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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Learning to Code TurboTax wanted to send my tax return to India, so I built a free version of Intuit’s $5 billion software. Part 1 of a new series from Telos News www.telos.news/p/learning-t...
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Learning to Code
TurboTax wanted to send my tax return to India, so I built a free version of Intuit’s $5 billion software. Part 1 of a new series from Telos News
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The Murder of Alex Pretti www.telos.news/p/the-murder...
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The Murder of Alex Pretti
Warning: this post contains graphic content
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Trump's Board of Peace combines the scaminess of Trump University, the membership rules of Mar-a-Lago, and the spirit of Trump’s newfound interest in imperialism. It is also one of the greatest bait-and-switches in diplomatic history. www.telos.news/p/the-humili...
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The Humiliation of Donald Trump in Davos
The leading democracies of the world revolt against Trump’s absurd Board of Peace as the “middle powers” swoon to the rallying cry of Canada’s Mark Carney
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Part 9: Cover-up www.telos.news/p/part-9-cov... The biggest and most newsworthy revelation of this series is that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. conspired with a reporter to abuse a D.C. court so he could save his relationship with Trump and become the next Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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Part 9: Cover-up
Combat Journalism
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Caving to Trump: The Top Ten Worst Offenders of 2025 The newsroom leaders, tech oligarchs, law firm chairs, and university presidents who helped Trump coerce and capture large swathes of the media, the legal profession, and academia. www.telos.news/p/caving-to-...
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Caving to Trump: The Top Ten Worst Offenders of 2025
The newsroom leaders, tech oligarchs, law firm chairs, university presidents, and others who helped Trump coerce and capture large swathes of the media, the legal profession, and academia.
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Part 8: Bamboo You'll want to read this one all the way to the end. telos.news/p/part-8-bamboo
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Part 8: Bamboo
If you are new to this series, start here with Part 1.
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Part 7: Day in Court www.telos.news/p/part-7-day...
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Part 7: Day in Court
If you are new to this series, start here with Part 1.
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Part 6: ‘Bobby was behind the whole thing’ open.substack.com/pub/telos/p/...
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Part 6: 'Bobby was behind the whole thing.'
If you are new to this series, start here with Part 1.
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telos.news @telos.news · 11/12/2025
Part 5: Loyalty Test No pay wall. www.telos.news/p/part-5-loy...
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Part 5: Loyalty Test
If you are new to this series, please read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, and Part 4 here.
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Olivia's strategy memo to Bobby. www.telos.news/p/olivias-st...
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Olivia's Strategy Memo to Bobby
'You are Rocky while the other candidates are Rocky and Bullwinkle.'
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Part 4: Means of Control www.telos.news/p/part-4-mea...
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Part 4: Means of Control
The Mar-a-Lago tape, the Bobby phone call, Olivia's side of the story, and the neighbor who cracked the case.
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Part 3: Catch and Kill www.telos.news/p/part-3-cat...
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Part 3: Catch and Kill
If you are new to this series, read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.
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telos.news @telos.news · 22/11/2025
Part 2: She Did It Again open.substack.com/pub/telos/p/...
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Part 2: She Did It Again
If you are new to this series, start here.
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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BREAKING: New Epstein Emails About Trump
The correspondence between Jeffrey Epstein and two associates raises new questions about the relationship between Epstein and Trump.
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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The Quiet Rebellion of the Lower Courts
On the pleasures of reading the opinions of judges who stand up to Trump.
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
In 2025 America, telling Democrats to run “pro‑life Democrats” isn’t the savvy strategy Klein thinks it is. Instead, it’s urging them to normalize the same authoritarian threat they’re supposed to defeat. open.substack.com/pub/telos/p/...
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What Ezra Klein Gets Wrong About Abortion and Authoritarianism
If you wouldn’t trade away voting rights to win a Senate seat, don’t trade away bodily autonomy either. In 2025, it's the same fight.
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telos.news @telos.news · 30/09/2025
NEW: Trump’s Purge-Replace-Attack playbook comes for the military. www.telos.news/p/america-af...
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America After Trump's 'Enemies Within' Speech
Trump and his MAGA revolutionaries eye their next target: the U.S. military.
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
We were warned about a prosecutor--or president--who might "pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted." www.telos.news/p/when-the-p...
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When the Prosecutor Picks the Man
We were warned about a prosecutor--or president--who might "pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted."
