So many people have told me that paying for all of the good independent journalists is impossible. The new Trustfnd bundle is an important step towards giving the reading public what they want. Much has been written about the current state of journalism. The industry is, generally, in the shitter.
I get that outrage farming is the easiest way to get clicks these days but please cut me some slack. No, I do not believe we should capitulate on sports. No, I don't think we should cede the sports argument to the right wing. No, I don'
The right has nearly achieved total victory on the trans athlete policy debate. From here on out, their outrage bait should have significantly diminishing returns. Note from Katelyn: Welcome to all of my new readers coming here from the Indie Media Bundle! I don't believe in paywalling news,
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Ignore the specific issues for a second, and look at how she operated her campaign. She taught us lessons on a new way to run for office. You're not supposed to run for congress in a city you just moved to. You're not supposed to run
Pete Hegseth’s résumé maps the trajectory of a man who failed upward from Fox News host to Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense. As Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court hearings proved, sexual assault allegations are rarely a roadblock to a powerful job in the Trump administration. In fact, Donald
Iranians have a national myth that their culture is so powerful that it civilizes its conquerors. This will not happen to the United States. (Note: "Persia" is the name given to the region and peoples of Iran by those who do not live there but they have always
Betting markets treat the flow of world events as random, but there are people making real decisions and there's nothing stopping them from profiting from those decisions This weekend, an unnamed person with the user name "Magamyman" began placing bets that the US and Israel would
How deep does the media’s complicity go? In this episode of Cancel Me, Daddy, Katelyn Burns and Christine Grimaldi unpack the disturbing connection between the "Shitty Media Men" list, the MeToo movement, and the recently released Epstein files. While the world focuses on the spectacle, we dig
But that won't stop Democrats from trying for it anyway In the midst of the 1992 presidential election, future president Bill Clinton visited Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition conference and delivered a now famous repudiation of Sister Souljah, an MC, writer, and political activist who had made
It is Cancel Me, Daddy’s fifth anniversary! This week, former co-host Oliver joins Katelyn and Christine to discuss all the panic around cancel culture. Oliver and Katelyn pinpoint how they defined cancellation when the podcast started in 2021 and what has and hasn’t changed about it over the
The Epstein files don't reveal wrongdoing from the doctor, but his relationship with the world's most notorious pedophile is concerning Editor's note: I want to be clear that I am not accusing Dr. Jess Ting of Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan of any malfeasance