tldr; Walter Kirn is a big lolbertarian anti-Covid lockdown and suck-up of Jay Bhattacharya, the current director of NIH and anti-lockdown "doctor" (he's an economist and does not practice medicine). Matt Taibbi's substack "Racket News" hired a Emily Kopp - a reporter that's too crazy for even the current MAHA movement. She's digging into the ongoing gain-on-function research at NIH even under the current administration. Being a MAGA suck-up Walter disagree with Matt Taibbi's substack challenging the current administration and their grift podcast is no more.

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[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah back then The eXile was Matt Taibi, Mark Ames, and Yasha Levine; John Dolan (a.k.a. Gary Brecher) was a contributer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_eXile