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Besides here, where do yall get your news? I personally use some mainstream bourgeois sources and try to read them critically, but so much of that just feels like noise.
I do the same as you, check the bourgeois headlines and read them critically. There are also some email newsletters I subscribe to, such as Monthly Review’s mronline.org, consortiumnews.com, and Friends of Socialist China (socialistchina.org). For Palestine, my go-to source is Electronic Intifada electronicintifada.net.
Then for analysis of the news, Ben Norton’s Geopolitical Economy Report is great (though it can get repetitive if you watch every video, as he tends to go over the same information). Danny Haiphong does some good interviews, though they can be kind of hit or miss depending on who the guest is - same with India & Global Left. And of course Lemmygrad.
Edit: links were wonky so had to adjust them
dropsite and breakthrough news are solid in general imho. breakthrough is more explicitly socialist. it also depends on region: for LatAm, telesur is a good source. for Palestine, Aljazeera has good coverage (on anything else though its pretty western aligned). in the US, PSL publishes their party paper - Liberation News, but its a bit infrequent.
In my opinion, Drop Site News has some issues: they have a noticeable anti-Russia and anti-China bias, and they shill pretty hard for the U.S. socdem/demsoc politicians (Ryan Grim in particular seems obsessed with defending Graham Platner). That said, they do some great reporting on Palestine, and their Drop Site Daily newsletters can be useful for an overview of what’s happening broadly.
Yeah they definitely have some issues in that regard