TOP 25 CULTURE NEWSLETTERS ON SUBSTACK
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A full list of the top 25 culture newsletters and podcasts on Substack. Read about the latest pop culture moments, style, movies, music and beyond, and how culture impacts the wider world.
La newsletter di Selvaggia Lucarelli. Articoli, podcast, opinioni. E sempre con la seconda versione della storia.
Storia di mia madre e del suo Alzheimer
Oggi scrivevo di come papà sta affrontando la vedovanza. Poi ho sentito che era arrivato il momento di raccontare la malattia di mia madre. Che non è stata solo la sua, ma quella di un'intera famiglia
Sei cose che voglio dire su Chiara Ferragni e la fine del Pandorogate
In queste ore sono state dette un po’ di cose a caso, ho ricevuto una strana diffida, ho letto un paio di riflessioni discutibili che ha scritto Ferragni e una dichiarazione mi ha divertita.
Your weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves.
My mission to save millions of street dogs around the world
Where pop culture deep dives mingle with quality conspiracy theories, lifestyle highlights, and trending water cooler gossip
Sam Harris is the author of five NYT bestsellers, host of the Making Sense podcast, and creator of the Waking Up app.
Abortion, Every Day is a comprehensive daily newsletter dedicated to abortion rights, and the feminist community that supports it, written by Jessica Valenti.
Subscribers get emails every weekday tracking anything and everything happening with abortion: from anti-choice legislation and court battles to analysis of conservative strategy and stories of women denied care. AED also publishes columns, explainers, investigations, interviews, TikTok roundups and more.
TRIGGERnometry is a free-speech YouTube show and podcast. We believe in open, fact-based discussion of important and controversial issues.
Hosted by Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster)
Chipping away at the inscrutability of modern life, popular culture, and how we feel about both.
#173: My birth story
I’m still processing my birth, but I wanted to document it before the details slipped and I started hand-waving it away like a bad dream. In those early weeks, I cried whenever I thought or spoke about it. I wanted so badly to feel differently—to love the way she got here, even if it was difficult. I’m less delicate (and hormonal) about it now, but I still don’t think I’m there yet.
15 things I consumed this week
ROTW: Podcast apps & strategies
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Things That Don’t Suck is a digital bouquet filled with flowers that bloom on the bright side. Andrea Gibson will help you notice the silver linings, and hunt for the truffles of joy in this sometimes muddied life.
Obsessively-curated recommendations and reflections, best served with coffee.
Former Senate Counsel bringing you fact-based, action-oriented analysis and insight into politics and the culture that shapes it.
Cultural obsessions from your Internet BFFs Emma and Claire. You can sit with us.
Emma Got Married!
We discuss (almost) every detail of her glamorous but cozy New York City wedding.
'Toxic' Celeb Mom Groups, A Rant About The Golden Globes & LIB Germany E5-8
We discuss the second half of the first 'Love Is Blind' Germany drop, the kerfuffle around Ashley Tisdale's essay about her toxic mom group, and the Golden Globes dipping a toe in the podcast space.
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Welcome to my Substack diary FRESH HELL where I'll unload my observations, rants, news obsessions, and human exchanges with the wildly eclectic cast of characters who populate my seething inbox. Thanks to the crazy, creative roller coaster of my life, I’ve collaborated and collided with so many great writers, culture shapers, newshounds, and iconoclasts. So at a time when every day brings a news alert from Hades, I now have a place to share my intel. I invite you to join the conversation.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s Life of Secrets
Even if Ghislaine Maxwell did pull something out of her mental basket of deplorables and heaped sexual calumnies on leading Democrats and said that Trump didn’t write that birthday message to Epstein, why would anyone believe her?
Trump's Dangerous Bubble
The exploding world of 2026 has spotlit heroes who are ineffably thrilling.
I break down politics, culture, and media strategy—without the BS.
🚨 244 Predators Arrested. 109 Kids Rescued. Barely Anyone Talked About It.
Operation Soteria Shield was one of the most successful child rescue efforts in modern U.S. history. Yet the corporate media mostly shrugged. Let’s walk through what actually happened.
🗞️ Morning Briefing — Friday, January 16, 2026
Wearing the right shoes, especially when chosen using a 3D foot scan, improves alignment and reduces stress on your feet, knees, hips, and back. This is something many people overlook.
Black, snarky, award-winning journalist, author, child advocate, college professional and unapologetic wig snatcher.
An eclectic portmanteau of culture, religion, politics, books, travel and ideas
Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.
Essays, updates and arguments from an eyewitness to a new dark age, with thoughts on how to keep liberty, justice and human rights alive.
These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here
cool but rude
Please Just Fucking Tell Me What Term I Am Allowed to Use for the Sweeping Social and Political Changes You Demand
you don't get to insist that no one talks about your political project and it's weak and pathetic that you think you do
Perhaps People Are Cynical About Success in the Creative Arts for a Reason
I am not unaware of the fact that this is a completely thankless, pointless thing to write, a piece which will do nothing for me and will not even effectively promote the perspective I’m sharing here.
Media guy, content provider, dog whisperer, Canadian raconteur, muckraker.
Elon’s Oval Office Meltdown: Leaked Audio of Musk Crying to Trump Explains Tesla’s Death Spiral
From Stock Plunge to Protests, Why Elon’s Tears Tell Tesla’s Tragic Story
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A recording from Dean Blundell and Zev Shalev's live video
Writes on everything from football to medical research fraud to Yellowstone to Rembrandt, movies, mind control, fake culture, fake viruses, King Arthur, Yeats, Biden, Trump, censors
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