In August I started using these same conversion tactics on my own publication. Since then, my conversion rate has increased by 90% & my revenue by 64%. Am a believer and good to see that the tactics Spotify is using work across platforms and publishers. Link in comments:

This.

Trump won we don’t have to do this anymore

The science supports this. It’s why you have to carefully guard the words you speak over yourself. Your brain is listening to what you say and adjusting accordingly.

i regret to inform you that personal growth rarely comes from acquiring new knowledge and almost always from: •getting humiliated •showing up terrified and doing it anyway •admitting you might be the problem

🚨BREAKING: The UFC and Mark Zuckerberg have teamed up to give every blind veteran in America a free pair of Meta glasses.

Land of the free. Home of the brave. 🇺🇸 @UFC Freedom 250 has KICKED OFF!

"We take the stars from heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity, representing our liberty." —George Washington

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving. Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free. I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these." "They just come with the table, man." They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner. This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat. I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared. "Did we…?" "Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless." Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined. My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude." Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man. I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy. Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived. I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most. Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

Nobody teaches you that discipline feels like punishment until the results start feeling like freedom

An African American just became the world's first trillionaire and a former fry cook at McDonald's is about to sign a peace deal with Iran. Never let anyone ever tell you America isn't the greatest country in the history of the world.

Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named. The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river. The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn. Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound. "Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever. It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin. "Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather. I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet. In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair. And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge. You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain. The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste. I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind. Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again. "Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up. Discipline is a journey.

This might be the best example of how out of touch CNN is with the real world. The panel is actually discussing how surprising it is that people in the South are hospitable. CNN where do you think the term ‘Southern hospitality’ came from?

CNN did a segment on Freddy, the German soccer tourist, and sports analyst Christine Brennan claimed "I saw some conversation, Wolf and Pamela, about how the rest of the world is looking at the United States and feeling that we are—it's a foreboding image and that we are inhospitable...But how wonderful again, that sports can bring people here and show people that the United States and you know, the South is welcoming a German tourist in a way we would never have anticipated" Who is "we"?

So far in 2026: We’ve had TEAM USA win Gold in hockey. We’ve had astronauts circling the moon. We’ve got the World Cup here. We have UFC at the White House. Everyone is getting skinny. We’re curing pancreatic cancer. It’s America’s 250th. AND YOU’RE BLACKPILLING?

The World Cup has turned into the greatest marketing for America’s 250th imaginable. People from all over the world raving about hole-in-wall BBQ spots, Waffle Houses, and well-manicured suburbs. The stuff the intelligentsia turns their noses up at is actually special.

There’s a bald eagle at the UFC White House weigh ins It doesn’t get more American than this 🇺🇸

Every day.

Roll Tide 🐘 Alabama is the only D-I program to make the CFP, men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournament, WCWS and MCWS‼️

Alabama baseball did a Moneyball edit for their clinching regional home run How can you not love college baseball?

His actually looks like a Corgi.