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The Right Is So Desperate to Prove 'Go Woke, Go Broke' That They're Inventing 'Woke' Controversies Out of Thin Air
From Cracker Barrel to Sydney Sweeney's jeans: How right-wing influencers manufacture controversies, then cite them as proof that "wokeness" destroys…
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The Right's Vikings Cheerleader Meltdown Is Really About Their Demand for a Queer-Free World
Fox News hosts are joking about military intervention to stop male cheerleaders. The panic reveals what conservatives really want: LGBTQ people to…
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The Government Is Now Deciding What History Museums Can Display
Harriet Tubman's hymn book is gone. Trump's impeachments are erased. And we're only seven months in.
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Chris Cuomo Fell for an AI Video Labeled "100% Fake" and It Gets Worse From There
The video was watermarked "parody 100% made with AI." Cuomo shared it anyway, then pivoted to attacking AOC about Hamas. It's even dumber than it…
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Oh No, What is Jim Acosta Doing?
The former CNN host "interviewed" an AI avatar of one of the Parkland shooting victims.
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The Sydney Sweeney Jeans Ad "Backlash" Is Mostly Fake
How a handful of TikTok comments became a national controversy about eugenics, Democrats, and denim.
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July 2025

There's Now a Report Card for Media Capitulation, and It's Full of Chickens
Free Press mapped out the ownership, donations, and compromises behind 35 major media companies. The results aren't pretty.
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Trump Has Left Reality Behind. He Took the Justice Department With Him.
Fake payments, fabricated treason, AI arrest videos — the president is creating an alternate universe where his enemies are criminals.
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How Trump Plans to Weaponize AI's "Superhuman Persuasion"
A new government plan would mandate that AI systems reflect the administration's worldview — or lose access to federal contracts.
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Stop Pretending Chatbots Have Feelings: Media's Dangerous AI Anthropomorphism Problem
When AI causes harm, headlines blame the bot instead of the billion-dollar companies that built them. This anthropomorphic coverage is tech journalism…
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Stephen Colbert's Cancellation Is Exactly What It Looks Like
Mock a Trump bribe on Monday, get canceled by Thursday. The Late Show's death reveals how billionaires and presidents are reshaping American media.
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The Smallest Room in the House
Rahm Emanuel says Democrats focus too much on bathrooms. He's wrong about which party is obsessed...and about everything else.
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