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Apple CEO Tim Cook has lived in fear of Trump all year. And now Apple TV+ has pulled a show about right-wing violent extremism after some criticism from MAGA social media accounts. open.substack.com/pub/telos/p/...
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Apple Is the New Disney
The tech giant is censoring a show about right-wing extremism.
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telos.news @telos.news · 24/09/2025
It's worth asking: How much crazier would Trump have to get for his craziness to be the main news in stories about him? www.telos.news/p/how-the-me...
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How the Media Sanewashes Trump
The gap between how Trump acts and how he is covered is getting wider.
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Telos News is proud to publish this new essay by @judgeluttig.bsky.social to mark Constitution Day 2025. Please read it carefully and share it widely. open.substack.com/pub/telos/p/...
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America’s Grievances Against Its “King” on Constitution Day 2025
In July, to mark Independence Day, Telos News published J.
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy open.substack.com/pub/telos/p/...
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On Charlie Kirk
The folks at FIRE noted today that “we’re in the cancel culture phase” of the Kirk tragedy news cycle, where any seemingly insensitive comment will attract an online mob seeking vengeance.
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
NEW: How Republicans created the Kafkaesque regime of selective prosecution that they once claimed to fear. open.substack.com/pub/telos/p/...
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You have committed a crime.
How Republicans created the Kafkaesque regime of selective prosecution that they once claimed to fear.
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Why you should cancel your subscription to Paramount+ www.telos.news/p/the-paramo...
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The Paramount Betrayal
Why you should cancel your subscription to the streaming service
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Watch @judgeluttig.bsky.social on @velshi.com’s show discussing Luttig’s article published at @telos.news www.telos.news/p/luttig-the... Excellent interview!
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The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of Tyranny
Twenty-seven truths about America, our Democracy and Rule of Law, and our rights, freedoms, and liberties.
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Judge Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
My friend Ryan Lizza posted this audio of “The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom — and of Tyranny” this morning. www.telos.news/p/the-self-e...
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The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of Tyranny
An audio version of Judge Luttig's special July 4 piece
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
A perfect way to tee up the 4th with Judge Michael Luttig who’s now on Substack with an excellent piece on freedom and tyranny on this coming Independence Day. He’ll he joined by my friend @ryanlizza.bsky.social - plus the always hilarious @thegoodliars.bsky.social - See you soon at 4p ET/ 1p PT!
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Judge Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Thank you, @ryanlizza.bsky.social and Telos for hosting “The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom — and of Tyranny” on Substack. www.telos.news/p/luttig-the...
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The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of Tyranny
Twenty-seven truths about America, our Democracy and Rule of Law, and our rights, freedoms, and liberties.
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
An important new piece from @judgeluttig.bsky.social to mark Independence Day: www.telos.news/p/luttig-the...
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The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of Tyranny
Twenty-seven truths about America, our Democracy and Rule of Law, and our rights, freedoms, and liberties.
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telos.news @telos.news · 12/06/2025
This was a riveting conversation with @milestaylor.bsky.social, who provided a firsthand account of how Trump has long sought to deploy troops in American cities. www.telos.news/p/trump-has-...
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
@judgeluttig.bsky.social: "The Republican Party and almost every Republican official in the country has sold their soul to the devil." www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiYK...
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 28/05/2025
🔔 Join us for a conversation about leak investigations and their impacts on the press, featuring Telos founder @ryanlizza.bsky.social, Pulitzer Prize winner James Risen, and FPF's @laurenleharper.bsky.social and @trevortimm.bsky.social. 🗓️ May 28, 2pm ET/11am PT RSVP: freedom.press/burn-after-r...
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telos.news @telos.news · 23/05/2025
Trump's powers are nearly unchecked on three fronts that no modern president has ever successfully combined. www.telos.news/p/donald-tru...
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Donald Trump Is at the Peak of His Powers
This week revealed that Trump is more powerful than any recent president
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Steven Levitsky, co-author of How Democracies Die, assesses Trump's first four months in office and explains why America has tipped into "competitive authoritarianism." youtu.be/GBm_zjLdMRk
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Steven Levitsky on Trump and "Competitive Authoritarianism"
YouTube video by Telos News from Ryan Lizza
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Paul Krugman on Trump’s Trade Wars, Part 1: youtu.be/WGOJir-buY0
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Paul Krugman on Trump’s Trade Wars (Part 1)
YouTube video by Telos News from Ryan Lizza
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Tulsi Gabbard just fired two top intelligence officials at the National Intelligence Council, which recently produced an assessment contradicting the Trump administration’s claims about Tren de Aragua. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
@simonwdc.bsky.social on Trump's decline, the growing “circle of defiance” against Trump, what the media gets wrong in its coverage of MAGA, and his advice for Democrats. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlDb...
