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Negotiators Strike Deal for Climate Fund 🌎 Indigenous Climate Action 🌎 Elon Musk Is Not a Climate Champion

Negotiators Strike Deal for Climate Fund 🌎 Indigenous Climate Action 🌎 Elon Musk Is Not a Climate Champion

It’s Not You, It’s the Subway

It’s Not You, It’s the Subway

Another Transphobic NYT Article • The Predictable Crypto Scandal • Labor Strikes Back

Another Transphobic NYT Article • The Predictable Crypto Scandal • Labor Strikes Back

World’s Richest Man Ruins Twitter • No Red Wave • UN Climate Conference, Week 1

World’s Richest Man Ruins Twitter • No Red Wave • UN Climate Conference, Week 1

Maybe She’s Born With It…Maybe It’s the Crippling Weight of Living in an Anti-LGBTQ Hellscape

Maybe She’s Born With It…Maybe It’s the Crippling Weight of Living in an Anti-LGBTQ Hellscape

Big Oil’s Midterm Meddling 🌍 Reparations for Global South 🌍 NYT Publishes Fossil Fuel Talking Points

Big Oil’s Midterm Meddling 🌍 Reparations for Global South 🌍 NYT Publishes Fossil Fuel Talking Points

It’s Not You, It’s the Subway

It’s Not You, It’s the Subway

Pre-Election Special • Corporate Media Failures • Cuba & Brazil

Pre-Election Special • Corporate Media Failures • Cuba & Brazil

OptOut Media Foundation Launches Climate, LGBTQ+, New York Verticals

OptOut Media Foundation Launches Climate, LGBTQ+, New York Verticals

Fighting Climate Destruction • Jackson Water Crisis • Climate Activist Xiye Bastida

Fighting Climate Destruction • Jackson Water Crisis • Climate Activist Xiye Bastida

Antisemitism on the Rise • Unionizing Trader Joe's • A $28 Meal at Taco Bell

Antisemitism on the Rise • Unionizing Trader Joe's • A $28 Meal at Taco Bell

For People, Not Profit. Worthy of your support.

For People, Not Profit. Worthy of your support.

Finally, Student Debt Relief • Anti-LGBTQ+ Fascism • Education Justice in NOLA

Finally, Student Debt Relief • Anti-LGBTQ+ Fascism • Education Justice in NOLA

Inflation Reduction Act is Law • Florida Guv Tramples on Basic Rights • Liz Cheney, Liberal Hero

Inflation Reduction Act is Law • Florida Guv Tramples on Basic Rights • Liz Cheney, Liberal Hero

Monster Climate Deal Is Called Historic; Others Angered by Embrace of Fossil Fuel Industries

Monster Climate Deal Is Called Historic; Others Angered by Embrace of Fossil Fuel Industries

NYT Blames Workers for Inflation • A Climate Deal • Labor Solidarity

NYT Blames Workers for Inflation • A Climate Deal • Labor Solidarity

📲 Android App! • Roe Woes • Dems Want Biden Alternative

📲 Android App! • Roe Woes • Dems Want Biden Alternative

Corporate Media Must Stop Making Ads for Fossil Fuel Companies

Corporate Media Must Stop Making Ads for Fossil Fuel Companies

Juneteenth and the Fight for Equality

Juneteenth and the Fight for Equality

The Gun Epidemic • Who's Bankrolling White Nationalism? • Covid Surges

The Gun Epidemic • Who's Bankrolling White Nationalism? • Covid Surges

Understanding Buffalo: Rightwing Terror and ‘The Great Replacement’

Understanding Buffalo: Rightwing Terror and ‘The Great Replacement’

New Media Nonprofit Raises $150,000 to Distribute Independent News Content

New Media Nonprofit Raises $150,000 to Distribute Independent News Content

Amazon's Monopolism • Climate Transparency • Dark Pharma Money in Politics

Amazon's Monopolism • Climate Transparency • Dark Pharma Money in Politics

Media Nonprofit Launches Innovative Independent News App for iOS

Media Nonprofit Launches Innovative Independent News App for iOS

A Progressive Response to Ukraine • Texas Elections • Do Police Stop Crime?

A Progressive Response to Ukraine • Texas Elections • Do Police Stop Crime?

Spotify and Censorship, Fighting Poverty, and the Colonization of Puerto Rico

Spotify and Censorship, Fighting Poverty, and the Colonization of Puerto Rico

Women's Rights, Local News, Remembering Jake Varghese

Women's Rights, Local News, Remembering Jake Varghese

Climate Blunders, Local Gerrymandering, and Big Conservative Funder Bankrolls White Nationalists

Climate Blunders, Local Gerrymandering, and Big Conservative Funder Bankrolls White Nationalists

Racist Immigration Policy, Indigenous Climate Action, and Bari Weiss' Rightwing 'University'

Racist Immigration Policy, Indigenous Climate Action, and Bari Weiss' Rightwing 'University'

Dems Blow It, Labor Strikes Continue, and the Climate Cost of Capitalism

Dems Blow It, Labor Strikes Continue, and the Climate Cost of Capitalism

📺 A Worker-Owned Streaming Service 🗞️ Corporate Media Corruption 💪 the Strike Wave

📺 A Worker-Owned Streaming Service 🗞️ Corporate Media Corruption 💪 the Strike Wave

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Meet OptOut's News Curators!

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Meet OptOut's News Curators!

Dems Keep Stumbling, Indigenous People's Day & Taking on the Bosses

Dems Keep Stumbling, Indigenous People's Day & Taking on the Bosses

Corporate Dems Block Biden's Agenda, the Media's Climate Narratives, & Pfizer Funds QAnon Candidates

Corporate Dems Block Biden's Agenda, the Media's Climate Narratives, & Pfizer Funds QAnon Candidates

The American Health Care Debacle, Corporate Democrats' Corruption, and Haitian Migration

The American Health Care Debacle, Corporate Democrats' Corruption, and Haitian Migration

The War on Trans People & Other News from OptOut

The War on Trans People & Other News from OptOut

Weekend Picks: Extremism and U.S. Imperialism

Weekend Picks: Extremism and U.S. Imperialism

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Labor Day Picks!

Weekend Picks: Rest in Peace, Mike Gravel

Weekend Picks: Rest in Peace, Mike Gravel

Weekend Picks: Juneteenth, the corporate media, and regulating Big Tech

Weekend Picks: Juneteenth, the corporate media, and regulating Big Tech

Superstack: How to Upgrade From Substack to Ghost

Superstack: How to Upgrade From Substack to Ghost

Weekend Picks: Billionaires, Climate, and Bipartisan Attacks on Ilhan Omar

Weekend Picks: Billionaires, Climate, and Bipartisan Attacks on Ilhan Omar

Weekend Picks: Remembering Tulsa, Climate, Labor, and the Media

Weekend Picks: Remembering Tulsa, Climate, Labor, and the Media

Weekend Picks: Attacks on Workers and Palestinians

Weekend Picks: Attacks on Workers and Palestinians

Weekend Picks: Biden's performance, more atrocities in Gaza, and the new podcast oligopoly

Weekend Picks: Biden's performance, more atrocities in Gaza, and the new podcast oligopoly

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Negotiators Strike Deal for Climate Fund 🌎 Indigenous Climate Action 🌎 Elon Musk Is Not a Climate Champion

Negotiators Strike Deal for Climate Fund 🌎 Indigenous Climate Action 🌎 Elon Musk Is Not a Climate Champion

The best of independent climate news from the OptOut network.
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Nov
22
Facebook Is Replacing Its Human News Editors with AI

Facebook Is Replacing Its Human News Editors with AI

Support human-curated news!
1 min read
Nov
22
It’s Not You, It’s the Subway

It’s Not You, It’s the Subway

The stories that make New York. Independent, and curated—for you.
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Nov
20
Another Transphobic NYT Article • The Predictable Crypto Scandal • Labor Strikes Back

Another Transphobic NYT Article • The Predictable Crypto Scandal • Labor Strikes Back

The best of independent news from the OptOut network.
8 min read
Nov
13
World’s Richest Man Ruins Twitter • No Red Wave • UN Climate Conference, Week 1

World’s Richest Man Ruins Twitter • No Red Wave • UN Climate Conference, Week 1

The best of independent news from the OptOut network.
10 min read
Nov
10
Maybe She’s Born With It…Maybe It’s the Crippling Weight of Living in an Anti-LGBTQ Hellscape

Maybe She’s Born With It…Maybe It’s the Crippling Weight of Living in an Anti-LGBTQ Hellscape

We’re here, we’re queer, and we’re entitled to independent, curated news.
7 min read
Nov
09
Big Oil’s Midterm Meddling 🌍 Reparations for Global South 🌍 NYT Publishes Fossil Fuel Talking Points

Big Oil’s Midterm Meddling 🌍 Reparations for Global South 🌍 NYT Publishes Fossil Fuel Talking Points

The best of independent climate news from the OptOut network.
8 min read
Nov
08
Special Edition: OptOut’s Independent Media Guide to COP27

Special Edition: OptOut’s Independent Media Guide to COP27

OptOut of corporate media coverage of the world’s biggest climate summit of the year.
4 min read
Nov
08
It’s Not You, It’s the Subway

It’s Not You, It’s the Subway

The stories that make New York. Independent and curated for you.
6 min read
Nov
07
Oil and Gas Companies Fuel GOP Congressional Takeover Attempt

Oil and Gas Companies Fuel GOP Congressional Takeover Attempt

As it collects record profits, Big Oil is donating more than ever to the largest Republican super PACs.
6 min read