🧾 We are #14 in the World! That's Great, But Nobody Ahead of Us Even Speaks of Gaza, or Holds Israel and America Accountable. Please Join Us TODAY, OK?
I am so grateful for your support. I will keep this work completely free, but if you can afford to, please chip in today.
Family,
We are now the #14 News platform in the world for Substack. This is accomplishment and means people are reading and sharing our work, but I need you to understand what that really means.
It means there are 13 platforms ahead of us—and not one of them speaks of Gaza like it exists. Not one of them speaks of Israel and America as the imperial, colonizing nations they truly are. Not one of them shows receipts day after day and refuses to look away when the world tries to numb us into silence.
So yes, I’m going to say it plainly:
This ranking is a moral fight.
And today I’m asking you to help me climb higher—not for ego, not for bragging rights, but because every spot higher means our reporting lands in more inboxes, reaches more people, and becomes harder to bury.
Before anything else: please click here to become a member and please click here to join as a monthly, annual, or founding member.
I keep this work free for the world—for readers in Gaza, for students in public schools, for families living in deep poverty, for elders on fixed incomes—because a smaller circle of people who can afford it chooses to carry the cost. Your membership keeps this work free for them, and even for you when you can’t afford to pay.
Now let me tell you why your membership matters right now.
When you join, you’re not just supporting “a writer.”
You’re funding a platform that refuses to cooperate with the lie.
Because the lie isn’t only what people say. The lie is what people won’t say.
The lie is the silence.
The lie is the euphemisms.
The lie is treating genocide like a “debate.”
The lie is treating colonialism like “security.”
The lie is acting like empire is normal.
And while the powerful fight to control the narrative, I’m fighting to keep naming reality—plainly, consistently, and with receipts.
That work is growing. The readership is growing. The reach is growing.
But growth without support is a trap.
Because the louder we get, the more the work costs to do right—and the more pressure comes with it. And I’m not going to let this become watered down or sponsor-shaped just to make it “easier.”
That’s why membership is the clean way.
No sponsors.
No billionaire agenda.
No “tone it down.”
Just people funding truth.
So I’m asking you again:
click here to become a member
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Here’s what your membership helps me build in 2026.
I’m committing full-time to this work—more investigations, more consistent reporting, and the podcasts and video work that can reach beyond the choir.
But to do this at the level it deserves, I need support staff.
Research help so we can dig deeper and faster.
Editing help so every piece hits harder and cleaner.
Production help so video and audio can reach millions who will never read a long post but need the truth anyway.
Membership is how we hire the team and build the infrastructure.
And when we climb the rankings, it’s not symbolic. It’s practical.
It means more people see the work.
More people share it.
More people wake up.
More people can’t claim they “didn’t know.”
So yes, I’m asking you to help me outrank the silence.
Let me speak directly to the people who’ve been reading but haven’t joined yet.
If you’ve ever thought:
“I’m glad somebody is saying this.”
“I needed these receipts.”
“I forwarded this to someone.”
“This helped me make sense of what I’m seeing.”
Then this is your moment.
Because everything you love about this platform is not free. It’s just being paid for by a smaller circle of people you may never meet.
If you can afford it, join them today.
Please click here to become a member and please click here to join as a monthly, annual, or founding member.
If you can’t afford it, stay with me. Read for free. Share. Learn. You are not less valuable here—your presence matters. This stays free for you too.
If you’re already a member, thank you. You’re the reason this work stays free and keeps growing. If you want to help today, forward this post to three people and tell them, “Join The North Star. We’re fighting the silence.”
We can climb back up.
And when we do, Gaza is harder to erase.
Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun
