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TriTorch's avatar

Red Alert Jeff:

"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." —Benjamin Franklin

Censorship has come to Substack. Yesterday at least four comments were hidden on this forum, here is the new policy from Substack for autohiding speech they do not like:

"Reply Rules automatically hide comments and note replies that break your community standards — without deleting them or notifying the commenter."  — https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/49712271829012-What-are-Reply-Rules-on-Substack

Politico Phil noticed and we discussed it, including that the same happened on Steve Kirsch's 'Stack the day before: https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/crossing-over-thursday-june-4-2026/comment/270609612

Mr Childers, you can manually unhide each comment by clicking them, or universally disable the auto-censorship on your Substack by:

1) Go to your publication's Settings page.

2) Scroll to the Community section.

3) UnClick the toggle next to "Enable automatic moderation".

"If we allow freedom of speech to be taken away, then dumb and silent we will be led, like sheep to the slaughter." —George Washington

Albin Sadar's avatar

Not just Ben Franklin, but how about George Orwell...

"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act."

R Kivenas's avatar

It would be nice to see the four comments that were censored. To give us all an idea on this topic. 🙏🏻

Mayor's avatar

If you want to know who the dictators are, look at the things you aren’t allowed to publicly talk about.

Christine's avatar

Even this comment is hidden. 🤦‍♀️

Amy's avatar

But I can see it...?

TriTorch's avatar
2hEdited

I had to write it a second time to get it to appear. Here is the original hidden version:

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/conga-lines-friday-june-5-2026-c/comment/271113226

If you scroll to the bottom of this comments section you can see it under '1 reply hidden'

Matt L.'s avatar

This is all so sad. I don’t care if you support or oppose things I happen to like. Let all voices be heard.

CStone's avatar

I was able to read it too……at first. Now it is hidden.

JBell's avatar

I do not think it was criticism of Trump that got that one .... it was the use of foul (though misspelled) language.

Roger Beal's avatar

Henceforth, alll people with whom I disagree will be called poopy-heads, and nothing stronger than that.

rolandttg's avatar

guess you saw they hid this comment too

R Kivenas's avatar

Thank you again! Read them all, tells me the deep state is still working hard behind the scenes.

Mary Pat FitzGibbons's avatar

Wow problem. Thanks for sharing

SteelJ's avatar

Thank you TT!

Xen's avatar

Thx for calling this out! One of my comments was auto hidden and I was so confused.

JT's avatar

I may be misreading the Substack rules, but from what I've read, each Substack author can enable reply rules and when doing so, lists the rules he/she/they wish to apply to their individual Substack. If "enable" was selected, then it would appear that Jeff listed things he thought should be blocked, for example, ad hominem attacks. It would be interesting to know what exactly was said that was censored, and also whether Jeff intended to put these rules in place and why.

TriTorch's avatar

If you follow the links and read the thread, Steve Kirsch's was enabled by default because he had no idea what happened. As a result, it appears Substack implemented a new censorship policy and enabled it accross the board without notifying authors.

IR's avatar

And of course they try to do it in a sneaky way so no one notices. What a slippery slope, trying to limit speech. And the worst part is unless a company acts on behalf of government there is nothing we can do about it, they can remove posts, “moderate” content whatever that means. In my opinion if speech is not clearly a direct call to violence, threats or intimidation or derogatory slur it should be allowed. Burning of the American flag which from the logical standpoint is usually perceived as hateful but can just mean a disagreement with government policies is a protected form of the political speech but having a thoughtful discussion online and just expressing one’s thoughts is heavily moderated.

Lori's avatar

Let's see if they censor this comment. Screw Substack for censoring Americans. Tick Tock Substack. What will you do???

Politico Phil's avatar

LOL I always like your responses.

Susan G's avatar

Read this on my tablet at 1:33 EDT. Not censored to me. This moderation is bs.

SadieJay's avatar

This has never been a thing. I just went through the list for those who publish and it is 3x as long as it was 6 months ago when I last went through it. They changed things and unless you toggle buttons, it is already set up. One thing I found a few years ago on there was "Allow AI to use your articles for training". I am like....uh, I don't think so!

Juju's avatar

“for training” hah! Riiiight. Whose training? And how? Sheesh. Slippery slope

Xen's avatar

My auto hidden comment mentioned “c-h-@-b- b -a-d” (obviously coded here as I suspect this was the culprit and I don't want to trigger it again), “Operation Trust” & “the Jays removed from our nation”.

Jay Horton's avatar

"& “the Jays removed from our nation”. " HEAVEN forbid......

