Thread by @SethAbramson

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1/ PROOF has grown so exponentially over its first 8 months that it now has 200+ articles and 13(!) sections:

🟥 January 6
🟧 Politics
🟨 Media
🟩 Games
🟦 Music
🟪 Culture
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⬛️ Marginalia
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🟩 Extras

*You* decide which to get emails from!

2/ If ever—even a single time!—you receive even *one* email from PROOF on a subject you’re not interested in, a quick click in your account settings fixes that forever. People are subscribed to PROOF for many different reasons—which is great! You get to customize your experience.

3/ During the frenetic "buildout" phase of PROOF as a media outlet, there'll be periods when one section or another is being particularly augmented to create the largest possible archive of data, info, video, commentary and reporting. Music and Games experienced that this summer.

4/ The summer is a particularly good time to build out PROOF sections in addition to "January 6" and "Politics," because Congress is in recess for much of the season and comparatively little is happening in Washington.

But as we all know, that's about to change—and in a big way.

5/ If you click the link atop this thread, you can visit each of the 13 sections of PROOF to get a reasonably good sense of the sort of content that appears in each. You can use that information to decide—in "account settings"—which sections of PROOF you want to get emails from.

6/ I wish I could respond to every email I get asking why a subscriber got an email on music, video games, the law and so on, but there are just too many subscribers for me to do this (the total email list is approaching 45,000). So I'm hopeful this public notice will be helpful.

7/ The more PROOF becomes a bustling, tens-of-thousands-strong community of folks with varied interests/passions, the more interesting a place it becomes to hang out, learn things, and enter into discussions. I hope people see that that's why the publication is growing as it is.

8/ I’m usually working on 5 PROOF articles at a time—articles from (on average) 3 different PROOF sections. So if you think you know what's coming, you might be surprised—in a good way. Some sections yet to be built out much will be growing, while more sections may even be added.

9/ But the core of the publication will always remain my ongoing investigation of January 6th, 2021—and the continued domestic-terror danger posed by Trump and Trumpism. You can be certain that that will always be the backbone of PROOF, as that reporting is especially urgent now.

10/ But remember that no matter how many sections of PROOF you currently subscribe to, you *always* have access to the *full* website. So you can periodically review it to see which sections you want to add/remove (or just browse online!).

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