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11 Apr, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Anybody who's been fuming about substack should be embarrassed after they absorb this uncontroversial point from @benyt. It's just an email service provider that links to a payment processor. nytimes.com/2021/04/11/bus…
Actually, you don't have to be embarrassed, I'm embarrassed for you, so I've saved you the trouble.
Hey, subscribe to my substack.

Or don't! See how easy that was? badnews.substack.com
People know what an advance is right? Advance on future revenue. Yall know that right? If you don't meet your advance you're done.
Anyway, as somebody who's been on substack since 2017 and been writing a newsletter since 2014, I encourage everybody to not do a newsletter on substack. Definitely do not do that. No room there.
Impressively self aware from Ben here. I'd subscribe to his free version but no chance I'd do the premium. Y'all would screenshot and share his best bits anyway.
It is not actually easy to email many people for free. It is in fact quite costly. That's bizarre, I know, but it's true, ask anybody who does email marketing or distribution. It's really expensive.

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11 Apr
There's a lot of competition, but my favorite Boehner story ever hasn't been told, I don't think, and I highly doubt he includes it in his memoir. So here goes:
As House Speaker, he had access to a car and driver. So after he resigned under pressure from the Freedom Caucus, he reached out to a former colleague and asked him how he got around the city without a driver. His friend, also old and not tech savvy, told him Uber...
Boehner couldn't figure out how to download it and set up his account, so his old man friend helped him.

A few weeks later, he asked Boehner how he was liking Uber. Boehner told him it was great, but found it weird that the driver would randomly pick up other passengers...
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9 Apr
A spokesperson for @AOC says they did not report this post to police, and have asked for answers from Capitol Police: "No, not at all. But when we saw his tweets last night about being visited we asked Capitol Police to look into what happened here."
Will update when I know more from Twitter and the Capitol Police
That police did show up at this person's door over a post about AOC is confirmed. The open question is who sent them and why. If AOC was actually responsible for it and denied it, Capitol Police would eagerly out her, so her denial has serious credibility.
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8 Apr
Huge scoop here: Amazon pressured the USPS to install a private mailbox at its facility so they could pressure workers to bring their ballots to work, enabling them to monitor for no votes. This election is tainted and these executives should be investigated
If you have inside info on this you know what to do
In case that wasn’t clear
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8 Apr
In the early ‘50s, the CIA printed fake leaflets pretending to be from Communist Hukbo rebels, who were waging an armed struggled but also had massive popular support and were poised to sweep elections. The leaflets urged all supporters to boycott the elections. It worked /1
Senior leaders thought they were real and zealously embraced the idea that the elections were a colonizer trap, etc. Losing the election was a huge moment and helped break the back of the insurgency. If you guessed at the time the CIA did it you’d have been right.
This was in the Philippines btw
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7 Apr
Need some good ol' fashion canal digging in the package
No but seriously in the late 1700s/early 1800s there was insane canal fever and (most of) the founders were all for using federal government resources to build lots of them, because they rightly assumed that was the role of government, guiding economic development
The canal fever got so insane people tried to dig one ACROSS VERMONT.

Which is nothing but mountains! They tried very seriously.
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31 Mar
When you’ve made it your personal mission to attack somebody no matter what, this is the insanity you end up with if there’s nothing there to attack. This is why my mentions have gone from normal-bad to extra-bad lately:
Also @jimmy_dore it’s not a “column” it was a scoop. You know about this because I broke it.
At least this time it’s about an article. He does entire super long segments about tweets of mine.
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