Racket To Go (Matt Taibbi)
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| 12 Feb 2023 | Listen to This Article: Government By Panic | 00:05:11 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 | |||
| 12 Feb 2023 | Listen to This Article: Take a Bow, Columbia Journalism Review | 00:05:11 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 | |||
| 06 Mar 2023 | Listen to This Article - Twitter Files: GEC, New Knowledge, and State-Sponsored Blacklists | 00:10:46 | |
Americans have been paying taxes to disenfranchise themselves, as government agencies and subcontractors undertake a massive digital blacklisting project. Narrated by Jared Moore Thumbnail Art by Daniel Medina Text published 3/2/23: 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- Share the free versions of Racket 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 | |||
| 13 Mar 2023 | Listen to This Article: The Democrats Have Lost the Plot | 00:05:11 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Reclaiming some time, from a House hearing on free speech | |||
| 27 Mar 2023 | Listen to This Article: Homeland Security Reorganizes, Appearing to Scrap Last Remnants of Ill-Fated "Disinformation Governance Board" | 00:09:00 | |
After an ugly congressional hearing and months of bad press for censorship advocates, a Homeland Security advisory panel undergoes sweeping changes Narrated by Jared Moore Art by Daniel Medina Text published 3/24/23: 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- Share the free versions of Racket 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 | |||
| 04 Apr 2023 | Listen to This Article: Tablet's Grand Opus on the Anti-Disinformation Complex | 00:05:09 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Interview with Jacob Siegel, author of "A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century" | |||
| 11 Apr 2023 | Listen to This Article: Eat Me, MSNBC | 00:15:10 | |
Reviewing the last six years at the network that claims now to be concerned with integrity and accuracy Narrated by Jared Moore Art by Daniel Medina Text published 4/06/23: 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- Share the free versions of Racket 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 | |||
| 23 Apr 2023 | Listen to This Article: The Press is Now Also the Police | 00:05:10 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news As fallout from the Discord leak continues, the undisguised partnerships of media, intelligence, and law enforcement come into more painful relief | |||
| 26 Apr 2023 | Listen to This Article: House Democrats Have Lost Their Minds | 00:03:09 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 | |||
| 25 Apr 2023 | Listen to This Article: News Blackout in Effect | 00:03:09 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news The Michael Morell story is disposed of by press janitors | |||
| 30 Apr 2023 | Listen to This Article: Time to Get Spies Out of Politics | 00:05:09 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news The Michael Morell story demonstrates that the intelligence community needs sweeping reform, beginning with getting spies all the way out of domestic political life | |||
| 30 Apr 2023 | Listen to This Article: Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex | 00:19:07 | |
Narrated by Jared Moore Text published 4/24/23: 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- Share the free versions of Racket 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 | |||
| 30 Apr 2023 | Listen to This Article: America, the Single-Opinion Cult | 00:05:08 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Narrowing permitted ideas on both left and right, one unsuitable voice at a time | |||
| 16 May 2023 | Listen to This Article - Fact-Check: Nina Jankowicz v. Fox News | 00:05:10 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Super-cali-fact-a-licious! | |||
| 19 May 2023 | Listen to This Article: Durham is Too Late to Stop the Madness | 00:05:11 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news A Special Counsel report chronicles how intelligence agencies engineered a national hysteria, but its publication comes too late to reverse the damage | |||
| 23 May 2023 | Listen to This Article: The McCarthy Reboot | 00:05:11 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 | |||
| 01 Jun 2023 | Listen to This Article: My Crazy IRS Case | 00:05:11 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news A House Subcommittee investigation reveals new details about my IRS case that should unnerve any journalist, or any American, for that matter | |||
| 01 Jun 2023 | Listen to This Article: Is Putin Trolling? | 00:05:11 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news The Russian President's new "List of 500" sanctioned Americans looks like a Russiagate-media honey trap | |||
