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Minnesota Rorschach Test
Plus: Why are bald eagles fighting to the death, how many bodies were found in the Buffalo Bayou & and what is scromiting?
 • Mike Pesca
1:00:58
Mike and Chris Cillizza talk Bari Weiss (and more!)
A long conversation with Chris Cillizza about Trump's short-term thinking.
 • Mike Pesca and Chris Cillizza
The Donroe Doctrine
Plus: Trump’s hints to oil executives, left-wing extremism in Germany & the ghost intern haunting the halls of Congress.
 • Mike Pesca
Mike Pesca x Chris Cillizza LIVE
I’m going live with Chris Cillizza on Tuesday, Jan. 6 at 2:30 p.m. ET.
 • Mike Pesca and Chris Cillizza
America’s FAFO Era
Plus: Tim Walz abandons bid for a third term, fines for shoplifting victims & Burundi is running out of land.
 • Mike Pesca
Slander, Dump, Drool
Equally libelous and licentious, if 'Vanderpump Rules' Were an Actual Social Science Experiment It Would Be Shut Down
 • Mike Pesca
1:27:57
Michael² on Bari, Trump & ‘60 Minutes’
A Substack live between Cohen and Pesca gets heated over Bari Weiss and '60 Minutes'
 • Mike Pesca and Michael A. Cohen
No One's Nice To Bari Weiss
What the Outrage Over 60 Minutes Gets Wrong
 • Mike Pesca
How the Tariffs (Nearly) Stole Christmas
Plus: My take on the Bari Weiss ‘60 Minutes’ decision, Tyra Banks’ “hot” ice cream & why are Democrats getting gussied up?
 • Mike Pesca
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