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The Left is Now the Right: We laughed at the Republican busybody who couldn't joke, declared war on dirty paintings, and peered through your bedroom window. Now that person has switched sides, and nobody's laughing
3 years ago by quipu to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
Meet the Censored: The U.S. Right to Know Foundation. They inhabit a corner of the media universe focusing on who pays for what kind of research and why. They began publishing the results of FOIA requests about COVID, then suddenly disappeared from Google.
3 years ago by Chipit to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com
Interview: Glenn Greenwald. "I think that it really revealed this new “lawfare” where instead of doing overt coups, you give the cover of concocting corruption scandals against democratically elected leaders you dislike, like what the CIA did in manufacturing the Russiagate scandal against Trump."
3 years ago by Chipit to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
The Left is Now the Right (NOTE: this does not speak of gender ideology at all actually, but a lot of the rhetoric the "left" uses regardless of topic is eerily similar)
3 years ago by vitunrotta to /s/GenderCritical from taibbi.substack.com
Meet the Censored: Mark Crispin Miller. "By encouraging the school to sack him over a complaint, Crispin Miller’s colleagues are telling students that it’s faster to eliminate or suppress unpleasant ideas than find successful arguments against them. This feels like the opposite of teaching."
Will Twitter Become an Ocean of Suck? The resignation of Jack Dorsey is the latest plot point in the story of the Internet's transformation, from democratizing tool to instrument of elite control.
2 years ago by Chipit to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com
Silicon Valley has gone from banning Trump for past concrete violations to future potential violations. Facebook just last week banned an interview of Trump declaring that “the voice of Donald Trump” will henceforth be removed, as the risk of allowing it to be heard at all is “too great.”
Why Has "Ivermectin" Become a Dirty Word? With the world desperate for news about an unprecedented disaster, Silicon Valley had essentially decided to disallow discussion of a potential solution — disallow calls for more research and more study — because not enough research and study had been done.
Financial institutions must not be allowed to take crippling losses, even if those losses were the fault of the companies in question. The thinking of these experts changes, however, the instant the question shifts to aid to the common people. Suddenly we learn that resources are scarce.
3 years ago by Chipit to /s/finance from taibbi.substack.com
It seems that Elon Musk’s pursuit of Twitter has been continually rebuffed. The American security state can’t afford for Twitter to fall into the hands of a heterodox thinker. A candid admission that Twitter is an arm of the security state and controlling the narrative around the Ukraine War.
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/news from taibbi.substack.com
Remarks about Jews caused JP Morgan Chase to close Kanye West's account. They were criminally charged and fined $1.7 billion by the Justice Department and $461 million by FinCEN for not getting rid of the Jew Bernie Madoff when they knew he was a problem. They just withdrew their own investments.
Meet the Censored: Olivia Katbi-Smith. An activist for the Democratic Socialists of America talks about how arguments in favor of “banning hate speech” will end up being used against grassroots activists.
Twitter and Facebook suppressed a real story of legitimate public interest just before a presidential election. The fact that Big Tech blocked it, and professional journalists gleefully lied about it, has a direct bearing on YouTube’s decision now to bar Trumpist freakouts over the election results.
The Justice Department Was Dangerous Before Trump. It's Out of Control Now. The current Trump investigation is just the latest chapter of a long-brewing civil liberties nightmare.
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
The Folly of Pandemic Censorship - Matt Taibbi
2 years ago by Drewski to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com
A Tale of Two Authoritarians
2 years ago by BravoVictor to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
In 1972, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond sent a letter to the office of Attorney General John Mitchell, suggesting John Lennon be deported. Thurmond believed Lennon’s antiwar and anti-Nixon views would spread in rock concerts and festivals... -- Matt Taibbi
1 year ago by EndlessSunflowers to /s/conspiracy from taibbi.substack.com
"What is a Woman?" A Movie That Should Be Reviewed More, For One Thing. Matt Walsh pranks the pants off America's silliest intellectuals, and the sad thing is, it wasn't hard at all.
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/Movies from taibbi.substack.com
The Media Campaign to Protect Joe Biden Passes the Point of Absurdity
Justin Trudeau's Ceauşescu Moment
The British Medical Journal Story That Exposed Politicized "Fact-Checking"
2 years ago by BravoVictor to /s/news from taibbi.substack.com
Take the Biden Quiz. In the following sets of quotes, guess which is Biden, and which is Putin? Answers at bottom.
