TK To Go: Recent Episodes
Matt Taibbi
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The ferocity of the Covid coverup is a thing to behold.
Narrated by Jared Moore
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I guess it’s true: you can’t hate the news media enough.
Narrated by Jared Moore
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Probation and radicalization counseling fail in Germany.
Narrated by Jared Moore
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On speech, Donald Trump is making a mess, for himself and the country.
Narrated by Jared Moore
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From AI chats to the new AP stylebook to a long list of political crazes, online America is constantly looking for ways to put words in your mouth
Narrated by Jared Moore
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On Drop Site’s appalling ambush “interview” of Ro Khanna.
Narrated by Jared Moore
Art by Daniel Medina
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The AI content hurricane is making landfall.
Narrated by Jared Moore
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A candidate in Maine drops out, and hypocrisies abound.
Narrated by Jared Moore
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SJW chic meets the world's longest Mötley Crüe video in a mystifying summer blockbuster
Narrated by Jared Moore
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The high court allows states to ban an idea that almost no one supports, thanks to a historically incompetent policy campaign
Narrated by Jared Moore
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New York’s Mayor proved he’s a generational political talent this week, re-shaping the Democratic Party and setting America up for a referendum on its founding principles
Narrated by Jared Moore
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Ahead of America’s 250th, the beautiful people have brought anti-patriotism fully back into style
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The New York Times keeps setting new records for snootiness
Narrated by Jared Moore
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A Columbia professor writes a dumb column, in anticipation of what will likely be humorously bad book
Narrated by Jared Moore
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57 years ago, Americans went to the moon in four days. Californians would still be working on the countdown
Narrated by Jared Moore
A recording from Matt Taibbi's 6/9/2026 live video with Matt Bivens.
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American and European liberalism rightly campaigned against ethnocentrism once upon a time, but both versions ultimately went way too far
Narrated by Jared Moore
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It’s not the fault of voters that they’re surrounded by crazy
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Log on for some things. Stay off for most things
Narrated by Jared Moore
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On Mother’s Day, public media cheers parenting-as-self-actualization. It’s all about you, adults!
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Art by Daniel Medina
The online fallout from the Correspondent's Dinner shooting has been an epic national Rorschach Test
Narrated by Jared Moore
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Casual lies told by the news media for commercial and political reasons spawn all sorts of horrors, making its phony rectitude insufferable
Narrated by Jared Moore
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The SPLC was just indicted for one kind of fraud. Twitter was investigating another. When you get paid big bucks to find hate, you won't NOT find it
Narrated by Jared Moore
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It’s time to do away with these societal “grifters” and “stowaways,” says an eminent Yale professor
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Two waves of addiction were prescribed by doctors and egged on by pharmaceutical marketing — orchestrated by the Sackler family — that insisted it was safe and a great idea.
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The high-speed demolition of Eric Swalwell is being celebrated as appropriate “accountability,” but removing due process isn’t justice
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Not one of our presidents, least of all this lunatic, can resist starting wars
Narrated by Jared Moore
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Surprisingly, there’s plenty of precedent for Trump’s Easter tirade
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Is a media mania yanking your chain? Ten ways to tell if the answer is yes
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A note on FBI research and the downstream effects of life in a surveillance state
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“Who has my saliva from ten years ago?” On the FBI studies involving serial killers, twins, facial recognition, and genetics
By Ryan Lovelace
Narrated by Jared Moore
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Four years after the Twitter Files, the Missouri v. Biden case ends in a consent decree barring government from threatening protected speech - a belated but important victory
Narrated by Jared Moore
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An Iranian diplomat met with the CEO of Rostec, according to a letter obtained by Racket
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A place to visit, when the world goes mad
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With the recent and ongoing "Software Apocalypse" we may just find out!
Narrated by Jared Moore
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An interview with Kenneth Zucker
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Insider trading on the end of the world?
Narrated by Jared Moore
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Mega investors are a mega problem. But not the only one.
Narrated by Jared Moore
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In an echo of Seymour Hersh’s famed ‘Family Jewels’ story, the FBI has been caught hiding a generation of secrets.
Narrated by Jared Moore
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Agent misconduct, Arctic Frost, and more! Inside the files FBI hides from its own agents
Narrated by Jared Moore
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For a generation, the FBI has kept a second set of books called ‘prohibited access’ files. After a long fight, they’re finally being examined.
Narrated by Jared Moore
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Racket’s new feature chronicles the money behind oft-quoted sources
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People love sports because it’s an escape, which is why we don’t force athletes to choose sides
Narrated by Jared Moore
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G-men scrutinized an 'election matter' 16 months before Arctic Frost
By Ryan Lovelace
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As the scandal involving British spying on journalists deepens, we're learning more about connections to earlier scandals in the U.S. and beyond. Part One in a Series
Narrated by Jared Moore
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Inside Vinay Prasad's standoff with Moderna
By Emily Kopp
Narrated by Jared Moore
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Government is imploding thanks in part to Labour’s decision to spy on reporters, including Americans. On Friday, more rats jumped ship
Narrated by Jared Moore
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The Keir Starmer-aligned group Labour Together had former Racket editor Matt Taibbi and contributor Paul Holden investigated, then passed details to an office in the GCHQ, their NSA analog
By Matt Taibbi
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‘The FBI can gather a dossier on anyone they choose’
By Ryan Lovelace
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America is getting answers on Jeffrey Epstein, but there is an opportunity cost
Copy by Caden Olson
Narrated by Jared Moore
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Your weekly dispatch from the nation’s capital
Narrated by Jared Moore
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Polls are increasingly clear: both Republicans and Democrats are rapidly losing the public's confidence. Do more people want to end the culture war than win it?
