https://oliphant.social/@oliphant/113686859342389682 oliphant@oliphant.social - I know some of you get down on the fedi, but a year or two ago, the Texas Observer was about to shut down and lay off a bunch of their staff, and the fediverse literally saved the publication.
Good journalism is hard to find these days, but is increasingly found on the more indie fringes, rather than produced by big media conglomerates.
I'm hoping they are still in the black today, but @TexasObserver is one of the few publishers that actually runs their own Mastodon instance, and has been a good citizen of the fedi, publishing several "truth to power" stories. And they've done good things since their new lease on life, justifying the support they've been given several times over.
Here's a few amazing stories, just for a sampler, and the output is consistently good:
https://www.texasobserver.org/trans-kids-youth-are-you-ok-photos/
https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-operators-neo-nazi-x-accounts/
https://www.texasobserver.org/immigration-asylum-biden-order/
If you're looking to support good left-wing media that has consistently been on the right side of history, a bastion of truth-telling in the middle of a hotbed of right-wing scumfuckery, you could do a lot worse.
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