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"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:
Since my comment was hidden below today's C&C I've been digging into the Substack moderation issue, just shared a Stack on what I learned. I engaged with a Substack Chatbot and it critiqued why the specific comments were "moderated," aka shadow-banned:
It's important to note that while Substack just made this change to user comments under each individual Stack, allowing the publication author to opt-out of the "automatic moderation" the justifications the Chatbot gave reveal some of what Substack's community standards are as they relate to the examples I ran through it.
And with that comes the realization that those being Substack's community standards, ALL of the Stacks we read fall under those same standards. Meaning that Jeff's and many other contrarian voices are and have been being shadow-banned by Substack using the same justifications. No longer is it just speculation that the Stacks are being shadow-banned. They've placed their cards on the table. The justifications are a confession of Substack's current practice.
ADDITIONALLY, ANY author who doesn't turn off Substacks Automated Moderation is telling their readers that THEY support Substack's version of "community standards." Which IS the censorship-industrial complex's version of community standards, including "mis/mal/disinformation" on vaccines, masks, health/medicine, election integrity, CRT/DEI/Transinsanity, all of it. Authors who retain Substack's community standards as their default setting are adopting Substack's speech values. Either because they affirmatively support them, or because there is economic incentive to retain them, Stacks with automatic moderation enabled will be given greater reach = more $$.
ANY Stack that has "replies hidden" at the bottom comments is an active participant in the very censorship that many contrarian voices on Substack supposedly oppose.*
*excepting that apparently the moderation feature also allows custom moderation settings that will be disclosed in the reply box. If a Substack author decides to set their own moderation - with their rules identified - then their idea of what they wish to moderate will be clearly communicated.
I've noticed this was happening for some time now. There was a two month period where I could only get to C&C by pulling up my browser history as the stack disappeared from all the ordinary ways using substack directly. Would just add that Jeff had some bold things to say that I agree with on Pride and I wondered if he'd be disappeared into the penalty box for it.
After reading the chatbot partial description of "community standards" there's little doubt that C&C is shadow-banned on the broader platform. Readers who come here do so intentionally, as reading hidden replies now requires an intentional click to view. Jeff should wise up that applying SS's automod shadow-banning to commenters signifies his own consent to be shadow-banned by SS on the broad platform; he supports their moderation values. Which, from the read of the chatbot is the same as the NYT's and CNN's.
"ANY Stack that has 'replies hidden/ at the bottom comments is an active participant in the very censorship that many contrarian voices on Substack supposedly oppose."
Ah....I wondered if anyone else here on Substack as a reader/commenter would ever get around to noticing and admitting that. I have been attempting to point this out for years.
I have been posting over various sites for a long while. I have had it up to my eyeballs with hosts who sell themselves to the anti-WOKE-folk as contrarians and truth-tellers, but subsequently show you in reality that they are anything but. It's an image that sells the "freedom-product". The centrist and rightwing types search it out and cheer it on. But few of them seem to question whether this new "alternative view" is authentic, or just as full of "give them what they will pay for" as legacy media.
I have been banned ten times or so, from Substack sites and by Substack hosts who sell the free-speech-and-democracy ideas as their revenue stream. But disagree with them, or discuss the Substack contradictions and dark side..... and you are immediately banned and out of the running on their Substack page. I speak here even of several of the popular democracy cheerleaders of the Substack world, who turn out to be anything but -- if you dare challenge them in any way or go beyond them or discuss what is behind the curtain of the Substack platform itself.
Michael Shellenberger even refused to refund my annual subscriber fees just two weeks in, when he had a snit-fit over someone not totally agreeing with him....and banned me from commenting. Imagine what I think of him now.
I recall being on the Sasha Stone Substack for some time, contributing all the psychological back-up which Sasha was unable to contribute by herself for her ideas. She claims to have had an awakening from her former leftwing self, which is her schtick. Then suddenly, she banned me. Because, I suspect, I was setting the bar too high for her. Best not to have me around at all.
I made a comment once about writing being considered as gold, if it was above-the-line on a Substack site; but writing that was even more informative than the host's was considered worthless if it appeared below-the-line. In other words, it was not the quality and usefulness of the writing that counted, but whether the writer had been bigged-up first as a Substack host. The Substack platform does a lot of PR to position their writers (especially the popular ones) as gods. And the public often laps it up. For instance, a written paragraph could draw many gushing accolades if the gushers believed it was written by a Substack host, but barely get a single upvote if the same paragraph appeared below, in the comment forum, written by a nobody.
I have just this week been following the attempt in Canada to criminalize the "denialism" of the Indigenous Residential Schools story promoted by the Liberal govt.
Yes, still blank. But when I stop "automatic moderation" through my settings, as TriTorch suggested (and kindly provided instructions for), I can see and read it at the bottom of the page.
I never bought the "Substack as the honest new media god" belief. I was rather waiting for a move like this censorship. I saw it coming years ago.
Why do any of us believe that Substack, or "the new media" in general, is any more righteous and honest than the legacy media? Just because they say so? Wasn't that the trick with the legacy media too?
There is big money to be made in media. Surely no one truly believes that only the honest types are going to be lining up to get in on that act? In fact it will draw a very wide range of wanna-be profit-makers, of all proclivities. No matter how they present themselves.
They are not going to announce themselves as con-artists on the make, are they? If that is what they are actually doing. And it could well be.
We're being treated like children and they try to be our parents. How utterly presumptuous and lame. Funny how they don't like the word sh!t but they're ok with obeying the rule of pedophiles. SMH.
Thank you. Side note, for several days before the hidden comments showed up, I had trouble liking comments. I wonder if that’s tied in somehow? Today it doesn’t seem to be an issue.
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.
Ahhh but you would force us all into continuing to HAVE to be exposed to pedo propaganda because otherwise if we block them it’s cEnSorsHip! So you shame and ridicule us for blocking from your virtue signaling high horse when we say there are some accounts WORTH blocking, yet here you show you clearly understand. 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️ Hypocrisy at its finest.
We must not block each other. Just scroll the hell by. Why does anyone need to block? That is censorship. What is wrong with people - it's only words on an fn screen. If only everyone realized how utterly, and absolutely free speech is our ONLY way out of this prison. Don't go throwing it away. If you block, delete, ban, it is still censorship. And boy do they want us to do it to each other because that is giving them consent to do it too and they can do it to us. So let's make censorship contemptable, despicable, and a disgrace.
You’re contemptible, despicable, and a disgrace. Trying to shame OTHERS to do what you want them to do is the most despicable tactic today.
Blocking is NOT censorship. It’s an individual act no different than walking away from someone like you on the street. Nobody gives you the right to spew your nastiness in my face. I can walk away. So if I find you offensive or harmful in anyway, if you’re spreading lies that are meant to harm people, I can block you. That’s MY choice. That’s a consequence, not censorship.
