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Showing posts with label Substack. Show all posts

September 24, 2026

And more Substack blocks — vile Islamophobia and antisemitism

Gary Bolyer, a fundagelical who includes Islamophobia as part of his fundagelicalism.

Boatsailor566, an all-around creeptard. 

Nurit Steinfeld, an Israeli Zionist exceptionalist. 

Shirli Ganske — low-level Zionist, big level Trump Delusional Syndrome parader. 

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Jordan Nuttall. Antisemitic not anti-Zionist with multiple "Rothschild" pieces. General conspiracy theorist about "great families," and adenochrome and other nuttery.

Books Behind Borders. Holocaust denialist. Damn, I need to remember to pull the trigger quicker; she blocked me first, and Substack blocking is non-reciprocal, another teh suck. I did report her before quote-stacking her.

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Ronin: Supports BBB's Holocaust denialism, and is a 9/11 falser. 

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July 08, 2026

TIme for another round of Substack blocks

This follows on my previous one, published in April.

We start with likely racialist if not actual racist, and Zionist fellow traveler, Stetson. He reads both racist Richard Hanania AND a second Substack where Hanania coauthors, and Zionist genocidalist Bari Weiss, along with Jesse Singal of the Harper's letter bullshit. Oh, and Sully, Andrew Sullivan the rac(ial)ist. He also follows at least one COVID contrarian, plus Freddie De Boer and others. Oh, and yes, Hanania is still a rac(ial)ist. Jamelle Bouie has the goods.

Racist, genocidalist, homophobe and more (language like "sandfaggots") Chet S. 

No More Lies? Rothschild comments, especially with claims the US went bankrupt in 1871 and was refounded as a corporation with Rothschild help? We've gone from anti-Zionism to antisemitism, and into conspiracy theory. Also a COVID denialist. And a climate change denialist. Also, his URL is "No More Lies 1"; gack, is there another? Also also, he has a Jeebus picture as his icon.

Silvia Rousseva? Saw No More Lies as a climate change denial restack by Silvia. Even more of a COVID denialist; follows naturalist fallacian Mike Adams, among others. Calls Charles III "lizard king" and quite possible means it in the Icke sense. Also a Bulgarian nationalist, I guess, who says that Bulgaria joined NATO "under Foreign Minister Solomon Passy (no, this is not a Bulgarian name, in case you’re wondering)." I guess a Rumanian name like Silvia Rousseva, if real, also isn't a Bulgarian name. (It is interesting that Adams seems to loathe MAGAts. Does he loathe MAHAts too?) For right now, he's just muted.

Among those he follows? Don Jeffries. He's a Trump assassination conspiracy theorist, a "ZOG" person, and via his self-published level books on Goodreads, a JFK assassination conspiracy theorist and a COVID conspiracy theorist. (He's blocked there, too.) He's also a flat racist, per this piece. AND also, GACK, a "crisis actor" conspiracy theorist, per this piece.

Another followed? Vigilant Fox. COVID conspiracy theorist, presumably an antivaxxer if they're "MAHA" as well as MAGA. Claims to have been a "healthcare worker" during COVID, which as we anti-COVID conspiracy theorists know, can mean about anything. Even if you're "licensed."

"Dr." Wojak. Quotes are deliberate scare quotes. COVID denialist and even a "hoaxer." Ebola denialist. Tick conspiracy theory promoter. (Don't even bother asking if you haven't heard.) Measles epidemic denialist. 

These above all came directly (Rousseva) or indirectly via this piece at The Dissident. Dood remains good on rounding up stuff tangentially or directly related to Israel, and personally has not crossed THAT line, but he sure attracts a lot of people who do. 

The Truth About Cancer? Rod Dreher-level religious nuttery, combined with pseudomedicine, including touting ivermectin (natch) for cancer. And contrails! And false claims about glyphotate. (Via Mike Adams of course.)

