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A note from Aaron: Working with brilliant contributors like Lisa requires resources. To support this work, please click the button below and sign up to get our coverage of politics and media directly in your inbox three times a week. Subscribe to Public Notice Given how often it happens, it can feel futile to call out the GOP for its rank hypocrisy. But sometimes, the party’s actions are so blatant that they can’t be overlooked.

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Apr 19 • 34M "It's tough love." Open in playerListen on ); Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Aaron talks to newsmakers and interesting thinkers about politics, current events, and their work. New episodes drop each week. The April 19 episode of the Aaron Rupar Show features Dan Froomkin, founder of Press Watch.

A quick note from Aaron: I really enjoyed joining Markos Moulitsas and Kerry Eleveld yesterday on Daily Kos’s The Brief podcast to talk all things GOP and right-wing media. Watch our roughly 45-minute conversation below. If you enjoy that discussion, you’ll like today’s edition of my pod, which features Dan Froomkin of Press Watch.

A note from Aaron: Working with brilliant contributors like Lisa requires resources. To support this work, please click the button below and sign up to get our coverage of politics and media directly in your inbox three times a week. Subscribe to Public Notice The Fox News/Dominion lawsuit isn’t going as the network likely planned. On the eve of the trial beginning, they’ve been slapped with sanctions after playing fast and loose by trying to conceal Rupert Murdoch’s role with Fox News.

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An important note from Aaron: Tomorrow, I’m publishing a special Saturday edition of Public Notice featuring a Q&A with Gloria Johnson, the Tennessee House Democrat who was one of three lawmakers state Republicans recently tried to expel from office for their role in a gun control demonstration.

Apr 12 • 42M "It makes my day when people say, 'I showed these videos to my parents, and now they're a little bit suspect of Sean Hannity or Tucker Carlson." Open in playerListen on ); Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Aaron talks to newsmakers and interesting thinkers about politics, current events, and their work. New episodes drop each week.

To understand the true significance of ProPublica’s story that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to report millions of dollars of gifts from a conservative billionaire — and why there will be no consequences — you first need to understand that Supreme Court justices are largely unfettered by any rules, even those that apply to other federal judges.

The nation’s federal courts are living on borrowed legitimacy, and the supply is running out. On Friday, a Trump-appointed judge with a long history of anti-choice activism ordered the FDA to take a medication that is safely used to perform most abortions off the market, based on the thinnest of legal rationales.