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How the motivated reasoning media ignores inconvenient inconsistencies
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How Jamie’s book Secret City informed his reporting
Heroes and homophobia
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The Lavender Scare and Joe McCarthy
Who was worse, JFK or RFK?
Would anyone care about Larry Craig in 2023?
Why was Moynihan at a political event in Florida?
SMDH at the FUBAR SOTU
A bit about those Twitter hearings…
And so much more!
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#394 w/ Jamie Kirchick "Hammer Time, Larry Craig 2024, TLDR SOTU"
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#394 w/ Jamie Kirchick "Hammer Time, Larry Craig 2024, TLDR SOTU"