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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsPolitical homelessness isn't the worst thingNarrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsA major antitrust trial takes an "ancillary" detour to a chilling tour of online lifeNarrated by Jared Moore
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsNPR is a small piece of a vast subsidized groupthink bureaucracy, which needs to be cutNarrated by Jared Moore
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsDonald Trump is fast becoming an Orwellian repository for America's past sins, helping erase long histories of abusesNarrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsDeclarations of hostilities from both sides have grown more frank, and it may be we're past the point of return to a Queensberry Rules politicsNarrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsYuppies of the world, unite!Narrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsWhen a couple that should never have been together finally breaks up, it's a happy thingNarrated by Jared Moore
Globalization, once hailed as a panacea, has proven to be fundamentally corrupt and needs to be blown to kingdom comeNarrated by Jared Moore This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsNPR's advice to parents concerned their children may become incel murderers? Keep them away from jokesNarrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsFrom Glenn Greenwald to Joe Rogan to Tulsi Gabbard to countless others, Democrats seem to reserve special loathing for their ownNarrated by Jared Moore
Sourced to tone-deaf "U.S. officials," a massive New York Times exposé reveals an unprecedented betrayal of American voters, but also UkraineNarrated by Jared Moore This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsBloomberg wants Substack to make the platform a safer space for its new hordes of mainstream washouts by censoring its controversial riffraff. A reply to the snobsNarrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsNationwide rallies are spurring "Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez 2028" whispers, and it's already clear: the CIA couldn't do a better job of discrediting the American leftNarrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThere's a dire warning for Donald Trump in the civil liberties blunders of New South Wales Premier Chris MinnsNarrated by Jared Moore
Europe wonders: how will we maintain our lifestyles, if we can't rip off the American taxpayer anymore?Narrated by Jared Moore This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
One enormous facet of the education controversy remains ignoredNarrated by Jared Moore This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsLongtime deputy to Robert Mueller and key Trump-Russia investigator Andrew Weissmann is in the crosshairs of federal prosecutors
A fight about Joe Biden's pardons may escalate into a larger question about the last presidencyText published 03/17/25:Narrated by Jared MooreArt by Daniel MedinaListen to subscriber only audio in your podcast appShare the free versions of Racket To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsWith civil liberties flatlined around the globe, Donald Trump is blowing off the First Amendment at the worst conceivable timeNarrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThe populist-antipopulist controversy boils over in Romania, where frontrunner Calin Georgescu has been barred from running for a presidential electionNarrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThanking God that the era of mandatory applause for neoliberal mascots is finally over. Can Greta Thunberg come to the White House next?Narrated by Jared Moore
While J.D. Vance was speaking in Munich, the U.K. was demanding encrypted data from Apple. For the first time in nine years, America may fight backNarrated by Jared Moore This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThe once-great AP became journalism's word police, and humorously is now claiming to be a victim of censorshipNarrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsTwo days after J.D. Vance's historic address to Europe on speech, CBS and 60 Minutes offer a counterattackNarrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsAn incredible event, followed by a more incredible reactionNarrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsA chance leak about a last-minute financial agent agreement at the Environmental Protection Agency is the latest evidence that our government is a lot more corrupt than even cynics guessedNarrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsAnd will soon die.Narrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsDonald Trump's sequel return is already an epic monster movie, and the country seems to think the capital's trampling is a net plusNarrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsA week of heated confirmation hearings served as a referendum on America's Reputational Death Star
A brief note to Senator Bernie SandersNarrated by Jared Moore This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThe "Invisible Presidency" is an all-time criminal, and must not be allowed to fleeNarrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsIn Hollywood, self-pity abounds, but there's no remorse for unfairly ruined careers, as Oscar writer Sasha Stone found outNarrated by Jared Moore
In a parting gesture of defiance, the FBI releases a long-awaited document, blotting most of it out. Journalist Aaron Maté explains why the Bureau's FOIA follies matterNarrated by Jared Moore This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was an overgrown pick-up artist whose humiliating downfall will stand forever as a cautionary tale for menNarrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsFrom drones to terrorists, authorities are having a laugh at the public's expenseNarrated by Jared Moore
A decades-long mission to fill a spiritual void with politics finally collapsed this year. Will America finally get a life?Narrated by Jared MooreArt by Daniel Medina This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsWhy choose tragic love, when self-aggrandizement is still an option? The Supreme Court Justice acts out the answer in a cheery agitprop rompNarrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news"We Have Never Been Woke" by Musa al-Gharbi may be academia's first serious effort at self-analysis, and its surprising, enraging diagnosis rings all too true.Narrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsCanada's hipster PM is about to talk Canada back into its historical role as the Washington Generals of international relationsNarrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsJoe Biden or whoever is running the White House can absolve anyone they please, but Anthony Fauci needs to stand tall before the man. The world is owed answers
Kash Patel will be the focus of scrutiny now, but the Bureau needs to look in the mirror. How J. Edgar Hoover's legacy was revived in the Trump yearsNarrated by Jared Moore This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThe reported nomination of Kash Patel means chickens are coming home to roost for the FBI, which needs to be destroyed as a political entityNarrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsOn the virtues of using machines instead of being used by them. Thumbing a nose at dystopia, as it recedes in time for a holidayNarrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsDocuments just made public show how groups aligned with the Democratic Party hit a third party rival with an array of underhanded schemes that put Watergate tricksters to shameNarrated by Jared MooreArt by Daniel Medina
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsExpectation of peace talks after Donald Trump's inauguration is pushing all sides of the Ukraine war to escalate, with British and American missiles adding fresh riskNarrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsCritics of the rumored nomination of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health need to check the election returns
The Real Clear Politics National Average was removed by Wikipedia before the election and the New York Times denounced its failure to skew data. A solution to the "mystery" of crappy polling?Narrated by Jared Moore This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThe national mass psychosis is finally dealt a blow, making it safe to be sane againNarrated by Jared Moore
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsA note on Jimmy Kimmel, Howard Stern, Joe Biden, Stephen Colbert, and othersNarrated by Jared Moore