Find one or more local news organization with old-fashioned reliable content. Searching for coverage of very-local races like school boards is a good way to find them. Follow and boost their topical stories. Subscribe or donate if you come to value them.
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Most of us think of Fox as the channel that brainwashed our parents, but Sinclair is the gateway drug for the rest of us. You can’t avoid conglomerate news these days, but it helps to be aware of the messages they’re slipping into your nightly news. Click through for John Oliver’s 2017 expose.
Coming out works for any issue that “nice people don’t talk about.” The problem is, jerks DO talk about those things, making it feel like there’s a consensus of bad opinion. Talking about your experiences changes that. Whether it’s telling your uncle that nice girls get raped, too, or telling Grandma that immigrants are cutting her lawn, not her health benefits, speak up!
CONTENT WARNING : there’s nothing simple about reading a torture report, but we think it’s important for every American to know our taxes are being used to actively torture people into “self-deporting.” If you can, be a witness and spread the word, call congress, and fund the ACLU.
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It’s back-to-school season! Gift new college students a year’s subscription to a local newspaper, national magazine, foreign paper, or the PBS station! Remind them that everything they learn is part of a broader world!
