FD - Leaving the Fascist Convention Center

This has been a long time coming, but after Nazipalooza at MSG over the weekend, hard choices have been made. I’ll be migrating this blog off of Substack to beehiiv, and refraining from posting until the migration is complete. The price will also come down a few bucks, with current subscribers getting ~3 months free and a surprise in thanks.

A handful of people in my network refused to read this newsletter after Substack’s substantive support of alt-lite, alt-right, and faux free speech writers came to light. To be perfectly honest, they were and are right. Over the last eight months, I’ve felt the Tell-Tale Heart beating under my floorboards every time I drafted a blog post, or pounded out an Afternoon Tea. Material fear of being “canceled for supporting Nazis” has kept me from finishing a dozen posts, and that’s not fair to anyone in this equation. Free/casual readers deserve unvarnished output, and paid subscribers deserve what they’re paying for.

Substack has feigned concern about this but they continue to profess neutrality while making editorial decisions by cutting checks to creators of a very specific ilk. This always seemed abstract to me until someone I knew in the heyday of Facebook group shitposting, got interviewed by Tucker Carlson and denied the Holocaust. A piece then amplified by DJT himself.

This person radicalized during the Trump election, took their previously well-sourced and bi-partisan history podcast, and played the neo-Nazi hits. It blew up in such a way that his Substack is clearing six figures a month, and…he got to talk to Tucker Carlson. All it cost was denying everything he’d spent his life studying, on air, to millions of people.

With Bezos and other billionaires pretending neutrality tricks people into not seeing their fear, I can do at least this. The transition should be smooth, and I hope you can forgive me for it taking this long.

Screw those dipshits, to quote Walz.

Please Stand-By,tn