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Free speech culture is built on the free exchange of ideas — especially the ones you disagree with. To maintain America's free speech exceptionalism, we must defend all protected speech. Period. Thanks for the shout out, Chris Best and Glenn Greenwald! 🔥 📺: System Update

A pat explanation of why this platform is hostile to truly independent voices. Success as an independent shouldn’t depend on accepting Elon as your daddy.

Substack WHCD party in full force

We've got some ads up in Washington DC.

On the sidelines of Substack's not-so correspondents' dinner party, I spoke to Hamish McKenzie about his company's aspirations in Trump’s Washington and its evolving relationship with legacy media in Washington. Read more in the The Washington Post: washingtonpost.com/style/media/20…

Tomorrow at 9am PT! A local news forum open to all: New Models for Local News: A Discussion with Journalism Professors and S*bstack WHEN: Thursday, May 1, 9am–10am PT WHERE: At the below Zoom link (there’ll be a chance for audience Q&A) substackinc.zoom.us/j/85315301735?…

Doing this right now

I think that media and entertainment history will ultimately come to be seen in 3 eras: 1. Distribution monopoly era (newspapers, TV, magazines, radio, Hollywood studios, record labels) 2. Aggregator era (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Netflix, Spotify, YouTube) 3.

In which I make a series of ill-advised analogies, including Russia-Ukraine, beef medallions, and electric cars vs ICE cars

*NEW* Here’s a snippet of my inside take on the whole Kanye interview debacle that’s now making news around the world. For the full inside story, go to the link in my bio…

That’s my boy on stage!

Good ad from Substack at Union station

The story of how Chris Best and I built Substack, thanks to Guy Raz and How I Built This open.spotify.com/episode/5E7Ibb…

The correct term is Twitter Derangement Syndrome

We asked Chris Best about the founding visions of Substack. "The basic theory is we are building a new economic engine for culture." "We want to combine the internet with a business model that powers independence." "The simplest version of that is paid newsletters." "If

I had a great live conversation with Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie about the future of media. Watch the full video here: staytuned.substack.com/p/live-recordi…