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Simon Rosenberg on Trump's decline and the expanding "circle of defiance"
YouTube video by Telos News from Ryan Lizza
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Watch Tom Lobianco @24sight.news discuss how he reacted once when a top House Republican tried to get him to out a source and then called him "fake news." So good. youtube.com/clip/UgkxQJt...
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telos.news @telos.news · 08/05/2025
@judgeluttig.bsky.social argues that *every* significant initiative of Trump’s first 100 days lacks legal authority. He concludes: "It would be impossible to say, after Donald Trump's first 100 days in office, that America has a government of laws, not of men." youtube.com/clip/UgkxFfJ...
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Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"Americans are living under a new regime. The question now is whether we will allow it to take root. So far, American society’s response to this authoritarian offensive has been underwhelming — alarmingly so."
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Opinion | No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines
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Judge Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I joined Ryan Lizza today on his new Substack podcast to discuss President Trump’s first one-hundred days and the Rule of Law in America. open.substack.com/pub/telos/p/...
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Donald Trump's 100 Days of Lawlessness
Former federal judge J. Michael Luttig says that ALL of Trump's signature initiatives are unlawful.
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telos.news @telos.news · 07/05/2025
This is a must-read/must-watch interview with Judge Michael Luttig. www.telos.news/p/donald-tru...
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Donald Trump's 100 Days of Lawlessness
Former federal judge J. Michael Luttig says that ALL of Trump's signature initiatives are unlawful.
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Here’s my interview with @laurenleharper.bsky.social. She takes us behind the scenes of how she obtained the intelligence document that has undermined Trump’s basis for invoking the Alien Enemies Act. Clearly, someone inside ODNI wanted this information out there! substack.com/@ryanlizza/n...
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Ryan Lizza on Substack
Here’s my full interview with @Lauren Harper. She takes us behind the scenes of how she obtained the intelligence document that has undermined Trump’s basis for invoking the Alien Enemies Act. Clearly...
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 30/04/2025
Steven Biss made a name for himself by suing journalists on behalf of MAGA figures. He even threatened to sue ME! The insane story of his downfall reveals much about how any broken grifter can play the MAGA game. Wild and revealing tale by @ryanlizza.bsky.social www.telos.news/p/devin-nune...
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Devin Nunes, Steven Biss, and the Laptop of MAGA Secrets
Attorney Steven Biss represented famous MAGA clients in a lawfare campaign against the press. Things didn't go exactly as planned.
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Politicon @politicon.com · 01/05/2025
NEW Politics War Room w/ James Carville & Al Hunt “100 Days Of Trump w/ Ryan Lizza” James and Al unmask Trump’s first 100 days, welcoming the founder of Telos.news @ryanlizza.bsky.social discussing legacy media’s struggle to cover Trump. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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100 Days Of Trump with Ryan Lizza
Podcast Episode · Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt · 05/01/2025 · 1h 20m
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Our first big investigative piece at Telos News: Devin Nunes, Steven Biss, and the Laptop of MAGA Secrets www.telos.news/p/devin-nune...
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Devin Nunes, Steven Biss, and the Laptop of MAGA Secrets
Attorney Steven Biss represented famous MAGA clients in a lawfare campaign against the press. Things didn't go exactly as planned.
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Our first big investigative piece at Telos News: Devin Nunes, Steven Biss, and the Laptop of MAGA Secrets www.telos.news/p/devin-nune...
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Devin Nunes, Steven Biss, and the Laptop of MAGA Secrets
Attorney Steven Biss represented famous MAGA clients in a lawfare campaign against the press. Things didn't go exactly as planned.
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Ryan Lizza @ryanlizza.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
How you pronounce Telos, reflections on our first week, our new puppy, and a preview of what’s on deck… www.telos.news/p/telos-what...
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Telos What Happened This Week
Some notes on our first week and a preview of what's coming up.
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telos.news @telos.news · 27/04/2025
Why I won’t cave in to a media conglomerate’s censorship demands. www.telos.news/p/standing-u...
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Standing Up to Corporate Media Bullying
Here's what I told Politico, Part II
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