I've been feeling a shift in the matrix - I'm sure all of us have to a degree. After all, I've found a voice on SubStack and I've bumped into many of you who have been murmuring the same thing on other SubStacks. I truly appreciate the leaders in this maturing endeavor - EGM, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Christopher Rufo - and so many others who I am not acquainted with.

Jefferson Smith said it best: "I guess this is just another lost cause, Mr. Paine. All you people don't know about lost causes. Mr. Paine does. He said once they were the only causes worth fighting for, and he fought for them once, for the only reason any man ever fights for them: Because of one plain simple rule: Love thy neighbor. And in this world today, full of hatred, a man who knows that one rule has a great trust. You know that rule, Mr. Paine. And I loved you for it just as my father did, and you know that you fight for the lost causes harder than for any others."