Narrated by Jared Moore
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The death of globalization is the real headline from the international self-indulgence festival at Davos
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Is the Fed the beneficiary of its own “success”?
Narrated by Jared Moore
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The social media divide means audiences are no longer obsessing about the same video outrages. Episode 1: the arrest of ChongLy Thao versus the Cities Church
Narrated by Jared Moore
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Martin Luther King, Jr. stressed our common humanity, which would have made him unpopular with almost everyone today.
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Donald Trump’s push to investigate left-leaning groups in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination has quietly run into a wall of conservative opposition
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Donald Trump’s Greenland-gobbling may mean the end of the Atlanticist dream, which should have ended with the fall of communism
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For a long time, there was little data about police shooting at cars, let alone rules. Recently it’s become controversial, but courts still vary wildly in their rulings. Five key cases
Narrated by Jared Moore
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Expressing support for a loony housing appointee, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani became the latest politician to ratify a truly evil set of academic race theories
Narrated by Jared Moore
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With a set of boulders bigger than Brigitte Macron’s, Candace Owens is single-handedly restoring pride in American conspiracy-theory craftsmanship
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Thanks to decades of misreporting, unproven conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein are the one thing uniting both camps of American politics
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The disenfranchisement of young men has already come at a heavy cost, and the biggest consequences likely lay ahead
Narrated by Jared Moore
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In Australia, Providence, and Los Angeles, the postmodern blame game is already making the who, what, where, when, and why hard to figure
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Independent from what? Dumb voters, of course. On this week's potentially transformative Supreme Court case, and the revival of Woodrow Wilson's vision
Narrated by Jared Moore
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With a huge fine of Elon Musk’s X, the Digital Services Act sets sail on its first transatlantic voyage. Is Germany the model for a post-Trump future?
Narrated by Jared Moore
Art by Daniel Medina
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Its critics may be hypocrites, but the Trump administration has created a massive mess for itself with its Venezuelan boat-bombings
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Lies, accusations and counter-accusations, and rising temperatures at home and abroad. When does the good part begin?
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The major political parties deploy escalating insanities on the road to oblivion
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Once again, inference zooms past fact in a mania with Trump as a target
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Do we want to know how the world really works, or is it too disgusting to countenance?
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Reviewing “Life Is a Lazy Susan of Sh*t Sandwiches,” by “I’ve Had It” podcast hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan, prophets of the new misery gospel
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The world may be losing its mind, but it’s at least generously inviting us to watch
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Mainstream Republicans died nine years ago. The Democratic Party’s funeral started last night
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Long-serving intelligence analyst Thomas Speciale never intended to cause a viral ruckus, but it happened this weekend anyway
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Global warming is so powerful, it reversed the meaning of “conspiracy theory”
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In the panic age, nothing offends like optimism
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The new left movement in America is taking off mostly with the very wealthy, which isn’t an accident
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Joe Biden’s famously obtuse former chief spokesperson has a lot to say about last year’s election season, but none of it makes any sense. Wow, is this book bizarre!
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Politicized distribution of hurricane aid money before the 2024 election was no "isolated incident," a Homeland Security follow-up report sadly concludes
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As James Comey is arraigned, new documents show the FBI under his watch criminally investigated first, and looked for reasons later
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Forty-two judges take a stand in the dumbest group letter ever
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Exclusive: new Senate documents show members of Congress, others placed under an intrusive surveillance for dubious reasons under now-defunct TSA program
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Americans have become numb to surveillance, and eliminating Quiet Skies is hopefully just a start.
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How to cover a crime story, network style
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As Google becomes the latest company to admit to mass censorship, the mania over Jimmy Kimmel has morphed into a grotesque propaganda campaign
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An imperious talk show host won the love of Hollywood and the ACLU, but to stop government pressure on companies, speech defenders need to recognize Alex Berenson
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If the Trump Administration follows through on its F.C.C. threats, we'll all be robbed of the joy of legacy media failure
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College students saw Charlie Kirk as the ultimate enemy, so awful he needed deplatforming or worse, but educational swindlers are the real enemies of youth
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If "hate speech" can kill, how about the "hate error"?
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At a crucial juncture in the 2020 presidential election, the Washington Post used a tried-and-true method to pressure Twitter to remove Kirk
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If you make everything about Donald Trump, as the press has for ten years, the simplest headlines quickly become tortured
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Never underestimate the creativity of the virtue-signaling Bay State pseudo-intellectual
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The era of mandatory opinion once again rears its head
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The mainstream press seems to believe it's a perpetual entitlement program
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Thoughts after a challenging discussion with Freddie Sayers of Britain's Unherd
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What a world: Comedian Graham Linehan is arrested in England for telling truths Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell was rewarded for concealing
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The belief that humanity can be transcended, once a dream, is demanding acceptance as fact, with tragic consequences
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One of the Covid-19 pandemic's most suppressed voices speaks on the conflict between the transhumanist project and human nature
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Longtime Trump adviser Michael Caputo's life was upended by Russiagate. Under Biden, he and others were spied on a second time. On the scandal's unreported second chapter
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It's a machine, you idiots.
