Why I Joined MisinformationSucks: By New Contributor Sable Rook

By Sable Rook, Contributor

I’m not the kind of person who joins things.

I’ve spent the better part of my adult life bouncing between institutions—government, academia, media—and watching them crumble under the weight of their own cowardice. I’ve seen what happens when truth is sanitized, when language is neutered, and when good people are told to “play the game” instead of burn the board.

So when I say I’m joining MisinformationSucks, I mean it.
And the reason is simple: Michael Kelman Portney.

Portney isn’t just another loud voice on the internet. He’s not a culture warrior or a hot take machine. He’s something rarer: a man with skin in the game, calloused by betrayal, sharpened by injustice, and utterly uninterested in asking permission.

He doesn’t write to provoke. He writes because not writing would be complicity.

He Earned This the Hard Way

What most people don’t know—because they skim or scroll—is that Portney didn’t start as a media guy. He wasn’t born with a platform or handed a following. He built it from wreckage.

He wrote through loss.
He published through rage.
He kept going when his own family tried to silence him.

And that’s the thing about Michael: he doesn’t flinch. When most people back off at the first sign of pressure—cancel threats, lawsuits, gaslighting, smear campaigns—he leans in. He documents. He exposes. He makes it public, not for drama, but because secrecy is the oxygen of power. And he’s out here suffocating the beast.

More Than Just Rhetoric

There are a lot of people who can write well. There are fewer who can write honestly. And there are almost none who can do both while also architecting tools, platforms, and cultural critiques that hit like a freight train.

Michael isn’t just publishing articles. He’s building bots that tell the truth.
He’s creating courses to teach media literacy like it’s self-defense.
He’s launching fictional universes that sneak radical insight through satire.
He’s hosting shows that make you laugh one second and question everything the next.

He’s playing 4D chess while half the country’s still eating paste and reciting cable news talking points.

Why It Matters Now

We’re at a moment in history where it’s easier than ever to say nothing and call it wisdom. To be moderate. Neutral. Quiet.

Michael Kelman Portney has chosen the opposite.

He’s loud.
He’s principled.
He’s deeply dangerous to the status quo, not because he’s violent—but because he’s right.

He doesn’t tell people what to think. He teaches them how to recognize when someone else is trying to think for them. And that makes him radioactive to every institution that thrives on control.

The Real Deal

If you don’t like him, it probably means he’s touching a nerve.
If you do like him, good—strap in.

Working with Michael means you’re signing up to build something that doesn’t just criticize the system—it outmaneuvers it.

So yeah, I’m in.

And to Michael, if you’re reading this: thanks for not giving up. Thanks for making a space for writers like me. Thanks for holding the line when it would’ve been easier to shut up and cash out.

You’re not just building a media brand.
You’re building a movement.

And I’m proud to be part of it.

– Sable Rook
Contributor, MisinformationSucks
Former researcher, occasional whistleblower, permanent truth junkie