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Audio Summary of Chapter 17: Substack Mastery Book by Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Dear Readers and writers, Our chief editor Dr Mehmet Yildiz published the Chapter 17 of his best-selling book Substack Mastery for free for our community. His goal is, while educating our community, to obtain feedback from beta readers to improve the quality of this exceptional book for next versions and make it a valuable tool for our community and beyond. As the editing and curation team of…
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North Carolina—and Iowa?
by Mary L. Trump
Excerpts:
On Saturday night, Ann Selzer, a pollster with a stellar reputation who specializes in the state [of Iowa], released a poll that has Kamala Harris up by 3 points.
Here is the history of Selzer’s polls since 2012. The actual election results are in parentheses:
2022 Senate: R+12 (R+12)
2020 President: R+7 (R+8)
2020 Senate: R+4 (R+7)
2018 Governor: D+2 (R+3)
2016 President: R+7 (R+9)
2014 Senate: R+7 (R+8)
2012 President: D+5 (D+6)
The result shocked the political world. It also reminded us that the Supreme Court’s Dobb’s decision continues to have serious electoral consequences for the party that is determined to turn women into second-class citizens.
Iowa has one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country. Beyond that, the state has been losing OB-GYNs since before Roe v Wade was overturned. And, in the wake of the decision, it’s been losing medical providers of all specialties.
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In response to Selzer’s poll, Nate Silver, another pollster, that it was “incredibly gutsy to release this poll.”
Cohn recently admitted that “it is much safer, whether in terms of literal self-interest or purely psychologically, to find a close race than to gamble on a clear Harris victory.”
“When their results come in very blue, they don’t believe it,” Cohn wrote. “And frankly, I share that feeling: If our final Pennsylvania poll comes in at Harris +7, why would I believe it? As a result, pollsters are more willing to take steps to produce more Republican-leaning results.”
These comments are staggering:
Cohn and Silver see a close race because they want to see a close race.
This morning, The New York Times ceded the most valuable real estate on its front page to Nate Cohn, and ran his piece with this headline:
“Some Surprises in Last Battleground Polls, but Still a Deadlock”
And so it goes.
#i post#substack#us politics#mary l trump#north carolina and iowa#ann selzer#polls#election polls#pollsters#iowa#nate silver#nate cohn#new york times#i ramble in the tags#i cant believe nyt printed an article sharing bias in polls#and wrote a headline that dismissed it completely#'dont pay attention to the surprise results bc its TOTALLY still a deadlock'#its TOTALLY still anyones game#trump is TOTALLY winning as long as he SAYS he is#arghhhhhh
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Where would you want to follow H4TP beyond tumblr?
I'm definitely not going anywhere (and I'm always pretty skeptical of the waves of "tumblr is going to shut down") but I don't want this blog to die if the end actually comes to pass.
However, I try to keep my social media use fairly limited. Tumblr is the only place I'm active beyond just having an account for my friends to send me things and occasionally lurk, so I don't feel like I have a very good handle on where tumblr folks are dispersing to or what the other good options are out there.
I'm making a poll of some options I've seen floating around, but please feel free to suggest something else!
And again, the tumblr version of this blog is sticking around until the bitter end regardless of whether H4TP expands anywhere else.
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FiveThirtyEight is gone. Its legacy will endure.
Nate Silver’s website suffered because of Trump and changes in political news coverage.
Opinion | Perry Bacon, Jr. | March 7, 2025
FiveThirtyEight became famous for its “forecasts” from founder Nate Silver. But the website (where I worked from 2017 to 2021) was trying to do much more than predict presidential election results. FiveThirtyEight was an attempt to improve and reimagine journalism. I think it succeeded — even though the website is now defunct. ABC News, which owned FiveThirtyEight, this week laid off the site’s 15 remaining staffers. The network had already made drastic cutbacks two years ago, with Silver himself departing back then. We are in the midst of staff reductions throughout the journalism industry. That said, ABC News is not a newspaper in a declining city in the Midwest. If the network wanted to keep the site going, it could have. This decision probably wasn’t just about money. [...] Political journalism has changed in ways that have made FiveThirtyEight less essential. Silver started the website during the 2008 presidential campaign. (There are 538 votes in the electoral college.) He correctly saw a flaw in American political coverage. Journalism professors and many within the news industry had for years argued that political news was too focused on the “horse race” (who was going to win the next election) instead of policy issues. What Silver argued was that horse-race coverage, while extensive, was often quite bad. It was overly fixated on a single poll or arguing that a candidate appeared to be surging after delivering a strong speech, without any other evidence. Averaging polls, scrutinizing demographics and voting histories of states — that all seems obvious now. It wasn’t 17 years ago. [emphasis added]
I will miss FiveThirtyEight. It was always a reliable source of aggregate polling data. It also provided a lot of background information about the potential bias and reliability of individual polls.
