Adam Wisniewski

No Mamdani segment on “The Five” tells you all you need to know about how poorly that interview went for Fox.

I mean, we all know the team behind "The Jesse Watters Show" is dishonest at best and perhaps just stupid, but they had five days to figure out Jimmy's joke was about Trump not giving a shit about his "friend's" horrific assassination. Yet, in ignorance they persisted.

It’s totally anecdotal, but the turbos have convinced themselves that Charlie Kirk’s murder is going to inspire a wave to the right in the midterms, just as they said trying the Dear Leader would make him more popular. It did not and the litany of offensive Kirk videos will ensure it doesn’t happen

Amusing that Harris Faulkner has a "Taking Down the Temperature" banner behind her panel (and "taking" is an odd word to use instead of "turning"), and yet the guests say stuff like "All the bullets are flowing from left to right!" So, this is actually an "only one side is correct here" discussion.

So half of us are handwriting experts now?

Fantasy players are over the São Paolo game, I think.

The perfect encapsulation of the two realities we live in is Fox playing RFK Jr. saying “We need to see if SSRIs are a contributing factor to violent behavior” than concluding Tina Smith falsely claimed he blamed the Mpls shooting on antidepressants. He wasn’t declaring it but he clearly believes it

Why does Pam Bondi always call him "President" with no modifier? It sounds insane.

How many people have their arms raised to the heavens cursing the flow of their gas can?

Anyone else try to get the real Connections 🌈? Throw away a correct guess for one that has one of each category?

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Yale Law should revoke JD’s degree for his wholly unnecessary phony adoration of the Gateway Pundit.

Was someone’s thumb caressing him very strongly?

I’ve always scoffed at the “my guns are my last defense against a tyrannical government” argument. But considering what’s going on with anonymous agents grabbing and disappearing people, isn’t that exactly the type of activity that would activate these folks into taking some kind of action?

Looks like Murkowski’s gamble to have the House send it back with fixes paid off.

Fox’s Z-list pundits in LA forced to stay on the air indefinitely because the House is in disarray are all, like, “Why is it so hard to complete the preliminary vote to pass my tax cut? I could be having a nice late supper and a martini right now.”

You should take a victory lap on the pod this week @brianbeutler.bsky.social. I think the ICE gestapo tactics move independents while most MAGA leaners won’t believe the Medicaid cuts are real until it happens to them. They said as much during the first go-round.

But if you try sometimes you might find you get what you need.

Really wish The Regime had given Sean Spicer a one day contract so he could do a crowd size report. You got to give us the hits.

Steve Witkoff tomorrow.

Man, Twitter is down again?

It’s tough out there for Jake Tapper selling a book about squishy claims that Biden was an old and maybe too much of an old to run again while Trump is pardoning fraudsters left and right because they give him money.

Wouldn’t giving money to the “trade schools” essentially be giving tax dollars to mostly for-profit enterprises? And what exactly would we be helping fund at DeVry?

And the classic Fox 🙄 canard: “Dems hid it from you, but we covered it daily for 5 years! And will continue to do so if we can find a way to make it hurt them in ‘26 and ‘28!”

If Newark was happening under a Harris administration, wouldn’t Fox be at DEFCON 1 by now?

So many pundits have suddenly become experts in oncology. Must be due to AI.

It's astounding that Dr. Phil can declare it's wonderful that Trump is bringing faith back to the White House, when the previous occupant was a devout Catholic, and the current guy never goes to church or picks up a bible except to hold it upside down.

You can’t starve if you just eat the cherries, pork, and soybeans you can’t sell.

Hmm. Matt Yglesias mentioned referred to himself by name in today’s post. Must have forgotten to switch to his burner Substack.

Judge Jeanine was really on a heater on today's Das Five. It's like she watched yesterday's press event and then went into her hyperbarolo chamber until 4:59pm today.

The fact that apparently 98% of people here can’t figure this out doesn’t bode well for us.