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JEMIMA KELLY The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, one of Substack’s biggest names, makes between $80,000 and $160,000 a month in subscriptions to his newsletter. … Substack, a newsletter platform whose model is based on paid subscriptions, is flying particularly high. It announced on Tuesday that it was raising a further $65m from investors, in a round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz that will reportedly value it at $650m. Established in 2017, Substack no...

Lets talk about the grand Slate Star Codex brouhaha. A lot of people have already written about this. Here is the original New Yorker essay from last June is probably the best “neutral” piece that has been written yet; If you do not know anything about Slate Star Codex or why so many people are writing about it now, start there. Sebastian Benthalls commentary is also a very good middle ground analysis.[4] I am sure there has been a great deal of debate on twitter as well. I have not read...

Residents in Clifton have been left disgusted after fly-tipping in the village has escalated. Allerdale councillor and Clifton resident Peter Gaston said the problem has got worse over the last two or three years. He said: "Its not acceptable. Its just laziness, people would rather dump it on their own doorstep than take it to the tip." Problems have arisen at an area on private land between The Gables to Stoneycroft. A chain link fence was smashed down in order to dump waste at the s...

Feb 3, 2021 Shortly after President Joe Biden spoke of uniting the country last week, Will Wilkinson of the Niskanen Center think tank quipped on Twitter, “If Biden really wanted unity, he’d lynch Mike Pence.” The joke — in case it doesn’t sound funny to you — being that Pence is now hated on both the left and the right. Wilkinson quickly lost his job. And the reaction was predictable: Fox News reported the tweet at face value. Reason magazine condemned “cancel culture.�...

REJECTED: Alan Smith, Labour (left) and Will Wilkinson, Independent Councillors in Allerdale have rejected a proposal that would have seen their allowances increase by £100 a year, in light of the pressures being faced by residents due to the Covid-19 pandemic. At their full council meeting on Wednesday evening, Allerdale Council members unanimously agreed not to adopt the increase to their basic allowance, which had been recommended by an independent panel. Executive member for policy, ...

I have PTSD from the Trump years and Im still getting used to having a normal president in charge. How about you? .@sbg1: "Eight days into his tenure, President Joe Biden has not occupied my every waking thought—nor, I suspect, yours. He has not insulted anyone, as far as I’m aware." https://t.co/PY8ddx2wT3 Spoke with Afghan President @ashrafghani about our commitment to an enduring U.S.-Afghan partnership. I reiterated the U.S. desire for all Afghan leaders to support this historic opportu...

Cancel culture comes for the moderates Andrew Koppelman, Opinion Contributor © Getty Images Cancel culture comes for the moderates The increasing tendency to interpret obviously sarcastic metaphors of violence as if they were real threats makes me want to kill somebody. Am I in trouble because I wrote that? That would be silly, wouldnt it? If you read that sentence as an actual call for violence, you are at best a careless reader. Its an obviously insincere, satirical claim a...

A New York Times contributor was let go from another job after he suggested President Joe Biden lynch ...

The New York Times was blasted by liberals on Friday over a report drawing attention to President Biden's Rolex watch. 

(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) For a short while on Wednesday, “Lynch Mike Pence” was trending on Twitter. Given Twitter’s notable aversion to threats of violence (I was once suspended for seven days for suggesting that some mouthbreathing mope who’d just been fired from BuzzFeed “News” to “learn to code”), I was shocked. And then I realized this is the platform that allows daily threats of death and sexual assault to be directed against conservative women, recalled that Mike Pence ...