Xplisset Substack Sunday Rollup

What you missed. What it meant. What’s next. Time To Step Up

As a lot of you have noticed, I’ve been running XVOA like a one-man newsroom because I’m doing this full time now. That’s why the essays hit with depth, that’s why the receipts keep showing up, and that’s why some of y’all started demanding a TL;DR. You asked, I delivered, because I work for you, not for some red-pilled assh**** billionaire trying to squeeze a few more pennies out of a newspaper so he can build a new walk-in closet for his wife’s luxury brand addiction.

Here’s what’s urgent and what’s on the board right now. The long-term projects are still the backbone of this platform: The War After War novel, the real-life horror behind it (Ebenezer Creek), Spin Spectrum, and the Blackout Fridays/Mondays that track what they hope you miss. But I’m going to be honest about the moment we’re in. Those projects have been pushed to the back burner because The Good Crisis is unfolding in real time, and legacy media is still not covering it with the urgency and fullness it requires. Until they step up, this retired cop’s perspective, with pattern-recognition and receipts, is needed more than ever.

This is the difference between “supporting a creator” and funding a newsroom. Your paid subscription doesn’t buy me a yacht. It buys me time. Time to read filings. Time to chase footnotes. Time to write the kind of analysis that makes people say, “How did he see that?” Time to keep a roof over my head, food on the table, and bills paid while I cover The Good Crisis like it deserves to be covered.

And I’m fanatical about keeping XVOA free. With one exception: excerpts from War After War in Author’s Room, for obvious reasons. Everything else stays free, because I don’t want people on fixed incomes, disability, or stretched-thin budgets choosing between groceries and the truth. When you go paid, you’re not just supporting me. You’re helping keep the lights on for everyone who can’t.

I also get the slump. It’s after Christmas. People are staring at credit card balances and telling themselves, “I’ll do it later.” I understand. Truly. But if you’ve been reading and thinking, this helps me stay sane, consider going paid when you can. Not because the truth is behind a velvet rope, but because your support keeps this work independent, stubborn, and accountable to you and not to advertisers, not to party memos, and for damn sure not to billionaire owners.