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Even the "suck on this" version of Thomas Friedman was nicer than this one. Plus, a reader contest
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Devin Nunes was put under investigation in 2017 for looking into abuse of foreign intelligence surveillance programs, including by Barack Obama's White House. New documents appear to vindicate him
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If you can't be bothered to learn the material, at least respect your guests
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The latest revelations in the Trump-Russia mess increasingly point toward severe systematic abuses, indicative of a true police state
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Senator Adam Schiff is the latest name to be dragged in to the ongoing Russiagate probe, but he likely won't be the last
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Journalists were once eager to hear secrets. As they proved again this week, they're now primarily gatekeepers, helping corrupt officials hide the ball
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The high priests of journalism should be able to detect the difference between good coverage and epic failure
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How many times can one newspaper screw up a story?
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The most infuriatingly complex scandal of all time has just been reduced to a page or two, thanks to another declassified release
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How many intelligence chiefs fit in the back of a Volkswagen?
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The European Commission holds a seminar on implementation of its Digital Services Act, offering a disturbing window into a tightening speech landscape
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Media layoffs and a continuing stream of disclosures reveal an unprecedented collapse of the American political consensus
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Start your Pinocchios...
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Official claim that Putin "aspired" to help Trump was based on four pieces of evidence, all bogus, even "ridiculous," according to long-suppressed report just released by DNI Tulsi Gabbard
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After a long wait, a classified annex to Inspector General Michael Horowitz's 2018 report on the FBI, Loretta Lynch, and Hillary Clinton comes out, with bizarre details
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It's not just what the Intelligence Community planned to say about Russian interference, it's who would have seen the text
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New disclosures from a Tulsi Gabbard-led working group point directly to the top, as the legacy of "Hope and Change" begins a plunge to the ocean floor
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Public media can be a great thing, but the current iteration treats America like a foreign country
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"The beginning of the end" just took on new meaning
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Trump administration investigation affirms earlier reports by Racket and Public about use of "cooked" intelligence to launch the Russiagate frenzy
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The victory of Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayoral primary swiftly moved Democrats to Denial, Anger, Bargaining, and Depression, but not Acceptance
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Zohran Mamdani's victory in the New York City mayoral primary opens a new era in American crazy
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Donald Trump's decision to bomb Iran has triggered a maelstrom of destabilizing political pressures. Can we fight and fracture at the same time?
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The Supreme Court drives a stake in the transgender controversy, and neither party says much. Is this chapter in American politics headed for the dustbin of history?
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Only in America can positivity be thoughtcrime.
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En route to England, a brief note about brewing hostilities with Iran
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The news business needs to make up its mind about whether or not it wants journalists to be personalities or reporters
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From democracy to vaccines to election results to Orwell himself, the rewriting of the past to fit current attitudes has become an incurable mania
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Ukraine's 18-month plan to execute "Russia's Pearl Harbor" leaves humanity at the edge of extinction, and Western analysts are giddy
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Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's mass media apologia is leaps and bounds more demented than the book's subject, Joe Biden
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Political homelessness isn't the worst thing
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A major antitrust trial takes an "ancillary" detour to a chilling tour of online life
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Stop lying, blow it up, and start over
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NPR is a small piece of a vast subsidized groupthink bureaucracy, which needs to be cut
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Ben Smith and Ezra Klein yuk it up on Russiagate
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Donald Trump is fast becoming an Orwellian repository for America's past sins, helping erase long histories of abuses
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Declarations of hostilities from both sides have grown more frank, and it may be we're past the point of return to a Queensberry Rules politics
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Yuppies of the world, unite!
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When a couple that should never have been together finally breaks up, it's a happy thing
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Globalization, once hailed as a panacea, has proven to be fundamentally corrupt and needs to be blown to kingdom come
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NPR's advice to parents concerned their children may become incel murderers? Keep them away from jokes
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From Glenn Greenwald to Joe Rogan to Tulsi Gabbard to countless others, Democrats seem to reserve special loathing for their own
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Sourced to tone-deaf "U.S. officials," a massive New York Times exposé reveals an unprecedented betrayal of American voters, but also Ukraine
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Bloomberg wants Substack to make the platform a safer space for its new hordes of mainstream washouts by censoring its controversial riffraff. A reply to the snobs
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Nationwide rallies are spurring "Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez 2028" whispers, and it's already clear: the CIA couldn't do a better job of discrediting the American left
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There's a dire warning for Donald Trump in the civil liberties blunders of New South Wales Premier Chris Minns
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Europe wonders: how will we maintain our lifestyles, if we can't rip off the American taxpayer anymore?
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One enormous facet of the education controversy remains ignored
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Longtime deputy to Robert Mueller and key Trump-Russia investigator Andrew Weissmann is in the crosshairs of federal prosecutors
A fight about Joe Biden's pardons may escalate into a larger question about the last presidency
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With civil liberties flatlined around the globe, Donald Trump is blowing off the First Amendment at the worst conceivable time
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The populist-antipopulist controversy boils over in Romania, where frontrunner Calin Georgescu has been barred from running for a presidential election
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Thanking God that the era of mandatory applause for neoliberal mascots is finally over. Can Greta Thunberg come to the White House next?
