Omar Moore<p>ATTENTION “GAME OF THRONES” FANS:</p><p>I am giving away for FREE the entire first season of the series. FIVE DISCS on Blu-Ray. Unopened.</p><p>RULES: All you have to do have a chance to win this NEW package of discs is to subscribe to me on Substack at:</p><p><a href="https://MooreO.substack.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">MooreO.substack.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/GOT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOT</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/gameofthrones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gameofthrones</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/giveaway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>giveaway</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Substack</span></a></p>
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Istvan Hajnal<p>My latest blogpost on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>substack</span></a>: <a href="https://istvanhajnal.substack.com/p/the-kalman-filter-lizards-and-market" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">istvanhajnal.substack.com/p/th</span><span class="invisible">e-kalman-filter-lizards-and-market</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/datascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datascience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mrx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mrx</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kalmanfilters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kalmanfilters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>statistics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a></p>
Aneesh Sathe<p><strong>What do platforms really do? </strong></p><p class="">In 1986, David S. Landes wrote the essay, ‘What Do Bosses Really Do?’. He argues that the historical role of the ‘boss’ was an essential function for organizing production and connecting producers to markets. Digital platforms have become the new bosses. Platforms have the same functions of market creation, labor specialization, and management, but they have replaced the physical factory floor with <em>algorithmic management</em>. While their methods are novel, platforms are the direct descendants of the merchant-entrepreneurs and factory owners Landes described, solving the same historical problems of production in remarkably similar ways.</p><a href="https://aneeshsathe.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image-from-rawpixel-id-2849247-jpeg.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>Design for a Teacup (1880-1910) painting in high resolution by Noritake Factory. Original from The Smithsonian Institution. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.<p>So, why am I posting this on my own blog and not on a “platform”? I don’t view writing as a financial transaction. It is a hobby. By putting the financialization lens front and center, platforms are killing the mental space for hobbies. When you monetize tweets, you create incentive to craft tweets that create engagement in particular ways. Usually not healthy ways. </p><p>If we think of old media or traditional manufacturing, we can compare them to guilds. Guilds kept up prices and controlled production. With the simplification of tasks factories could hire workers who weren’t as highly skilled but didn’t need to be. Nowadays, why should any newspaper or TV channel’s output be limited by the amount of airtime or page space they have?</p><p>Platforms take <em>unskilled</em> and train them. We are in the age of specialization of ideas. Akin to the “the advantage of disaggregating a productive process” Platforms leverage this by having many producers explore the same space through millions of different angles. This allows the platform to “purchase exactly that precise quantity of [skill] which is necessary for each process” —paying a viral star a lot and a niche creator a little, perfectly matching reward to market impact. Which is to say platforms make money through whatever sticks. </p><p>In Landes’s essay, Management became specialized, today management will become algorithmized. Platforms abstract away the issues that factory owners had such as embezzlement of resources, slacking off etc. Platforms don’t care how much or how little you produce, or even if you produce. If you do, the cash is yours (after a cut of course). </p><p>This may lead to a visceral reaction against platforms. This week when Substack raised a substantial amount they called the writers <a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-168513161" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">“the heroes of culture”</a>. This should ring at least a tiny alarm in your head. The platform’s rhetoric of the creator-as-hero is a shrewd economic arrangement. In the putting-out system, the merchant-manufacturer “was able to shift capital expenditures (plant and equipment) to the worker”. Platforms do the same with creative risk. The writer, artist, or creator invests all the time and labor—the “capital” of creation—upfront. If they fail, they bear the entire loss. The platform, like the putter-outer, only participates in the upside, taking its cut from the successful ‘heroes’ while remaining insulated from the failures of the many.</p><p>So what do platforms really do? They have resurrected the essential role of the boss for the digital age. They are the merchant-manufacturers who build the roads to market, and they are the factory owners who discipline production—not with overseers, but with incentive algorithms. By casting the creator as the hero, they obscure their own power and shift the immense risks of creative work onto the individual. While appearing to be mere background IT admins, they are, in fact, the central organizers of production, demonstrating that even in the 21st century, the fundamental challenges of coordinating labor and capital persist, and solving them remains, as it was in the 18th century, a very lucrative role.</p> <p class="">What Do Bosses Really Do?, David S. Landes, The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Sep., 1986), pp. 585-623 (39 pages). <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2121476" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.jstor.org/stable/2121476</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/algorithmic-management/" target="_blank">#algorithmicManagement</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/business/" target="_blank">#Business</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/capitalism/" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/creator-economy/" target="_blank">#creatorEconomy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/digital-labor/" target="_blank">#digitalLabor</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/economic-history/" target="_blank">#economicHistory</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/economics/" target="_blank">#economics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/future-of-work/" target="_blank">#futureOfWork</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/history/" target="_blank">#history</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/industrial-revolution/" target="_blank">#IndustrialRevolution</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/leadership/" target="_blank">#Leadership</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/management/" target="_blank">#management</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/monetization/" target="_blank">#monetization</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/philosophy/" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/platforms/" target="_blank">#platforms</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/startups/" target="_blank">#Startups</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/substack/" target="_blank">#Substack</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/tech-criticism/" target="_blank">#techCriticism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/technology/" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/writing/" target="_blank">#writing</a></p>
Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>molly0xfff</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>substack</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/ghost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ghost</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/finances" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>finances</span></a></p>
Drew Crecente (they/them)<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@_elena" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>_elena</span></a></span> </p><p>🧡 Thank you for doing your part in reporting unacceptable online content! That is more than most folks would do.</p><p>(I work for a NGO in the US. We prevent violence against adolescents. Online content causes harm in many ways.) </p><p>Hopefully Substack has taken appropriate action by now.</p><p>If not, there might be some other options for reporting the content. This guidance from the Let's STOP Hate Speech group, funded by the EU might be helpful:</p><p>🌐<a href="https://absbg.eu/en/european-commission-combating-hate-speech-and-hate-crime/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">absbg.eu/en/european-commissio</span><span class="invisible">n-combating-hate-speech-and-hate-crime/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://games.ngo/tags/hatespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hatespeech</span></a> <a href="https://games.ngo/tags/substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>substack</span></a> <a href="https://games.ngo/tags/misinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>misinformation</span></a> <a href="https://games.ngo/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://games.ngo/tags/publichealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publichealth</span></a> <a href="https://games.ngo/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a></p>
Wendy M. Grossman<p>In this week's net.wars, "Cautionary tales", I consider becoming a child for the purposes of age verification, and Substack becomes a unicorn. Dare we predict enshittification? <a href="https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/07/18/cautionary-tales/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">netwars.pelicancrossing.net/20</span><span class="invisible">25/07/18/cautionary-tales/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/NetWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetWars</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineSafetyAct</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/AgeVerification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AgeVerification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Substack</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/VentureCapital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VentureCapital</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a></p>
Omar Moore<p>My latest on SUBSTACK. Please subscribe. </p><p><a href="https://mooreo.substack.com/p/if-its-summer-its-book-reading-time?r=275tyr&triedRedirect=true" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mooreo.substack.com/p/if-its-s</span><span class="invisible">ummer-its-book-reading-time?r=275tyr&triedRedirect=true</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>substack</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/sanfrancisco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sanfrancisco</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/california" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>california</span></a></p>
Charlie McHenry<p><a href="https://connectop.us/tags/Substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Substack</span></a> bragging about their new $100 million investment from the <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/TechBro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechBro</span></a> VC’s and how that will enable them to democratize publishing and do more online community building. Uh-huh. They took big $$ from previous investor Andreessen, who based on his own utterances appears to be a racist fascist. I’m personally not confident, as a previous contributor to the site, that being beholden to right-wing investors is a good thing - on any level. It sure didn’t work out with <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> did it? Now, more of the same in the online <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/DigitalPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalPublishing</span></a> space. Looks like <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> to me.</p>
DrWeb<p><strong>Letters from an American – Heather Cox Richardson – July 16, 2025</strong></p><p>After years of covering Donald J. Trump, I am used to seeing stories that would have sunk any other president simply fade away as he hammers on to some new unprecedented action that dominates the news. So I am surprised by what appears to be the staying power of the recent Jeffrey Epstein scandal.</p><p>That Trump is panicked by the threat of the release of material concerning convicted sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein seems very clear. After the backlash against the Department of Justice’s decision not to release any more information and to reiterate that Epstein died by suicide, Trump tried first to downplay Epstein’s importance and convince people to move on. When that blew up, he posted a long screed on social media last Saturday saying the files were written by Democrats and other supposed enemies of his.</p><p>This morning, Trump posted another long message on social media blaming “Radical Left Democrats” for creating the story of the Epstein files. “Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax,” he wrote, and then he turned on his own supporters for demanding the administration release the files. “[M]y PAST supporters have bought into this ’bullsh*t,’ hook, line, and sinker. They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years. I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our Country’s history, and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax. Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore! Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”</p><p><strong><em>Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.</em></strong></p> <p>July 16, 2025 by Heather Cox Richardson</p><p></p><p><a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-16-2025" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Read on Substack</a></p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/heather-cox-richardson/" target="_blank">#HeatherCoxRichardson</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/july-16/" target="_blank">#July16</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/letters-from-an-american/" target="_blank">#LettersFromAnAmerican</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/maga/" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/presidential-behavior/" target="_blank">#PresidentialBehavior</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/substack/" target="_blank">#Substack</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
