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The Fake Kash Patel Self-Help Book and What It Says About The Internet
May 29, 2026, was a very unusual day for Kashyap Patel, better known as Kash Patel. The FBI Director and former podcaster first received a letter from the United States Senate, requesting itemized details on all of his personal travel and n...
PARASOCIAL! TUESDAY SPECIAL: the Sam Bateman case, the legal efforts to INCREASE teen pregnancy & propaganda galore
Special Tuesday episode of PARASOCIAL with our pal Dava (AKA History in Sixtie) talking about updates in the Sam Bateman case, and what the hell is going on with the legal efforts to INCREASE teenage pregnancy??
We talk primaries, Sis...
Delaney Hall Updates: Detainees Demands NOT Met, Father's Day Brutalization, & a Politician-Led Hearing
Strikers’ Demands: 1. Meet with the Governor, 2. Release the pregnant, sick, elderly, and children, 3. Review cases and HABEAS Filings, 4. End Coercion. Photo Credit: Lana Leonard
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RIP Duckling, STFU Vance, WTF Crockett? & Other Things That Happened This Weekend
HELLO FRIENDS!
Happy FIRST Monday of the Summer. Schools out, the weather is hot, and the internet is… still a barren wasteland where braincells go to languish until their inevitable death.
Under the Desk News is a reader-supported publ...
Down the Rabbit Hole: IVF Ban & Forced Embryo "Adoption," Obama Pres. Library Opening, & Dialog Conference
Down The Rabbit Hole, Stories Left Behind
On Friday’s V takes time to make time for stories that got pushed aside, lore we need to know about dark figures in the headlines, and even dives into some oddities worth going down the rabbit hol...
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