In the past I have used Reddit and Twitter as my main news aggregators, but obviously those are going down the toilet. What are some good places to go to get some good news? (aside from here of course!)
I personally really like First Thought on youtube. It’s self-described as “openly biased towards marxist principles”. Honestly the funny part is that the reporting is less biased than some well established companies, their bias is inserted after the main reporting to explain how it relates to socialist principles. It’s a channel run by JT, Hakim, and Yugopnik
WHAT THE FUCK.
I’ve been subscribed to Second Thought for years and I’ve never once even heard of First Thought. If the YouTube algorithm were actually interested in pushing content I were interested in, that should’ve come up at some point. I know it seems paranoid, but I can’t think of any rational explanation for why I’m just now hearing about it other than that YouTube doesn’t want people to know about that channel for some reason.
I thought “Second Thought” was just a clever name, like “on second thought, after doing some basic research, capitalism is bad and Americans have just been brainwashed into defending it and it’s time to start understanding that en masse.”Oh the First Thought channel is relatively new, around 3 months or so? That would probably explain it. I’ve been enjoying it as well!
Oh okay, good. I have been busy the past few months so I haven’t watched Second Thought lately. I bet he mentions First Thought in his videos these days.
Also in their podcast, The Deprogram. If you like their main channels and the small amount of analysis they put up on the First Thought channel, you’d probably like some of their discussions in The Deprogram podcast too.
I catch every episode of the podcast and First Thought and I hardly even watch the main channels anymore
This post from a week ago has some good links
The Guardian (not leftist, buuuut…)
Some More News (weekly single issue YouTube vid)
Even more news (podcast variant of previous, has SMN episodes, and occaisonal extra stories)
Liberation News
Edot: formatting, forgot TN Holler (mid south regional paper, focused on TN, occasionally talks bout the surrounding states)
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It’s lagging behind and more entertaining than “real news” options, but Some More News on YouTube is good to check out occasionally. They have a podcast too which is basically just people hanging out for the first 20 minutes and then like 30 minutes of headlines followed by thoughtful commentary and context. Still barely qualifies as news, but it’s an entertaining way to strike a balance to be neither uninformed nor overwhelmed and anxious.
Before the writers’ strike, Jon Stewart was doing some good work on his show.
I was into David Pakman a couple years ago, but he started rubbing me the wrong way, but idk you might be into what he has to offer. I can’t really articulate it, he’s just kinda annoying to me. But I had him on my TV live during the January 6 terrorist attack and he did a great job with it.
My favorite channel used to be RT America, but then liberalism happened. Now I don’t watch anything.
