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To speak on your terms, free yourself from the press corps
What can you say about things that are morally distinct in a news media world in which moral distinctions don’t exist?
Biden’s righteous anger with an anti-moral press corps
The special counsel’s report didn’t have enough to indict him, only smear him, and reporters are going along with it.
Special counsel finds a way to turn Biden’s willingness to cooperate into a smear
The DC press corps is taking the emotionally charged impressions of a two-time Trump appointee at face value, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
All of a sudden, Biden is the border hawk, not Trump
Trump got outplayed and doesn’t seem to know it.
Biden connected the dots – Trump’s Big Lie is new Lost Cause
He opened space to discuss the role of intimidation and threats of violence in Trump’s continued dominance of the Republican Party.
On Ukraine war funding, are the Republicans in Russian pay?
Shared interest is probably the right answer.
Hello, this is Hades
Our mascot is back.
The cost to the GOP of ‘saying the quiet part out loud’ is clearer
Biden is taking advantage of the GOP’s inaction on the border.
The Republicans say they care about ‘the crisis at the border.’ Why do we believe them?
They clearly don’t, so what do they really care about?
The Republicans represent a ‘sovereign nation’ inside America
Russia is an ally. Ukraine is an enemy.