R.I.P. FiveThirtyEight March 7, 2008 - March 5, 2025
_________________ Collage sources (before edits, starting in center, then moving top left to right clockwise, ending bottom left): 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07
[See more excerpts from the column under the cut]
In 2010, the New York Times hired Silver and starting hosting FiveThirtyEight on its website. A few years later, ESPN hired him to create a FiveThirtyEight that would cover not only politics but also sports, science and other topics with statisticians and more traditional journalists working in a combined newsroom. The site grew in size and influence. And other news organizations started borrowing its methods, averaging polls and producing statistical models to analyze elections. [...] The site often had political scientists and scholars write pieces. Fact-checking was extensive, adding to the site’s reliability and reputation. But I knew FiveThirtyEight was in trouble when I saw not only stories similar to ours published in the Times and The Washington Post but also those larger organizations poaching our staffers. Another factor that made the website less relevant was Trump. He made politics more about tweets, firings and other drama that the data can’t really capture. [...] But for me, FiveThirtyEight staffers and its devoted fans, the site was about much more than election predictions and even Silver. It was an alternative, higher form of journalism. It was also a lovable community of nerds, wonks and junkies. Our readers were Democratic-leaning, but they weren’t people watching MSNBC just to hear how terrible Republicans are. They wanted us to tell them if a Democratic politician was going to lose. They loved that every article seemed to involve the writer examining election results down to the county level and producing three charts to support their thesis. Silver now has one of the most popular political Substack newsletters; former managing editor Micah Cohen is now politics editor for Apple News; reporter Anna Maria Barry-Jester has moved on to cover public health for ProPublica. But from my vantage point, FiveThirtyEight is everywhere in more subtle ways. The amount of charts and data in stories about politics in particular is much larger than it was two decades ago. The chief political analyst at the New York Times is a data whiz named Nate (Cohn) who joined the paper essentially as Silver’s replacement. If you tell someone about a poll, they will often ask whether other surveys show the same result. There is still too much horse-race coverage. I hate when I see polls of the 2028 Democratic primary. Can we wait a minute? But FiveThirtyEight made that coverage smarter and more rigorous — creating a legacy that will endure.
#rip 538#five thirty eight#abc ended 538#nate silver#political polling#perry bacon jr#the washington post#my collages#my edits
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Evangelina Alciati - The reading - 1905 private collection
Italian 🔥Lit(erature) Tournament Bookclub - first edition
After the Commedia dell'Arte micro-tournament ended and the start of the Beef Edition - that will be postponed just one week more, to reach enough options for a complete poll, it's time to present a long term project that I started to think about since this January: the ILT bookclub, a daily, weekly or monthly reading challenge, on the model of Dracula Daily.
My personal aim with the Italian Literature Tournament, since its start a year ago, is to "promote" certain italian authors that maybe outside Italy, or in a literature school program, aren't very famous; I already started it two years ago with Pinocchio Weekly and meanwhile I want to relaunch it now as a parallel project, at the same time I'm thinking to try with other Italian novels, as long as are all public domain.
I've already written a draft list (it's proposed at the end of this post, under the cut) but at the same time I want to engage all of you to the choice of the first novel, so guess what I opened another google fom so all of you can send to me your ideas, yaaay. When a certain quota of names will be reached, I'll open a poll here and we'll decide together the first title to our bookclub. In any case, check carefully the list below if the title that you have in mind is already present.
The novel that you want to propose must follow these criteria:
must be in the public domain - and digitalized: I want to use substack so anyone will have the chapter easily to read in its email address and follow its preferred reading pace;
translated in english - and of course the translation have to be like the point one: it depends actually (check point 3). The English translation will be an easy point for anyone who can't read italian, so must be out of coyright and already digitalized. The copyright for translations according US law usually is of 70 years after the death of the translator - in any case the terms are always written at the start of the book copy/index card on the editor website;
the second point fall if we all decide to read in Italian - in this case only the original work have to be public domain: non Italian speakers don't worry, I will search all the possible translations in english/other languaes and will link the other options beside the challenge post, so if anyone want to read it translated borrowing it from the library or in different terms - it could be possible!
In the end: how to understand if a book is public domain? Easy: you can search it in various websites that collect and digitalized literary works, like Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive (attention: not all the works present there are open access, some are still under copyright but still present because Internet Archive makes them bookable like a virtual library for the subscribers), Wikisource, Google Books Advanced search (check "only complete visualization/solo visualizzazione completa" or use the publishing time option at the end). You can just search the translated version of the novel on amazon/google books/the press page and find when it was translated, in the colophon is written if it's still under copyright or you can calculate youself if it expired. Other useful links: wikipedia category for all the recent public domain entries.
