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Dr. Matt Bivens, who joined me on a livestream about Russia a few weeks back, will be making time again tomorrow night, to talk about some never-discussed angles of the Twitter Files story. The initial story was reported by two teams of reporters, one associated with Bari Weiss, and a far smaller family affair in the Racket camp.

Maine Democrat Graham Platner last night ran a video address staunchly denying a recent flurry of sexual assault accusations, while still dropping out of the race for the U.S. Senate “for the good of the movement.” Platner said farewell to a campaign that he said “went toe to toe with one of the most entrenched political systems in the history of the world” — the history of the world, folks— and won.

Get Lit After a long search I’m teaming up with fellow Substacker Brad Pearce to launch Get Lit, a show that hopes to scratch the same itch as the book segments from America This Week, except books will be the whole program. After a long search I’m teaming up with fellow Substacker Brad Pearce to launch Get Lit, a show that hopes to scratch the same itch as the book segments from America This Week, except books will be the whole program.

Box office analysts on Sunday noted an uncomfortable truth: Female-led superhero movies have been rejected almost uniformly over the past five years or so, perhaps reflecting a resurgent misogyny among the core fan base, which is largely male. — The New York Times, “Supergirl’ falters at box office, testing DC studios reboot” Supergirl opens on the planet Holzherr, which orbits a red sun.

Longtime Racket partners News2Share and Ford Fischer put together an excellent and even-handed 18-minute “Activism Uncensored” reel on a fraught month of celebrations, counter-celebrations, and counter-counter-celebrations, all surrounding America’s 250th birthday. The piece speaks for itself, but I was struck by a few things. Activism, Uncensored from the beginning has captured scenes of almost-violence and violence, as the Trump era traveled a path of seemingly worsening division.

Produced by Ford Fischer / News2Share with additional footage by TJ Jones for Activism Uncensored, a Collaboration with Racket News “What is a patriot? As America reached its 250th birthday, celebrated by President Trump’s Freedom 250 events in Washington DC, this question could be answered very differently, depending on who you asked.

Get Lit After a long search I’m teaming up with fellow Substacker Brad Pearce to launch Get Lit, a show that hopes to scratch the same itch as the book segments from America This Week, except books will be the whole program. After a long search I’m teaming up with fellow Substacker Brad Pearce to launch Get Lit, a show that hopes to scratch the same itch as the book segments from America This Week, except books will be the whole program.

Illustrated by Daniel Medina “And there’s hatred there, too,” he said, after a moment’s silence. “They’d be the first to be terribly unhappy if Russia somehow suddenly got reconstructed, even if it was in their own way, and somehow suddenly became boundlessly rich and happy. They’d have no one to hate then, no one to spit on, nothing to jeer at!” — From Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Demons.” It was strange to read Demons during the most controversial Fourth of July in ages.

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Get Lit After a long search I’m teaming up with fellow Substacker Brad Pearce to launch Get Lit, a show that hopes to scratch the same itch as the book segments from America This Week, except books will be the whole program. After a long search I’m teaming up with fellow Substacker Brad Pearce to launch Get Lit, a show that hopes to scratch the same itch as the book segments from America This Week, except books will be the whole program.