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The Dirty Move Republicans Could Pull to Keep the House
NOT ONE TO LEAVE THINGS TO CHANCE, such as free elections, President Donald Trump is mapping his way to victory in the 2026 midterms, most notably with the aid of Republican state legislators in Texas and elsewhere working to carve out new districts for the G…
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Morning Shots - Triad - Huddled Masses - Press Pass - Bulwark Goes to Hollywood - The Opposition - False Flag - The Breakdown
Everything Is Awful. And It’s Changing Us.
THERE ARE FEW THINGS the old me liked more than a meaty discussion about the American Founding. I used to revel in new details about the philosophical debates s…
🚨OVERTIME🚨
Happy Saturday! For those who attended our event in Toronto last night, we hope you had a blast. If you’re there tonight, same! Sorry to miss you, but looking forward to NYC and DC next month.
Baseball is still dominating my nights… as the Reds and Guardians fight their respective ways into the playoffs. Cleveland just pulled off one of the greatest regular-season comebacks ever. Wild. Our annual Overtime World Series Prediction Contest is coming next week—what should the prize be, and who’s caught your eye down the stretch?
🎵On the Jukebox…🎵 Big Little Lions - Nothing Makes Sense Anymore
The Generals’ Choice… Next week’s meeting may force America’s top brass to decide between Trump and the Constitution, writes Michael Wood.
Trump’s War on Free Speech… is “F*****g Crazy.” A new ad from Home of the Brave, which is appearing across 28 of the nation’s biggest manosphere channels on YouTube over the next few weeks.
Triumph of the ill will… Look below the surface of RFK, Jr.’s insane anti-health policies, and you’ll glimpse the basic fact of Donald Trump’s urge to dominate the American citizenry however he can, writes Jim Carroll at Flux.
Trump’s Shell Game Threatens American Security… At The Dekleptocracy Project, Kristofer Harrison writes about the use of phantom shell entities to channel opaque money that threaten American national security.
Stavros Halkias… Goes to Hollywood. (Baltimore Magazine)
How “Free Speech Culture”… Is Killing Free Speech, argues Ken White.
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Mikie Sherrill for Governor of New Jersey and
Abigail Spanberger for Governor of Virginia.
An early submission to the "annual Overtime World Series Prediction Contest".
The Seattle Mariners are the only team in MLB that has never played in a World Series, much less won the championship. That alone is reason to wish them well. And they're good this year. So I say it's the M's in five games over the Dodgers.