(2025 7commitments)

Conscious news consumption: I haven't yet come up with when or why i will read news. This past weekend i was researching in response to various prompts: Sierra Club, for example, is fighting the repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 that brought all the green energy stimulus. I was trying to find our if there were specific things in the county, so i could post something on the county mailing list. (The one big thing that might bring jobs to the county is unpopular for several reasons, and seems likely to fail regardless of the federal funding.)

I now have four sources i am checking for responses to the anti-trans XOs. One is a substack, so i receive that in email. Filing the news in Zotero seems a way to hold emotions at bay, a sense of control.

NYTimes is still something i turn to more for diversion (Ooh, Grammy's red carpet!).

I've since found another NC news source that is free and apparently reliable, NC Newsline is part of a nationwide network of "non-partisan coverage of state policy." - https://statesnewsroom.com/

• https://ncnewsline.com/
• https://carolinapublicpress.org/
• https://www.theassemblync.com/