Facebook Groups are garbage, but everything is in such a degraded state that they might look OK in 2026.

What's really needed is journalism done by professionals who are paid like professionals. That's a 100x better than any Facebook Group.

Oh, Groups sucks ass. I dream of figuring out a way to move the discourse even just to Reddit. But people talking to each other and keeping each other up to date on what's happening, with electeds and staff participating, and with decent moderation is going to trounce anything professional journalists can accomplish in this setting.

That's not true of regional and national journalism. We need someone doing that work in Springfield, the state capital. We'd all be better off if we pooled the money that was going to suburban local newspapers and sent it there.