For those asking, yes, that is me on the decentralized social media protocol Nostr, at mtaibbi@iris.to. My public key is: npub16dmvfhm7uwkxnhxg30k6aczw23wxhgvs62n3puzl5tykpa4aa8esja83yd
Hey man, as long as you keep publishing long form articles with actual words and paragraphs and stuff, you can waste the rest of your time on whatever social media nonsense you want
I love your work with Walter Kirn -- that made me a subscriber to your Substack. Amazing job on the Twitter Files -- hope to see more of that. Sorry to see you sulking over your brush up with Musk late last week. Let’s be resilient!
Matt, I have been following your work the start of the Twitter files and really appreciate what you are doing. We all should. I have also noticed the attacks on you. This is what happens in a society when there are no ramifications from wrongdoings at the Federal level. We will start with the FBI's misconduct with the Russia investigation. Jim Baker was on that too. Players within the Executive Branch have taken control of the media (via censorship) the DOJ and it is all over. What Elon and you did was show us there really is no free press left in the USA and what is actually going on. We are monitored and controlled by various state players. This is what it must have felt like in 1938 Germany.
God help us all. But thank you Matt for showing us what is going on.
Yeah, what in the (heck) was that about with Elon throwing that tantrum? Bizarre. I hate when the richest guy in the world is getting petty with me while I'm trying to take a vacation with the family....Thanks for all you do and have done over the years, Matt.
Frankly, Matt, your going out of Twitter in a blaze of glory was one of the best things I've seen in a long time. Only proving you are who we think you are, and why we love you. I get the tiring slag of having to drag the rest of the world along on your amazing vision sometimes, I will tell you you are my hero. I founded a little media coop in 2011 when the Republican fascists took over Wisconsin. Got a good smack down when we covered the Hillary Victory Files money laundering and all my Dem sources disowned me. So I have great appreciation seeing you sitting in front of the Committee being grilled by Congress, and was frankly amazed you made it this far before telling them all to get screwed. rest up we need you. OX BW
You had the courage to tell the truth - people who live in fear always have a hard time digesting the truth - I’m confident you will not be cancelled 😎
Commenting here on a number of things I've seen--Elon approached Matt with the TF which, yes, put him on the map in a larger way than he was before, but also put him completely in the crosshairs, if he wasn't there already. (And for those of us who read RS while MT was there, he's been a name for about 20 years--made RS worth reading for him alone). Matt did his part. He was writing for Substack before being approached--nothing secretive here. Substack introduces a product that in no way poses a threat to Twitter. At all. Elon flips the hell out and acts like the product was Matt's idea or something. I agree Elon is still a free speech asset, of course. Love what he did on BBC the other day. But in this particular matter, I think Matt has played it as graciously as he could. I don't see what more he should do. Thank Elon for censoring all his non-TF content?
There is crusty exterior behavior and there is core. Don't let the crusty exterior behavior of Musk, or anyone for that matter, deflect you from recognizing their core. It is in fact the primary tactic of the left to take one crusty flake of behavior from anyone that appear to oppose their cult agenda and attempt to define their core to destroy them. They do this to you. Don't fall into that same trap doing it to others.
Musk is obviously under attack by the oligarch managerial class left and Twitter as a business is suffering from that attack. He is sensitive to any additional hits... and especially from those he might have considered principled allies. Loyalty is a tenuous thing these days in the culture wars when everyone values income and wealth pursuit as the priority.
I was going to just write you letters. But then I found out all the censorship people that were laid off are now working for the post office opening mail. 😮 😂
You're a class act - able to control your emotions under fire! Keep doing what you're doing, especially enjoy your interactions with Walter Kirn. So nice to be able to share in your intelligent conversations. I always learn something!!
Love your work but it was easier to catch you on Twitter. Why not help Elon save the world, these other platforms not so fun and not going to chase after you, only subscribed because you were crushing it with Musk on Twitter.
Should we be surprised that Elon has knifed you? As you've said yourself, the motives of the leaker (Musk) are not the story. What matters is - is it true? We need more long form journalists like you, a dying breed. Hang in there Matt.
