361 w/ Ilya Shapiro 'Free Speech, Free San Francisco, Free Weigel'
Kmele is flying
Dude has four parents. Not one isn’t a terrorist
The decline and fall of San Francisco, Part I
Fiona Dourif’s piece on how California fails the mentally ill
A sexy retweet
Ilya Shapiro quits Georgetown. He stops by to tell us why
Ilya apologized. Should he have?
He mentioned it, we’ll link to it: the paperback edition of Supreme Disorder
Shapiro: Cato abandoned me
Dave Weigel gets suspended because of his colleague and “close friend,” Sammy “the Bull” Sonmez,” rats him out
Another editors note re: the TikTok lady
A St. Louis Cardinal tweeted bad words when he was 14
Everything is dumb
CNN retools, but all the tools still work there
If you ask the question “should I have kids on account of climate change,” you probably shouldn’t have kids
A primetime January 6th hearing, produced by Busby Berkeley
Breaking: Chesa the Chavista needs a new job
The decline and fall of San Francisco, Part II
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