An irreverent newsletter about politics.
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The slush fund for insurrectionists is worse than you think
We’re paying these guys to do this again! (REUTERS/Stephanie Keith)
It’s been five years since a mob of MAGA thugs smeared poop on the walls inside the U.S. Capitol and murdered a police officer because Trump told them to overturn his elec...
New term for child-free women just dropped
Joe Mahoney—Getty Images
I happened to start watching The Testaments on Hulu last night, the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, after weeks of avoiding it. I’ve found it harder this time to mentally psych myself up for another show set in Gile...
Hantavirus humiliates RFK Jr.
The bird is all of us. (Credit: RFK Jr. on X)
Three people on a cruise out of Southern Argentina last month have died from a deadly hantavirus outbreak onboard, and five more infections and possible infections are being traced throughout m...
Democracy dies in the Deep South
U.S. President Donald Trump and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry at the White House March 24, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
I was 8 years old in 1991 when my mom explained to me that Louisiana’s race for governor that year was between “a croo...
The irony of the White House dinner 'shooting'
Members of law enforcement respond during the White House Correspondents Dinner, Saturday, April 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)
Before I judge anyone who attended this year’s White House Correspondents’ dinner, I want to s...
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