Scott Carney for promoting things like Trump assassination conspiracy theories. And, although she didn't write this one, Nina Burleigh is part of the listed team at that Substack. Also, no dood, Trump is not in any literal sense the (nonexistent) antichrist. Nor did he steal the 2024 election through a device of inventing fake counties. Yes, Carney, you admitted you got p'wned. You didn't admit you're a sucker enough to get p'wned.

Another Dissident post, about Zelensky's state funeral for Nazi and former OUN leader Andriy Melnyk, has led to more blocks.

Via Zionist "Pickles" in his feed I hit Zionist  "JTexaynes," full of Zionist drivel. Pickles comes off as a less-than-fully-odious conservative Zionist.

Binky LaRue: Antisemitic, not anti-Zionist, if he's talking about how ALL the Jews in Israel aren't semites (on a modified version of the Khazar hypothesis, still, most Ashkenazi have some semitic ancestry, and certainly Mizrahi, Sephardi, etc., and also talking about what Henry Ford said about the "Protocols." Later claims the Protocols are true.  Also a conspiracy theorist, claiming Patton was killed by "them" (natch) because he claimed we were fighting the wrong war. Has other "them" notes.

Off him, Tariq Acknickulous, who's antisemitic, anti-anti-Zionist with strawmanning to boot, clueless about why many people join the US military and sounds like "privilege" himself, and more. 

Also off Binky? SRK.

Off SRK? The Dutchess, with a "truth about Hitler" post. And "Freedom Fighter." Avowed National Socialist. Fraktur / Gothic font. "1488" part of name.  Actually reported that one, too. Hertz with funky letters. Another Nazi.

Off the second of two Dissident posts about Larry Johnson claiming Iran already has one or more nukes, pseudo-leftist Tedder 130. Muted first. Now blocked. Between bitching that he hasn't informed himself better in comment to a comment by me (why bitch? get started!) to reading non-leftists like Taibbi, Tracey, and the antisemitic-flirting John Helmer, that's not anti-imperialist in a principled sense, it's a grab bag of shit.

Pickles? Small-grade generic Zionist liar. But, more and more time on social media makes me quicker to pull the block trigger. 

Someone followed by a commenter there, Dude? White Rabbit. Also Nazi with the Gothic font. Runs not just one but two shithole Nazi sites. And, Zyklon Bee (duh) whose home page of activity says "Jews, Jews, Jews." Off that person, blocked NatSocToday and Aryan Revolutionary (who looks awfully dark to be one), Right Winger Austin (also has "1492" in name) for general racism and virulent sexism, off him, the regularly restacked Ben L (with the @ of "peniszone"), off Ben L the guy named Randall Flagg (@ of "reinesblut") off HIM the Pragmatic Prognosticator (who is anything but).  Blocked again directly off Dood? Debarelli, antisemitic, chemtrails. Off her, SiriusRex (antisemitic, Masonic coonspiracy theories and what I'll call volkish ideas about biology) and Die Welt gehört uns (complete with Nazi logo and slogan), Phantom Pain (one of several people with the fake quote from JFK 1939 about Jews in Israel blowing up their own telephone lines as a false flag, and talking about "Rothschilds").

Off Dude, in a different direction? Meryl Nass is a COVID conspiracy theorist, climate change conspiracy theorist and more, connected with Dr. Malone, too, on her website, even nuttier than her Substack. She got her medical license suspended in Maine and has since then engaged in false representation. Of course, I blocked Dude himself.

Rolf Kvalik? JFK assassination conspiracy theorist, of the new Israel did it breed. An 8-part series, 6 of them paywalled, claiming the "new" 2025 document dump was a smoking gun. He goes further and laughably claims someone "most Americans have never heard of," Meyer Lansky, was the fixer in all th is, which of course brings in the Mob.

Never Trust a Wizard. 9/11 truther and COVID denialist. I had subscribed to him without realizing all that. 

David Carroll? Zionist trying to reverse troll. 

