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@tmattingly · Terry Mattingly -- Rational Sheep · Substack profile · Culture

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tmatt has 7,249 followers on Substack as of Nov 1, 2026. 28 publications recommend them, 1 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 12.

Followers 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: 7,249; read Nov 1
Last 7 days: first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days: first number on Nov 30
Subscribers: 2.8K+; rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers: 100+; bestseller badge 100+
Recommended by: 28; +1 in 30 days
Recommends: 12
Bestsellers rank: not on a board

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 tmatt on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.

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Daily readings
Date	Followers	Change	Subscribers	Paid band
Nov 1, 2026	7,249	+1	2.8K+
Oct 31, 2026	7,248		2.8K+

Leaderboard positions

Not on a category leaderboard right now

Substack's boards list the top 100 per category, by paid subscribers (Bestsellers) and by recent paid growth (Rising). I read all 66 of them once a day, so a new entry shows up within a day.

Recommendations

28 publications recommend tmatt; 1 started in the last 30 days. tmatt recommends 12, and 2 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
2024-03	2
2024-04	1
2024-05	2
2024-08	1
2024-09	1
2024-10	1
2024-11	1
2024-12	1
2025-01	1
2025-03	2
2025-06	1
2025-07	2
2025-09	1
2025-10	1
2026-01	1
2026-02	1
2026-03	2
2026-05	2
2026-06	2
2026-08	1
2026-10	1

Recommended by

Rod Dreher54k followers · started Mar 2024 · mutual
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Peter's Substackstarted Mar 10, 2026
Opening chaptersstarted Mar 8, 2026
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Latayne: The Setting of a Time Out of Jointstarted Jan 17, 2026
Turn it Off: Media Literacy for Followersstarted Oct 2025
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The Pelican's Eyestarted Mar 2025
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Beyond the Threshold: Stories, Worlds, and Explorationsstarted Dec 2024
Althea’s Substackstarted Nov 2024
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All 28

The Compleat Catholic Readerstarted Aug 2024
The Pragmatic Mysticstarted May 2024
MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚started Apr 2024
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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.