| 08 Jun 2023 | Listen to This Article: Another Brick in The Absurdity Wall | 00:05:10 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Germany investigates Roger Waters for incitement to parody | |||
| 08 Jun 2023 | Listen to This Article: Jim Comey's Hip New Media Tour | 00:05:10 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news The man who was Director when the FBI's reputation began a steep national nosedive resurfaces for a TV makeover | |||
| 08 Jun 2023 | Listen to This Article: Meet the New Twitter, Same as the Old Twitter? | 00:05:05 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 | |||
| 14 Jun 2023 | Listen to This Article: Press Silence on Latest Twitter Files Scandal a New Low | 00:03:10 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 | |||
| 16 Jun 2023 | Listen to This Article: On Today's Explosive Coronavirus Story | 00:04:05 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news As months-long joint investigation goes public, some additional details and context | |||
| 16 Jun 2023 | Listen to This Article: First Roger Waters, Now This: Germany Places American C.J. Hopkins Under Investigation | 00:13:50 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news An American playwright faces jail for two vanished tweets. Q&A with the author about his ugly present, and our probable future. | |||
| 26 Jun 2023 | Listen to This Article: John Durham is Testifying Today. Five Hard Questions He Should Face | 00:03:10 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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? | |||
| 26 Jun 2023 | Listen to This Article: The Elite War on Free Thought | 00:13:17 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Address at Free Speech Event in London, with Russell Brand and Michael Shellenberger | |||
| 04 Jul 2023 | Listen to This Article: If You're Not With Us, You're MAGA | 00:03:10 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news All but a few are deplorable now. Find more at www.Racket.news | |||
| 11 Jul 2023 | Listen to This Article: Take That, Internet Censors! | 00:03:10 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 | |||
| 16 Jul 2023 | Listen to This Article: Where Have All The Liberals Gone? | 00:04:00 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Opening comments to the general public to ask a question, in sincerity: what changed the minds of society's former First Amendment advocates? | |||
| 22 Jul 2023 | Listen to This Article -"So Friggin' Likely": New Covid Documents Reveal Unparalleled Media Deception | 00:03:12 | |
| 25 Jul 2023 | Listen to This Article - "The Guy Isn't Totally Wrong": The Curious Case of Covid-19 Scientists and Senator Tom Cotton | 00:03:12 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 | |||
| 25 Jul 2023 | Listen to This Article: Stacey Plaskett's McCarthy Homage | 00:03:12 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Robert Kennedy, Jr.'s appearance before the House Weaponization of Government Committee descends into madness | |||
| 25 Jul 2023 | Listen to This Article: Covid's Origins and the Death of Trust | 00:02:55 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Public releases the Proximal Origin documents. What they show, and why they're historic | |||
| 03 Aug 2023 | Listen to This Article: The New "Facebook Files" Show Everything the First Amendment Was Designed to Prevent | 00:03:12 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news A House Subcommittee releases internal Facebook correspondence showing how a White House that was itself spreading disinformation tried to ban criticism | |||
| 03 Aug 2023 | Listen to This Article: The Most Embarrassing "Facebook Files" Revelation? The Press, Exposed as Censors | 00:03:31 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news The "Facebook Files" show the press is part of the censorship establishment, but that's not the worst part | |||
| 04 Aug 2023 | Listen to This Article: Campaign 2024, Officially Chaos | 00:08:14 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news America enters an unprecedented political unknown, and our leaders appear helpless to find a way out www.Racket.news | |||
| 11 Aug 2023 | Listen to This Article - Campaign 2024: Not Left Versus Right, But Aflluent Versus Everyone Else | 00:03:12 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news The realignment of major parties away from blue against red and toward a rich versus poor dynamic is America's most undercovered political story | |||
| 18 Aug 2023 | Listen to This Article: In Landmark Censorship Case, Judges Grill the Feds | 00:03:12 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news The federal government's pro-censorship arguments seemed to take a hit in a contentious, fascinating hearing in New Orleans | |||
