The Aporia · The Popehat Report Is Moving To Beehiiv

The author of the Popehat Report is moving their blog and newsletter from Substack to Beehiiv, with subscriptions transferring over to the new platform at www.popehat.com. The move is prompted by the author's desire for greater design flexibility and to adopt a more "bloggy" format. Approximately 12 times in the past, the author has changed platforms while writing under the Popehat name. The decision was made independently of recent controversy, with the author expressing frustration over what they perceive as unfair criticism from those who choose to stay on Substack.

Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-08-24, using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the same event (that is the story summary below).

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The Popehat Report, written by Ken White, is moving to a new platform called Beehiiv. This change is happening later this month, and subscribers should see no disruption - their subscriptions will transfer over seamlessly. The first email from the new platform may end up in spam, so readers should check their junk mail. White made this decision for personal reasons, not due to controversy on Substack, where he is also a co-host on the podcast Serious Trouble. He notes that staying on Substack is a reasonable choice, and denouncing people who do so is "contrived and unreasonable".

Written for “Popehat Report Moves Online” on 2026-10-16, grounded in this article and the 1 other(s) covering the same event.

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20 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction

🔮 I think it comes down to this: being beaten by the police doesn’t make you either a good person or a bad person, but some people would like to believe that it does.

2026-09-05 · assertive framing · Deserve’s Got Nothing To Do With It

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2026-09-05 · assertive framing · Speech or Cancel Culture At Boston University?

🔮 I pointed out that the somewhat predictable assignment of the case to Judge Aileen Cannon — who proved herself to be an arguably lawless Trump partisan when she entertained his attempts to derail his own investigation — will make it extraordinarily difficult to convict him.

2026-09-05 · assertive framing · Jack Smith, Donald Trump, and the Kobayashi Maru

🔮 It begins with a broad, rather vague pronouncement: (a) Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.1 We’ll get back to that.

2026-09-05 · mixed framing · That's Not How Recusal Works, That's Not How Any Of This Works!

🔮 For more than half a century, courts have used a (purportedly) objective standard to determine whether a threat is true, asking whether a reasonable person, familiar with the context, would interpret the threat as a sincere expression of intent to do harm.

2026-09-04 · assertive framing · Supreme Court Clarifies "True Threats" First Amendment Exception

🔮 They couldn’t report many verbatim quotes (they should have brought someone who takes shorthand) and federal courts don’t allow broadcast or media recoding of proceedings.

2026-09-04 · assertive framing · Hunter Biden And The Fog Of War

🔮 Glenn is agitated because the United States decided to drop a charge of conspiracy to commit campaign finance violations it had previously brought against infamous manchild Sam Bankman-Fried, the answer to the question “how bad could it be, being raised by two Stanford professors?”

2026-09-04 · assertive framing · Is Following An Extradition Treaty An Elaborate Political Conspiracy?

🔮 Assuming, as we have, for it has not been challenged, that this statistical side of the Department of Agriculture is the exercise of a function within the purview of the Constitution, it must follow that any conspiracy which is calculated to obstruct or impair its efficiency and destroy the value of its operations and reports as fair, impartial, and reasonably accurate would be to defraud the United States by depriving it of its lawful right and duty of promulgating or diffusing the information so officially acquired in the way and at the time required by law or departmental regulation.

2026-09-04 · assertive framing · People Are Lying To You About The Trump Indictment

🔮 In the old days, the resulting sentencing range was mandatory and bound the court; in 2005 the Supreme Court ruled that the Guidelines could only be treated as a recommendation, not a mandate.

2026-09-04 · assertive framing · Beware The Flood Of Trump Sentencing Disinformation

🔮 One is to describe, to the best of your ability, what you believe the state of the law is, how and where courts might agree or disagree with you, and how your view of what the law should be differs from how courts currently interpret it.

2026-09-04 · assertive framing · The National Review Is Still Lying To You About The Fraud Charge Against Trump

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As I said before, I don't judge anyone for deciding to stay on Substack, and I think a preference for a hands-off moderation stance is one of many reasonable approaches to complex and intractable problems.

framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-08-24

🔮 The first time I sent an email from there, in a few minutes, it might go to your spam, so you may want to check that.

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The Popehat Report Is Moving To Beehiiv · assertive framing

As I mentioned before, the Popehat Report is moving to Beehiiv, a different platform for blogs and newsletters. asserted

Report → mention → blogs

You can find it at www.popehat.com. asserted

You → find → www.popehat.com

The next email you get from me should be from there. asserted

you → get → me

Everyone's subscriptions should transfer over. asserted

subscriptions → transfer → ?

The first time I sent an email from there, in a few minutes, it might go to your spam, so you may want to check that. uncertain

you → send → that

I will be posting links to everything on Bluesky, Threads, and Facebook so you'll know if you're missing something. asserted

you → post → something

You'll be able to subscribe (or unsubscribe, if your time of tolerating me is coming to a middle) just as easily there. asserted

time → subscribe → middle

I made this decision for a number of reasons, only one of which is related to recent controversy. asserted

one → make → controversy

preference → say → problems

To the contrary, I find the denunciations of people who stay here (or who leave) to be contrived and unreasonable. asserted

who → find → people

In fact, I will still be on Substack as a co-host on Serious Trouble, which is hosted here, and I'm fine with that. asserted

I → host → that

I've changed platforms a dozen times writing under the Popehat name and may live to change a dozen more. uncertain

I → change → dozen

The new platform will let me make some design changes and be a little more "bloggy," for want of a better word. asserted

me → let → word

Watch for the first Beehiiv post to follow this one today in a short while. asserted

post → watch → while

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