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Sarah, I stumbled across you on Twitter during the pandemic and it felt like finding an oasis of sanity and truth in a desert of lies. Still does. Thank you deeply for your fierceness and your persistence and your intellectual rigor and for how much you care. And thanks for reposting this; another opportunity to get the word out. 🙏🏽

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Thank you!

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May 7Liked by Sarah Kendzior

Excellent as always.

Trump now has ten criminal contempt citations and he still walks free among us. A government that refuses to jail Trump is a government engaged in its own self-destruction.

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It is horrifying that I did this interview four years ago, as Trump ran against Biden, and here we are now with the same candidate slate.

Officials knew the truth about Trump in 2016, in 2020, and now in 2024. They do nothing meaningful to stop him or his criminal network because they do not care about the sovereignty of this country or the safety of its citizens.

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May 7Liked by Sarah Kendzior

Thanks for this!

Yes, and it's completely insane -but oh so real. They've always known and they've tried to hide it. The charade of normalcy has sealed the apathy among to many of us. But if anyone (and especially at this point) thinks allowing an attempted coup plotter to re-run for president is just your normal no big whoop in an on the level democracy....oh boy...

Nobody likes their illusion burst, I guess.

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May 16·edited May 16Liked by Sarah Kendzior

They might have succeeded in continuing to hide it if Trump hadn't blown everything wide open with such rampant criminality that the government's corruption could no longer be concealed.

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That's exactly how I've felt. It took an obnoxious criminal brat to blow the whole thing wide open and the weak attempts at trying to "patch it up" are embarrassingly lame and condescending.

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May 16Liked by Sarah Kendzior

Exactly. It took an arch-criminal infiltrating the government to let the cat out of the bag and show us the atrocities going on behind the scenes. (Investigative sleuths like Sarah already knew about them, but for many of us the extent of the corruption is horrifying and beyond all conception.)

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If it wasn't so devastating I might be impressed with these "spin doctors" Then I remember this HAS BEEN BUILDING! The Al Gore / Bush jr. election was a HUGE debacle that the SC had no business sticking their "untouchable" noses in!! If only the people's choice had prevailed then! This Kangaroo court has much to answer for... as soon as we figure out HOW!😱 These lying ass justices have taken oaths, so let's start there.. ASAP!

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May 7Liked by Sarah Kendzior

Bitch Media was my first paid subscription. St the time it was novel and to me worthy investment. Then I watched helplessly as venture capitalism gutted investigated journalism, just as i was devouring its priceless enlightenment to a new world view. Twitter seemed to consume my hunger. Now I search the graveyard markers of journalists on Substack and play the my own home budget game for truthful news consumption. I guess am a lucky soul that knows how to shop media retail.

Thank you Sarah for keeping the last gasps of truth to power alive on a free platform first amendment basis.

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Jeanine, you nailed it with “Now I search the graveyard markers of journalists on Substack and play the my own home budget game for truthful news consumption. I guess [I’m] a lucky soul that knows how to shop media retail.” I, too, play that home budget game in search of the truth in news. How perfectly you’ve described it! Following Sarah is where the most interesting, thoughtful, and brilliant people can be found. You strike me as someone who would like Virginia Heffernan’s “Magic and Loss” here on Substack. Like Sarah, she is a sublime writer, but her articles cover a wide swath of topics. They are full of, well, magic and loss.

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The founders of the US were misogynistic, white supremacists. Only land owners could vote. Women weren't considered humans, and POC were considered as less than human. Even though Lincoln freed the slaves, he still didn't see POC as fully human. The founders also created anti democratic institutions. The electoral college, SCOTUS, and the Senate. All allow for tyranny of the minority. And that's where we're at. Even if Trump loses, the fascists will not be stopped. They'll just swap Trump for a different puppet.

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May 7Liked by Sarah Kendzior

Thank you so much for sharing the interview. Tragically the floor that was then is now deeper than the basement.

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It is wild how much worse things are, in particular in regard to corruption, government, and media. Streamlined sedition, sanctioned genocide, the deletion of archives, the shutdown of independent reporting. A lot of things that were acting as tenuous bulwarks in 2020 are gone now. We'll have to come up with new ones and get very creative about it.

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May 7Liked by Sarah Kendzior

I admire how you put your reporting together from the public record and build an argument that other journalists don’t see or are paid not to see. It is hard to find anyone to believe in the mainstream media.

