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##  [ At Gitmo, A Soul-Crushing Parade of Horribles ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23305:at-gitmo-a-soul-crushing-parade-of-horribles&catid=376)

Having successfully sued the CIA for unprecedented access to their records, Gibney opens his film with some especially horrific fruit from his labors: The moment when CIA agents at a "black site" in Thailand called Strawberry Fields - "as…

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## [But It Adds Up To Freedom](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23274:but-it-adds-up-to-freedom&catid=376)

Oh RIGHT: the much-vaunted "freedom" wherein kids wear bulletproof backpacks to school, walk through metal detectors and practise traumatizing shooting drills in case some day a crazed kid turns up until, one day, one does, at which point…

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### [Teach Your Children Well](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23245:teach-your-children-well&catid=376)

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### [I Saw Goody Proctor Teaching CRT: On Moms For Liberty and Other Racist, Fascist Vigilantes](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23204:i-saw-goody-proctor-teaching-crt-on-moms-for-liberty-and-other-racist-fascist-vigilantes&catid=376)

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### [We Are Raising An Army, My Liege: Cut-Rate Nazi Clowns Found Liable For $26 Million](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23168:we-are-raising-an-army-my-liege-cut-rate-nazi-clowns-found-liable-for-26-million&catid=376)

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### [Come Gather 'Round People: Pining For This Once-Idyllic Neighborhood Without Ahmaud Arbery In It](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23149:come-gather-round-people-pining-for-this-once-idyllic-neighborhood-without-ahmaud-arbery-in-it&catid=376)

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### [Steve Bannon and the Deadly Implications of 'Deconstructing the Administrative State'](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23093:steve-bannon-and-the-deadly-implications-of-deconstructing-the-administrative-state&catid=376)

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### [Caitlyn Jenner Defends Dave Chappelle as “100% Right”: “We Must Never Yield”](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22892:caitlyn-jenner-defends-dave-chappelle-as-100-right-we-must-never-yield&catid=376)

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### [Be Of Good Cheer: Death Cult Christians Say Better To Go Home to the Lord (Albeit With COVID) Than Wear A Mask](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22857:be-of-good-cheer-death-cult-christians-say-better-to-go-home-to-the-lord-albeit-with-covid-than-wear-a-mask&catid=376)

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### [OMFG Texas: Giving Nazis - Also Slave-Owners and Assorted Bigots - A Break](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22827:omfg-texas-giving-nazis-also-slave-owners-and-assorted-bigots-a-break&catid=376)

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### [To Boldly Go Where No Man (sic) Has Gone Before, Even If Funded By A Rapacious, Oblivious Sociopath](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22814:to-boldly-go-where-no-man-sic-has-gone-before-even-if-funded-by-a-rapacious-oblivious-sociopath&catid=376)

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### [Apocalyptic Perps 'R Us: Saving America For God, Guns, Ashli Babbit and Whatzizname](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22779:apocalyptic-perps-r-us-saving-america-for-god-guns-ashli-babbit-and-whatzizname&catid=376)

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### [Praise the Lord: In A Surprise Move, John Birch Will Save Us and Our Bodily Autonomy From the New Jim Crow](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22754:praise-the-lord-in-a-surprise-move-john-birch-will-save-us-and-our-bodily-autonomy-from-the-new-jim-crow&catid=376)

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