Useful Idiots : Julian Assange s Partner Stella Moris on WikiLeaks, Concealing Their Pregnancy
Plus, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper discuss arguments for and against Substack
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In the latest socially distanced episode of our
Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Stella Moris, a lawyer and the life partner of Julian Assange.
Matt and Katie discuss a recent Twitter thread by Dr. Sarah T. Roberts of UCLA, in which she laments the fall of journalistic integrity by reporters and writers moving to Substack.
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“I worry about this because it’s this whole idea that alternative media, which has already taken such a huge hit in the last 20 or 30 years… all the content is being driven to these big, centralized, largely national news organizations. And it’s consolidating more and more. And those news organizations are becoming more and more like each other all the time,”
Solidarity in the Skies, and Everything Beneath: Sara Nelson on How to Build a Better Country
Solidarity in the Skies, and Everything Beneath: Sara Nelson on How to Build a Better Country
The Association of Flight Attendants president sits down with Rolling Stone for The Next Wave series, on the new leaders who will shape America s future
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Sara Nelson believes in solidarity: When she speaks, she talks about collectivity, of worker power, of bread and roses.
As the head of the Association of Flight Attendants – CWA, Nelson, who started working as a flight attendant for United Airlines in 1996, can wield strength in numbers the union represents over 50,000 workers at 20 different airlines. During the Trump era, it meant standing up to the former president on immigrant family separation and the 2019 federal government shutdown.