Later Jay

CitizenA's avatar

I remember years ago when I was still on Facebook, that I had to write things in code (like you did above) just to get my perspective, or information, across and defeat their algorithms. I finally just deleted my FB account. What a dangerous world we live in now where our most important right of free speech is being eroded. And it is being brought to us by the demon-party and their media water carriers and supporters.

CaplT's avatar

TriTorch, thanks for the info on the new S.S. throttle.

Jeff please unblock comments.

While I may disagree with the “style” and content of some of the comments hidden by S.S. and on C&C generally, they are no different from the comments that have coexisted here for years. C&C is a big tent.

TriTorch's avatar

"I may disagree with what you say, but i will defend to the death your right to say it." —Voltaire

"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." —Captain Picard [fiction]

rolandttg's avatar

Voltaire also said "look to who you are not allowed to criticize if you want to know who rules over you".

Juju's avatar
1hEdited

We can block people ourselves if we feel offended. That’s how Jeff has always handled it here.

I don’t need anyone deciding for me what I can and cannot read or see. I’ll decide for myself. This really angers me

Roger Beal's avatar

Precisely so. There are adults in this C&C room. Let us decide for ourselves. Darned self-appointed overlords are everywhere these days.

RunningLogic's avatar

🎯🎯🎯

Same!!!

Matt L.'s avatar

TriTorch, your post is the most important today I’ve read. Thank you for this. I saw comments disappear on other sites. But followed protocol you provide and those comments reappeared. Who at Substack was behind this soft censorship. He or she needs to be called out. Let 1A reign supreme.

SadieJay's avatar

I saw a few the other day. One was from Truthseeker. I read them anyway. Always read the hidden stuff! I will do that to my Substack as well. I am also pretty sure SS deleted a whole post of mine on Why I Pack. I can't find it anywhere, even in my saved files on my CPU. Thank you Tri. Appreciate you!♥

Politico Phil's avatar

Wow! This is not a good look people!

Juju's avatar
19mEdited

Using the phone app we don’t have the option to even see anything is hidden much less unhide them.

Maggie Think of Me's avatar

That is weird. I read this with my phone and had no problem reading "hidden" comments. I clicked on that, read them and went back to comments. Yesterday, I read them and as soon and I liked one of them, it was suddenly no longer hidden. I have no idea what is going on...

Mykool's avatar

In regards to who is censoring and why they are censoring, demonstrates (to me) that politics and governments are a dis-functioning side show, to keep the masses distracted from the big picture. Juvenal coined it perfectly, in 1st century Rome: Panem Et Circences... bread for sustenance, circuses to keep the subjects occupied.

It modern times it is more like:

spectacula scurrarum ciborum chemicorum

Michelle's avatar

I noticed a lot of comments were hidden and wondered what was going on…

liz perez's avatar

Yes, I’ve already had comments disappear on Substack in other subscriptions.

So much for their initial promise of free speech.

TriTorch's avatar

“Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.” —Salmon Rushdie

If we allow them to take away our speech, I fear we are going to (re)learn this ^ toughest of all lessons the hard way.

Bard Joseph's avatar

Rushdie was purposely insulting Islam and Mohammad. Not a good example.

Steenroid's avatar

Hey they did it to your 4 links’ to yesterday’s hidden comments.

TriTorch's avatar

Yea…. not too bright.

Guess the free speech slaying bot never heard of the ‘Streisand Effect’

Steenroid's avatar

Alex Berenson in his UT today brought it to his subscribers today. They aren’t happy either.

TriTorch's avatar

Steenroid, can you provide a link to this?

CitizenA's avatar

I think this is a link to Alex Berenson’s comment section on this new censorship. https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/lets-just-say-no-to-substacks-new/comments

CitizenA's avatar
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PS: on Berenson’s S S, only paid subscribers can comment, however ‘anyone’ can ‘read’ (and even hit like) the comment section.

Jay Horton's avatar

Hey Tri,

Thanks for posting this up. This intrusion so hard to believe but then again, it isn't. We are losing our freedoms guys, even in our safe haven here. Without the free exchange of ideas and opinions, good or bad, how can one ever learn, contemplate and grow. Ah, but that is the game isn't it?

I urge the good counselor to unhide the comments and continue to let the chips fall where they may.

Best to all,

Later Jay

Bard Joseph's avatar

Kirsch? Limited hangout.....

"If they want heroes,

We give them heroes"

..................

Albert Pike

Scottish Freemason

Kevin's avatar

What's funny about this to me is this is the same as Rumble. Everybody thinks it's so great over there, but I've had so many comments hidden or flat out deleted, I won't even watch anymore. Youtube wasn't even THAT bad...

Johnny-O's avatar

If you are willing to give up freedoms for security and safety, you deserve neither.

