Introducing a new destination for U.S. election discourse
Dive deeper into the topics and trends you care about on Substack
As the U.S. sprints to the finish of one of the most consequential presidential races in its history, Substack has become the destination for breaking news, critical analysis, and deep conversations about the election. Now we’re introducing a new way to keep up with what’s trending.
Beginning today, the new U.S. election tab is available for all publishers and Substack readers on the web and in both the iOS and Android apps. The tab will dynamically collate the latest news, analysis, and discussions from top politics publishers across the platform and across the political spectrum, organized below live updates of the latest polling averages from
.The U.S. election tab brings together a true diversity of perspectives from expert and original voices, and will allow more readers to discover publishers big and small. With this tab, all followers of U.S. politics can keep up with the day’s hottest topics. Catch up on the latest election forecast, courtesy of
; listen to a podcast from ; watch and debunk mistruths; analyze democracy with ; debate the impact of crime with ; access ’s conversation with former President Donald Trump about the upcoming debate; read ’s latest breaking investigation. There are an abundance of incisive political voices publishing on Substack, but rest assured: you’ll find all of their latest work, and maybe even your own, in the election tab.The election tab will appear alongside a dynamic list of categories, including sports, culture, technology, business, and more, allowing readers to dive into a wide range of topics and find new voices on the subjects they care about. Trending topics will also pop up around key cultural moments, including Fashion Week, the NFL season kickoff, and more. This is just the beginning. These pages are in their earliest forms, and they will continuously update with relevant and useful information.
Ultimately, we hope the tabs function as a destination for engaged Substack readers and a better discovery tool for the entire Substack network. The goal is to surface brilliant writing, connect readers with new publishers, inspire greater collaboration between creators, and link everyone on Substack to topics they care about. Let us know what you think in the comments, and what other events you’d like to see in the tabs.
Would love something similar for global news in the months/years ahead. America kind of dominates the discourse already, would love to learn about things beyond the US.
My thoughts exactly. As a Canadian, I do have an interest in U.S. politics but it is not the centre of my world. I also would love for Substack to not be a U.S.-centric space as many users like me are not from the U.S., or even from North America.
The world keeps turning, no matter what happens in America. And that's increasingly true as the world becomes more multipolar.
Actually, the world keeps on turning BECAUSE of [ what happens in America ].
We are still the only country on earth where an electorate the size of Wyoming could, potentially, swing the election.
The U.S. isn't as relevant to global decision making as it once was. Countries increasingly do what they want, regardless of if the US likes/dislikes said decision. And honestly our opinion on that fact is largely irrelevant.
There is nothing like 5 acres of sovereign U.S. territory off the coast, to make even the most despotic ruler rethink their foreign policy.
We are still the guardian for the world.
That's simply not true. And the point is that it no longer matters if you think it is. The machine is much more complex than 10-20 years ago, and it will move forward regardless of what happens in America.
How can you call a world that considers emojis and thumbs-up conversation, complex?
Social media is a confluence of the illiterate, disinterested and uninformed, not a machine.
I'm live in the US, and I would prefer not to have a US-centric news coverage of the states.
As an American, I would love to hear how people from other countries feel about their elections, especially with regard to lock boxes and security. I really meant drop boxes or any random places to put ballots vs at a local voting location where ballots are handled with integrity and securely then counted at that location. Anything else is fraud guaranteed.
Australia, no problem with lock boxes, voting fraud, enrolling to vote, or any candidate not accepting the results, no matter how close. We're all good here. We have mandatory voting registration and getting ticked off the list (no one can force anyone to cast a valid vote, so it's not actually mandatory voting), we don't have jerrymandered electorates, got rid of that decades ago. Voting is on a Saturday, or postal, or at early open booths in the weeks prior to the official day.
It's not hard to have honest elections, conducted with integrity. America chooses not to do it that way.
Agreed. As essentially a Euro-American more, less-filtered content would be welcome.
I realize I was slightly misleading in my response. We're fine with locked boxes, because we don't have them. Ballot papers go into simple large cardboard boxes, which have lids with a slot to drop the ballots in. There are no locks. Yep. No locks! No nonsense. Lots of trust.
Like me, I live in Zagreb Croatia EU
Hello jess and other readers: The title of the article reads: "Introducing a new destination for U.S. Election discourse" Is there something in the title you failed to understand?
There are hundreds of Substack pages originating from numerous locations around the world, and diverse reader comments. The article title is not exclusionary...
How can you say [ The article title is not exclusionary ], when you pasted the exact title?
Hello John Collins. I fail to understand your point. If users of Substack pages wish to create alternate pages (such as posting their own countries election processes) they are free to make that choice.
There are simply no text included in the title, which prevents freedom of choice.
…but, it seems you have imposed an unwillingness of discussion. That is, exactly, what left us with three of the five worst presidential candidates in history.
This didn't age well, but to be fair - what has?
Here in the USA, I am worried about...
Oh ☭anada!
Oh ☪anada!
Dear Mr. Seattle: So American - lol, So backwards, I like the symbols, is there a symbol for stupid I can use for America?
In reality there is likely more people representative of your symbology that you used in The United States.
Most of our brown folks here are Sikhs there is a link for you stupid Americans that explains who they are. Of coarse there are other brown and black folks to.
We have Socialism NOT Communism just like in the U.K. and in Western Europe. I suppose there is a few commies here like everywhere else.
Socialism is the opposite of Communism; Capitalism falls somewhere in the middle of the two.
With socialism WE all have basic health and dental care and treatment of diseases like cancer for free, unlike you and the peasants in America have. Socialism in conjunction with well with some regulated capitalism is the path forward not giving corporations people hood with Consultation Rights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhism_in_India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kCyL_6WnVI&lc=UgzZCkzaBjlWXrj2Ivt4AaABAg
Why is Substack so USA centered? I’m from Europe, that place with 27 countries and a lot of neighboring ones I’d rather be interested in knowing :)
I work in media, and spent a decade in Asia. The reality is that, for english-language media, the US market completely dominates all metrics. That makes it hard, from a business perspective, to not put energy into what Americans find interesting.
I worked at two different english-language companies in Asia, that had no brand recognition in the US, and we still had 20-40% of our readers coming from America. I would imagine that Substack has similar internal metrics.
Every now and then, I have moments of awe with how big the US economy is compared to the rest of the world.
That being said, the US is also famously ignorant about the rest of the world, and I'd love to help change that haha.
I just left a comment at the same time as you. But it's interesting considering Hamish (Aussie or NZ, I forget which one) and Chris (Canadian) are both immigrants. This is a platform that you would think would embrace different regions with the same fervor and make the discussion more vibrant.
With many people moving to Japan or expressing interest in doing so, I hope they do the same when Japan holds their general elections next year.
Right! Like I’m from Canada and we’re slated to have a federal election within the next year – will Substack have a “Canadian election” tab for users like me? I really hope Substack doesn’t become a “U.S. is the centre of the universe” social media space.
It depends on the potential ad $$$.
I’d be interested in Japanese elections though, as they have an influence on a theme I’m interested in (whales in the arctic zone)
It might be a function of the us centricity of the writers that choose to come to substack .. anyone got that breakdown?
Most of my readers are from the EU but I do have a big chunk of US readership too.
Ian more thinking across substack as a whole … and not so much readers as writers.
To answer your question, because the United States of America is a very primitive country intellectually. Remember Galileo Galilei and Nicolaus Copernicus that's the rest of the civilized world America is the Pope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei#/media/File:Galileo_facing_the_Roman_Inquisition.jpg
If we are so primitive, how is it we are the first, and still only, electoral Republic on the planet?
You "we" are not a Republic. - A election for a "REAL" Republic means one person one vote in a presidential election, even if you discount Women, Negros and the American Indian the right to vote.
France is a true Republic, The United States is a Republic in name only. The U.S. was not a democracy for all until 1965 and is not one for the reasons below. In this aspect Canada was not a democracy for all until April 17, 1982, despite the 1960 Canadian Bill of Rights that in practical reasons did not allow indigenous people to vote unless they gave up their Indigenous Rights this changed in 1982.
Australia is still backwards by not enshrining Indigenous Rights constitutionally as Canada did in 1982 at the insistence of the Queen at the time with part II section 35 https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/page-12.html#h-55 King Charles could do the same here.
As America has a Electoral College System for a Presidential Elections that was a condition of the "slave states" to join to fight the the British to make 13 states. Search: electoral college system origins. IT'S BACKWARDS.
There is NO slave states so why the Electoral College System still?