Activism, Uncensored: Are Black 2nd Amendment Advocates the Ultimate Taboo?
1 year ago by hfxB0oyA to /s/news from taibbi.substack.com
The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis is Here
3 years ago by CompleteDoubterII to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com
Meet the Censored: Katie Halper. Katie was fired from a part-time hosting arrangement at The Hill’s Rising, whose editor told her an editorial critical of Israeli policies in Palestine was “not in our sweet spot of coverage.” They have a new policy where op-eds on Israel were a no-no.
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com
Alex Moyer has now made two movies in a row, TFW No GF and Alex’s War, that sound too much like journalism for today’s media. Moyer was criticized for not planting enough signs telling them — and audiences — what to think about disaffected loner men. It's a about alienation, just like Taxi Driver.
The Democrats between 2016 and 2020 not only lost my vote, but reveled in the idea that they didn’t need or want it, denouncing critics in all directions as traitors, white supremacists, and terrorists, no different from the “deplorables” who voted for Donald Trump.
The World's Most Taboo Legal Case. The Women’s Liberation Front filed a civil rights lawsuit in California that drew almost no coverage. A press corps gearing up to be outraged by the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp defamation case had zero interest in a lawsuit filed by far poorer female abuse victims.
The "Gentlemen's Agreement": When TV News Won't Identify Defense Lobbyists
1 year ago by BravoVictor to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
Twitter's Chickens Come Home to Roost
Even By Democratic Party Standards, Censoring Fox News Is An Insanely Stupid Idea - TK News by Matt Taibbi. All of these stories share the same theme: small, unelected groups of private executives making sweeping decisions about speech, cheered on by Democratic Party politicians.
From Google and Twitter to the Departments of Justice and State, we’ve become a blacklisting society, and it’s beginning to look like the excesses of the Bush years were just a warmup.
Activism, Uncensored: A Weekend of Californians Screaming and Flailing at Each Other. “Fuck you!” “Shut the fuck up!” “Whore! Whore! Whore!” The two 'ladies' arguing about whether one is a communist were the best part.
Savor the Great Musk Panic. This is the elite argument against free speech in a nutshell: “If you favor ‘all legal speech,’ you really just want to slander, threaten, and harass. Now please let me tell millions of New York Times readers I ‘assume’ you’re a racist itching to use the N-word.”
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from taibbi.substack.com
Conversation With Russell Brand, Who Isn't "Right Wing". His willingness to court all audiences is an affront to the basic formula of current commercial media, which relies upon a strategy of identifying out-groups and rallying audiences to escalating hatreds.
2 years ago by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from taibbi.substack.com
Rachel Maddow's Shocking New Low. With last night's loony response to the indictment of Igor Danchenko, the MSNBC anchor takes a bold leap off the credibility cliff.
The "Let's Go, Brandon!" Freakout Goes Next-Level
Don't Steal This Book - On "In Defense of Looting”
3 years ago by [deleted] to /s/books from taibbi.substack.com
YouTube Censors Reality, Boosts Disinformation: Part 1 - Matt Taibbi
1 year ago by Drewski to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com
PayPal's IndyMedia Wipeout — Matt Taibbi's Substack on PayPal
1 year ago by chottohen to /s/corruption from taibbi.substack.com
When Boring People Turn Dangerous: Canada's Insane Power Grab
2 years ago by jet199 to /s/SocialMedia from taibbi.substack.com
The Red-Pilling of Loudoun County, Virginia
Meet Josiah Zayner, America's Most Censored Person
Hopkins has been critical of the emotional tenor of propaganda around Covid-19, which treats the crisis not as a logistical problem to be solved but as a signal that people should fundamentally alter their expectations for life, lowering demands for political freedoms.
After advocating tirelessly for Big Tech censorship, the far left is shocked to find itself the victim of censorship. WSWS.org is so oldschool socialist that they think white and black workers can be on the same side, and that the 1619 Project "is a blatant falsification of the historical record."
The Press is Already Working Overtime to Elect Trump Again. Negative media attention and the martyring effect of Internet censorship are the best friends Donald Trump ever had, but press antagonists are doubling down for 2024.
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from taibbi.substack.com
PayPal's IndyMedia Wipeout
The "Gentlemen's Agreement": When TV News Won't Identify Defense Lobbyists. As war rages, there will be officials on TV with sincere opinions about how the U.S. can help Ukraine. Very often, however, what you’re watching is a paid lobbyist plugging for a weapons maker.
