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MAGA’s lust for publicity may be its undoing • The Wiles interviews give us hope that Republicans’ egos are their fatal flaw
MAGA’s lust for publicity may be its undoing
The Wiles interviews give us hope that Republicans’ egos are their fatal flaw
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December 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
MAGA’s lust for publicity may be its undoing • The Wiles interviews give us hope that Republicans’ egos are their fatal flaw
Will a reporter ever tell Trump to f– off? • Here’s why journalists respond so passively to presidential abuse
Will a reporter ever tell Trump to f– off?
Here’s why journalists respond so passively to presidential abuse
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December 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Will a reporter ever tell Trump to f– off? • Here’s why journalists respond so passively to presidential abuse
The media must stop helping Trump market misery • Journalists don’t have to repeat the regime’s cutesy nicknames for its corrupt campaigns
The media must stop helping Trump market misery
Journalists don’t have to repeat the regime’s cutesy nicknames for its corrupt campaigns
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December 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The media must stop helping Trump market misery • Journalists don’t have to repeat the regime’s cutesy nicknames for its corrupt campaigns
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December 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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The N. Korea-style Trump Cabinet show is deeply abnormal • It's way past time for news coverage that does not normalize, but rather rings the alarm loud and clear
The N. Korea-style Trump Cabinet show is deeply abnormal
It's way past time for news coverage that does not normalize, but rather rings the alarm loud and clear
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December 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The N. Korea-style Trump Cabinet show is deeply abnormal • It's way past time for news coverage that does not normalize, but rather rings the alarm loud and clear
The males of MAGA manspread their insecurity • Trump & Co. bring down the country to lift their fragile egos
The males of MAGA manspread their insecurity
Trump & Co. bring down the country to lift their fragile egos
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December 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The males of MAGA manspread their insecurity • Trump & Co. bring down the country to lift their fragile egos
How the media ‘pardon’ political criminals • News outlets paper over the ugly pasts of right-wing extremists
How the media ‘pardon’ political criminals
News outlets paper over the ugly pasts of right-wing extremists
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November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
How the media ‘pardon’ political criminals • News outlets paper over the ugly pasts of right-wing extremists
The Epstein firestorm is building • Newly released email asserts Trump "spent hours" with one of the victims
The Epstein firestorm is building
Newly released email asserts Trump "spent hours" with one of the victims
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November 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The Epstein firestorm is building • Newly released email asserts Trump "spent hours" with one of the victims
How news coverage eases us into tyranny • When the media act like things are normal, they don’t reassure us – they gaslight us
How news coverage eases us into tyranny
When the media act like things are normal, they don’t reassure us – they gaslight us
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November 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
How news coverage eases us into tyranny • When the media act like things are normal, they don’t reassure us – they gaslight us
12 helpful terms to understand American chaos • Want to know what ‘agent provocateur’ and ‘Streisand effect’ mean? Read on.
12 helpful terms to understand American chaos
Want to know what ‘agent provocateur’ and ‘Streisand effect’ mean? Read on.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
12 helpful terms to understand American chaos • Want to know what ‘agent provocateur’ and ‘Streisand effect’ mean? Read on.
News outlets dance with Trump and his ballroom • CNN reportedly got word to downplay the East Wing demolition; the Washington Post excuses it
News outlets dance with Trump and his ballroom
CNN reportedly got word to downplay the East Wing demolition; the Washington Post excuses it
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November 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
News outlets dance with Trump and his ballroom • CNN reportedly got word to downplay the East Wing demolition; the Washington Post excuses it
Media must cover — not cover up — Trump’s unfitness • The president benefits from the failure to focus on his broken brain
Media must cover — not cover up — Trump’s unfitness
The president benefits from the failure to focus on his broken brain
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November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Media must cover — not cover up — Trump’s unfitness • The president benefits from the failure to focus on his broken brain
My exclusive Trump-era tour inside the media’s brain • What were America’s journalists thinking? I have strong suspicions.
My exclusive Trump-era tour inside the media’s brain
What were America’s journalists thinking? I have strong suspicions.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
My exclusive Trump-era tour inside the media’s brain • What were America’s journalists thinking? I have strong suspicions.
Mark Jacob & Steven Beschloss discuss Trump's assault on Chicago • Substack Live: How Chicagoans are dealing with federal agents' violence and how local media are chronicling it
Mark Jacob & Steven Beschloss discuss Trump's assault on Chicago
Substack Live: How Chicagoans are dealing with federal agents' violence and how local media are chronicling it
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November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Mark Jacob & Steven Beschloss discuss Trump's assault on Chicago • Substack Live: How Chicagoans are dealing with federal agents' violence and how local media are chronicling it
The press steps up as Trump targets Chicago • Local journalism is under siege, but still makes itself indispensable
The press steps up as Trump targets Chicago
Local journalism is under siege, but still makes itself indispensable
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November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The press steps up as Trump targets Chicago • Local journalism is under siege, but still makes itself indispensable
The media’s kissing up to Trump started early • How lazy journalism helped us get to where we are today
The media’s kissing up to Trump started early
How lazy journalism helped us get to where we are today
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November 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The media’s kissing up to Trump started early • How lazy journalism helped us get to where we are today
Trump playing doctor is enough to make us sick (again) • Dangerous theories about Tylenol causing autism defy medical science
Trump playing doctor is enough to make us sick (again)
Dangerous theories about Tylenol causing autism defy medical science
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November 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Trump playing doctor is enough to make us sick (again) • Dangerous theories about Tylenol causing autism defy medical science
Can comedy help conquer fascism? • Loudly mocking Trump now may help us avoid “whisper jokes” later
Can comedy help conquer fascism?
Loudly mocking Trump now may help us avoid “whisper jokes” later
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November 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Can comedy help conquer fascism? • Loudly mocking Trump now may help us avoid “whisper jokes” later
Cowardly journalists try to silence the brave • Reaction to the Charlie Kirk assassination exposes media timidity
Cowardly journalists try to silence the brave
Reaction to the Charlie Kirk assassination exposes media timidity
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November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Cowardly journalists try to silence the brave • Reaction to the Charlie Kirk assassination exposes media timidity
Why won’t the media say Trump is becoming a dictator? • Journalism is the wrong profession for people who won’t face the facts
Why won’t the media say Trump is becoming a dictator?
Journalism is the wrong profession for people who won’t face the facts
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November 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Why won’t the media say Trump is becoming a dictator? • Journalism is the wrong profession for people who won’t face the facts
Are we living in a dictatorship yet? • On Inauguration Day, I listed 12 tripwires of tyranny. We’ve hit 5 of them and are close to 5 others.
Are we living in a dictatorship yet?
On Inauguration Day, I listed 12 tripwires of tyranny. We’ve hit 5 of them and are close to 5 others.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Are we living in a dictatorship yet? • On Inauguration Day, I listed 12 tripwires of tyranny. We’ve hit 5 of them and are close to 5 others.
Celebrating the heroes of the resistance • Don’t despair. Join these bright lights combatting the MAGA darkness.
Celebrating the heroes of the resistance
Don’t despair. Join these bright lights combatting the MAGA darkness.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Celebrating the heroes of the resistance • Don’t despair. Join these bright lights combatting the MAGA darkness.