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While J.D. Vance was speaking in Munich, the U.K. was demanding encrypted data from Apple. For the first time in nine years, America may fight back
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The once-great AP became journalism's word police, and humorously is now claiming to be a victim of censorship
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Two days after J.D. Vance's historic address to Europe on speech, CBS and 60 Minutes offer a counterattack
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An incredible event, followed by a more incredible reaction
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A chance leak about a last-minute financial agent agreement at the Environmental Protection Agency is the latest evidence that our government is a lot more corrupt than even cynics guessed
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And will soon die.
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Donald Trump's sequel return is already an epic monster movie, and the country seems to think the capital's trampling is a net plus
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A week of heated confirmation hearings served as a referendum on America's Reputational Death Star
A brief note to Senator Bernie Sanders
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The "Invisible Presidency" is an all-time criminal, and must not be allowed to flee
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In Hollywood, self-pity abounds, but there's no remorse for unfairly ruined careers, as Oscar writer Sasha Stone found out
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In a parting gesture of defiance, the FBI releases a long-awaited document, blotting most of it out. Journalist Aaron Maté explains why the Bureau's FOIA follies matter
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was an overgrown pick-up artist whose humiliating downfall will stand forever as a cautionary tale for men
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From drones to terrorists, authorities are having a laugh at the public's expense
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A decades-long mission to fill a spiritual void with politics finally collapsed this year. Will America finally get a life?
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Why choose tragic love, when self-aggrandizement is still an option? The Supreme Court Justice acts out the answer in a cheery agitprop romp
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"We Have Never Been Woke" by Musa al-Gharbi may be academia's first serious effort at self-analysis, and its surprising, enraging diagnosis rings all too true.
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Canada's hipster PM is about to talk Canada back into its historical role as the Washington Generals of international relations
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Joe Biden or whoever is running the White House can absolve anyone they please, but Anthony Fauci needs to stand tall before the man. The world is owed answers
Kash Patel will be the focus of scrutiny now, but the Bureau needs to look in the mirror. How J. Edgar Hoover's legacy was revived in the Trump years
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The reported nomination of Kash Patel means chickens are coming home to roost for the FBI, which needs to be destroyed as a political entity
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On the virtues of using machines instead of being used by them. Thumbing a nose at dystopia, as it recedes in time for a holiday
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Documents just made public show how groups aligned with the Democratic Party hit a third party rival with an array of underhanded schemes that put Watergate tricksters to shame
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Expectation of peace talks after Donald Trump's inauguration is pushing all sides of the Ukraine war to escalate, with British and American missiles adding fresh risk
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Critics of the rumored nomination of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health need to check the election returns
The Real Clear Politics National Average was removed by Wikipedia before the election and the New York Times denounced its failure to skew data. A solution to the "mystery" of crappy polling?
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The national mass psychosis is finally dealt a blow, making it safe to be sane again
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A note on Jimmy Kimmel, Howard Stern, Joe Biden, Stephen Colbert, and others
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Jimmy Kimmel, one of the era's most infamous sources of misinformation, tearfully addresses a terrible night for "journalism" and "free speech"
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The dustbin of history awaits thousands of race-baiting professional panic-mongers whose craven dishonesty gave Donald Trump a popular-vote mandate
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Laugh not, mortals...
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Elite anxiety is bleeding into public commentary, suggesting we have more than an election to worry about in the coming weeks.
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Britain's Center for Countering Digital Hate will be at the "top of the list" of Trump investigatory targets, sources say after Disinformation Chronicle/Racket story
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Gallup's annual confidence survey shows 69% of Americans will not relieve themselves on a journalist in flames
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New FOIA disclosures from UC Irvine show school faculty and administrators struggling with its own famed commitment to academic freedom
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Jimmy Kimmel writer and Substacker Jacob Reed may have just elected Donald Trump by clowning men in the new Mount Everest of unintentional comedy
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In a sequel to the pandemic panic, politicians and elite media are calling for a European-style speech clampdown, this time using the weather as an excuse.
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Lee Fang and I opposed interventionism in a debate with Bret Stephens and Jamie Kirchick in New York this week. Technically we won, but it felt like a big loss
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Warning: even zygotes can be Trump supporters.
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Governor Walz becomes the ten millionth person to wrongly claim "Shouting 'Fire!" in a crowded theater" is a legal standard. Are the Democrats just dumb about speech, or is this calculation?
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The House Committee on Small Business prints a blistering report on the Global Engagement Center, a State Department "counter-messaging" entity at the center of the Twitter Files
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Twenty-three years ago, America's leaders asserted the right to ignore the law. Now, they want voters to ratify their own disenfranchisement
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In the Trump-Harris debate, reality proved easy to manufacture. Was it always like this?
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While fact-checkers descend on Ohio, a brief reminder about a strange episode
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With new Russiagate charges and raids all around, learning to love police, paranoia, and surveillance is the new self-help program
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After witnessing a historic financial collapse in the former Soviet Union, I thought bad advice from Western economists was a root cause. Now I think failure was the plan
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Upper-class America pretended to care about rights, until the rabble moved too close to home
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The charges in the case of Telegram founder Pavel Durov reveal a stunning turn away from very recent French outrage about surveillance
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As governments everywhere tighten their grip on the Internet, Meta's CEO blows a hole in years of official lies. How authorities brought this on themselves
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Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan along with Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky and Chuck Grassley of Iowa are demanding answers about the TSA's "Quiet Skies" program
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"Freedom from" was right up there with "joy" and "unity" as key themes of last night's Blue Party Grammy Awards. Unfortunately, it wasn't funny
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Does Tim Walz represent a new “enlightened archetype” of men?
