Ryan Singel

Moral Injury in Trump's America - emptywheel When Failure Feels Larger Than The Sky America’s situation is changing. The nation is in real danger of slipping deeper towards autocracy, and it’s getting harder to see what could reverse the damage....

"There’s no scenario where we become the people we were before the debasement of America. Even if we do everything possible to restore democracy, this time has changed us. There’s no going back to who we were before the day before Trump was sworn in for the second time
emptywheel.net/moral-injury...

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Let's fight misinformation, help good journalists to make a decent living, and stick a big ol' finger in Jeff Bezos' eye.

. @ryansingel.bsky.social has been telling us to make deeper discount offers in the latter welcome flow emails and I did not take this advice until our session this week and babes…the 4th email is finally converting

Patreon is a trap. Your readers pay patreon not you and you can never take that payment relationship with you. Substack is starting to do the same way so whenpeople subscribe to you in the substack app they pay substack not you.

Stay far away.

anyway, i’m at the point where people starting new substacks/remaining on substack really bums me out but can’t spend a ton of energy getting mad about it. bigger fish to fry and all. it just confuses me how so many continue to ignore the evidence of how much they suck.

Elon Musk genuinely has to be regarded as one of history’s pre-eminent mass murderers

Laughing ICE Goons Seize Dad Who Fled Ukraine War at Walmart Dmytro Kulyk is facing deportation as refugees become the Trump administration’s latest target.

EXCLUSIVE: A Ukrainian dad escaped Vladimir Putin’s drone and missile attacks back home only to be grabbed by a band of laughing ICE stooges in a Walmart parking lot in Minneapolis.

Kinda feels like this should be a bigger scandal. I know that every day there are a dozen things that should be a scandal. But this one should be bigger.

Hi folks!

📣 all reporters are invited to Beyond Bylines, our journo happy hour with my pal @ryansingel.bsky.social (of outpost.pub) and @sfstandard.com alumnus, Alex Mullaney.

🍻 Th Feb 26, 630pm onward at Two Pitchers in Oakland (beer, wine, NA, whatever.)

RSVP here:

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Lol, Medea Benjamin thinks the color revolutions in Ukraine were illegal coups and totally controlled by the CIA.

Code Pink are tankies who support Russia and who hate Ukraine.

Fuck Code Pink and their fake anti-imperialism

Get started with Outpost for publishers switching to Ghost (Free event) · Luma This is a free event, held in partnership with Outpost Publishers Cooperative. Are you switching to Ghost? Come learn how to use Outpost to get, keep and win…

If you missed today's event on getting started with Outpost for Ghost publishers, you can register (free) and it will send you the recording and my handy worksheet with the top 8 things to enable in Outpost

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🧵 1/ It’s hard to find hope amidst so much collapse.

But in the wreckage of today’s crises, people are also powering solutions — and The 51st, backed by the community of D.C., is one of them.

Will you help us build a local newsroom that a billionaire can’t break?

The opportunity right now to start and grow a media company is MASSIVE. Endless. Wide fucking open.

But you have to get comfortable with the business side. Asking for money. You have to. From big donors, from readers, from sponsors, whatever your model. That's what's in the way.

It's always the metadata

This is a great article about how AI effects small independent media outlets. It’s also way more informative about how the US issues social security numbers than you would expect any article about AI to be.

Hey Derek – First of all, fuck ICE. I am the son of an immigrant. My dad was born in a camp in Austria to two people fleeing violence because of who they were. They waited in that camp for years after the war for a chance to come to America, because America was supposed to be different. But what’s happening here now is way too close to their story. People are being hunted and killed by masked federal agents because of who they are or what they look like. Our politicians are openly bigoted and sincere in their hatred of immigrants. I know you know all this already. And I know the purpose of this email is to send you a coupon. But I just had to say it because I want you to know the values of the farm you’re supporting. And if you’re angry and scared about what’s happening in this country right now, I wanted you to know you’re not alone. Remember there are more of us than there are of them. We will resist this together as friends and neighbors and family, just like Minneapolis. So here’s that coupon. We know money is tight for everyone and I bet we all could use a good night’s sleep right about now. Rest today so you can fight tomorrow. Hang in there. You are needed. ✨ 20% Off! ✨ Use code ICEOUT at checkout or click the button below to apply the discount to your cart.

One of the perks of running my own business is having no one to tell me not to send a marketing email with the subject line "First of all, fuck ICE."

Here's the latest Milk Barn Farm email to our customers. I'm proud of it.

And, yeah, 20% off with the code: ICEOUT
milkbarn.farm/discount/ICE...

Here's a hidden secret of doorbell cameras, as revealed by Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping. They're recording even when you don't know it, and sending video to company servers even when you don't pay

TIL that there's an upcoming spinoff from Quentin Tarantino's MAGA fantasy film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

It's called the Adventures of Cliff Booth, written by Tarantino.

Not sure we need more racism and jokes about killing women, but Tarantino likely thinks we do

RFK Jr's Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum "Top Assitarian Staples,” include “Bananas (firm, not overripe; peeled).”

Make America Healthy Again (with a recommendation from RFK Jr.'s nutritional chatbot to stick bananas up your ass)

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With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:

www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

These @reason guys are total frauds. All of them.

Substack Still Has A Nazi Problem (And Doesn't Care) For several years Substack has been accused of coddling white supremacy and fascist ideology for cash. And despite several major scandals and a mass defection of ethical authors, there's little seriou...

what if we, you know, just tried to avoid using websites that coddle white supremacists for a buck

My "they deserve to lose" sign-tapping finger is gonna get tired today

Uh what's up with your Android app? New update hangs at this splash screen

Watch 404 Media’s Super Bowl Ad WE BOUGHT A SUPER BOWL AD.

404 Media just had an ad during the #SuperBowl! We Googled "smallest TV markets in the United States" and bought an ad for $2,550 that only ran in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 25,000. That still counts

www.404media.co/watch-404-me...

🧐i’ll allow it (barely)

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

I love seeing posts like this building up indie publishers and then seeing @outpost.pub member publishers listed.

In this case we get to help power all three of them!

Rascal, Aftermath and Mothership all run on ghost with help from Outpost

Indie publishers using indie tech.