Mary Elizabeth Williams

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Mary Elizabeth Williams has 2,882 followers on Substack as of Nov 1, 2026. On the latest board read, Oct 31, 2026, they were #68 on Substack's Health Politics Bestsellers board. 22 publications recommend them, 1 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 21.

Followers read 6 days ago · Boards read 6 days ago

Last read Nov 1, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.

Followers: 2,882; read Nov 1
Last 7 days: first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days: first number on Nov 30
Subscribers: 1.8K+; rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers: none shown
Recommended by: 22; +1 in 30 days
Recommends: 21
Bestsellers rank: #68; Health Politics

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. 2 days of readings. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.

One reading a day, the last of the day. Marked: leaderboard steps (into the top 25, top 10, or #1). Followers are people who follow Mary Elizabeth Williams on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.

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Daily readings
Date	Followers	Change	Subscribers	Paid band
Nov 1, 2026	2,882	+2	1.8K+
Oct 31, 2026	2,880		1.8K+

Leaderboard positions

Board	Rank now	Best on record	Reads on it
Health Politics Bestsellers	#68	#68	4 of 4

Rank on each read

Rank on each read of each board. Each cell is the leaderboard rank; empty means not in the top 100.
Writer	Oct 3107:00	Oct 3113:00	Oct 3119:47	Nov 621:50	Move
Health Politics Bestsellers	68	68	68	68	0

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

22 publications recommend Mary Elizabeth Williams; 1 started in the last 30 days. Mary Elizabeth Williams recommends 21, and 15 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.

The 9 largest publications on each side, by followers. Bigger dot, more followers. Orange: started in the last 30 days. Gray dots: publications I don't track, so no follower count.

When the recommendations started

Live recommendations by the month each began, using Substack's own start date. Removed ones aren't listed by Substack, so they don't appear.

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Recommendations started per month
Month	Started
2025-07	1
2025-09	2
2025-10	4
2025-11	2
2025-12	3
2026-01	3
2026-02	2
2026-05	1
2026-07	1
2026-08	2
2026-10	1

Recommended by

Deborah Copaken33k followers · started Jul 2025 · mutual
Cindra’s Substackstarted Oct 22, 2026new
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It's Not Us with Sara Eckelstarted Jul 21, 2026 · mutual
Lily Buranastarted May 24, 2026 · mutual
Good For Your Agestarted Feb 20, 2026 · mutual
Infinite Particles of the Divine Sunstarted Feb 2, 2026
Unmannedstarted Jan 30, 2026 · mutual
Michael F Jamesstarted Jan 7, 2026 · mutual
Becky Steele | Lady of Steelestarted Jan 1, 2026 · mutual
We're Moving to Europestarted Dec 21, 2025 · mutual
Irreverent Healing’s Substackstarted Dec 16, 2025 · mutual
SkeptiKCstarted Dec 13, 2025
Touch of All Rightstarted Nov 28, 2025 · mutual
Alisonstarted Nov 19, 2025
Writing the Real Worldstarted Oct 2025 · mutual
ninastarted Oct 2025
The Alexandria Papers: Poetry, Memoir, Stories, & Morestarted Oct 2025 · mutual
Dose of Wonderstarted Oct 2025 · mutual
Susie Bright’s Journalstarted Sep 2025 · mutual
A Culture of Caringstarted Sep 2025 · mutual

Recommends

Sari Botton223k followers · started Sep 2025
Deborah Copaken33k followers · started Jul 2025 · mutual
Lily Buranastarted May 24, 2026 · mutual
Good For Your Agestarted Feb 26, 2026 · mutual
Irreverent Healing’s Substackstarted Jan 21, 2026 · mutual
Becky Steele | Lady of Steelestarted Jan 21, 2026 · mutual
Touch of All Rightstarted Jan 21, 2026 · mutual
We're Moving to Europestarted Jan 21, 2026 · mutual
Michael F Jamesstarted Jan 19, 2026 · mutual
Subject to Change with Emily McDowellstarted Dec 28, 2025
Other Interestsstarted Dec 16, 2025
Dose of Wonderstarted Nov 2025 · mutual
The Alexandria Papers: Poetry, Memoir, Stories, & Morestarted Nov 2025 · mutual
Writing the Real Worldstarted Nov 2025 · mutual
bitches gotta eat!started Oct 2025
Dire Straightsstarted Sep 2025
Susie Bright’s Journalstarted Sep 2025 · mutual
Unmannedstarted Sep 2025 · mutual
A Culture of Caringstarted Sep 2025 · mutual
It's Not Us with Sara Eckelstarted Sep 2025 · mutual
Alexandra Howson PhD, E-RYTstarted Sep 2025

Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.

Who recommends writers like this one

Publications that recommend at least two other Health Politics writers with 1,000 to 5,000 followers (57 writers in that group), but not Mary Elizabeth Williams.

The MAHA Report@theofficialmahareport
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Dr. Paul Alexander@drpaulalexander
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Feed your Mind@feedyourmind
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Juan’s Newsletter
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@EmilyTVProducer
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The Rebel Patient™
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Colin’s Substack
recommends 2 of them
Leifur’s Substack
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