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When a former presidential candidate and Iraq War veteran was put under "Quiet Skies" surveillance, U.S. Air Marshals blew the whistle on an "out of control" program
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New document releases show a key disclosure on Russiagate, confusion over how "misinformation" narratives are chosen, odd emails about drop boxes and pre-bunking, and more
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Built to fight foreign terrorists, our Domestic Department of Everything sees the budget-conscious American with a vote as the greatest threat.
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Placed on a terror watch list, the former Hawaii congresswoman and her husband were tailed by Air Marshals and bomb dogs. "Unconstitutional on every level," she says. "And I'm not the only one."
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Terror of self-sufficiency grips the New York Times editorial page, and comedy ensues
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After nationalist riots in Southport, Britain's new Prime Minister announces plans for a "coordinated effort" to arrest wrongdoers "before they can even board a train"
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Racket consults the experts. How many dunce caps does the "Border Czar" controversy earn?
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Having covered up Joe Biden's infirmity for years, the press moves to whitewash the bizarre record of Kamala Harris
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When Joe Biden failed to immediately assume the position when party bigwigs called for his head, Beltway insiders lumped him in with the Orange One
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Joe Biden is too incapacitated to run for re-election, but plans to stay in office. What the hell is going on?
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Self-described guardians of democracy spent years creating a lethal atmosphere around Donald Trump
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In the wake of a fatal shooting and attempted assassination of Donald Trump, a series of reversals may mark the beginning of a new political era
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Eight years of madness have brought America to the doorstep of its perfect WWE ending. Let's get ready to rumble
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The oft-criticized last season of the acclaimed series, a satire in which institutional America is totally overrun by fraud, now looks ahead of its time
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While Joe Biden struggled onstage, party plotters scripted his premature exit
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Standing and the related "traceability" issue doom Murthy v. Missouri, as the Supreme Court votes 6-3 to kick the Internet censorship can down the road
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The Wikileaks head is finally out of prison. A look back at some of the comments that kept him inside
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A new generation of unscrupulous political leaders and Wall Street hucksters has come up with a brilliant plan to outwit the populist revolt: pretending to be critics of capitalism
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Last week, Racket showed an intelligence-crafted game blaming AI for suggesting "one of the candidates may have dementia." Yesterday, Biden spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre played that exact card
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A seeming win for this site's readers and other opponents of censorship. But is the win illusory?
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When War on Terror proponents ignored laws to target Muslim terror suspects, American liberalism rightly objected. Once Donald Trump became the target, critics joined the mob
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Writer Bogdan Syrotiuk has been detained and a prominent socialist site blocked, while a new list of Ukrainian media enemies is released. The Western press response? Silence
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"We got him!" cheered protesters, headlines. What did they get?
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One of the co-founders of the Heterodox Academy returns to his academic specialty with a hair-raising warning about the digital age
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Going on strike from it all.
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In a possible preview of our future, a Twitter contractor proposed aggressive solutions for speech, including putting users in "voids" and replacing their content with pet pics
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"If I'm being honest...This type of approach was common practice in the USSR."
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When Stanford's Election Integrity Partnership stirred up controversy, its participants defiantly planned a rerun for this year
The Great Bipartisan Constitution-shredding project of 2024 continues at breakneck speed
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Should we teach more knowledge and less process? Why has knowledge become a bad word? Racket catches up with K-12 expert Natalie Wexler, author of "The Knowledge Gap"
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Life sentences for speech? Pre-crime detention? Ex post facto law? Anonymous accusers? It's all in Justin Trudeau's "Online Harms Bill," a true "threat to democracy"
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Five years of bitterness between Joe Biden and the country's most influential newspaper burst into the open this week, opening a door for a press comeback
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The latest "What happened to you, man?" piece goes next-level
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How out of control is our surveillance state? Read about a dubious investigation that swept up communications of some of the country's most senior highest officials, and their families, in secret
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The standard-bearer for the "Voters are too dumb to understand the economy" movement takes an ironic stand against "magical thinking"
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If you think you spent twenty years being ripped off while a generation of rent-seeking scam artists was showered with public subsidies, experts agree: your "perception" needs
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Making high finance accessible to ordinary readers, one financial "shit burger" at a time.
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After betraying voters to lead a weekend wipeout in Congress for the war-and-spying crowd, Mike Johnson was granted honorary "adult" status by adoring pundits
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On a Saturday to mark and remember, congress funds two wars and hands the intelligence agencies sweeping new surveillance power, getting nothing in return
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ESPN star Stephen A. Smith articulates what sports fans everywhere are thinking about Trump's trials
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Thoughts on the resignation of the former NPR senior editor
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A story about facts and decency is quickly reduced to another partisan bias tale.
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Q&A With Coleman Hughes, author of "The End of Race Politics," who just experienced the mother of all book tour appearances
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He's a bestselling writer with a penchant for bikes, but "Archedelia" author Matthew Crawford offers a new kind of wisdom. A Substack Q&A
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A few thoughts on the arrival of a new Fahrenheit 451 future. Plus, a few mild site changes
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Surely this is the funniest media story of the year?
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If "misinformation" reporter Brandy Zadrozny is the best hit artist NBC News has left on its roster, it might be time to shutter the network
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If a censored tree falls in the forest, do we still have to misquote it?
