The Fifth Column Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch

* Tina, RIP. Bill Lee, RIP.
* Zone of Interest
* DeSantis announces
* Tim Scott announced too, btw
* An increasingly crowded and unimpressive field
* Our old pal Ethan Strauss joins
* Why does Joe keep saying that…thing about Iraq?
* “Trump is sharper than Biden”
* An interregnum on Ike Turner
* Ethan’s piece on Glen Kuiper
* The American employment gulag: exiled forever
* Paying indulgences
* Is it ok to boycott brands for not having the right politics? A debate
* Cruising, the gay Casablanca / Donnie Moore, baseball’s Ike Turner
* Bonus blathering about Basketball


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* RIP Martin Amis (and Andy Rourke and Jeremy Clarke)
* “Pussies are b******t”
* A reading list: Money. London Fields. Zone of Interest. (Note: these all appear to be sold out on Amazon)
* On Orwell and D.J. Taylor’s new biography
* The Citibike “Karen” and her “white tears”
* Online vigilantism
* Salman Rushdie’s return
* Why’s there no challenge to Biden from The Squad?
* The…

* “Zero-to-insane in the first three minutes”
* The terrible 2024 election
* The right’s bizarre infatuation with RFK Jr.
* The immigration crisis in NYC
* The cruelty isn’t always the point
* How the average American thinks about illegal immigration
* Eli Lake joins to wish us all a Happy Durham Week
* Takeaways from the Durham Report
* The “heroes of democracy” are, in fact, the villains of democracy
* David Frum’s Atlantic piece
* Eli on Robert Kennedy Sr., the cop
* Diane Feinstein, John Fetterman, Joe Biden
* That insane LA Times piece (that we will talk about more later)


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* Charging the Islip Strangler
* Moynihan’s weird bias
* A bad WSJ podcast
* The Trump townhall
* Rating Kaitlan Collins
* Journalists who hate journalism
* The not Desantis response
* Tucker’s Twitter take
* Can he succeed?
* Killing [TK], A Series
* Sorry, but that guy you hate is actually really smart
* That amazing Firing Line destruction of Leander Perez
* Our grim election / memories of 1968


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* Che jumps on the third rail
* Unaliving all the bad words
* Throat clearing Suedehead
* Let’s come to a conclusion before we know anything, ok?
* Another pretendian
* You guys are like Glenn Beck too, you know
* Nonsense talk about Western science from a nonsense person (and that insane Zoom intro mentioned by Moynihan)
* Michael Jackson’s doll isn’t ok
* A supermarket encou…

* A homicide at Broadway-Lafayette
* Crazy strangers on a train
* The dumb racialization of a tragic death
* The “delightful” and violent Michael Jackson impersonator
* Amazon’s Afrika Bambaataa impersonator goes to Cuba
* On Tucker’s identitarian texts
* Fox News’s leak war
* The Daily Show’s 81% rating collapse
* So many s****y late night talk shows
* You won’t notice the writer’s strike
* Hating the Correspondent’s Dinner is as boring as the Correspondent’s Dinner itself
* Gas stoves and Australian vapes
* Adderall nightmare updates
* Send pics


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