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Why the Right Keeps Losing Female Influencers

One of the most fascinating things to happen in recent political discourse, for me, has to be the question of: What changed Ashley St Clair’s mind?  For those who don’t know, St Clair was one of the midlist female figures in the world of online MAGA influencers, primarily

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🔒 Staying Rational When the Conspiracies are Real (Part 1)

I’ll be honest with you, I didn’t expect the US Justice Department to ever release the “Epstein Files.” I made a snide comment about it on Substack literally two days before they dumped a trillion of his emails onto the internet without warning. The instant result was like

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Substack Has Become Middlebrow Twitter (Derogatory)

Hey, Ghost readers! I know a lot of you are here to get away from Substack, which is precisely why I set up this alternative for y’all. Part of my schtick is talking about social media and internet culture, and how it’s pretty much all going to heck,

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🔒 Why the Right Keeps Losing Female Influencers

One of the most fascinating things to happen in recent political discourse, for me, has to be the question of: What changed Ashley St Clair’s mind?  For those who don’t know, St Clair was one of the midlist female figures in the world of online MAGA influencers, primarily

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Drew Pavlou and the Shitpost Economy

If you’ve been on social media much over the past few years you may have noticed a rising star in the “politically bonkers” space. Drew Pavlou is a damn near omnipresent figure on Twitter who shows up in so many retweets by MAGA influencers and Trump administration officials that

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🔒 Substack Has Become Middlebrow Twitter (Derogatory)

Hey, Ghost readers! I know a lot of you are here to get away from Substack, which is precisely why I set up this alternative for y’all. Part of my schtick is talking about social media and internet culture, and how it’s pretty much all going to heck,

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But At Least Woke is Dead, Right?

On Wednesday they shot a poet.  37 year old writer and mother of three Renee Nicole Good was sitting in her car observing an ICE raid in a Minneapolis neighborhood when a number of the goons rushed at her car, yelling at her to leave the area. Paradoxically, while issuing

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🔒 Drew Pavlou and the Shitpost Economy

If you’ve been on social media much over the past few years you may have noticed a rising star in the “politically bonkers” space. Drew Pavlou is a damn near omnipresent figure on Twitter who shows up in so many retweets by MAGA influencers and Trump administration officials that

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Why Do Covid Revisionists Need to Fabricate Evidence to Make Their Case?

Yoel Roth, the former head of Trust and Safety at a now very dead website that used to be called Twitter, was recently made aware of something disturbing. He’d been quoted in a recently published, bestselling book, without his knowledge.  This in itself isn’t a problem—if you’

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🔒 But At Least Woke is Dead, Right?

On Wednesday they shot a poet.  37 year old writer and mother of three Renee Nicole Good was sitting in her car observing an ICE raid in a Minneapolis neighborhood when a number of the goons rushed at her car, yelling at her to leave the area. Paradoxically, while issuing

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In Defense of Rob Reiner's "North"

Rob Reiner’s final film was a sequel to his very first film.  This, obviously, was not planned. It’s a fact that will be remarked upon in history, but Reiner didn’t have the ability to foresee and plan for the end of his own career in the same

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Well, That Sure Was a Year

Have you ever stopped to think about the fact that we’re now more than a quarter of the way through the 21st century? That it’s now actually plausible that some of you reading this will see the 22nd century? One thing I’ve been doing this year is