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Google provides an early, scary test case for mechanized suppression by threatening a popular economics site with demonetization
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Acquitted on German hate speech charges in January, American playwright CJ Hopkins is being charged again for the same offense. He has a scary message for Americans
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The government just begged the Supreme Court to let it fight "misinformation," but the plaintiffs were citizens suppressed for exposing official error. Why state lies are the most dangerous
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A brief recap of oral arguments in the long-awaited Supreme Court case on state-sponsored censorship
Correcting the record after a desperate slam job on the Twitter Files, published just before oral arguments in a historic First Amendment case in the Supreme Court
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Did they tell you the part about giving the president sweeping new powers?
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New York Magazine's "Freedom of Sex" is the ultimate example of the lunatic nihilism that's consumed America's intellectual class
This week in undisguised class hatred: the New York Times and MSNBC slobber over a new book on the domestic threat
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Google Gemini's ridiculous image generator got all of the headlines in the last two weeks, but a more important AI announcement went mostly unnoticed
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Misadventures in Gemini, Google's dystopian deep-slander invention
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Having been walloped in her own state after finishing second in an unopposed race, Nikki Haley should be a historic punchline. Instead, political shaming sank to new depths
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A New York Times exposé outs years of unsavory details about the Ukraine's relationship with the CIA, while a Ukrainian spy chief swats down U.S. messaging. Is a breakup at hand? www.Racket.news
A year after its censorship programs were exposed, the Global Engagement Center still insists the public has no right to know how it's spending taxpayer money
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The last time we let "sexed up" intelligence guide policy, we were led to war in Iraq. The 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment caused America to declare war on itself
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Media figures who exposed illegal surveillance, manufactured intelligence, and other abuses in the Trump-Russia investigation almost always paid a price
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A brief note on an overlooked nightmare.
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The recent ballot access challenges, political investigations, and canceled primaries are just an extension of a phenomenon we should have seen coming twenty years ago www.racket.news
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The 2024 presidential race increasingly looks like it will be decided by lawyers, not voters, as Democrats unveil plans for America's first lawfare election
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As lawsuits, indictments, and ballot challenges mount, a defiant Donald Trump tells America: he'll be here all week
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The Global Engagement Center obliterates the "fine line" between doing its job, diplomacy, and crossing into prohibited domestic propaganda | www.Racket.news
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Voters keep rejecting the colonial project, but institutional America won't take no for an answer www.racket.news
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Eight years ago the Washington Post pledged to save democracy, but now argues we need to be saved from it
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Stanford's Virality Project sought to partner with drugmakers before launching a content moderation program blurring lines between "vaccine opposed information" and "misinformation"
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After nearly two years of pretending "victory" was coming, the president and a senior advisor finally admit the reality of Ukraine's dilemma. On the hawks who cried wolf
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Everyone knows America spreads lies abroad, and lately we've even started bragging about it in print. But the #CTIFiles suggest "information warfare" is being deployed domestically www.racket.news
Bookending the historic Consortium News suit, conservative news outlets take on the Global Engagement Center for funding "censorship enterprises" and blacklisting
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"Anti-disinformation" always seemed like a thinly-veiled excuse to tilt the media landscape in partisan directions. Thanks to new #CTILeague disclosures, now we can say it for sure.
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In bizarre House hearing on censorship, Democrats not only show they don't care, they announce themselves as the chief advocates of new speech-control programs
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Why ask, if you don't want to know?
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Hey, digital censors are people, too.
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A damning House report and new docs from the Twitter Files expose the "Election Integrity Partnership" as state censorship in a ski mask
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The Minnesota Senator asks Amazon to censor Substack and Rumble. How much more of this can we take?
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The IRS promised to curtail home visits, but a deep dive by the House Weaponization of Government Committee revealed more about past abuses. Has this happened to you? www.racket.news
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The Consortium News lawsuit against a private news rating system lays out how the government can suppress speech by proxy more at www.racket.news
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While officials demand more social media crackdowns over the Israeli crisis, politicians and the corporate press are making the most damaging mistakes
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The European Union deigns to lecture America on free expression
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Jack Poulson has an insider's background, an outsider's perspective, and unique technical expertise, making him an invaluable resource for monitoring the world of national security contracting www.racket.news
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In an impressive new low, the White House sends impeachment coverage guidelines up a flagpole, and the press salutes
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A key part of a court order in a major Internet censorship case is reinstated, but other parts, perhaps more important, are vacated.
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Noam Dworman clashes with Washington Post columnist Philip Bump, and the results aren't pretty
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Democracy may die in darkness, but its new connotations also squirm under the light
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When left/liberal fixations fall out of establishment favor, they're re-christened as conservative menaces
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The federal government's pro-censorship arguments seemed to take a hit in a contentious, fascinating hearing in New Orleans
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An awkward moment in the Missouri v. Biden case highlighted how the administration sure didn't like Internet censorship, when they were on the business end of it
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The realignment of major parties away from blue against red and toward a rich versus poor dynamic is America's most undercovered political story
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America enters an unprecedented political unknown, and our leaders appear helpless to find a way out www.Racket.news
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A House Subcommittee releases internal Facebook correspondence showing how a White House that was itself spreading disinformation tried to ban criticism
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The "Facebook Files" show the press is part of the censorship establishment, but that's not the worst part
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In a supreme irony, the scientists hired to stamp out the "lab leak" theory may vindicate the politician most tarred as a conspiracy theorist for keeping the theory alive www.Racket.news
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Robert Kennedy, Jr.'s appearance before the House Weaponization of Government Committee descends into madness
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Public releases the Proximal Origin documents. What they show, and why they're historic
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Opening comments to the general public to ask a question, in sincerity: what changed the minds of society's former First Amendment advocates?
