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Also: a serious discussion of the cinematic category known as “movies where they clearly came up with the title first.”
-The N-word trap at the Hudson Yards gym
-Joe Jackson dressed for the evil dad part
-Phil Spector and the Wall of Sound defense
-Richard Simmons slaps a cage fighter
-How to respond to an asshole
-Con Air, Face/Off, and insane ’90s movies
-Pr…

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We are lucky to be joined once again by Executive Editor of SCOTUSblog, Sarah Isgur, and on a day when the Supreme Court gave everyone a lot to argue about.
-Trump loses, birth tourism maybe does not
-Anchor babies and America’s soccer future
-The 14th Amendment gets weird
-A color-blind Constitution, except when it isn’t
-Immigration is the culture war now
-Executive p…

-Welch enters his Charles Nelson Reilly era
-Laura Branigan, Happy Mondays, and songs you didn’t know were covers
-Puerto Rico’s revenge
-The cadres are closing in
-Reihan Salam and Larry Flynt
-DAC hits the media circuit and refuses to answer the easiest question in politics
-Aber Kawas explains 9/11, in a Miss South Carolina sort of way
-Vaporware word clouds masquerading as policy
-No borders, no prisons, no TSA PreCheck… no joke
-Nationalizing airlines, abolishing comfort, and calling it justice
-Mamdani’s machine, the DSA bench, and the Democratic Party’s growing nervous breakdown
-Polymarket vs. the polls
-The internet is not a socialist invention, no matter how hard socialists try
-Senate Republicans discover Trump skepticism several years too late
-The SAVE Act tantrum and the incredible courage of people who already lost
-Tucker, Trump, Iran, inflation, and the limits of MAGA obedience
-Peter Thiel’s terrifying secret network of people talking at conferences
-Moynihan goes to Dialog and accidentally joins the Illuminati
-Kmele reports back from the alleged cabal
-Bohemian Grove was cooler because at least you had to break in
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Michael A. Cohen is a columnist for MSNOW, a senior fellow at Tufts University’s Fletcher School, and co-director of its Afghanistan Assumptions Project. He also writes the Truth and Consequences newsletter. He is not the former fixer of Donald Trump.
-The correct Michael Cohen stops by
-Mamdani flexes in the primaries and three congress critters cometh
-DAC gets worse the more…

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-Ethnicity as performance
-Manhattan politics with the president of the Manhattan Institute
-Dan Goldman orders coffee, receives moral instruction
-The many political personalities of Brad Lander
-Taxpayer-funded activism and the Office of Mass Engagement
-Mamdani and the borg beneath the campaign
-AOC, cadres, and disciplined political parties
-Gaza as the om…