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Two cheers for DOGE. It turns out that Washington spends our money on some very, very stupid things.
If you missed the news yesterday, the 538 at Disney era is over. Mostly, I just want to express my sympathy for the staff, which was full of highly conscientious people. Then there’s some discussion here about our short- and long-term plans for the newsletter. I hope the spirit of 538 lives on between Silver Bulletin and other news outlets.
About those “transgender mice”. Yes, it turns out it isn’t a lie. They have been spending millions to test the effect of cross-sex hormones on mice.
Now ask yourself one question: how many medical experiments are carried out on humans before they have even been tested on mice? Now remember the humans are CHILDREN. This is the most grotesq…
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Listen to This Article - Farewell to Volodymyr Zelensky, the GEICO Lizard of the New World Order
Thanking God that the era of mandatory applause for neoliberal mascots is finally over. Can Greta Thunberg come to the White House next?
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Awwwww…….Poor Sam Alito is “stunned” that the Supreme Court actually acted like a co-equal branch of government for a change, ruling against Trump/DOGE freezing already allotted USAID funds. Or maybe he’s just pissed because he works for the executive branch. In any case, this has the makings of a true constitutional crisis (in his fever…
This is a great essay on Zelenskyy in the Oval
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The FIRE rankings are based on the largest survey ever conducted of student opinion on the free speech atmosphere on their campuses. It also factors in the largest database ever assembled of professor cancellations, student cancellations, campus speech codes, deplatformings, and other threats to campus expression. There has never been an
Only a person without any character strengths would find empathy to be a weakness. This is about running. This is not about running.
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How did the MAGA online right start comparing Ukraine soldiers to “literal Nazis?”
Douglas Murray argues it is because “Biden, Trudeau, Emmanuel Macron, and every other hated left-wing ‘globalist’ was shimmying up to Zelensky.” thefp.pub/41GVdcW
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Our Trump approval ratings dashboard just published!
He starts at an even 48/48, better than a comparable point in his 1st term but down in recent days.
Lots of other goodies on the landing page.
We’ll update this several times per week.
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Did you see Saturday Night Live’s viral CouplaBeers skit?
It’s being called “the best SNL skit in 20 years.”
Oddly enough, the CouplaBeers skits gets more right about addiction and bad habits than millions of dollars of neuroscience research ever has.
Watch the skit in the linked post.
It’s fun to watch JD Vance stand up every 30 seconds or so and applaud like a trained chimp. He’s not terribly smart, but he is very nimble! But if anyone’s seen Vance’s soul, please report it to the lost’and’found. He needs something to resell after already selling his ass to Trump/Peter Thiel.
I do feel sorry for Elon, though, having to sit through this boring speech. He could be doing something more useful right now, like firing more food safety inspectors or siring more illegitimate children. What a waste.
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Fam: You’ve got to read this piece. Adrian is doing some of the best reporting on immigration, anywhere. Sign up to get him—for free.
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The ‘Stop WOKE Act’ was big news. California DEI should have been too.
The case of California Community Colleges’ DEI rules were just as bad for free speech and academic freedom, but too few people know about it.
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A $20 Billion Slush Fund—Paid by You to Progressive Nonprofits
It appears the billions didn’t revitalize anything—except the coffers of a range of environmental nonprofits associated with former Obama and Biden administration officials.
I wrote about Joe Thuney, a machine of a left guard who was everything the Chiefs asked for and more… and then asked “now what.”
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I want to ask all those who favor the transing of children on this site simply to tell me what they would say to this young woman.
Do you care that she exists? That this is still going on? Or do you think of this person’s life as necessary collateral damage in the gender revolution?
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Here’s a long newsletter for you. With some thoughts about Twitter — why it’s been in decline, though not a sudden one — and why I don’t expect anything else to come along to fully replace it.
I note Trump has made English the official language of America
He needs to be careful. It he demands that it be spoken properly, he will lose most of his voters
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My encounter years ago with Mexico's #Narco-Mennonites and what that has to do with a #measles outbreak and a child's death in Texas today.
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If Pennsylvania’s Governor Shapiro wants to be president, he’s going to have to call his fellow Democrats on their BS. Will he?
“The move to suspend aid to Ukraine came on top of other Kremlin-friendly steps recently taken by the U.S. The Trump administration has also been considering lifting sanctions imposed against Russia for its brutal all-out war against Ukraine.”
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Whatever it is that allows one to watch that speech and analyze it in any serious way is something I just don’t have.
A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.
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The Rooster at The Capitol
(I am not “Big Canton”, that’s not my Rooster Zero Day handle. It’s “The Shaker Heights Cossack.”)
Three things I like about Substack
You meet a better class of person
It’s not run by the greediest man in the world
I’ve forgotten what this one is
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Bobby can’t turn this ship 180 degrees overnight. This will require time and political acumen. So drop the circular firing squad/purity spiral and virtue signaling nonsense.
