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Listen to This Article - We're All Living Season 5 of "The Wire"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThe oft-criticized last season of the acclaimed series, a satire in which institutional America is totally overrun by fraud, now looks ahead of its timeNarrated by Jared Moore
Listen to This Article - The Democratic Coup
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsWhile Joe Biden struggled onstage, party plotters scripted his premature exitNarrated by Jared Moore
Listen to This Article - The Supreme Court Punts on Censorship
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsStanding and the related "traceability" issue doom Murthy v. Missouri, as the Supreme Court votes 6-3 to kick the Internet censorship can down the roadNarrated by Jared Moorewww.Racket.news
Listen to This Article - Assange is Free, But Never Forget How the Press Turned on Him
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThe Wikileaks head is finally out of prison. A look back at some of the comments that kept him insideNarrated by Jared Moorewww.Racket.news
Listen to This Article - Bring Back Capitalism
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsA 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
Listen to This Article - We Called It: Karine Jean-Pierre Blames AI "Deepfakes" for Joe Biden's Real Infirmity
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsLast 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
Listen to This Article - A Rare Win for Free Speech? The Stanford Internet Observatory Closes
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsA seeming win for this site's readers and other opponents of censorship. But is the win illusory?Narrated by Jared Moore
Listen to This Article - Welcome To The Third World
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsWhen War on Terror proponents ignored laws to target Muslim terror suspects, American liberalism rightly objected. Once Donald Trump became the target, critics joined the mobNarrated by Jared Moore
Listen to This Article: Ukraine Detains Socialist Writer, Bans World Socialist Web Site
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? SilenceNarrated by Jared Moore This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Listen to This Article - Ding, Dong, the Witch Still Leads the Polls
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news"We got him!" cheered protesters, headlines. What did they get?Narrated by Jared Moore
Listen to This Article: Substack Q&A: Jonathan Haidt's "Anxious Generation"
One of the co-founders of the Heterodox Academy returns to his academic specialty with a hair-raising warning about the digital ageNarrated by Jared Moorewww.Racket.news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Listen to This Article - Stop The Bullshit
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsGoing on strike from it all.
Listen to This Article - More Twitter Files: Your Posts Replaced With "Dog Pictures, Quinoa Recipes, and Sports Scores"?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsIn 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 picsNarrated by Jared Moorewww.Racket.news
Listen to This Article - FOIA Files: Garry Kasparov Resigns from Aspen Institute Commission, Compares it to Soviet Committee
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news"If I'm being honest...This type of approach was common practice in the USSR."www.Racket.news
Listen to This Article - Censorship Files: "We Will Not Be Intimidated From Continuing Our Mission in... 2024"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsWhen Stanford's Election Integrity Partnership stirred up controversy, its participants defiantly planned a rerun for this year
Listen to This Article: More Republicans Betray Causes They Supported Ten Minutes Ago
The Great Bipartisan Constitution-shredding project of 2024 continues at breakneck speed This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Listen to This Article: Substack Q&A: Natalie Wexler of "Minding The Gap"
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" This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Listen to This Article: Blame Canada? Justin Trudeau Creates Blueprint for Dystopia in Horrific Speech Bill
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsLife 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"www.Racket.news
Listen to This Article: Is Journalism Back? New York Times Editor Goes Ballistic on Biden, “Safe Space” Era
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsFive 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 comebackwww.Racket.news
Listen to This Article: The Atlantic Compares Walter Kirn to Donald Trump
The latest "What happened to you, man?" piece goes next-levelwww.Racket.news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Listen to This Article: A True Bipartisan Scandal
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsHow 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 secretNarrated by Jared Moorewww.Racket.news
Listen to This Article - Paul Krugman's Magical Thinking
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThe standard-bearer for the "Voters are too dumb to understand the economy" movement takes an ironic stand against "magical thinking"www.Racket.news
Listen to This Article - It's Not Me, It's You: Blaming the Public's "Perception of the Economy"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsIf 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" needsNarrated by Jared Moorewww.racket.news
Listen to This Article - Substack Q&A: Quoth The Raven's "Fringe Finance"
Making high finance accessible to ordinary readers, one financial "shit burger" at a time.www.Racket.news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Listen to This Article: America's "Adults in the Room" Are Revolting
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsAfter betraying voters to lead a weekend wipeout in Congress for the war-and-spying crowd, Mike Johnson was granted honorary "adult" status by adoring punditswww.racket.news
Listen to This Article: A Saturday Massacre in Congress
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsOn a Saturday to mark and remember, congress funds two wars and hands the intelligence agencies sweeping new surveillance power, getting nothing in return
Listen to This Article: Mission Impossible: Democrats Make Trump a Martyr
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsESPN star Stephen A. Smith articulates what sports fans everywhere are thinking about Trump's trialsNarrated by Jared Moore
Listen to This Article: On Uri Berliner's Resignation from NPR
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThoughts on the resignation of the former NPR senior editorNarrated by Jared Moore
Listen to This Article - Orwell Watch: NPR and the Death of Fairness
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsA story about facts and decency is quickly reduced to another partisan bias tale.www.Racket.news
Listen to This Article: On "The View," A Crack Finally Shows in the Propaganda Facade
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsQ&A With Coleman Hughes, author of "The End of Race Politics," who just experienced the mother of all book tour appearances www.Racket.news
Listen to This Article: America's Next Motorcycle Philosopher?
