Speak Easy
Substacknewsletter · by Baratunde Thurston · English
Baratunde Thurston unfiltered. Telling it like it is and the way it should be on politics and pop culture, with jokes and occasional drinks.
- Audience
- 19K subscribers
- Shown publicly on Substack
- Publishing
- Monthly or less
- 4 posts indexed in the last 90 days
- Last post
- Sep 22, 2026
- 40 days ago
- Likely audience
- Social justice advocates
- Inferred from post content
Momentum
#384 on Substack's Culture leaderboard
From daily snapshots of Substack's public figures · how rising is measured
Speak Easy is a Substack newsletter by Baratunde Thurston covering Social justice, Indigenous rights and Voting rights. NewsletterFIT indexed 4 posts from it in the last 90 days, most recently on Sep 22, 2026. Shown publicly on Substack: 19K subscribers. It ranks #384 on Substack's Culture leaderboard.
Topics
- Social justice
- Indigenous rights
- Voting rights
- American history
- Cultural diplomacy
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