It’s censorship when you make that choice for OTHERS without their consent. It is NOT censorship when you choose it for yourself.
Be angry all you want, stomp your feet, throw a tantrum, try to guilt people here to be too afraid to do it or they will be labeled bad things by ugly people like you. But it won’t work. That’s the kind of bullying I don’t need to be around. It’s ridiculous.
Now if someone else is doing something that prohibits my ability to see things without MY making that choice, THAT’S worth shaming.
This is how we know you are in the program. YOu didn't understand a word I said, all you are after is having it your way and then twisting it around. And you are unaware of it entirely. When you block someone you are using censorship. Doing that means you are consenting to being censored and to having all of us censored. What we get on the large scale is what we do on the micro scale. In real life as opposed to online life, it's personal if you ignore someone. It's always a choice of course but making the wrong choices is dangerous especially now when things are so unstable. The internet is a place for expression, it is different to real life. It is only 2 dimensional. Nobody can get hurt on a 2 dimensional platform. Go stopping someone's expression and yours will be stopped as well. We now have to think quite differently than the indulged children we have been trained to be. Did you not see what I said - that free speech is the ONLY tool we've got against the most brutal energies that have everything in their favor. All we have is free speech and this is so powerful that it would make the terrain totally unfavorable for psychopaths.
Also to call me names just shows how immature you are. Not that it hurts me. I like to know who everyone is, I like to see who I'm dealing with. That's another stupidity about censorship, it stops you from having information which means you stay stupider.
Too many trolls count on just this attitude, with their ugly, hateful comments and then start their "oh, but I thought you were all about free speech" bs. You can say what you like; but I also have the freedom to disregard it and block it.
I, for one, do not have the patience to deal with idiots. I will block who tf I please on my own perspective. You are welcome to do what you like as well, but you do NOT get to lecture me on what I choose.
"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]
While I understand the intent of your comment, I have yet to see anyone (in America anyway) being "not allowed" to criticize Israel. I often feel like I see nothing but criticism of Israel, even in this comments section.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The trouble is when we start having some conditions for censorship, it opens the door for tyrants to make those conditions. Just all speech must be free. If people don't like it, then just scroll by. Sometimes there may be need to censor but it must always be done by going to the readership and getting a representation of the portion of people who want them censored. Sometimes it could be spammers, or something else that people may find detracts from the quality of the thread. Main thing is censorship must never be done unilaterally. It needs to be discussed so that we all can learn.
You will get blocked as soon as I post this, for being unable to understand the difference between one person blocking you and an algorithym which removes content from everyone.
Alex Berenson wrote about this today. He has manually opted out or whatever is required so no algorithm will censor his commenters posts. Hopefully Jeff will do the same and write about it tomorrow.
Just turned off “Auto-Moderation on the Perimeter.
Everything on the web should be opt-in by law. This is disgraceful on Substack’s part, any attack on the most crucial and fundamental of our natural rights (Freedom of Speech) cannot and should never be tolerated.
I totally agree with you. There should never be an "Opt Out" condition. That is for sneaks. It should always be Opt In. You're absolutely right! And I mentioned this in the Architecture for The New Epoch.
I have never bought into the idea that Substack is a denizen of virtue, as many other people seem to believe.
I think of Substack more as a Pied Piper IT/media company, looking to profit as much as possible. They can do so by telling you nice things about themselves, which may or may not be true.
Since many folks are looking to replace the scurrilous legacy media, presenting yourself as an honest forthright alternative might just be savvy advertising, no?
It is up to each reader whether they are going to follow Substack as far as over-the-cliff or not.
Thank you for the directions on turning-off Auto-moderation. I have just done so, though I probably would not have gone searching for such an option on my own. Much obliged.
You may have said that "tongue in cheek" however no a union is lame. What is needed is to all migrate to another platform say librti or a platform that stands for freedom of expression.
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!
That is one of the reasons I couldn't stomach Rush Limbaugh. In his opening schpeil (sp?) he would say "I will do the thinking for you..." NOBODY does my thinking for me.
Rush was simply the biggest BS'er and bloviater EVER. Sitting at his "golden microphone" thinking and mulling over the great chess game as you do the dishes.
Everybody has there thing. Like Jeff regards Trumpie. . . LTMW.
If you checked the content of most of those who publish now, you'll find that SS has been mostly taken over by the blue sky brigade. Smurfs gonna smurf. They lurve censorship.
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”.
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.
So much for "unalienable rights"! Our Founding Fathers would start another "revolution". As for the antagonists, there is only the Uniparty. The censors seem to be targeting comments that are critical of Trump and his policies. I think the Dems are a red-herring.
I was banned as a subscriber on two religious-writing Substack sites: The Abbey of Misrule (Paul Kingsnorth) -- which shocked me because I had supported him for over a year in many ways, including purchase and good reviews of his new (expensive) book. What was my sin? I mentioned that there was an alternate definition for a term he was using, and then I explained that alternate definition. He came back raging at me because I was taking the limelight away from him....that the Substack was about whatever HE decided it was to be. Even the comment forum. Could have knocked me over with a feather. Good old noble holy-roller Paul Kingsnorth is not so holy or noble after all, it seems.
And the there was Rod Dreher, who fancies himself a spokesperson for the whole Orthodox Christian faith. Even though he talks mainly about himself and his life issues. Or his "amazing insight". Oh? I must have missed that.
Rod struck me as a cult leader type, with all his drooling cult followers showing up to praise and adore him every post. Again, when I questioned any of this, even very mildly, I was promptly told I was devil-material, and immediately banned.
JEFF CHILDERS, I pray you are seeing these comments. Please correct this action of ‘hidden replies’ if you can. So far today, there are 6 hidden replies: by TriTorch, Dan (100% All in MAGA), Sara Goss, Political Phil, George de Luna, and Amy Harlib.
Please Jeff, don’t let our speech be obliterated. 🙏🏼
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!♥
I have always assumed that Substack cannot possibly be as virtuous as they claim. Since they are primarily in the business of making money, Therefore, they must have seen that telling people what they wanted to believe was a method of doing so. That has been their business model for the new media.
There are many contenders seeking to attract the business of disgruntled former readers/viewers of legacy media. This can be a goldmine! So Substack had to make themselves sound like they could deliver the honesty and openness which these users of new media were looking for. That was the attraction.
False advertising? Well, maybe. But there is no oversight, so who is going to come down on them? And once they have readers/commenters hooked, they can slowly become more authoritarian. Like the frog in the slowly boiling pot of water. Who's going to notice? They normalize a crackdown on free speech bit by bit.
Oh exactly! This is only the beginning. On another substack, someone said there were some "bugs" to work out in their new community standards. I said, "Uh huh, sure. Wait till the locusts arrive."
And isn't it amazing how the frogs learn to put up with the increasing heat? Or predictable.
