Scott Mitchell

Amen!

Oh yeah, gotta find what’s right for you!

Just meant it as a pros/cons. The community element definitely drives less traffic. But for paid, seems much friendlier and less intrusive to publishers.

It’s really tricky, every one of them has their downsides.

Ghost has a community element — can follow eachother, comment, etc. but it’s just underdeveloped compared to substack unfortunately so doesn’t drive as much traffic.

Pro: it’s a flat monthly fee to use their platform, rather than skimming any % off your subs. Which feels like a much fairer model?

Addresses to our parliament by Obama, Xi Jinping, Bush, Hu Jintao were pre-announced, so any “security” excuse for keeping Herzog’s address secret would plainly be rubbish

Exclusive: Israeli President to Make Official Australian Parliamentary Visit The official parliamentary visit has not been made public by either the Australian or Israeli governments.

Exclusive: Israel's President is set to make an official trip to Australian Parliament next week. It has not been publicised by the Australian or Israeli governments. www.lamestream.com.au/exclusive-is...

Exclusive: How Israel, Weapons and Greed Drove Jeffrey Epstein’s Mongolia Obsession For years, Jeffrey Epstein used his connections to build a network of influence aimed at Mongolia. Now Lamestream can reveal what drove his obsession.

Australian coverage of the Epstein files has so far been confused about why Kevin Rudd was mentioned in his emails alongside references to Mongolia.

Today @scottmitchell.bsky.social and I reveal what drove Epstein’s Mongolia obsession.

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Exclusive: How Israel, Weapons and Greed Drove Jeffrey Epstein’s Mongolia Obsession For years, Jeffrey Epstein used his connections to build a network of influence aimed at Mongolia. Now Lamestream can reveal what drove his obsession.

New exclusive from us:

Epstein and Ehud Barak discussed how to make money in Mongolia, almost a year before the advisory board was even formed.

"They pay quite a lot of money [for consultants],” Barak went on to say. “ They think that if they will choose the white people, they get a certain edge.”

I’m available for the panel!

Exclusive: The Night Kevin Rudd and Jeffrey Epstein Dined at a NYC Penthouse Lamestream can reveal that as well as attending a 2013 dinner in honour of the Mongolian President, both Rudd and Epstein joined a six-member board to advise him.

Exclusive: The Night Kevin Rudd and Jeffrey Epstein Dined at a NYC Penthouse

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Exclusive: The Night Kevin Rudd and Jeffrey Epstein Dined at a NYC Penthouse Lamestream can reveal that as well as attending a 2013 dinner in honour of the Mongolian President, both Rudd and Epstein joined a six-member board to advise him.

Investigation from Lamestream, with fresh insight thanks to previously unpublished documents.

Exclusive: The Night Kevin Rudd and Jeffrey Epstein Dined at a NYC Penthouse

A lot of work has gone into bringing this into print. @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social

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See this take, for inspo behind this piece:

The Media Forgot How to Cover One Nation Properly Three decades ago, Pauline Hanson’s brand of politics was so shocking, aberrant and dangerous that it made the front page of The Washington Post. This week, Australian journalists gave her the softest...

The coverage of One Nation this week has been some of the softest coverage of any political force, ever. It's been a shocking week.

I think people would be shocked to realise how it compares to what journalists were asking Pauline Hanson 25 years ago.

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*Barnaby Joyce burps at the pub*
Every political reporter: he certainly knows how to speak to the Australian people

How Australia’s Right-Wing Imploded Over Israel. Plus, Could More Countries Call-Out Trump’s ‘Lie’? Podcast Episode · Lamestream · 25/01/2026 · 45m

The 'hate speech' law was bad, and Albanese "forced it through at the behest of a foreign government and its local lobbying proxies."

But mainstream journos weren't interested in the Israel lobby's role, say @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social & @scottmitchell.bsky.social.
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Thank YOU for listening! 🙏🙏🙏

Not my team, but the Tiges are ok with me!

It just seems for the AFL old-boys club, the affair is some cain and abel morality tale of the absolute worst thing a bloke could do: "your teamates missus!?"

And they have been mining it for content for 20 years.

