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Hey all -- I will put this in the weekend links in a few hours, but: No Second Sunday today, because the boys are out West on business trips having meetings all day. We will -- God help us -- do a Third Sunday on Father's Day next week.

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The big question is...will this one be released??? 😀

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Jun 10, 2023Liked by Matt Welch

This might make it into the Working for the Weekend post, but just in case it doesn't - a great discussion about the Jordan Neely case on this week's Honestly (with a fully Fifth approved roster of guests)

https://open.substack.com/pub/bariweiss/p/daniel-penny-the-killing-of-jordan-neely?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1fgz13

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Yes, it was excellent.

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You guys have by far the best shtick when asking for subs. You finally got my cheapskate a**.

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Jun 10, 2023Liked by Matt Welch

The "starving kids" are flying premium economy to Forte dei Marmi this summer. Oh sure they may pass through Calabria long enough to hear the pidgin language of the region (Italian mixed with Albanian) & wave at some long lost relatives but I am fairly certain the nonna's won't be serving red-cross MRE's .

Welcome to business class. In 1st class, Kmele shows you his telescope, Matt plays his guitar & Moynihan solicits email pics, all on a Toobin-time Zoom call. That may just all be rumor & innuendo, based on the lost Mother-day's episode, but one never knows.

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My god what a post. Are you single?

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Welcome to 1st class. You won’t be disappointed.

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They wear you down.

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Spoiling us with so much Fifth Column content right now, and I can't be the only one looking forward to the Ted Kaczynski memorial episode before the weekend is out.

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Incredible anecdote by Reason’s own CJ Ciaramella:

https://twitter.com/cjciaramella/status/1667585607193772033?s=46&t=DG0ToeimhGTKT79Th4M8uw

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Amazing. The Unabomber complaining about unwanted mail.

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I love this, but do you guys sleep? Don't forget that you need to test your cocaine for fentanyl these days.

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And for manganese.

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Jun 10, 2023Liked by Matt Welch

Another link here related to Pride Season! Two genuine gay icons talking sense:

https://youtu.be/YysgbnBohhc

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I'm bi, but I now love the phrase "bi now, gay later"

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Great recommendation.

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Jun 12, 2023·edited Jun 12, 2023

I think they referenced kids/young adults not buying into the hyper trans/gender push in the podcast. Does anyone have any references to studies or articles?

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This doesn't speak to that, but is a great article by Jean Twenge.

https://time.com/6275663/generation-z-gender-identity/

This passage in particular stood out to me:

There’s another key difference among the generations when it comes to transgender or nonbinary identity. Most Boomer and Gen X people who identify as transgender were assigned male at birth. Among Gen Z, however, most transgender people were instead assigned female at birth.

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Jun 11, 2023Liked by Matt Welch

When you're raised by a single mom all you know is Secret

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#secretpridemonth

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Spoiling us! 🙌🏼

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One of the 1st projects I was part of when I moved to LA was "Mr Show with Bob and David" and one of this weeks topic of arrested jan 6er's mentioned Jay Johnson who was a regular cast member brought me back to this skit where (at 3:56 of this 7 minute skit) Jay yells "I Fucked Up"... made me laugh....( I am too lazy to just rip that segment out of the skit). https://youtu.be/e5i6BHBuqxE.

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I love that show! Thank you for being a part of it ❤️ the "we have to blow up the moon" skit and the "Worthington's Law" skit still get frequent play in my household

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To be fair, Trump probably writes his own name in bold and all caps

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I can’t tell what I’m more mad about, the fact that a sitting president is using his administration to prosecute a political adversary during an election; or the stupid and likely illegal dumb shit that Trump keeps doing that makes him so eminently prosecutable. I hate Trump but it seems like we are opening a very dark Pandora’s box here...

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Trump is the Aileen Wuornos of politicos.

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Ok that’s just funny. And sadly on the nose…😂

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Early 2000s Florida woman, so ahead of her time.

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What evidence do you have that a sitting president is using his administration to prosecute a political adversary and/or that Trump doesn't deserve to be prosecuted?

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Jun 10, 2023·edited Jun 10, 2023

These are federal charges, so DOJ is a part of Biden’s administration. I’m sure they’ll say they didn’t know it was happening but that kind of strains credulity. And I totally think Trump is guilty! I won’t shed a tear if he is convicted. I mostly blame him for all of this. But I don’t like what all of this is doing to our system, because once you open that door it can’t be closed.

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Well, it was a special counsel. Are you alleging that Biden ordered the prosecution? How else would that constitute as Biden "using his administration to prosecute"?

And why are you jumping to the conclusion that Trump is guilty without seeing any of the defense's argument yet? But if you do think he's guilty, are you suggesting that presidents shouldn't be charged with crimes they are guilty of?

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Just commenting on a pod thread…..the prosecution makes me deeply uncomfortable, as I don’t believe that Biden was unaware of it and even if he technically was, the right will use it politically to their advantage. And I lament that a guy who would otherwise be just another trashy, corrupt rich person somehow became leader of the free world, making his alleged crimes more tempting to prosecute and therefore taking us into a strange and (in my opinion) dangerous new political world.

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Fair enough. I share some of the same concerns about Pandora's box. I just want to see the concerns re: the other side of the coin given consideration too. I obviously don't want our politics to be dominated by partisan prosecutions but politicians are a uniquely corrupt bunch so more prosecutions isn't *necessarily* a bad thing. Totally open to the argument that Hillary should've been prosecuted as well. Of all the potential legal worries for Trump though, the GA stuff seems the most substantial imo.

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Agreed!

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We get the elected officials we deserve, I guess....

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Uh. My eyes?

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Is Biden in the room with you now?

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I'm not confident the sitting president even knows what day it is.

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The more teenage girls are forced to strip off for gym class in front of the creepiest boy in their grade, the more you’re going to see the youth turn around on the gender thing.

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PRIDE stopped having anything to do with homosexuals a while ago.

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Trump’s use of quotes is channeling Chris Farley’s Bennet Brauer (from SNL)

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So what if I "hoard classified documents" or "copulate with horse-faced prostitutes"?

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Thank the lord, a new ep. It has been a week (for the last several years).

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I should say, thank the lads.

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#AgitatedWhiteFingers

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