Right?! I assume you are referring to Trump 1.0. It's the great game by which they keep us preoccupied with each other while they kill us off.
When people act surprised, my response is "Well, it is in reality a Uniparty. What did you expect?" This dialectic will continue until such time as the empire collapses. I'm just a skeptical spectator.
Lol...didn't think anyone ever read that stuff. Nothing is as it seems and is getting worse now. We are all being corralled into the same chute, but we all bleat "free speech" as we ramble on in. I have always expected this, so it is not a surprise.
So have I. It HAD to be coming. I saw it from the get-go. But everyone was so in love with THEIR Substack god(s) that I would nearly be run off the comment forums for daring to broach this idea.
Substack is not the great new tool of honesty and virtue. But many people can be made to believe just that.
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...
Juju: Iphone C&C reader here. I just got to the bottom of the comment section (where it says ‘load more’) and saw “12 comments hidden” in light gray italics. I can now see the hidden comments.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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????
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 😕
I think the root of their denial is actually embarrassment. They know now that they were duped and just how easy it was to get them to shun their neighbor, family members and colleges.
We still cannot talk about it with some friends and family members. The always hold up a hand and say, "...lets just agree to disagree." As though we are suppose to pretend they were not insane, rude and ridiculously lead by the nose!
Fact: Janet Woodcock is guilty of murdering more people than anyone currently on death row, and anyone who was ever on death row and put to death.
Fact.
But because her murder weapon was a pen and a keystroke she walks free among us, in the highest echelon of status, power and privilege.
I think I just became a death penalty opponent. Even for the most heinous of crime murderers. NONE of them compare to the bloodstained fingers of the Janet Woodcocks we share planes, stadiums, theaters and restaurants with.
IF the death penalty began to be applied to the murderers who use pens and keyboards as their chosen weapons, I might become a proponent of it again.
*Will find out if this comment lands me in the "replies hidden" category below...Jeff?
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.
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.
Its only crazy if you are not one of those politicians getting huge kickbacks for funding Ukraine or staying in office due to manipulated elections or all of the above. They are corrupt and both of those acts are proof of it.
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!
Let the man work. He has to pick his battles, and is getting no help from his party. I’m pleased with the progress and happy not to have Cankles or Cackles.
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.
Of course you say this assuming Trump was aware that the Jab, given to young men during Bidens' Administration (Spring 2021) had the Myocarditis warning. I don't assume that a CEO is aware of all the moving parts and micro aggressions, etc, that go on in each governmental department.
Lisa, millions of vaxxed are dead. Millions more are sick and dying.
Funeral Directors are ordering 30% more Infant-Child size coffins, up from the 20% increase in '22.
So why six years later is Donald Trump is STILL LYING to the American people and telling them that there's a deadly virus and that the genocidal 0WS vaxxine is safe, and to take it???
I have not heard DJT push Vaccines in this term! I did hear him in 2020, when he and most of us, thought that the NIH, the CDC and the WHO actually had OUR best interests at heart!
I further know that each of us made our own decisions as to vax or not vax! I was told by a nurse friend that I was selfish for not getting all the Jabs! She lamented that a friend of hers just died because he refused to get the VAX! I replied that it was his body, his choice!
Good enough for killing the unborn, so why is it different for Grandma? By the way Mum is still with us at 97! We just used caution and our brains. I actually had the Covid virus, so I knew I was immune. I only got it one time! But then I wasn't rioting, nor frequenting crowded venues and burning the candle at both ends, nor do I have the "Co-morbid" issues.
Maybe that's because, dare I say this here, he's one of them? He has certainly reneged on his campaign promises: forever wars, economy, regulation (unless it favors the next big thing), money to other countries..... et cetera. If you can't see this, you must not be looking. And the graft, it is over the top.
I know this comment is a black pill but that's what I see and I don't see the pain getting any better. It's the manifestation of, squeeze'em 'til they squeal then back of a scoach.
The reality is that we, the American People, of these Free United States, had two choices in the 2024 Election. I for one, voted for people who actually have experience running large businesses and organizations. I did not vote based upon not getting into skirmishes with bad actors. I was hoping to extricate our Nation from the Ukraine debacle, but wiser minds know better the tangled web of germy laboratories and or magic minerals, or whatever got us over there to begin with.
Everything else is Great! Rounding up the INVADERS, (the Dem's held the door open for) was a top priority and the Job of Federal Gov't! Guarding the BORDERS is also the job of the FED! So check and check! Not rounding up, nor discriminating against those who CHOOSE NOT to get JABBED is also the Fed's Job!
Other Wins are, Keeping boys and imaginary girls out of female spaces and sports; which falls into equal protection under natural law, if not U.S. law! Not having to play the DEI language game for fear of reprisals by the BORG! Win.
These are all things I voted for and the Administration is dutifully working on. Oh., and getting the "World" anything, the heck out of our Government, NATO Countries finally being made to PAY their fair share! WHOO HOO!
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.
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.
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.
I am so aggravated by the bombardment of big pHarma ads (and it seems like it’s almost every 2nd or 3rd ad) on TV encouraging people to ask their doctors to prescribe these drugs for them. And I’d say most of the doctors comply, … I know because I once asked for a drug I saw on TV (in my stupid days) and my doc wrote out a script immediately no questions asked. How many others fell for the same ploy? We are being drugged to death! Literally!
Senator Ron Johnson is a national treasure. He also did heroic work exposing holes in Biden’s “free and fair” election. If the MSM had given him ANY serious coverage at the time, the 2020 election would never have been certified.
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.
I believe you are 100% correct Valerie, and Jay Horton. I just couldn’t remember the details when I added my comment. I was sick to my stomach when I saw that boy dying, in handcuffs, and the police said to him that he wasn’t stabbed …and yet he died of stab wounds right there on the sidewalk. This is only one example of the injustices that are being brought upon the citizens; should we mention the rape gangs attacking young girls in the UK perpetrated by the protected class of immigrant criminals? Coming to America? Perhaps already here? Of course they are.
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.
I had a 74-year-old massage client come in around that time who had had breast cancer about 30 years before with clear scans since. Her breast cancer came back after the jab and she told me there were 4 ‘little old ladies’ in her Bible study that had old cancers recur. I’ve said this before here, but I will never not be angry about how covid was handled.
I have a cousin in the same situation now, Valerie. She’s got a great attitude and has made no connection to the shots she championed at the time. Sad.
I have an elderly friend with Waldenstroms (blood cancer). She’d been in remission for years and got the shots to go on a cruise. She’d never got more than 1st 2 but regrets it and know they caused her cancer to return. She’s had more problems then ever before since taking those shots.
DEI in the ATC area was implemented by Obama. Instead of hiring the best in class, the ones that fit the box were hired and had to be continually retrained and took much longer to be an active controller if they even did pass training.
