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3 weeks ago | 
tabletmag.com | Park MacDougald
Let’s talk about bullshit. If you consume the news at all these days it’s likely that most of what you see on a daily basis is bullshit. Some of it pretty obviously so.
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1 month ago | 
tabletmag.com | Park MacDougald
In their 2006 book, The Shadow Party, David Horowitz and Richard Poe penned the following insight on the structure of astroturf revolutions:In a 1957 tract, Czech Communist Party theoretician Jan Kozák explained how a small number of communists managed to gain power in Czechoslovakia through parliamentary maneuvers. The trick was to exert pressure for radical change from two directions simultaneously—from the upper levels of government and from provocateurs in the streets.
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1 month ago | 
nypost.com | Park MacDougald
On Nov. 5, the Democratic Party received what counts in our hyper-polarized age as a comprehensive drubbing. Peter Lavigna/NY Post Design On Nov. 5, the Democratic Party received what counts in our hyper-polarized age as a comprehensive drubbing.
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1 month ago | 
thedailyscroll.substack.com | Park MacDougald
What is going on at the Department of Defense? On Sunday, The New York Times reported that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had shared details of mid-March airstrikes on the Houthis in yet another Signal group chat, this one featuring his brother and his personal lawyer, who work for the Pentagon and the Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps, and his wife, Jennifer, a former Fox producer with no formal government position.
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1 month ago | 
city-journal.org | Park MacDougald
On November 5, the Democratic Party received what counts in our hyper-polarized age as a comprehensive drubbing. Donald Trump swept all seven battleground states, improved over his 2016 and 2020 performances with nearly every demographic subcategory, and became the first Republican in 20 years to win the popular vote. In the end, Vice President Kamala Harris’s $1 billion-plus war chest and much-praised “ground game” proved a boon to the college funds of Democratic consultants and not much else.
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2 months ago | 
tabletmag.com | Park MacDougald
Early Monday, markets appeared to be continuing their rout in response to Donald Trump’s sweeping Liberation Day tariffs. By midmorning, the S&P 500 had posted its worst three-day performance since the “Black Monday” crash of 1987, and both it and the tech-heavy NASDAQ fell into bear-market territory following double-digit declines last week. The carnage was even worse in Asia, where several markets suspended trading Monday morning as massive sell-offs triggered circuit breakers.
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2 months ago | 
thedailyscroll.substack.com | Park MacDougald
Early Monday, markets appeared to be continuing their rout in response to Donald Trump’s sweeping Liberation Day tariffs. By midmorning, the S&P 500 had posted its worst three-day performance since the “Black Monday” crash of 1987, and both it and the tech-heavy NASDAQ fell into bear-market territory following double-digit declines last week. The carnage was even worse in Asia, where several markets suspended trading Monday morning as massive sell-offs triggered circuit breakers.
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2 months ago | 
thedailyscroll.substack.com | Park MacDougald
The conflict—feud? standoff?—between the Donald Trump administration and the federal judiciary is heating up. The biggest headlines have come from the dispute over the administration’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang.
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2 months ago | 
tabletmag.com | Park MacDougald
It gives us no pleasure to report this, but we figured you should hear it from us. Jeffrey Epstein—the late New York financier—was a “Jewish organization of Jewish people working on behalf of Israel and other groups,” including organized crime and elements of the Central Intelligence Agency, to collect blackmail on American politicians and businessmen.
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2 months ago | 
thedailyscroll.substack.com | Park MacDougald
On Saturday, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a foreign national, recent graduate from a master’s program at Columbia University, and a campus leader of Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the successor organization to the banned chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. Khalil, according to reporting from the BBC, is now in an immigrant detention facility in Louisiana.