| 18 Aug 2023 | Listen to This Article - "F-bomb This": The Biden Administration's Brutal Censorship Faceplant | 00:03:12 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 | |||
| 25 Aug 2023 | Listen to This Article - Madness: American Satirist C.J. Hopkins Sentenced in German Speech Case | 00:08:50 | |
Narrated by Jared Moore Art by Daniel Medina Text published 8/22/23: 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- Share the free versions of Racket To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts Thanks for listening 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 | |||
| 25 Aug 2023 | Listen to This Article-Tracking Orwellian Change: The Aristocratic Takeover of "Transparency" | 00:07:46 | |
Narrated by Jared Moore Art by Daniel Medina Text published 8/21/23: 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- Share the free versions of Racket To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts Thanks for listening! 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 | |||
| 05 Sep 2023 | Listen to This Article- Tracking Orwellian Change: New Meanings of "Deep State" and "Working Class" | 00:11:51 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news When left/liberal fixations fall out of establishment favor, they're re-christened as conservative menaces | |||
| 05 Sep 2023 | Listen to This Article - Tracking Orwellian Change: "Democracy" | 00:03:16 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Democracy may die in darkness, but its new connotations also squirm under the light | |||
| 13 Sep 2023 | Listen to This Article: Inside the Blue Bubble | 00:04:09 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Noam Dworman clashes with Washington Post columnist Philip Bump, and the results aren't pretty | |||
| 13 Sep 2023 | Listen to This Article: In Missouri v. Biden Internet Censorship Case, a Win and a Loss | 00:03:12 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news A key part of a court order in a major Internet censorship case is reinstated, but other parts, perhaps more important, are vacated. | |||
| 22 Sep 2023 | Listen to This Article: Biden's Praetorian Media Guard | 00:03:12 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news In an impressive new low, the White House sends impeachment coverage guidelines up a flagpole, and the press salutes More at www.Racket.news | |||
| 04 Oct 2023 | Listen to This Article: Forget Bellingcat. Meet a Real "Open Source" Watchdog | 00:03:12 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 | |||
| 18 Oct 2023 | Listen to This Article: Europe, Get Off Our Speech Lawn | 00:03:12 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news The European Union deigns to lecture America on free expression | |||
| 25 Oct 2023 | Listen to This Article: The New York Times Takes Another L | 00:03:13 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news While officials demand more social media crackdowns over the Israeli crisis, politicians and the corporate press are making the most damaging mistakes more at www.racket.news | |||
| 28 Oct 2023 | Listen to This Article: Newsguard Case Highlights the Pentagon's Censorship End-Around | 00:03:12 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 | |||
| 03 Nov 2023 | Listen to This Article: Amy Klobuchar, You Suck | 00:07:56 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news The Minnesota Senator asks Amazon to censor Substack and Rumble. How much more of this can we take? More at www.racket.news | |||
| 03 Nov 2023 | Listen to This Article: A House Investigation Reveals Disturbing IRS Home Visit Practices | 00:03:12 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 | |||
| 13 Nov 2023 | Listen to This Article: Big Brother is Flagging You | 00:03:08 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news A 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 | |||
| 13 Nov 2023 | Listen to This Article - Pundits: "Ignorance" Makes Americans Give "Wrong" Answers To Economic Confidence Poll | 00:02:12 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Why ask, if you don't want to know? www.racket.news | |||
| 13 Nov 2023 | Listen to This Article: The Tragic Victimhood of "Disinformation Experts" | 00:05:30 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Hey, digital censors are people, too. www.racket.news | |||
| 10 Dec 2023 | Listen to This Article: Dan Goldman, Democrats, Make a Clown Show of Censorship Hearing | 00:04:04 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 | |||
| 10 Dec 2023 | Listen to This Article: "Anti-Disinformation" Is a Partisan Con | 00:04:08 | |
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. | |||
| 11 Dec 2023 | Listen to This Article - Sue the Bastards: Federalist, Daily Wire Take the State Department to Court | 00:10:22 | |
Bookending the historic Consortium News suit, conservative news outlets take on the Global Engagement Center for funding "censorship enterprises" and blacklisting 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 | |||