Steenroid's avatar

To whomever said you couldn’t comment on Unreported Truths unless you were a paid subscriber. In my mind you should comment without skin in the game.

Ayn's avatar

As someone who lost a completely healthy family member far too young from a turbo cancer post-jab, I am so grateful for Senator Ron Johnson's attention to this matter.

Jpeach's avatar

I wish we could nail just one high profile Plandemic Criminal to the Wall, ASAP! While waiting years for justice is a legal reality, time is burying the greatest Crime against humanity ever.

Deb's avatar

While I understand that the wheels of justice can move slowly, PEOPLE DIED!!! All the statistics and vocal comments do not bring back those who our own government murdered!!!! Senator Johnson is the only one who beat the drum from the get-go on these dangers while everyone else sat on their high-paid a**es and did nothing! The corruption and treason is so deep that it appears to be insurmountable! I do not usually hold to a negative mindset but our own government is truly running against its own people all the while they spout they are saying democracy!!!!!

Congress can't even get the SAVE Act passed, by choice (my opinion) but we can sure agree to send more tax dollars to Ukraine. Is this crazy... or is it just me????

RunningLogic's avatar

There are so many people in denial 😕 I can’t even bring this up with certain people in my circle of family and friends because they’ll just scoff at the idea 😕

Margot Wooster's avatar

It’s crazy, Deb! We’ve all been living in the Twilight %Zone for quite a few years now. Jesus is our only Hope for truth and real peace.

A Guy from South Florida's avatar

It's all more smoke and mirrors blown up our you know what. nothing will happen, this just creates headlines for a few weeks and then onto the next big thing...rinse and repeat.

Jay Horton's avatar

That's all I see also. These are no small victories but rather placation. Bolton's actions and those of the Clinton ilk seem more along the lines of treason but that would take more effort to prove in court and conviction would be much too messy for the Karen-crowd.

There should be real world consequences for this level of treachery as opposed to a "time out" in the corner. Let the punishment fit the crime.

Later Jay

Leskunque Lepew's avatar

$$$ talks....we vote.

Jay Horton's avatar

Boom! There it is.

Later Jay

Susan Seas's avatar

If by “wall” you meant rope, then YES!! 😆

Proberta's avatar
1hEdited

"...waiting years for justice"

Jeff is correct when he said "To set your expectations, this won’t result in any arrests."

Because President Trump's first appointment was White House Chief of staff Susie Wiles, the most powerful woman in the Deep State, co-chair of Mercury Public, the Deep State's most powerful lobbying firm, that lobbies for...Pfizer!

Steve Stevens's avatar

I always wondered what her background was and why Trump chose her.

It figures Trump would pick a lobbyist for his chief of staff. What a traitorous POS!

According to AI “… her personal lobbying portfolio primarily focused on other industries like tobacco (such as Swisher International).

This would help explain why Makary was forced out, with his resistance to approving candy flavored e-cigarettes.

This also explains why Trump supports the clot shot at the expense of the people harmed by it! What a horrible person!

Bard Joseph's avatar

She was campaigning Director for a Certain Prime Minister in the Middle East.

Johnny-O's avatar

Patience! Trust the plan! We have culture wars to deal that are apparently far more important than the biggest most harmful conspiracy ever unleashed on the world.

TriTorch's avatar

Violence or potential violence directed at themselves is the only language a psychopath understands and it is the only way to get them to stop harming others.

Examples must be set, totems must be erected, or their violence against us will only escalate dramtically once they know there are no consequences. I hope the senator realizes this and action is taken.

CStone's avatar

I hope the DOJ takes action. I don’t think that a Congressman can file charges, but the DOJ can!! And it appears to me that they have plenty of evidence.

Lisa Ca's avatar

we need to multiply him

Lori's avatar

I second that. He is such a warrior for the jabbed injured.

RunningLogic's avatar

Same!!

And I am sorry for your loss, as well as all of those other people lost far too soon because of the shots 😞

KBB's avatar

I'm reading a book titled No More Tears, about the dark underbelly of Johnson & Johnson. It's not just the covid jabs killing people. J&J killed babies with asbestos in their baby powder.They don't have the squeaky-clean hands they claim to in the Tylenol murders. They continue to sell and promote drugs for cancer patients that make tumors grow faster. All of pHARMa is trying to kill us. Be afraid, be very afraid.

Observer's avatar

Greetings to all from Glastonbury, England.

DianeKay88's avatar

Welcome!

Can you please come and help California count their mail-in ballots? :-)

Roger Beal's avatar

Observer is (hopefully) fully occupied with ousting "Sir" Keir Starmer, and reversing his policies on illegal imigration.

