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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsAmericans 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsA 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”. More ATW Content:America This Week with Matt Taibbi & Walter Kirn PodcastWritten VersionFind TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news30 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.More ATW Content:America This Week with Matt Taibbi & Walter Kirn PodcastWritten VersionFind TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

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.More ATW Content:America This Week with Matt Taibbi & Walter Kirn PodcastWritten VersionFind TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsWe were warned about this in Fahrenheit 451

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsAmerican 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.More ATW Content:ATW Podcast with Matt Taibbi & Walter KirnWritten VersionFind TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsWhy "pacifists" aren't "fascifists"Listen to subscriber only audio in your podcast app: https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/4519588148244-How-do-I-listen-to-episodes-on-my-podcast-app-

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsA 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 reasonNarrated by Jared MooreText Published10/05/22:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsIn 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. 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsOnetime 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. 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

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. 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

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. 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsNational 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. Click here to listen to the audio recap of “America This Week” with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn. 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

America needs to get back to meaningless fun, and "Top Gun: Maverick" delivers in colossal doses.Narrated by Jared MooreText Published 08/03/2022:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.Narrated 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

A new defense bill crammed with political pork smashes records, but you likely didn't hear the news, because War is Good again.Text Published 7/20/22: Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.Narrated 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

With censorship soaring and real reporting all but taboo, the major dailies have just one important function left: being a political signaling systemText Published 07/12/22:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

Albeit with new wrapping and new jargon, crypto has been infected by the same old problems of insider financeNarrated by Jared MooreText Published 7/09/2022:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

An unstable encounter with a $50 billion stablecoin.Narrated by Jared MooreText Published 7/09/2022:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

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.Narrated by Jared MooreText Published 6/17/2022:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

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.Narrated by Jared MooreText Published 6/08/2022:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

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.Narrated by Jared MooreText Published 6/06/2022:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

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.Narrated by Jared MooreText Published 5/22/2022:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

A series of moves against media outlets by PayPal shows the next step in speech control: confiscation. Why won't the company answer questions?Narrated by Jared MooreText Published 5/03/2022:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

On drinking the delicious tears of blue-check hypocrites, who've suddenly discovered the perils of a privatized speech landscape.Narrated by Jared MooreText Published 4/28/2022:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

From left to right, from Chomsky to Carlson, war-skeptical voices are being denounced at levels not seen since IraqNarrated by Jared MooreText Published 4/19/2022: 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

The Great Elon Musk panic of 2022 is revealing a big fat boatload of blue-check hypocritesNarrated by Jared MooreText Published 4/14/2022:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

More and more, we're told outright war isn't just necessary and right, but the thing that will solve America's existential problemsNarrated by Jared Moore Text published: 03/14/2022Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

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.Narrated by Jared MooreText Published 04/12/2022:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

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: 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

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 MooreText originally published 3/30/2022: 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

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 MooreText originally published 3/28/2022:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

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:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

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:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

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:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

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:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

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:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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

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: 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

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: 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

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. Find us on Apple Podcasts ( or wherever you get your podcasts).Original text version published 1/19/22: 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

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 MooreFind us on Apple Podcasts ( or wherever you get your podcasts)Original text version published 1/13/22 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

The appearance of Dick Cheney in the House of Representatives on the anniversary of January 6th helped identify the true villain on the sceneRead by Jared Moore Find us on Apple Podcasts ( or wherever you get your podcasts)Original text version published 1/07/22: 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

“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 systemRead by Jared MooreFind us on Apple Podcasts ( or wherever you get your podcasts)Original text version published 1/05/22: 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

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 aheadRead by Jared Moore Find us on Apple Podcasts ( or wherever you get your podcasts)Original text version published 12/28/21: 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