Would not the Electoral College System be "unconstitutional" in it's self now like Slavery and Jim Crow is now?
It is really should not be up for debate by the individual states, it simply a relic of the past and should have NO force of law.
Maybe the way it is done in Nebraska and Maine might be OK, but then it would resemble a Parliamentary Prime Minister system result for a president which is a bit less flawed if there was NO Gerrymandering.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering which does not make for any-kind of democracy. But is still not one person one vote with run off President. Or if done for Prime Minister the Members of Parliament would cast secret ballots for Prime Minster over 50 percent to elect or with 66 percent or 2/3 to remove the PM prior to fixed election date. But like America the world is very backwards.
Get rid of the Electoral College then America will be a Republic other than a Banana type one, it's as simple as that.
A Electoral College election is like a Banana Republic or Putin fixing a election result to get a desired result, that is why slave states used it as a condition to joining. READ YOUR HISTORY! The reason the Electoral College still exist it's so a few backward states can still dictated to the many.
Further to just in case you ponder of the thought of what a democracy is; it is when everyone can vote equally, for the United States it was in 1964 version of the Civil Rights Act with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964 and in 1965 with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965
This is your country not mine do you not know this?
https://joecreed.substack.com/p/apartheid-what-is-it-and-what-kinds
https://joecreed.substack.com/archive
Search for more Jim Crow with a YouTube Search of: Erased WW2's heroes of color
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/11/01/native-americans-right-to-vote-history/
The Indian removal Act of 1830: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Hd42J-tzs&t=11s
Rather than responding, in kind, to your completely inappropriate, ad homonym, attack; I will cite a quote, very likely, first directed at one of your ancestors.
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. ~ Samuel Johnson
Are you referring to a ad hominem attack? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
Nice flip around, You that should read more on your electoral college system some such links to read is bellow at the end of comment.
You refer to my kin Samuel Johnson of the 1700s I am guessing, he is NO kin of mind and I am not from that country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson
You are talking about "Your" era of Negros as Slaves and women not being a full person an only white men of property could vote in YOUR country vote. Your quips are so Zionist to justify a obvious wrong or malformed reason.
I used to get a similar response from Zionists when I pitched the end to Zionism (apartheid) and one Arab-Jewish commonwealth with Gaza and the West Bank as Palestinian reserve with one person one vote. West Bank
One country New flag and one called Palsrael with a Constitution underpinned by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and made up by the United Nations and end single Veto Votes by all 5 permanent members of the Security Council .
The Zionist just say that this is antisemitic conflating it with Anti-Zionism once again. Israelis constantly use Iran as a measuring stick and how they are a shinning of democracy, LOL.
Just like your first "Real" Republic theory unless you count those banana styled ones that fix election or those that still use a electoral college system based on slavery.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/12/13598316/donald-trump-electoral-college-slavery-akhil-reed-amar
Hi I'm from Germany I bet they will ship more soon (also based where you're located) as they now have already more than 150 categories
In a concentric, survivability diagram, the the center 51% would be America and Great Britain would be the next 25. The rest of the world, including Russia and China, would be wedged in the outer range.
Any representation, of the world as we know it, is impossible without US!
We'll be having tabs come and go for all sorts of things, many of which will be specialized/localized! For example, we'll shortly have a NFL week 1 tab, but only for people who have shown an interest in sports. Definitely expect to see some for global news events as they happen.
Please don't diversify to much or you could end up like fb. I appreciate Substack the way it is. It has provided me with a community of like minded people that I feel safe to share with, write for. All systems can only grow to their point of collapse. Look a fb and Twitter. Big they are but mostly despised. Over-doing can be the death nell to all things. Countries as well.
I agree with all the writers that have said Substack should try to represent a broad spectrum of cultures from many countries. Over exposure to
Americanism destroys many cultures as our youth all want to wear inverted baseball cap and sweatshirts with Chicago or whatever written on them, while listening to gangsta rap. I struggle to find International content on most of the media products wonderful designed in the US.
So please keep your focus international. I am a British expatriot, brought up in Australia residing in Aotearoa. My interests are broad, as I suspect many of us are on this site. I love your product. Please don't spoil it.
I just realised Reddit is DEI
Diversify Embelish Incarcerate. You tend to get tabs where you are not allowed open discussions on there.
It is a long way from Aaron Swartz posting scientific papers without copyright.
Oh that's amazing! Excited for that. Just food for thought: I'm quite interested in sports, but have completely separated that from my Substack, so there would be no indication that I was interested in sports. Anyway! That's an exciting update.
Don't worry, we know everything :)
Kidding, but we are working on more clear ways to explicitly indicate interests or disinterests in things. You can actually long-press (on mobile) these tabs to hide/show disinterest already, and we're soon launching some ways to show positive interest.
I’m pretty excited to explore these tabs today. I think I hadn’t fully engaged with that feature.
Nice
I’ll definitely use that 🏈
Think it will be out later today :)
Can you see it already?
+1
Hi Ben, is this based on the categories we picked or will Subsatck's algo analyze what we read and then decide?
Should we tag our posts already with those new categories you shipped?
NFL is a sport played by just one country. The majority of sports fans in the world don't support, watch, or subscribe to it. Many won't even know what the acronym means. It's like indicating a technology interest and only receiving Linux news.
Soccer is an extended pre-school activity, mired in the simplistic precept of keeping the ball on the ground. It is easy to see why its viewers would find difficulty in understanding a requirement to keep the ball OFF the ground.
What's funny about this is that neither of the founders were born or raised in the US. They both came here as adults, started companies, and now make the US the center of their universe instead of focusing on a more global audience.
listen to bbc radio on some radio stations, log on to european newspapers
Or read my newsletter ;)
Foreign Affairs magazine used to be amazing with that kind of stuff. Although I haven’t read it in a while so I’m not sure what state it’s in now
It's still good. I read it regularly and they typically have one issue that American focussed, and the next issue will be global.
I agree! People living in foreign countries so often know more than we do about anything in the world. I search out a few foreign newspapers but an overarching topic would be great.
Exactly Kevin... and they removed my top comment just now which said I was changing my "good idea" response because of their for profit stance!
I get a lot of my international news through France 24. They also have a section on rooting out fake news.
France 24 is solid. I read FT because I like financial news, but that's just a personal preference.
Though my page is history-focused and I’m very new to Substack, I’m taking a cross cultural approach and I will soon be releasing some political articles. If this type of thing interests you I would love your support!💛
I write each week a newsletter International Need to Know. Feel free to check it out
Thank you for bringing attention to this! As someone who also writes about global issues, I’ve been feeling this for a while. Looking forward to reading your work—subscribed.
This is the first I'm hearing about a "2024 U.S. Presidential Election." Is that like Brat Summer?
Yes it is. It's truly the summer of bratwursts.
https://www.thaliascomedy.com/p/group-chat-dads-are-loving-brat-summer
A major reason I read Substack is to NOT read "discussions from top politics publishers across the platform". I want to hear a diversity of thoughts, not just from those who are most prolific / popular.
Hello John. The title of the article reads: "Introducing a new destination for U.S. Election discourse" Why did you chose to respond?
Because many of us are here on Substack to get away from "mainstream media" and to connect with individuals. So a feature that seems to be promoting the "most popular" publishers seems counter to the real value of Substack and seems like a step toward being just yet another "alternative media source".
Please see reply re importance of collective and inclusive intelligence written above!
Think you can opt out by clicking on the tab a bit longer and Substack will know what you want to see and not. Can feel draining, I feel you
Basically I just read the people I follow when I get an email that they made a post. I wouldn't have even known about this "feature" if they hadn't advertised it. During my normal usage of Substack I would have to go out of my way to even find it.
Does it have to be on the phone? I can't type on the damn thing and I can barely see it. Can't I use my windows computer instead? I can type 60 words a minute on a keyboard but can't type 60 characters a minute on the phone. I have a regular sized iPhone with its regular tiny screen, but a 75" monitor that I can see just fine. And, I'm old. So, I don't "do phone."
I "don't phone" either. So if it isn't supported on a browser then it's not a feature I use. I guess maybe I have to explore a bit on the browser because I only see the posts of people I subscribe to.
It’s on browser as well! Computer works great.
That's good news! Thank you.
Do you still see it?
Ah super but I can't see it...
I am with you and John, my phone sits off on the side and use it to text my son mainly because who the F wants to type on that damn tiny azz thing?
Oh this is great. Does this mean we will be spared of all US politics related topics from showing up on the normal home feed? Asking for a friend.
brb, installing a VPN so they think i’m in Corsica
I hope there'll be room for voices who are not already extremely well-read in this vertical as well. Would be great to see Subtack promote up and coming voices.
We're working on this! Everyone is eligible to be in the tabs, and there are definitely small voices already in many of the categories.
That said, right now we use likes/engagement as one of the ways we rank things, so bigger voices are, at the moment, a hair more likely to end up there because of their established audience. Working on this though, because we do want all voices to get their chance to shine!
Please acknowledge that collective and inclusive intelligence is more sustainable than any top down metric!
Right b on
Substack, yes, please acknowledge.
RIGHT ON, GUY!!!
RIGHT ON!
There is enough of our world that operates from the metrics of who has the bigger voice because of being already rewarded - it aligns to people’s current biases.
How can we expand all our thinking if we focus on those voices over and over again? That sounds like Substack is operating from the same playbook as media and big business.
Do you expect the voices who do not already have big audiences to grow if they are regulated to sitting at the kids table to eat?
Exactly what I was trying to get across
You SAID IT!
Can't eat I'm laughing so much being at the kids' table. Oh Thank You!@@
Incredibly good point. Thank you. Level playing fields thank you. So sick of hierarchy.
Substack, it's your turn to say something.
THANK YOU for the clear and final word on this PROBLEM!
Why won't "liked" add new likes ?
You, TOO!
LUVVVVV IT !!!
I'd love a source on discoveries in astronomy, sthg like Sky and Telescope mag's readership can enjoy.
Yes yes yes! There should be a tab for Outer Space!
Sandy S, THANK YOU!!!
Can you believe the photos of the very CENTER OF THE MIKLY WAY???!!!
I've written exhaustively on election topics. Extensive voter education and a deep dive into issues and solutions. Can't get traction. Your politics people just complain about trump or follow the horse race.
Yes yes yes!!!
Totally new way to photograph stellar phenomena. AWESOME!!!
MUST SEE!!!
Hummm. I like the idea of categories, but this move creates the potential for Substack to elevate viewpoints it finds "worthy," while other viewpoints are not seen. Unless it's an algorithm that gathers every Substack post that fits a particular category, this has great potential for manipulation and should not be implemented. We already have the "correct information" spoon-fed to us by Legacy media.
Exactly... well said Lori!
I am 82 years old... I well remember elections "back when" that when the election was over people went back to normal life... there are just way too many yelling and screaming at the same time about whose best, calling each other liars and thieves and general pandemonium. When an election is over these same wackos (on both sides) start again. All we have in the world anymore is elections... I'm thoroughly fed up!
An election campaign should be no longer that a month, donations (particularly commercial donations) should be capped... not millions of dollars a day!
And people shouldn't get so loud and nasty... go into the booth, mark your ballot and get on with life. Period.
Amen it seems the real evil came when they allowed hidden money to fund campaigns. i'm US gov and I have to file a statement of my finances. Why do they not have to abide? Cuz rules are only for the little people. We too need to outlaw lobbying and bills need to be separate. You can never tell who voted for what.
I'm 78, and I say that back then, elections were run on reason and discourse.
Now they are run on emotions. That's why there is so much yelling and screaming before and after the elections.
Well, girls, I’m 84 and certainly remember a lot of emotion when Nixon and Kennedy ran for President. It’s good we can still get emotional about something in our old age!
Oh, my gosh, yes! Do you remember the campaign in which Dwight D Eisenhower ran against Adlai Stephenson in 1952? I do, and there was plenty of emotion then.
When convenience and emotion become more important than common sense, our Republic dies.
The nibeteenth amendment politicized emotion.
Hey! If you want politics free comedy, checkout my Substack!
WhilecI appreciate your effort here, Nate Silver is junk
I was about to plead can we NOT have Nate Silver?
I am wondering now if Russia is paying him off too, but even if they are not, he continues to imagine that he us relevant and just NO, he has been wrong so many times abd his vibe is just yuck.
Politics has never caused an argument
Truly the one place we can find common ground
😂
I see where Substack is promoting all the "names" it's wooed on to the platform.
Am I missing where Substack is promoting the small writers who have grown up organically on the platform and would no doubt appreciate a bit of a publicity boost?
I know there are several "small" Substacks whose writing and commentary far surprasses what the "names" put out. By promoting the "small" Substacks along with the "names" you would be making a useful stand for quality of content.
When the small content providers win the entire platform wins, including the names. Why not embrace a promotions strategy that helps everyone win?
Behold the X-iffication of Substack
Heaven help us I hope not.
Help. This is ruining my day.
BOOOOOO!!!!!!! I like Substack because it generally DOESNT have politics. If I wanted that, I’d hang out on Facebook or twitter (and I’m not on either). Give me the wild writing. Give me the fiction that will turn your stomach, make you laugh, and break your heart. Spare me the political bullshit. I’m not here for any of it.
Wiler , this Election day is Not Bullshit when our Freedom is at Stake . You Jerk !
The election and our freedoms aren’t bullshit…just having political content on substack is. There’s a place for it, but that place isn’t here.
….just to understand, and to speak for many, the only reason I subscribe is for the politics. I am a junkie and need real news sources since we’ve been taken over in the “real” press.
Emphatically disagree. Substack is for all kinds of writers and creators. And some people write and create content about politics. Also, if you don't just write off all of it as "political bullshit," you might find some unique voices that are saying things that are quite different than the typical bullshit you hear from each side.
It is for me . This Election is Very , Very Important. Read the Comment the person Posted
...and the most convenient, and pervasive, place is your wallet.
I think you might be on the wrong app.
You said " I think " that's an Assumption . Not Fact
Actually, it is a conclusion. An assumption seldom involves thinking.
It was an observation, actually. Mine.
Bryan I agree with you and Thaila. I do not need Substack to duplicate other platforms.
Checkout my Substack then. It's politics free comedy!
I’m in! Feel free to check out my page too.
Will do!
Please cite, even one, aspect of your life not subjected to politics.
Unless it’s a pure op-ed piece I think that each article should also post its sources of information.
Funny because there was once a time I considered substack a destination to read content that wasn't political.
Check me out!
Mainstream media have been hauntingly silent on Alex Dobrenko running as a third candidate and yet the public clamors for it. What is Substack's official position? Will Alex Dobrenko (immigrant, sure, but feels American as 100% beef) be given a space to shine in this new section??? The eyes of the world are upon you
Hey Substack why can’t I hide the US politics tab? On any other tab I can long press and a pop up “not interest” button shows up but if I try on the Us election tab, the only thing that is hidden is the highlighted post.
When will the constituents of the USA ever WAKE UP if ever ????? The current USA elections system is horrifically failing to deliver on their campaign promises that in time are hardly ever delivered and kept . The 2 party political system of the USA is self serving only and is failing the AMERICAN PEOPLE as it covertly serves the US Corporate intests only as they collectively campainge concress relentlessly with their financial contributions to by votes under the table . All true to say the least . I am not so alone in my sentiments about this issue as well.
I'd say at best 50% of the voting public understands this. Big Pharma being the most corrupt & insidious player. The Dems & Reps pretend to serve "We The People," as if.
Yes the big pharma cartels are the biggest campaign donars by far playing both sides of the isle . It is not about election but more about selection .
Yes, the US Elections are far from democratic! Just think of the effects of the Electoral College system. In Northern Ireland, we'd call that "gerrymandering!"
The Electoral College is not gerrymandering. The USA is NOT a democracy, also known as mob rule. The Founders did not want more populous states to overwhelm smaller states just due to population----which is what would happen if we were a democracy. The USA is a republic of 50 states, each with House members based on population, and each with two Senators. NY & California, arguable the two most poorly-run states of 50, would have a way outsized influence on national elections if we had a true democracy. The Electors in the Electoral College are from each state and are based on the members of Congress each state has. Dems typically hate the EC bc they want mob rule from Dem machine cities and states, thus all of the wailing from them & their media about "saving our democracy." "Our" does not mean the citizens of the USA. "Our" means Dem politicians & media who desire to be in power forever, thus why they're willing to cheat in elections in all kinds of ways---this is how they will "save our democracy."
But in essence you've made things unequal in the other direction. Small states who have very different priorities than the large states get the say in who wins the election. So in essence, a vote in Wisconsin is worth twice a vote in California. And let's not forget the whole reason your founders set up the electoral college in the first place - so that slavers would have an outsized influence on the elections. It also sure seems like the EC is also set up to keep Repubs in power rather than Dems, as Dems always seem to win the popular vote.
In essence, as an outsider looking in, I reject your premise. Your system is borked.
The slavers argument is false. Votes in solid blue or red states count for less than in swing states. Wisconsin is swing , California is blue, Texas is red. Dems win the popular vote bc they promise to give lots of money to voters. Irresponsible. What is your country’s voting system?
If you knew anything about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), you would know that giving more money to the citizens is not as irresponsible as you think.
MMT looks at the different sectors of the economy: the public sector (the Federal government), the private sector (the people and businesses), and our relationship with the rest of the world (the outer sector).
Leaving the outer sector aside, it's the balance between the public and private sectors that interests us.
The Federal government creates the currency. It can never go broke as long as its debts are contracted in its own currency.
The deficit is the sum between the outlay of currency and what comes back in taxes.
It's like a seesaw: when the government is down, the private sector is up, and vice versa. If the government has a debt, the private sector has a surplus. If the government has a surplus, the private sector has to take on debt. As long as the government has a deficit, you and I don't have to take out loans to get by. And the government can never go broke or fail to pay the debt, but you and I have to pay back whatever loans we take out.
Since the government has people like you convinced that they should "decrease the deficit," the American people have had to shoulder a huge amount of debt: mortgages, student loans, and credit cards. We are crippled by the amount of debt that we have.
Most Americans make the mistake of thinking that since they understand their household budget, "the Federal budget" is exactly the same. Don't make this mistake. The Federal government doesn't really have a "budget" in the same way that you and I do. It's misleading to call it a "budget."
And you need to know that our politicians love to mislead the public about the economy and their role in it.
One of the misleading lies is to ask (only when the people are asking for something for themselves): "How are you going to pay for it?" They never say that when they are voting to spend billions of dollars on weapons for Ukraine or Israel. They never say that when they are voting for the huge upward transfer of wealth that happened during the Covid fiasco. They only say that when we want universal healthcare, or reducing the college debt, or housing the homeless.
It's not irresponsible to support your own people. Is it irresponsible for FEMA to do something for the people in Asheville, North Carolina?
The international definition of a failed state is a government that can't provide its citizens with the basic necessities of life: food, clean water, shelter, and freedom from state violence. By this definition, the US is a failed state. Providing for your citizens isn't irresponsible; it's acting like a strong country acts and not a failed state.
This! Every word of this!
Save THEIR democracy
Absolutely. The whole system is rigged.
just posted a 'Stack along those lines.
https://open.substack.com/pub/suzanneokeeffe/p/the-half-truth-challenge-round?r=r7y2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
All I hear is complain about the Democratic and Republicans . Well , Welcome to Reality and why not , just Shut your mouth and go out and Vote Early and In-person to Save America . Be Smart for goodness sake .
I am not complaining I am stating researched FACTS of how the system is rigged using Domminion Voting Machines that are not even built in the USA but outsourced in third world countries . Election fraud is rampant through out the USA and the alternative reality news outlets are following and reporting this act of campaign miconduct collusion corruption from both sides . And independent will never win ever.
I agree with you but We can Stop by this time Voting Early and In-person like the Crooked Democratic do . Republicans and Conservatives has a Bad Habit of waiting for Election day to vote . Now we need to beat them at their own game by Voting Early and In-person then Donald J Trump and Congress would Fix it . A 1 day Voting and show I.D and Proof of Citizens .
I do vote early & I agree that more Reps should. I think elections are rigged in many places, but not all. My state requires Photo ID. All should, & mail-in votes should be illegal except for military and disabled. It is very obviously the easiest way to cheat, as evidenced by the 2020 election.
That why , it is Very Important to Vote early and In-person then Trump administration can Fix our Election process to 1 day Voting with proof of Citizens and I.D.
Trump is not the Wonderman you apparently think he is. He is part of the system too.
Is there anywhere that declares HOW a post ends up on the tab .. for any of the tabs .. not just an election?
Let’s gooooo
What about taking our Inboxs and giving us the option to sort them this way too as well as Chronologically. It would give them more of an inbox feel. I know I want to see my favorite authors first, no matter what, but maybe I want to dip in and read some Fiction (or poetry) or read about someone’s walk in nature? Maybe a Sort/Filter tab?
What I want to know is how to *exlude* those topics. I'm not in the USA, I'm not interested in the vitriolic political hate posts. They're the reason why I rarely hang out on Substack anymore. So, please tell us, what button can we click to avoid the venom?
My subscribe button. I'm politics free
LOL. I'll bite.
niiiice. 😄
Are you sure that you aren't simply collecting the data so that you can sell it to the surveillance state?
That’s a very good question.
We can Win and We will Win the Election by going out and Vote Early and In-person by the Millions and Don't wait for Election day to give the Crooked Democratic opportunity to Cheap on Election day . Vote In-person and Early is Goal .
Nice!
Two questions:
Will there be a tab for music?
How will these tabs work to surface lesser known or emerging writers on the platform?
There is already a music tab! If you poke around, you'll hopefully find that they're already surfacing posts and notes from smaller writers, in addition to the larger names, though we're hoping to make this even better in days/weeks to come.
Thanks Ben! I’m happy to hear it! As much as I enjoy Jeff Tweedy, and Patti Smith, it’d be awesome to see some new names in the feed.
I'm not seeing any of the smaller, great music writers I know on that tab. And I sure as hell don't have a shot of getting on it.
I hope you'll remember that Wonkette exists too; we don't seem to get a lot of play in your "US Politics" tab.
Hell's yes! Wonkette is the best out there. Funny and factual.
Awesome
“Catch up on the latest election forecast, courtesy of Nate Silver;”
You had me up until “Nate Silver“.
Bwahhhhhhhh I said when I read that “why the F him?”
💯 exhibit A in you get the polls you pay for.
Having read through all the comments, I am changing my original "good idea" response. From the Substack publishers' comments, this will not be the inclusive place of collective intelligence on the US election.... though it will centralise it. Algorhythmic shaped, it will be the usual "for profit" placement... What an opportunity missed!
Nate Silver? Really? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHA right!
Wondering whether your algorithm will make substack just another echo chamber entrenching tribal prejudice, or if you really are intending to give broad spectrum coverage how you will do that.
Except there is no way to tell if these articles have been fact checked.
Another good point
Good. Put your toxic political spew there, and leave the main tab to us artists and writers.
I wonder why there is not a tab dedicated to animals?
Thank you from Canada. I am praying for a landslide Harris victory. But after the election, let's realize there is a big world out there.
Well, as an American, I'm praying NOT.
" Watch Mehdi Hasan and Zeteo debunk mistruths"
Is this a joke??
Exactly my thought!! Hasan being a huge source of misinformation! and some outright lies.....
True that !
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/08/if_you_want_to_see_where_america_is_heading_look_to_1453.html
They must be kidding... otherwise we are watching Substack go the usual attention seeking/profit seeking direction with little awareness of who their writers are!
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/08/if_you_want_to_see_where_america_is_heading_look_to_1453.html
After several attempts, I can’t even find my own newsletters in the Substack “explore” search, so I’m not convinced anyone else will find my election/political related work through this new tab option either. More details please.
Either get rid of the tabs, allow us to completely turn them off, or fine tune them. I absolutely hate having a fixed set of categories shoved in my face. It is really annoying in the app that I have to have something I do not want shoved in my face. The Substack interface is getting progressively worse.
The features I want to see are:
1. Searchable history - including notes
2. Title search for posts
3. Keyword search - including notes
Nope. Not for me. I don’t Substack as “NYTimes” or FoxNews light… and you all know that’s exactly where this will lead. I’m old enough to have watched it happen now on UseNet, Yahoo Groups, Facebook —> they all become Twitter/TikTok in the end. It’s the only logical conclusion between the message and this medium when it comes to “politics”.
Try to become the next “better” site talking about things that aren’t suited for comments-driven discourse, and you’re asking for the wrong vibe. I Substack for “The Economist” level reading, a month later, and without the instant-timing hype. This is a dangerous, investor-driven path…. Worrisome
Respectfully avoiding the option, as an Australian it is already overwhelming on any platform.
I understand the importance of the event and yet I get quite despondent seeing so much of the worst .
What could go wrong?
Great idea. Though I strongly suggest you use some other filter(s) than # of likes/engagement to surface interesting and relevant content. Coverage of the so-called "horse race" far outweighs original reporting and analysis and if you aren't thoughtful about this, you'll just reinforce that dynamic further.
And there you have it... from the Substack publisher's comments, we will be getting the "same old same old" that we sought out Substack to avoid!
I just looked at the app and the tabs. All the feeds lean left. Shame on you. 😞
My experience too. Going to ignore this option and stick with my regular reads.