[Now let's see if THIS comment is hidden ... ]

CitizenA's avatar

That poor boy that was murdered, dying in police handcuffs on the sidewalk while the perp (Indian?) was believed and free to go. Then Starmer attacked Musk for even commenting on this egregious action by his UK Gestapo-like police. I continue to pray that the British citizens take back their country, as I pray that ours take back our country from the insanity of its current demonic leaders.

Jay Horton's avatar

England is for the English! Get it right, Brother!

Best to you and yours.

Later Jay

RunningLogic's avatar

Greetings! Glad to have you here with us! 😊

Words Beyond Me-Janice Powell's avatar

✝️✝️✝️

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

— Philippians 3:14 LSB

✝️✝️✝️

Press On

Bend down to hear

Receive my plea

Meet my every need.

▫️

Command the wind

Speak words of peace

Calm the sea for me.

▫️

Remove all fear

Increase my faith

To know Your words are true.

▫️

Then I will press on

Through wind or calm

To that distant shore with You.

— Janice Powell

January 26, 2025

Lorita's avatar

Thank you Janet! A blessing for me today. Yes Lord!

Barbara's avatar

Beautiful as always Janice!

Lori's avatar

This is so beautiful Janice. Thank you and your blessed hands for writing this.

Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

God bless, strengthen and protect Senator Ron Johnson - he was one of the few U S Senators courageous enough to even attempt to expose the bioweapon jabs for just what they were - BIOWEAPONS. He and the now defected former GA Rep. Greene (very disappointed in her) held hearings on the very real dangers of the mRNA 'vaccine' early in 2021 and throughout the 4 years of President Cabbage's administration.

As for the 4 RINO Senators who killed the SAVE Act - I would imagine their souls are already sold to the putrid pussycat, the great deceiver, the archangel of death...satan!!! I hope their Senate office phone lines are being scorched by indignant voters throughout the rest of this Senate term!!

JEHOVAH JIREH!

Jeffrey N. Gratton's avatar

Too bad we can't actually 'scorch' Senate office phone lines

Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

Where there's a WILL...there's a WAY, Jeffrey!

Alan Devincentis's avatar

Or scorch senators.

Emily 🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼's avatar

My family will be celebrating the 250th anniversary of our country in DC on the 4th of July, taking in as much as we can for a week. Let me know if you have any recommendations. We already scored entrance to the brand new Undercroft museum.

JenniferS's avatar

Arlington Cemetery.

Marlene Swann's avatar

The Capitol Tour, (arranged by your congressman - they take you to more things that normal tours aren’t allowed to go.) I felt so privileged!

Susan Seas's avatar

I asked this question on my first trip to DC several years ago and the one I liked the most was the congressional library. I love books. I love beautiful architecture, and that hit both!

KBB's avatar
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The National Botanic Garden. Great place to touch grass for a while amidst all the city hustle and bustle. https://www.usbg.gov/

Also, on Capitol Hill northwest of the Capitol building is a little open-air red brick building called the Summerhouse. Inside is cool shade, a natural spring of delicious water, and some benches for seating. It was designed by legendary landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead. Gets very little visitation. Another nice place to take a break from sightseeing.

https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/buildings-grounds/capitol-grounds/summerhouse

rolandttg's avatar

Agree on the Botanical Gardens for sure.

RunningLogic's avatar

The Summerhouse sounds lovely!! 😍

William Foster's avatar

ANY place with air conditioning.

rolandttg's avatar

George Washington's Mount Vernon (home) estate in Arlington. It was our daughter's favorite local escape from the city. ~15 miles from DC, on the Potomac. Beautiful grounds, interesting house, bunny rabbits on all of the items for sale. Daughter bought many of them .

MSK's avatar

I agree with Arlington Cemetery, the Capitol and the Library of Congress. Visiting all the Memorials as well. The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum if you have any flight aficionados, and the National museum of Natural History if you have any one who likes dinosaurs or rocks. Sadly I can’t no longer recommend the museum of American History. We were there couple of years ago and every display said something negative about our country, and the one room that once held multiple landscapes of the American west by Albert Bierstadt (worth seeing in person if you can) was reduced to one painting at the end of a corridor that you couldn’t get near due to ongoing “improvements “. We had been there years before and loved the museum, its current iteration is a leftist revisionist view of American history I wouldn’t waste my time on. The Botanic gardens were nice too.

CaplT's avatar

The summer White House, an overlooked gem off the beaten path, where Lincoln and subsequent presidents escaped from the swampy weather. Literally.

Lori's avatar

Have a wonderful time. Great memories to be made on your life resume!

