Your reporting is invaluable to me in these unfortunate news reporting days. The sarcasm and humor are delightful bonuses. Please keep at it. Keep taking my money too.
I appreciate and need every word of your posts; the only way I could not continue my subscription would be by accident , because your enthusiasm and words are honest but encouraging. Please keep it up.
Count on me for another year when the time comes. As much as I like objective reporting and other ways to account for a variety of perspectives (like Noah Smith, mostly), I appreciate the snark, cuss-words, and sheer fun of TFN. Whether I completely disagree on a point or fully agree, it is more natural to laugh about point made instead of allowing what I read to get under my skin (disagree) or getting all worked up about the situation (agree).
I am 70 years old, currently trapped inside by below zero weather and a broken leg. I couldn’t be happier about my decision to spend discretionary income on Substack, where I support a whopping ten newsletters (two of them are you).
I don’t vacation, go to restaurants or buy new clothes (fashion does not exist in this weather). I stay home and I read. I read things in TFN that I don’t find anywhere else, and I love your profane style. BTW, if people had an actual Bible, they would know it says Judge Yourself. It says that over and over and over. What’s wrong? Can’t you read?
The best online writing is on Substack and you, darling TFN, are my fave. Keep it up, we’re with you.
This makes me so happy. Thank you, Trudy. And I wish you a quick recovery and a return to the outside world...! (At some point we'll have enough subscribers for TFN Meet-Ups!)
I’m a bit worried about my renewal - AND I DEFINITELY PLAN TO - because my cc# has changed and I don’t want to miss my chance to renew because the automatic function will get bounced. Please let me know how to make the change.
Thanks so much, Linda! I don't know of any way to pre-emptively change the cc info for your renewal, but Substack should give you a notice of when it's going to happen, and I'm guessing you can take care of it then. Also, I'm guessing if Substack tries to use your dead card number it'll tell you there was a problem and give you a chance then. And if NONE of those things happen and your paid subscription goes away...you won't miss anything, cuz TFN's posts are free ... and you can just upgrade to paid again (thank you!) -- there's no "penalty" for having a lapse in between. If you don't know the exact date yours expires, just ping me offline and I can look it up for you. Thank you!
Hey there, OG Newsfucker, I really enjoy your take on the news! The mainstream media is already failing us two days into our new Hellscape. Bless the beasts and the children. Damn!
I’ve dropped a lot of paid subs all way more famous than you—- the amount of research you do the amount of insight you layer on and do that consistently well day after day I don’t know why anyone would fire you, but I think you can do anything. You could easily run a media empire from prison, for example, we will all send you cigarettes.
I don’t know what paradigm shifting journalism looks like, but I sure as fuck would love to see it and would throw whatever money I could find in my couch covers at it and—
I’m all for you having a mission statement and such, but I also think that whatever you feel needs writing about is going to be a great story; please don’t overthink your Purpose too much and keep delighting us.
Wow, Paul...I mean Pull, what a lovely testimony. Thank you so much. For what it's worth, The Young Turks didn't let me go because I wasn't doing well, they decided to stop doing the thing I was doing.
Which, if TFN keeps growing, might just turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to me. AND DEMOCRACY!
You write in a way that explains what is going on with a wonderful thread of sarcasm. An your strike-outs give us the snark that soothes the wounds of MAGA. Don’t stop!!!
Your reporting is invaluable to me in these unfortunate news reporting days. The sarcasm and humor are delightful bonuses. Please keep at it. Keep taking my money too.
I subscribe because you provide a valuable service: well-researched news, with intelligent commentary.
And, you are an amazing writer. Thank you for what you do.
Thank you 🙏🏼
I appreciate and need every word of your posts; the only way I could not continue my subscription would be by accident , because your enthusiasm and words are honest but encouraging. Please keep it up.
Count on me for another year when the time comes. As much as I like objective reporting and other ways to account for a variety of perspectives (like Noah Smith, mostly), I appreciate the snark, cuss-words, and sheer fun of TFN. Whether I completely disagree on a point or fully agree, it is more natural to laugh about point made instead of allowing what I read to get under my skin (disagree) or getting all worked up about the situation (agree).
I am 70 years old, currently trapped inside by below zero weather and a broken leg. I couldn’t be happier about my decision to spend discretionary income on Substack, where I support a whopping ten newsletters (two of them are you).
I don’t vacation, go to restaurants or buy new clothes (fashion does not exist in this weather). I stay home and I read. I read things in TFN that I don’t find anywhere else, and I love your profane style. BTW, if people had an actual Bible, they would know it says Judge Yourself. It says that over and over and over. What’s wrong? Can’t you read?
The best online writing is on Substack and you, darling TFN, are my fave. Keep it up, we’re with you.
This makes me so happy. Thank you, Trudy. And I wish you a quick recovery and a return to the outside world...! (At some point we'll have enough subscribers for TFN Meet-Ups!)
I’m a bit worried about my renewal - AND I DEFINITELY PLAN TO - because my cc# has changed and I don’t want to miss my chance to renew because the automatic function will get bounced. Please let me know how to make the change.
Use this link to find instructions on how to change or update your cc info. Courtesy of Simon Rosenberg
https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/22455880369044-How-do-I-update-my-payment-information-on-Substack
Thanks so much, Linda! I don't know of any way to pre-emptively change the cc info for your renewal, but Substack should give you a notice of when it's going to happen, and I'm guessing you can take care of it then. Also, I'm guessing if Substack tries to use your dead card number it'll tell you there was a problem and give you a chance then. And if NONE of those things happen and your paid subscription goes away...you won't miss anything, cuz TFN's posts are free ... and you can just upgrade to paid again (thank you!) -- there's no "penalty" for having a lapse in between. If you don't know the exact date yours expires, just ping me offline and I can look it up for you. Thank you!
TY. Love your work, don’t want to miss anything.
I ❤️ getting my news fucked on a regular schedule.
[whispers] the substack bot sends an email reminder about a week (like six days) before any subscription renewal is charged.
To compensate for the recent loss of cartoons in NYT, I have a couple of beauties I'd be happy to share,. I just need an adress. Johannes Plesner
Hey there, OG Newsfucker, I really enjoy your take on the news! The mainstream media is already failing us two days into our new Hellscape. Bless the beasts and the children. Damn!
I’ve dropped a lot of paid subs all way more famous than you—- the amount of research you do the amount of insight you layer on and do that consistently well day after day I don’t know why anyone would fire you, but I think you can do anything. You could easily run a media empire from prison, for example, we will all send you cigarettes.
I don’t know what paradigm shifting journalism looks like, but I sure as fuck would love to see it and would throw whatever money I could find in my couch covers at it and—
I’m all for you having a mission statement and such, but I also think that whatever you feel needs writing about is going to be a great story; please don’t overthink your Purpose too much and keep delighting us.
Wow, Paul...I mean Pull, what a lovely testimony. Thank you so much. For what it's worth, The Young Turks didn't let me go because I wasn't doing well, they decided to stop doing the thing I was doing.
Which, if TFN keeps growing, might just turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to me. AND DEMOCRACY!
Wouldn't be without it. Thank you for going at it so hard and so well and so much.
You write in a way that explains what is going on with a wonderful thread of sarcasm. An your strike-outs give us the snark that soothes the wounds of MAGA. Don’t stop!!!
Very good writing! Are subsciptions to your author site and here separate?
Couldn't live without your daily news and snark! I'll be renewing my paid subscription for sure!!!
Thank you, Sharon!