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On something else? I'll block Kevin Levin as soon as I can block him after his immediate block or autoblock of me for having the temerity to mention Lincoln and colonization on his Civil War History site. (The subject is never discussed by him.)

June 05, 2026

Boy did I find the nutter on Substack

Samuel Abraham? Muted and will be blocked. A true nutter, this is what he had to say in response to my comment on The Dissident's piece about Tulsi Gabbard when I said Hindutva-fascism WAS the one constant bright line, per my old piece here.

Anyway, here he is 

Tulsi was actually a serving CIA psyop officer all the time on the radicalise Hinduism project run by CIA. The CIA Rockefeller Foundation and Ford Foundation created the cult led by a Bengali Shudra with a double ended radicalise and debauch both the west and India aim. These Bengali Shudras ran the humungous Tantrik death destruction debauch drugs cult that ritually sacrificed 2 million human beings while the British were watching and then the same British put them down only to weaponise the Shudra Tantrik gurus as world teachers or Vishwagurus (which is a meme in India now) worldwide to bring Blavatsky Besant and Baileys end of the world total inversion of good and bad and morality and ethics with mass slavery age or NWO. The CIA using the ISI created and funded the University of Jihad in Pakistan to punish the Pashtun tribes for being the rare Indic people unbending to foreign rule like the Punjabis. When you see these malaria fever radicalism in Pakistan and Afghanistan among the Pashtuns it was created using Islamic textbooks financed by the CIA and authored by a white American professor at the University of Nebraska - not a Muslim. These CIA psyop officers are in the business of death destruction and mass deception.

Can't even try to argue with that. 

Related? This note:

The Hindu fundamentalist RSS and Muslim fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood were created by the same super witch crooked genius - Helena Blavatsky who literally had roaring adulterous wild sex with the founders of both the Muslim Brotherhood and the progenitor of the Hindu fascist RSS. Haha! -śome wild ass's orgasm they had! 
The world is a small place - at least everything including Nazism and Fascism started inside the venomous viper pits between the legs of Helena Blavatsky and her ideological sister Annie Besant. Lucifer does Lucifers things. Nobody fucks the devil for fun!

Wowza. 

But, he's not just calling out Theosophy. 

There's esoteric Nazi conspiracy theories, in another note of his: 

Hitler did not write most of his speeches or a word of the Mein Kampf - they were written by the Jesuit "priest" Stempfle. Neither did Marx write a word of the Communist Manifesto - it was written by a committee under the Jesuit "priest" Jan Paul Beckx. Why two mutually exclusive ideologies by the same papal order? The same reason why there is a left and a right in any "democracy" (but not meritocracy). The thesis antithesis = synthesis Pharaonic system of civilisation management called Hermetic Kabbala simply got too murderous and genocidal.

And, he follows Paul Thacker and other nutters, like a guy claiming an assassination conspiracy theory about John Lennon. 

I just had to separate this from my normal new list of Substack blocks. 

May 08, 2026

Time to list a second round of Substack blocks

This is an update to a piece from last November, about many of my early blocks .

And was sparked by a February piece by The Dissident about the Washington Post claiming antisemitism is behind many Epstein files comments.

One guy posted this Josh Who nutter. I'm not sure if he's antisemitic as well as anti-Zionist, but Josh dude is a generally unhinged wingnut and conspiracy theorist, as his Shitter showed. (He's blocked there, too.) I didn't block the poster. 

One guy posted the already blocked Paolo Kirk. Looking at his feed, Paul Haeder reposts him WAY too much; other things he says has him approaching antisemitism, at least, even if not going as fully over the line as Kirk. That said, when I checked his reads and saw David Irving? That was it. (He also follows the laughable — and conspiracy theorizing — Rainer Shea, the tankie from The People's Republic of Humboldt County.) Ars longior, vita brevis, and bye.

