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The Protection Program (opens the original)
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Sometimes a politician tells you exactly what he is, out loud — and everyone's so busy reacting to the threat that they miss the confession inside it. That's Speaker Mike Johnson. Rallying donors about the midterms, he warned that if Republicans lose, Democrats will "turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body" and go after the President's family, cabinet, and donors. Then: "I run the protection program. I'll take care of you." Sit with what he called the nightmare. Not recession
MAGA's Distorted Version of DEI (opens the original)
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Message for MAGA: you've officially lost the right to ever scream DEI again. You forfeited it this week, when you handed a Senate seat to a woman whose entire qualification is her last name. For years, they turned "DEI" into a slur meaning "unqualified, only here because of race or gender," and aimed it at accomplished people — Kamala Harris (DA, state AG, senator, VP), Ketanji Brown Jackson, Ilhan Omar. An accusation of unearned advantage, pointed at people who'd earned everything. Then Lindsey
MAGA-LITE: The Establishment is Cracking and it's Their Own Fault (opens the original)
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The Democratic establishment is cracking — and it's their own fault. Not because Trump is beating them, but because the progressives they smear — Mamdani, Bernie, AOC — are the only ones winning, and they'd rather burn the house down than admit the establishment was never the only option. And I'm not guessing at the panic. I've got the numbers. Congressional Democrats hit 18% approval (Quinnipiac record low), 73% disapproving. The party's at its worst favorability ever recorded — 27% at NBC, 29%
Can't Both Sides a Failure (opens the original)
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I steelman people I disagree with. I've gone after Democrats on this show. So hear me: there are moments when balance becomes dishonesty. When one column has receipts and the other has vibes, equal time isn't fairness — it's lying with good manners. The fact: by every standard this administration set for itself, it failed. The economy, prices, jobs, war, healthcare, the livability of its own states. That's arithmetic. My argument, which you can reject: it's the most catastrophic self-inflicted s
Jane Elliott and the Sneetches; An Education on White Privilege (opens the original)
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Dr. Seuss wrote The Sneetches in 1961 — two groups identical in every way that matters except a meaningless star on the belly, and that mark decided who got invited and who watched from outside. Nobody earned it. It just decided everything. So let's define white privilege honestly, because the definition is where we lose each other. It doesn't mean your life was easy. It means you get to do ordinary human things and let your actions determine how people react to you. The same things — driving, s
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