Instead check out @zeteo.com @propublica.org @flaminghydra.com @404media.co @wired.com @marisakabas.bsky.social and the like. If you've got an independent site or individual journalist you love, add them to the replies here.

Keep in touch, Yinz. Follow us at @stacypgh.bsky.social, @colinbwilliams.com, @awaltz.bsky.social, @marsjohnson.bsky.social, @alitrachta.bsky.social We will miss you. 💔

My friends, free people of the world. We in Gaza are living through hell, especially during this winter season. We have no shelter, no heating, nothing. Please help us raise money for blankets and warm clothes for the children. Please donate and share this post. chuffed.org/project/1641...

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

People in Gaza continue to need our support, particularly through this harsh winter. Please give to the Gaza Soup Kitchen, which provides food and medical aid to thousands daily.

I do not pretend to know what 2026 holds but I do know this shitty year is over

Hey, this has been a pretty shitty year for me professionally. Please consider becoming a subscriber to my newsletter (free or paid) at www.readtpa.com or my Patreon (paid) at patreon.com/parkermolloy Thanks.

In one of my final two pieces for the year, I wrote about why I couldn’t stop trying to solve mysteries in 2025 aftermath.site/mystery-game...

Inside me are 2 wolves: One that wanted to go off on a tangent about The Chair Company best capturing the sense of still having to work in a rapidly unraveling world, and the one that's an editor who knows better

Just hit publish on @avclub.com's year in review, which could not possibly include ALL of our favorite pieces of 2025, but it does reflect where we've been and where we're going. www.avclub.com/best-of-the-...

The three branches of government

Regaling my fellow baptism attendees with the plot of the Chicago-set film Primal Fear

At church on a Sunday for the first time in 30 years

On Christmas help some children who don’t have big piles of presents if you can ❤️

Merry Christmas! Let's gift ourselves the better world we deserve by making it. 💗

Identity fraud is okay when she does it

getting my priorities straight

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

we begin our journey through Babylon 5! my review of The Gathering is free to everyone, so please check it out, share it widely, and consider subscribing if you'd like to follow along!

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

On a recent trip to New York, Rhett Miller took a break from touring with The Old 97’s to drop by Chelsea Studios and join us for an all-new season of A.V. Undercover. Watch his full cover of Nick Lowe's "Cruel To Be Kind" here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXiI...

In honor of the premier of AV undercover, my favorite performance: @themountaingoats.bsky.social cover of Boxcar. I wish I had a 7” of this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgo5...

I know, it’s been roughly 87 years (or 7 mos.) since we announced A.V. Undercover’s 10th season—the Oops! All Alums one—but I think it was worth the wait. OK Go kicked things off today w/ “There She Goes.” Look for ep. 2 on Monday!

We once again invited TCA members to select their favorite piece of writing from the past 12 months. The entries listed represent a wide swath of journalism and criticism, and spotlight an impressive range of TV — from long-running series to the latest releases.👇 www.tvcritics.org/tca-2025-end...

New attack on immigrants: the Trump administration is demanding that Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices start drumming up “100-200 denaturalization cases per month.” Normally a naturalized citizen cannot be stripped of citizenship unless they committed fraud on their application. 🎁

Rapid Response teams are reporting in across Chicago's southwest side and collar suburbs. Federal agents' presence also reported around 8 am this morning in the Back of The Yards neighborhood, per Southwest Side Rapid Response.

Blurbed vision

Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...

Oh, just on track for the lowest it’s ever been in the 21st Century… No big deal or anything, definitely wouldn’t want that in the headline or anything…

I have some news: I am helping my friends at @404media.co make a zine. I just knocked out the layout last week. It was awesome and I hope to do more stuff like it. www.404media.co/404-media-is...

It's day TWENTY-FIVE of our national ULP strike. You know our baristas are dedicated when they're running picket lines in these freezing temps. ⛄️ We're ready to keep fighting until Starbucks stops union busting and delivers a fair contract! #NoContractNoCoffee

I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism. A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count. If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Year-end critics’ lists exist for people to fight over, so I’m happy when people complain about them. But the complaint I will never get is, “I’ve never heard of most of these movies/albums/shows.” Yes, and? Why be mad about learning about stuff you didn’t know before from the news?

This "time is a flat circle"-ass year

An Onion print membership remains $75 for Cyber Monday. A year's worth of papers to your real-life mailbox. Arguably too many people sign up just for the ads. Here are some that were posted to Bluesky this year by members. Sign up now. Use it as wrapping paper: membership.theonion.com

If you're in Chicago, consider signing this petition to be firing a warning shot at these companies who think shared public property is a private right of way

FYI: Nathan Rabin needs your love and appreciation right now. He was in a very significant car crash earlier this week and is in the hospital recovering. (His family was also in the car, they’re fine, but he got the brunt of the injuries.) Now’s a good time to support him: www.nathanrabin.com

Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.

Thanks so much to Luke for working with me on some thoughts I've been trying to gather since I realized how far back we might be going

seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte

Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.

Some news: I was let go as EIC of Splinter as it's getting downsized and rolled into Jezebel. I'll still write there a couple times a week as Editor at Large.