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Roy Edroso
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Rod Dreher is turning into Ezra Quarter-Pound
[Dreher in ridiculous tweedy getup] Once I get rich, I will buy a townhouse and outfit it with a plum elevator. Everybody should have a plum elevator, right? On this.. I told him on air that if they keep calling people who cherish their historical civilization and its traditions and artifacts (like Westminster Abbey, above) "fascists," then they are going to create actual fascists. When it becomes
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Is... this a parody site
Substack page: Central Air Central Air, the show where the temperature is always just right. Join Josh Barro, Megan McArdle and Ben Dreyfuss every week for a well-centered conversation on American politics. Over 2,000 subscribers Type your email... Subscribe Recent editions Shutdown Fold 'Em, with Nate Silver We stress-test alternative ends to the government shutdown, compare go... NOV 12 • JOSH BARRO, BEN DREYFUSS, MEGAN MCARDLE, AND NATE SILVER • 26 6 Neither Glee Nor Panic: Our Moderate Take on Zohran Mamdani Democrats post a very strong election night; the great left hope wins in Ne... NOV 5 • JOSH BARRO, MEGAN MCARDLE, AND BEN DREYFUSS 9 27 D 5 Deciding to Win, with Liam Kerr Plus: the ballroom freakout, the Karine Jean-Pierre implosion, and Argentin... OCT 29 • JOSH BARRO, BEN DREYFUSS, MEGAN MCARDLE, AND LIAM KERR 927 D 14 Immigration, with Matt Yglesias We look at how Democrats can right the ship on immigration, discuss ho... OCT 22 • JOSH BARRO, BEN DREYFUSS, MEGAN MCARDLE, AND MATTHEW YGLESIAS
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Boy does this ever look like "save me from myself!"
The Washington Times NEWS ALERT MONDAY NOVEMBER 24, 2025 NEWS ALERT Trump says tariff revenue poised to 'skyrocket,' urges quick decision in Supreme Court case President Trump urged the Supreme Court on Monday to decide a "time-sensitive" case that could blow a big hole in his trade agenda, saying tariff payments are poised to "skyrocket" and he doesn't want to see his plans ruined.
November 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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For years I knew that nonspeaking boarding house resident in The Graduate was him and now it is confirmed. Thank you, IMDB!
Richard Dreyfuss Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
November 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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That was easy
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November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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WOW WHY DIDN'T WE THINK OF THAT, THIS IS POLITICAL DYNAMITE, WILL YOU SPEAK AT OUR NATIONAL CONVENTION
These are genuine challenges. If I were a Democratic politician, I might try telling the truth, which in my version would go something like this: The elites didn't betray you, but they did ignore you. They didn't mean to harm you. But they didn't see you in the 1970s as deindustrialization took your jobs; in the ensuing decades as your families and communities broke apart; during all those decades when high immigration levels made you feel like a stranger in your own land. If I were a Democratic politician (this role-playing is kind of fun) I'd add that America can't get itself back on track if the culture is awash in distrust, cynicism, catastrophizing lies and conspiracymongering. No governing majority will ever form if we're locked in a permanent class war.
November 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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"undermining public trust and sowing public cynicism" dude you're a little late to the game.

Remember when Pam Bondi handed out fake copies of the Epstein Files and then said they didn't exist?
From the column : What I don't understand is why some Democrats are hopping on this bandwagon. They may believe that the Epstein file release will somehow hurt Trump. But they are undermining public trust and sowing public cynicism in ways that make the entire progressive project impossible. They are contributing to a public atmosphere in which right-wing populism naturally thrives.
November 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Beavis and Butthead: BON JOVi VS A PIECE OF GRASS BON JOVI WOULD SCREAM AT THE GRASS, BUT/THAT WOULD MAKE/THE GRASS MAD. YEAH, SO THEN IT WOULD LiKE HAVE TO KICK HIS ASS. UH. BUT/iF LiKE BON JOVi AND RiCHiE/SAMBORA JUMPED THE GRASS WHILE IT WAS SLEEPING, THÉY MIGHT HAVE A CHANCE THE GRASS WOULD STILL KICK THEIR ASSES. YEAH
November 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Perhaps my favorite DeadKirkMania artifact is this Commentary newsletter, in which Abe Greenwald effuses over him like he's a world-historical figure and also seems to be finding out exactly who he was as he's writing the fucking thing.
Commentary NOVEMBER 18, 2025 DAILY NEWSLETTER The Man Who Held Back the Flood By Abe Greenwald One of the many things that's become clear since Charlie Kirk was assassinated is that not only was he a true friend of Israel and the Jews, but he was the key figure in keeping the groypers cordoned off from the rest of the young American right. With his calm, reasoned, but passionate public refutations of groyper Jew-hatred, he was holding his finger in the dike. For this act, Jews, Christians, and Americans of all faiths owe him an incalculable debt. I don't care about the winding road he may have taken to get there. He began his public life at an extraordinarily young age. By the time of his assassination, Kirk was preserving the future of the country, steering it between the Scylla of left-wir radicalism and Charybdis of right-wing nihilism. I honestly had no idea how much good he was doing for the nation, and I wish I could have expressed my gratitude while he was alive.
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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"These cows are small..." scene from Father Ted.
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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COMEBACK OF THE YEAR
NBC News hed and dek: Saudi crown prince returns to U.S. for first time after international isolation Mohammed bin Salman's trip Tuesday, his first during Trump's second term, will be seen as a huge step after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
November 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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QED, from the same story:
When asked about the incident with Grambo, McLaughlin said that a "protester with a megaphone attempted to obstruct the arrest." However, a video of the incident captured by Grambo's wife, Mandy Grambo, appears to show that the couple arrived after Ramos-Delcid had been taken into custody. Agents do not appear to be restraining anyone and left shortly after interacting with the Grambos.
