gregpak.link
Just a bunch of useful links for 2025 and beyond. All human, no "A.I." Leaning towards local and independent. Compiled by your pal, comics writer and filmmaker Greg Pak.

GREG'S SITES
personal/political
newsletter
comics/film
newsletter

CALL YOUR REPS
Contact Info for All Your Representatives (Common Cause)
Contact info for NYC reps
5calls.org

NEWS
The 19th
404 Media
America's Voice
AssignedMedia.org
The Handbasket
ProPublica
Rolling Stone Politics
Teen Vogue Politics
Wired Politics

LOCAL NEWS
The City
Hellgate NYC
Kansas Reflector
Mississippi Free Press
NYC Streetsblog
Salt Lake Tribune
Texas Monthly
Texas Observer
Wisconsin Examiner

NON-BILLIONAIRE-OWNED SOCIAL MEDIA
Bluesky
Mastodon
Pixelfed
Cara

GOOD BLUESKY STARTER PACKS
People Who Get It
AANHPI Creator Rollcall
Practical Politics
Always Something We Can Do
Local US Journalists/Outlets
Independent Journalists/Outlets
Comic Book Shops

ALTERNATIVES TO SUBSTACK
Buttondown
Ghost
Beehiiv
WEBRINGS
YES WE BLOG!
Web Ring for Dorks

BLOGS
Angry Asian Man
Zach Barocas
Ralph Brandi
Preeti Chhibber
John Scalzi
Paul Tobin
Kate Watson

BRANDS I ACTUALLY DIG
Bonafide Masks
Bookshop.org
GoodwillFinds
Neocities.org
Pirate Ship
Signal
ShopGoodwill

BUY FOR GOOD CAUSES
Null's Protect Trans Youth swag
Shitty Camera Challege Swag benefitting the Trevor Project
LA STRONG - charity comic for victims of the LA fires

COOL GROUPS I'M STILL THINKING ABOUT HOW TO CATEGORIZE
iFixIt
Right To Be

COOL LINKS FOR MAKING YOUR OWN SIMPLE WEBSITE
Greg Pak on how (and why) to make a website
Neocities HTML course
HTML 2.0 example
HTML 4 Explained
onionring webring code
Neil Clarke on blocking "A.i." bots
ACTIVISM IDEAS/GUIDES/RESOURCES
One Million Experiments
Action Activists comics

PUBLIC HEALTH INFO
AMA Updates on Bird Flu
Journalist Resource's list of non-gov health data archives
Public Health Agency of Canada
CDC Archive - pre-01/27/2025

ADVOCACY / CIVIL RIGHTS
ACLU
AALDEF
AAPI New Jersey
Asian American Federation
BK Forge
CAAAV
Freedom Oklahoma
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
NAACP
NY AG - LGBQTIA+ Rights
New York Immigrant Coalition
NAKASEC.org
RAICES
Texas Civil Rights Project

POLITICAL ORGS
CAPA21
Common Cause
Fair Count
Higher Heights
Indivisible
Vote Forward
VoteRiders
Working Families Party
Washington County Democrats

POLITICAL REFERENCE
NYT chart of how US senators voted on Trump's nominees
Jonathan Cohn's US House Votes 2025 chart - "Is Your Rep Standing Up to Trump?"
Recent Senate Roll Call Votes
House Roll Call Votes
SOCIAL SERVICES/SUPPORT
AAPI New Jersey
BINC Foundation
Brigid Alliance
Hero Initiative
Huntsville's Free LGBTQ+ Closet
Maui Food Bank
New York Abortion Access Fund
North Texas Food Bank
The Family Place (Dallas)

IMMIGRANT RESOURCES
Immigrant Legal Resource Center's Red cards (listing immigrants' rights)
Make the Road's Deportation Defense Manual (NYC-specific)(pdf)
NY City Council Know Your Rights Resource Page
Immigrant Defense Project's Criminal-Immigration Helpline

EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
Stop Project 2025 comic
ACLU Immigrant Rights guide
NYC DOE Civics for All Comics

HISTORY/ARCHIVES
Data Rescue Project
Densho.org
Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab's data preservation project
Internet Archive's End of Term (US Gov) 2024 archive
United States Holocaust Museum Encyclopedia

PLACES TO DONATE CLOTHES IN DALLAS
The Family Place
Dress for Success

External Link Disclaimer: These links are being provided as a convenience and for informational purposes only. Greg Pak bears no responsibility for the accuracy, legality or content of the external site or for that of subsequent links. Contact the external site for answers to questions regarding its content. Thank you!


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