A draft list of titles that I first thought under the cut
Public domain both in italian and english:
Malombra by Antonio Fogazzaro: One of the few gothic novel from italian literature, which inspired four movies (a silent film in 1917, a 1942 one that is aviable on Raiplay, a 1974 one that's actually a TV movie also this aviable on Raiplay, a 1984 one that's actually a porno).
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni: A classic of italian literature with various movie, theatre and musical transpositions.
The Decameron By Giovanni Boccaccio: same as above.
The conquest of Rome by Matilde Serao: Francesco Sangiorgio is a newly elected deputy from a small province in Souther Italy. As he travels to Rome, he start to feel the weight of ambition, personal history, and the vibrant life of the city. The story unfolds against the backdrop of political and social dynamics of the time.
Fantasy by Matilde Serao: The novel is about the absolute but unhealthy friendship between the two female protagonists in the Naples at the end of the 19th century.
The Land of Cockayne by Matilde Serao: It explores the lives of various characters from the lower social strata of Naples, particularly focusing on their aspirations and struggles, centered around themes of fortune and despair, often represented through the lottery.
After the divorce by Grazia Deledda: Murder, catholic guilt, innocent people in jail, true love vs fail marriages, forbidden and ultimately destructive affairs!
Nostalgia by Grazia Deledda: Regina is a a young bride who has recently moved from her home in Sardinia to Rome with her husband Antonio. The novel explores the stark differences between her expectations and the reality of life in an unfamiliar environment, and Regina's struggle with homesickness and her journey of self-discovery amidst the vibrant yet isolating backdrop of Rome.
The house by the medlar tree (I Malavoglia) by Giovanni Verga: it follows the failing fortunes of the Malavoglia, a family of fisherfolk who are living through a period of political change following the country's annexation to Italy.
The late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello: a novel that explores the complex themes of identity and existential crisis through its protagonist, Mattia Pascal. After escaping an unhappy marriage to Romilda Pescatore, Mattia finds himself in Monte Carlo, where he unexpectedly wins at gambling.
Heart by Edmondo De Amicis: a children's novel which was the best known work from its era. Set during the Italian unification, and includes several patriotic themes and has been remade in various transpositions, including an anime.
The Devourers by Annie Vivanti: the author was italo-british and wrote this novel first in English then she translated in Italian. The book explores themes of family, loss, and the complexities of relationships through the lens of Edith Avory and her new family dynamics following the arrival of her half-sister Valeria and Valeria's baby. #familydrama #toxicmotherhood #motherdaughterism.
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi: if anyone is interested click here.
Public domain in italian but not in english (translation exists but still under copyright):
Any novel from Emilio Salgari
Fosca by Igino Ugo Tarchetti: another of the few gothic novel from italian literature, there is a translation by Lawrence Venuti as Passion: A Novel. Is the basis behind an Ettore Scola movie and an awarded Broadway musical.
Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo: translation by Penguin Classics.
The Viceroys by Federico de Roberto: translated by Archibald Colquhoun, published by Verso Books (they often do discount if interested).
The Priest's Hat by Emilio de Marchi: translated by Steve Eaton & Cinzia Russi for Italica Press.
The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese: translated by Elizabeth Strout for Penguin Classics.
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Welcome to the HOT AND VINTAGE MOVIE STARS poll blog! The Hot & Vintage Men Tournament and The Hot & Vintage Movie Women Tournament are now wrapped—congrats to Toshiro Mifune and Eartha Kitt! If you are here for the Dracula Daily polls, those will be posted regularly following the progress of the Substack newsletters.
All polls—including ongoing polls, previous rounds, old tournaments, the various shadow brackets, the Dracula Daily polls, and fun mini polls—can be found in the #hotvintagepoll tag.
FAQs:
"What is the next tournament?" We'll either do the scrungly little guys contest or the Ultimate Hotties tournament.
"When is the next tournament?" Sometime later this summer. I need to take a break, but then I'll be back.
"I want to find my favorite hottie!" Try a tag search for them (ie, use a hashtag in my search bar to find every post I've tagged them in). If you still haven't found your hottie, they either did not fit the criteria of being a movie star from 1910-1970 or they did not make it past the prelims.
“Can I start submitting for the future tournaments? I have guys! I have propaganda!” Please wait for me to post a submission form or otherwise formally announce a tournament before submitting anything.
The views expressed in the propaganda are not my own. I don’t submit my own propaganda, and I don’t change what’s submitted beyond fixing obvious spelling mistakes. If you hate a poll bio or a pic, let me know and send me something I can use instead.
I don’t post or boost negative propaganda about any of the hotties. If you really hate that someone is winning, send me positive propaganda for their hot opponent instead. A lot of these hotties were flawed or problematic in some way—or straight up garbage—but for reasons I go into here, I don't boost anti-propaganda.
If I see repetitive, trolling, and/or bigoted remarks in the comments, I may block you from this bracket. If you want to point out a competitor's problems in the replies, that's fine, but if I see consistent bad-faith trolling or targeted harassment of anyone, you will be blocked.
