LeftTimes

LeftTimes was led and curated by Yoshi Tryba.

I first created LeftTimes in 2017 in response to three trends:

1. a lack of investigative journalism and progressive op-eds in mainstream media
2. a blossoming of independent, niche publications (increasingly in the 2020’s on Substack)
3. the tendency of social media algorithms to produce information bubbles filled with click-bait rather than informative content from mixed perspectives.

After 8 years, I’ve decided to discontinue LeftTimes for several reasons:

I find myself less and less aligned to the original ideological convictions of this project.

• Internet trends are not pointing in the direction of curated aggregation, but instead algorithmic personalization.
• The RSS feed technology upon which this site was built is no longer useful.
• I find myself less and less aligned to the original ideological convictions of this project.