America This Week: News Digest
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America This Week: News Digest
Please help Sam Fogel keep this job.

Also, can you guess this prompt?

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America This Week, April 12, 2024: 'NPR's Greatest Hits.'
@WalterKirn and Matt Taibbi dive into NPR editor Uri Berliner's comments, then review some of the most curious NPR stories of late. Also: 'Jackals and Arabs' by Franz Kafka

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Interview: Chris Hedges on the 'White working class'

'These people are not only being demonized, they’ve been rendered invisible. Caricatures exist, but as human beings they’ve been rendered invisible.'

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An amazing and illustrative tweet from this 'progressive':

When we did the Snowden reporting in 2013-14, most left-liberals were outraged over mass domestic warrantless spying.

Now they not only support it, but accuse anyone favoring limits on NSA/FBI of being a Kremlin agent.

Interview: Chris Hedges Discusses 'Wall Street's War on Workers'
Award winning author and correspondent Chris Hedges talks about the origins of the ongoing media campaign against the 'White working class'

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The Real Book About the 'White Working Class',
Interview with Les Leopold, author of 'Wall Street's War on Workers,' the book neither party wants you to read
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The first Twitter Files was about the Hunter Biden laptop incident. After that I did nine reports about everything from Hamilton 68 to the Election Integrity Partnership to the “Industry Meetings” with FBI/DHS, and the last two were about Covid and the Virality Project. As for…

First, far from ignoring it, I was the first person to report on Trump censorship requests. Second, I barely touched the Covid issue until the end. I focused on the intel agencies and then the larger issue of just getting as much as we could. You got basically everything wrong.

Listen to This Article: On 'The View,' A Crack Finally Shows in the Propaganda Facade

Q&A With Coleman Hughes, author of 'The End of Race Politics,' who just experienced the mother of all book tour appearances

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Great quote from my podcast partner Walter Kirn:

Because… I thinking knowing speech law is good?

Maye or Daniels, whoever’s left. Think they’re both huge talents. You?

What does the GOP have to do with this post? Except that you’re proving my point — most of the things you would consider “lies that harm the country” are not illegal. Libel is, but a lot of the untrue things politicians say are protected.

My “For You” feed is lately filled with tweets about women’s basketball, which I don’t watch or read about. Do the algos have a sense of humor maybe?

You should get two outs for that.

Transcript - America This Week, April 5, 2024: “The Nine Billion RFK Answers Ignored”

If CNN spends an hour interviewing Robert F. Kennedy and doesn’t hear his answers, did it happen? Walter and Matt discuss. Plus “The Nine Billion Names of God.”

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I've been in a big (7.5) earthquake before and while this wasn't like that, it wasn't nothing, either. Much stronger than this morning it felt like.

I live in a house in a ravine so I really felt that. That was no joke. Anyone hear about injuries?

That felt stronger than whatever happened this morning.