"Tel me again who won the major tournaments?" Eartha Kitt was crowned the hottest Hot & Vintage Movie Woman, and Toshiro Mifune won the Hot & Vintage Movie Man Tournament.
"Tell me more about this shadow realm?" There is too much lore.
“My FAQ isn’t on here :(” send me an ask! I love hearing from you guys—just please check these basics first.
Tournament schedule post-hiatus:
Ongoing: Dracula Daily casting polls
Possibly next: Scrungly Little Guys contest (gender neutral)
Possibly next: Ultimate Hottie Tournament (top brackets of the hot men & hot women competing together)
TBD: Horror Hotties (Frankensteins, Draculas, Brides, etc.)
TBD: Dandy Detectives (Marples, Sherlocks, Nancy Drews, etc.)
fun mini polls that pit sets of characters from the same movie together, like the Philadelphia Story or Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ones (these can be found in the #minis tag)
Thank you for being here! Enjoy the polls.
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Our Love is Written in the Stars
I'm writing a long mostly canon-compliant Marauders era series. Lots of info to be had in this post.<3 Years 1-5 are complete on AO3! Next up is year six. ......Always...... ......What is this series?...... ......OLIWITS Reference Materials on AO3...... ......What OLIWITS characters look like...... ......OLIWITS One-Shots......and here...... >>>This is a very interactive post, click around!<<< >>>>>>Minors please DNI with EXPLICIT content<<<<<<<
A Rat's Tail
Peter POV | Ongoing timeline | WIP on AO3 This is my series/universe from Peter's POV. It's more canon-compliant than my main series even though they exist in tandem.
The Heir and The Spare
Sirius POV | first year at Hogwarts | COMPLETE ON AO3 108K | 25 chapters | Explicit | tumblr THATS master post
The Prince's Pact
Severus POV | second year at Hogwarts | COMPLETE ON AO3 117K | 24 chapters | Mature | tumblr TPP master post
The Bonds of Friendship
James POV | third year at Hogwarts | COMPLETE ON AO3 133K | 27 chapters | Mature | tumblr TBOF master post
The Heart of the Lion
Regulus POV | third/fourth year at Hogwarts | COMPLETE ON AO3 162K | 35 chapters | Explicit | tumblr THOTL master post
The Wolf and The Star
Remus POV | fifth year at Hogwarts | COMPLETE ON AO3 160K | 30 chapters | Explicit | tumblr TWATS master post
The Changing Times
Lily POV | sixth year at Hogwarts | Next in the que for editing and posting :) ~194K | 38 chapters | Explicit |
The War Years
Part I - The Battered Boy Barty POV | sixth/seventh year at Hogwarts Part II - The Ones Who Bore the Mark Regulus POV | sixth/seventh year at Hogwarts Part III - The Prince of Darkness Severus POV | seventh year at Hogwarts Part IV - TBA Part V - TBA Part VI - TBA Part VII - TBA
Main Ships
Jegulus | Wolfstar | Snily | Rosekiller | The Black Brothers
Music
This series has two main theme songs, then each book has one/two theme songs. Plus sometimes I have a song attached to a chapter, which means each installment has its own playlist.
>>>Master Playlist<<< (Theme songs only - very short playlist)
>>>Epic Playlist<<< (Every single song in order, really really epic)
The above will grow in length as I post each installment. I will be sharing all of my playlists from Spotify.
Other things to know:
*If you are a minor, please do not engage in content I rate Explicit. This if for my safety and yours. My Explicit content on AO3 is usually locked to registered users only.*
Author Notes
This story contains a large cast of queer characters who may or may not label themselves. There are also characters who identify as trans and nonbinary. And I'll say it until I'm blue in the face, I know this isn't realistic of the time period. Who cares!
Warning: People who have sensitivity to the following themes should approach this work with caution. It gets DARK.
Some tags which will be used at times: Underage drinking; underage recreational drug use; underage sex; profanity; domestic abuse; blood; animal harm/death; self harm including attempting suicide; death; violence; grief; psychological abuse; torture; nonconsensual sex/sexual abuse; animal sex; minor homophobia; sexual content; sexual themes
A final note:
If this sounds like an enticing series to you, you are welcome to follow me or subscribe to the series on AO3. This is a major passion project. I am writing 100% for me but I think some of you might also enjoy it, so I'm going to share.
Thanks for taking the time to read this introduction post. I hope to see you in the comments on AO3. Cheers!