Bill Shannon, spotted on a Dissident piece a few days later. Reads both Hanania and Rufo. And Sailer. Foams at the mouth over "Bolsheviks" and is also a possible COVID minimalist. Bye. 

Paul, a general nut. I would accept his libertarian reads, but Milkshake Andy Ngo and others? Pass.

Lynn2C, wingnut enough to call the ConservaDem who beat Joe Kent a "Leftist." 

Celina101, a Gen Z "commenter on culture" who doesn't publicly disclose being an "alt-white Gen Z commenter." 

Fi666, who liked a comment of mine on The Dissident? Antisemitic, not just anti-Zionist, and some sort of cultural Christianist/decline of the West type. I was suspicious with the "666." Reposting shit like "Vaclav Havel is owned by Big Jews" is a giveaway. They're British anti-immigrant alt-White types.

They're actually neo-Nazi with this:

Jews need to be burned alive. None of this Zyklon B tickbath disinfectant lie. Proper extermination this time. Otherwise we're all fucked.

And this:

I'm glad there's no censorship on here. Except several stacks I follow/ subscribe to were coming up with only a restricted message for a while and won't even load now. So far I've noticed NatSocToday, White Rabbit, and most recently Ava Wolfe. I see a theme here

Shit. Gee, what is "NatSocToday"?

The person posting the Vaclav Havel bullshit? Gemma O'Doherty. Irish traditionalist Catholic, probably of Opus Dei type if not further right. Talks about "Holohoax" so antisemitic. And, yes, Tim O'Neill, that's still in many conservative Catholics' roots. On their personal website and an alleged newspaper, talk about the "Great Reset." 

SF Bay Area Local is a generic Trumptard, but also a MAHA, a generic antivaxxer and other such things. They're also Zionist and Islamophobe. Reposts many name Zionists.

A lesser-name Zionist, but also hard-right, if not full Trumptard? Roy Ben-Tzvi. 

Richard Jaffee? Garden-variety Zionist liar. 

John B? General fucking "anti-woke" idiot. Drinks MAGAts Kool-Aid,

CG? Generic antivaxxer and generic genocidalist wingnut. 

Now, that all said? Substack's blocking system ain't that good.

One person claimed that the person blocked can still see you. Taint so, looking at people who have blocked me.

That said, the biggest problem is, contra both Shitter and Fuckbook, it's one-way. If someone has blocked me, I can't block them back. 

November 24, 2025

People I've blocked on Substack and why

I haven't done this on Shitter, since it's its own universe, and never really had to do it here on Blogger, and you can't really, anyway (though I can and do moderate comments and not just for spam) but, since this and Substack overlap for me in some way, I decided to start developing a curated list of people I've blogged on Substack.

I've missed a number of early ones; I could go through my list over there, but I'd have to unblock them to figure out WHY I blocked them in the first place.

With a list started from scratch, I can do that at the time.

Allen: Both a Uki-tankie and an Israeli genocide denier, who claims every Gazan action of recent years has happened without provocation, and that, on the other issue, Russia has been committing at least cultural genocide against Ukraine for 200 years, along with accepting Ukrainian hasbara (sic) on other things.

Paolo Kirk: Pre-emptive block for someone who is antisemitic, not just anti-zionist, and who also needs about eight rabies shots, all administered at once. 

ML: Zionist, antivaxxer pseudoscience, wingnut culture warriors all in their reads. Plus, anybody who has 200 Substacks in their "reads" is virtue signaling. 

Michael Lynch: Antivaxxer, climate science denialist, probably alt-whiter combined with Christian nationalism, cutter of blank checks to Putin because of that.

Amuse: Restacked by Lynch, and a general nutter I'd already blocked on Shitter. 

Clinton Tankersley: A diehard, lying Zionist, complete with tropes in this piece guested at Ed Buckner's place, that the media is anti-Israel, that mass rapes actually happened

A number of those people get me to noting that once again, contra the lying pseudo-leftist Noah Berlatsky, horseshoe theory is real. 

