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The Podesta brothers used to be the big stinky cheeses of Democrat politics. While John Podesta reigned as Hillary’s campaign chair, Tony Podesta nailed down the lobbying contracts through the Podesta Group. These days, John heads up the Center for American Progress while Tony Podesta had a bit of a fall. Tony Podesta was in…

Hey, when your bro got to the White House and became fantastically wealthy by screaming “racism” non-stop, it’s bound to create some Mau-Mauing envy. Michelle Obama’s brother and his wife filed a lawsuit alleging racial bias at a Milwaukee private school, saying that when they raised concerns, the school retaliated by expelling their sons. Craig…

Republicans tend not to believe that Biden will run again. So do a lot of other people. Except that Biden has repeatedly made it clear that, no matter how implausible it may seem, he will run again. Even if he has to crawl to run. President Biden has told former President Obama that he is planning to…

Academia is its own beast and assuming that what goes at a college will protect Fortune 500 employees is unrealistic. That said there’s a precedent here and it’s an important one. Forcing people to use male pronouns for women or vice versa has been an important tool for ideological compliance.  The “you shall comply” familiar…

Boycotts used to be a major conservative tool. Do they still work? Not as well, but they can work. Big Tech’s biggest vulnerability is the need to project an impossible perpetual motion machine of constant growth. What happens when that illusion of perpetual growth is challenged? Then the bottom suddenly drops out. Netflix reported its first…

Twitter is a really important forum for the culture war. And Elon Musk has figured out a way to profit from panicking the elite into frantically trying to save Twitter from free speech. But is the social media platform really worth anything? Twitter said on Thursday that its revenue grew more slowly than analysts had…

Social media troll Taylor Lorenz, fresh off playing the victim, decided to show her value to the Washington Post by doxxing the Jewish woman behind the Libs of Tik Tok account. The opening paragraph of this national embarassment begins with, “A popular Twitter account has morphed into a social media phenomenon, spreading anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment and shaping…