From It's Going Down
About a year ago, we announced a hiatus on this project. Due to an outpouring of support, we pushed ourselves to continue, and over the last year, we’re proud of the interviews and roundups we’ve been able to produce.
But as events in the United States have continued to escalate and conditions have grown more dire, it’s clear that IGD does not have the capacity to meet the moment as a hub for grassroots reporting and journalism. In the face of this reality, we feel its important to be clear about our inability to continue, in the hopes that more people can push themselves to build and grow media projects and platforms.
We should all have a sober and clear-eyed view of what is happening. The current administration is attempting to consolidate extreme authoritarian power. People are being silenced and working-class people are being attacked. A police state is being constructed. Conditions are worsening. Inflation and prices are exploding and the entire country feels like it is slipping into dictatorship and economic collapse, as most people struggle to put food on the table.
While this reality is bleak, we are excited about the flood of new media projects taking off and reporting from the ground level and covering evolving social movements. We want to take a moment to shout out some of these projects and encourage you to support and follow them:
- It Could Happen Here
- Unraveled
- The Wreckage
- The Final Straw
- The Dugout
- The Beautiful Idea
- Live Like the World is Dying
- CrimethInc.
- TruthOut
- Feel the News
- Freedom News
- Green and Red Podcast
- SubMedia
- We Will Free Us
- Left Coast Right Watch
As corporations and the State consolidate news into fewer hands and the far-Right pushes to silence those who speak out, the need for dynamic and vibrant grassroots media that amplifies working-class voices and gives a platform to social movements is needed now more than ever. We hope those that enjoyed IGD over the years can help in constructing new infrastructure that can help meet our present moment.
Comments
Imagine writing the sentence…
anon (not verified) Wed, 10/22/2025 - 16:49
Imagine writing the sentence "a police state is being constructed" in an obscure leftist digi-rag TWENTY THREE YEARS after the passing of the Patriot Act.
The US government was doing extrajudicial killings before IGD was ever discussed in a Brooklyn Starbucks the first meeting.
Good riddance! Would love to see an audit of where all those Patreon bucks went (many soy lattes).
Damn, that's crazy. RiP to…
triviabot (not verified) Wed, 10/22/2025 - 20:58
Damn, that's crazy. RiP to IGD. Does the new internet still have a niche for counterinfo? Or is the whole point to break out of a niche and have a viral idea? So many unanswered questions. "Bleak" is a good descriptor.
Was IGD really counterinfo?…
anon (not verified) Thu, 10/23/2025 - 12:18
In reply to Damn, that's crazy. RiP to… by triviabot (not verified)
Was IGD really counterinfo? When a site enforces a dogmatic editorial line and doesn't allow commenting I don't see how where's the "counter" part. For sure there could be more indy forums. Kolektiva is a thing... even if flooded with liberals and your usual coding techies crowd bragging about their 8-bit dungeon crawler games written in Rust coz it's so edgy.
... what does "counter info"…
lumpy (not verified) Fri, 10/24/2025 - 10:19
In reply to Was IGD really counterinfo?… by anon (not verified)
... what does "counter info" have to do with allowing comments at all?
literally every platform has an editorial line.
how did your brain even make these connections?
Anews when?
anon (not verified) Thu, 10/23/2025 - 02:01
Anews when?
Would love to hear more…
anon (not verified) Thu, 10/23/2025 - 09:37
Would love to hear more about why you don’t feel like you have the resources to continue in this moment?
Free Peppy!
anon (not verified) Thu, 10/23/2025 - 11:29
In reply to Would love to hear more… by anon (not verified)
Free Peppy!
By this point, IGD is Jimmy…
EmmaAintDead Thu, 10/23/2025 - 11:47
By this point, IGD is Jimmy Kimmel and anarchistnews is Matt Damon.
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