Masthead
About
Curious. Irreverent. Informed. A little feral. Occasionally funny. Never preachy. Never boring.
the desk, such as it is
We chase questions. We follow rabbit holes. We dig where stories get buried.
The Cheerful Whistleblower is an independent publication built around the idea that there is always more to the story. History, books, cultural memory, narrative analysis, satire, and the inconvenient observations that get filed away because they complicate a cleaner version of events.
How we work
We connect the dots they don’t want you to see. We make the artifacts. You decide what they mean. Where a claim rests on a document, the document is cited. Where it doesn’t, we say so plainly.
Voice
Profanity permitted. Strategy over shock value. Every word should earn its keep.
don’t just believe it. check the source.
There is always more to the story.
The dispatch
Follow the damn rabbit hole
New investigations, reading notes and inconvenient observations. No spam, no growth hacking, no engagement bait.