I am worried Matt drifting too far into the extremely online world and becoming untethered to the real one. He dedicated about a million words to the arcane inner workings of Twitter, raising a lot of thorny and intellectually stimulating questions the obvious solution to which is "just don't go on Twitter." Like, who cares? It's only a small percentage of the world on there making noise. Matt went from tackling existential questions about the intersection of human nature, mass media in the always online age, and representative democratic systems...to reporting on school yard fights between various tools and losers on social media.
I don't know why you said I was an "anti-capitalist." I'm not here to attack or defend capitalism. That's not even on my radar.
What I am against is the capture of all our institutions (schools, universities, hospitals, doctor groups, mainstream media, entertainment and the government by the totalitarian woke mob that pushes the evil lie called "transgenderism." And what good is all the money in the world when the State can order parents to have their children chemically or surgically castrated? Forget the money. Is that the world you want your grandchildren to live in? Yes. It's already happened to some parents and their children. And it's spreading. Quickly.
It turns out that some multibillionaires (Pritzkers, Strykers, and Rothblatt) are secretly funding the "transgender" movement through their foundations to the tune of millions and billions of dollars. Did you ever stop and wonder why the ACLU which used to stand up for free speech now supports censorship. The Stryker Family gave the ACLU $15 million. The ACLU then hired a bunch of "transgender" lawyers and now they're the biggest lobbying group for "transgenderism."
ESG and CEI (Corporate Equity Index) are the tools used to keep corporations and the American people in line with wokeism and "transgenderism." But the public is starting to catch on. And I read this evening that some financial types are starting to push back against these woke indexes because they actually hurt the financial health of companies.
By the way, Elon lost about $40 billion last year. That sounds like a lot of money but it's only 20% of his net worth. He'll bounce back. And even if he doesn't, he's got more than enough for himself, his kids, and their kids to live in luxury for the next five or ten generations.
And did you know that Elon's oldest son is now a "transgender." And after Elon split with the singer Grimes last year, she took up with "Chelsea" Manning. I'm sure Elon is not a happy camper about either of those things. But Elon has autism and so his son probably had it, too. And people with autism, like his son, are especially vulnerable to joining cults, like "transgenderism."
Matt don't take any of this s*** too seriously. Turn on your love light and forgive crazy Elon. Don't worry about what platform you're on people like me are going to find you wherever you are.
Elon is so rich in part because he suffers from extreme black or white thinking regarding threats to his business.
You will continue to be successful, and have enthusiatic fans like me, because of the intelligence honesty and great sense of humor your reporting contains - in an age where all three things have become scarce.
Matt: I appreciate your writing and the effort you put to get the truth. The US Government IMO is into lies and hiding truths. This government is suppose to be a representative government "by the people for the people". Any time the government knowing lies to the people it is creating a fraud and any actions it takes based on lies are fraudulent. Therefore, those that lie need to be identified, tried, and if convicted of lying sent to jail for a matter of time.
Matt keep up the good work, you can be sure that throughout the years with your great work you have built a solid base of readers who will be with your through thick and thin because we have no doubt that whoever will end up in your crosshairs fully deserves it. Your ethics is one of the very few things that I know I can count on. As for Musk, he is probably not used to anyone not falling immediately in line with his desires. If he’s a person of intellectual honesty, he will understand and appreciate the lesson. If not, too bad for him
I am not a fan of the decentralized platforms. w/o critial mass SM networks don't work. I always read you on twitter, but honestly as a paid subscriber, I would be happy if you stopped being sucked into troll fights on twitter. It was a huge waste of time and energy
I'd never heard of it, so I started reading the forbes explanation written in semi-gibberish. Clicked a link in it to iris.to & was prompted to type my name. Now I'm on it! Who knew? Lots of bitcoin chatter. Zzz Decentralized is good.