Rod McMillan<p>2015: "Better not to be too political on Linkedin..." </p><p>2025: "So here's my fully referenced essay explaining the academic definition of Fascism, how Trump meets it, and what you can do about it..." </p><p>How times change! </p><p><a href="https://federated.press/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://federated.press/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a> <a href="https://federated.press/tags/Analysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Analysis</span></a> <a href="https://federated.press/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://federated.press/tags/Protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Protest</span></a> #50501 <a href="https://federated.press/tags/Fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascist</span></a> <a href="https://federated.press/tags/Paxton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paxton</span></a> <a href="https://federated.press/tags/Substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Substack</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/more-wretch-than-sage_the-f-word-its-bad-but-is-it-fascism-activity-7351166204671139840-DDOv" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">linkedin.com/posts/more-wretch</span><span class="invisible">-than-sage_the-f-word-its-bad-but-is-it-fascism-activity-7351166204671139840-DDOv</span></a></p>
Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦<p>At the only part of <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Substack</span></a> which mysteriously does have technical difficulties is unsubscribing from their <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/spam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spam</span></a>. Interesting.</p>
Faraiwe<p>Once again, here we are, and I am begging, BEGGING people who are writing about the evils of an authoritarian, fascist regime, and publishing their articles on SUBSTACK, to PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, stop giving business and a platform for a company that supports and directly funds those individuals trying to destroy democracy.</p><p>PLEASE.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TurdReich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TurdReich</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>substack</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DTBO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DTBO</span></a></p>
Faraiwe<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.social/@Flipboard" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Flipboard</span></a></span> Most outlets in mainstream are delivering political stenography, not journalism.</p><p>The few independent journalists often rely on those newsletters and other venues (patreon, etc) for revenue, and often those revenues are corporations that directly support AND finance fascism (ahem <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>substack</span></a> ).</p><p>The alternative outlets often mix their news items with bland stuff or advertising masked as journalism.</p><p>It's NOT surprising people don't want that.</p>
Слава Україні 🇺🇦 :verified:<p>📰 Trump Is So Angry With Putin He Delayed Sanctions For 50 Days</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/trump-is-so-angry-with-putin-he-delayed" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phillipspobrien.substack.com/p</span><span class="invisible">/trump-is-so-angry-with-putin-he-delayed</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Opinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Opinion</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Podcast</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussianInvasion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussianInvasion</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussianWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussianWar</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Substack</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>Letters from an American – July 13, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson</strong></p><p>By <a href="https://substack.com/@hrichardson" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Heather Cox Richardson</a>, Jul 13, 2025</p><p>This weekend saw the development of an extraordinary rift in MAGA world.</p><p>The conflict began last Monday when the Department of Justice (DOJ) released a memo saying that it had conducted a thorough review of all the evidence the department had collected about convicted sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, who died in his prison cell in 2019 awaiting trial on additional sex-trafficking charges. The memo said that the department’s “systematic review revealed no incriminating ‘client list’” and that there was “no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions.” It said the DOJ and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which operates within the DOJ, had determined “that no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted.”</p><p>The memo also said FBI investigators had concluded that Epstein died by suicide, releasing footage from a camera from the unit in which Epstein was being held at the time of his death.</p><p>For years now, Trump and his loyalists have claimed Epstein was murdered to protect the rich and powerful men who were preying on children. This theory dovetailed with the QAnon conspiracy theory that Trump was combating a secret ring of cannibalistic child molesters who included Democratic politicians, government officials, film stars, and businessmen. MAGA influencers, including Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, pushed the Epstein theories, and MAGA followers believed them, hoping to bring down Democratic politicians like the Clintons.</p><p>Once in power, they vowed, they would release the client list and provide the truth about Epstein’s death. In February, Attorney General Pam Bondi told the Fox News Channel that the client list was “sitting on my desk right now.” Patel is now director of the FBI—in part because MAGA senators like Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) believed he would release more information on Epstein and child sex trafficking rings—and Bongino is the FBI’s deputy director. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) called for Americans to vote for Trump in 2024 because “Americans deserve to know why Epstein didn’t kill himself.”</p><blockquote><p><strong><em>Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.</em></strong></p></blockquote><p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-13-2025?publication_id=20533&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&r=1gx2e" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">July 13, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson</a></em></p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/epstein/" target="_blank">#Epstein</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/epstein-files/" target="_blank">#EpsteinFiles</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/heather-cox-richardson/" target="_blank">#HeatherCoxRichardson</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/letters-from-an-american/" target="_blank">#LettersFromAnAmerican</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/maga/" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/make-america-great-again/" target="_blank">#MakeAmericaGreatAgain</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/substack/" target="_blank">#Substack</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
