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Via Jennifer Griffin on , via Acyn:

Griffin: Secretary has decided to immediately pull General Milley's security detail. Hegseth also ordered the new acting inspector general to conduct a review board to potentially strip General Milley of a star in retirement.. All highly unusual actions.

@GottaLaff Your link to the the Michael Waldman piece also made me a little ill, because yet another worthy organization is lazily using Substack and thereby supporting Trumpists (undoubtedly without realizing it).

@dangillmor Yes, I read several there, knowing about what you brought up. Joyce Vance is one of them, and I don't want to give her posts up, among others'.

I quit all Meta, but sadly, to read even my own radio host's posts, I have to go to Substack.

@20002ist

@GottaLaff @dangillmor @20002ist I'm constantly curious, given what we know and what we continually find out to our disappointment about these outlets, that there doesn't seem to be any interest in someone starting one up that doesn't play into those hands.

@GottaLaff I still read several from there, via RSS feeds. But I won't point to them except in extraordinary cases, or have an account there. And people I'd gladly support financially if they were anywhere else will never get a dime from me.

It's disheartening to see people I otherwise respect make such an amoral choice. @20002ist

@GottaLaff Which radio host that, I’m curious?

@jsit Nicole Sandler. I was a regular for over a decade, am going back as a guest next week.

She just opened an account there.

@GottaLaff @dangillmor @20002ist

Hopefully we can continue to encourage these important voices to consider Ghost. This is a long game and Substack will do something sooner or later to marginalized them. When that inevitably happens, they need to know that a good public open system alternative exists and that they can be up and running quickly and smoothly.

Good to have ready references like Molly White's (@molly0xfff)

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Also Ghost is soon going to be federated. 👀

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More from Molly White

@mastodonmigration I use Ghost (with Outpost) for mine. I'm paying hosting costs and consider it worth the price to support an ethical open-source nonprofit as opposed to a centralized, Trumpist-backed, okay-with-extremism platform that (for now) is "free" -- @GottaLaff @20002ist @molly0xfff

@mastodonmigration @GottaLaff @dangillmor @20002ist @molly0xfff why can't all the journalists that left in protest join together and create one news publication... and not have it on substack.

@jodmentum @GottaLaff @dangillmor @20002ist @molly0xfff

They could all call each other up and decide with great fanfare to go to Ghost, and it would actually be great for enhancing their subscriberships.

@davetroy whose excellent America 2.0 News (america2.news/) is on Ghost has said he is available to help.

All that is missing is the collective will. And if these dissenting voices don't start working together they are going to be a long time in the wilderness.

America 2.0America 2.0Democracy's making a comeback. We're here to help.

@dangillmor
> using Substack and thereby supporting Trumpists (undoubtedly without realizing it).

I did not realize that. (Altho I don't use Substack myself, I do read people who post on Substack.)

@GottaLaff