Holy Moly, as Captain Marvel used to say. Don't know why I preferred him to Superman back in the day, or strove to enjoy eating KIX, the breakfast cereal somehow associated with him. I preferred and still lament its absurd degradation from Shredded Ralston to Wheat Chex's shadow of its former self, it being the cereal touted by Tom Mix, whose hand my grandfather shook as Mix exited a taxicab in Scollay Square. I don't know what my grandfather was doing in Scollay Square. Ignorance like death creates space in air fondness strives manfully to repair. What is it we're discussing here, Matt? Moly appears to have sustained John and Jesus for their month of 40 days in the wilderness, and Herman Melville when he and a pal jumped ship, landing happily and soon solemnly bewitched in Tahiti. Some like when Odysseus and his crew landed on, I think, the Isle of Capri, ruled in those days by Circe and her fledgling sirens who turned all men, sailors particularly, into swine. Just as Jesus did to that herd of perfectly sane pigs on the road to Gadarea. Ciao for now. What, by the way, is a public key? Should we write that down?
Honest to dog, Matt - I've been following you from your early days at RS. I AM dismayed at this current dust-up, and think EM playing "Nice" with Substack would be to EVERYONE's advantage, IF the overarching goal is to present real news to the billions of people who consume bullshit "news" daily from totally captured outlets. This will be a WORLD changing event, if we can get you, EM, GG, and a few others to support, share information and amplify the facts, that a majority of humanity is STARVING/DYING for.
At the VERY least, keep working on the Twitter Files project - there was a LOT of seriously shady shit going on, that I'm sure would wake a lot of people the fuck up. If EM would prioritize getting this story out in surgically-precise fashion, the benefits to Twitter could completely dwarf the Substack "notes" issue. EM - you listening?
I knew of your book, Business Secrets of Drug Dealing, but I probably wouldn't have purchased it anytime soon. I was delighted to find it free here, and I read it in one long enjoyable sitting. Good book, and although I never sold any drugs, it brought back plenty of memories of "those days".
Megalomaniacs can't see past their immediate needs. Elon didn't see the irony of wanting real journalists to collect subscriptions on his site but censor/punishing them for exclusivity. It's like having a company and firing the engineers to save money. Same kind of thinking. We as a nation have to stop catering to /making excuses for people like this just because they are rich. They are not "complicated intellectuals". Just think fuc*ing toddler.
History will show Greenwald and Taibbi rescued and resuscitated free speech in the West. Musk’s assist will be a footnote - an important footnote - but a footnote nonetheless.
Man, what is wrong with............seventy percent of the people that post here? Not a single person knows Mr. Musk so how can they tell anyone anything regarding the mans motives?
As for any slight Musk may have given Substack..........if Substack want to exist for any length of time they should work on an ability to function without Twitter at all..........too many people are whining about not being provided something formerly given.........its like some beggar calling you names for not giving him as much as he did the previous time he leeched off his provider. And what the hell is with the personal attacks here? That kind of little girl crap makes ya feel big somehow?
Love your work, but I wonder if you're screaming in a hurricane. The media and our institutions are sewn up and the right, tired of years of hatred from the left, now returns the favor. I see but two options: accept the Big State, or violence. In all of the modern era -- I'm think beginning of 20th Century -- what you've uncovered would have sent the media into a frenzy; aroused the fury of citizens; and put an administration on its heels. Today, nothing happens.
Hey man, as long as you keep publishing long form articles with actual words and paragraphs and stuff, you can waste the rest of your time on whatever social media nonsense you want
I love your work with Walter Kirn -- that made me a subscriber to your Substack. Amazing job on the Twitter Files -- hope to see more of that. Sorry to see you sulking over your brush up with Musk late last week. Let’s be resilient!
The best thing about Taibbi is that he's gonna be genuine and write honestly about what he's interested no matter what anyone says.
Dude: Do you understand the definition of a vacation with your family?
You’re a special talent Mr. Taibbi. Hang in there!
You will burn and you will burn out, you will be healed and come back again...(from our friend Fyodor)
Matt, I have been following your work the start of the Twitter files and really appreciate what you are doing. We all should. I have also noticed the attacks on you. This is what happens in a society when there are no ramifications from wrongdoings at the Federal level. We will start with the FBI's misconduct with the Russia investigation. Jim Baker was on that too. Players within the Executive Branch have taken control of the media (via censorship) the DOJ and it is all over. What Elon and you did was show us there really is no free press left in the USA and what is actually going on. We are monitored and controlled by various state players. This is what it must have felt like in 1938 Germany.