Any effort to bring sanity back to America’s discourse is welcome.
please define “dynamically”
I'm out of here. It's turning into something like Twitter with people slagging off at each other.
I would rather not have such category because I don't live in US and it is less relevant. It would be better to be able to pin topics on the front page. Then I would be able to pin local politics or US politics if I want.
Can we at least turn these on/off instead of Substack shoving things down our throats without the option to opt out? Just like the media tab…
Americans [and Canadians with our prime ministers, for that matter] collectively deserve far better than just either the usual callous conservative or neo/faux liberal in the White House.
It’s no longer sufficient for the institutional Democratic Party’s presidential candidate(s) to simply fully support party policy on core ‘woke’ issues: those of race, sexuality, gender, gender bending and unrestricted abortion access. A large enough proportion of Americans are financially struggling just that much.
Some non-corporately-commissioned polls have shown that a majority of Americans favor the governmental implementation of some public programs, especially universal health care. Yet, the Democratic National Committee apparently refuses to allow the genuinely fiscally progressive Senator Bernie Sanders as its presidential nominee, however many Democrat voters want(ed) him.
For example, every county in West Virginia voted for Sanders in the 2016 primaries, yet the DNC declared them as wins for Hillary Clinton! That doesn’t sound very democratic, does it?
I find it arrogantly presumptuous of the DNC and party (etcetera) to expect economically disenfranchised citizens to vote for an establishment Democrat candidate [e.g. Hillary Clinton] with thinly veiled ties to corporate interests and who’s not going to improve the poor person’s lot in life — simply to vote out or keep out an undesirable Republican. And have to wait in long bad-weather lineups to do so.
Perhaps ‘Calamity’ Jane Bodine’s very memorable line in the film ‘Our Brand Is Crisis’ is essentially true: “If voting changed anything [in favor of the weak/poor/disenfranchised] they’d have made it illegal.”
So where on the Android app IS this tab?
Grateful! I’m sure this will be a help! Pls don’t skip over rather shy moderate NPR on their daily political podcast earlier today with a super piece about young James Baldwin in Israel!
In case Substack tech team is reviewing these comments:
The new (started this week) auto-voiceover for articles in the app is *not* good!
Change back to prior, or get a new voice please.
The new one is ungrounded, feels insincere, and needs to be played at 75% speed because it's so excitable.
Otherwise, keep up the good work! Thanks!
I concur. I never knew I'd ever fully appreciate the prior robot-sounding auto-voiceover for articles in the app until this week
Right?! Glad I'm not alone. Hope they're reading this feedback!
Once more, it doesn't matter who resides in the white house, period... Last time it mattered at all was when JFK was there and that's arguable. The U.S. is a totalitarian nation which uses the agencies and institutions of govt and the private sector, Rand Corp. & so on to rule over Americans and most of Europe and parts of Central & S. America as well. You cannot vote these people out because they never run for any office. Do folks need an app to keep up with this reality? Unlikely, but hey, if you want one to inform you about U.S. Selections, one is now available. Good luck! Jill Stein or Cornell West for president but we all know that if either won, the Electoral College, whatever that is, would never certify either of them or if it did, someone would have an accident of the fatal kind.
If we write something about the election, how do we ensure it shows up on the tab?
Sounds good in theory. Will only be a success if it truly showcases writing from across the political spectrum and does not censor people They disagree with and label facts as “misinformation” circa Facebook and Twitter 2020. Substack already showed its bias by including a DNC tab; where was the RNC tab???
Elon Musk is doing it right at X, take notes Substack.
As for the naysayers of a politics tab, here’s a revolutionary thought: if you don’t like it, don’t look!
How do you get your post listed under the tab U.S. Election? Do we use a hashtag or tags? If so what would it be, if not, then how does it work?
Good idea... as long as the same intelligent community-building folk who write on Substack don't get numerically pushed out by the more divisive sort!!
Actually, I want to change my response after reading Substack's comments... it would seem that they are taking the 'for profit' route rather than the more inclusive participatory route. That is, those with more followers will get prioritised... sound familiar?
I'd love to see a visual way of seeing articles / news categorized by their bias. For example, something like this https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart
You could use allsides ratings here: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/ratings
That would be a fantastic way of keeping Substack as "unbiased" a source, by using a 3rd party to categorize bias, and allow us to optionally see & understand the bias behind a source.
Of course anything from a smaller publication wouldn't have a bias rating (at least not yet), but it's a start.
I recently was introduced to a program / software / entity that is capable of vetting votes. In particular it discovers fictional addresses. Voting fraud is a preoccupation of mine and I would hope Substack might include such a thing in this venue. Votes with fictional addresses and votes of non-citizens exist and should not be counted.
Unfortunately US politics has far reaching consequences. Ask the people in Afghanistan and Ukraine and Gaza. Makes sense they’d do this. They should include wider global politics as well though
I write on everything except politics. Sometimes philosophy, literature, art, or travel. Is there a way to flag my posts as to the main topic discussed? Also is there a way to block politics from my feed? Probably a bad idea though now that I think about it.
David, I hear you! How about if they had a tab called 'My Human Way'. It could be for any of us out here getting on with it, and loving it!
I believe “dynamically collate” is Latin for algorithm.
Would appreciate and really need an in depth look into education. That would be K-12 and the college journey. That, my friends dictates our future. Currently it’s a disaster in the making. Semper Fi.
What nothing for the Green Party,it’s rigged software
I know we all have more in common than not in common. Jointheresistance.org.
We've got to do this.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/08/if_you_want_to_see_where_america_is_heading_look_to_1453.html
A MORE PERFECT DEMOCRACY:MODERNIZING THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY RLBLAINPUBLISHING.com for related blogs
No conservatives?
No thanks lol
You can always long press (on the app) to hide tabs you don't care about :)
No offense to political enthusiasts, all political stuff gets muted.
Same. Irrelevant.
Good idea. Someone at Substack is thinking! Now, give yourselves the rest of the day off. Tell them I said so.
Please make sure Omega4America makes in under this tab.
Funny how nobody is talking about the guy who explicitly said recently that the First Amendment shouldn't cover "misinformation". I'm not on any team but that kind of misinformation should bother 100% of the people on Substack. Don't follow leaders, watch the parking meters.
Defeat MAGA fascism!
https://www.opednews.com/populum/page.php?f=Abandon-Harris-Welcome-Fa-Fascism-Has-Happened-Here_Fascism-Cant-Happen-Here_Fascist_Germany-240822-443.html
Most consequential in history?
Subtack needs to hire some better flacks.
Great idea! Perhaps we can gain greater understanding of the positions on both sides as we move forward?
Substack taking over social media . I love it
Take over legacy media, is more like it!
how about WATCHING HOW THE WORLD is viewing the American elections on Andelman Unleashed ??!!
https://daandelman.substack.com/
Hi everyone I have covered the US election at Across The Pond (acrossthepond.substack.com) since January check us out.
How do you see it on Android devices? No tabs are showing.
Having trouble bringing tab up for my Android. How do I have it show up?
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Manufactured goods from Asia.
Manufactured media from America.
It's often tough being a philosophical European in a continent surrounded by conflict, misery and migration. Is ignoring two millennia of culture and history for partisan words about Trump and NFL a viable long-term strategy?
I look forward to your election coverage.
This sounds like a great way to enhance our ability to network all the communication systems available to us all. Thanks!
So we're creating even more spaces for the huge stacks to drown out small stacks like mine. Good job gang.
Get wise the government deception in my podcast here:
https://soberchristiangentlemanpodcast.substack.com/p/s1-scgp-the-government-deception
A useful tool and organizing aide.
Good call, Team Substack. For U.S. Elections readers: If you're interested in stories driving public trust, consider subscribing to Route 24: www.driveroute24.com or @route24 on Substack.
So happy to see politics discussed in a sane way
“[W]e must accept responsibility for a problem before we can solve it.” — M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled
In a nation that incessantly blames and complains — no one’s taking responsibility for anything. The ever-rising ocean of partisan pettiness is gluttony under the guise of concern.
“Substack Is a Scam in the Same Way That All Media Is” — a.k.a. The Substack Sector:
https://liveoutloudandonpurpose.life/2024/09/05/substack-is-a-scam-in-the-same-way-that-all-media-is-a-k-a-the-substack-sector/
This is a great initiative and is of consequence.
Particularly, at the macro level, of global significance. I mean presidential elections in the U.S., accept it or not, are of global consequence.
