While (most) corporate media outlets are ignoring or downplaying the #HandsOff rallies, indie and nonprofits are not! For example, the #Philadelphia #Inquirer covered #HandsOffPhilly and other Delaware Valley protests. Support your #localnews that is likewise covering these events. Here’s a gift link courtesy of my Inky sub:
@GottaLaff Here’s a gift link courtesy of my #Inquirer subscription:
Booker’s message was powerful and simple: Just do something. Now it’s your turn
A senator's record-breaking speech showed Democrats, and America, that silence is not an option in the Trump era
2/5 Second is an article by #Philadelphia #Inquirer staff writer Julia Terruso:
#CoryBooker delivers record-breaking Senate floor speech protesting Trump’s actions for 25
#NewJersey #Democracy #GoodTrouble #localnews #USpol
Inky link: https://www.inquirer.com/politics/senator-cory-booker-filibuster-trump-administration-20250401.html
Paywall-free link: https://archive.ph/lj5XL
1/5 Forget the tariffs for a moment (Ugh.) Instead, marvel #NewJersey Senator #CoryBooker’s fabulous 25+ act of #GoodTrouble in service of #democracy. #USpol
Here are #localnews indie/nonprofit media coverage of Booker’s filibuster that I sub to!
First up, 1 of 2 articles in my hometown #Philadelphia #Inquirer. (Gift link!) An op-ed by the Inky Editorial Board:
“Over the course of 25 hours and 5 minutes, Cory Booker points the way to oppose Trump’s abuses of power”
https://share.inquirer.com/daKoh3
Last thing — 47 is about giving the University of Pennsylvania is about to get the Columbia treatment — but over allowing Lia Thomas, who is #trans, to swim.
Thomas graduated from Penn three YEARS ago.
Good reporting in the #Philadelphia #Inquirer. Gift link courtesy of yours truly.
@mastodonmigration 
It is totally possible to put together a indie / nonprofit media list from which to get your news! Like @ProPublica, @democracydocket, @guardian, and any number of newsletters or pods like Daily Beans (Mueller She Wrote). My hometown #Philadelphia #Inquirer is owned by the nonprofit Lenfest Center for Journalism: https://www.inquirer.com
@soc_i_ety Agree with @mastodonmigration
… And you do not have to be less informed! I curate my news differently now, with the #Philly #Inquirer, a couple of NJ-centric indie outlets, and some newsletters and pods. It’s a pain to start, but very manageable once you get going.
Vital read from the #Philadelphia #Inquirer:
“Philly scientists brace for a fight over #vaccines and health policy with the Trump administration”
Gift link from yours truly — but if y’all are looking for solid, local indie pubs to support, consider a sub to my hometown Inky. It’s run by the nonprofit Lenfest Center for #Journalism, not a zillionaire kowtowing to Mango Mussolini. #healthcare
@GottaLaff jfc 
… I’ll gladly stick with my hometown Inky, run by the nonprofit Lenfest Center for Journalism. #Philadelphia #Inquirer
Here is the link to Will Bunch's must-read wake-up call to complacent #journalists, DO NEWSPAPER COLUMNISTS KNOW THAT #DEMOCRACY IS CLOSER TO DEATH THAN #BIDEN?
Please #boost.
If you hit a paywall, no worries: we've created a thread with the entire column here: https://mastodon.social/@democratsabroad/112732782023624937
#journalism #law @journalismandcomment #Philadelphia #Pennsylvania #PA #Inquirer #Project2025 #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #dissent #legal #ruling #immunity @blackmastodon #BlackMastodon
@GottaLaff @willbunch #WillBunch is golden. I feel very fortunate to have such a talented writer on my region's paper of record, the #Philadelphia #Inquirer.
@shoq Nonprofit #journalism isn’t a panacea, but it is one option. The Lenfest Institute, created by the late philanthropist Gerry Lenfest, enabled the #Philadelphia #Inquirer to avoid acquisition by a hedge fund or similar organization.
@shoq @GreenFire FYI my local newspaper, the #Philadelphia #Inquirer, is just such a nonprofit thanks to the late Gerry Lenfest. (I've been a subscriber for years.) #journalism
Another great op/Ed by @willbunch in this mornings #philly #inquirer
"A democracy that truly flourishes is one in which workers can earn a living wage and thriving public schools life young people up where the air is breathable and injustice is stamped out."
Isn't that all of our wish?