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A court ruling knocks digital censorship to the canvas, ordering a sweeping halt to the "nothingburger" described in Missouri v. Biden and the Twitter Files
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All but a few are deplorable now.
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Special counsel John Durham appears before Congress, offering perhaps a last chance to ask the question: was his Russiagate report devastating truth-telling, or a whitewash job?
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Address at Free Speech Event in London, with Russell Brand and Michael Shellenberger
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As months-long joint investigation goes public, some additional details and context
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An American playwright faces jail for two vanished tweets. Q&A with the author about his ugly present, and our probable future.
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Newly released documents clearly show the FBI tried to help Ukrainian intelligence censor Aaron Mate, but the mainstream press continues to show its lack of principle
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Germany investigates Roger Waters for incitement to parody
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The man who was Director when the FBI's reputation began a steep national nosedive resurfaces for a TV makeover
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Matt Walsh's "What is a Woman?" is the kind of content most thought would be safe under new Twitter ownership. A new battle over the film feels like an attack of nanny-Twitter déjà vu
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The Russian President's new "List of 500" sanctioned Americans looks like a Russiagate-media honey trap
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A House Subcommittee investigation reveals new details about my IRS case that should unnerve any journalist, or any American, for that matter
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The Censorship-Industrial Complex is new in its scale and expense, but in both language and ambition, a perfect repeat of our history's darkest chapters
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A Special Counsel report chronicles how intelligence agencies engineered a national hysteria, but its publication comes too late to reverse the damage
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The Michael Morell story demonstrates that the intelligence community needs sweeping reform, beginning with getting spies all the way out of domestic political life
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Narrowing permitted ideas on both left and right, one unsuitable voice at a time
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Representative Stacey Plaskett, who called Michael Shellenberger and me "direct threats to people who oppose them," is now threatening me with prison - over Mehdi Hasan's uncorrected error
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The Michael Morell story is disposed of by press janitors
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As fallout from the Discord leak continues, the undisguised partnerships of media, intelligence, and law enforcement come into more painful relief
Reviewing the last six years at the network that claims now to be concerned with integrity and accuracy
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Interview with Jacob Siegel, author of "A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century"
After an ugly congressional hearing and months of bad press for censorship advocates, a Homeland Security advisory panel undergoes sweeping changes
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Reclaiming some time, from a House hearing on free speech
Americans have been paying taxes to disenfranchise themselves, as government agencies and subcontractors undertake a massive digital blacklisting project.
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We may never know if it was spying, but the Chinese balloon served its purpose, feeding our political establishment's tireless efforts to keep the public freaked out
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The venerable watchdog publication breaks legacy media ranks with a massive rebuke of Trump-Russia coverage. Interview with the report's dogged author, Jeff Gerth
The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork
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The #TwitterFiles offer just the latest reasons why, but it’s long been obvious that unwinding the Big Lie would be a key first step on this country's road to healing
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Twitter tried to balk at cooperating with government agencies deemed "political." In the end, it allowed everyone access through the FBI "Belly Button"
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A brief note on a strange byline
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Trump should spare us all and retire. But his antagonists' lack of self-awareness keeps giving him oxygen
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Jared Moore reads the first three headlines: Trump Returns, WWIII Averted-Ish, and FTX Collapses.
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Americans who once venerated self-reliance are building a church of conformity, whose chief means of worship is destroying heretics. Elon Musk should tell the priesthood to shove it
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A Florida FBI agent blows the whistle on a Bureau that's stopped worrying about making cases, shifting resources to a vast new mission: domestic spying without predicate. Part one of a series
Jared Moore reads the first four headlines: Midterms: The Basics, Midterms: The Panic, Midterms: Biden’s Speech, Midterms: “Risk of Violence”.
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30 Democratic House members grew and un-grew spines in record time, in a slapstick fiasco predicted almost to the last word.
Jared Moore reads the first five headlines: Pelosi Attack, Musk Twitter Reign Commences, Loss of Meta Proportions, Peace Caucus Routed, and Gas Company Orgy Continues.
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Jared Moore reads the first four headlines: Could U.S. Block Twitter Deal? , Defense Discussions “Beyond Belief”, The Journo Vanishes, and WSJ Follows Up Insider Trading Blockbuster.
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We were warned about this in Fahrenheit 451
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American officials keep insisting they won't negotiate with Russia, but now they're also leaking a belief that Ukraine can't win. Is this 4-D chess, or cluelessness? Or is there no plan at all?
Jared Moore reads the first four headlines: U.S.-Saudi Romance On Rocks, Monster WSJ Exposé Nails State Officials, Congress Issues Trump Subpoena, and Russia, West Trade Insane Threats.
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Why "pacifists" aren't "fascifists"
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A New York Times story pinning an assassination on Ukraine was a blockbuster, but why was it made public? How news in the "Information Warfare" age has become incomprehensible
The "Useful Idiots" co-host is dismissed from The Hill, which is a little too frank about the reason
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In scrubbed piece about Edward Snowden, the Bezos Post offers a preview of how history will be re-written.
Jared Moore reads the first four headlines: Free Fat Leonard!, King of Pain, We Might Be in a Recession, Again, Again!, and Not So Fast on Averted Railway Strike.
