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What if you’re just … born wrong? (No, I don’t mean the darling little girl to the right.)
You may know Bill Schulz through his years toiling as Greg Gutfeld’s “repulsive sidekick” on ye olde Fox News late-nite WTF show Red Eye (on which all of your co-hosts, and several of our guests, got some valuable reps back in the day). You may know Bill through hi…

-The NYC Rolling Hobo Express
-An Enthusiastic Armada Full of Speed and Violence
-Iranian Death Toll Discourse and Roger Waters Still Sucks
-The Donroe Doctrine and the Near Abroad Dodge
-Everyone’s Favorite Powder Keg
-A Norwegian, A Rat Bag, and a Lunatic
-A disgusting thing to say
-Noem’s Bellebolent Hypotheticals
-Stephen Miller’s Basement Lotions and the Little Rogaine Carpet
-Fingerers, Reach-Arounds, and Reaganite as a Slur
-Anne Cool-ter
-Fuck You Jonathan
-Mehmet Oz, P.I.
-Ye’s apology ad and the uncanny valley of writing
-One from the Mailbag
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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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