The Fifth Column

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-A huge TACO Tuesday
-Survival of the Spineless
-Low-level insurgency infrastructure
-Astroturf panic and the suspicious run to Walgreens
-The problem with punching Nazis
-Walz and Trump finally talk
-Fuck you, Ted
-The Great American Slur Revival
-Short king Bovino and the self-inflicted smoke bomb
-Democracy Dies in Payroll
-World’s Biggest Russophobe Longs for…

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One topic in the news. One quick podcast on that single topic (rather than just texting each other about how certain media figures are vulgar, stupid, and morally depraved). Welcome back to the Fifth Column One Hitter!
In the hours after ICE shot and killed Alex Pretti, we gathered at the studio to sit down with Peter Moskos: former police officer, current John Jay…

•Don Does Davos•I Would Do Anything for Greenland (But I Won’t Do That)•Even MAGA Thought the Norway Text Was Fake News•The Danes’ Historical Resistance to Fascism•A Lament for the Belgian Congo•Cutting a Greenland Cake, and the Epidemic of Stupidity•Who the Fuck Is “We”?•Congress Could Do Something That Isn’t Impeachment•Shame Doesn’t Work•Past the Point of Passivity•Punching a Transtifa Baby•Macron and Those Beautiful Sunglasses•Carney Invokes Václav Havel: Rupture, Not Transition•Middle Powers, Beta Powers•Soleimani in Iceland•China Is Asshole•The Man Is Fucking Old and Loves His Prizes•Breaking: Strange Victory, Strange Defeat•Letter Bag: Minneapolis•Get Out of the Fucking Churches•The Abbott & Costello Theory of Government
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Chuck Klosterman’s new book, Football is out now! (See also The Nineties, and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs)
-The music-doc cinematic universe, featuring Billy Joel and Japanese Jimmy Page
-Moynihan missed the Morrissey cover-band boat
-How to actually say Klosterman
-From pop culture to America’s most popular TV show
-It had to be football: the one exception …

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Two hundred and fifty years ago this very day, a gallant-strolling cat named George Washington convened in Cambridge about as high a level Patriot meeting as you could muster: John Adams, two major generals, five brigadier generals, and arguably the most connected man among the Boston rebels, Joseph Warren. There, the commander in chief persuaded his Wa…