Steve Stevens's avatar

Have we forgotten about the plandemic already? And the debasement of the dollar?

AM Schimberg's avatar

A good friend of mine was a breast cancer survivor for decades. She had her yearly checkup 6 months earlier and was still 100% cancer-free. Then came the covid shots. Within a month her entire body was riddled with cancer and she passed. Justice for Tanyia.

CStone's avatar

It makes me so angry. Same thing happened with my sister’s best friend.

Lori's avatar

No words but lots of rage. I am so terribly sad about this. Another that was unjustly taken from the world too soon.

Patty's avatar

Justice for Allyson. Glioblastoma and dead in 13 months.

FrankInFL's avatar

Myocarditis didn't just affect athletes. Airline pilots and Air Traffic Controllers also were forced to get jabbed, and the result was massive disruption to our travel infrastructure: https://dispatchesfromheck.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-perfect-storm.html

SHug's avatar

DEI didn't help that either

signcut's avatar

Really, is Collins any more of a 'Republican' than Platner...?

Like Murkowski and McDonnell, she is a RINO's RINO, and yet she (and they) are ferociously defended and extensively funded by the party, rather than be replaced by someone who could actually be termed as moderate, and reliably expected to toe a party line.

Electing, and fighting to keep, garbage politicians gets one a garbage party. This can be clearly seen with both donkeys and recucklicans...

LMWC's avatar

Collins has BIG money behind her. She is in a state not worth trying to primary her out. How many Republican House members are there from Maine? NE is either Independent, (they vote and caucus with the Dems), or Democrat. There isn’t much in between.

I wonder if Jeff’s numbers are correct: 50-48 vote against who were the two senators who didn’t vote?

Johnny-O's avatar

DC is the garbage pit of all garbage pits - and there really isn't a huge difference in the parties other than cultural football issues.

Most here seem unaware that Trump is on pace with Biden's record deficit. If this maintains, he will leave office responsible for about 1/3 of the total US debt after his two terms - a whopping $15 trillion. But DOGE, or something.....

Jeffrey N. Gratton's avatar

Like Platner, I also attended Hotchkiss

Without mentioning the school by name, I commented recently that there ZERO of my classmates condescends to have any contact with me.

The school, rated #1 in America at niche.com is a cesspool of DEI and 'superiority-indoctrination'

(but at least they teach - or taught - ENGLISH)

Lori's avatar

So glad they don't stay in touch which means you don't have cooties!

Jeffrey N. Gratton's avatar

It's been fascinating to say the least.

When I was there (1975-1978) I was the ugly duckling from nowhere ... Worcester Ma ... and an overwhelming majority hailed from Fairfield County or Manhattan.

Dripping with envy I was.

Mary Goodwin's avatar

Those despicable ‘health’ officials including woodcock should be in prison for the rest of their stinking lives!😡

Peter GL's avatar

for persons hell bent on protecting the covid vaccine, to minimizing myocarditis is not a big stretch, especially when "experts" called people who died in car crashes of pneumonia to have died of covid, just so they can push the vaccine. They were worse than the south of the border drug lords

Erin Montgomery's avatar

Good Morning from the big blue sky of Montana!

Pam WP's avatar

Tillis has proven over and over he’s a Rhino!! If Cooper gets in to represent NC, we are doomed!

Please pray for NC! 🙏

Steenroid's avatar

Nah he just hates Trump. I missed what Trump supposedly did to him but it’s just pure hate on his part.

Delightful Designs's avatar

I'm REALLY hoping someone tells Sen Johnson about the fibrous clots in bodies that the undertakers found.

Brandon is not your bro's avatar

He knows DD , he’s mentioned them

Delightful Designs's avatar

Cool! Did he get it into the record?

Delightful Designs's avatar

Thank you for both bits of info :D

I'm soooo glad I didn't get jabbed.

Peter GL's avatar

while exposing what Senator Johnson called “the biggest government scandal of my lifetime”, I'm afraid that unless heads roll or are put in jail this may not be the last of such scandals. We should demand accountability, not merely exposure. At least he is proof that Wisconsinites can have an ounce of logic when they enter the voting booth, unlike their neighbors

Jeff Johnson's avatar

If you read the entire article, Mr. Childers clearly pointed out that he is playing a long game in order to fully expose all who need to be indicted and put away.

Steve Stevens's avatar

And if the Rs lose control in the midterms how much longer do you think Johnson’s “long game” will go on?

Johnny-O's avatar

Exactly. To think there is going to be true accountability for this is as about as ridiculous as thinking they were going to release all the Epstein files.

Bard Joseph's avatar

Where have I heard "Lock er up" before.