The Fifth Column

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The guys put America’s most famous political forecaster, Nate Silver, to work… separating real electoral shifts from political noise, and confronting the uncomfortable possibility that everyone is just guessing.
-The House leaned Democratic, the Senate was a toss-up…then came Labor Day
-The first thing Nate Silver does every morning
-$4.50 gas, AI data centers, and T…

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Yemisi Egbewole is here and we will figure out how to pronounce her name….next time
-A Democratic consultant defending Fox News out of the gate
-Was Mike Lindell ever really a crackhead?
-Ladies and gentlemen, the new White House press secretary, Katie Zachariah
-Did we fuck Scott Jennings?
-How does a WH press secretary actually prepare?
-Kimberly Guilfoyle’s $100,000 AmEx problem
-James Talarico’s imaginary stay in an Ohio psych ward
-the art of standing out among 435 members of Congress
-Abdul El-Sayed vs Mike Rogers in Michigan
-Jon Ossoff and the case for normal Democrats
-JD Vance’s interesting definition of socialism
-Midterm Madness on Zachariah, Alaska, and Michigan
-Trump gets it right on data centers. Until he doesn’t.
-Brian Kilmeade stands up for Ukraine against Rachel Compost Duffy
-Come watch us live in Connecticut!
-What exactly is Third Way?
-Yemisi’s heresies on crime and climate
-Immigration and the Jamaican-Nigerian experience
-Kmele and the Blacks of Connecticut
-Where is the Democratic Party headed, and how much does the DSA matter?
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“There are no ordinary lives and everyone has a story”
-Sam Roberts’ father takes him to see the Rosenbergs’ funeral
-Fifty years in journalism and an unexpected career writing obituaries
-Anna Nicole Smith and the brutality of British obituaries
-Charlie Rangel’s complicated legacy
-Who deserves a New York Times obituary?
-Writing Rudy Giuliani’s obituary b…

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-all the bad words are here
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-Trump in Nebraska….always a good sign for Republicans
-Anal sex, picnics, breakfast in bed, lobster
-Europe is melting! (still)
-who will replace Macron?
-France’s immigration problem
-Sweden discovers gun crime
-America, the assimilation machine
-meritocracy is fucking fantastic
-questions are bad when ethnicities are in front of them
-Vivek, the big guy and the worst swing in baseball
-Midterm Madness where candidate quality counts
-if you had to arrest one person at the New York Times…
-MAGA-curious CBS boss and The Daily Beast
-Theo Von discovers socialism
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Marshall spent 25 years covering oil and gas at Raymond James before retiring this week. He joins the guys to explain what’s actually driving prices higher, why diesel matters more than most people realize, and how war, refinery outages, and shrinking reserves have left the global energy market with very little room for error.
Also, is Marshall the real