A Canadian politician called on Justin Trudeau to bar comedian Michael Rapaport from entering the country for a few gigs—simply because he supports the existence of a Jewish state. Rapaport responded by offering her front row seats.
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Climate Misinformation from the United Nations
A new Swedish Radio investigation has me asking - Does anyone care?
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When The New Republic ran a cover story on trans rights (long after my time there), Bill Kristol’s Weekly Standard, which used to run a weekly parody page of something in the media, merely reprinted the TNR cover without any change at all - with the mocking title: “Not A Parody”. For Kristol, trans rights were literally laughable.
When Kr…
I’m not one for bandwagons but I do think that Strade Bianche should be considered as a Monument of cycling.
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A New Zealand official has been asked to resign because he said he doubts whether President Trump understands history
Of course he doesn’t. Knowing anything about history requires reading books, and the President has never read a book
But unfortunately, he is the king of ‘strong’ man who is hypersensitive to
criticism
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Was walking my kids to school today and wasn’t paying attention to the ground as I crossed the street. Stepped on something squishy going through the intersection. “Nooo… not dog poop,” I thought. Good news: it was not dog poop. Bad news: It was a freshly killed rat and my foot had just squarely squished its guts out onto the street. I jumped up and down for about 2 minutes in full recoil mode. My worst nightmare come true. Baltimore, man.
President Trump shouldn’t tolerate Andrew Tate. MAGA is a big tent. But it’s not big enough for an alleged human trafficker who brags about beating women.
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A lot changed
The Democrats unanimously back an obviously unfair policy opposed by 80 percent of Americans and a majority of their own voters. Why? Because a few super-woke mega-rich “queer” donors and their foundation-funded orgs control the entire joint. They control every Dem Senator.
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Doing a live convo with Mehdi Hasan at 5 on the app.
Also, given today’s abject retreat on tariffs, I think Sheinbaum should demand that Texas become Mexico’s 32nd state
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Normally, idiots’ bad ideas don’t get implemented, and then they get to sit back and say “You shoulda done it my way!” It looks like this time around might be different.
Difficult night at the Westfalenstadion. After a strong first half, Dortmund just completely ceded control of the game to Lille in the second half. Kovac made a number of changes to the team that played so well at the weekend. In hindsight it seemed to really limit Dortmund. Especially in attack.
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"I’d say this isn’t a productive way for an opposition party to behave, but I also see the behavior as mostly symptomatic of the unenviable position the Democrats are in... they’ve lost normal control of messaging, and are grasping for some sort of way to break through."
With the Libertarian National Committee meeting three hours from now, it’s critical to contact the LNC and let them know that you want to see full discovery in the derivative lawsuits.
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EXCLUSIVE: Meet the Grandma Arrested by Scotland’s Speech Police
Rose Docherty, 74, was taken into custody last month for violating Britain’s censorship laws. She tells The Free Press: “I’m an elderly woman. What are they afraid of?”
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Color me easily impressed. But I’m surprised Speaker Mike Johnson could speak clearly enough to bounce Rep. Al Green from the chamber with Trump’s cock planted so firmly in his mouth. A talented man!
Would like to dedicate this love song by another Al Green to Mike Johnson and his one true love, Trump’s schwantz:
Just one of many signs that Elon Musk is consigning countless children to death. And doesn’t give a flying fuck. It’s truly staggering the level of sociopathy in this man.
Trimming USAID of fat and DEI is one thing. Throwing all of it away - with no warning, no transition, no care - is indecent and insane.
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Confident people don’t lie. And confidence is all about acknowledging your own accomplishments, achievements and abilities. I guess that means liars at least know the truth. And the truth is that liars know they haven’t accomplished all that much. Which is why they try to convince you they have. This is about running. This is not about running.
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Two very differently paced but excellent international series. Take a trip.
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Substack has decided that I am in “Posting Jail,” I have been reported as spam. This is my absolute favorite: when people sign up for a newsletters and then report as spam when they don’t like the topic. #sobriety. ———subscribers, thanks for your patience while I am in jail :)
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Part 2 of “If I were Brett Veach” is live! I wrote about in-house free agents and who I would prioritize if I were Veach.
I attempted to imagine how a negotiation between Sam Darnold and the Minnesota Vikings might go… and a lot of it focused on other things than just the money
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Truly staggering to read a piece about the trans issue today which DOES NOT EVEN MENTION the two core areas of disagreement - unfairness in sports, protection of women in intimate spaces and prisons, and medical experiments on children with gender dysphoria. Just pure propaganda and lies. Using the history of marriage equality to defend …
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Boiling myself a big pot of potatoes. It will last me a week. Filling, lots of nutrients, low calorie. Cheap. Don’t sleep on potatoes.
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Check out my hilarious rant about celebrities whining about racism.
