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Listen to This Article - Twitter Files, Southern Poverty Law Center Edition: Hate Inflation?

Matt Taibbi — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:54:22 GMT

The SPLC was just indicted for one kind of fraud. Twitter was investigating another. When you get paid big bucks to find hate, you won’t NOT find it

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Listen to This Article: New York Times: Old People Suck and We Should Take Their Stuff

Matt Taibbi — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:03:20 GMT

It’s time to do away with these societal “grifters” and “stowaways,” says an eminent Yale professor

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Listen to This Article: How Big Pharma (Successfully) Targeted Women

Matt Bivens, M.D. — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:17:37 GMT

Two waves of addiction were prescribed by doctors and egged on by pharmaceutical marketing — orchestrated by the Sackler family — that insisted it was safe and a great idea.

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Listen to This Article: Public Stonings are Not "Accountability"

Matt Taibbi — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:12:27 GMT

The high-speed demolition of Eric Swalwell is being celebrated as appropriate “accountability,” but removing due process isn’t justice

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Listen to This Article: We Are Doomed and Our Leaders Are Insane

Matt Taibbi — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:22:53 GMT

Not one of our presidents, least of all this lunatic, can resist starting wars

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Listen to This Article: Trump’s F-Bomb on Iran Joins America’s Rollicking History of Presidential Profanity

Ryan Lovelace — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:59:01 GMT

Surprisingly, there’s plenty of precedent for Trump’s Easter tirade

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Listen to This Article: The Top 10 Symptoms of Conspiracy Brain

Matt Taibbi — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:20:39 GMT

Is a media mania yanking your chain? Ten ways to tell if the answer is yes

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Listen to This Article: Time to Tune Out Spyworld

Matt Taibbi — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:13:06 GMT

A note on FBI research and the downstream effects of life in a surveillance state

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Listen to This Article - EXCLUSIVE: Exposing the FBI’s Human Experimentation Studies

Ryan Lovelace — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:10:20 GMT

“Who has my saliva from ten years ago?” On the FBI studies involving serial killers, twins, facial recognition, and genetics

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Listen to This Article: Finally, Good News: Free Speech Wins Big in Court

Matt Taibbi — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:35:49 GMT

Four years after the Twitter Files, the Missouri v. Biden case ends in a consent decree barring government from threatening protected speech - a belated but important victory

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Listen to This Article: Exclusive: Iranian Ambassador Met with Russian Arms Maker for “Development of Cooperation”

Matt Taibbi — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 19:09:59 GMT

An Iranian diplomat met with the CEO of Rostec, according to a letter obtained by Racket

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Listen to This Article: Go Outside

Matt Taibbi — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:15:57 GMT

A place to visit, when the world goes mad

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Listen to This Article: Can Your Pension or Retirement Money Get Lost in the Bermuda Triangle?

Eric Salzman — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:15:47 GMT

With the recent and ongoing “Software Apocalypse” we may just find out!

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Listen to This Article: How To Treat Gender Dysphoria In Kids Without Sex Changes

Rav Arora — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:16:40 GMT

An interview with Kenneth Zucker

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Listen to This Article: Warriors’ Casino: The People Making A Killing Gambling On War

Ryan Lovelace — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:32:57 GMT

Insider trading on the end of the world?

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Listen to This Article: Will Evicting Blackstone Help Young People Buy Homes?

Eric Salzman — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:21:16 GMT

Mega investors are a mega problem. But not the only one.

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Listen to This Article: Who's That Source? Iran Edition

Jillian Butler — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:13:29 GMT

How much thinking really happens at a DC think tank?

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Listen to This Article: 50 Years of Secrets: Why You Should Care About the FBI's 'Prohibited Access' Files

Matt Taibbi — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:58:29 GMT

In an echo of Seymour Hersh’s famed ‘Family Jewels’ story, the FBI has been caught hiding a generation of secrets.

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Listen to This Article - Kash’s Cache: Locating The FBI’s Secret Files

Ryan Lovelace — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:06:57 GMT

Agent misconduct, Arctic Frost, and more! Inside the files FBI hides from its own agents

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Listen to This Article: EXCLUSIVE: The FBI's Secret Stash Finally Uncovered

Matt Taibbi — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:58:09 GMT

For a generation, the FBI has kept a second set of books called ‘prohibited access’ files. After a long fight, they’re finally being examined.

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