The Haeft? A goy Zionist (and Christian nationalist Reform UK supporting Canadian pan-Anglosphere nutter).

Stacey Saadi? A wingnut in general, and a hasbaraist in particular. There IS NO SUCH THING as "an accidental Zionist." 

Penelope Bullis? Per my Substack note: Do I block someone who just followed me, because they’re a 9/11 truther, antivaxxer an alt-med/pseudo-med Mercola type beyond that, New Age quackery beyond that, and other types of nutter? Probably, though maybe not immediately. Oops, you follow Curtis Yarvin, aka Mencius Moldbug as well. And, at least one anti-semitic, not anti-Zionist account.

Eric Tollefson. Libs of TikTok is also on Substack? Oh shit? You follow them? Bye! 

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Not blocked, but unsubbed again? 

First, from Sy Hersh. He was becoming more and more "Captain Obvious" (in cases where he wasn't wrong) and putting up the paywall bar after one paragraph of Captain Obvious comment. Then, some non-leftist thought he'd harsh my mallow when I posted a Substack note to that end. Since I started writing this, he's gotten worse. "Is Trump in Cognitive Decline," Oct. 7, paywalled. Or, Sept. 17, the first of a three-part series about explaining AI, with the fun of Hersh talking about "the cloud" and the Captain Obvious of the person who's interviewed in all three parts talking about AI's electricity use. No shit. 

Second, the Column Blog by Adam Johnson. I largely agree with what he says, but he doesn't write that that often, and he doesn't have much unique stuff. Plus, for reasons unknown, maybe that I called him a pseudoleftist, a non-skeptical leftist or whatever, he's blocked me on Shitter. 

Third, Palestine is Still the Issue, for "platforming" Jim DeBrosse's nutbar conspiracy theory within the already nutbar world of JFK conspiracy theories, that Israel whacked Jack. (I'm still debating on unfollowing Tim Shorrock again, as a JFK conspiracy theorist himself.)

Fourth, Ed Buckner was originally here, but this got so long as to get a separate piece.

Fifth, and both on Substack and Shitter? Bye to Zei Squirrel. He is a Charlie Kirk conspiracy theorist, claiming, per this Shitter link in this Substack piece:

This one might get its own post. And eventually did.

 

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As you would expect, this will be regularly updated, and the first update is just three days after I posted.

Nutter William Pounds, because he is a nutter. 

Esteban Yehudeem, an ultra-Zionist mouthbreather. 

September 25, 2025

Dallas shooter Joshua Jahn and Klippenstein

As with the alleged Charlie Kirk shooter Tyler Robinson, discussed here, I wonder if friends of Joshua Jahn, the alleged ICE detainee shooter in Dallas, aren't using Ken Klippenstein, per his piece.

This has only been made more apparent given the FBI's searches in Oklahoma on Thursday, after Klippenstein wrote.

Here's his opener:

Three who knew him since at least middle school agreed to speak to me on the condition that I not name them, corroborating their friendship with photos and other records. Their accounts paint the picture of someone with a vaguely libertarian bent who despised both major parties and politicians generally (including Trump) but who didn’t engage with politics beyond that. He preferred edgy humor, video games and the message board 4chan, all of which he became increasingly steeped in as he withdrew from social life as well as their own friendships several years ago, they said.

Problem?

First, note the "several years ago." People change a fair amount, or change what they reveal a fair amount, in their 20s. 

Ken does admit that:

I wasn’t able to find anyone with insight into Jahn’s more recent views, something that his friends said was unsurprising given his withdrawal from social life over the past few years.

That said, I would have moved that caveat up earlier. 

This:

Another friend showed me a Facebook post describing how Jahn had flooded his friends’ comment sections with rape jokes — “playful shock humor,” the friend said.

Also reflects badly on his friends. That said, why isn't Ken quoting it? He boasts about transparency. He could put up a "trigger alert" or hide the actual messages behind spoilers. 

