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Embracing the Joy

With new Russiagate charges and raids all around, learning to love police, paranoia, and surveillance is the new self-help program

Matt Taibbi
Sep 06, 2024
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by Daniel Medina

I got in a shouting match last night on Cuomo with former FBI honcho Peter Strzok. I didn’t know he’d be on and the sight of his Cheshire grin as Chris described the new federal conspiracy indictment against former RT officials was a disorienting surprise; I was imagining feeding him his tie before dicussion started. When he said something about the case tying with with government fight against “misinformation,” I exploded:

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