cognitive dissonance, Israel is friendly with both nations. Now Israel is shuffling its feet between Russia and Ukraine. Here, I want to inject my own bit of whataboutism: I have a hard time reading and listening to all the righteous rhetoric from America about Ukrainian resistance when the Palestinian resistance has been either demonised as anti-semitic or simply ignored. War crimes are war crimes, no matter who commits them. US policy in the Middle East, in my opinion, has been criminal for decades. How many thousands of people have been killed in Iraq, not just since Dubya invaded, but since Clinton enacted no-fly zones and sanctions, killing and starving kids? Why do people get angry about Kiev while being blasé about Gaza? Don't misunderstand me...I abhor the Russian behavior in Ukraine, but even in my own country, France, BDS has been discouraged by the government. In Germany, criticism of Israel borders on being illegal. If anything good comes out of this Ukraine crisis, I hope, among other things, the US and the EU will reconsider their policies toward Israel and Palestine. I listen to and read sources from the UK, France, Germany, and I recommend The Analysis-News from the US. Kyle Kulinski is a smart guy too. Breaking Points as well. Although I am an old leftie, I admire the knowledge and opinions of Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, formerly of the US State Department and the US Army.
Thanks for this comment, Andy. Hope all is well with you over there.
Listening as I read....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssd3U_zicAI
EC has has always had my heart. Nick Lowe wrote it. I never name drop because it's gross, BUT I HAVE TO TELL YOU: once upon a time I had a job that put me in contact with these kinda geniuses, and one of the best phone conversations in my life was a two-hour chat with NL.
Oh yeah. Rockpile was amazing too. Speaking of Texas When I Die, here's a great rendition of a tune by my late friend Richard Dobson, whose birthday was yesterday. He spent his last years in Switzerland, but, like me, his heart was still back there. Dave Edmunds backs up Carlene Carter, who once said "I put the cunt in country music". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7ysRu1gT4s