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2 days ago | 
racket.news | Matt Taibbi
Walter Kirn and I will not be doing a live episode of America This Week tonight, as I’m not well. Please stay tuned for announcements about future scheduling. Apologies to all.
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3 days ago | 
racket.news | Matt Taibbi
Welcome to Racket Rewind, a recap of everything we’ve published over the past week. Thanks for reading! Private Equity and Hospitals: Have They Finally Gone Too Far? I Tried to Cover a May Day Protest. Antifascists Had a Problem With That.
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3 days ago | 
racket.news | Matt Taibbi |Walter Kirn
Listen to this episode with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Racket News to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. Welcome to America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, the national news wrap-up so true, we recommend you stow all sharp objects before reading. Welcome to America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, the national news wrap-up so true, we recommend you stow all sharp objects before reading.
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4 days ago | 
racket.news | Matt Taibbi |Walter Kirn
Matt Taibbi: All right. Welcome to America This Week. I’m Matt Taibbi. Walter Kirn: And I’m Walter Kirn. Matt Taibbi: So we’re recording on Thursday morning, technically-Walter Kirn: Right. Matt Taibbi: ... Eastern Time, and very recently, last time I checked, I think it was like 28 minutes ago or something like that, this happened. Can we see the black smoke? Rev. Tom Reese: We were not surprised by the black smoke. We expected black smoke tonight, but we expected it a lot earlier.
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4 days ago | 
racket.news | Matt Taibbi
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5 days ago | 
racket.news | Matt Taibbi
Two years ago I made a catastrophic decision to give an interview about the Twitter Files with MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan.
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5 days ago | 
racket.news | Greg Collard |James Rushmore
There’s been a lot of celebration over NIH Director Bhattacharya’s announcement that the agency’s last in-house beagle lab is gone. Actually, announcement isn’t quite right. It was more like a matter-of-fact statement. If I didn’t know better, I would have thought he was just repeating what had already been announced. “We got rid of all the beagle experiments on the NIH campus,” he said in the middle of a May 4 interview on Fox & Friends Weekend as he talked about changing the culture at the agency.
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5 days ago | 
racket.news | Matt Taibbi
News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn. Over 510,000 subscribersBy subscribing, I agree to Substack’s Terms of Use and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy“What a grand champion looks like. First place for great reporting.
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1 week ago | 
racket.news | Matt Taibbi
News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn. Over 510,000 subscribersBy subscribing, I agree to Substack’s Terms of Use and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy“What a grand champion looks like. First place for great reporting.
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1 week ago | 
racket.news | Ben Kawaller
Last week, I was hounded out of a protest by a pair of authoritarians opposing fascism. Billed as a “May Day” rally on behalf of workers, the event, which began in Foley Square in downtown Manhattan, was one of dozens of such protests promoted by 50501. This one was organized by a coalition of unions and other progressive groups, including the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.