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Pay-Listers, What Do You Want Me To Write?

Pay-Listers, What Do You Want Me To Write?

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James J. Heaney
Aug 25, 2023
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Thank you for reading and supporting De Civitate. By that, I mean, specifically: thank you for giving me money for De Civ. It makes it possible for me to do this—not least because it’s how I justify spending so much time crunching election numbers to my wife, who would really prefer I do the dishes. I’ve always blogged, but I have written more, better, and deeper on Substack than ever before—and that’s very much thanks to you and your financial support.1 It means the world to me, honestly.

But you aren’t just doing this to encourage me.2 When you signed up for De Civitate, I promised you would get EXCLUSIVE ACCESS to two features:

  1. Full access to “Worthy Reads," and

  2. “Playing PredictIt,” an ongoing series about “my quest to turn $10 into $1000 by making bets on politics” at PredictIt.com.

Unfortunately, PredictIt was largely shut down last year by a court case, which is ongoing. I suspended the series in the interim, because I’m no longer placing bets.3

You, the paying customer, deserve a replacement! I should be writing at least one thing especially for you every month or so!

But what?

Tell me in the comments what you’d like to see me writing about on a regular basis. I have come up with a few ideas of my own, ranging from “pretty good” to “clearly bad”. In more-or-less descending order:

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