First, what's gone?
Both of these are not for "ideological" reasons but rather, lack of activity ones.
Old friend Shem hasn't blogged in nearly 10 months, so Driven to Abstraction goes to my links list but off my blogroll. (He'd only blogged once in more than six months before that.)
Ken White, aka Popehat, gets his Substack dropped. He only wrote there for two months after abandoning his old website. And, he'd only blogged THERE three-four times in the last year before dropping it.
Added?
Becoming is Superior to Being. A "nice" site, Tumblr-like, but most the Sonoran Desert and other Aridzona pix aren't that good, and the poetry is five times worse than Counterpunch's poet laureate. Plus, he posts 3-4 times a day with stuff that's not that good. Don't be surprised, Kenne, if you're gone again in three more months.
The Daily Poster, the latest news-and-opinion site affiliated with David Sirota or vice versa. That said, while it doesn't have a Substack-based URL ... its front page, including with the "no, let me read it first" clickable link, looks EXACTLY like a Substack blog front page. In that case, Sirota is another of the media 1 percenters enhancing his wallet, with others along for the ride. And, if you click through the "About" page, at the bottom, you find out it IS a Substack site. So, it too may be gone in three months, also since I don't think Sirota is necessarily all he cracks himself up to be, starting with the fact he's never dipped a toe outside the duopoly.
Also added: Capital and Main, which had been Sirota's roost before Daily Poster. It has enough interesting stuff on its own, it's likely to stay.
On watch?
Independent Political Report, even though I've got posting privileges now. William Saturn posting racism and walking, talking and quacking like a racist himself is pushing the limit. (Saturn took a deep dive on the Trump Train on posts and comments there that last month or so before the election, and so, per Bayesian ethics, I'm less and less inclined to be charitable toward him with each new action or statement.) If nothing else, I'll hang until the GP votes on Georgia deaccreditation. (I'm expecting it to happen, but want to wait for the official vote and blog about it there.)
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