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Author of GRIFTOPIA, THE DIVIDE, THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING, and HATE INC. Podcast, Useful Idiots:

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Joined May 2009
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    12 hours ago

    For succinct and revelatory punch, this actual TV screenshot linking policy and pharma stock quotes beats anything I’ve ever seen in a movie Here is our world now and the powers that drive it

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    BREAKING: President Biden is going to sign an executive order mandating vaccinations for all federal employees and contractors, and remove the option to get tested instead. reports.
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  2. 12 hours ago

    As a former embed, was happy to participate in this excellent story by Kelly Vlahos about the embed system and how it helped advance War on Terror narratives:

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  3. Sep 9

    Really interesting piece on the mass shortage problem and how it's tied to monopolies by

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    Sep 9

    When I read this piece by I knew exactly what he was talking about. I went to an evangelical junior high school; a lot of people on the left today sound like my classmates and teachers did back then. Too many leftists talk about privilege the way Calvinists talk abt sin.

    The New Moral Majority:
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  5. Sep 9

    You mean like calling him a "rectum-faced blowhard"? That's the kind of thing I wouldn't dare say?

    Replying to @TeachTheClassic @mtaibbi
    That was a few years ago, Matt wouldn’t dare say an unkind word about right wing royalty like Hannity now
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  6. Sep 8

    This is why people don’t trust the media - when press figures not only make mistakes but think they’re above fixing them:

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  7. Sep 8

    The New Moral Majority:

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  8. Sep 7

    I remember coming back from overseas and seeing the conservative and liberal political book sections at Barnes and Noble. I thought, “What writer gives up half the potential audience from the start?” You should want everyone to read you.

    Replying to @mtaibbi
    or a Foxnews host ? Why only singe out MSNBC ? But I do agree that it is sad that today journalists and writers have become advocates. Wish people like you would see that it is worth appealing to readers of every political persuasion.
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  9. Sep 7

    The percentage of viewers who belong to one party is actually higher at MSNBC than Fox even:

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  10. Sep 7

    I have readers of every political persuasion, which in this era is a good thing. Would you prefer that all my readers have the same politics, a la an MSNBC host?

    Replying to @AboutBased @mtaibbi
    Hey Matt, does it bother you to have "Trump won" morons as your new biggest fans?
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  11. Sep 7

    Old-school media was about giving a shit, but only up to a point. Beyond getting it right, the news was understood to be the public’s problem. We weren't supposed to do the hating for you.

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  12. Sep 7

    No, I’m saying the alleged throng of overdose cases blocking care for gunshot victims in Oklahoma appears not to exist.

    Replying to @ArtsGirly @mtaibbi
    , above, says the 'ivermectin people' 'may not even exist'.
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  13. Sep 7

    So, I already had to get a correction from one outlet that misidentified me as saying “ivermectin works,” which I never did. It’s amazing - merely identifying it as a human medicine instead of a “horse and cow de-wormer” is enough to inspire accusations of “promoting” the drug.

    Replying to @mtaibbi
    Ahh, so your claim that censorship was why you discussed ivermectin was a charade after all. <Rips off Matt’s mask> “He was an ivermectin conspiracy theorist all along!”
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  14. Sep 7

    The modern corporate press has become a machine for generating error-ridden moral panics:

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  15. Sep 7

    Joy Ann Reid despised the "ivermectin people" (she spoke the words as if holding a vile wriggling thing with Tweezers) so much that she itched to deny them medical care, despite never meeting them, and despite the fact that they may not even exist.

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  16. Sep 7

    Today’s press constantly makes religious icons out of tendentious bureaucrats like Bob Mueller and “Saint” Anthony Fauci, strives to turn news narratives into Holy Writ, and delights even more than Falwell in its own version of divine retribution stories.

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  17. Sep 7

    Moral Majority Media Strikes Again:

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  18. Sep 6

    One of my heroes, devvastated. Was honored to talk with him with

    Michael K. Williams, who memorably portrayed Omar Little in “The Wire” and Chalky White in “Boardwalk Empire,” has died at age 54.
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  19. Retweeted
    Sep 5

    Tune in Monday morning at 10AM to watch me & review the Sunday morning shows' best and worst moments.

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  20. Sep 6

    About to go live with to review the Sunday morning news shows.

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