“Can Democrats Learn to Dream Big Again?,” wonders Samuel Moyn in the New York Times. “The Democrats Are Finally Landing on a New Buzzword. It’s Actually Compelling,” argues Slate staff w...
2025-06-11 13:59:33 +0000 UTC View Post
“Democrats Need to Face Why Trump Won,” states The New York Times' Ezra Klein Show. “Democratic strategist issues ‘hard truth’ to party members after losing election,” CNN tell...
2025-06-04 14:50:16 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Patron-only News Brief, we breakdown Jake Tapper's most Jake Tapper story yet: a belated, safe, navel-gazing account of Biden's inner circle covering up his mental decline and how it allows...
2025-05-30 21:31:41 +0000 UTC View Post
“Jaw Clench Study Takes Tax Dollars,” United Press International cautioned in 1975. “‘Shrimp On A Treadmill’: Rand Paul Mocks National Science Foundation Studies,” Forbes 2025-05-28 13:43:43 +0000 UTC View Post
In this News Brief, we break down an object lesson in racist US-Israeli national security state toadyism, double standards, and runaway condescension.
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2025-05-14 19:43:42 +0000 UTC View Post
The 10th anniversary of the killing of Freddie Gray recently passed, on April 19, 2025. Freddie Gray died on April 19, 2015, after suffering severe injuries to his spinal cord while in police custo...
2025-05-07 15:59:28 +0000 UTC View Post
"American Extremists Aiding Radicals Across Border," trumpeted the Detroit Free Press in 1919. "707 Illegal Aliens Arrested in Checkpoint Crackdown," reported the Los Angeles Times 2025-04-30 18:01:16 +0000 UTC View Post
"Poverty plan hit for fraud, waste," reported the Associated Press in 1966. "Study says government waste is unbelievable,” insisted United Press International in 1983. "Beneath Trump’s Chaotic ...
2025-04-23 17:54:30 +0000 UTC View Post
"Senate Weighs Investing $120 Billion in Science to Counter China," trumpeted The New York Times in 2021. "A New Economic Patriotism Can Help Unite Our Divided Congress," argued Newsweek i...
2025-04-16 17:27:20 +0000 UTC View Post
On this News Brief, we discuss the media and high-profile Democratic Party leaders and 'Free Speech' crowd's muted—or, in many cases, completely silent—response to perhaps the greatest attack o...
2025-04-02 15:32:58 +0000 UTC View Post
“Israel built an ‘AI factory’ for war. It unleashed it in Gaza,” laments the Washington Post. “Hospitals Are Reporting More Insurance Denials. Is AI Driving Them?,” reports Newsweek. ...
2025-03-26 18:36:48 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Citations Needed News Brief interview, we're joined by Rutgers professor Eric Blanc to discuss his new book "We Are The Union," and lay out how any meaningful resistance to Trump and Trumpi...
2025-03-19 17:17:04 +0000 UTC View Post
In this News Brief, we detail the struggle to continue framing Israel as a reluctant, defensive peace-seeking party despite its openly genocidal rhetoric and acts.
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In this News Brief, we detail how Center-Left institutions and media have cynically wielded "lived experience" claptrap to assist Trump's overtly fascistic crackdown on dissenting speech.
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2025-03-12 21:52:30 +0000 UTC View Post
“It’s fair to call the deteriorating situation at the US/Mexican border a crisis,” declared NBC’s Meet the Press in 2021. “[CNN anchor Dana] Bash presses Netanyahu on Gaza death toll: 'Is...
2025-03-12 18:24:31 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Beg-a-Thon live show, "Ancient Rome and the False Histories Inspiring Musk & the MAGA World," with guest Dr. Sarah E. Bond, we d
In this Beg-a-Thon live show, "Ancient Rome a...
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Tune in this Wednesday, February 19 at 9:30 PM ET for a Beg-a-Thon live on our Yo...
2025-02-17 17:04:54 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Patreon-only News Brief, we discuss the latest in Elon Musk's rightwing coup of the regulatory state, how a couple of outlets are beginning to slowly, coyly mention DOGE's ideological agend...
2025-02-14 21:08:54 +0000 UTC View Post
In this News Brief, we interview journalist and author Eoin Higgins about his new book, "Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left," discuss the new model of t...
2025-02-12 15:51:58 +0000 UTC View Post
In this News Brief we detail how The New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN took a pathological liar with a clear ideological agenda at his word he's worried about "waste" for the sole reason he...
2025-02-05 15:32:35 +0000 UTC View Post
In this News Brief, we talk to Chris from No More Deaths to detail Trump's strategy of terrorizing migrants, how the NYT is manufacturing a pro-mass deportation consensus, and how activists are fig...
2025-01-29 17:05:23 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Inauguration coverage recap we detail how elite liberal resistance to Trump is MIA, how grassroots liberals and leftists are working behind the scenes anyway to fight back, and why Trump an...
2025-01-22 17:18:48 +0000 UTC View Post
"Clinton seeks common ground with Republicans," reported the Associated Press in 1994. "Obama hosts dinner, urges bipartisanship," announced the AP again, in 2009. "Resist Trump? On Immigration, To...
2025-01-15 16:06:43 +0000 UTC View Post
In this News Brief, we talk to Joyce Ajlouny of the American Friends Service Committee, discuss a recent episode where the New York Times refused to run an AFSC pro-ceasefire ad with the word "geno...
2025-01-08 18:31:37 +0000 UTC View Post
In this Patreon-only News Brief, we breakdown why establishment media is panicking over the alleged UnitedHealth killer's populist appeal, the selective nature of what "violence" invites handwringi...
2024-12-14 20:03:07 +0000 UTC View Post
A note to you, our amazing supporters: We continue to be so honored and humbled to be able to do this show. And it wouldn't exist without your generous support. T...
2024-12-11 17:00:42 +0000 UTC View Post
"The Bad Guys Are Winning," wrote Anne Applebaum for The Atlantic in 2021. "The War on History Is a War on Democracy," warned Timothy Snyder in The New York Times, also in 20...
2024-12-04 15:39:08 +0000 UTC View Post