Substacks recommended by Roy Edroso Breaks It Down

Recommended by Roy Edroso Breaks It Down

The finest drive-up cuisine of drive-by politics and cultural comfort foods. Free range fare, vocally sourced. Prepared in a facility containing nuts.

Foreign Exchanges

By Derek Davison

Daily roundups of world news and thoughtful commentary on US foreign policy.

Give them 5 minutes, they'll give you the world.

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All Rise News

By Adam Klasfeld

Fearless journalism about the law, your rights and your powers to effect change in the Trump era.

Adam Klasfeld is a lucid court reporter AND an astute criminal justice analyst. And right now we need him badly.

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A Feminist Changes A Lightbulb

By Karen

No, dude it’s really not funny.

I know there are a lot of feminist Substacks out there but Karen has a great eye for small stupidities and revelations that other writers miss. Look!

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Yastreblyansky’s Substack

Trying to practice the Confucian injunction to rectify all the names. And some of the stories.

This guy's brilliant and practically nobody knows. Dazzle dweebs at parties by knowing his work!

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The Apricot Tree of Tangiers

By John McIntire

Tropical agriculture, farming systems, distance running, international orgs

This guy knows something about politics and governance and also talks about things like the World Bank that are undercovered.

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Translations Beyond the Horizon

By Grouchy Medievalist

Wherein, GM, dinosaur hunter, writes & plays upon her fascinations & provocations with medieval literature, languages, & cultures.

Grouchy Medievalist knows his shit and (crucial distinction) can make it comprehensible and interesting. Doesn't update enough, alas!

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Bruce’s Contradicciones Newsletter

By Bruce Miller

Politics, history

You don't know this smart guy but you should.

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Throughline by Jill Filipovic

Connecting the dots. Politics, culture, women’s rights, foreign affairs, law, and more.

Have you noticed or suspected new fronts opening in the war on women? Filipovic keeps you up to date on the troop movements.

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Mommadillo’s BBS and Breakfast

The hottest gossip about armadillos

Don't post often but fun when they do!

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The Janovsky Report

By PETER JANOVSKY

Perspectives of a lawyer and educator. on democracy, justice and culture. Dedicated to the memory of my spiritual ancestor, Dr. Israel Schaechter, (1876-1949)

Politics and New York stuff, breezy and pleasant.

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She's Gone Chilaquiles

By Anna Schott

essays, memoir, food analogies

She says things like "Somewhere a biographer refers to 'the vein of sadism that runs through Lawrence's writing,' as if it's a fact. The accusation is extreme and sensational enough to be attractive to me..." What's not to like?

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The Bittman Project

By Mark Bittman

Lots of food publications embrace the pleasurable and entertaining parts of food and ignore everything else; others focus on the serious issues and ignore the joy. The Bittman Project does both. (Plus, plenty of recipes.)

From the food labs of a great chef

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Wonkette

By Rebecca Schoenkopf

Wonkette is filthy, hilarious, liberal news. YOU CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH!

What can I even say.

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This Modern World

By Tom Tomorrow

Paid subscribers will get an early peek at each week's cartoon, along with my various musings and ramblings.

this week in new york: mad transit

By mark.rifkin

the insider's guide to the city since 2001

I just found out critic/arts editor Mark Rifkin has a Substack and what fun it is, too!

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DeLong's Grasping Reality: Economy in the 2000s & Before

By Brad DeLong

Both the millennia past and the new millennium. The economic world: working, making, apportioning, talking, & more. What I learn about it, largely through history, as I bet that humans are such the same that the future resonates if not reflects the past.

One of the best, always worth the effort (and it is effort, sometimes; one current topic is the "general human vine-and-fig-tree shortage" in the "post-agriculture post-metalworking pre-industrialization pre-globalization human economy." But you will learn!)

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Wonkette's THE SPLIT

By Rebecca Schoenkopf

Ellis Weiner and Steve Radlauer's serial novel follows the flight of fun, capable bartendrix Lorinda Moon from the CCSA toward freedom, the fewer-stated United States of America, and a post-one-night-stand abortion. Guns! Explosions! Pulp! THE SPLIT!

It's ELLIS WEINER dammit!

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Lach Stuff

By Lach (pronounced "Latch")

Welcome to the organic (no AI), unfettered words, cartoons, radio shows, podcasts, music, songs, and art by Lach. In other words, Lach stuff! Onwards!

Rickipedia

By Rick Perlstein

My world, in pixels.

The Real Sarah Miller

A newsletter for people who like the work of (the real) Sarah Miller.

Fun, nice style, give it a try.

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Worriedman’s Substack

I am a horticulturalist, a commercial greenhouse grower. I am surrounded by beautiful plants and flowers. I am also a horse owner who designs and builds horse-drawn vehicles. I lead a beautiful life and I like to share.

Manages a neat trick -- is appropriately cynical about politics, yet always pleasant to listen to rather than sour or bitter. Wish I could do it!

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The Tim "Napalm" Stegall Substack

By Tim Napalm Stegall

Unfettered punk journalism for human beings, not metrics.

Tim's been on the scene forever and knows everything about rock from sea to shining sea. Better still -- he has the first-rate critical intelligence to make that knowledge count. I always come away from his writing knowing and feeling more than when I came in. Like music? Tim will take you higher.

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Saratonin

By Sara Benincasa

A delightful weekly newsletter that is sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant & often full of useful recommendations & weirdly enchanting ideas

One of the few writers on here who is always a genuine pleasure to read.

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Unpopular Front

By John Ganz

the junk shop of history

Bad Crow Review

By Weldon Berger

the politics of desperation

"Take care, be well, and mark the location of the nearest high ground."

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Michael H Webster

Old man.

Animation Obsessive

Exploring the best in animation from all around the world — part investigation, part treasure hunt.

Uncivil Society by Tom Watson

The fight to preserve civil society and save democracy.

Tom's been on the barricades for years and knows his shit.

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Substance

By Tana Ganeva

drugs and crime

Because of headlines like "Are Nellie Bowles, Jonathan Chait, the Atlantic, the New York Times going to apologize for journalistic malpractice?"

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Still looking for the Joke

By Merrill Markoe

I probably started writing the piece you are about to read because I thought it contained something funny. Fingers crossed I was correct in this assumption.

Firewalled Media

By Laura Jedeed

by Laura Jedeed

Very perspective-y perspective. You'll see.

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Popular Information

By Judd Legum

Independent accountability journalism.

800 pound gorilla. Unavoidable.

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Fritinancy

By Nancy Friedman

Names, brands, writing, and the language of commerce, plus occasional digressions into fashion, retail, and city life.

William Safire has nothing on this lexpert! Fun with language.

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Worriedman’s Substack

My personal Substack

Poetry snips, animal and nature photography, what's going on at the farm. My kind of affirmations.

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And It Don't Stop

By Robert Christgau

Robert Christgau's weekly newsletter. Music. Books. Politics. Old Age.

Christgau. Need I say more.

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Self-Styled Siren

The musings of an old-movie lover

America still makes great film critics.

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The Underground Bunker

By Tony Ortega

Daily news about Scientology since 2012

👍🏻THE Scientology dope sheet! 👍🏻

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Better Living Through Bad Movies

By Scott Clevenger

Author, podcaster, and hypocritical screenwriter Scott Clevenger boils down bad cinema to its most pure, concentrated form of stupidity.

Scott Clevenger not only makes movies, he makes movies cry -- with laughter! Or maybe it's you who will cry (with laughter) as he eviscerates crap pix ancient and modern. Fun!

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