Some Recommendations
Independent Media, News & other interesting links
I’ve found these contributors to be extremely knowledgeable, informative, and well researched. They offer solid, useful information on today’s news and events, backed up with facts. If you’re having trouble making sense of the craziness of these times, the best thing you can do is get informed.
This is NOT the time to be neutral, so please, get informed.
The Atlantic is excellent: https://www.theatlantic.com
Gound News: https://ground.news/
The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world
The Kyiv Independent: https://bsky.app/profile/kyivindependent.com
Here’s a good starting point of people to follow to stay informed. List provided by Kristin Du Mez:
Some great Substack blogs
You don’t have to be a paid subscriber for most of these. You can try them for free, but if you can afford it, please consider supporting them. They are well worth it.
The Contrarian
Charlie Angus / The Resistance
Du Mez CONNECTIONS
By Kristen Kobe Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne
Robert Reich
Letters from an American
She does a daily roundup of the days news that is excellent and informative.
Juno News – Canadian politics:
Tim Snyder, author of On Tyranny, an excellent summary of fascism:
Obery Hendricks, The Politics of Jesus:
BlueSky
BlueSky is growing rapidly as people bail out of Twitter, or X, or whatever it’s called now. I find the following extremely informative, helpful and well researched.
You can also find most of these folks on YouTube as well.
The Kyiv Independent: https://bsky.app/profile/kyivindependent.com
Kristen Du Mez: https://bsky.app/profile/kkdumez.bsky.social
Rachel Maddow: https://bsky.app/profile/maddow.msnbc.com
Russell Moore, senior editor of Christianity Today: https://bsky.app/profile/drmoore.bsky.social
Charlie Angus, NDP MP: https://bsky.app/profile/charlieangus104.bsky.social
CAN – senior editor at MeidasTouch. https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: https://bsky.app/profile/aoc.bsky.social
Anne Applebaum, author of several books on autocracy: https://bsky.app/profile/anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Get her books: Autocracy Inc. and The Twilight of Democracy https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/search?q=anne+applebaum&search-button=&lang=null
MeidasTouch on BlueSky and YouTube is extremely good. Informative, fact-based coverage of the news, and they bring the receipts. Their YouTube videos are witty and insightful.
https://bsky.app/profile/meidastouch.com
https://www.youtube.com/@MeidasTouch
It’s vital that we grasp the moment we’re in. Don’t stay neutral.
