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…

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…

-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…

-Kmele debuts his Sebastian Bach beach jeans

-The Iran deal is like the JCPOA, but a lot worse

-Lebanon sneaks into a U.S.-Iran deal

-Strait of Hormuz, 60-day promises, and negotiating with hostage-takers

-Why can’t the hawks ever learn?

-Ukraine brings the war home to Russia

-Drones, oil refineries, and the new cost of war

-Europe wakes up… sort of

-Meloni jabs her digits at Trump

-Polymarket checks the damage in Israeli politics

-as well as NY-13 and the rise of the DSA

-Hamilton Heights is Gaza now

-Mamdani’s little machine comes for Dan Goldman

-Gaza replaces BLM as the Democratic purity test

-The long-term problem with Mamdani economics

-Gavin Newsom vs. Trump’s DOJ

-The New York Times makes the Epstein suicide case

-Tucker, Trump, Loomer, and the inevitable reunion

-Baseball is gay in June

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Batya Ungar-Sargon, host of Batya! on NewsNation, returns!!! And with a new book, The Jews and the Left, about antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and why so much of the modern left has made Jews the enemy.

-JD Vance, Tucker, and the anti-Israel right

-The Iran deal, Rubio’s silence, and Trump’s trial balloon

-What Batya got wrong about the war

-Could Trump have sold the war better?

-The Knicks give New York its greatest night in years and OG makes his MVP case

-Valid destruction or peaceful rioting?

-A brief detour through America’s dumbest college mascots

-Dave Chappelle and Shane Gillis give Moynihan a perfect Comedy Cellar night

-Kmele roots for the Spurs, but only to punish Knicks fans

-Spike Lee has been on the court long enough

-Which celebrity row courtsider gets booed?

-Mamdani gets into the affordable soccer jersey business

-The World Cup comes to New Jersey by boat

-Introducing Midterm Madness

-LA’s mayoral race and the Spencer Pratt stolen-election fantasy

-California’s governor’s race and the strange usefulness of market signals

-The race to watch

-Platner’s character problem is not going away

-Jodi Kantor explains when MeToo does and does not count

-Bill Pulte gets pulled, Jay Clayton gets nominated

-A fully fledged disgusting party on a federal level

-UFC 250 comes to the White House because this is who we are now

-Bullshit, postmodern Trumpism, and the infinite lies

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