I do at least 2-3 hours a day and it's beginning to feel like a crack addiction.
I am also realizing I get mad at the news so much, but at the end of the day if I don't use this information for some sort of praxis, what is even the point of just regularly getting mad?
I got a reputation at work for being the guy that actually knows what the hell is going on and so a lot of people ask me if anything important is happening. (Especially after I predicted to a bunch of lib customers fairly accurately when and what would happen at the capitol in January and I think I blew a bunch of people's minds).
Now I kinda feel obligated to bare the burden of spending hours a day looking at news feeds pouring over protest footage (and in rare cases to force myself to watch body camera footage to make sure I'm drawing my own conclusions, and not making flawed arguments) because someone's gotta radicalize people, or at least convince people who aren't really capable of participating in any sort of popular uprising not to fall prey to the deluge of propaganda they are showered in. I've gotten a few people totally hooked on Citations Needed this way too.
Predicted a few major things, too. Then my parent just ignores that and acts as if everything is so random. No! People are plan-full actors, they aren't all Tele Tubbies who cuddle with each other. Doesn't mean all the decisions taken are good, but if you get the motives, the structures and such a lot is explainable and understandable.
You gotta put in work to teach them about the long historical arc of American fascism, I think my success came from spending years beforehand trying to teach people on this subject and contemporary parallels to other past fascist movements, that way I could illustrate that I was not just being alarmist, or accused of being a conspiracy theorist, because it wasn't some shadowy secret concocted in back rooms it was in plane site weeks in advance if you were very online enough and payed attention to fringe right wing message boards and social media like Parler and That donald dot win site.