I Don’t Negotiate With White Supremacists. Cenk Uygur Does. And He Thinks You Should Too. On populism, dignity laundering, and why I will not be breaking bread with Tucker Carlson — no matter who asks.

I don’t negotiate with white supremacists. Cenk Uygur does. And he thinks you should too.

My latest on Tucker Carlson, outrage media, populist cosplay, and the slow collapse of progressive credibility: open.substack.com/pub/professo...

The Danger of Treating Far-Right Opportunists as New Allies Extremists like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly are bashing Trump. But they haven’t changed—the calculation did.

Far-right rhetoric is not just “another perspective” to platform and politely debate. Treating it that way is how dangerous ideas get normalized. This piece is about that pattern and why it matters. www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-danger...

The Martyr Nobody Asked for: Jaden Ivey and the Performance of Righteousness How a bench player with a bad knee became the right-wing’s favorite culture war prop in under 48 hours.

Jaden isn’t being persecuted—he’s performing it. This is what happens when accountability gets reframed as oppression and the audience plays along. A breakdown of victimhood as strategy in modern politics.

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California’s Jungle Primary Is About to Eat the Democratic Party Alive—Unless Democrats Finally Learn to Do the Math A crowded field, a broken political machine, and a simple equation California Democrats are still refusing to solve

California’s jungle primary is about to eat Democrats alive unless they finally learn to do the math. I wrote about Pelosi, Swalwell, Bianco, Hilton, and the broken machine now threatening the 4th-largest economy in the world. open.substack.com/pub/professo...

Budapest Didn't Get the Memo — and Neither Should You On Trump's endorsement graveyard, the danger of presidents who come back for revenge, and what Hungary just taught America about overwhelming the electorate

Trump is not serving a “second term.” He is serving a second non-consecutive term, and that distinction matters.

Hungary showed what overwhelming the electorate looks like. professorealy.substack.com/p/budapest-d...

Searchers, Not Researchers: A Free Preview of Political Illiteracy Search Isn’t Research—and Confusing the Two Is Quietly Wrecking American Democracy

“Do your own research” has become the battle cry of people who confuse searching with knowing. My latest piece is a free preview of Political Illiteracy—on protest votes, fake political enlightenment, and why feeling above the system is not the

I’m confused… is WWE trying to make people want to watch WrestleMania? #WWESmackdown

A Eulogy for the Nick Cannon That Could Have Been How insecurity, performance, and just enough knowledge turned a real career into a platform for recycled nonsense

Nick Cannon had the education, the platform, and the moment—and still chose performance over truth. This piece breaks down the insecurity, the misinformation, and the responsibility he refused to carry.

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Black MAGA and the Performance of Political Illiteracy On realignment, revisionist history, and the performance of Black MAGA bullshit

Nick Cannon citing 1865 like it’s breaking news. Amber Rose doing identity math in real time. Chilli “accidentally” donating to Trump—repeatedly.

This isn’t confusion. It’s performance.

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Zuckerberg’s Chickens Have Come Home to Roost On addiction, misinformation, and the man who built something beautiful — then monetized the ugliness out of it

Zuckerberg built something powerful.
Then he optimized it for addiction and profit.

Now the lawsuits are catching up.

The chickens have come home to roost.

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The Day the Music Died in MAGA World Trump’s attempt to dismiss the Epstein files as "boring" didn't just fail to distract the public— it's cost him some of his most loyal supporters.

Trump spent years training his followers to believe the Epstein story mattered. Then, when they kept asking about it, he acted irritated that they were still paying attention. That was the tell. This is about the moment the performance cracked. www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-day-th...

The Genie Is Already Out: AI, Power, and Who Gets Left Behind If you follow the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee with any regularity — and let’s be honest, most people have better things to do on a Tuesday — you were treated in October 2025...

The genie isn’t coming. It’s already here.

AI is already shaping jobs, education, surveillance, and power. The real fight isn’t about the future—it’s about who controls it right now and who gets left behind.

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The Genie Is Already Out: AI, Power, and Who Gets Left Behind AI is not coming for us someday. It is already here, already shaping power, and already deciding who gets left behind.

The genie isn’t coming. It’s already here.

AI is already shaping jobs, education, surveillance, and power. The real fight isn’t about the future—it’s about who controls it right now and who gets left behind.

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The Mea Culpa of His Mea Culpa: Michael Cohen and the Weight of What He Has Not Confessed A former fixer’s public redemption is colliding with the parts of his past that remorse never fully buried.

Michael Cohen told the truth about Trump.
That’s what makes this pivot so unsettling.

What if the mea culpa was real… but incomplete?

My latest: The Mea Culpa of His Mea Culpa

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RFK Jr. and the Credentialed Charlatans Who Broke American Public Life How grifters used real credentials to sell fear, flatter ignorance, and hollow out public trust

Just dropped a new piece on credentialed charlatans—people who use real degrees to sell nonsense and hollow out public trust.

From RFK Jr. to Dr. Phil to Dr. Oz, it’s a pattern.

