It turns out Denver-based media personality David Sirota’s new gig, announced amid some fanfare last month, won’t happen. Evidently, the venture he was about to join doesn’t have enough cash.

As we reported on Inauguration Day, the politically leftward, unflinchingly outspoken columnist, onetime radio talker, activist and all-round rabble rouser had been tabbed to take the reins of a new left-of-center national news organization that was said to be the brainchild of liberal Washington fund-raiser, journalist and activist David Brock. Brock’s True Blue was being touted as a counterpart to the controversial right-wing Breitbart organization that is said to serve as virtual scripture for Team Trump.

Today, Sirota posted this on Facebook:

No word on whether Sirota will return to (or perhaps he never left?) the New York-based International Business Times, where alongside his well-established reputation as a political provocateur, he has nailed down his bona fides as a hard-charging and groundbreaking investigative journalist.