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Brad Polumbo

Grand Rapids

Writer at Freelance

Co-Founder and Host at BASED with Hannah Cox

Journalist & Political Commentator | Co-Founder, BASEDPolitics | Contributor @DCExaminer & @Newsweek

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Articles

  • 5 days ago | blockedandreported.org | Brad Polumbo

    Journalists Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal scour the internet for its craziest, silliest, most sociopathic content, part of an obsessive and ill-conceived attempt to extract kernels of meaning and humanity from a landscape of endless raging dumpster fires.

  • 6 days ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Brad Polumbo

    Democrats come from the party that stands for feminism and democracy. Unless, of course, you are a female lawmaker and oppose biological males competing in girls sports. Then that all goes out the window. At least, that’s what’s happening in the case of state Rep. Laurel Libby, a Maine Republican who is facing an undemocratic, and frankly dystopian, crackdown from her Democratic colleagues for speaking out on this issue.

  • 1 week ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Brad Polumbo

    When the fitness influencer Kate Mackz uploaded her newest running-themed interview video, she had no idea she was about to become the internet’s latest punching bag. But Mackz had stepped into a minefield by doing something that in the ultraprogressive TikTok ecosystem is still unthinkable: humanizing a Trump administration official.

  • 1 week ago | citationneededpodcast.com | Brad Polumbo |Colin Wright

    Did you know glaciers and icebergs are feminist, human-like, and… sexy?! Those were the bizarre conclusions “researchers” reached in a now-infamous paper that we break down in this episode of the Citation Needed podcast.

  • 1 week ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Brad Polumbo

    The Trump administration is shaking up the White House press corps in some truly interesting ways. One is the implementation of “influencer briefings,” during which White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt takes questions from nontraditional journalists and social media influencers. In principle, this is a fantastic idea.

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