I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

This is what kleptocracy looks like.   In 2025, Donald Trump has received: $3 billion: mostly from crypto $940 million: law firms $400 million plane: Qatar $36 million: CBS $25 million: Meta $24 million: YouTube $16 million: ABC $10 million: X Now $230 million from DOJ?

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You know what’s weirder: every European American community - Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans etc - are allowed to celebrate their heritage but not Africans. There’s a word for that. It’s racist.

My cryptic debut … patreon.com/posts/14266827…

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Message to Democrats: Don’t fall into the media frame of progressives vs. centrists, moderates vs. leftists. Focus on how candidates win by speaking to people’s deep, real concerns. Focus on how candidates win with a clear message and a compelling narrative.

MTG now stands for Makes Trump Grouse.

Question: Is the act of voting for a bill that you denounced as a political stunt itself just a political stunt?

Save Higher Education — my latest for Cross-Pollination. crosspollination.substack.com/p/save-higher-…

Probably not ideal to publish a long piece on Wednesday night before Thanksgiving… Would you help me spread the word? I wrote about some persistent myths regarding what’s happening in American society and politics we desperately need to discard:

My new piece on fascist anti-socialism for Current Affairs. Thanks to Nathan J Robinson and Alex Skopic for all the work on it. currentaffairs.org/news/why-fasci…

Jason Blakely argues in Harpers that “political science can’t grasp Trumpism”: harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

Stephen Miller said on CNN: “We live in a world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” One could not craft a clearer, more explicit statement of fascist ideology.

The most rational thing Trump ever said? “You gotta win the midterms. Because if we don’t win the midterms, they’ll find a reason to impeach me. I’ll get impeached.”

We have given presidents too much power and then handed those powers to a dangerous authoritarian

The last 3 national championships have come from this region of the Midwest