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Inside "horseglue": How a Punk Song Became an Indictment of Beltway Journalism

"Like a fidget spinner in my head": Jael Holzman on "horseglue" and leaving the Hill

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Parker Molloy
Nov 25, 2025
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I’ve been thinking a lot about how media shapes reality — how performance becomes truth, how spectacle drowns out substance. It’s something my friend Jael Holzman tackles brilliantly in today’s interview about congressional journalism becoming “TM…

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