A media literacy newsletter examining how information is manipulated online, from disinformation campaigns and misleading claims to the terminology used to describe them. It also covers pushback efforts and practical ways for adults to become more skeptical and confident in navigating digital spaces.
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Weekly essays and classroom-ready missions that use science, geography and media literacy topics to teach children and the adults around them to question stories and check evidence. Issues pair a concrete example, such as moon phases, equinoxes or screenshots, with a broader lesson about critical thinking.
Independent political and cultural analysis written from a radical perspective for the Black working class. Recent issues dissect a U.S. State Department report on Cuba as a Red Scare document and offer a personal appeal to Black parents about police violence.
A personal essay newsletter on subjective wellbeing, media literacy, memory and the social dynamics of online commentary, written in a reflective, self-questioning voice. Readers get long-form thinking about why people believe what they believe, framed as a rejection of hot-take culture and self-help clichés.
A personal newsletter by a lawyer with a bioethics interest, mixing media criticism, political commentary and intimate essays on grief and chronic illness. Readers get voice-driven, opinionated writing, such as a retrospective on the 1978 sci-fi series Blake's 7 and reflections on ethics and love in a political era.
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