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Anyway, you should follow me across social media at Justice Putnam because I post the show notes and links diaries on Daily Kos 10 minutes before showtime.

And that way you will have quick access to the actual reportage by the actual reporters since I then post the show notes and links diary links across social media.

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The nearly one hundred articles appeared across publications ranging from small American newspapers to international political commentary websites.

Among them were Daily Kos, Middle East Monitor, CounterPunch, Eurasia Review, Modern Diplomacy, LA Progressive, The Humanist magazine, and International Policy Digest.

Their subjects ranged from American military operations and Israeli policy to immigration, diplomacy, and domestic politics.

Middle East Monitor was one of the most heavily affected publications.

At least twenty-one articles appeared under four fabricated identities.

After the investigation became public, the publication removed the identified material.

Daily Kos presents a different example.

Material associated with the operation appeared through its community publishing system, where registered users can post without the editorial approval required for traditional opinion columns.

I get it, Duane, if you're, if you're p- particularly nervous about that or if you live in an area where the post...

I, you know, I, I posted, I, we talked about this last week on the air, and, um, on Friday I posted a piece on Daily Kos pointing out that I'd had a bunch of people from around the country calling in and saying that their mail was taking weeks, you know, and there was that story in Astoria, Oregon, where, where it, uh, it was taking a month, uh, for a postcard to go from Astoria to Astoria.

And, uh, it was interesting 'cause people all over the country were responding in the comments section there on Daily Kos, and some of them were saying, you know, "Yeah, the mail here has just gone to hell, and it takes, you know, two weeks to get a mail- you know, to get a letter across town." And other people were saying, "My mail is still running just fine." And my suspicion is it has to do with when Louis DeJoy destroyed those more than $100 million high-speed sorting machines and, and they, you know, he kinda reconfigured the post office to try to prepare it to privatize it to, to FedEx or UPS, that the destruction of the Postal Service was not uniform all across the country, that there are some areas where it's st- it's still working well And, um, that, you know, it's, it's, uh...

So, you know, we'll see.

But if you're in an area that you gotta worry about, Duane, spot on.

Now, let's discuss a development that touches on the broader landscape of public health infrastructure.

An article from Daily Kos points out that under the previous administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, saw a number of programs significantly reduced, even though Congress has continued to allocate funds for them.

This has implications for public health initiatives that are vital for monitoring diseases, responding to outbreaks, and protecting communities, including ours.

Understanding how these programs are funded and managed is essential for ensuring our collective well-being.

There are two things we interviewed about.

First of all, I used to actually be on the front page of Daily Kos for a long time.

For a long time, I was one of their weekly editors on the page.

And I got into some issues with the paper because...

But not even at a progressive blog could I speak what we're talking about here.

I got to thank that we have a gift where we don't have to fear telling the truth about Everybody, right? But we couldn't, even at this progressive broad, say that.

So we go out to Netroots and my brother, Marcus Molitsa, who is the editor of Daily Kos, the rag that gave me hell when I was writing all these stories alongside many others supporting Bernie Sanders and the policies, et cetera.

And he said, we're sitting down with the interviewer.