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Onetime watchdogs of state power have stopped caring about abuses. It can't all be because of Trump, can it?
Jared Moore reads the first three headlines: Railroad Strike Averted, DeSantis, Martha’s Vineyard, Play Migrant Dodgeball, and New Financial Product Allows Ordinary Citizens to Mimic Insider Trades of Congress.
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Jared Moore reads the first four headlines: Heads Explode as Special Master Named in Trump Case, Seattle Teachers Strike; Railroad Deadline Approaches, EPA Ruling Impacts Gas Exports, and Attack of the Twitter Bots.
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Jared Moore reads the first four headlines: Military Tensions Between U.S. and China Escalate, Major Commercial Surveillance Suit Filed, Natural Gas Prices Skyrocket, and Mississippi Horror.
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National news media and federal law enforcement are now as indistinguishable in America as in any autocratic country anywhere.
Jared Moore reads the first four headlines: More fallout from Raid Week, a Saudi shopping spree, Liz Cheney's non-victory, and an eastward NATO deployment.
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America needs to get back to meaningless fun, and "Top Gun: Maverick" delivers in colossal doses.
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A new defense bill crammed with political pork smashes records, but you likely didn't hear the news, because War is Good again.
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With censorship soaring and real reporting all but taboo, the major dailies have just one important function left: being a political signaling system
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Albeit with new wrapping and new jargon, crypto has been infected by the same old problems of insider finance
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An unstable encounter with a $50 billion stablecoin.
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While the media world wept over Amber and Johnny, a lawsuit filed by a feminist group over prison sexual abuse remained earth's most ignored scandal.
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The feminist author of The Abolition of Sex has become the ultimate example of a new propaganda phenomenon, which denounces leftists as right-wing when they say unpopular things.
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The expansion of the Foundation of Individual Rights in Education marks the end of an era, when free speech issues were the sole province of American liberalism.
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George W. Bush returns to the news with a tad too much honesty, lifting a veil on Washington’s dirtiest open secret: the Biden Democrats have become the Bush Republicans.
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A series of moves against media outlets by PayPal shows the next step in speech control: confiscation. Why won't the company answer questions?
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On drinking the delicious tears of blue-check hypocrites, who've suddenly discovered the perils of a privatized speech landscape.
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From left to right, from Chomsky to Carlson, war-skeptical voices are being denounced at levels not seen since Iraq
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The Great Elon Musk panic of 2022 is revealing a big fat boatload of blue-check hypocrites
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More and more, we're told outright war isn't just necessary and right, but the thing that will solve America's existential problems
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Let's fly the first black woman to the moon, but send the checks to Jeff Bezos! On the congressional hustle that perfectly captures 2022 America.
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The nation's central bankers, who've have had a rough year in headlines, are letting us all know how they learned about the horrors of inflation.
Narrated by Jared Moore
Text originally published 4/01/2022:
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How many examples of "regime change" blowing up in our faces do we really need before realizing that it's a disastrous policy? Will we really try it with a nuclear-armed adversary?
Narrated by Jared Moore
Text originally published 3/30/2022:
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Interview with the award-winning investigative reporter, now at Substack, who had six years of shows removed by YouTube over the weekend.
Narrated by Jared Moore
Text originally published 3/28/2022:
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In an inane sequel to the Harper's Letter fiasco, a New York Times editorial ignites a fury proving its anodyne thesis.
Text originally published 3/21/2022:
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From free speech to "spheres of influence" to our passion for endless war, we've become the doublethinkers 1984 predicted.
Original text version published 3/13/2022:
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Long before controversies in Canada and Russia saw financial services politicized, porn star Cheri Deville warned about payment processors having too much power over speech.
Original text version published 3/09/2022:
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After the Biden administration and the press wrongly predicted a Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 16th, they kept compounding the error in spectacular fashion.
Original text version published 2/17/22:
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The fact-checkers who flagged Paul Thacker's British Medical Journal article about a Pfizer subcontractor for Facebook admitted they police narrative, not fact.
Read by Jared Moore.
Original text version published 2/1/2022:
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As the latest anti-Substack campaign shows, more and more people are forgetting why free speech works.
Read by Jared Moore.
Original text version published 1/27/22:
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The American foreign policy establishment, chasing decades of failures, appears to be seriously considering the unthinkable in Ukraine.
Read by Jared Moore.
Original text version published 1/25/22:
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To win an exhausted nation's admiration, all Joe Biden had to do was nothing. Instead, he's burning future votes like kindling.
Read by Jared Moore.
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Original text version published 1/19/22:
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As yokel-bashing reaches impressive new heights, reports of yet another year of record profits and a widening wealth gap go unnoticed.
Read by Jared Moore
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Original text version published 1/13/22
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The appearance of Dick Cheney in the House of Representatives on the anniversary of January 6th helped identify the true villain on the scene
Read by Jared Moore
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Original text version published 1/07/22:
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“We have mass incarceration for the poor, and it’s totally hands-off for the rich, and that’s pretty hard to stomach.” Justice Jed Rakoff on his new book, and his famous challenge to the system
Read by Jared Moore
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Original text version published 1/05/22:
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Terry McAuliffe lost the Virginia governor's race by saying, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what to teach." If that was no gaffe, Democrats have a lot more significant losing ahead
Read by Jared Moore
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Original text version published 12/28/21:
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The documents at the heart of a nationwide controversy.
Read the FOIA documents, and original text below.
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Original text version published 12/17/21:
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