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Omar Moore<p>About to go LIVE on <a href="https://MooreO.substack.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">MooreO.substack.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> in the next ten minutes (7:40pm Eastern) to talk about a racist experience I had this weekend in San Francisco (a city more racist than anywhere in the Deep South of the US.) Subscribe and tune in. </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/sanfrancisco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sanfrancisco</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/california" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>california</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racist</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/california" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>california</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>substack</span></a></p>
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾<p>Just 20min getting onto <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Substack</span></a> Notes - I was already angry. The algorithm delivered a Substack note to me about Chinese media, and I got so angry because, oh why repeat it here. Basically they described a nation of 1 bil people from diverse ethnicities as lacking "critical thinking skills about public policy" due to being brainwashed by algorithms. 👀 you are one to talk, writer from the US, who invented the term brain rot and elected the orange one! 😆</p><p>Anyway, it's easy to spot an article with a naughty/racist angle against china - they often depict the people as less than human and as a homogenous blob.</p><p>Anyway, what I am saying is it's really sad that Substack, once a haven for me where I can just flit from one lovely newsletter to the next has become another algorithmic rage pusher. I am trying to find new Substacks to read and I keep thinking Notes is where I can find them. I should know better but the programming is real 😆.</p><p>That is why retreating to <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/RedNote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RedNote</span></a> (xiaohongshu) is such a relief. I don't have to be fed BS like this. First, because on Mastodon I have control over my feed. Two, if there's an algo like on XiaoHongShu, it's excellent. Seriously, best algorithm I've encountered. My feed is designed to delight me, so I get fed cooking recipes, cats, dogs and handsome actors 🫢. It only gets sour when I get undisciplined and click on something I shouldn't 😅.<br>The people I follow and those who deign to follow me are rational folks and lovely and from all nations.<br>Of course I still get reply guys, but they're easily handled with a block and mute, and they do me a favour by appearing so I can deselect them from my feed 😁</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>Letters from an American – July 12, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson</strong></p> Heather Cox Richardson <blockquote><p>On July 5, the day after the Texas floods hit, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) received 3,027 calls from survivors and answered 3,018 of them, about 99.7%, according to Maxine Joselow of the <em>New York Times</em>. But that day, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem did not renew the contracts for four call center companies that answered those calls. The staff at the centers were fired. The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or about 35.8%. On Monday, July 7, FEMA received 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, around 15.9%.</p><p>In a statement, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said: “When a natural disaster strikes, phone calls surge, and wait times can subsequently increase. Despite this expected influx, FEMA’s disaster call center responded to every caller swiftly and efficiently, ensuring no one was left without assistance.”</p><p>Marcy Wheeler of <em>EmptyWheel</em> notes that one reason Noem has been cutting so ferociously at FEMA is because she has run through the money Congress allocated for HHS with her single-minded focus on immigration.</p><p>In May, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) called out Noem’s expenditure of $200 million on an ad campaign pushing Trump’s agenda and $21 million to transport about 400 migrants to Guantanamo Bay only to have many of them transferred back out. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) told Noem: “You are spending like you don’t have a budget…. You’re on track to trigger the Anti-Deficiency Act. That means you are going to spend more money than you have been allocated by Congress. This is a rare occurrence, and it is wildly illegal. Your agency will be broke by July, over two months before the end of the fiscal year. You may not think that Congress has provided enough money to ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], but the Constitution and the federal law does not allow you to spend more money than you’ve been given, or to invent money. And this obsession with spending at the border…has left the country unprotected elsewhere.</p><p><strong><em>Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.</em></strong></p></blockquote><p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-12-2025" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">July 12, 2025</a></em></p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/fema/" target="_blank">#FEMA</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/heather-cox-richardson/" target="_blank">#HeatherCoxRichardson</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/july-12/" target="_blank">#July12</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/kristi-noem/" target="_blank">#KristiNoem</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/letters-from-an-american/" target="_blank">#LettersFromAnAmerican</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/substack/" target="_blank">#Substack</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/texas-floods/" target="_blank">#TexasFloods</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
Marco Secchi<p>Subscribe and follow my <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Substack</span></a> www.marcosecchi.substack.com</p>
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