But specifically, at the micro level, for me, of even greater moment, are the opportunities mentioned regarding connections among and with other creators, but also exposure to other and maybe wider publications.
I think this is ALL brilliant.
Bring it on!
Awesome. Makes it so much easier to mute and block. 😎
... likewise global ❕
*emphasis:
migration climate action
nationalism housing
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I came across something quite interesting. As a matter of fact I sat bolt upright when I heard it, rewound and listened again. I was watching "The Iron Lady" with Meryl Streep playing the part of Margaret Thatcher, 1st female Prime Minister of Gr Britain, never saw it before. Many are expecting the same to happen here, 1st female president of the US (God help us)
Here's what Meryl (Thatcher) said. " We are formed mostly by our history. They are formed by their philosophy and ideology, not BY WHAT HAS BEEN, but BY WHAT CAN BE".
Kamala: "WHAT CAN BE, unburdened by WHAT HAS BEEN". Forty years later Thatchers words came out of Kamala's mouth. I laughed my head off.
Dears in substack/Joe-Kwame,
monitoring from Sothern Germany, as a German/American.
Joe-Kwame
Dears in substack/Joe-Kwame,
as you highlighted this is going to be a relevant and pointing ahead Election.
The turn, after Honorable President to The United States, Joe Biden, bolstered up a vice and played a strategic card to Kamala Devi Harris, the journey was endowed with new and guiding perspective. I myself wouldn't judge and value any time, however, see a fair ice-breaking perspective.
Along with running mate Tim Walz, she will have a fair and competent team incl. of democratic experts at her side. The political and psychological worthiness boosts her with tremendous tailwind.
Unfair and tacky attacks by Donald Trump (DT), conduce to success; and open flanks in DT'd election strategy.
I am glad substack, has invited members to share relevant and broad experts' knowledge and wisdom.
Excitedly looking forward to months to come.
Joe-Kwame
This YOUTUBE titled: Noam Chomsky: Media and Mass Manipulation by Carefree Wandering explains my thoughts on the matter, watch it and learn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kCyL_6WnVI&lc=UgzZCkzaBjlWXrj2Ivt4AaABAg
Substack is precious the way it is. Don't fuck it up.
So looking forward to this. I hate going to youtube or even making a search on google news, as its all clearly biased and polarising on both sides.
Get the best US analysis from Across The Pond (acrossthepond.substack.com).
Check out my Substack! I'm building out the best voter education site in the planet!
Where's the election tab, please? Link?
A variety of topics is a tread mill to keep all of us busilly engaged in allowed topics while the only one that matters is if our elections are fair and honestly run. Like in book keeping, we need two sources of information on who voted and where that vote is recorded--that can be traced. In addition, any claim of unlawful/out of policy actions must have a predetermined consequence and no certification can be legal without iron clad determination that any irregularity has been examinated. Instead, we make laws that make it impossible to track a ballot to anyone once the ballot is separated from the envelope and problems with that loss of accountability legally impossible to rectify by forcing certification within days with no way to rectify anything. Genius system set up for and by those who want to cheat. Unattended drop boxes are the keystone of a system set up by and for those who want to cheat and we all just say "oh well, it seems safe and secure according to those who run the systems".
Oh my…you people need to get laid!
Too much preaching to the choir.
I like this feature. I only hope that participants remember how valuable diverse perspectives truly are.
Finally, an appropriate method of disclosure, perhaps from someone with more artful language.
"An updating average of 2024"
^ this wording is a little odd to me
Also two sub-headers on the election tab are identical.
Americans [and Canadians with our prime ministers, for that matter] collectively deserve far better than just either the usual callous conservative or neo/faux liberal in the White House.
It’s no longer sufficient for the institutional Democratic Party’s presidential candidate(s) to simply fully support party policy on core ‘woke’ issues: those of race, sexuality, gender, gender bending and unrestricted abortion access. A large enough proportion of Americans are financially struggling just that much.
Some non-corporately-commissioned polls have shown that a majority of Americans favor the governmental implementation of some public programs, especially universal health care. Yet, the Democratic National Committee apparently refuses to allow the genuinely fiscally progressive Senator Bernie Sanders as its presidential nominee, however many Democrat voters want(ed) him.
For example, every county in West Virginia voted for Sanders in the 2016 primaries, yet the DNC declared them as wins for Hillary Clinton! That doesn’t sound very democratic, does it?
I find it arrogantly presumptuous of the DNC and party (etcetera) to expect economically disenfranchised citizens to vote for an establishment Democrat candidate [e.g. Hillary Clinton] with thinly veiled ties to corporate interests and who’s not going to improve the poor person’s lot in life — simply to vote out or keep out an undesirable Republican. And have to wait in long bad-weather lineups to do so.
Americans collectively deserve far better than just either the usual callous conservative or neo/faux liberal in the White House. But they likely won’t get it, according to ‘Calamity’ Jane Bodine’s very memorable line in the film ‘Our Brand Is Crisis’: “If voting changed anything [in favor of the weak/poor/disenfranchised] they’d have made it illegal.”
A generous addition to the quality of substack
"As the U.S. sprints to the finish of one of the most consequential presidential races in its history..."
Ha. Apparently Substack thinks we are all a bunch of political dimwits!
**reads a few comments**
Oh well. **shrugs** I guess we are.
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The new audio/transcript editor menu is killing the substack dashboard in Firefox, making key menu items inaccessible because it can't be dismissed. Anyone else experiencing this problem?
What did I do wrong? The first 20 Substackers were all Kamala supporters. That doesn’t feel very representative of the SS community.
Great news! Hoping that hartmannreport.com will be there, too! :)
I'm for scheming. "Looking for a committee to think with for a Conversation to Save the World": https://substack.com/@suzannetaylor/p-146638972.
Could Substack be a focal point to get us to be cooperative? It's not pie in the sky. It's survival. Now, that's what could insure Substack being a vital force.
I like the Substact idea of having conversations about the election. It will be different from the "rigid" commentary of social media.
Seems to me where I live is the most dynamic part of the globe. It's not all about the good old USA. I agree with Kevin McSpadden, let's go global.
Jeff (Malaysia)
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Great happenings ahead
Get the best US analysis from Across The Pond (acrossthepond.substack.com).
I don't see any tab on my android phone. I definitely read politics, so how do I find this tab?
Hi Hannah! Have you updated your app so that it's the latest version?
Thanks, it is six months old 😁
Excellent new feature.
Very cool. I never noticed the SUBJECT tabs at the top of the app for iPhones. I recommend making them a bit larger!!
Very nice. Thanks
Please make sure to find a way to surface posts from publications that are in the "news" rather than "U.S. Politics" category. for example this one from today https://www.theeditors.com/p/trumps-sovereign-wealth-fund-is-a
How about a tab for people writing about how to get OUT of this globalist-conditioned box of thinking a designated "hero" puppet is going to save us. Their policies have served only the globalists' agenda. This is a worldwide problem, clearly. A choice between two Bilderberg Groupies is not a choice.
"Dive deeper"? It just astounds me that you could say that with a straight face. But it's all about belief anymore -- not what about you actually do!
"Until the rise of podcasts, twitter, and the various forms of independent media / journalism, people weren’t really aware how legacy media was influencing their thinking. I think people are finally waking up and may surprise you here, especially if more talk about it."
New formats for funneling information that caters to your cravings is not what I’d call enlightened. And those who couldn’t spot clearly dishonest actors before — think they’re wide awake now? The Twitter bio behind that quote begins with “Groupthink averse.” It would never occur to him that everything in that Tweet is Groupthink 101.
That you don’t understand how you’re all being played is bad enough, but that you make it nearly impossible to explain it to you reflects how new media has hardened you even more than legacy did.
"Shallow thinkers do not think beyond the immediate and the observable. They usually take information at face value and only look at immediate consequences. They are not capable of looking at all sides of an issue or think deeply about the issue before making decisions or drawing conclusions . . . They also believe that their opinion is based on deep thinking because they genuinely believe that their opinion is based on truth and facts. Whereas, deep thinkers look at the whole sequence of events and the consequences.
When we dig deeper, we understand better. We can compare different outcomes, examine, tear apart, and make cognizant judgments that are derived from different mental models."
-- Why Complex Problems Need a Deeper and Different Way of Thinking
As in -- what none of you are doing (or even willing to). Left and Right: I’ve yet to find a single person who digs beyond the depth of their immediate domain of interest. In our entirely transactional times, America endlessly rehashes topics of today — never once considering the totality of events that created them (or even having a notion of the need to). America argues in a vacuum incapable of correlating anything: As if blowback has no bearing on 9/11 & today.