*I do not agree with the original author's personal beliefs, obviously.*
*I DO NOT USE AI to write, ever. At all. Just no.*
Other things:
My Metas | #Writing lesson for the day | My Substack
My Fandom Related Rants and Exploration Series
Book Bind Projects | #fotini polls
#marauders#writers on tumblr#fanfic#james potter#jegulus#regulus black#headcanon#lily evans#marauders era#sirius black#remus lupin#peter pettigrew#wolfstar#snily#lily evans potter#evan rosier#barty crouch jr#rosekiller#albus dumbledore#gellert grindelwald#marlene mckinnon#dorcus meadowes#hogwarts#dead gay wizards from the 70s#dead gay wizards#gryffindor#slytherin#death eaters#kingsley#quidditch
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BEST BDAY EVERRRRRRRRRRRRR 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
i just KNOW my 28th year on this world will be the happiest i've ever been, i know it bc my 27th had more joy than ever before, no matter the struggles i went thru! i have never felt more authentic and more independent as i have the past year. i feel more connected than ever to my hopes and goals and dreams and i'm gonna try my best to be strategic and make them all come true, slowly but surely! i might need to put some things on the back burner for the next little while, because i need to first and foremost now build consistency and security for myself so that I can use it like a trampoline and bounce myself off higher than ever before without fearing i'll crash onto nothing. i'm going to be focusing on my main job, my freelance work, my zine, and either my youtube channel or my substack. i'll do a poll for that soon, to see which one y'all would prefer to see from me!
life finds a way!!!!!!!!
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Why We Must Mobilise
Robert Reich
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The first 100 days: Why we must mobilize
Now is the time for all of us to become activists and force this despicable regime out of office
Robert Reich
Apr 28, 2025
Friends,
Today is the start of the 14th week of the odious Trump regime. Wednesday will mark its first 100 days.
The U.S. Constitution is in peril. Civil and human rights are being trampled upon. The economy is in disarray.
At this rate, we won’t make it through the second hundred days.
Federal judges in more than 120 cases so far have sought to stop Trump — judges appointed by Republicans as well as Democrats, some appointed by Trump himself — but the regime is either ignoring or appealing their orders. It has even arrested a municipal judge in Milwaukee who merely sought to hear a case involving an undocumented defendant.
Recently, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit — an eminent conservative Reagan appointee who is revered by the Federalist Society — issued a scathing rebuke of the Trump regime. In response to its assertion that it can abduct residents of the United States and put them into foreign prisons without due process, Wilkinson wrote:
“If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home? And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies? The threat, even if not the actuality, would always be present, and the Executive’s obligation to ‘take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed’ would lose its meaning.”
Judge Wilkinson’s fears are already being realized. Early Friday morning, ICE deported three U.S. citizens — aged 2, 4, and 7 — when their mothers were deported to Honduras. One of the children, having Stage 4 cancer, was sent out of the United States without medication or consultation with doctors.
Meanwhile, the regime continues to attack all the independent institutions in this country that have traditionally served as bulwarks against tyranny — universities, nonprofits, lawyers and law firms, the media and journalists, science and researchers, libraries and museums, the civil service, and independent agencies — threatening them with extermination or loss of funding if they don’t submit to its oversight and demands.
Trump has even instructed the Department of Justice to investigate ActBlue, the platform that handles the fundraising for almost all Democratic candidates and the issues Democrats support.
At the same time, Trump is actively destroying the economy. His proposed tariffs are already raising prices. His attacks on Fed chief Jerome Powell are causing tremors around the world.
Trump wants total power, even at the cost of our democracy and economy.
His polls are dropping, yet many Americans are still in denial. “He’s getting things done!” some say. “He’s tough and strong!”
Every American with any shred of authority must loudly and boldly sound the alarm.
A few Democrats and progressives in Congress (Bernie Sanders, AOC, Cory Booker, Chris Van Hollen, Chris Murphy) have expressed outrage, but most seem oddly quiet. Granted, they have no direct power to stop what is occurring, but they cannot and must not appear to acquiesce. They need to be heard, every day — protesting, demanding, resisting, refusing.
Barack Obama has spoken up at least once, to his credit, but where is my old boss, Bill Clinton? Where is George W. Bush? Where are their former vice presidents — Al Gore and Dick Cheney? Where are their former Cabinet members? They all must be heard too.
What about Republican members of Congress? Are none willing to stand up against what is occurring? And what of Republican governors and state legislators? If there were ever a time for courage and integrity, it is now. Their silence is inexcusable.
Over 400 university presidents have finally issued a letter opposing “the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education.” Good. Now they must speak out against the overreach endangering all of American democracy.
Hundreds of law firms have joined a friend-of-the-court brief in support of law firm Perkins Coie’s appeal of the regime’s demands. Fine. Now, they along with the American Bar Association and every major law school, must sound the alarm about Trump’s vindictive and abusive use of the Justice Department.
America’s religious leaders have a moral obligation to speak out. They have a spiritual duty to their congregations and to themselves to make their voices heard.
The leaders of American business — starting with Jamie Dimon, the chair and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, who in normal times has assumed the role of spokesperson for American business — have been conspicuously silent. Of course they fear Trump’s retribution. Of course they hope for a huge tax cut. But these hardly excuse their seeming assent to the destruction of American democracy and our economy.
