Substack is in danger of collapsing under its own weight. There are just too many worthy accounts here now to expect readers to cough up $5 for every writer they want to read. There needs to be some kind of subscription/revenue sharing mechanism so subscribers aren’t constantly asked for money for every damned article they’d like to read. Sell tokens. Punchcards. Come on, SS, INNOVATE ALREADY.
Jasmine Crockett to Pam Bondi:
So much respect for Jasmine Crockett.
I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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BREAKING
Remember when we said NY AG Letitia James had the power to investigate Trump tariff-related stock market manipulation and insider trading?
IT'S HAPPENING.
James just confirmed an investigation has been opened.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but EVERY FUCKING RETAILER needs to show the tariffs next to the price -- not just Amazon.
Walmart, Target (where I do not shop), ALL OF THEM. It's a fucking tax, why shouldn't we see it?
I want to know exactly how much trump's tariffs are jacking my prices up. DON'T YOU?
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voters [holding a massive soft serve shit in a cake cone]: totally unexpected result to me but the second bite of this is, if anything, worse than the first
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Canada is making a compelling argument for more tourism.
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We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
Ummm. Will someone just say it?
The emporer is naked AF
Trump is PSYCHO
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I can’t be the only person who feels this.
I do all my work to escape myself. I don't believe in looking into yourself. If you do this, you just discover a lot of shit. The truth is not deep in ourselves. The truth is outside.
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I feel like my first note here should be on how much this place has changed since I first started writing the note eight seconds ago
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Sometimes, when he fails badly enough, Trump can be forced to do the thing he says he never does: back down.
Today is just one more turn on the roller coaster - but it is more evidence of why we can't give up or let up.
I would love to read John McWhorter’s article, but linking to articles behind another publication’s paywall makes that impossible.
I absolutely refuse to believe that the pheasant who regularly visits my mum and dad’s garden is real and has not in fact been crocheted.
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My dad was in a supermarket near the Yorkshire-Nottinghamshire border the other day and a woman said to him, "Hey, LAD, reach me two of them pies down, would yer? A chicken and a beef."
He told her he was 75 so wasn't technically much of a lad any more.
"Yeah, but I'm 85," she replied. "So yer still a lad to me."