God help us all. But thank you Matt for showing us what is going on.
Yeah, what in the (heck) was that about with Elon throwing that tantrum? Bizarre. I hate when the richest guy in the world is getting petty with me while I'm trying to take a vacation with the family....Thanks for all you do and have done over the years, Matt.
Moving here I think is a mistake , I subscribe on substack , but there are too many platform , go back on twitter, you need to work it out with Elon.
Frankly, Matt, your going out of Twitter in a blaze of glory was one of the best things I've seen in a long time. Only proving you are who we think you are, and why we love you. I get the tiring slag of having to drag the rest of the world along on your amazing vision sometimes, I will tell you you are my hero. I founded a little media coop in 2011 when the Republican fascists took over Wisconsin. Got a good smack down when we covered the Hillary Victory Files money laundering and all my Dem sources disowned me. So I have great appreciation seeing you sitting in front of the Committee being grilled by Congress, and was frankly amazed you made it this far before telling them all to get screwed. rest up we need you. OX BW
You had the courage to tell the truth - people who live in fear always have a hard time digesting the truth - I’m confident you will not be cancelled 😎
Commenting here on a number of things I've seen--Elon approached Matt with the TF which, yes, put him on the map in a larger way than he was before, but also put him completely in the crosshairs, if he wasn't there already. (And for those of us who read RS while MT was there, he's been a name for about 20 years--made RS worth reading for him alone). Matt did his part. He was writing for Substack before being approached--nothing secretive here. Substack introduces a product that in no way poses a threat to Twitter. At all. Elon flips the hell out and acts like the product was Matt's idea or something. I agree Elon is still a free speech asset, of course. Love what he did on BBC the other day. But in this particular matter, I think Matt has played it as graciously as he could. I don't see what more he should do. Thank Elon for censoring all his non-TF content?
There is crusty exterior behavior and there is core. Don't let the crusty exterior behavior of Musk, or anyone for that matter, deflect you from recognizing their core. It is in fact the primary tactic of the left to take one crusty flake of behavior from anyone that appear to oppose their cult agenda and attempt to define their core to destroy them. They do this to you. Don't fall into that same trap doing it to others.
Musk is obviously under attack by the oligarch managerial class left and Twitter as a business is suffering from that attack. He is sensitive to any additional hits... and especially from those he might have considered principled allies. Loyalty is a tenuous thing these days in the culture wars when everyone values income and wealth pursuit as the priority.
I was going to just write you letters. But then I found out all the censorship people that were laid off are now working for the post office opening mail. 😮 😂
Disclaimer: This is a joke.
You're a class act - able to control your emotions under fire! Keep doing what you're doing, especially enjoy your interactions with Walter Kirn. So nice to be able to share in your intelligent conversations. I always learn something!!
Love your work but it was easier to catch you on Twitter. Why not help Elon save the world, these other platforms not so fun and not going to chase after you, only subscribed because you were crushing it with Musk on Twitter.
Should we be surprised that Elon has knifed you? As you've said yourself, the motives of the leaker (Musk) are not the story. What matters is - is it true? We need more long form journalists like you, a dying breed. Hang in there Matt.
Keep doing your thing Matt. You are our Cronkite. Don't let the bastards grind you down. Peace.
You are a hilarious Matt. Get some sun. Try and look like Walter
Matt, Keep up the good work!
Illegitimi non carborundum.
I am worried Matt drifting too far into the extremely online world and becoming untethered to the real one. He dedicated about a million words to the arcane inner workings of Twitter, raising a lot of thorny and intellectually stimulating questions the obvious solution to which is "just don't go on Twitter." Like, who cares? It's only a small percentage of the world on there making noise. Matt went from tackling existential questions about the intersection of human nature, mass media in the always online age, and representative democratic systems...to reporting on school yard fights between various tools and losers on social media.
On twitter I follow people that I dislike as the ones that I like . Otherwise will be a debate with people that I already agree with.
Love your journalism Matt! Always have, all through the decades.
