Hey y'all. So how you feeling? Some of us are starting to get our strength back.

That resolve that says no matter how you try to pry what I fought for my entire life

from my hands, you're not going to get it.

This legacy here in America, even though you think it belongs to you, belongs to all of us.

And you can't just come all willy-nilly trying to take it.

And some of us are still tired.

And it's not just because it's the week after a holiday if you celebrate.

It's because, yeah, watching America continue to make the same choice for white supremacy,

patriarchy, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia,

general all-out xenophobia and whackness, it's pretty depressing.

Some people have decided to stop doom scrolling, to take care of their hearts.

Some people have decided to stop watching the news altogether,

or they've been really judicious about exactly how they are consuming the news.

Turning off cable television, turning on more podcasts, we appreciate that always,

and reading more long-form, well-researched pieces from reliable, genuine journalists who are

unafraid to tell the truth. Sometimes it can feel like that latter group of folks don't come

along too often. Why is that? Well, in the face of fascism, the job of the journalist requires

far more courage than it did before. And it was

already a job that necessitated plenty of bravery.

On the show today, as we continue to wrap our minds around what 2025 will look like for all of us,

we turn to the role that media is playing in our political lives.

Max Tani, the media editor at the newsroom at Semaphore, has been thinking and writing about this a lot lately.

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