Let’s Not Have a War. The “core interest” of the Washington consensus is war. The bulk of the people elected to congress and a lion’s share of the lobbyists, lawyers, and journalists who snuggle in a giant fornicating mass in the capital are dedicated to the upkeep of the war bureaucracy.
2 years ago by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from taibbi.substack.com
Meet Jed Rakoff, the Judge Who Exposed the "Rigged Game"
"Omicron Death!" - Pandemic Pandemonia Reaches New Heights.
2 years ago by Drewski to /s/propaganda from taibbi.substack.com
Colleagues in national media spent over a year telling the country Kyle Rittenhouse was not just guilty, but a moral monster whose acquittal would be an in-your-face affirmation of systemic white supremacy. It was reckless beyond belief for analysts to tell audiences Rittenhouse was a murderer.
Democrats Swoon Over George W. Bush, In Match Made in Hell. The man they unironically called Chimpy McBu$hitler. WORST! PRESIDENT! EVER!!
2 years ago by Chipit to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
Sometimes in America we’re just not told the whole story, and when the press can’t or won’t do it, it’s left to individual people to fill in the blanks. In a few rare cases, they find out something they weren’t supposed to, and in rarer cases still, they learn enough to beat the system.
2 years ago by Chipit to /s/finance from taibbi.substack.com
Spying and Smearing is "Un-American," not Tucker Carlson
2 years ago by carn0ld03 to /s/conspiracy from taibbi.substack.com
A Biden Appointee's Troubling Views On The First Amendment. Wu’s comment about “returning… to the kind of media environment that prevailed in the 1950s” is telling. This was a disastrous period in American media that saw all sorts of glaring social problems covered up or de-emphasized with ease.
Ellsberg described a vicious cycle, in which leaders lie pervasively, then learn to have so much contempt for the public that swallows those lies, that they feel justified in lying more. Ellsberg is adamant that our military and intelligence services don’t learn from even the bloodiest failures.
In Defense Of Substack - TK News by Matt Taibbi. The upper-class media is outraged that "Substack is a dangerous direct threat to traditional news media." In other words, they don't get to control what journalism is and they're super pissed off about it.
3 years ago by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from taibbi.substack.com
Glenn Greenwald was forced to resign after writing a story criticizing both the Biden campaign and intelligence community — only to have it spiked by the editors of The Intercept, the news outlet he co-founded six years ago with the aim of preventing pretty much this exact situation.
The people who run this country have run out of workable myths with which to distract the public, and in a moment of extreme crisis have chosen to stoke civil war and defame the rest of us – black and white – rather than admit to a generation of corruption, betrayal, and mismanagement.
Democrats Have Abandoned Civil Liberties, by Matt Taibbi. "Cases like this have turned erstwhile liberals – people who just a decade ago were marching in the streets over the civil liberties implications of Cheney’s War on Terror apparatus – into defenders of the spy state."
3 years ago by Chipit to /s/conspiracy from taibbi.substack.com
“Be it resolved: don’t trust mainstream media.” My name is Matt Taibbi, I’ve been a reporter for 30 years, and I argue for the resolution. You should not trust mainstream media. I love the news business. It’s in my bones. But I mourn for it. It’s destroyed itself.
Activism, Uncensored: Abortion Protests Spark "Coast to Coast" Conflict
World's Dullest Editorial Launches Panic
The Great International Convoy Fiasco
Matt Taibbi and Matt Orfalea: The Lab Leak "Conspiracy Theory"
2 years ago by AXXA to /s/news from taibbi.substack.com
Let’s Not Have a War
Activism, Uncensored: Impact of Gun Control Laws Visible in Virginia Protests
If the left could solve the problem of two Americas, it’s now decided that the America that is left behind, that it used to profess great care for and ambitions for, should just be annihilated with ridicule and a sort of mockery that dehumanizes them and renders them irrelevant.
TK Mashup: "Omicron DEATH!". For a while now it’s been clear the primary objective of most pandemic coverage is to scare the socks off mass audiences. Matt Orfalea does a hilarious job of stitching together an homage to the latest moral panic.
Loudoun County Epilogue: A Worsening Culture War, and the False Hope of "Decorum"
Loudoun County, Virginia: A Culture War in Four Acts
Biden's Troubles Aren't Bernie's Fault, or a Media Mirage. "From there, I scrolled in search of the inevitable, “Freedom of the press is good, but” passage. It was three paragraphs down."