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!!
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.
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.
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!
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 .
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.
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.
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...
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.....
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?
Was wondering the same. I posted that rhino Tillis will be replaced by Democrat Roy Cooper so there won’t be any difference in the senate votes for that seat.
for persons hell bent on protecting the covid vaccine, minimizing myocarditis is not a big stretch, especially when "experts" called people who died in car crashes or pneumonia to have died of covid, just so they can push the vaccine. They were worse than the south of the border drug lords
while exposing what Senator Johnson called “the biggest government scandal of my lifetime” is good, I'm afraid that unless heads roll or are put in jail this may not be the last time we witness 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
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.
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.
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
Not just Ben Franklin, but how about George Orwell...
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act."
Since my comment was hidden below today's C&C I've been digging into the Substack moderation issue, just shared a Stack on what I learned. I engaged with a Substack Chatbot and it critiqued why the specific comments were "moderated," aka shadow-banned:
https://freedomfox.substack.com/p/alert-substack-shadow-banning-deployed/
It's important to note that while Substack just made this change to user comments under each individual Stack, allowing the publication author to opt-out of the "automatic moderation" the justifications the Chatbot gave reveal some of what Substack's community standards are as they relate to the examples I ran through it.
And with that comes the realization that those being Substack's community standards, ALL of the Stacks we read fall under those same standards. Meaning that Jeff's and many other contrarian voices are and have been being shadow-banned by Substack using the same justifications. No longer is it just speculation that the Stacks are being shadow-banned. They've placed their cards on the table. The justifications are a confession of Substack's current practice.
ADDITIONALLY, ANY author who doesn't turn off Substacks Automated Moderation is telling their readers that THEY support Substack's version of "community standards." Which IS the censorship-industrial complex's version of community standards, including "mis/mal/disinformation" on vaccines, masks, health/medicine, election integrity, CRT/DEI/Transinsanity, all of it. Authors who retain Substack's community standards as their default setting are adopting Substack's speech values. Either because they affirmatively support them, or because there is economic incentive to retain them, Stacks with automatic moderation enabled will be given greater reach = more $$.
ANY Stack that has "replies hidden" at the bottom comments is an active participant in the very censorship that many contrarian voices on Substack supposedly oppose.*
*excepting that apparently the moderation feature also allows custom moderation settings that will be disclosed in the reply box. If a Substack author decides to set their own moderation - with their rules identified - then their idea of what they wish to moderate will be clearly communicated.
I've noticed this was happening for some time now. There was a two month period where I could only get to C&C by pulling up my browser history as the stack disappeared from all the ordinary ways using substack directly. Would just add that Jeff had some bold things to say that I agree with on Pride and I wondered if he'd be disappeared into the penalty box for it.
After reading the chatbot partial description of "community standards" there's little doubt that C&C is shadow-banned on the broader platform. Readers who come here do so intentionally, as reading hidden replies now requires an intentional click to view. Jeff should wise up that applying SS's automod shadow-banning to commenters signifies his own consent to be shadow-banned by SS on the broad platform; he supports their moderation values. Which, from the read of the chatbot is the same as the NYT's and CNN's.
I have to admit I’ll cancel any subscription that uses this feature.
"ANY Stack that has 'replies hidden/ at the bottom comments is an active participant in the very censorship that many contrarian voices on Substack supposedly oppose."
Ah....I wondered if anyone else here on Substack as a reader/commenter would ever get around to noticing and admitting that. I have been attempting to point this out for years.
I have been posting over various sites for a long while. I have had it up to my eyeballs with hosts who sell themselves to the anti-WOKE-folk as contrarians and truth-tellers, but subsequently show you in reality that they are anything but. It's an image that sells the "freedom-product". The centrist and rightwing types search it out and cheer it on. But few of them seem to question whether this new "alternative view" is authentic, or just as full of "give them what they will pay for" as legacy media.
I have been banned ten times or so, from Substack sites and by Substack hosts who sell the free-speech-and-democracy ideas as their revenue stream. But disagree with them, or discuss the Substack contradictions and dark side..... and you are immediately banned and out of the running on their Substack page. I speak here even of several of the popular democracy cheerleaders of the Substack world, who turn out to be anything but -- if you dare challenge them in any way or go beyond them or discuss what is behind the curtain of the Substack platform itself.
Michael Shellenberger even refused to refund my annual subscriber fees just two weeks in, when he had a snit-fit over someone not totally agreeing with him....and banned me from commenting. Imagine what I think of him now.
I recall being on the Sasha Stone Substack for some time, contributing all the psychological back-up which Sasha was unable to contribute by herself for her ideas. She claims to have had an awakening from her former leftwing self, which is her schtick. Then suddenly, she banned me. Because, I suspect, I was setting the bar too high for her. Best not to have me around at all.
I made a comment once about writing being considered as gold, if it was above-the-line on a Substack site; but writing that was even more informative than the host's was considered worthless if it appeared below-the-line. In other words, it was not the quality and usefulness of the writing that counted, but whether the writer had been bigged-up first as a Substack host. The Substack platform does a lot of PR to position their writers (especially the popular ones) as gods. And the public often laps it up. For instance, a written paragraph could draw many gushing accolades if the gushers believed it was written by a Substack host, but barely get a single upvote if the same paragraph appeared below, in the comment forum, written by a nobody.
A lot in that to engage with. Alas, another time. Thank you for sharing. To be continued.
It would be nice to see the four comments that were censored. To give us all an idea on this topic. 🙏🏻
Here they are:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/crossing-over-thursday-june-4-2026/comment/270534970
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/crossing-over-thursday-june-4-2026/comment/270548241
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/crossing-over-thursday-june-4-2026/comment/270594456
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/crossing-over-thursday-june-4-2026/comment/270609612
Here is Mr. Kirsch's and his reply: https://kirschsubstack.com/p/journal-editor-responds-to-my-letter/comment/270211979
Edit: Baldmichael also had a comment hidden: https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/crossing-over-thursday-june-4-2026/comment/270526763
If you want to know who the dictators are, look at the things you aren’t allowed to publicly talk about.
I have just this week been following the attempt in Canada to criminalize the "denialism" of the Indigenous Residential Schools story promoted by the Liberal govt.
Here is the link to my comment which was "hidden" in Wednesday's C&C....
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/bugs-wednesday-june-3-2026-c-and/comment/270237165
thank you for sharing
I wonder what got that comment censored?
that goes to an empty comment. . . so, can't read it if that was your plan.
the censor is working, eh?
I can see your comment that you linked but if I hit return to thread I can't even see your name in the thread or that anything was hidden.
The link is blank.
Is it still blank? Others did see it. It's so wierd.
Yes, still blank. But when I stop "automatic moderation" through my settings, as TriTorch suggested (and kindly provided instructions for), I can see and read it at the bottom of the page.
