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Politicians Are Supposed to Lead, Not Just Follow Polls
Rep. Sarah McBride's advice to Democrats on trans rights would have killed the Civil Rights Act.
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The Right's Conspiracy Theory Machine Goes Into Overdrive After Minnesota Shooting
How conservatives immediately spun a tragic assassination into anti-left propaganda, despite all evidence pointing in the opposite direction.
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ABC Fires Terry Moran on White House Command
The company’s lightning-fast response to White House pressure over the veteran correspondent reveals how quickly news organizations will capitulate.
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The Quote That Reveals What's Really Behind Anti-Trans "Concerns"
"I think this whole debate ... is hard to solve when people aren't on the fundamental same page about the existence of a trans identity and the fact…
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The New York Times Is About to Do More Damage to Trans People
The paper's six-part podcast "The Protocol" looks to continue a pattern of coverage so problematic that over 1,200 of its own contributors have…
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May 2025

The Study Republicans Demanded About Trans Kids Just Backfired. Guess What the Media Isn't Covering?
Utah commissioned actual experts to review the science on gender-affirming care. The results? Inconvenient truths that don't fit the narrative.
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Watch CBS News' Scott Pelley Warn Graduates About the Threats Facing American Democracy
The 60 Minutes correspondent never mentioned Trump by name, but his call to defend democratic institutions was apparently too much for the MAGA crowd to…
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Updates on the Chicago Sun-Times' AI-Generated Summer Reading List Disaster
How it happened and where the paper goes next.
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The Chicago Sun-Times Published an AI-Generated Summer Reading List Full of Fake Books — And This is Just the Beginning
The Sun-Times' publishing of fake books shows what happens when media outlets hollow out their newsrooms and replace humans with tech.
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The Right's Outrage Machine Takes No Beach Days
Republicans want us to believe James Comey is plotting assassination via Instagram shells.
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The Grok 'White Genocide' Incident Shows How AI Can Become a Propaganda Machine
When Musk's chatbot started injecting "white genocide" conspiracy theories into unrelated conversations, it revealed the dangerous power of AI to…
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