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-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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Throughout this entire interview, Ana remains furious that our office was stocked with whiskey, but only half a bottle of white wine and absolutely no pizza.
-The White House press corps just takes it
-Kristen Welker gets the Trump treatment (and would Trump have tried that with Tim Russert?)
-Ana Navarro is here, from one of them Mexican countries
-Charles…

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Noah’s new book is Blood and Progress… not to be confused with “Blood and Soil,” a phrase Moynihan has been muttering to himself around the office.
-A book squarely in the TFC wheelhouse
-The teens, the twenties, the sixties, the seventies, and now
-The forgotten history of left-wing violence
-Italian anarchists and “propaganda of the deed”
-Is Noah handwavi…