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[Too Tall]

I'll start with Heather Cox Richardson https://substack.com/profile/4875576...cox-richardson

If you are looking for a fairly fair news roundup, this is not so bad.

[robin3mj]

Hers is great.

Will Leitch has a Saturday morning newsletter that has been a must read for me during Covid.

I subscribed to Padma Lakshmi’s but she doesn’t update much.

[bigbill]

I'm an Early Bird Brief fan. It is a collection of various news sources that slant towards the military but report on domestic issues as well.

https://www.defensenews.com/ebb/

[Noteddy]

Letters of Note - examples of history’s most interesting letters. https://news.lettersofnote.com/

Now I Know - interesting facts and the stories behind them. https://nowiknow.com/

Lyz Lenz - Thoughtful essays. https://lyzlenz.com/newsletter

[jclay]

I think Heather Cox Richardson is very good though I haven't see her address the US role in destabilizing Ukraine, you know, back when Victoria Nuland's happy cabal visited...."not one inch farther East"; well, just ask Native Americans how those sorts of agreements go. Gee, I wonder what would be the US response to Russia or China inviting one of our doorstep neighbors to enter their political/economic orbit?? I'm sure we'd be fine with it...but...for some reason that I can't quite put my finger on I get the feeling that we've been there before and got a little chaffed. A little island or something?

At the suggestion of my Italian brother I occasionally read naked capitalism: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/

More recently I was introduced to Moon of Alabama; this link is from my reviewing things Ukraine, and by extension CIA activity in the post WWII era: https://www.moonofalabama.org/.servi...ilter.q=nuland

But here's the deal; I don't think one needs to read too much to realize that folks in power rarely voluntarily relinquish it for the greater good; the applicability is universal, domestically and internationally. We've been rat-effing other countries and quite a few of our own citizens for a long time while deluding ourselves into thinking our country wears the white hats; it's from top to bottom...especially the three letter agencies and regular folk who aren't going to crack the cover of, say, "Capital in the 21st Century" or the stuff folks like Chalmers Johnson used to write. And now we're in a crescendo of rat-effing our own country and, sorry to be cliche, it is indeed being wrapped in the flag and selling remarkably well.

If we're an exceptional nation I think it's at being able to delude ourselves...in quite a few ways!

Back to my use-group hibernation; I kinda bounced out of the wagon this morning but I'm buckled in again.

[Too Tall]

No worries John, that's a useful reference or three.

[Bob Ross]

I'll start with Heather Cox Richardson

I read a crap-ton of online news from (among others) the Washington Post, New York Times, Fox News, NPR, BBC, AllSides, and Al Jazeera; my wife only reads two blogs, Heather Cox Richardson's and Jay Kuo's.

I'm pretty sure my wife is getting far better informed than I am.

[zetroc]

Lyz Lenz is great. So is Heather Cox Richardson.

I also read Adam Tooze, https://adamtooze.substack.com/

Anne Helen Petersen, https://annehelen.substack.com/

Max Read, https://maxread.substack.com/

Ashley Feinberg, https://www.trashberg.com/

Scacchi Koul, https://scaachi.substack.com/

Jamelle Bouie, https://www.nytimes.com/column/jamelle-bouie (NYT subscribers only)

Yair Rosenberg, https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/deep-shtetl/ (Atlantic subscribers only)


edit: oh, and Matt Levine's "Money Stuff" which is the best finance newsletter out there, bar none: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/au...tthew-s-levine

[Noteddy]

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edit: oh, and Matt Levine's "Money Stuff" which is the best finance newsletter out there, bar none: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/au...tthew-s-levine

Can second this. Informative and entertaining in equal parts.

[clunk]

For my money the best portal to engaging and thoughtful content on the interwebs is 3quarksdaily.com. If you’re willing to pay them $5/mo it will come to you ad-free. Bargain subscription IMO.

[Too Tall]

For my money the best portal to engaging and thoughtful content on the interwebs is 3quarksdaily.com. If you’re willing to pay them $5/mo it will come to you ad-free. Bargain subscription IMO.

Recommend of the week. Thanks bearded one.

[clunk]

My pleasure Toots. Enjoy.

[jclay]

I realized that my peripheral note relating the Heather Cox Richardson fell short (Gee, I wonder what would be the US response to Russia or China inviting one of our doorstep neighbors to enter their political/economic orbit??). I feel the need to correct it.

A more accurate analogy would be "With all of South America (since WWII) allied with Russia and Central America (since Reagan) largely tending the same way, I wonder what our reaction would be if Russia fomented an overthrow of Mexico's president, helped install a Russian leaning president, etc, etc??" Might we think it a tad unreasonable to lose that geographical buffer zone and object to such encroachment? Think we might send a wee bit'O military peeps'n stuff down that way?

I'm not inviting discussion on that subject area here, but I'm a bit disappointed that HCR hasn't (that I've seen) addressed that perspective. It seems pretty obvious.

I just sent her an email requesting that she address that issue in her Ukraine discussions; it's long odds for a reply I'd imagine but regardless of her stance it seems something that ought to be addressed.