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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BTW it should be standard practice to accompany all DHS/ICE/Border Patrol claims carried in a news story with a disclaimer that they lie constantly.
From the story Federal agents said that Ramos-Delcid had open alcohol containers in his car as well as a child who "was not properly in a car seat," according to McLaughlin. He assaulted two officers when they attempted to arrest him, she added.
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Wouldn't put it past these creeps. www.foreignexchanges.news/p/world-roun...
The South African government says it is investigating the circumstances around a flight that landed on Thursday at Johannesburg’s O.R. Tambo International Airport carrying 153 Palestinians from Gaza. None had proper travel documentation, nor did they seem to know how they came to be in South Africa or how long they were planning to stay. Al Jazeera interviewed one of the people on that flight who described an organization called “Al-Majd Europe” that arranged the evacuation via Ramon Airport in the southern Israeli city of Eilat. The flight initially went to Kenya before continuing on to South Africa. The organization charged people between $1500 and $5000 to get them out of Gaza and seemed to be working in collaboration with Israeli authorities. As often as Israeli officials have talked about “voluntarily” depopulating Gaza it would not be at all surprising if they are trying to accomplish that aim—otherwise known as ethnic cleansing—through this somewhat clandestine, piecemeal process.
November 17, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Hoo boy
In 2018, someone forwarded to Mr. Epstein that year’s program for Ms. Brown’s Women in the World Summit, which boasted a “power packed agenda of remarkable female newsmakers sharing their stories of male misbehavior.” “Let’s do a men of the world conference,” wrote Lawrence Krauss, a prominent theoretical physicist at Arizona State University, who would soon depart the university after being accused by several women of sexual misconduct. His proposed summit, he wrote, would include Kevin Spacey, Bill Clinton, Al Franken and Mr. Allen.
November 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Cases in point:
The cache of emails includes exchanges about going to dinner at Rao's, the uptown Italian restaurant where it was famously hard to get a table, and an invitation for Mr. Epstein to the 25th anniversary party for The New York Observer (it was a weekly paper, printed on salmon-colored newsprint and read by the city's elite) at the Four Seasons restaurant (where the elite once power-lunched; it's now closed) co-hosted by Michael Bloomberg (he was the mayor) and Jared Kushner (who owned The Observer). The guest list included Matt Lauer and Harvey Weinstein. You've probably heard about what happened with them. Mr. Epstein wrote to one confidant: "so many guys caught in the me too reaching out to me asking when does the madness stop." To another, he wrote: "brett ratner now. Oy." Mr. Epstein was referring to the film director and producer, who had stepped away from a $450 million deal with Warner Bros. after The Los Angeles Times reported on allegations made against him by six women. Mr. Ratner has since resurfaced as the director of "Melania," a soon-to-be-released Amazon Prime documentary about Melania Trump, which the first lady is producing.
November 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Mm hm www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
From the New York Times: Epstein inquiry: President Trump directed the Justice Department on Friday to investigate ties that the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had to prominent Democrats and institutions, and Attorney General Pam Bondi named a prosecutor to lead the inquiry. Mr. Trump sought investigations into figures including former President Bill Clinton and a former treasury secretary, Larry Summers, and they appeared to be retribution for the renewed focus on Mr. Trump's own ties to Mr. Epstein. Read more ›
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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The Monster from Bride of Frankenstein: "we belong dead"
November 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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From MTV public service campaign -- "Sex is no accident / Always use a condom" -- based on fanciful comic-strip scenarios where people wind up conjugating by accident (woman falls backward onto a tea trolley, it is propelled and hurtles into a bathroom where she is impaled on the penis of a man on a toilet).
November 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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I guess Erick Erickson thinks this Plague On Both Your Houses angle will make his "Epstein Files are a Democrat plot" argument look less ridiculous.
I Hate Them All ERICK-WOODS ERICKSON NOV 13 READ IN APP 7 Perhaps hate is too strong a word, but I am so disgusted by Washington, D.C., and just about all the politicians there. Democrats just lost a shutdown fight they tried to claim no responsibility for and, when lost, pivoted to Jeffrey Epstein with the help of the press. It turns out one of Epstein's major private boosters was the author Michael Wolff, who plotted against Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein. Michael Wolff, like Michael Avenatti before him, was a regular Brian Stelter guest on CNN. CNN and MSNBC have gone wall to wall with coverage of the new Epstein revelations, of which there is actually not much new information. They just hope to pin it all on Donald Trump.
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Gaming with my bestie
A car peering through the stair rails Same cat ATTACKS!
November 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Predictably, Rod Dreher, having professed shock at the groyper ascendancy in conservatism, is starting to soften up.
As you know, I believe Tucker Carlson ought not have platformed Fuentes, and if he felt he had to, then he should have put hard questions to him. Heritage’s Kevin Roberts should not have inserted the think tank into the controversy. But if you think these blunders mean that the Right should revert to the good old days of George W. Bush-style conservatism, then you are willing to surrender the future to the Left.
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Reservoir Hill, Baltimore
A wall on an alley on which is spray-painted the warning NO DUMPING! IF YOU DUMP HERE YOU WILL BE CURSED
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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How exciting
From the story: Mr. Shapiro's version of the Democratic Party is more patriotic than the G.O.P. and, in some sense, more conservative. It is a...
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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This is really just an inverted Virgin vs Chad meme
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM