Welcome, Moral High Grounders! Here is the audio version of the newsletter from Friday, November 8, 2024, which was entitled We Don't Win By Compromising Our Values For Those Assholes.
The worst possible thing happened in last Tuesday’s election. Now we have to figure out how to start moving forward, how to confront what happened, how to survive and how to protect each other. One is to read or re-read On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder. Have you located your copy?
By the way, another is to protect independent media that’s not going to sanewash what’s happening, and newsletters like this are a part of that in the year 2024.
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I went ahead and slashed prices after the election for the foreseeable future, so hopefully more people are able.
By the way, as you read this, we’re over 6,800 total subscribers! It seems like we’re gaining about 100 new people per week, but I would love to grow so much faster. So please share this newsletter all the places you share things — Facebook, Reddit, Bluesky, Threads, even the gross Elon site if you’re still there — so we can keep growing faster and faster!
One day soon? More posts! More professional podcast that’s not just me yapping! Collaborations with other Substackers and interviews! The more people become paying subscribers, the faster all these fun things can happen. To give you an idea of what I’m thinking, somewhere between 15 and 20,000 total subscribers will be where I can really start doing bigger things around here, and start thinking about truly expanding this joint.
Thank you all so much for reading and joining and all the things, I adore you all.
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