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That's the post right there. Every day is a day that ends in Goddamn. Nothing is making sense. Politics is like ... like having humanoids in government. They look like us but they don't act like us.
Carolyn and I watch news videos throughout the day and we share and discuss them and we rarely can anymore. It's impossible to understand what's happening and the pure idiocy is astonishing. The only people who are making sense currently seem to be Bernie Sanders ... and? Is there anyone else? Jasmine Crockett maybe?
Anyway, I'm personally careening between anxiety one minute and exhaustion the next. I'm purging my home in a rather big way. I don't even know why.
Less than two weeks for the big family trip. Working on tips and tricks to get through it.
The news is overwhelming, every day--and thrice worse on Fridays, because the fuckers have to ruin everyone's weekends.
ReplyDeleteThere are people out there making sense--Zohran Mamdani, for example (I dearly hope the people of New York hand him a fucking landslide over Cuomo, so that Mamdani can implement most of what he wants to do for the city). Graham Platner, who's running to oust Susan Collins (again, may he win--even if he only accomplishes kicking her to the curb, that will already be a huge win, because fuck Susan Collins).
But it is a struggle to see and hear the electeds, other than B Sanders and perhaps AOC, who are being loudly coherent and right, because most of the legacy press is owned by people more interested in immediate gain through corruption and graft, than by people interested in unbiased reporting.
I have, in fact, blocked everyone working for the NYC, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic, on social media--their slant is so nakedly to right wing propaganda, it's sickening.
So I'm no longer following or giving much credence to anything reported on TV (other than Maddow or John Oliver, for as long as we have him); instead, I'm paying attention to small groups of reporters who've banded together, like The 19th News, or Assigned Media (focus on trans issues) or Bolts Magazine (focused on elections all over the country) or The Flytrap (focus on feminist issues) or Kelley Jensen (both on Book Riot's library and book bans beat, and her own newsletter through Buttondown), Marisa Kabas of The Handbasket, and so on.
The other thing I've done is that my follow lists on Bluesky and Mastodon are small, curated to include people who are much more well informed than I am, who both follow and understand what experts say about the things that interest me. That way, what comes into my feed has already been vetted by people I know I can trust.
And it's still hard, because some of the people I follow just for fun will occasionally boost something that turns out not to be true. Dis- and misinformation are the scourge of the modern age. That and everything GenAI/LLM.
...and I'll stop now, after having so thoroughly hijacked your comments section. (sorry)
Don't apologize. The need to curate your feeds is ridiculous. I've taken most politics out of TikTok and use it for entertainment and K-Pop. YouTube is where I go and a lot of the rage baiting makes it impossible to find content. Even people I used to watch multiple times a day or just churning out content for numbers sakes and after a minute or two you realize that it's just more fluff.
ReplyDeleteI am grateful to Bernie and AOC for their continued fighting. I have finally embraced myself as a Democratic Socialist and not a Democrat.