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    In reality, $44,000 of the payments to Politico came from USAid, for subscriptions to E&E, an energy-focused offshoot of the company, in 2023 and 2024, the Dispatch reported after reviewing the purchases.

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      Yes, their office paid for a service they provide that is not their news paper, nor was it just given to them. It also is no where near 8 million dollars. Beyond that, politico offers services that almost everyone in congress, GOP or DNC, pays for, that has nothing to do with their news paper

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        Conservative media relies on dogshit takes and outright lies and misinformation. Daily Mail is such a rag of a tabloid, it’s unreal.

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          Yeah, all our news media sucks, but right wing media has become like a caricature of a dystopian novel’s government’s propaganda bureaucracy