I never bought the "Substack as the honest new media god" belief. I was rather waiting for a move like this censorship. I saw it coming years ago.
Sounds like substack hired the moms from the WSJ
And the left claims to be all about the science
Even this comment is hidden. 🤦♀️
THEY ARE CENSORING LIKE CRAZY. WAS ON ANOTHER SS AND THEY CENSORED 2 OF MY COMMENTS.
that's just cause you are SOOOOoooo wild Lori!
Wow
But I can see it...?
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'
This is all so sad. I don’t care if you support or oppose things I happen to like. Let all voices be heard.
thank you
I was able to read it too……at first. Now it is hidden.
Thank you again! Read them all, tells me the deep state is still working hard behind the scenes.
Why do any of us believe that Substack, or "the new media" in general, is any more righteous and honest than the legacy media? Just because they say so? Wasn't that the trick with the legacy media too?
There is big money to be made in media. Surely no one truly believes that only the honest types are going to be lining up to get in on that act? In fact it will draw a very wide range of wanna-be profit-makers, of all proclivities. No matter how they present themselves.
They are not going to announce themselves as con-artists on the make, are they? If that is what they are actually doing. And it could well be.
We need to go to platforms that stand for free speech. I can see I'd better start looking and moving my work to a platform that has ethics.
I do not think it was criticism of Trump that got that one .... it was the use of foul (though misspelled) language.
Henceforth, alll people with whom I disagree will be called poopy-heads, and nothing stronger than that.
We're being treated like children and they try to be our parents. How utterly presumptuous and lame. Funny how they don't like the word sh!t but they're ok with obeying the rule of pedophiles. SMH.
Roger, Promise?
Are you sure about the misspelling?
https://www.google.com/search?q=faecal+matter
Wow problem. Thanks for sharing
Thank you TT!
It’s hard not to use power when you are sitting at the control panel. Power corrupts.
You got it.
“On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.”
That is so absolutely true. Yet mostly everyone gives their power away. Sovereignty needs to become the new fashion.
guess you saw they hid this comment too
Thank you. Side note, for several days before the hidden comments showed up, I had trouble liking comments. I wonder if that’s tied in somehow? Today it doesn’t seem to be an issue.
Well, you little provocateur, you. :)
Forgive me, but you have omitted mine from the list.
Baldmichael, yours did not appear in the thread i pulled these from (they are grouoed under threads). If you give me the link to yours i will add it.
Thanks. This is the main thread, started by P.M.Carpenter.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/crossing-over-thursday-june-4-2026/comment/270521027
My comment was to Steenroid where I agreed with him.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/crossing-over-thursday-june-4-2026/comment/270526763
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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.
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
Precisely so. There are adults in this C&C room. Let us decide for ourselves. Darned self-appointed overlords are everywhere these days.
Just what must they be thinking to censor words that go against what they call community standards. What kind of community - pedos?
Ahhh but you would force us all into continuing to HAVE to be exposed to pedo propaganda because otherwise if we block them it’s cEnSorsHip! So you shame and ridicule us for blocking from your virtue signaling high horse when we say there are some accounts WORTH blocking, yet here you show you clearly understand. 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️ Hypocrisy at its finest.
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Same!!!
We must not block each other. Just scroll the hell by. Why does anyone need to block? That is censorship. What is wrong with people - it's only words on an fn screen. If only everyone realized how utterly, and absolutely free speech is our ONLY way out of this prison. Don't go throwing it away. If you block, delete, ban, it is still censorship. And boy do they want us to do it to each other because that is giving them consent to do it too and they can do it to us. So let's make censorship contemptable, despicable, and a disgrace.
You’re contemptible, despicable, and a disgrace. Trying to shame OTHERS to do what you want them to do is the most despicable tactic today.
Blocking is NOT censorship. It’s an individual act no different than walking away from someone like you on the street. Nobody gives you the right to spew your nastiness in my face. I can walk away. So if I find you offensive or harmful in anyway, if you’re spreading lies that are meant to harm people, I can block you. That’s MY choice. That’s a consequence, not censorship.
It’s censorship when you make that choice for OTHERS without their consent. It is NOT censorship when you choose it for yourself.
Be angry all you want, stomp your feet, throw a tantrum, try to guilt people here to be too afraid to do it or they will be labeled bad things by ugly people like you. But it won’t work. That’s the kind of bullying I don’t need to be around. It’s ridiculous.
Now if someone else is doing something that prohibits my ability to see things without MY making that choice, THAT’S worth shaming.
Learn the difference and stop being such a bully
Spot on, Juju.
Well said, Juju!!!
This is how we know you are in the program. YOu didn't understand a word I said, all you are after is having it your way and then twisting it around. And you are unaware of it entirely. When you block someone you are using censorship. Doing that means you are consenting to being censored and to having all of us censored. What we get on the large scale is what we do on the micro scale. In real life as opposed to online life, it's personal if you ignore someone. It's always a choice of course but making the wrong choices is dangerous especially now when things are so unstable. The internet is a place for expression, it is different to real life. It is only 2 dimensional. Nobody can get hurt on a 2 dimensional platform. Go stopping someone's expression and yours will be stopped as well. We now have to think quite differently than the indulged children we have been trained to be. Did you not see what I said - that free speech is the ONLY tool we've got against the most brutal energies that have everything in their favor. All we have is free speech and this is so powerful that it would make the terrain totally unfavorable for psychopaths.
Also to call me names just shows how immature you are. Not that it hurts me. I like to know who everyone is, I like to see who I'm dealing with. That's another stupidity about censorship, it stops you from having information which means you stay stupider.
Too many trolls count on just this attitude, with their ugly, hateful comments and then start their "oh, but I thought you were all about free speech" bs. You can say what you like; but I also have the freedom to disregard it and block it.
I, for one, do not have the patience to deal with idiots. I will block who tf I please on my own perspective. You are welcome to do what you like as well, but you do NOT get to lecture me on what I choose.
It's called FREEDOM.
"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]
Voltaire also said "look to who you are not allowed to criticize if you want to know who rules over you".
And “If they can get you to believe absurdities, they can get you to commit atrocities.”
Israel
Are you trying to get hidden?
His comment is still standing, but my reply to his was quietly removed.
Do you want to succumb to their suppression?
While I understand the intent of your comment, I have yet to see anyone (in America anyway) being "not allowed" to criticize Israel. I often feel like I see nothing but criticism of Israel, even in this comments section.
Florida literally has a law about it:
https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/0001.015
Say much of anything about the gov of Israel and there are plenty around here who will quickly call you a jew hater. Retards.
It never used to be like this. I agree there is a lot of criticism of Israel these days. All of it justified.
I always enjoy and consider your commentary, even when I disagree. No throttle here, please.
