In the past I have used Reddit and Twitter as my main news aggregators, but obviously those are going down the toilet. What are some good places to go to get some good news? (aside from here of course!)

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I personally really like First Thought on youtube. It’s self-described as “openly biased towards marxist principles”. Honestly the funny part is that the reporting is less biased than some well established companies, their bias is inserted after the main reporting to explain how it relates to socialist principles. It’s a channel run by JT, Hakim, and Yugopnik

    • MrVilliam@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      WHAT THE FUCK.
      I’ve been subscribed to Second Thought for years and I’ve never once even heard of First Thought. If the YouTube algorithm were actually interested in pushing content I were interested in, that should’ve come up at some point. I know it seems paranoid, but I can’t think of any rational explanation for why I’m just now hearing about it other than that YouTube doesn’t want people to know about that channel for some reason.
      I thought “Second Thought” was just a clever name, like “on second thought, after doing some basic research, capitalism is bad and Americans have just been brainwashed into defending it and it’s time to start understanding that en masse.”

      • nonsense_boyo@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        Oh the First Thought channel is relatively new, around 3 months or so? That would probably explain it. I’ve been enjoying it as well!

        • MrVilliam@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Oh okay, good. I have been busy the past few months so I haven’t watched Second Thought lately. I bet he mentions First Thought in his videos these days.

          • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
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            1 year ago

            Also in their podcast, The Deprogram. If you like their main channels and the small amount of analysis they put up on the First Thought channel, you’d probably like some of their discussions in The Deprogram podcast too.

            • RedCowboy@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              I catch every episode of the podcast and First Thought and I hardly even watch the main channels anymore

  • StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    The Guardian (not leftist, buuuut…)

    Some More News (weekly single issue YouTube vid)

    Even more news (podcast variant of previous, has SMN episodes, and occaisonal extra stories)

    Liberation News

    Edot: formatting, forgot TN Holler (mid south regional paper, focused on TN, occasionally talks bout the surrounding states)