Monday - Friday I read the email roundup from WTF Just Happened Today? (https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/) and then I also read/skim the transcript of the Democracy Now podcast (which feels better and more easily accessible to me than listening to the hour-long show). For international news and a non-US perspective I also check the homepage of Al Jazeera and go deeper as desired.
On Fridays I listen to the news roundup on the podcast It Could Happen Here (they call this series Executive Disorder), because the hosts are people with whom I share values and I appreciate that they cover big stories as well as things I might not hear about anywhere else.
I take the weekend off from checking things, and trust that if anything major happens I will hear about it (either out in the world or from my partner, who does still look at Instagram and who also uses Reddit).
Otherwise, I subscribe to a few newsletters from more topic specific activist spaces (such as the monthly roundup from Interrupting Criminalization) which helps direct my own action and attention in the places I want it to go.
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Great question! My personal process is this:
Monday - Friday I read the email roundup from WTF Just Happened Today? (https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/) and then I also read/skim the transcript of the Democracy Now podcast (which feels better and more easily accessible to me than listening to the hour-long show). For international news and a non-US perspective I also check the homepage of Al Jazeera and go deeper as desired.
On Fridays I listen to the news roundup on the podcast It Could Happen Here (they call this series Executive Disorder), because the hosts are people with whom I share values and I appreciate that they cover big stories as well as things I might not hear about anywhere else.
I take the weekend off from checking things, and trust that if anything major happens I will hear about it (either out in the world or from my partner, who does still look at Instagram and who also uses Reddit).
Otherwise, I subscribe to a few newsletters from more topic specific activist spaces (such as the monthly roundup from Interrupting Criminalization) which helps direct my own action and attention in the places I want it to go.