And this:

“He was never really into politics, especially not politicians,” said another friend, who had known Jahn since age 8. “He was into politics only in the 4chan sense — contrarian, provocative, boundary-pushing for laughs, not conviction.”

Undersells what 4Chan is all about. It also, along with being several years older, sets him off from Robinson, who, as far as we know, had no 4Chan presence.

Ken himself kind of "undersells" what it is:

4chan, the anonymous message board where provocation and meme warfare thrive, was apparently one of Jahn’s favorite haunts. His abrasive humor is where his friends’ opinions on him diverge the most, with some describing it as amusing but others as grating especially as his online persona bled into real life.

Try throwing the word "racism" in there. Now, we don't know what 4Chan "boards" he was on, like /pol, one of the definitely racist ones. 

Or else, per the loose screw shooters, an attempt to cash in on their Marshall McLuhan 15 minutes of fame. Even if they asked to talk to Ken anonymously, unlike Robinson's friends, I wouldn't discount that. 

As far as the bullet message, there was something nuttier yet on a car allegedly belonging to him, per Channel 4 in Dallas. So, that alone says the anti-ICE message wasn't a political message. Or does it? It could easy be read as an anti-nuke statement, nutty as it is.

That said, someone Ken didn't talk to told Channel 5 in Dallas that Jahn had been sympathetic toward immigrants, at least in the past. So, was he trying to hit ICE agents instead, then? In that case, maybe he was more politicized than Ken, and than his older friends, want to admit. The New York Post, quoting from Sharon Jahn's apparently now-deleted Facebook page, notes she called out Greg Abbott and John Cornyn as gun nuts.

OOPS: According to the FBI, Jahn intended this, per a handwritten note at his place in Durant, Oklahoma. 

Jahn allegedly left handwritten notes behind that read in part, "Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, ‘Is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?’"

Well, there you go. 

And, he supposedly used apps that track movements of ICE agents. And, he allegedly accused them of "human trafficking."

So, Ken, maybe Jahn was a bit more politicized than you think. 

Yes, theoretically, because a dead person cannot be legally libeled, FBI agents could be taking items out of context in Jahn's suicide note and other things, and then destroying them without letting his parents see them. That's highly unlikely, though; if nothing else, like with Seth Rich's family, you open yourself to a lawsuit for causing emotional duress, and sovereign immunity generally doesn't cover civil issues, and certainly not to the degree it extends to criminal law and government officials. 

This gets back to the "laundering" above. 

Per all of the above, he, even more than Robinson, especially given that he's several years older, fits the "target" of isolated and self-isolating gamer addict type. And, most likely, someone with other mental health issues.

Also, I get that Klippenstein is pushing back against the narratives of Der Grüppenfuehrer himself, as well as minions AG Pam Bondi, FBI head Kash Patel and Homeland Security dog-shooter Kristi Noem, but?

What if, even if short of a blaze, there's a few embers behind the smoke, which it certainly appears there are.

The big issue is the memelording, isolated and deliberately isolating White young man. (Maybe Black extreme gamers will come up with their version of Lee Boyd Malvo in the future.) IF Ken wants to run a narrative contra that of the MAGAts, this looks to be the better one. 

In any case, I don't think this will age that well for Ken. I don't think his Tyler Robinson piece will age that well either. 

To put it another way: This is like people saying, "We didn't know a child sexual abuser lived next door," or "We didn't know a serial killer lived next door." They either were talking about a time years before their crimes, or else they ignored signals that they could have known.

I also also know that Ken's been complaining about not enough of his subscribers being paid ones. I don't mean this as a diss, but I noted on Shitter about not leaving your day job, especially if Substack doesn't pay you a big old publisher's advance, like Glennwald and others got years ago. Otherwise, there's the option of paywalling at least some of your pieces to boost paid subscriber numbers.

Update, Sept. 30: Fortunately, Klipp has not seen fit to try to explain this last weekend's shooters.