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What the hell happened in politics this week? Esquire's legendary blogger Charlie P. Pierce has answers

If Democrats Cave on the Shutdown Now, What Was It All For?

The party finally has momentum after Tuesday, but it would be just like them to find a way to lose it. I don't believe there are 12 Democrats willing to fling a decided political advantage into the Potomac in exchange for a bag of magic beans.

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CBS News Cut a Telling Trump Quote from His Recent TV Interview

There is not a lot to say about the farcical interview that the president gave to Norah O'Donnell. Yes, there were more than a few softballs dished up. Yes, the president lied and blustered and then lied again. But the abiding impression conveyed by the session was the fact that it was a perfect view of the way CBS News is circling the drain.

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Our System of Checks and Balances Might Not Survive Another Year

On Wednesday, the court will hear arguments on the legitimacy of the president's unilaterally imposing tariffs under what he maintains is a legitimate use of a 1977 emergency-powers law. The president's "emergency" consists of a vague combination of his fantasies about an immigrant "invasion" and his interpretation of the drug war as an actual war.

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The Most Important Elections This Week....

The Democrats had a big night on the big-ticket items. Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill are the new governors of Virginia and New Jersey. California is now free to use for good the power of the gerrymander. And Zohran Mamdani, who sounds less like Trotsky than he does a combination of Fiorello La Guardia on policy and Al Smith on the politics of joy, confounded a lot of Very Serious People and is now mayor-elect of New York City.

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Is Threatening to Close U.S. Airspace (!!) Right Before Thanksgiving

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, whose rise would seem otherwise inexplicable were it not for the guy who put him in that job, has decided to flex and seems to have sprained his brain in the process.

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Friday, November 07, 2025

Dems Can't Cave Now

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