With the issues I address — you might as well be saying the Civil War wasn’t germane to the assassination of Lincoln.
What Do These People & Pursuits All Have in Common? You!
https://liveoutloudandonpurpose.life/2024/08/01/what-do-these-people-pursuits-all-have-in-common-you-3/
Where is this US Elections Tab??
Hi Mike! You should see it directly on your homepage. You can go to substack.com/home via the web, and you should see the categories at the top . Also, make sure that you have the latest version of the app on your phone.
Thank you liz, I can on my desktop, However, on my cellphone, i'm stuck the inbox.
Thank you Liz, I can on my computer, but on my phone I'm stuck I
I write a weekly blog concerning the weeks political events , I am interested in cross pollination. You can directly contact me @ attybob2004@yahoo.com. I have tried to respond to substack writings specifically those from R. Reich. I find his writings very interesting but oftentimes not objective. I have tried responding but because I am not a paying member I am rebuffed .Although perhaps it is because I may have a differing viewpoint. I am interested in sharing my thoughts & ideas with others. I welcome all opportunities. R. Evans
Information is becoming a little overwhelming for me. It's fun to think about reading and responding to an ever-increasing number of writers but there's not enough time for that.
Besides, as interesting as the psychological chest game of campaign politics has become, I'm just afraid it's a kind of mental masturbation for all of us who care.
As I see it, this Presidential election will either be stolen through fraud, etc. or too many people will actually vote for the status quo (fraud besides mal-education not being necessary.) To me it's a numbers game and there seems to be significantly more "stupid" people so it's majority rule.
There are a lot of single-issue voters, and many simply vote for the party agenda and not the candidate, per se, so getting into the weeds about personalities and campaign policies, etc. may be interesting but I'm afraid ultimately useless.
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I can't find these "tabs" of which you speak. Any one out there who can enlighten me? Thx in advance.
on your phone, you may have to first update your app (https://substack.com/app) to see the horizontal-navigation tabs at the top
on laptop/web, the horizontal-navigation tabs (at the top) are here:
new roll-out:
https://substack.com/home
and
https://substack.com/browse/recommendations
Thank you.
i am voting for a u.s. centered site.
I see no tabs on my home page... only Inbox and Notes. Saw nothing in settings to change this in the Android app.
Hey Rick! Do you have the latest version of the app?
I have 2.14.0. I see no way to update it without uninstalling.
I have now uninstalled and reinstalled, logged out and logged back in to the app ... still no tabs. I have a Pixel 8a running Android 14.
Pour moi, l'élection présidentielle se portera sur la personne de Donald Trump et il est l'homme idéal pour pour renforcer l'économie américaine !...
I will be opening my substack blog soon.
A brief introduction— I was an educator for a lifetime, retiring in 1998 when I was The NYS English Council , Educator of Excellence (after Harvard chose to study my practice for their thesis on The Principles of Learning,: what all teachers do IF every child learns!)
I wrote for a while at OEN https://www.opednews.com/author/series/author40790.html,
especially about Education, because my good friend Diane Ravitch was asst Secretary of Education , and I came to learn about the assault on teachers, and the war on public education — just as they came after me!
About of background…In 1960, I read “The Hidden Persuaders“ where Vance Packard explained how television transformed the way in which we humans received information.
As a teacher of literary and history, I watched the effect of a transformational ERA, on children’s ability to critically analyze what was in front of their eyes and ears !
And then came the INTERNET, and the algorithms that pushed the narratives, the words of those powerful people who owned the technology!
A transformational era— where information technology changes everything— but the transformation won’t be realized for decades!
We are witnessing in 2024, the impact of propaganda and lies which are sold as truth, to an increasingly ignorant citizenry, who are stressed and struggling to survive— and who come home to that huge screen— their window on the world — after hours on the little screen, listening to the echo chamber of lies and utter nonsense.
So, I will be opening my Substack blog, “Words Matter: speaking as a teacher ,“
where I will share my insights about this moment in time, where the words that our people hear, which our children incorporate into the PRIOR Knowledge— are false — so they will be unable to compare what they know to be TRUE— ,to what is in front of their eyes And ears.
We teachers call that CRITICAL THINKING!
And there was never a more important moment to be able to compare and analyze what we are confronting , as the LIES And The LYING LIARS WHO TELL THEM* are attempting to utterly destroy the Constitutional process of our DEMOCRACY— the Rule of Laws that underlie the ELECTORAL process!!!
* thank you Al Franken for those words… they matters!
Finally,At this moment, I am writing about how propaganda has changed America since the MAGA cult adopted Trump’s plans to take control!
But This Russian propaganda ploy is getting big media attention— so, I am following Scott Dworkin who reminds us:
“We’ve been talking a lot lately about corporate media and the threat that they pose to American society. The Press spins the truth and puts out pro-Trump propaganda to appease their corporate overlords and sponsors. And the damage that they do to our democracy can’t be overstated.
But there’s another threat that we haven’t talked about until recently—Russian interference in our elections.
Yesterday, the DOJ brought this right back to the forefront, unveiling charges and sanctions against Kremlin-backed operatives.
Look for the opening of my Substack— which I will title: WORDS Matter: Speaking AS A TEACHER
A somewhat risky endeavor in my opinion, since the World will be watching for the inevitable bias that will surely emerge in any binary exercise such as American politics. There are winners and losers here, not a place where a platform that supports free expression wants to reside. The free thinkers will be watching to see which side substack lands with. Not a good look.
Politics is a lot like stepping in dog shit...sticks tenaciously to the lugs of the boots...good to scrape a bit of it off.
Excellent idea
“We all live in a yellow submarine.”🎶 🎵
OMG SO MANY ARE MISSING THE POINT. It is two months from THE ELECTION. Sleepers, awake…..
No politics at all suits me.
What a clever way to cop out of politics during an election. Send all the commentators to one place. As for me, I will certainly avoid it. So much more interesting to read the non-political articles and comments. Heather Cox Richardson’s daily Letter from an American is all I need, and it is factual and sourced. Need more humor if anything to lighten my day.
09/05/24: Add a sense of humor to it and it might attract eyeballs. Otherwise, just moths. Then moth balls.
There are elections in 40 countries this year. It would be good to consider the US elections in an international perspective.
This is a great initiative to see. Hope you'll consider including a segment on how the Chinese government (in addition to Russia) may be trying to influence public debate surrounding the election. There are signs it's already begun happening, though not necessarily with the aim of tilting the presidential race one way or another. I recently wrote about some scenarios here, and there's lots of other good research and writing on this coming out: https://underreportedchina.substack.com/p/prc-disinformation-and-us-elections
There is a sociological, sociological economic cycle that has been evident in most societies, and well delineated for the United States throughout history for about 248 years. The formations of the cycle have never once failed. Never. Anyone interested in this delineated, factual, history may be interested in the thesis I published in my SubStack account. Should the cycle continue as it has for the depth of history, we and the world are now facing a perilous time, meaning profound events.
you go to home and at earlier it is basically all about politics
Why politics at all?
To increase Substaack revenue.
Can you tell me where to find this on app? Also, I write about the election.. will my stuff automatically appear on that if i tag is US election?
Ah, Substack expands again from it's original purpose in its quest for revenue. Am I surprised? Of course not, that was always the purpose of Substack. The publication of wanna be writers was just the method to open the money gate.
As most others have commented on something other than the present USA election, I will do so.
Here is my petty screed on the Trump/Harris match. Many followers of these two proclaim it's the end of Democracy if not the USA if the other side wins. Great hyperbole but inaccurate.
At 80 years old, I've seen the USA much more divided in the past during the 60s and 70s where live ammunition was used killing protestors, something that has yet to occur in this election. We had a close assassination attempt but nothing like the shooting gallery of those years.
So, my proclamation is, one party or the other is going to win the election in November, the winner will serve 4 years as president, and in January, 2028, a peaceful and constitutionally lawful swearing in of a USA president will occur despite what the doomsday predictors say.
List the dep pockets funding both Trump and Harris.
To understand the current political situation in the United States, one must grasp the important difference between a "complex" physical system and a "non-complex" physical system in the construction of a model of this system that is predictive of the outcomes of the political decisions that are made by the politicians of the Democratic and Republican parties respectively where, by the definition of terms, a "complex" physical system exhibits one or more "emergent properties," each of which is a property of the whole physical system and not of the separate parts of this system whereas a "non-complex" physical system exhibits no such properties.
