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Beg-A-Thon Live Show 1-30-24: The Grim Popularity of Rise-And-Grind TikTok #Influencers
In this Live Show Beg-A-Thon recorded Jan 30, we break down the worst Rise-And-Grind social media stars and how they've moved from Silicon Valley-adj…
2 years, 1 month ago
News Brief: How US Media Obscures the Violence of the Generic, Sterile-Sounding "Border Deal"
In this News Brief we are joined by friend of the show, Maximillian Alvarez of The Real News, to discuss Democrats' pathetic, myopic, and nihilistic …
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 197: The "Human Shields" Canard as Catch-All Colonial Absolution
"Viet Cong Use Children as Human Shields," the Associated Press alleged in 1967. "'Civilian casualty?" That's a gray area," Alan Dershowitz argued in…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 196: Benevolent Billionaire Despotism and US Media's Softball Treatment of 'Effective Altruism'
"Join Wall Street. Save the world," The Washington Post urged in 2013. "How to Know Your Donations Are Doing the Most Good," The New York Times procl…
2 years, 2 months ago
News Brief: The ICJ Ruling and the Essentialness of Squishy Western Liberal Support for Genocide
In this public News Brief, we react to the media spin around the ICJ's genocide ruling against Israel and how framing by the NYT and BBC seeks to uph…
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 195: David Leonhardt and the Elite Consensus Manufacturing Machine
"Make sense of the day's news and ideas," urges The Morning, a daily New York Times newsletter. "Get smarter, faster on news and information that mat…
2 years, 2 months ago
Beg-A-Thon Announcement Jan 30: The Worst Rise-And-Grind TikTok #Influencers
Get shredded! Get a hot trad wife! Close the Baxter Account! Join us Jan 30 at 8:30pm ET for a live show beg-a-thon with guest Hussein Kesvani, as we…
2 years, 2 months ago
News Brief: Quantifying the Media's Selective Humanity in Gaza
In this News Brief, we are joined by Adam's anonymous co-author of their two recent studies—one of print and one of cable news—detailing US's media's…
2 years, 2 months ago
News Brief: 5 Ways US Media Helps Put a 'Humanitarian' Spin on Gaza Ethnic Cleansing
In this News Brief, we detail how horrific population transfers, mass bombings, and collective punishment are spun as humanitarian gestures to protec…
2 years, 3 months ago
Episode 194: The "Graying Population" Panic and the 90-Year War on Social Security
"Aging population to hit U.S. economy like a 'ton of bricks'," Reuters reported in 2021. "Aging Is The Real Population Bomb," the International Monet…
2 years, 3 months ago