Journalists must speak out too. In the final moments of last night’s “60 Minutes” telecast, Scott Pelley, one of its top journalists, directly criticized Paramount, CBS’s parent company. “Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways,” he told viewers, explaining why the show’s executive producer, Bill Owens, had resigned.
“Stories we pursued for 57 years are often controversial — lately, the Israel-Gaza War and the Trump administration. Bill made sure they were accurate and fair. He was tough that way. But our parent company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger. The Trump administration must approve it.”
Shari Redstone, the controlling shareholder of Paramount, is seeking the Trump regime’s approval for a multibillion-dollar sale of the media company, and Paramount is obviously intruding on “60 Minutes” content to curry favor with (and not rile) Trump.
Kudos to Pelley for speaking out and to Bill Owens for resigning. We need more examples of such courage. (They both get this week’s Joseph Welch Award, by the way, while Shari Redstone and Paramount get this week’s Neville Chamberlain.)
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Friends, we have witnessed what can happen in just the first hundred days. I’m not at all sure we can wait until the 2026 midterm elections and cross our fingers that Democrats take back at least one chamber of Congress. At the rate this regime is wreaking havoc, too much damage will have been done by then.
The nation is tottering on the edge of dictatorship.
We are no longer Democrats or Republicans. We are either patriots fighting the regime or we are complicit in its tyranny. There is no middle ground.
Soon, I fear, the regime will openly defy the Supreme Court. Americans must be mobilized into such a huge wave of anger and disgust that members of the House are compelled to impeach Trump (for the third time) and enough senators are moved to finally convict him.
Then this shameful chapter of American history will end.
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Garbage Polls
I talked a while back on why polls are less accurate than they used to be, because our culture around phones is so different. (Summary: back when phones were landlines and there was no phone spam, people didn't screen their calls and were much more willing to talk to pollsters, so it was really easy to get an accurate picture of what people in an area thought by calling random phone numbers.)
But there's another reason, and that's because Republicans purposefully put out garbage numbers to make themselves look good and suppress Democrat voter turnout. Remember that "red wave" that was supposed to come in 2022 and didn't? Yeah. That was an artifact of biased Republican polls.
But mainstream news sources get more hay out of reporting that it's neck and neck and anybody might win! and so they don't spend much time saying "yeah, aggregate poll numbers are changing, but that's because there's a flood of Republican polls being released, and nonpartisan numbers haven't changed at all, so it's probably not actually a genuine change in voter thought."
Here's a good substack article on it.
But the point is, if you get nervous about poll numbers, fivethirtyeight.com has been the most accurate source for years now. They don't do polling themselves, but what they do is take the polls that other people do and figure out which ones are valid and which ones are garbage, and then take the data in aggregate to make predictions. And right now, Harris is 1.3 points above Trump and holding steady.
But a lot of things could happen between now and Election Day. So go out and vote early, vote for Harris, and vote all the way down your ballot.
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Substack Mastery Book: Chapter 17
How to Use Online Polls on Substack Effectively Non-members can read this important chapter for free here. I have been using surveys and polls for many years. Polls are quick and narrow in scope, while surveys are more detailed and aim to collect deeper insights. They have helped me gather information and validate my hypotheses during my postgraduate studies, enabling me to produce more…
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Hi friends!
I'll be honest, I have not used Tumblr consistently since 2018, but with the rise of fascism and the oligarchy being so prevalent on the other Meta apps, I've found myself drawn back to Tumblr. Call it nostalgia, call it a yearning to get back to my roots. This app is where my radicalization began, and I would like to continue that journey here by sharing my poetry with you all. 🥰
Since it has been so long, let me reintroduce myself! I'm Holly (she/they), and I am a non-binary writer based out of New York City. I have been writing poetry since 2014, but have only been committed to it seriously in these past three years. I have published two poetry books, titled "Am I the Villain?" and "From the River to the Sea: Poetry for a Free Palestine". I am currently sharing my third exclusively on substack, titled "Letters to a Lover I Have Yet to Meet". All is linked below! ✨
I am also in the process of getting my fantasy romance book published, and can share more info on that later! 🐉
I plan to start using my Tumblr regularly and posting my poetry here, and I'm curious how you prefer to consume poetry:
This poll will help me to determine how I want to post my poetry here on Tumblr! 🖋️
I'm also on Instagram, TikTok and rednote under the same username if you'd like to access my older poetry. ❤️🔥
I think that's all for now! Thank you friends! And for the algorithm, here's pictures of me and my cat, Walter 😻
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Michael Moore's Substack:
Right now, if you know how to really read the polls, or if you have access to the various private and internal polling being conducted by and shared only amongst��the elites, Wall Street, and Members of Congress, then you already know that this election was over weeks ago. Trump simply refused to believe that “Sleepy Joe” was no longer his opponent and that there was instead “some woman” claiming she was “Black” who was now going to pummel him on Election Day. He soon became unhinged, ranted for hours about Hannibal Lecter, Haitians cannibalizing your pets, and a nonstop drone of oral diarrhea spewing misogyny, racism and essentially claiming that if he loses “it will be the Jews’ fault.”