The Key in the Door: RFK Jr. and the Rise of the Credentialed Charlatan
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Corporate Media Is about to Get So Much Worse A $110 billion merger between Paramount and WBD, an FCC built for leverage, and the slow corporate rewrite of what “news” is allowed to be.

Corporate media consolidation never improves journalism. It centralizes power, cuts reporting, and asks audiences to pay more for less.

My latest on the Paramount–WBD mess and what it means for CNN and the future of news.

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Corporate Media Is about to Get So Much Worse A $110 billion merger between Paramount and WBD, an FCC built for leverage, and the slow corporate rewrite of what “news” is allowed to be.

Corporate media consolidation never improves journalism — it centralizes power, cuts reporting, and asks audiences to pay more for less.

My latest at Lincoln Square looks at the Paramount–WBD merger, CNN’s identity crisis, and why the news ecosystem could get even worse from here.

Lindsey Graham Didn’t Lose His Mind. He Leased It to Trump. He diagnosed Trump correctly years ago. What followed was not confusion, but a fully conscious descent into sycophancy, spectacle, and war cheerleading.

Lindsey Graham once called Trump a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.”

He wasn’t wrong.

The strange part is what happened next.

My latest piece on Graham’s transformation — and why even parts of MAGA are starting to flinch.

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Innovation via the Stone Age: A Boardroom Guide How Trump’s SAVE Act push turns fake crises, old voting fears, and modern political panic into voter suppression.

Trump keeps inventing problems so he can sell voter suppression as the solution. My latest breaks down the fake DEI panic, the scam behind “woke,” and how the SAVE Act fits into America’s long war on voting.

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The Senators Who Decided the Constitution Was Optional or How the Senate Learned Absolutely Nothing From the Iraq War They handed a reckless president the keys to war, then acted surprised when the world got nervous.

The Senate just voted to treat the Constitution like a suggestion and hand Trump more freedom to start wars.

I name the senators, explain why Congress learned nothing from Iraq, and point out where voters can actually hold them accountable.

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Twenty-Seven Percent: Trump’s “Peace President” Era Lasted About Five Minutes—And MAGA’s Already Turning on Him How a war with Iran started underwater—and why the loudest blowback is coming from Trump’s own megaphones.

Trump sold himself as the “peace president.”
Now the U.S. is bombing Iran—and the war starts with 27% approval.

Even MAGA media is fracturing in public.

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The Lie Isn’t the Scandal. The Sloppiness Is. A cabinet that can’t keep its Iran story straight, a constitutional shortcut dressed up as strategy, and a “smart man” who decided repetition was easier than integrity.

Marco Rubio once warned us not to hand nuclear codes to an “erratic individual.”

Now he’s defending a war narrative that changes by the hour.

The lie isn’t the scandal. The sloppiness is.

New piece:
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The War We Were Told Would Never Happen Or: How a Convenient War Showed Up Right When the Epstein Files Got Interesting A midnight Truth Social announcement, three unreleased FBI summaries, and a country trained to stop asking questions the moment the bombs start falling.

Trump promised peace. Then launched a war at 2:30 a.m. right when the Epstein files got… inconvenient. Funny how timing works.
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Paramount Is Buying WBD — And CNN’s About to Get Even Worse A $110 billion merger, an FCC built for leverage, and the slow corporate rewrite of what “news” is allowed to be.

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Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, and the Media Consolidation Nobody Wants to Talk About (But Really Should) Why the fight over Warner Bros. Discovery isn’t just about content—it’s about who controls the media ecosystem when politics starts leaning on the scale.

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The Price of Admission: BAFTA, Tourette’s, and the Selective Empathy Problem The Price of Admission: Tourette’s Isn’t the Scandal — the Broadcast Choice Was

At the BAFTAs, a Tourette’s outburst sparked outrage.
But the real issue isn’t disability — it’s who institutions expect to absorb harm in the name of “understanding.”

The Price of Admission

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The Files That Won't Die — And the Prince Who Wishes He Could How Prince Andrew’s detention exposed the one scandal Donald Trump can’t outlast—and why the Epstein files keep tightening their grip on power, loyalty, and denial.

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Democrats Owe Kamala Harris an Apology — and Their Panic Class Still Won’t Pay Up Seven months later, the party still blames everyone except the donors and leaders who created the 107-day chaos — and now they want to toss her aside anyway.

Seven months later, I’m still defending Kamala Harris because Democratic elites keep blaming everyone except themselves. They’ll buy her donor list, use her coalition, then act like she’s finished. Democrats owe her an apology.

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The Supreme Court Finally Told Trump “No” — And the Crybabies Lost Their Minds A 6–3 ruling crushed Trump’s tariff power grab, triggered a full-blown extinction burst from his allies, and quietly delivered relief to farmers and small businesses who’ve been footing the bill.

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Zionism Isn’t a Moral Shield: Ana Kasparian, Tucker Carlson, and the Politics of Selective Accountability How “pragmatism” turns into dignity laundering when progressives start rehabilitating the people who dehumanize us.

Zionism isn’t an antisemitism vaccine. Treating it like one lets bad actors off the hook. I break down Ana Kasparian’s Tucker Carlson defense, the record she glossed over, and why progressives can critique Democrats without laundering the right.

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