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Shall We Be Ceasing Fire Today?

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Eh... The U.S.-Iran truce that has been on shaky ground for weeks appeared to edge closer to collapse on Wednesday after the two sides traded new attacks and President Trump said he considered the deal to be over. The renewed hostilities and pessimistic rhetoric followed weeks...
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Catastrophic Senate candidate Graham Planter continues to refuse to drop out because he and his Beltway dipshit advisers think they're entitled to handpick his replacement. The party's response to this is exactly correct: Wow, this message from the Maine Democrats account on X. It sounds like...
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For the most part, Democratic primary voters have done a better job of avoiding sub-replacement-level cranks on the level of Todd Akin and Christine O'Donnell in competitive primary races. This may be one reason why too many people who should have known better convinced themselves to...

World Cup Thread

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On July 7, 2026

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I enjoyed that conversation yesterday around the World Cup so let's see what we can glean from the horrors of history for today's matchups. Argentina v. Egypt doesn't exactly provide.

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Earlier this year, the literary and genre fiction communities were startled by the announcement that Daniel Kraus's Angel Down, a fantasy-horror novel in which a squad of WWI soldiers discover an angel on the killing fields of 1918 France, had won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This...

More Platner stuff

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Good column (gift link) from Michelle Goldberg: The Platner campaign represented an electoral insurgency against the Democratic Party; now, there are going to be furious recriminations against those who launched.

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