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The Jan. 6 Bomb Narrative Goes BOOM
Plus: The tech subsidies behind "free" AI chatbots for students, a man tries to smuggle a Fabergé egg the way nature intended, and the government fights…
Dec 5
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Nov 25
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Pesca × Matt Robison: The State of Media, from NPR to Narrative Collapse
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Dec 6
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Pablo Torre Finds Outrage Pt. 2
What better journalism looks like and why I care so much about this issue.
Dec 4
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Pablo Torre Finds Outrage
Pablo Torre Tears Apart Riley Gaines, and Why I Care.
Dec 3
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I Too Had a Disastrous Interview with Karine Jean-Pierre
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NPR's Death by a Thousand Decolonizations
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MAGA's Aquatic Valkyrie
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Spend Time w/ Sam Stein
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Pardon My (500 Tons of) Cocaine
Plus: Why a Campbell’s exec got canned, Dragon Land seeks statehood & why is everyone getting test accommodations?
Dec 2
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Takaichi’s Taiwan Tectonics
Plus: E-bikes, art fakes, and the Venezuelan exile whisper network.
Dec 1
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Bully Boy-Friendly Tactics
Plus: Medieval PTO, mercenaries in Mali & the House Republicans who’d like to log off now, please.
Nov 26
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MAGA's Aquatic Valkyrie
Pablo Torre Finds Out that Conservative Icon Riley Gaines is Funded By Conservatives.
Nov 25
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Reverse Jussie in Jersey
Plus: The Government’s air passenger civility campaign, Ohio police shooting judgement & robot dogs with a PR problem.
Nov 24
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Reverse Dorian Gray: The Tale of Bill Pulte
Plus: Why Florida’s 21st can’t seem to get a good representative, the Coast Guard’s swastika downgrade, and why Americans suddenly love gerrymandering.
Nov 21
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The Wire Episode That Ground Baltimore to a Halt
Plus: Bear-suit bureaucrats in Japan, gay sheep couture, and why Futurism wants you terrified of chatbots.
Nov 20
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Could Someone, Anyone, Please Get the Unfairness of Gerrymandering Right?
FINE. It'll have to be me.
Nov 19
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Beast Mode Diplomacy
Plus: John Oliver’s junk sale to save public media, the NPC saving the Ukrainians & a town that finally nuked leaf blowers.
Nov 18
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