Francisco Alvarez needs a bounce back year on both sides of the ball. He has put in the work - can he produce? From
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New dynasty startegy article! Applying the Covey Matrix to Dynasty Fantasy Football! Spent a long time writing this. The four quadrants covered:
⭐️ Dynasty Must-Act Moves
⭐️ Championship Foundation Moves
⭐️ Dynasty Distractions
⭐️ Time Wasters
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NEW: My latest column is now live! I discuss:
-What went wrong between Zelenskyy and Trump
-How Japan has helped Ukraine
-My review of The Brutalist
Don’t sleep on odd, forgotten films that range from pretty good to just shy of pulling off something amazing. They need love, too!
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As the Bibas children were laid to rest in Israel on Wednesday, Barnard students draped in keffiyehs occupied a campus building—chanting in support of Hamas.
How did this movement become so powerful? Palantir CEO Alex Karp tells Bari Weiss it is a religion, where students “pray to their high God of antisemitism.”
Finished Catch-22. The last time I read it I was a senior in high school. For awhile it was my favorite novel.
Second time around as a middle-aged man, enjoyed it. The Marx Brothers-esque patter was funny for sure, but I got tired of it after awhile.
Having 20 years of real world experience with dealing with bureaucracy made the novel all the more painfully hilarious.
I wrote a paper when I was a senior on Milo Minderbinder. Still think he’s my favorite character in the book. Just a fascinating…
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JUST IN: Give me a Thumbs-Up 👍, if you support Elon Musk and DOGE auditing EVERY SINGLE Gov. Agency that wastes YOUR tax dollars.
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Nice summary of Reason, which has been around since 1968 and where I’ve worked since 1993, and where we fit on the ideological spectrum. Via .
I’ve explained a thousand times over the course of years why that speech was necessary - it was practically word for word what I wrote for my speech in Washington in the fall. Europe has been instituting a gigantic anti-democratic mechanism and we needed the US to withdraw from it, which is what Vance did. I find it hard to believe a rea…
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I went to a party last week in Trump’s DC. It was exhilarating in a way that made me very uneasy.
At 4 p.m. today, the U.S. Senate votes to remove a rule that bans debanking, a practice where banks, financial institutions, payment processors, and even certain services in the digital finance sector, like cryptocurrency platforms, deny services to clients based on political, reputational, or ideological grounds.
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It's not a cult. But it's not not a cult.
F3 started as a few guys working out in a parking lot at 5 AM. Today, it’s 100,000 men suffering and growing together on 6 continents.
I talked to their leader to find out WTF is going on. His answers surprised me. A few of my favorites:
Why F3 is for men only.
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Really fun process on this one.
Empty Side PnR between White & Horford.
Horford slips into space, Kornet slot drive into a touch pass to find White on the weakside corner.
Shot doesn't drop, but the ball movement, execution and defensive manipulation are all solid here.
Best decision I ever made.
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My new book, out in April:
I could never post this one enough.
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The War on Warriors
We cheer - The flags held high,
cast them off - Then walk on by.
They answered the call,
What then - When they fall.
Budgets cut - Jobs lost,
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The one thing Donald Trump can’t stand is a down market. That’s why he keeps announcing tariffs—which are much more onerous than the ones he muscled through in his first term—and then pulling back. As the Tax Foundation’s Erica York notes, ‘His first term tariffs affected $380 billion of imports, mainly from China, over the course of 201…
On family and loss and the patches made by art, memory and mystery
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ICYMI: I wrote about the meaning of Katherine Legge becoming the first woman to drive at NASCAR’s highest level in 7 years, since Danica Patrick retired in 2018:
Disappointing, but not all that surprising that a bunch of Substackers & podcasters who built huge audiences between 2020-24 for being brave anti-establishment truth-tellers can't bring themselves to criticise the establishment now that it's changed hands.
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Who Shapes Curriculum Decisions?
Who gets to shape curriculum decisions in America’s schools?
In medicine, finance, and journalism, transparency laws ensure that people know when an expert has financial ties to the products they recommend.
But in education, curriculum influencers and paid consultants can push specific programs without ever disclosing who funds them.
This isn’t about one person. It Is about a system where billion-dollar companies use trusted voices to shape what gets adopted in sc…
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Democrats block a bill to protect women’s sports, even though it has the support of the majority (67%) of their supporters.
This is why they will continue to lose.
STOP ACTING AS THOUGH THE AMBUSH OF PRESIDENT ZELENSKY AT THE WHITE HOUSE, WASN'T ORCHESTRATED. EVERY THING IN THE TRUMP REGIME IS DONE WITH A NEFARIOUS GOAL IN MIND.
BE ASHAMED VERY ASHAMED.
I am ashamed. I am so ashamed of president Trump that he’s not even my president. You can have him. They were very disrespectful to Zielinski. He doesn’t have to wear a suit. He can wear what he wants. Elon doesn’t wear a suit and no one says anything to him. Couple of jackasses up there. Can’t wait till he chokes on his burger or gets hit in the head with a golf ball.