Thx for calling this out! One of my comments was auto hidden and I was so confused.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Let's see if they censor this comment. Screw Substack for censoring Americans. Tick Tock Substack. What will you do???
Read this on my tablet at 1:33 EDT. Not censored to me. This moderation is bs.
Thanks Susan!
read at 3: 41pm CT
LOL I always like your responses.
Excuse me, derogatory slurs are absolutely inalenable and protected by free speech.
The trouble is when we start having some conditions for censorship, it opens the door for tyrants to make those conditions. Just all speech must be free. If people don't like it, then just scroll by. Sometimes there may be need to censor but it must always be done by going to the readership and getting a representation of the portion of people who want them censored. Sometimes it could be spammers, or something else that people may find detracts from the quality of the thread. Main thing is censorship must never be done unilaterally. It needs to be discussed so that we all can learn.
You will get blocked as soon as I post this, for being unable to understand the difference between one person blocking you and an algorithym which removes content from everyone.
Time to find a new platform and abandon ship. why should we stay on ss when they are now aholes?
Alex Berenson wrote about this today. He has manually opted out or whatever is required so no algorithm will censor his commenters posts. Hopefully Jeff will do the same and write about it tomorrow.
Just turned off “Auto-Moderation on the Perimeter.
Everything on the web should be opt-in by law. This is disgraceful on Substack’s part, any attack on the most crucial and fundamental of our natural rights (Freedom of Speech) cannot and should never be tolerated.
I totally agree with you. There should never be an "Opt Out" condition. That is for sneaks. It should always be Opt In. You're absolutely right! And I mentioned this in the Architecture for The New Epoch.
I have never bought into the idea that Substack is a denizen of virtue, as many other people seem to believe.
I think of Substack more as a Pied Piper IT/media company, looking to profit as much as possible. They can do so by telling you nice things about themselves, which may or may not be true.
Since many folks are looking to replace the scurrilous legacy media, presenting yourself as an honest forthright alternative might just be savvy advertising, no?
It is up to each reader whether they are going to follow Substack as far as over-the-cliff or not.
Thank you for the directions on turning-off Auto-moderation. I have just done so, though I probably would not have gone searching for such an option on my own. Much obliged.
Well TT I have an idea. All you "main" substack authors should form. . . wait for it, now. . . a UNION!
Have your own backchannel to resist "the man"!
Substack admin and censoring
You may have said that "tongue in cheek" however no a union is lame. What is needed is to all migrate to another platform say librti or a platform that stands for freedom of expression.
how do you do that TT?
Go to
Writer’s Dashboard > settings > scroll down to ‘Community’ heading > toggle ‘Enable automatic moderation’ to off
That was nice of them *not*. What the heck are they thinking?
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!
“for training” hah! Riiiight. Whose training? And how? Sheesh. Slippery slope
A.I. will do our thinking for us... and "be happy" (on the latest drug).
We are to be reduced to the Organ Grinder's monkey.
That is one of the reasons I couldn't stomach Rush Limbaugh. In his opening schpeil (sp?) he would say "I will do the thinking for you..." NOBODY does my thinking for me.
aaaah come on Trish!
Rush was simply the biggest BS'er and bloviater EVER. Sitting at his "golden microphone" thinking and mulling over the great chess game as you do the dishes.
Everybody has there thing. Like Jeff regards Trumpie. . . LTMW.
I have always suspected that another revenue stream for the Substack platform is in selling the articles and comments for AI training.
If you checked the content of most of those who publish now, you'll find that SS has been mostly taken over by the blue sky brigade. Smurfs gonna smurf. They lurve censorship.
Yes, they did and brought with them all their severely hateful ways and methods. You can't dislike them enough!
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”.
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.
So much for "unalienable rights"! Our Founding Fathers would start another "revolution". As for the antagonists, there is only the Uniparty. The censors seem to be targeting comments that are critical of Trump and his policies. I think the Dems are a red-herring.
"& “the Jays removed from our nation”. " HEAVEN forbid......
Later Jay
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I was banned as a subscriber on two religious-writing Substack sites: The Abbey of Misrule (Paul Kingsnorth) -- which shocked me because I had supported him for over a year in many ways, including purchase and good reviews of his new (expensive) book. What was my sin? I mentioned that there was an alternate definition for a term he was using, and then I explained that alternate definition. He came back raging at me because I was taking the limelight away from him....that the Substack was about whatever HE decided it was to be. Even the comment forum. Could have knocked me over with a feather. Good old noble holy-roller Paul Kingsnorth is not so holy or noble after all, it seems.
And the there was Rod Dreher, who fancies himself a spokesperson for the whole Orthodox Christian faith. Even though he talks mainly about himself and his life issues. Or his "amazing insight". Oh? I must have missed that.
Rod struck me as a cult leader type, with all his drooling cult followers showing up to praise and adore him every post. Again, when I questioned any of this, even very mildly, I was promptly told I was devil-material, and immediately banned.
JEFF CHILDERS, I pray you are seeing these comments. Please correct this action of ‘hidden replies’ if you can. So far today, there are 6 hidden replies: by TriTorch, Dan (100% All in MAGA), Sara Goss, Political Phil, George de Luna, and Amy Harlib.
Please Jeff, don’t let our speech be obliterated. 🙏🏼
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!♥
Wow! This is not a good look people!
I have always assumed that Substack cannot possibly be as virtuous as they claim. Since they are primarily in the business of making money, Therefore, they must have seen that telling people what they wanted to believe was a method of doing so. That has been their business model for the new media.
There are many contenders seeking to attract the business of disgruntled former readers/viewers of legacy media. This can be a goldmine! So Substack had to make themselves sound like they could deliver the honesty and openness which these users of new media were looking for. That was the attraction.
False advertising? Well, maybe. But there is no oversight, so who is going to come down on them? And once they have readers/commenters hooked, they can slowly become more authoritarian. Like the frog in the slowly boiling pot of water. Who's going to notice? They normalize a crackdown on free speech bit by bit.
Oh exactly! This is only the beginning. On another substack, someone said there were some "bugs" to work out in their new community standards. I said, "Uh huh, sure. Wait till the locusts arrive."
And isn't it amazing how the frogs learn to put up with the increasing heat? Or predictable.
I saw this coming years ago, Phil. And I said so. Which elicited the predictable response from the naive sort of, "Oh don't be so negative".
Ahem. Chickens are now coming home to roost. Not a surprise.
Right?! I assume you are referring to Trump 1.0. It's the great game by which they keep us preoccupied with each other while they kill us off.
When people act surprised, my response is "Well, it is in reality a Uniparty. What did you expect?" This dialectic will continue until such time as the empire collapses. I'm just a skeptical spectator.
I have been waiting for the other Substack shoe to drop with a loud thud.
I think I took your Flushing Bullshit course once....