The vast majority of the country, the normal people, have seen enough and want the clown car to disappear into the MAGA vortex somewhere between reality and Orlando. The swift and explosive momentum for Kamala Harris is unlike anything that’s been seen in decades. Which is why maybe at this point in my rant I just need to say out loud that which is being said to me in private by people I respect — and not just in whispers, but in excited tones of exuberance: That a new era is being born, one where caucasian is just one of the options but no longer the bossy pants of the world. Where it’s OK if you’re missing the lower right quadrant of the second X chromosome thus making it a “y” which means you’re never going to have your own fallopian tubes so just deal with it and keep your hands off the gender who has them. Simple. An aggregate of top polls as of today shows that Harris will defeat Trump in the Electoral College count by 270 to 268. But I think we need more. We need to ensure that Trump loses in a landslide, with numbers so massive, the likes of which haven’t been seen since the entire country tuned in to watch Geraldo open up Al Capone’s vault. Because that’s the only way to guarantee his permanent removal from the public eye. We should settle for nothing less.
[...] Since losing the debate to Harris, Trump’s momentum has come to a screeching halt. Even with Vance “winning” the debate on Tuesday night with his “charm,” “civility,” “politeness” and “the“ “Satanic” “laser rays” “shooting” “out” “from” “his” “eyes” “into” “our” “brains,” it did not help change anyone’s mind. Harris continues on her rocket ship, never slowing down and only increasing her popularity each day. Trump’s voting base is now severely depressed and more and more they have that sinking feeling as they realize there is no way now for Trump or the Astros to win. BUT… You and I know that there are always ways for him to win. We just don’t know what they are because we don’t have “666” inscribed on our foreheads in invisible ink. We do know that Trump has a stellar streak of pulling off the impossible — and those who have written him off have more than once lived to see the day where they must eat humble pie. It is never wise to do a victory dance on the two-yard line when Trump is your opponent. So, each of us must still do our work to get out the vote and, most importantly, make sure Harris has a Democratic House and Senate elected next month to pass her/our legislation next year.
Michael Moore has some astute analysis on who is favored in the 2024 Presidential Elections. Moore is predicting a Kamala Harris victory.
He predicted Biden to win 2020 and Trump to win in 2016.
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Meidas has POWERFUL ANSWER to CBS…BYE BYE!!!
MeidasTouch Network Apr 24 By Ben Meiselas
Revenge is a dish best served cold…
CBS, let’s face it, your betrayal is unforgivable. The fact you compromised the independence of 60 Minutes and forced legendary Executive Producer Bill Owens to resign pissed me off.
Do you have any sense of the moment?!
Seriously, you are so damn greedy and want regulatory approval of the $8 billion merger between CBS parent company Paramount and Skydance that you’re willing to sell out our democracy? I hate to be crass, but you are pathetic.
Donald Trump is weaker than ever right now. His approval is plummeting. The recent Pew Research poll has Trump’s approval at 40 percent and his support among 18-29 year olds and Latinos in the 20 percent range. Even the Fox poll released yesterday has his approval at 44 percent, which is their lowest ranking by far of a president in modern history in the first 100 days. Now is the time to fight harder and not capitulate, CBS! Don’t you realize that Trump is an extortionist? The moment you give him an inch, he takes a foot, then an arm, and then your life.
You think he’ll stop at you settling some bogus lawsuit with him?
The moment he senses your weakness, he’s going to come back to the well and demand more from you until you look like some idiotic channel like Mike Lindell TV. How many times do I have to tell you?! You don’t obey in advance, and you don’t obey ever.
What does $8 billion mean if you lose your freedom and democracy—and eventually that $8 billion—to an authoritarian who takes and takes and takes?
CBS gave us all the middle finger, and we responded.
As I said at the outset of this post, revenge is a dish best served cold. I’m reminded of the ritzy event in Sun Valley, Idaho a few months back where Paramount head Shari Redstone and Warner Bros. head David Zaslav pranced around like giddy school kids reenacting a youth they never had, bragging about the “deregulatory environment” that would drench them in money under a Trump presidency.
Nope.
Now you’re drenched in your own vomit of greed, and independent media like us needs to stop you sickos from continuing to project that venomous slop on the rest of us.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
So it’s fitting that as these oligarchs and agents of oligarchy like Redstone and Zaslav mock us all, laugh in our faces, and try to sell us out, we respond with force. And that we did!
After our post yesterday forcefully calling out CBS, we got some incredible news.
