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Seymour Hersh

It's worse than you think

Seymour Hersh is a legend in investigative journalism.

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About to Learn

A brain trying to make sense of brains.

The Pragmatic Mystic

By Addison Hodges Hart

The Substack page of Addison Hodges Hart. A page primarily concerned with the interior and ascetical life of the classical (and Orthodox) Christian Tradition.

Not for the faint of heart PM presents an interesting perspective on religion

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Sustainability by numbers

By Hannah Ritchie

Using data and research to understand what really makes a difference

Informed commentary from a sustainable economic perspective.

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Wise Words by Sages

By Vedicfeed

Subscribe to us to read the wise words spoken by God-realized Masters and Gurus. 🙏

Vedic sages asked questions that we're still thinking about.

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Big Serge Thought

Musings and Ponderings

Sharp informed analysis of current events

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VedicFuture’s Newsletter

By Vedic Future

Vedic Astrology in a scientific way. Your Soul's Doctor!

The future is here.

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The Chris Hedges Report

By Chris Hedges

Covering US foreign policy, economic realities, and civil liberties in American society.

Insightful and experienced. Chris Hedges has been right time and again on American politics.

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Civil War Memory

By Kevin M. Levin

Reflections on the History and Legacy of America's Bloodiest and Most Divisive Conflict

CWM brings to the fore the crucial historical context that is necessary to understand America today

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Swimming with Sharks

By Ade Olonoh

Climbing up to the highest stakes in tournament poker

The Pragmatic Engineer

By Gergely Orosz

Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Highly relevant for software engineers and managers, useful for those working in tech.

The Trebuchets are amazing.

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The Starfire Codes by Demi Pietchell

The Starfire Codes by Demi Pietchell explores spirituality, survival, metaphysics, media, and the truth. Join us at starfirecodes.com

The Microdose

An independent journalism newsletter supported by the U.C. Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics

The future of medical science may be here.

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Reactions

By Ross Douthat

A cultural notebook

Ross brings a spiritual perspective to the mainstream that we don't often see (or is not allowed?)

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Magic + Loss

By Virginia Heffernan

Politics for English majors.

American Ambition

By Marc Cenedella

“An informed patriotism is what we want. Are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world? She is a shining city upon a hill.” - Ronald Reagan ~Largest Substack on the Right~

is born in the U.S.A.

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Glenn Greenwald

Independent, unencumbered analysis and investigative reporting, captive to no dogma or faction.

Glenn has been an enduring voice for insightful commentary on power for over a decade.

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Everything Is Amazing

By Mike Sowden

A newsletter about asking better questions & a romp through science in search of a good "wow!" you can feel down to your boots.

The amazing universe around us can even be found in the mundane

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Zeba’s Newsletter

By Zeba Talkhani

Notes on books and writing

👽 Ellen Writes a Book

By Ellen Huet

Brief dispatches about writing something long

Crítica

By Israel Melendez Ayala

A critical space of political analysis, history and cultural anthropology. From Puerto Rico, with an eye toward the international.

Interesting commentary on the Carribean

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Astral Codex Ten

By Scott Alexander

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.

Where is AI automation taking us?

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Cheap Convexity

By Jon Turek

Global Macro

Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Tales from the history of innovation.

Every post is like a shot of history adrenaline

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Erik Torenberg

By a16z Podcast

Explorations and inquiries into my curiosities: culture, politics, tech, business, and human nature

Not for the faint of art.

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Why is this interesting?

By Noah & Colin

A daily newsletter for the intellectually omnivorous, from Noah Brier & Colin Nagy. Edited by Louis Cheslaw

Why isn't it interesting? is a better question

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The Pomp Letter

By Anthony Pompliano

Pomp's daily newsletter analyzing the business, finance, and technology industries. Join 260,000 subscribers by signing up below.

For sweeping insight on the latest developments in the globalized economy

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Racket News

By Matt Taibbi

News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn.

From his days as a Russian Exile writer to the vampire squid Rolling Stone, Matt has always brought an interesting point of view to the facts.

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