The platform of the modern Democratic Party is based upon the cognitive error of mistaking a "complex" physical system for a "non complex" physical system in the construction of the model of this physical system that is used by Democratic Party Politicians in predicting the outcomes of the political events of the future for their constituents whereas the platform of the modern Republican Party makes no such mistake.
I am Terry Oldberg
Engineer/Scientist/Public Policy Researcher
Los Altos Hills, California, USA
1-650-518-6636 (mobile)
terry_oldberg@yahoo.com(email)
Los Altos Hills, the high school 130s football team that took the SCVAL trophy in 1961 because Santa Clara high School lost in a fluke to a nothing Los Gatos high school team.
I'm sure your post is brilliant, but to me, it makes no sense.
Hi Jim
You must be thinking of Los Altos High School as Los Alltos HIlls has never had a high school.
Cordially,
Tery Oldberg
You are correct and I’m sorry to have offend you as Los Altos Hills is definitely a better apricot patch above Los Altos.
I call USA "Democracy for Dummies"! 2 disfunctional parties with the exact same name: One Greek (Demos+Krasia = People+Government). The other Latin (Res+Publica = Government+people). The Republican party of Lincoln is now the Democratic party of Obama, and the Democratic party of Lee is now the Republican party of Trumpanzee!
How is that list curated? How can a SS be included?
Here's something I hope helps H2T thru it https://toddlutzusarmy1sgret.substack.com/p/presidential-candidate-considerations?r=1k5h5t
There are still an alarming amount of far right Nazis on this platform. You are making a good amount of money from these hate mongers.
Is this another mental cattle chute happily leading us to our slaughter?
It might be better if the rest of the world’s folks could tell us what they think of the US elections.
Where do Imgo on Substack to click on Elections?
That would be awesome to have for news and other API endpoints for various interests/niches/topics
Colorado’s Tyrannical Secretary of State – Jena Griswold
By Jearell C Kelley, PE & former technical consultant to the US Space Force (retired)
Texas’ Secretary of State released a report dated January 24, 2020 and signed by Deputy Secretary of State Jose A Esparza that explained why Texas rejected Dominion voting machines. The reason, “Dominion was not safe from fraudulent or unauthorized manipulation.”
Why is Colorado using Dominion? Answer 1: Our Secretary of State and Dominion needs access for vote manipulation.
Proof: Dominion is used in 62 of Colorado’s 64 counties. Tina Peters, a duly elected Election Clerk in Mesa County until removed by Colorado’s Secretary of State, did a complete system backup of the EMS (Election Management System) before and after Colorado’s Secretary of State’s “Trusted Build” and discovered accidently via three subject matter experts, with decades of professional experience, of a second database being created and not all votes transferred to the second database. Tina also accidently discovered the SOS’s “Trusted Build” erasing this criminality activity and other election records required by Colorado Statutory Law to be saved for 25 months.
Why is Colorado using Dominion? Answer 2: This fraud has been hidden from the public by a deceived, censoring and lying media for political purposes.
Fraud Evidence:
1) Go to TinaPeters.us, click on Reports/Filings tab and see the three Forensic Reports.
2) Then Colorado got caught prompting non-citizens to register to vote. See link: “Colorado Caught Trying to Register Illegals to Vote” in the Colorado box under the States tab at CensoredEvidence.org.
3) In volunteering with publicly available voter registration data in April 2021, I’ve found phantom voters. A few examples are:
A) In my first hour, I was at a very small apartment complex in Colorado Springs. Surprisingly, five units did not exist. I can imagine one or two tenants forgetting what unit they were in, but would five forget and record the wrong unit? Are these real voters?
B) My relatively new neighborhood still has most of the original homeowners. Referencing the 2020 Voter Registration listing and asking my neighbor if a particular “registered” lady lived at his house, he immediately said, “No, she has never lived here!”
C) Then I met a receptionist at a local business who said her mother lived most of her life in Oklahoma, didn’t know if she ever lived in Colorado, and died over twenty years ago. Somehow, she still got her mother’s ballot for the November 2020 election.
The free documentary “Let My People Go” at CensoredEvidence.org shows how phantom votes are manipulating elections. Citizens must demand that electronic voting machines and mailed ballots, except to deployed military and the disabled, be removed from Colorado. Our sheriffs should be prompted to remove voting machines and bipartisan citizens employed to count.
Who the hell wants to listen to a conversation between spicer about trump, both treasonous traitors to our country?
Wonderful plan. Can't wait!!
That seems good I think 👍
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Sounds like an EXCELLENT plan to me❣️Thanks for thinking of it!!!
Nice added feature. But, please increase the visual contrast of the text when in dark mode. Dark gray on black is barely readable. (Same for post subtitles.)
here you go, love this new feature - https://adeadcatbounce.substack.com/p/the-road-to-rome-807
Thank you . I have something for you if you are interested by Sabrina Wallace. Wireless sensor networks.
https://rumble.com/v5b40u3-body-area-network-biosurveillance.html
Free speech must be encouraged and AI creates fake human speech! Just like when we read a newspaper headline from a site that is consistently publishing things we know are false, we must always remember that we alone choose what to believe.
And if we open our minds to learning more about the person that is saying it, we can then decide what we accept as true or "fake".
When you see hypocrisy, you can only try to help point it out.
Grandma said, "you can lead a horse to water, but you can no be making it drink".
Can you imagine how dull and boring the world would be without everyone's truth?
I recently heard the smartest man around use the Jan 6th event as the reason why not to vote for Trump. I wonder if he knew all the conspiracy theories that have merit now, if I could change a smart man's mind? I always will forgive when a pro tennis player hits a bad shot! That one error did not make the pro into a bad person that should never play again! How do I judge a fruit tree? By the fruit it produces.
Yeah, I was a little disappointed at both the lean of the featured articles and the use of already established names. Little states like mine elect people, too.
There are so many great nature writers and photographers here on Substack. Where is the link for them? A Nature tab would do. Meantime, we have had to create our own directory. Here's a link:
https://open.substack.com/pub/ourhome/p/substack-directory-of-directories-d05?r=2l04ge&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I’m disappointed that these tabs show automatically. How can they be turned off?
Can I unsubscribe from these Sustack emails without jeapardizing my HCR letters subscription?
What a great idea! And agree, we need something like this for things happening beyond the U.S.
Excellent plan
So it leans right...?
Ok
Thank you for providing important information.
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Nice post
Thank you for this.. but I sure wish you could give an option for the old canned voice for listening. The new one intones so inappropriately...and affect can impact interpretation
With the Bulwark being featured, does that mean Charlie Sykes will finally acknowledge his role in getting US politics to the state it’s in today? He can stay on his reputation rehab tour forever; the blood’s not coming off of his hands.
The upcoming election is pointless if either of the corrupt duopoly candidates are elected because nothing will change. On the other hand if Jill Stein with her running mate Butch Ware are elected, a tidal change will occur. The Green Party will transform politics as we know it, and that is why the Dumbcrats are fighting so hard to keep them off ballots. Cornel West is also a great candidate; however, he will be on the ballet in such few states that he has no chance of winning. The Greens are on the ballot in enough states to win.
Don't choose the lesser of two evils, because you are still getting evil. Vote for Jill Stein, the only candidate opposed to the genocide taking place in Gaza!
Sounds good, but I can't figure out how we get access to it or where it is. Does it have a name? A place?
I' ts the first time i'm writhing
Nate Silver and weak, stat quasi-science linear models in a non-linear complex world? No Thanks! He's always wrong! Give me a break!
Hi everyone I have covered the US election at Across The Pond (acrossthepond.substack.com) since January - check us out.
https://www.thebreakdownpoint.com/p/the-breakdown-points-2024-election
Hi everyone, I just made a substack to host my election forecast. Nate Silver’s model was featured on this tab, hopefully one day mine will be too!
Ralph Nader for President!
Is he still alive?
Ninety years young and still an independent thinker beholden to no one.
Where do I sign up?
Where can l get it
We are that "up-and-coming" voice, with the only cosmic overview and the best writing on the internet. We belong. We are the absolute antithesis, if not the antidote and we are: https://substack.com/@cosmicericchuy2024. Read us to understand what's important and thus know what to do.
While we still need to move away from vote-by-mail and reintroduce exit polls, here are some other ideas to fix Post-COVID elections: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2871588/post-covid-elections-need-a-closer-look-and-an-overhaul/
Good. This may be the only place where you can get news uncensored by either party.
What a fantastic idea. Would also love to hear from up and comers who might not have the history some of the already mentioned folks have. Important to promote new voices to keep ideas fresh.