Boy, it’s a terrible, terrible political moment! I’m not focusing Lightplay in that direction right now, but I want to shout out three publications that I have been finding essential in these times: Jason Kottke’s kottke.org, Ryan Broderick’s Garbage Day, and Rusty Foster’s Today in Tabs. I’m sad that these publications—a “cool stuff” linkblog and two roundups of Internet/literary/shitposty drama—have had to pivot to covering the democracy beat. But with the big newspapers treating the ongoing coup with a stance I would describe as “blasé chic,” these three writers are doing key work in curating stories that, taken together, help me understand the big picture.