To think of doing a group blog with political opinion and commentary seems so … year 2000, when one considers that we now engage with each other on Facebook and Twitter threads, and build our sense of national issues and current events out of our social media feeds. 

But the downside, one that we realize especially given the past four years of disinformation and government propaganda, is that there is no actual place we can go to that might function as a portal, not just of opinions, but more importantly of the more important issues of our time. There is no way to file these insta-reactions that social media cradles—hashtags can be hijacked, and paid posts, influencers, boosted opinion, and troll farms allow for those with money to takeover public (social media) opinion.