The Fifth Column

-Fairfield, CT. Nov 12th. Get tickets while you can
-We will have an Election Night livestream. Booze, guests, and probable disaster
-Our mystery guest didn’t couldn’t make it today. We won’t name names, but we’ll give you some subtle clues.
-Steve Witkoff discovered Vladimir Putin’s humanitarian side.
-Trump has some thoughts about Zelenskyy. andPutin gets a pass.
-Americans ranked their favorite countries. Where does Russia rank?
-A very stiff competition for the Senate’s biggest idiot and the “Not One Inch” myth
-the dumbest man in the Senate meets the dumbest man in media
-Donald Trump and his love of men
-Midterm Madness
-Vivek vs. Amy Acton, and the attack ad from hell.
-The tone and tenor of American politics is somehow worse than ever
-Alina Habba, Ric Grenell, and the alleged $50 million pardon racket.
-JD Vance answered a question about corruption. Ten thousand weasels applauded.
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We are doing a live show in Fairfield, CT on November 12th. You should come. Details below.
-Jacob Siegel on raising his kids in Israel
-Who benefits from a fractured US-Israel relationship?
-JD Vance had endorsements to spare, just not for Netanyahu
-Israel prepared for life without America’s special relationship
-An entirely natural detour to France
-French…

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The guys put America’s most famous political forecaster, Nate Silver, to work… separating real electoral shifts from political noise, and confronting the uncomfortable possibility that everyone is just guessing.
-The House leaned Democratic, the Senate was a toss-up…then came Labor Day
-The first thing Nate Silver does every morning
-$4.50 gas, AI data centers, and T…

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Yemisi Egbewole is here and we will figure out how to pronounce her name….next time
-A Democratic consultant defending Fox News out of the gate
-Was Mike Lindell ever really a crackhead?
-Ladies and gentlemen, the new White House press secretary, Katie Zachariah
-Did we fuck Scott Jennings?
-How does a WH press secretary actually prepare?
-Kimberly Guilfoyle’s $100,000 AmEx problem
-James Talarico’s imaginary stay in an Ohio psych ward
-the art of standing out among 435 members of Congress
-Abdul El-Sayed vs Mike Rogers in Michigan
-Jon Ossoff and the case for normal Democrats
-JD Vance’s interesting definition of socialism
-Midterm Madness on Zachariah, Alaska, and Michigan
-Trump gets it right on data centers. Until he doesn’t.
-Brian Kilmeade stands up for Ukraine against Rachel Compost Duffy
-Come watch us live in Connecticut!
-What exactly is Third Way?
-Yemisi’s heresies on crime and climate
-Immigration and the Jamaican-Nigerian experience
-Kmele and the Blacks of Connecticut
-Where is the Democratic Party headed, and how much does the DSA matter?
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“There are no ordinary lives and everyone has a story”
-Sam Roberts’ father takes him to see the Rosenbergs’ funeral
-Fifty years in journalism and an unexpected career writing obituaries
-Anna Nicole Smith and the brutality of British obituaries
-Charlie Rangel’s complicated legacy
-Who deserves a New York Times obituary?
-Writing Rudy Giuliani’s obituary b…