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Watch Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Reject the Politics of Trans Abandonment
As some Democrats retreat, Pritzker doubles down on protecting the most vulnerable.
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Renaming Reality: Trump's Gulf Power Play and Media's Timid Response
News outlets revealed their editorial backbones when covering NASA astronauts' splashdown
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Is Legacy Media Dead?
With Jeff Bezos, Patrick Soon-Shiong, and others interfering in news coverage, independent journalism has become the last refuge of the Fourth Estate.
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Parker Molloy
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Republicans Aren't Abandoning Free Speech Principles — They Never Had Any
How Jeremy Peters' latest piece misses the obvious truth about Republican campus speech tactics
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Book Review: 'The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource' by Chris Hayes
Chris Hayes' 'The Sirens' Call' offers a compelling look at how we lost control of our minds — and why it matters
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Media Matters Report on Conservative Media Dominance Reveals What Progressive Donors Don't Want to Hear
Conservative dominance of digital platforms is driven by billionaire backing that the left hasn't matched
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This Is How You Interview a Government Official
Michel Martin's relentless questioning of Troy Edgar revealed there may be no evidence behind the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil.
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Parker Molloy
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The Media Treated Trump's Tesla Stunt Like a Car Show, Not Corruption
How media coverage normalized a blatant act of presidential cronyism.
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Another Dark Day at the Bezos Post: Ruth Marcus Resigns After Censorship
The billionaire squeeze tightens as another respected journalist refuses to fall in line with Bezos's rightward push.
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Parker Molloy
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Spicy Autocomplete: The LA Times Outsources "Balance" to Algorithms
The paper's unvetted AI insights are already generating pro-Trump talking points and KKK defenses.
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"Not Exactly Consequential": NYT Dismisses Trump's War on Trans Americans
After years of trans panic coverage, the paper now claims attacks on trans rights barely matter.
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February 2025

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