Lol...didn't think anyone ever read that stuff. Nothing is as it seems and is getting worse now. We are all being corralled into the same chute, but we all bleat "free speech" as we ramble on in. I have always expected this, so it is not a surprise.
So have I. It HAD to be coming. I saw it from the get-go. But everyone was so in love with THEIR Substack god(s) that I would nearly be run off the comment forums for daring to broach this idea.
Substack is not the great new tool of honesty and virtue. But many people can be made to believe just that.
I have been writing on here for 4 years and some. I have found myself self-censoring. I hate it when I do that. Patternseeker, huh? Interesting.
Using the phone app we don’t have the option to even see anything is hidden much less unhide them.
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...
Where in the app does it show a comment is hidden?
I don’t read it in the app, it is on my cpu. Don’t know if it is on the phone app.
It’s not. That’s what my original comment was saying
Juju: Iphone C&C reader here. I just got to the bottom of the comment section (where it says ‘load more’) and saw “12 comments hidden” in light gray italics. I can now see the hidden comments.
I see it!!!! It was never there before. I’ve never seen that, ever!
I still haven’t seen it.
I won't use the SS app, I open these in my [mobile] browser window and just log in.
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
Just want to add:
Today marks the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre
NEVER FORGET WHAT TYRANTS ARE WILLING TO DO FOR POWER
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
Egregie Mykool!
I noticed a lot of comments were hidden and wondered what was going on…
If you are willing to give up freedoms for security and safety, you deserve neither.
Franklin.
Alex Berenson addresses the AI comment censorship in today’s post: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/lets-just-say-no-to-substacks-new?r=111vsh&utm_medium=ios
Yes, I saw that.
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...
Yes, I’ve already had comments disappear on Substack in other subscriptions.
So much for their initial promise of free speech.
“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.
I know. I spent my early years in Cuba.
And see Europe, with its Digital Services Act and all the rest the Democrats want to import to America, after they pack the Supreme Court.
Rushdie was purposely insulting Islam and Mohammad. Not a good example.
I think it’s a perfect example.
One should not bow down to any laws that limit speech, especially blasphemy laws.
Sounds anti semantic LOL
Rushdie was paid by the "publishers" to become a target.
I agree.
People are going to jail in this country for their speech.
I’m ready.
My Cuban dissident parents taught me well.
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.
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.
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????
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 😕
Many of them will not admit, even to themselves, they were manipulated into being jabbed with poison.
I think the root of their denial is actually embarrassment. They know now that they were duped and just how easy it was to get them to shun their neighbor, family members and colleges.
We still cannot talk about it with some friends and family members. The always hold up a hand and say, "...lets just agree to disagree." As though we are suppose to pretend they were not insane, rude and ridiculously lead by the nose!
Yup, burying their heads in the sand. They don’t want to know or acknowledge or think about it.
Fact: Janet Woodcock is guilty of murdering more people than anyone currently on death row, and anyone who was ever on death row and put to death.
Fact.
But because her murder weapon was a pen and a keystroke she walks free among us, in the highest echelon of status, power and privilege.
I think I just became a death penalty opponent. Even for the most heinous of crime murderers. NONE of them compare to the bloodstained fingers of the Janet Woodcocks we share planes, stadiums, theaters and restaurants with.
IF the death penalty began to be applied to the murderers who use pens and keyboards as their chosen weapons, I might become a proponent of it again.
*Will find out if this comment lands me in the "replies hidden" category below...Jeff?
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.
AMEN!!! I remind myself of that fact daily!!! We must not become weary (or complacent) in doing good!
$$$ talks....we vote.
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.
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
Its only crazy if you are not one of those politicians getting huge kickbacks for funding Ukraine or staying in office due to manipulated elections or all of the above. They are corrupt and both of those acts are proof of it.
Boom! There it is.
Later Jay
If by “wall” you meant rope, then YES!! 😆
"...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!
Let the man work. He has to pick his battles, and is getting no help from his party. I’m pleased with the progress and happy not to have Cankles or Cackles.
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!
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.
She was campaigning Director for a Certain Prime Minister in the Middle East.
That's right Bard! I forgot she was Netanyahu's campaign consultant!
"Its ALL a big club...." - George Carlin
Well, their are only a finite number of applicants for any given executive position.
Of course you say this assuming Trump was aware that the Jab, given to young men during Bidens' Administration (Spring 2021) had the Myocarditis warning. I don't assume that a CEO is aware of all the moving parts and micro aggressions, etc, that go on in each governmental department.
Lisa, millions of vaxxed are dead. Millions more are sick and dying.
Funeral Directors are ordering 30% more Infant-Child size coffins, up from the 20% increase in '22.
So why six years later is Donald Trump is STILL LYING to the American people and telling them that there's a deadly virus and that the genocidal 0WS vaxxine is safe, and to take it???
I have not heard DJT push Vaccines in this term! I did hear him in 2020, when he and most of us, thought that the NIH, the CDC and the WHO actually had OUR best interests at heart!
I further know that each of us made our own decisions as to vax or not vax! I was told by a nurse friend that I was selfish for not getting all the Jabs! She lamented that a friend of hers just died because he refused to get the VAX! I replied that it was his body, his choice!
Good enough for killing the unborn, so why is it different for Grandma? By the way Mum is still with us at 97! We just used caution and our brains. I actually had the Covid virus, so I knew I was immune. I only got it one time! But then I wasn't rioting, nor frequenting crowded venues and burning the candle at both ends, nor do I have the "Co-morbid" issues.
"I have not heard DJT push Vaccines in this term!"
Oh yes, you missed it. He got his Booster in October!
Maybe that's because, dare I say this here, he's one of them? He has certainly reneged on his campaign promises: forever wars, economy, regulation (unless it favors the next big thing), money to other countries..... et cetera. If you can't see this, you must not be looking. And the graft, it is over the top.
I know this comment is a black pill but that's what I see and I don't see the pain getting any better. It's the manifestation of, squeeze'em 'til they squeal then back of a scoach.
Later Jay
The reality is that we, the American People, of these Free United States, had two choices in the 2024 Election. I for one, voted for people who actually have experience running large businesses and organizations. I did not vote based upon not getting into skirmishes with bad actors. I was hoping to extricate our Nation from the Ukraine debacle, but wiser minds know better the tangled web of germy laboratories and or magic minerals, or whatever got us over there to begin with.
Everything else is Great! Rounding up the INVADERS, (the Dem's held the door open for) was a top priority and the Job of Federal Gov't! Guarding the BORDERS is also the job of the FED! So check and check! Not rounding up, nor discriminating against those who CHOOSE NOT to get JABBED is also the Fed's Job!
Other Wins are, Keeping boys and imaginary girls out of female spaces and sports; which falls into equal protection under natural law, if not U.S. law! Not having to play the DEI language game for fear of reprisals by the BORG! Win.