But have zero interest in talking about the thing that was actually scandalous?

Guess my take is, it's bizarre to me that for 20 years, every AFL commentator/analyst talks in these solemn, grim tones of disapproval about 'The Wayne Carey scandal' and promos like, 'Wayne Carey opens up about his darkest moment!'

But it's the affair? Not the DV and glassing allegations?!

I guess @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social & @scottmitchell.bsky.social are too young to remember the Wayne Carey scandal. Good episode though.

lol, Nick -- the truth is, I have too many thoughts about the Wayne Carey scandal and the last 20 plus years of media coverage on it.

We would have gone two hours!!

On the other hand, the organised pro-Israel groups backgrounding journalists or haranguing ministers or board members have faced no consequences, despite the chaos they’ve caused. They haven’t been named or called to account in any way. It’s a perverse effect of the pressure-campaign tactics: only the victims of these attacks (the pro-Palestinian artists, writers, presenters) are put on public trial. More significantly, the damage to the institutions – the damage they have done to themselves in wronging these individuals – is not being discussed. There is a common fallacy that these institutions are protecting themselves when they hang individuals out to dry. Pressure campaigns rely on this notion when in fact the opposite is true: board members and chief executives made knee-jerk decisions under the pressure of a news deadline, thinking they’d dampen the threat, only to find the repercussions were much greater. Catastrophic, in fact.

I wrote earlier about the catastrophic effects of pro-Israel pressure campaigns on our cultural institutions, but it seems no lessons have been learned

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Authors Who Have Withdrawn From the Apartheid Adelaide Writers Festival Percival Everett, Masha Gessen, Zadie Smith, Michelle de Kretser, Yanis Varoufakis, Helen Garner, Hannah Kent, Melissa Lucashenko, Evelyn Araluen, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Margot McGovern, Robbie Arnott, Amy McGuire, Walter Marsh, Bernadette Brennan, Angie Faye Martin, Jane Caro, Jennifer Mills, Paul Daley, Nikos Papastergiadis, Amy Remeikis, Hannah Ferguson, Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts, Peter Greste, Mike Ladd, Tasma Walton, Bri Lee, Chelsea Watego, Emily Lighezzolo, Clare Wright, Kenneth Roth, Karen Wyld, Michaela Sahar, Emma Shortis, Peter FitzSimons, Chloe Hooper, Sarah Krasnostein, Kate Mildenhall, Drusilla Modieska, Dominic Guerrera, Marieke Hardy, Jonathan Green, Vincenzo Latronico, Francesca Wade, Molly Murn, Sudie Anderson, Eoin McNamee, Danny Nour, Emilie Zoey Baker, Grace Yee, and Roisin O'Donnell.

51 authors have now withdrawn from the apartheid Adelaide Writers Week. I wrote about it here and the long sordid road of racist interference from Zionists in the Australian arts. sakr.substack.com/p/the-road-t...

Nick is v good on this story, everyone should read his stuff.

Literally what is the point of these people?

‘Business acumen’, but then overreach their powers, go against governance principles and go over their CEOs/program directors, the second they think their personal prestige is threatened.

It’s a joke.

The monied board class proclaim they’re defenders of ‘good governance’ or ‘artistic freedom’.

They’ll literally barrel over and destroy all of that, so they don’t cop a scowl from an acquaintance at a dinner party.

They’ve hijacked our public institutions to make them their personal medallions.

Adelaide writers festival, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Symphony — in every case of censorship, boards have shown themselves.

They will destroy the reputation of the institutions they lead, to be on good terms with people in their cocktail set.

She made the call to withdrawal. Absolutely huge. The headline of the festival.

This decision has destroyed the reputation of the Adelaide Writers Week, and sadly I doubt it will recover.

This Royal Commission Won’t Give Us Answers To Bondi. It’s Set Up To Protect Israel The terms of reference for the Royal Commission should put aside any doubt: this is an inquiry designed to castigate critics of Israel.

New analysis from me on the Royal Commission, the campaign behind it, and what it is set up to achieve: www.lamestream.com.au/this-royal-c...

Grant Hackett and I are holding back our open letter, after justice was served.