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Sydney Levine's avatar

Des4 Public Servant, Thank you! I read your poem and was bolstered by it. Excellent phrasing of all I too love about Heather Cox Richardson. I tried to subscribe to your Substack but was told there was an error! Could you have someone else check to see if it is working?I am very interested in how our public “servants” (a rather odd word these days) are coping.

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Patrice Curedale's avatar

that happened to me once, too. Try try and try again!

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pianomark's avatar

Katy, I think Sydney was replying to Public Servant's post. I do wish these online threads were structured in a better way, so we could tell who is addressing whom!

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

In complex threads I try to remember to make clear who or what I'm responding to, with a quote or a name. Sometimes I forget, but it really does help.

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Katy Evans-Bush's avatar

Big OOPS from me...

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Sydney Levine's avatar

Thx Susanna. I will do that next time. Never commented before. Thank you

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Katy Evans-Bush's avatar

Sorry Sydney! I got the wrong end of the stick & have taken my comment down. I thought it would delete the whole thread but apparently not...

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Michele's avatar

pianomark, this is why I always put a name to my posts, at least the early ones, so that people know to whom I am responding. I have the same wish about the structure of the threads and you will probably find this one several posts down as substack moves posts around.

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Katy Evans-Bush's avatar

Ooohhh, I can see it now! OOPS. So sorry, @Sydney!

For some reason I didn't even see the post above, earlier. I did wonder what the poem was, but just assumed I'd missed something somewhere else. Apols for casting aspersions... x

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Katy Evans-Bush's avatar

I've deleted mine now. Thanks for this because I totally for the wrong end of the stick!

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Sydney Levine's avatar

Yes I was responding to Public Servant’s post. What is this, a rant?

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Frank Loomer's avatar

I know the affordability thing, though perhaps a little less so than you. Heather has been my only paid subscription the past couple years on substack. And... there is only so much reading one can do, I follow about 3-4 at any time, Krugman, Snyder for a couple.

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Cissna, Ken's avatar

And Joyce Vance and Phillips O’Brien.

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Katy Evans-Bush's avatar

And Anne Applebaum, & in the UK, Carole Cadwalladr (who broke open the Cambridge Analytica story in 2016)

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Patrice Curedale's avatar

for econ I like "Big" by Matt Stoller, about consolidation of wealth (aka monopolies taking over our country) and Robert Reich, on Inequality Media, free newsletters and youtube

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