These are all things I voted for and the Administration is dutifully working on. Oh., and getting the "World" anything, the heck out of our Government, NATO Countries finally being made to PAY their fair share! WHOO HOO!
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.
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.
boom!
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.
I am so aggravated by the bombardment of big pHarma ads (and it seems like it’s almost every 2nd or 3rd ad) on TV encouraging people to ask their doctors to prescribe these drugs for them. And I’d say most of the doctors comply, … I know because I once asked for a drug I saw on TV (in my stupid days) and my doc wrote out a script immediately no questions asked. How many others fell for the same ploy? We are being drugged to death! Literally!
we need to multiply him
I second that. He is such a warrior for the jabbed injured.
Same!!
And I am sorry for your loss, as well as all of those other people lost far too soon because of the shots 😞
Senator Ron Johnson is a national treasure. He also did heroic work exposing holes in Biden’s “free and fair” election. If the MSM had given him ANY serious coverage at the time, the 2020 election would never have been certified.
He truly is!! ❤️ I will say it again, I am so very glad that we C&Cers multiplied him when he was running for the Senate!
#metoo Ayn :(
✝️✝️✝️
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
Thank you Janet! A blessing for me today. Yes Lord!
Beautiful as always Janice!
I love this
This is so beautiful Janice. Thank you and your blessed hands for writing this.
Greetings to all from Glastonbury, England.
Welcome!
Can you please come and help California count their mail-in ballots? :-)
Observer is (hopefully) fully occupied with ousting "Sir" Keir Starmer, and reversing his policies on illegal imigration.
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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.
I read that he was a Sikh Indian.
10-4, Ma'am. They can carry a sword or dagger per the English rules , not something an Englishman can do. Funny how that works?
Later Jay
I believe you are 100% correct Valerie, and Jay Horton. I just couldn’t remember the details when I added my comment. I was sick to my stomach when I saw that boy dying, in handcuffs, and the police said to him that he wasn’t stabbed …and yet he died of stab wounds right there on the sidewalk. This is only one example of the injustices that are being brought upon the citizens; should we mention the rape gangs attacking young girls in the UK perpetrated by the protected class of immigrant criminals? Coming to America? Perhaps already here? Of course they are.
Greetings
England is for the English! Get it right, Brother!
Best to you and yours.
Later Jay
Greetings! Glad to have you here with us! 😊
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.
I had a 74-year-old massage client come in around that time who had had breast cancer about 30 years before with clear scans since. Her breast cancer came back after the jab and she told me there were 4 ‘little old ladies’ in her Bible study that had old cancers recur. I’ve said this before here, but I will never not be angry about how covid was handled.
I have a cousin in the same situation now, Valerie. She’s got a great attitude and has made no connection to the shots she championed at the time. Sad.
And the stage is set for another Pandemic. Are we supposed to think these pandemics are a natural part of modern living? In a Pigs eye!
That’s really sad.
Yes, agreed.
And the stage is set for another Pandemic. Are we supposed to think these pandemics are a natural part of modern living? In a Pigs eye!
It makes me so angry. Same thing happened with my sister’s best friend.
🙏
Justice for Allyson. Glioblastoma and dead in 13 months.
No words but lots of rage. I am so terribly sad about this. Another that was unjustly taken from the world too soon.
I have an elderly friend with Waldenstroms (blood cancer). She’d been in remission for years and got the shots to go on a cruise. She’d never got more than 1st 2 but regrets it and know they caused her cancer to return. She’s had more problems then ever before since taking those shots.
So sorry for your loss. 🙏
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
DEI didn't help that either
DEI in the ATC area was implemented by Obama. Instead of hiring the best in class, the ones that fit the box were hired and had to be continually retrained and took much longer to be an active controller if they even did pass training.
So why is the jab still being offered?
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!
Too bad we can't actually 'scorch' Senate office phone lines
Where there's a WILL...there's a WAY, Jeffrey!
Or scorch senators.
I believe satan will handle that task, Alan--don't you?
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.
Arlington Cemetery.
Write your senator and get an appointment for a White House tour. Ours set it up with one of his staffers. No cost
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
Agree on the Botanical Gardens for sure.
The Summerhouse sounds lovely!! 😍
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!
My son was a military liaison to a Senator and was able to take me on a private tour.
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!
ANY place with air conditioning.
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 .
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.
The summer White House, an overlooked gem off the beaten path, where Lincoln and subsequent presidents escaped from the swampy weather. Literally.
Udvar-Hazy
https://airandspace.si.edu/visit/udvar-hazy-center
Have a wonderful time. Great memories to be made on your life resume!
Have we forgotten about the plandemic already? And the debasement of the dollar?
The Botanical Gardens across from the Capitol. Gorgeous!
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)
So glad they don't stay in touch which means you don't have cooties!
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.
No need to be envious. You are just perfect the way you are and you are part of C&C so what more need be said!
Those despicable ‘health’ officials including woodcock should be in prison for the rest of their stinking lives!😡
Truly evil!!!
She should be sued for making a decision that did huge damage to the population.
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...
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.....
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?
Mullen wasn't replaced yet.
BOOOM! There it is. Kick'em to the curb along with their AIPAC supporters.
Later Jay
Was wondering the same. I posted that rhino Tillis will be replaced by Democrat Roy Cooper so there won’t be any difference in the senate votes for that seat.
for persons hell bent on protecting the covid vaccine, minimizing myocarditis is not a big stretch, especially when "experts" called people who died in car crashes or pneumonia to have died of covid, just so they can push the vaccine. They were worse than the south of the border drug lords
while exposing what Senator Johnson called “the biggest government scandal of my lifetime” is good, I'm afraid that unless heads roll or are put in jail this may not be the last time we witness 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
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.
There are elections coming up. Things can turn in an instant, the time to get it done is NOW, the next democrat might issue a pardon on day one
So, why are you telling me this? Talk to the people in Congress and the DOJ.
And if the Rs lose control in the midterms how much longer do you think Johnson’s “long game” will go on?
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.
Where have I heard "Lock er up" before.
Tillis has proven over and over he’s a Rhino!! If Cooper gets in to represent NC, we are doomed!
Please pray for NC! 🙏
Nah he just hates Trump. I missed what Trump supposedly did to him but it’s just pure hate on his part.
Good Morning from the big blue sky of Montana!
Good morning!
Hood sftrrnoon. Fellow Big Sky-er.
Born in Butte and spent childhood and high school in Hamilton.. I live in Oregon now. What a difference. I miss it greatly.
I'm REALLY hoping someone tells Sen Johnson about the fibrous clots in bodies that the undertakers found.
He knows DD , he’s mentioned them
Cool! Did he get it into the record?
Yes
This stack is great . https://substack.com/@laurakasner
Thank you for both bits of info :D
I'm soooo glad I didn't get jabbed.