I didn’t do my usual recap at the end of the year. Mostly because I was offline earlier than usual and too burned out to think much about work. But I spent some time with my 2022 writing this week, and I’m actually pretty proud of a lot of pieces…

It took 15 tries, but Kevin McCarthy managed to get himself elected to the job from hell. As Speaker of the House, he’ll preside over a Congress with a razor-slim majority and lead a Caucus of Congresspeople uninterested in governing at all. …

Friday marked the second anniversary of the January 6 Insurrection at the US Capitol, the culmination of an ongoing coup against the United States by then-President Trump and several of his allies. …

2022 feels like the year divorced men online were determined to show us why their wives left them. Elon. Ye. Jeremy Clarkson. <Insert name of Republican here>. But it’s also clear how desperate these guys feel. Because they don’t have the power and influence, they feel like they should in…

Elon Musk paid $44 billion and put himself in debt to some super shady actors, all so that he could make himself the main character on Twitter every day. Musk isn’t even talented enough to do it for free like Donald Trump did, so he’s forced to exploit Twitter’s resources…

This week we got a verdict in the Oath Keepers Sedition Trial. And it’s good news. Founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes and his associate Kelly Meggs were found guilty of Seditious Conspiracy. The other Oath Keepers on trial, Jessica Watkins, Thomas Caldwell, and Kenneth Harrelson, were found not guilty of seditious…

“From red wave to red wedding.” Ben Shapiro tweeted this on Election Night as it became clear that the long-predicted Republican sweep wasn’t going to materialize. It’s been a lot of fun watching MAGA attempt to cope, regroup, and recover over the past week. Most of the time, tracking the…

I wasn’t planning on writing a newsletter this week, and there won’t be one on Sunday. But given how this election has played out so far and how relevant so much of what we’ve talked about here for the past couple of years has turned out to be, I wanted…

This is the strangest election cycle of my adult lifetime, and with just 2 days to go, I have no idea where things stand. We’re at the point in the election where my spouse always reminds me to “stay off the poller coaster,” but with so many new voter registrations…