In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Adolph Reed, political science professor from the University of Pennsylvania. Before getting into the details later, at the top of the show our hosts allude to Matt’s recent Substack piece. “I sort of got …
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In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiots podcast, Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by two guests: former Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson and historian Dr. Gerald Horne, from the University of Houston. Our hosts discuss the George Floyd protests and rebellions happening for racial justice across the …
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1. The candidate references Tom Brady. 2. The candidate drops the name of a local eatery (“So, I was eating the Hash Benny at the Red Arrow the other day…”). 3. Reporters (in vain) scan the crowd for African-American faces. 4. Reporters ask each other what “the ethanol of New Hampshire” is. 5. The phrase “right here in …
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In the latest episode of our Useful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper talk with Shahid Buttar, the San Francisco attorney and grassroots-organizer campaigning to unseat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Buttar’s campaign speaks to a growing schism within the Democratic party between left-wing voices and more traditional party members. On …
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