He's a bestselling writer with a penchant for bikes, but "Archedelia" author Matthew Crawford offers a new kind of wisdom. A Substack Q&Awww.Racket.news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Listen to This Article: Maintain Your Brain
A few thoughts on the arrival of a new Fahrenheit 451 future. Plus, a few mild site changeswww.Racket.news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Listen to This Article: Ronna McDaniel and MSNBC: Ultimate Schadenfreude?
Surely this is the funniest media story of the year?www.Racket.news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Listen to This Article: The Peacock Joins The Smear Campaign
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsIf "misinformation" reporter Brandy Zadrozny is the best hit artist NBC News has left on its roster, it might be time to shutter the networkwww.Racket.news
Listen to This Article: America's Intellectual "Bloodbath"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsIf a censored tree falls in the forest, do we still have to misquote it?www.Racket.news
Listen to This Article: Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism
Google provides an early, scary test case for mechanized suppression by threatening a popular economics site with demonetizationwww.Racket.news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Listen to This Article: "It's Not About Trump": American CJ Hopkins, Charged Again in Germany, Describes Global Censorship Effort
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 Americanswww.Racket.news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Listen to This Article: Why Government is Always the Most Dangerous Source of Misinformation
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThe 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 dangerouswww.Racket.news
Listen to This Article: The First Amendment Takes a Beating in the Supreme Court
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsA brief recap of oral arguments in the long-awaited Supreme Court case on state-sponsored censorship
Listen to This Article: On Today’s Absurd New York Times Hit Piece
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 CourtNarrated by Jared Moorewww.Racket.news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Listen to This Article: Why the TikTok Ban is So Dangerous
Did they tell you the part about giving the president sweeping new powers?www.Racket.news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Listen to This Article: The Dumbest Cover Story Ever
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsNew York Magazine's "Freedom of Sex" is the ultimate example of the lunatic nihilism that's consumed America's intellectual class
Listen to This Article: MSNBC, Paul Krugman Panic Over "White Rural Rage"
This week in undisguised class hatred: the New York Times and MSNBC slobber over a new book on the domestic threatwww.Racket.news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Listen to This Article: If AI Thinks George Washington is a Black Woman, Why Are We Letting it Pick Bomb Targets?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsGoogle Gemini's ridiculous image generator got all of the headlines in the last two weeks, but a more important AI announcement went mostly unnoticedwww.Racket.news
Listen to This Article: I Wrote What? Google's AI-Powered Libel Machine
Misadventures in Gemini, Google's dystopian deep-slander inventionwww.Racket.news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Listen to This Article: Nikki Haley's $100 Million Faceplant
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsHaving 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 depthswww.Racket.news
Listen to This Article: CIA, Ukraine Exchange Pre-Divorce Propaganda
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsA 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
Listen to This Article: State Department Threatens Congress Over Censorship Programs
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 moneywww.Racket.news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Listen to This Article: Why Even Democrats Should Care About the “Cooked Intelligence” Russiagate Scandal
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThe 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 www.Racket.news
Listen to This Article: Many Reporters Paid for Covering the Russiagate Story
Media figures who exposed illegal surveillance, manufactured intelligence, and other abuses in the Trump-Russia investigation almost always paid a pricewww.Racket.news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe