Ken Klippenstein announces he has moved to substack to pursue brave, independent, free-thinking journalism without fear or favor, which is to say Ken Klippenstein Announces Plan To Lose His Mind
I was signed up to DeBoer's for a while and I wouldn't recommend, you can kinda grasp Freddie's self conception but signing up for him gets you a bunch stuff from Greyzone-ish weirdos who are ~indistinguishable from Covid-era Anti-vaxxers.
Nobody seems to be pointing out that he did this already and it did not work? The Insurgents was explicitly marketed as a podcast AND a newsletter and they only did two (2) newsletters
Will never forget how, during the height of covid, Uhl was writing shit like "dems are killing service workers for the economy" on Twitter while posting pictures of his steak dinners on Instagram from his vacation in the goddamn Swiss alps.
there was one of those "democrats don't care about covid" type posts that he did literally within five minutes of posting an instagram video of some fancy dinner where they like, lit cheese on fire or something? crowded indoor restaurant. pure clownshit.
>Rob Rousseau
That guy is quasi-QAnon levele of batshit omg
Any collaboration with him should end one's credibility
Though, Ken also wrote Syrian chemical attacks denial for Grayzone, and somehow he still has a career
I'm not gonna be limited by the experts who say "No, Ken, don't do that. You can't survive with an air-fried brain." I'm going to report the bold and unflinching truth.
The one thing that gives me any hope here is that he seems to be taking an editor he’s got a long relationship with along, which could potentially slow the decline. But I do suspect the decline is coming
The Intercept is circling the drain monetarily, they've lost the financial support of the people who had been keeping it afloat. He might not have had a job with them in six months anyway.
