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Are any of you Substack creators able to create a new video post right now, or does it default to an audio post (asking for an audio file) when you try to do that?

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“The Librarians” wins the Top Documentary prize at the Sarasota Film Festival.

“Announcing the award, the SFF jury said in a statement, "In a moment of capitulation of universities, law firms, tech platforms, and newsrooms, these improbable first responders are defenders of democracy and the freedom to read."

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University of Alabama journalism instructor Tom Arenberg credits “major national news organizations deserve more credit than they’re getting for documenting the many disasters of the second Trump administration so far.”

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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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They knew that Rumeysa Ozturk had done nothing wrong. They sent masked men to grab and detain her anyway.

They knew Abrego Garcia had a protection order from deportation. They sent him to a foreign jail anyway.

They know the Supreme Court has told them that Abrego Garcia must be returned. They don’t care.

There is no debate any more. This president is a direct threat to the Constitution of the United States.

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Very nice essay. Thank you focusing on the importance of hope. Indeed hope is the antidote to despair -- and as Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI explains hope tempers and orders progress. He addresses some of the themes of your essay in Spe Salvi 24-26

"24. Let us ask once again: what may we hope? And what may we not hope? First of all, we m…

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Municipal money market yield 3.91% (VMSXX) is better than the federal money market yield 4.23% (VMFXX) across every tax bracket on a tax-equivalent basis.

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“The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural cure for suffering, but a supernatural use for it.'“

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School district source told me last week that Manatee School District has received one of these letters. npr.org/2025/04/03/nx-s…

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From this window, on the night of April 14, 1865, Henry Safford, a boarder at the Petersen House, witnessed doctors carrying the mortally wounded President Lincoln from Ford’s Theatre across the street.

I happened to take this photo exactly 160 years later, last night

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So true. Too terrifying.

Just canceled a scheduled trip to the UK for a conference speech and a vacation to see family and friends for the end of the month. The Bukele press conference was too terrifying to ignore.

I don’t think any vociferous public critic of the Trump administration can risk leaving and then re-entering the US right now, especially if you are …

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David Fahrenthold’s report in Sunday’s NYT caught my eye and prompted some thoughts about DOGE.

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why do i write my best work when im depressed, grieving, or heartbroken???