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4 days ago | 
racket.news | Matt Taibbi
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4 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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5 days ago | 
racket.news | Matt Taibbi |Walter Kirn
Matt Taibbi: Okay, welcome to America This Week. I’m Matt Taibbi. Walter Kirn: And I’m Walter Kirn. Matt Taibbi: First of all, apologies to everybody for Monday. I had an ordeal that lasted about five days that was funny, and someday I’ll tell the story, but it ended on Monday afternoon with my head pounding so severely that I don’t think, doing the show would’ve been a comic exercise. It probably would’ve gone viral for the wrong reasons.
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5 days ago | 
racket.news | Greg Collard |Matt Taibbi
You likely already know from reading Racket that the Biden administration was very active in targeting misinformation and disinformation, even as it engaged in those practices.
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6 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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6 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 | Greg Collard
It was no surprise Monday when the Trump administration quickly froze more than $2 billion in grants and a $60 million contract for Harvard after the school refused to accept a list of demands as a condition of receiving federal funding. But it couldn’t end there. After all, it’s well established that President Trump doesn’t like to be told no. Sure enough, he came through Tuesday morning. It only took a day for the first reports that the IRS plans to follow through with Trump’s threat.
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1 week ago | 
racket.news | Matt Taibbi
Globalization, once hailed as a panacea, has proven to be fundamentally corrupt and needs to be blown to kingdom comeListen to subscriber only audio in your podcast appShare the free versions of Racket To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts
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1 week ago | 
racket.news | Greg Collard
With research assistance from James RushmoreWith President Trump sitting next to him, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday that no, he is not going to release Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from his country’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), despite a Justice Department lawyer admitting in a court filing that Abrego Garcia’s deportation last month was an “administrative error.” Racket News is a reader-supported publication.
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1 week ago | 
racket.news | Matt Taibbi
Readers, sincere apologies (especially since Walter and I intended to do tonight’s show), but an evening dental procedure for me that was supposed to fix a complication from the weekend now has me struggling to speak. Walter and I text-discussed the matter and have elected to postpone the 8:00 PM ET live show. There would be humor value in trying to follow what I say, but any “discussion” would be a net minus overall. We haven’t missed a show yet, so I feel terrible. I’m sorry.