Brain Sugar

Substack newsletter · by James Thornton · English

Fighting that sweet addiction of politicians and media pandering to the worst of me.

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Brain Sugar is a Substack newsletter by James Thornton covering media literacy, political polarization and free speech. Its most recent indexed post is from Mar 20, 2021.

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