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RFK Jr's FIELD of Red Flags: Plenty of Reasons to Dismiss His Nomination
Let’s talk about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. the one-time 2024 DEMOCRATIC PARTY presidential primary candidate. He’s now the nominee to be Trump’s HHS Secretary, amazingly enough. Politics can create a hell of a character arc.
Indie's Origin Story
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UPDATE: Consortium News Website is Back! | BREAKING: Consortium News Website HACKED!
**UPDATE 10/29/24 1:30pm ET: CN tweeted earlier today that they had restored the website but were still working on regaining access to the publisher. By noon ET they had that back and just published their first article back…
Rumble Rants RIP OFF Creators | Rumble Gaming Launches | Sputnik US CLOSES | Rokfin Pays SHORT & STILL Ghosting INN
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Rokfin October Update: Not Looking Good
Intro This is another follow up/companion to Rokfin, Video Publishing Platform: Financial Trouble?, published September 16.
Rokfin: Who Would Buy Them and Why?
UPDATE (Sept 17, 2pm ET): I’ve heard from multiple creators that they received RAE into their wallet beginning last night, with no further explanation from Rokfin beyond the one we received below.
Rokfin: Crypto Challenges
UPDATE (Sept 17, 2pm ET): I’ve heard from multiple creators that they received RAE into their wallet beginning last night, with no further explanation from Rokfin beyond the one we received below. My channel has not been paid out yet.
Rokfin: Experiencing Technical Difficulties as a Video Platform
UPDATE (Sept 17, 2pm ET): I’ve heard from multiple creators that they received RAE into their wallet beginning last night, with no further explanation from Rokfin beyond the one we received below. My channel has not been paid out yet.
Rokfin, Video Publishing Platform: What Is Going On? Financial Trouble? A Sale?
UPDATE (Sept 17, 2pm ET): I’ve heard from multiple creators that they received RAE into their wallet beginning last night, with no further explanation from Rokfin beyond the one we received below. My channel has not been paid out yet.
Jill Stein Sounds Great, But The System Is Still The Problem. None of the Above 2024.
There is a lot of positive energy around the Jill Stein campaign from leftists and independents. She just named her running mate, a man nobody has heard of nationally named Butch Ware. She put out a very aggressive policy position on what she would do for black people if elected.
America: The Brainwashed
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How Much for That Running Mate Seat, Bobby?
I am NOT a fan of Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and have never really been one. I know he did some good work as an environmental lawyer. He’s also called out big pharma on some of their corruption, but mostly he’s a tangled web of his own ego.
So We're All Just Going to Go Along, Huh?
As someone who is fiercely anti-duopoly and anti-corporate-media, I am able to disconnect from the emotion of wanting someone to win and analyze the behavior from a neutral perspective. I want BOTH parties to lose, even though one will inevitably win. ALL of the federally elected officials in Congress, the President & the VP - up to and including the pe…
BREAKING NEWS: Amazon Labor Union RATIFIES their affiliation with Teamsters
Incredibly Low Turnout, Combined With A Masterful PR Effort, Delivered Desired Results For Teamsters and Amazon Labor Union Leadership
GREAT NEWS! Stripe "Reinstates" The Last American Vagabond's Account: UPDATE
Fantastic news! We found out yesterday morning (the day before the account was to be terminated) that Stripe has reversed their decision to terminate The Last American Vagabond’s account and they will be allowed to continue in good standing - as they should…
EXCLUSIVE: A BIG Vulnerability for Substack and Creators: Stripe Payments
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DNC Openly Hiring 3rd Party Infiltrators: Targeting RFK Jr, Jill Stein, Cornel West
On Friday afternoon, May 24 I saw a post on Facebook that blew my mind. Posted by Indie Media Awards honoree Primo Radical, containing a job listing for the Democratic National Committee, OR DNC. The role is for an “Independent & Third Party Project Manager,” and it encompasses a LOT of ground. He included 2 screenshots with details of the job …
Kyle Kulinski, Krystal Ball & Jill Stein: Don't Get Fooled Again!
Yesterday, Jill Stein’s campaign for President announced that pseudo-celebrity podcasters and YouTube hosts Kyle Kulinski and his wife Krystal Ball are “endorsing” the potential Green Party Presidential nominee - and lots of people are getting excited. Apologies to their fans and sycophants, but I’m going to throw a deluge of water on that excitement, c…
BREAKING:😮 COLLAPSE of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, MD (30 Second Video!!! OMG!!)
March 27: An update from Sal Mercogliano from What’s Going on With Shipping, the morning after the accident with detailed analysis and breakdown of the route, an assessment of the damage to the ship and to the area and more. Give this YouTube channel a follow - Sal provides excellent info all the time. He’s grown a channel from 0 to 200k+ subscribers in just 4 years.
INN BLOCKED! Chris Smalls and Amazon Labor Union Dismiss Critics
Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls responded publicly Thursday, February 29 to a post on Twitter at 12:39pm ET announcing an Exclusive INN livestream scheduled to take place later that same evening (organized and led by yours truly). The discussion was with 4
Rumble Under Attack Again
Rumble ($RUM) has been the target of the nanny state and censors lately. Yesterday, Wired Magazine announced in an exclusive that “The SEC confirmed to WIRED that the financial regulator has launched an investigation involving Rumble, a “free speech” video platform. The nature of the probe remains unknown.”
BREAKING: Rumble UPGRADES Again! Adds a Livestream Studio & Static Stream Keys: Indie's Tech Tips
Rumble, the up-and-coming video platform challenging YouTube, has launched the Beta version of Rumble Studio, a web-based multi-platform livestreaming app. Learn all about it here. If you’re familiar with Streamyard, Streamlabs & Restream, you will like what you see here.
Rumble Video, Good And Bad: A Comprehensive Analysis | Are They Overinflating their View Counts?
Let’s talk about Rumble, the video platform. As someone who’s been amplifying & creating anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist independent media the past few years, I’ve seen YouTube censor plenty of creators. Channels and people I watch have been demonetized, others temporarily suspended for “TOS violations” that are never clear, a few were outright kicked …
Not You Too, Substack! Stay Out of Promoting Content. Be a Platform.
Here we go again. I have been incredibly hopeful about the potential and possibilities of Substack - a platform & community I have come to enjoy being a part of, and have encouraged many others to participate in. But I have some serious concerns about it at the moment, and am worried that I am setting myself up to be heartbroken.
What to Expect In September from Indie Media Today
Hi Everyone! I feel like I fall short sometimes communicating what’s going on with everything I work on every week, and I’m sorry for that. Not sure how many of you even noticed the dropoff in posts/emails so far this month, but we are taking September off from our Sunday night show,
What Has Indie Been Up to in May?
Here's just some of what we've been working on at Indie Left Media for the month of May: Making shorts/vertical videos from How Did We Miss That and INN News Preparing to launch a new show - "Bitch with Comrade Misty" on INN starting in one week! We set up INN on Tiktok & we're posting there now too!
Indie Media Today's Substack Stats and Growth Since Notes Launched on April 8, 2023
I love this platform - been on here for 2+ years, and it just keeps getting better. I thought I’d share a couple of interesting metrics with you from our Stats section, starting the day Substack launched Notes (April 8, 2023) thru 2:30pm ET on May 2, 2023. Would LOVE to get input/feedback/advice on what YOU see:
ANNOUNCEMENT: The Future of Indie Left News' website
I want to start by thanking everyone so much for your support since we started our indieleft.news newsletter back in March 2020 (originally named Progressive News Daily for the first 6 months). Unfortunately, the platform and host of our indieleft.news
Documenting Our Progression on Substack for 2+ Years! Excited to Go "Next Level" with NOTES | @SubstackInc @IndLeftNews @IndieMediaToday @GetIndieNews
Substack is an outstanding hub for content creators - publishers, livestreamers, writers, podcasters, independent outlets can all house their work there and share it to social networks, plus GET PAID by their fans and subscribers. We started to embrace daily posting on Substack about 2 years ago (May 2021), as a way to showcase the videos (and at the ti…
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BREAKING: Substack vs. Twitter - Poking Bears Has Consequences | Special Report @IndieMediaToday @SubstackInc @Twitter @TwitterAPI
This is a tough one to write. I LOVE what Substack has been doing for the past 2 years - it’s why we’re here and we advocate for most content creators to take advantage of the power of Substack. We have to look objectively at why Twitter is now restricting access to people linking to their published Substack articles
Our New Mission: Unplug From Corporate Media
Let me start by saying: I am FAR from the first person to recognize or write about this, but after a ton of analysis & talking it over with a TON of different people from different perspectives, I’ve identified what is probably our largest impediment to moving forward positively as a society in the USA right now:
Hunter Biden Laptop, Social Media, Censorship & AI ChatBots - Let's Have Some Fun!
Having some fun, we decided to get on the AI Chatbot train. If you haven’t heard about the ChatGPT AI chatbot sensation, check out this CNET article explaining it. We created a test account at https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/, which has been all the rage in some circles over the past few weeks.
Amazon Labor Union & Chris Smalls: Sadly, Many Red Flags
Let’s talk about Chris Smalls, the Amazon Labor Union President. We LIKE Chris. We deeply admire his tenacity, his care for the health and safety for the workers of JFK8 (the Amazon warehouse on Staten Island he was fired from), and for the relentlessness he’s sustained for more than two years as he became a national figure, which he clearly never sough…
RIP to Redacted Tonight & RT America - And We Are All Poorer for It
I’ve been watching Redacted Tonight for years; since I got a smart TV and noticed it on my Pluto App. Since before I started aggregating & publishing news. I also used to subscribe to DirectTV and remember watching Redacted on RT America thinking it was WAY funnier than any comedic news show on commercial TV.