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November 4, 2025
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Mamdani, Spanberger, and Sherrill Have One Important Thing in Common
Yes, they have real ideological differences. But they’re all out there hustling. And hustle is what the Democrats need right now.
October 24, 2025
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Trump Is Actually Failing Fast—and the Rabid MAGA Bigwigs Know It
Yes, he’s done enormous damage. But he’s unpopular, the courts are checking him, and freako-extremists like Curtis Yarvin have thrown in the towel.
October 10, 2025
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The Candidate Caught in a Nazi Porn Scandal Is Today’s GOP Personified
Meet John Reid, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia. There’s a lot to learn.
September 26, 2025
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Guess What’s Not Outlawed in Peter Thiel and Don Jr.’s New Olympics?
That’s right. For the Enhanced Games, athletes are encouraged to dope it up to their hearts’ content. Look out, here comes the master race.
September 15, 2025
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No Avoiding It: Post-Kirk, We Have to Learn About the Groyper Wars
We still don’t know Tyler Robinson’s motivation. But we know we need to learn about the Charlie Kirk–Nick Fuentes Armageddon, dammit.
September 10, 2025
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Maine’s Graham Platner Has Discovered a Secret: Poor Whites Exist!
In the American political lexicon, whites are “working-class” and people of color are “poor.” The Maine Democratic candidate for Senate knows otherwise.
August 28, 2025
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AI Doesn’t Spout MAGA Propaganda. No Wonder Donald Trump Hates It.
Trump’s executive order against “woke” artificial intelligence is really his and his movement’s admission that reality has a liberal bias.
August 4, 2025
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When Did Republican Women Get to Be So Vile as These Four?
Pam Bondi, Tulsi Gabbard, Linda McMahon, and Kristi Noem are the new model of right-wing womanhood. God help us.
July 29, 2025
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The Big Ten Rises Up Against Trump
The press acts as if “higher education” = Harvard. But a more interesting and gutsier stand is being taken in the heartland by schools that have a lot more going for them than football.
April 23, 2025
Virginia Heffernan
Liberal Media in Crisis? Not
The MeidasTouch.
It’s Bigger than
Rogan.
For real. The podcast by Ben Meiselas and his brothers regularly outdraws Joe Rogan’s. Their secret weapon? Reason. Imagine!
April 3, 2025
Virginia Heffernan
Denmark Just Took Hillbilly JD Vance to the Woodshed
That was just about the worst vice presidential trip abroad ever.
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