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Deep dive day long form day

And this is indeed a long form articles. Article we're going to be talking about is from

Mother Jones. Really, I gotta say like if you are careful about which articles you consume on Mother Jones, they have some genuinely outstanding reporting.

Like sometimes I think like, I'm like, eh, it's not kind of my wheelhouse, right?

Just topically. Yeah, I'm not but when they do

Deep dive long form articles on they do a a genuinely excellent job

You know there's there's some of these institutions that had

really good names in the past that have fallen so like Rolling Stone was one of those

for a long time. It was amazing, amazing, so good before and now it's really just a clickbait site.

Yeah.

So that sort of like happened to several different institutions.

Mother Jones is sort of was that I think too.

And so now, you know, once in a while you'll come across something like this that is long form, in depth. They really did a good job of, you know, just doing good journalism.

Yeah, it's terrific. Yeah, it's really well done. Terrific. So this article is, to understand

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