I don't know about this new hippy stuff at Jack's place. Can I use my Commodore 64 there?
It’s so ‘inside baseball’. I understand that there’s a beef but wonder about the scope of it relative to the good you do on that platform.
I don't know why you said I was an "anti-capitalist." I'm not here to attack or defend capitalism. That's not even on my radar.
What I am against is the capture of all our institutions (schools, universities, hospitals, doctor groups, mainstream media, entertainment and the government by the totalitarian woke mob that pushes the evil lie called "transgenderism." And what good is all the money in the world when the State can order parents to have their children chemically or surgically castrated? Forget the money. Is that the world you want your grandchildren to live in? Yes. It's already happened to some parents and their children. And it's spreading. Quickly.
It turns out that some multibillionaires (Pritzkers, Strykers, and Rothblatt) are secretly funding the "transgender" movement through their foundations to the tune of millions and billions of dollars. Did you ever stop and wonder why the ACLU which used to stand up for free speech now supports censorship. The Stryker Family gave the ACLU $15 million. The ACLU then hired a bunch of "transgender" lawyers and now they're the biggest lobbying group for "transgenderism."
ESG and CEI (Corporate Equity Index) are the tools used to keep corporations and the American people in line with wokeism and "transgenderism." But the public is starting to catch on. And I read this evening that some financial types are starting to push back against these woke indexes because they actually hurt the financial health of companies.
By the way, Elon lost about $40 billion last year. That sounds like a lot of money but it's only 20% of his net worth. He'll bounce back. And even if he doesn't, he's got more than enough for himself, his kids, and their kids to live in luxury for the next five or ten generations.
And did you know that Elon's oldest son is now a "transgender." And after Elon split with the singer Grimes last year, she took up with "Chelsea" Manning. I'm sure Elon is not a happy camper about either of those things. But Elon has autism and so his son probably had it, too. And people with autism, like his son, are especially vulnerable to joining cults, like "transgenderism."
Matt don't take any of this s*** too seriously. Turn on your love light and forgive crazy Elon. Don't worry about what platform you're on people like me are going to find you wherever you are.
Elon is so rich in part because he suffers from extreme black or white thinking regarding threats to his business.
You will continue to be successful, and have enthusiatic fans like me, because of the intelligence honesty and great sense of humor your reporting contains - in an age where all three things have become scarce.
Matt: I appreciate your writing and the effort you put to get the truth. The US Government IMO is into lies and hiding truths. This government is suppose to be a representative government "by the people for the people". Any time the government knowing lies to the people it is creating a fraud and any actions it takes based on lies are fraudulent. Therefore, those that lie need to be identified, tried, and if convicted of lying sent to jail for a matter of time.
Matt keep up the good work, you can be sure that throughout the years with your great work you have built a solid base of readers who will be with your through thick and thin because we have no doubt that whoever will end up in your crosshairs fully deserves it. Your ethics is one of the very few things that I know I can count on. As for Musk, he is probably not used to anyone not falling immediately in line with his desires. If he’s a person of intellectual honesty, he will understand and appreciate the lesson. If not, too bad for him
Get back on Twitter. You're making a mistake by not posting on Twitter.
Please don't tell me Taibbi's off Substack.
This is getting downright weird.
Stay beautiful, all!
I am not a fan of the decentralized platforms. w/o critial mass SM networks don't work. I always read you on twitter, but honestly as a paid subscriber, I would be happy if you stopped being sucked into troll fights on twitter. It was a huge waste of time and energy
Thank you for your answer. I had interpreted all the anger as being focused on Elon. Doh. Of course it was the course "interview".
I always say that I never take a vacation...but...dude!!
Hope you enjoyed some of your time...meeting family can be huge...and Disneyland...
I'd never heard of it, so I started reading the forbes explanation written in semi-gibberish. Clicked a link in it to iris.to & was prompted to type my name. Now I'm on it! Who knew? Lots of bitcoin chatter. Zzz Decentralized is good.
