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.

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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! Yep, this goofy page is incredibly simple on purpose. Should load in an instant. No cookies or trackers or unnecessary graphics. HTML, baby! Hosted on neocities.org, which is a blast. © 2025 Greg Pak. Just say no to LLMs and generative "A.I." We're doing this old school.