The Bulwark’s Trump Bump
Bump = 1% day-over-day growth on paid readers.
Good morning everyone.
Today’s letter is about:
A newsletter that has benefitted greatly from the Trump Bump — I want to know where these new readers are coming from!
Keith McNally’s plans for life post-memoir.
My texts with an art director in the world of sports (she asked to remain anonymous) about the NFL’s new fashion editor.
But before we get to the Water Cooler, I have a very timely survey for all of you. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been paying extra attention to the conversations my friends are having about love, money, and power.
I have friends who are happily single and miserably married. I have recently divorced friends whose values have drastically changed while dating the second time around. Couples made up of equally ambitious partners are finding more fulfillment from work than their marriage. My finance guy group text’s reaction to Babygirl was one for the books.
The next Feed Me survey (always completely anonymous) is about relationships, satisfaction, and money. As always, these turn out the best when participants put some real effort into the responses. I’ll make sure the results are out by February 14th.
Some past Feed Me reader surveys:
The waitlist for the Feed Me party is at 500. I’m not sure what the resolution to this is. I suppose a conference or commune.
Beto O’Rourke has joined Substack. So glad that the skateboarding community is growing on this platform.
New York magazine profiled The Bulwark.
is a media company founded by Never-Trump Republicans like Bill Kristol and Sarah Longwell, and it lives right here on Substack. I like that they’re built on multiple platforms (Substack, podcast, YouTube, twitter) – they’ve benefitted tenfold from rapid, candid commentary on politics through multiple distribution platforms. Some noteworthy stats: