The Fifth Column

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-Kmele gets glasses
-The return of Soho legs
-Matt’s movie-theater race science
-Trump sends a letter to Congress saying the war is over, Iran says, “wtf?”
-Little Marco, Fog of War correspondent
-A very leaky White House
-Strange new respect for the anti-war MAGA set
-Little Marco puts the best face on Iran
-Welch discovers gas prices
-The affordability caucus …

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We’re joined by Anthony Scaramucci, founder of SkyBridge Capital, former White House Communications Director, and one of the more memorable casualties of Trump 1.0
-The Mooch reads the stars
-The truth is out there, allegedly
-954,000 seconds in the White House
-The Ryan Lizza thing, briefly
-the reason God made Steve Bannon look like this
-Why Bannon scared …

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…and how raising a black daughter changed the way he sees America.
-David French returns to the Fifth Column
-SCOTUS drops of a few ruling
-Free speech wins 9-0 (First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Davenport)
-The Voting Rights Act gets another trim (Louisiana v. Callais)
-Racial gerrymanders vs. political gerrymanders
-Smart racists, dumb racists, and …

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After the failed shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the boys sift through bad manifestos, assassination discourse, microlooting, conspiracy politics, and the strange moral permissions of America’s bored radicals.
-Matt’s 15-year Werner Herzog hangover workshop
-judging the newest failed killer manifesto
-America’s stupidest assassination d…

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-have we met before, or did we just share a zip code?
-Iran is a disaster from basically every possible angle
-you don’t go to war with this president
-maybe just crawl back to a worse JCPOA and call it historic
-Venezuela “worked,” which is exactly why it made the next disaster easier
-take the oil, burn the soft power, call it realism
-Europe gets lectured,…