| 11 Dec 2023 | Listen to This Article: "Information Warfare" Comes Home | 00:03:18 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 | |||
| 19 Dec 2023 | Listen to This Article: Lying Was the Only Plan Biden, U.S. Ever Had in Ukraine | 00:03:10 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 www.racket.news | |||
| 19 Dec 2023 | Listen to This Article - FOIA Exclusive: Did Pharma Companies Help Plan "Virality Project" Censorship Program? | 00:03:08 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Stanford'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 | |||
| 02 Jan 2024 | Listen to This Article: Democracy Dies in Daylight | 00:03:00 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Eight years ago the Washington Post pledged to save democracy, but now argues we need to be saved from it | |||
| 04 Jan 2024 | Listen to This Article: The War Party Tantrum | 00:03:00 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Voters keep rejecting the colonial project, but institutional America won't take no for an answer www.racket.news | |||
| 13 Jan 2024 | Listen to This Article - A FOIA Story: The State Department Pleads Not Guilty to "Brainwashing" | 00:03:00 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news The Global Engagement Center obliterates the "fine line" between doing its job, diplomacy, and crossing into prohibited domestic propaganda | www.Racket.news | |||
| 13 Jan 2024 | Listen to This Article: Donald Trump, America's Comic | 00:19:08 | |
As lawsuits, indictments, and ballot challenges mount, a defiant Donald Trump tells America: he'll be here all week 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 | |||
| 29 Jan 2024 | Listen to This Article: Is the Electoral Fix Already In? | 00:26:57 | |
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 Narrated by Jared Moore 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 | |||
| 29 Jan 2024 | Listen to This Article: The Anti-Democratic Movement Targeted Ralph Nader First. We Should Have Paid More Attention | 00:13:04 | |
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 | |||
| 12 Feb 2024 | Listen to This Article: Financial Big Brother is Watching You | 00:03:58 | |
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 | |||
| 24 Feb 2024 | Listen to This Article: Why Even Democrats Should Care About the “Cooked Intelligence” Russiagate Scandal | 00:03:00 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 www.Racket.news | |||
| 24 Feb 2024 | Listen to This Article: Many Reporters Paid for Covering the Russiagate Story | 00:08:58 | |
Media figures who exposed illegal surveillance, manufactured intelligence, and other abuses in the Trump-Russia investigation almost always paid a price 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 | |||
| 24 Feb 2024 | Listen to This Article: State Department Threatens Congress Over Censorship Programs | 00:05:02 | |
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 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 | |||
| 01 Mar 2024 | Listen to This Article: CIA, Ukraine Exchange Pre-Divorce Propaganda | 00:03:00 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 | |||
| 01 Mar 2024 | Listen to This Article: Nikki Haley's $100 Million Faceplant | 00:03:00 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 www.Racket.news | |||
| 05 Mar 2024 | Listen to This Article: I Wrote What? Google's AI-Powered Libel Machine | 00:10:09 | |
Misadventures in Gemini, Google's dystopian deep-slander invention 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 | |||
| 05 Mar 2024 | Listen to This Article: If AI Thinks George Washington is a Black Woman, Why Are We Letting it Pick Bomb Targets? | 00:03:00 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 www.Racket.news | |||
| 05 Mar 2024 | Listen to This Article: MSNBC, Paul Krugman Panic Over "White Rural Rage" | 00:04:59 | |
This week in undisguised class hatred: the New York Times and MSNBC slobber over a new book on the domestic threat 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 | |||
| 18 Mar 2024 | Listen to This Article: The Dumbest Cover Story Ever | 00:05:00 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news New York Magazine's "Freedom of Sex" is the ultimate example of the lunatic nihilism that's consumed America's intellectual class | |||
| 18 Mar 2024 | Listen to This Article: Why the TikTok Ban is So Dangerous | 00:07:51 | |
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 | |||
| 21 Mar 2024 | Listen to This Article: On Today’s Absurd New York Times Hit Piece | 00:08:08 | |
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 Narrated by Jared Moore 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 | |||
