This is the Tangle Sunday Edition, a brief roundup of our independent politics coverage plus some extra features for your Sunday morning reading.
What the right is doodling.
What the left is doodling.
Reader essay.
Award-winning producer Stephanie Lepp is concerned about some of the same stuff we are: hyperpartisanship, and an aversion to having hard conversations. She set her mind to addressing that problem, but in a much different way that we are at Tangle. Stephanie tells us all about her project in today’s reader essay, and you can read her full piece here.
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Reader review.
In this section, we like to include reader responses that counter or challenge opinions we publish in the newsletter. In a comment on our story on the stock market disruption, commenter LCalamar gave their reasoning for why we should ignore the coverage:
This type of 'news' item is a wet dream for mainstream media.
It creates a large amount of meaningless 'noise' and degrades into speculation, political jabbing and nothing of any value.
We need to remember that what happens in the stock market is not directly tied to the economy. The stock market is controlled by a very very small amount of industrial traders who are just pulling the strings on how they can make as much money as possible with no regard to the 99.99% of the rest of us.
Remember that .01% of industrial traders are the same people who control MSM — so it's pretty much a full court press on creating drama and anxiety...
Best to ignore....
Tangle’s main stories this week were the U.S.-Russia prisoner swap, the global market disruptions, Tim Walz as Vice President Harris’s running mate, and the Olympic boxing controversy. For full versions, you can find all of our past coverage in our archive.