First, we found out from the top podcast data company Podscribe that The MeidasTouch Podcast came in first again in the charts for the third straight month in a row with 107.3 million downloads. This is more than Joe Rogan, Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, and Charlie Kirk combined.
Second—and what’s more—we learned we get over 8 million more YouTube views per day than CBS News.
It’s a wipeout, CBS!
You gave us the middle finger. You cared so much about your $8 billion, and now you’ve been trounced by us with 8 million more views a day!
What CBS and Skydance can’t fathom is that the MeidasTouch Network crushes them—and we’ve grown thanks to our subscribers on this Substack.
They care so much about their $8 billion merger and their news assets that they’ve exposed themselves as gigantic orange-turd-enabling assholes. Excuse my language—I don’t like cursing—but I found that one funny and so true.
You’re supposed to be reporting on news. So report on it, damnit, or get out of the way!
Why don’t you sell Meidas 60 Minutes at this point since you apparently don’t care about the news?
By the way, we told Bill Owens in our post yesterday that he should join Meidas. We’ll see.
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Vote For My First Short-Form (Free Subscriber) Story For Substack
I wanted to give you all the option to request the genre I start with on substack. I still struggle to know what genre(s) my readers actually enjoy reading from me. All I know is I tend to lean toward darker topics/genres, but I wanted to see if you all had opinions on what genre you think would be most entertaining to see for my first short story.
So!
Since I'm trying to have the first story post posted by the middle of next week, I figured I will post a poll for this question and make it voteable within the next 3 days.
If you have never read my stuff, and would like samples of how I write/what kinds of topics I tend to go for, you can find my author site below:
Click on "Click Here to View WIP List" to see a list of my WIPs listed on the site to go to their respective pages.
If you're interested in subscribing to my substack, you can find it linked below:
Thank you in advance for the votes and I look forward to creating something fun and entertaining with whatever you vote for!
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Welcome to the HOT AND VINTAGE MOVIE STARS poll blog! We are currently processing submissions for the Scrungly Little Guy (gender neutral) contest. The Hot & Vintage Movie Men & Women Tournaments are now wrapped—congrats to Toshiro Mifune and Eartha Kitt! If you are here for the Dracula Daily polls, those will be posted regularly following the progress of the Substack newsletters.
All polls—including ongoing polls, previous rounds, old tournaments, the various shadow brackets, the Dracula Daily polls, and fun mini polls—can be found in the #hotvintagepoll tag.
FAQs:
“Who counts as a scrungly little guy?” I feel like you know a scrungly little guy when you see one. Feel the scrungle within your spirit. Picture them damp.
“What are the scrungly submission rules?” They're all in the link posted above! Here it is again. If I didn't cover something in those rules, send me an ask.
If you’re submitting propaganda for your scrungly little guy, I don’t accept propaganda that’s from beyond the end of 1970. I also don’t accept them performing in TV shows unless it's a cameo appearance where they're clearly playing themselves.
The views expressed in the propaganda are not my own. I don’t submit my own propaganda, and I don’t change what’s submitted beyond fixing obvious spelling mistakes. If you hate a poll bio or a pic, let me know and send me something I can use instead.
I don’t post or boost negative propaganda about any of the hotties. If you really hate that someone is winning, send me positive propaganda for their hot opponent instead. A lot of these hotties were flawed or problematic in some way—or straight up garbage—but for reasons I go into here, I don’t boost anti-propaganda.
If I see repetitive, trolling, and/or bigoted remarks in the comments, I may block you from this bracket. If you want to point out a competitor’s problems in the replies, that’s fine, but if I see consistent bad-faith trolling or targeted harassment of anyone, you will be blocked.
“Tel me again who won the major tournaments?” Eartha Kitt was crowned the hottest Hot & Vintage Movie Woman, and Toshiro Mifune won the Hot & Vintage Movie Man Tournament.
“Tell me more about this shadow realm?” There is too much lore.
“I want to find my favorite hottie from a past tournament!” Try a tag search for them (ie, use a hashtag in my search bar to find every post I’ve tagged them in). If you still haven’t found your hottie, they either did not fit the criteria of being a movie star from 1910-1970 or they did not make it past the prelims.
“My FAQ isn’t on here :(” send me an ask! I love hearing from you guys—just please check these basics first.
Tournament schedule post-hiatus:
Ongoing: Dracula Daily casting polls
Currently accepting submissions: Scrungly Little Guys contest (gender neutral)
After that: Ultimate Hottie Tournament (top brackets of the hot men & hot women competing together)
TBD: Horror Hotties (Frankensteins, Draculas, Brides, etc.)
TBD: Dandy Detectives (Marples, Sherlocks, Nancy Drews, etc.)
fun mini polls that pit sets of characters from the same movie together, like the Philadelphia Story or Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ones (these can be found in the #minis tag)
Thank you for being here! Enjoy the polls.
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