Note

The app for independent voices

so much for mass deportation of human traffickers

I quit drinking this year, as a test. Wanted to see if I could go a whole year after using alcohol to calm my nerves since I was a teen.

49 days into my experiment, it has not gone as expected.

49 Days Dry, Drowning in My Head

You made it, you own it

You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.

The Pillar
Sunday School; A Pillar Bible Study
Good fruit, bad fruit and the trees that bear them
0:00
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -43:16
-43:16

Great discussions

Join the most interesting and insightful discussions.

It is a major problem that Substack allows edits of comments and notes indefinitely without creating a record. What’s stopping me from going back and editing a note from five years ago, changing it to make it seem like I predicted the future?

I’ve seen debates in comment sections where people go back and make stealth edits to change what they said. This makes the site untrustworthy for establishing records of debates, or even keeping up with them in real time. Why even allow edits after a certa…

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, will be leading the rosary to pray for Pope Francis today at 3pm ET — 9pm Rome time.

Prayer is, of course, always good. But the pope’s health must be quite dire at this point.

Grow your publication on Substack

With recommendations, referrals, and a powerful growth network, Substack creators spend less time on marketing and more time on their craft.

And the thing is Mark Levin is still going to call it the Washington Compost

The Washington Post and Autocracy’s Asymmetric Advantage

Chapter books are a funny niche. Wedged in between early readers and middle grade, they are the first books with chapters that a child will read. With generous amounts of illustrations and only about 100 pages, they’re also often used as read-alouds for kids too young to read them alone.

And right now, they’re my favorite thing to write! Anyone else love to write chapter books?

You made it, you own it

You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.

The Retroist
The Retroist Podcast
Retroist Monkees Podcast
0:00
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -47:40
-47:40

Lawfare is tracking over 70 cases of legal challenges to the Trump administration’s executive orders and actions, as well as cases on behalf of the Trump administration to enforce them.

Check out the tracker here, updated by Anna Hickey: lawfaremedia.org/projec…

World-class writing

The best stories, ideas, and culture right at your fingertips.

African Drug Addict Disrupts Cabinet Meeting

Grow your publication on Substack

With recommendations, referrals, and a powerful growth network, Substack creators spend less time on marketing and more time on their craft.

For the love of reality…

Stop saying “biological” in front of male and female.

Not only is it ridiculously redundant, but you are submitting to the narrative that another type exists.

Taming a calf is one of my favorite things.

Grow Your Audience

Marketing isn’t all on your shoulders. More than 50% of all new free subscriptions and 25% of paid subscriptions come from within our network.

From the archives
Fr. Aaron Kuhn's suspension and the Catholic hierarchy's inept "rest and reassign" approach to priest sexual misconduct with adults

"This is not consistent with the American tradition, but it’s a pattern that history recognizes all too well. It is the advancement of an agenda through fear. It is the appeal to greed. It is the belief that might makes right."

New from

:

Senate Republicans Perfect the Art of Appeasement

You made it, you own it

You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.

Most Catholic men’s content swings between three extremes:

1. Brutalism: “Suffer more. Grind harder. Be tougher.”

2. Sentimentality: “Be nice. Be sensitive. Be holy.”

3. Theological Overload: Endless debate, overintellectualizing, and getting lost in the weeds.

Start Here: Your Mission Begins

It’s been a while! Work, illness, cats, family, christmas - everything has got in the way. Here’s an ‘out of print’ blog from a while back about using tarot in the course of the working day you might find of interest, plus a recent reading update!

Tarot for the Workplace
Jan 27
at
11:54 AM