The Rittenhouse Verdict is Only Shocking if You Followed the Last Year of Terrible Reporting
Taibbi: Another Humorous Substack Panic
2 years ago by penelopepnortney to /s/WayOfTheBern from taibbi.substack.com
The "Let's Go, Brandon!" Freakout Goes Next-Level. Is it really possible that these people don’t get they’re being trolled? Part of the joke of “Let’s Go Brandon,” of course, is that you couldn’t go five minutes during the last administration without hearing someone screaming “Fuck Trump!”
The subtext is that people with the right degrees deserve to be rich, and have health insurance, and good schooling for their kids, and dignified work, while those who don't deserve failure, in the same way smokers deserve lung disease — especially if they make unsanctioned political choices.
Meet the Censored: Matt Orfalea. The next morning, at at 5:42 AM, he received an official strike from the channel, which resulted in a one-week ban and left him two strikes away from removal under YouTube’s three-strikes system. The catch? The strike was for one of the cuts he’d already deleted.
The Division of Light and Power, Dennis Kucinich’s enormous new memoir about his time as the Mayor of Cleveland, and his battle against Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, or CEI. The book is 700 pages of proof of the comical extent of how rigged American politics can be, and is.
2 years ago by Chipit to /s/books from taibbi.substack.com
Reporters Once Challenged the Spy State. Now, They're Agents of It
2 years ago by scrubking to /s/corruption from taibbi.substack.com
Master List Of Official Russia Claims That Proved To Be Bogus
3 years ago by muellermeierschulz to /s/whatever from taibbi.substack.com
Dear Joe Scarborough: Nice Smear. Now Invite Me To Debate Your Network's Russiagate Coverage - Matt Taibbi
3 years ago by EndlessSunflowers to /s/whatever from taibbi.substack.com
How to find "Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another". "For insight into how we got to this mess where trust in traditional media is at an all time low, look no further than HATE INC. from the great and powerful @mtaibbi. It’s excellent and really fucking disturbing." —@joerogan
3 years ago by Chipit to /s/books from taibbi.substack.com
"Kansas should go F itself." The People, No documents the furious elite propaganda response to bottom-up political movements that has recurred in uncannily similar fashion at key moments across nearly a century and a half of American history, and is firing with particular venom today.
YouTube Censors Reality, Boosts Disinformation: Part 1. YouTube censored a factually accurate video about “rigged election” comments from the media and Democrats. YouTube leaves videos promoting the conspiracy theory that the Hunter Biden laptop story is both bunk and an intelligence op.
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/youtube from taibbi.substack.com
What Has Trump's Endless Prosecution Accomplished? As more and more effort is spent trying to put Donald Trump behind bars, he keeps growing politically. Is it time to wonder if there's a connection?
The World's Most Taboo Legal Case
1 year ago by [deleted] to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
The Washington Post's "Libs of TikTok" Nothingburger
Editor's Note: On "Russian Dissent"
Orwell Was Right
Putin the Apostate
Justin Trudeau's Ceauşescu Moment. Denouncing truckers for "unacceptable views," Canada's Prime Minister skipped town rather than face evidence of his own unpopularity. Is neoliberalism finally cracking?
2 years ago by Chipit to /s/canada from taibbi.substack.com
The Lab Leak "Conspiracy Theory". there was a time not long ago when no responsible press outlet would have declared any hypothesis off-limits before the mystery had been solved. Orfalea does a great job here using everything from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure to Fahrenheit 451.
Jimmy Kimmel Live, fast becoming Leonid Brezhnev’s never-realized dream of a Soviet Tonight Show, just put out a bit “Anti-Vax Barbie.” It’s impressively on-message. Mocking the hayseeds is always fun, but what a bonus, when you can jack off some of TV’s biggest advertisers at the same time!
Vaccine Aristocrats Strike Again
The Democrats' Education Lunacies Will Bring Back Trump. “I don’t really understand this idea that parents should decide what [their children are] being taught,” 1619 Project author and New York Times writer Hannah-Jones said.
Another Humorous Substack Panic. The notion that Substack is or was a “threat” to traditional media itself speaks to the comical inability of these organizations to understand cause and effect. Traditional media companies in the Trump years suffered catastrophic declines in audience trust.
The Russiagate Whitewash Era Begins. Igor Danchenko is being set up to take the rap as the dirty Russian rat who hoodwinked poor civic-minded Christopher Steele, the FBI, and the entire American press corps into propping up the biggest hoax since the WMD affair.
The Russiagate Whitewash Era Begins