| 25 Mar 2024 | Listen to This Article: The First Amendment Takes a Beating in the Supreme Court | 00:03:00 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news A brief recap of oral arguments in the long-awaited Supreme Court case on state-sponsored censorship | |||
| 25 Mar 2024 | Listen to This Article: Why Government is Always the Most Dangerous Source of Misinformation | 00:03:00 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 www.Racket.news | |||
| 26 Mar 2024 | Listen to This Article: "It's Not About Trump": American CJ Hopkins, Charged Again in Germany, Describes Global Censorship Effort | 00:08:50 | |
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 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 | |||
| 26 Mar 2024 | Listen to This Article: Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism | 00:08:32 | |
Google provides an early, scary test case for mechanized suppression by threatening a popular economics site with demonetization 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 | |||
| 28 Mar 2024 | Listen to This Article: America's Intellectual "Bloodbath" | 00:02:58 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news If a censored tree falls in the forest, do we still have to misquote it? www.Racket.news | |||
| 01 Apr 2024 | Listen to This Article: The Peacock Joins The Smear Campaign | 00:03:00 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 www.Racket.news | |||
| 01 Apr 2024 | Listen to This Article: Ronna McDaniel and MSNBC: Ultimate Schadenfreude? | 00:01:13 | |
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 | |||
| 01 Apr 2024 | Listen to This Article: Maintain Your Brain | 00:07:00 | |
A few thoughts on the arrival of a new Fahrenheit 451 future. Plus, a few mild site changes 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 | |||
| 01 Apr 2024 | Listen to This Article: America's Next Motorcycle Philosopher? | 00:12:55 | |
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 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 | |||
| 08 Apr 2024 | Listen to This Article: On "The View," A Crack Finally Shows in the Propaganda Facade | 00:03:00 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Q&A With Coleman Hughes, author of "The End of Race Politics," who just experienced the mother of all book tour appearances www.Racket.news | |||
| 14 Apr 2024 | Listen to This Article - Orwell Watch: NPR and the Death of Fairness | 00:03:00 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news A story about facts and decency is quickly reduced to another partisan bias tale. www.Racket.news | |||
| 22 Apr 2024 | Listen to This Article: On Uri Berliner's Resignation from NPR | 00:03:00 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Thoughts on the resignation of the former NPR senior editor Narrated by Jared Moore | |||
| 22 Apr 2024 | Listen to This Article: Mission Impossible: Democrats Make Trump a Martyr | 00:03:00 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news ESPN star Stephen A. Smith articulates what sports fans everywhere are thinking about Trump's trials Narrated by Jared Moore | |||
| 25 Apr 2024 | Listen to This Article: A Saturday Massacre in Congress | 00:03:00 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news On a Saturday to mark and remember, congress funds two wars and hands the intelligence agencies sweeping new surveillance power, getting nothing in return | |||
| 25 Apr 2024 | Listen to This Article: America's "Adults in the Room" Are Revolting | 00:03:00 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 www.racket.news | |||
| 29 Apr 2024 | Listen to This Article - Substack Q&A: Quoth The Raven's "Fringe Finance" | 00:11:00 | |
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 | |||
| 29 Apr 2024 | Listen to This Article - It's Not Me, It's You: Blaming the Public's "Perception of the Economy" | 00:02:58 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 Narrated by Jared Moore www.racket.news | |||
| 07 May 2024 | Listen to This Article - Paul Krugman's Magical Thinking | 00:03:00 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news The standard-bearer for the "Voters are too dumb to understand the economy" movement takes an ironic stand against "magical thinking" www.Racket.news | |||
| 07 May 2024 | Listen to This Article: A True Bipartisan Scandal | 00:03:00 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 Narrated by Jared Moore www.Racket.news | |||
| 09 May 2024 | Listen to This Article: The Atlantic Compares Walter Kirn to Donald Trump | 00:15:40 | |
The latest "What happened to you, man?" piece goes next-level 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 | |||
| 14 May 2024 | Listen to This Article: Is Journalism Back? New York Times Editor Goes Ballistic on Biden, “Safe Space” Era | 00:03:00 | |
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news 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 www.Racket.news | |||