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May 7Liked by Sarah Kendzior

Thanks for sharing, I'll see that my mom buys a copy so I can read it.

She's a reformed Republican, 97 years old, and I am convinced she would kill tfg if she could get away with it.

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Thanks! I think she'll like it.

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May 8Liked by Sarah Kendzior

“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.” - Plato

You are no coward. In 2016 I discovered you while reading your warning essay “What to Expect in the Age of Trump” and I flatly agreed with what you said because your case was so clearly true. Most Americans assume democracy is not fragile. I am not one of those.

We are beset with spineless weaklings who gladly took money in return for their oath of office. We are now forced into vile complicities to keep any semblance of democracy AT ALL.

Why is Biden ignoring international laws!?

Why is Biden doing nothing about DeJoy?

Why is Biden not expanding the courts?

Why the fuxx is TRUMP ALLOWED TO RUN FOR OFFICE?

Why is GARLAND still there after 3 years with ZERO successes in enforcing our laws?

I know the truth now. And I hate it. And I don’t know how to fix a country bent on ignoring reality.

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He can’t expand the courts he doesn’t have the votes

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May 7Liked by Sarah Kendzior
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That is wild — I tried to find it there and so did other people and we could not! Hopefully their other archives are somewhere too

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It can definitely be a PITA to find specific pages sometimes, but it looks like the Archive does have more of their articles saved.

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May 7Liked by Sarah Kendzior

I have loved and been so grateful for all your books and all your writing and every episode I heard on Gaslit Nation when you were on it and and and and everything interview I've seen with you in one place or another and I can't wait to read your new book! Please let us know when it's available for pre-order!! And many thanks to you for everything, and best wishes for your sanity and safety ALWAYS.

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Thank you!

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May 8Liked by Sarah Kendzior

Being a Boomer who lived on the political streets during the Sixties I am very aware of how History gets re-written. It was a time of questioning and revolt, not only against an unpopular war, but about the minutia of everyday life: "the personal is political". It was a time of the "underground" newspaper which was sometimes no more than mimeographed poster stuck to telephone poles. Try finding honest portrayals of those times that are not negative--you will be very disappointed.

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May 7Liked by Sarah Kendzior

"Karl Rove, about a decade and a half ago, stated this quite bluntly: “We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.” That’s how they see the world; that’s certainly how Trump has always seen his own world." 📢

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And the rest of the quotation goes on to say that while historians and the media study that "created reality" the leaders of the empire will act again and media and historians will be left studying that. Everybody, including the the courts, will always be one step behind and the criminal syndicate masquerading as a government will continue acting with impunity and everyday citizens will be left dealing with the consequences.

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May 7Liked by Sarah Kendzior

Please keep spreading the word! Hopefully, sooner or later all citizens will read and digest what you’re saying! I keep waiting for more Geoff Duncans!

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May 7Liked by Sarah Kendzior

Citizens “archiving their own memories.” Yes. During the height of the pandemic I read your books. Sent quotes and images of your book covers to friends. When all is all I could do was weep and write I read you. Someone Piercing through the advertorial our news has become that’s what your books do. Thank you. Again and again.

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Thank you!

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Jun 4Liked by Sarah Kendzior

such an important interview. thank you for sharing it.

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May 24Liked by Sarah Kendzior

Sarah's work has helped me learn names of people who pop up everywhere, quite eerily, in 20th and 21st century US history. People like Roy Cohn. I'm currently reading a book called "Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments." So I'm happily reading along, and all of a sudden... yup, there's Roy Cohn's name. ("Damnit", I think to myself.) He shows up in a story (p. 78) about the infamous Royals-Yankees game in 1983 in which George Brett is called out for too much pine tar on his bat, Yankees win, and Brett rushes the umpire in a fit of rage. Well, the Royals protest the the outcome of the game, the matter actually goes to court, and the Yankees lawyer - Roy Cohn - makes arguments in court that if the game is continued there would be riots at Yankee stadium. Yup, Cohn is there making violent innuendoes over a baseball game.

These characters show up everywhere, and as Sarah helped me learn, have been doing the same thing for decades.

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It's creepy how they show up everywhere yet, to my knowledge, are almost never taught in schools as meaningful figures in American life. It's not a stretch to say Roy Cohn was one of the most influential Americans of the latter half of the 20th century.

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