I consume a lot of information.
Sometimes people ask me how I've come to know what I know about political ideologies and many issues that crop up in the news.
Below you can find links to various high-quality, honest information sources that I highly recommend, with most people coming from an open-minded, Progressive, pro-democracy, pro-free speech, anti-censorship, anti-oligarch, and often pro-problem-solving perspective:
Substack Blogs
Krystal Kyle and Friends: https://krystalkyleandfriends.substack.com/
Matt Taibbi: https://www.racket.news/
Matt Stoller: https://mattstoller.substack.com/
Astral Codex Ten: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/
Edward Snowden: https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/
Foresight Institute: https://foresightinstitute.substack.com/
Micah White (co-founder of Occupy Wall Street): https://micahwhite.substack.com/
Reclaim Futures: https://reclaimfutures.substack.com/
YouTube Channels
Breaking Points, with Krystal and Saagar
Bad Faith (Briahna Joy Gray)
Podcasts
Forward (Andrew Yang)
theAnalysis.news (Paul Jay)
DarkHorse Podcast (Bret Weinstein)
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- Excellent debates on complex topics
Bad Faith (Briahna Joy Gray)
The Lunar Society (Dwarkesh Patel)
Specific Podcast Episodes
Joe Rogan interviews Krystal and Saagar: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ZGQK4cNq14d9AEp1Ux4Ns?si=A1wIinLbQZKxMMi0qtsu2A
Andrew Yang interviews John McWhorter: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3fPa6SI1v7UBelECOgEtxK?si=s8R-O-7vTtaOhvnUa-fBMw
Krystal and Kyle interview an open-minded author about his book on Occupy, and discuss how the progressive left can be more effective: https://open.spotify.com/episode/41rh2wBvg6SJbfAhM7iLjs?si=QAOM3lSoTJyBRRNtBd5X6g
Joe Rogan interviews Abby Martin about Gaza: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3qCSnEEAUxFasoKSWq7LiM
Briahna Joy Gray's brilliant, nuanced monologue on good and bad critiques of wokeness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CAi8w0nd44