The first small step in making a better internet for each other is starting to establish a presence there that isn’t owned by a platform. Separate your self from Meta and Twitter and Substack and own your presence. Is it as easy? No, but it’s worth it.
This investigation of cops all over the place reselling tens of thousands of guns on the sly over YEARS in basically full knowledge of the feds who won’t prosecute should perhaps be a bigger story?
I went to write an essay looking back at the the seventh year of Punk Planet, but one of the issues we published that year felt too relevant to RIGHT NOW to keep the essay's focus on the past.
Read "Become the Media: Punk Planet, Year Seven" on my blog:
If you are traveling this week, consider listeing to Rebel Spirit. 10 incredible episodes about how change really happens. Hilarious and maddening and really, really good. I mean I helped make it so I’m biased (but it is).