tara mcgowan
@taraemcg.bsky.social
founder + publisher of @couriernewsroom.bsky.social 🔊 civic media + democracy evangelist 🇺🇸 speaking for myself 💁🏻♀️
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ICYMI Gloves Off, my @couriernewsroom.bsky.social series with the leaders who are actually rising to this moment in the fight against the cruel + corrupt administration is now live! Pls give my first episode with @jasmineforus.bsky.social a watch + hit subscribe! 🥊🎙️🙏 couriernewsroom.com/gloves-off/
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“Democrats have built their entire party structure on polite deference, seniority, and chasing bipartisanship as an outcome, as opposed to elevating the most talented and passionate politicians into roles in which they can make impact..." @meredithshiner.com newrepublic.com/article/1909...
“The authoritarian faction seeks to pick off dissenting voices one at a time, and cross-sector solidarity is the only bulwark against that tactic.” Collective action also requires media like COURIER that reaches Americans who arent reading substacks to engage🇺🇸 www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-white-...
One of the most important lessons I hope Democrats/progressives/people who care about democracy learn in the fallout of the election is the urgent, critical need to invest in owning + scaling our own media ecosystem to reach Americans with factual, values-driven, civic news + information.
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🚨The @couriernewsroom.bsky.social Cover-up team identified an unusual phrase + cultural reference in Epstein’s supposed suicide note the NYT published tonight that Epstein used multiple times in past emails in the files. Read @ninaburleigh.bsky.social’s full story: epsteincoverup.us/report/epste...
“We have none of the sense of mercy for eachother that the Epstein class displays for its own. That mercy comes from class solidarity; from the solidarity of patriarchy. And in their abiding mutual support, they encourage us to keep bickering.”@AnandWrites the.ink/p/the-epstei...
ICYMI - really important bombshell story + breakdown of how Peter Thiel is misleading black voters in Virginia about this week's redistricting ballot measure election by @couriernewsroom.bsky.social Contributor @thelisagraves.bsky.social www.graveinjustice.news/p/billionair...