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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
Listen to This Article: Financial Big Brother is Watching You
A brief note on an overlooked nightmare.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 Anti-Democratic Movement Targeted Ralph Nader First. We Should Have Paid More Attention
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 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: Is the Electoral Fix Already In?
The 2024 presidential race increasingly looks like it will be decided by lawyers, not voters, as Democrats unveil plans for America's first lawfare electionNarrated 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: Donald Trump, America's Comic
As lawsuits, indictments, and ballot challenges mount, a defiant Donald Trump tells America: he'll be here all weekwww.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 FOIA Story: The State Department Pleads Not Guilty to "Brainwashing"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThe Global Engagement Center obliterates the "fine line" between doing its job, diplomacy, and crossing into prohibited domestic propaganda | www.Racket.news
Listen to This Article: The War Party Tantrum
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsVoters keep rejecting the colonial project, but institutional America won't take no for an answer www.racket.news
Listen to This Article: Democracy Dies in Daylight
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsEight years ago the Washington Post pledged to save democracy, but now argues we need to be saved from it
Listen to This Article - FOIA Exclusive: Did Pharma Companies Help Plan "Virality Project" Censorship Program?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsStanford's Virality Project sought to partner with drugmakers before launching a content moderation program blurring lines between "vaccine opposed information" and "misinformation"www.racket.news
Listen to This Article: Lying Was the Only Plan Biden, U.S. Ever Had in Ukraine
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsAfter 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 wolfwww.racket.news
Listen to This Article: "Information Warfare" Comes Home
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsEveryone 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
Listen to This Article - Sue the Bastards: Federalist, Daily Wire Take the State Department to Court
Bookending the historic Consortium News suit, conservative news outlets take on the Global Engagement Center for funding "censorship enterprises" and blacklistingwww.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: "Anti-Disinformation" Is a Partisan Con
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news"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.
Listen to This Article: Dan Goldman, Democrats, Make a Clown Show of Censorship Hearing
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsIn 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
Listen to This Article - Pundits: "Ignorance" Makes Americans Give "Wrong" Answers To Economic Confidence Poll
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsWhy ask, if you don't want to know?www.racket.news
Listen to This Article: The Tragic Victimhood of "Disinformation Experts"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsHey, digital censors are people, too.www.racket.news
Listen to This Article: Big Brother is Flagging You
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsA damning House report and new docs from the Twitter Files expose the "Election Integrity Partnership" as state censorship in a ski mask www.racket.news
Listen to This Article: Amy Klobuchar, You Suck
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThe Minnesota Senator asks Amazon to censor Substack and Rumble. How much more of this can we take? More at www.racket.news
Listen to This Article: A House Investigation Reveals Disturbing IRS Home Visit Practices
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThe 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
Listen to This Article: Newsguard Case Highlights the Pentagon's Censorship End-Around
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThe Consortium News lawsuit against a private news rating system lays out how the government can suppress speech by proxy more at www.racket.news
Listen to This Article: The New York Times Takes Another L
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsWhile officials demand more social media crackdowns over the Israeli crisis, politicians and the corporate press are making the most damaging mistakesmore at www.racket.news
Listen to This Article: Europe, Get Off Our Speech Lawn
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThe European Union deigns to lecture America on free expression
Listen to This Article: Forget Bellingcat. Meet a Real "Open Source" Watchdog
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsJack 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
Listen to This Article: Biden's Praetorian Media Guard
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsIn an impressive new low, the White House sends impeachment coverage guidelines up a flagpole, and the press salutes More at www.Racket.news
Listen to This Article: In Missouri v. Biden Internet Censorship Case, a Win and a Loss
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsA key part of a court order in a major Internet censorship case is reinstated, but other parts, perhaps more important, are vacated.
Listen to This Article: Inside the Blue Bubble
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsNoam Dworman clashes with Washington Post columnist Philip Bump, and the results aren't pretty