Holy Moly, as Captain Marvel used to say. Don't know why I preferred him to Superman back in the day, or strove to enjoy eating KIX, the breakfast cereal somehow associated with him. I preferred and still lament its absurd degradation from Shredded Ralston to Wheat Chex's shadow of its former self, it being the cereal touted by Tom Mix, whose hand my grandfather shook as Mix exited a taxicab in Scollay Square. I don't know what my grandfather was doing in Scollay Square. Ignorance like death creates space in air fondness strives manfully to repair. What is it we're discussing here, Matt? Moly appears to have sustained John and Jesus for their month of 40 days in the wilderness, and Herman Melville when he and a pal jumped ship, landing happily and soon solemnly bewitched in Tahiti. Some like when Odysseus and his crew landed on, I think, the Isle of Capri, ruled in those days by Circe and her fledgling sirens who turned all men, sailors particularly, into swine. Just as Jesus did to that herd of perfectly sane pigs on the road to Gadarea. Ciao for now. What, by the way, is a public key? Should we write that down?
I’m confused but with you all the way.
Jack Dorsey's? Whoa, you're really going after Elon. Smells a little vengeful. But w/o your titanium nads you wouldn't be you.
Honest to dog, Matt - I've been following you from your early days at RS. I AM dismayed at this current dust-up, and think EM playing "Nice" with Substack would be to EVERYONE's advantage, IF the overarching goal is to present real news to the billions of people who consume bullshit "news" daily from totally captured outlets. This will be a WORLD changing event, if we can get you, EM, GG, and a few others to support, share information and amplify the facts, that a majority of humanity is STARVING/DYING for.
At the VERY least, keep working on the Twitter Files project - there was a LOT of seriously shady shit going on, that I'm sure would wake a lot of people the fuck up. If EM would prioritize getting this story out in surgically-precise fashion, the benefits to Twitter could completely dwarf the Substack "notes" issue. EM - you listening?
Matt -- you're supposed to be on vacation. On behalf of your wife and kids, stop working. Twitter, etc will still be here when you get back.
Substack alerts me:
Matt Taibbi published their first note2d
Please, Matt, please tell me that's not your preferred pronoun.
Elon trying to stop Substack from profiting off twitter is not censorship.
Welcome to the party Matt! Just followed you. Mine's below if anyone wants to connect
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On another note, Matt - would you consider endorsing Bobby Kennedy for President?
I knew of your book, Business Secrets of Drug Dealing, but I probably wouldn't have purchased it anytime soon. I was delighted to find it free here, and I read it in one long enjoyable sitting. Good book, and although I never sold any drugs, it brought back plenty of memories of "those days".
https://www.racket.news/p/chapters-one-and-two-the-business-secrets-of-drug-dealing
Thx Matt just keep doing what you're doing. eastamant.com
Decentralized, uncensorable, social media for the win.
Megalomaniacs can't see past their immediate needs. Elon didn't see the irony of wanting real journalists to collect subscriptions on his site but censor/punishing them for exclusivity. It's like having a company and firing the engineers to save money. Same kind of thinking. We as a nation have to stop catering to /making excuses for people like this just because they are rich. They are not "complicated intellectuals". Just think fuc*ing toddler.
History will show Greenwald and Taibbi rescued and resuscitated free speech in the West. Musk’s assist will be a footnote - an important footnote - but a footnote nonetheless.
Man, what is wrong with............seventy percent of the people that post here? Not a single person knows Mr. Musk so how can they tell anyone anything regarding the mans motives?
As for any slight Musk may have given Substack..........if Substack want to exist for any length of time they should work on an ability to function without Twitter at all..........too many people are whining about not being provided something formerly given.........its like some beggar calling you names for not giving him as much as he did the previous time he leeched off his provider. And what the hell is with the personal attacks here? That kind of little girl crap makes ya feel big somehow?
Love your work, but I wonder if you're screaming in a hurricane. The media and our institutions are sewn up and the right, tired of years of hatred from the left, now returns the favor. I see but two options: accept the Big State, or violence. In all of the modern era -- I'm think beginning of 20th Century -- what you've uncovered would have sent the media into a frenzy; aroused the fury of citizens; and put an administration on its heels. Today, nothing happens.
Good move. Are you orange-pilled Matt?