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Keeping Track of American Politics in 2026

Please note that all opinions are that of the author.

Last Updated On: 2026-02-15 08:01:34 -0500

In today’s INSANE political climate, here are the things I use:

  1. Memeorandum - The best current events News Aggregator I’ve ever used. I know the developer personally and I’ve never once seen bias in it.
  2. Archive.ph / Archive.is / Archive.today - See below for notes on this.
  3. TrumpActionTracker.info - This looks at Trump’s actions in a categorized way. Just go there. THIS IS BRILLIANT!
  4. ResistAndUnsubscribe.com (NOTE - this is a movement to unsubscribe from things NOT a tool for tracking things)
  5. Jmail.world - A load of the Epstein files into a Gmail style intercace

A shout out to Parkrose Permaculture for turning me onto #3 to #5.

The Miracle of archive.ph / archive.is / other archive variants

There is an unsung hero of the Internet. It is whoever the person or team that created:

archive.today / archive.ph / archive.is / many other variants

Here is a Wikipedia article about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today

I’ve been using this for years now and it is rarely if ever failed me.

What this tool does is let information junkies access virtually any information source – that another information junkies has deemed important enough to “archive”. This is, I believe, I’ve never done it, a JavaScript bookmarklet that sends a copy of the page you are reading WITH EVERY BIT OF THE CONTENT over the Internet to a secure server / servers located somewhere in the world.

Yes this is very, very, very illegal. And who the fuck cares about a single page view that is going to generate tens or hundreds or even thousands of click thrus? Because Internet content companies are too fucking stupid to distinguish between a user who helps them by sharing links versus an Internet user who doesn’t, they punitively charge everyone.

And it is not lost on me that this became even more acute in 2025 / 2026 when the need for news is more important than ever.

2025 is also the year that archive.ph / archive.today / archive.is STOPPED WORKING IN AMERICA.

Enter the need for a VPN. What I have found is that even though archive.ph / archive.is / archive.today doesn’t work in America in 2025, it works outside the US. What I have found is that by setting my country of origin to Germany (sometimes Brazil, sometimes Australia), I can reliably read anything from New York Times / Wall Street Journal / etc about 99% of the time.

Here’s how to do this:

  1. Turn on your VPN and set your country to Germany (or another; I just know that Germany usually works).
  2. Go to NY Times or wherever and copy the url to the link you want to read that got paywall blocked
  3. Go to archive.ph or archive.today or archive.is or whatever (the guy who makes this has like a dozen plus to get around different schemes to block him online) and in the second field – the BLUE one – paste your url and click search
  4. What you will find is usually 1 or many more versions of the content. The newest one is top left (I believe).
  5. And then go forth and read fucking anything you want.

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