While we are, for sure, in the middle of a coup, we are also in a golden age of smart, grounded, and funny media that can help us keep moving forward. We are not interested in writing reviews. We are interested in collecting media – books, movies, podcasts, newsletters – that people might find helpful. We want media that pushes us, challenges us, and makes us rethink our framing or comfort. We want media that informs and teaches us. And we want media that makes us laugh and brings us joy.
We want media that will acknowledge that this is, in fact, a coup.
I am starting to think that this isn’t just a CoupUSA, the billionaires are trying to pull off a WORLD COUP!!
WELCOME!! This is the third installment from The Cranky Great Grandma! So! Here we are again. The plethora of absolute insanity that has been going on is absolutely mind-bending! First, we’re “taking” the Gaza Strip to turn it into a “Middle Eastern paradise”! ...
If we shut down the consumer industry, what are they going to do?
WELCOME!! This is the second installment from The Cranky Great Grandma! Well, well, well. What am I going to vent about this time? There is so much to choose from, as the last few weeks have showed us. From Rump’s circle jerk meeting with his best bud Putin, to...
Dick Durbin is why we can’t have nice things
As he announces his retirement, lets remember that Dick Durbin is why we can't have nice things. For me, this is personal. I am from Illinois and Dick Durbin is one of my senators. About six, maybe seven, years ago, I attended all of these fundraisers for...
It’s Mother’s Day, and this is still a Coup
On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.By Bill Shaner for Mother Jones, May 10th 2025China saw US tariffs coming. China's trade surplus with the US collapsed in Apr. '25 (black), but its surplus with others began rising in Jan....
It’s May 5th and this is still a Coup
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.By Ariel Wittenberg for Politico, May 6th 2025The whole administration is one giant conspiracy to scam U.S....
It’s May Day and this is still a Coup
The worst is not really covered as the worst.by Noah Berlatsky for Everything is Horrible, April 30, 2025BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Trump exceeded his authority in his Alien Enemies Act proclamation addressing alleged members of Tren de Aragua, issuing a...
It’s been 100 Days and this is still a Coup
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker sharply criticized fellow Democrats on Sunday for not doing enough to oppose President Donald Trump, drawing a clear divide between himself and other high-profile Democrats seen as future presidential contenders. By Joey Cappelletti and Holly...
It’s April 23rd and this is still a coup
A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop.By Emily Mullin for Wired, April 24, 2025 12:55 PMAh yes, the government asking Jews to register as...
We are dying potatoes instead of eggs because this is still a coup
Donald Trump’s favorite pet projects just had a terrible day in court.by Hafiz Rashid for The New RepublicApril 18, 2025BREAKING: Ninth Circuit denies Trump administration's request to enforce its anti-trans military ban during the administration's appeal of...
It’s April 14th and this is still a coup
The Trump administration wants to send anyone it wants, including U.S. citizens, to foreign prisons. Keeping Abrego Garcia in El Salvador is key to that lawless plan.by Chris Geidner for Law Dork, April 14, 2025Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns....
We are back from Spring Break and this is still a coup
Lawmaker says the removal of scholarly material from library databases would provoke backlash in a state where minorities have fought for equal access to education.by Michael Goldberg and Candice Wilder for Mississippi Today, April 8, 2025The person who runs the Libs...
This month is almost fucking over and we are still in a coup.
As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is certainly a policy of obfuscation,” an expert said.By Joshua Kaplan...
It’s March 26th, and the coup is on Signal
Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the HudsonBy Rashid Khalidi for the Guardian, 3-25-2025NEW: The Trump administration invokes the state-secrets privilege, saying it will give Judge...
It’s March Madness and this is still a coup
The domestic terrorism designation could give law enforcement sweeping authority to surveil people protesting against Elon Musk’s role in the US federal government, civil liberties experts warn. By Caroline Haskins for Wired, 3-22-2025In the weeks ahead, students,...
March 18th – this is still a coup
A draft lawsuit being floated to attorneys general in several states argues Congress must call a convention over the national debt. But the legal theory mixes and matches petitions from states dating back to 1789. By Phoebe Petrovic, Wisconsin Watch, for ProPublica,...
It’s the Ides of March and this is still a coup
West Ada School District administrators have instructed a teacher that she must remove two signs from her classroom out of concern that they “inadvertently create division or controversy,” the district told the Idaho Statesman. By Sally Krutzig for the Idaho...
What to do if ICE comes to your workplace
Thank you, Rhiannon from 5 to 4 Pod, for posting the above graphic to Blue Sky. WHAT TO DO IF ICE COMES TO YOUR WORKPLACE ICE agent comes to workplace Review agent’s identification and obtain a business card Ask the agent to step into an office or room off the...
March 13th, it’s still a coup.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) may have violated House ethics rules on Wednesday by calling on the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate protests against Tesla–a company in which she has a financial interest, buying stock in it as recently as last week.By...
March 10 – we lost an hour and we are still in a coup.
Vaccines. Fluoride. Autism. Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.By Annie Waldman and Lisa Song for ProPublica, 3-10-2025The National Cancer...
It’s a Coup
Look, we don't know how to stop fascism. We have read and listened to very smart people who have made some very smart suggestions. We agree that Nazis should be punched, but we are not the punching type. We believe that the actions being taken should be resisted at...
March 7th – this is still a coup.
The Trump administration’s massive federal cuts and swelling feelings of economic uncertainty helped fuel a recession-level spike in layoff plans last month, new data showed Thursday.By Alicia Wallace for CNN, 3-6-2025NEW: Campaign Legal Center files new lawsuit...