Mike Pesca
@pescami
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Host @pescagist daily news analysis podcast. Daily Newsletter is The Gist List RT ≠ what's really transpiring in Russia Today
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Joined January 2008
Why did the Left lose the working class?. @JoanCWilliams joins me to explain the cultural misfires, union decline, and elite blind spots behind the breakdown—and how to fix it. Plus: Pixar’s downfall and the bean-mouth animation aesthetic nobody asked for. 🎧 Listen:.
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Before the tabloid circus, there was political promise. Leon Neyfakh on Jerry Springer’s political rise—and why charisma let him survive scandal. ▶️ Listen:
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Today on The Gist: He wanted to be governor. He became a punchline. Leon Neyfakh joins me to trace Jerry Springer’s journey from political promise to tabloid infamy—and why he never really let go of either. Plus: What year is America’s real birthday?. 🎧 Listen:.
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Double consciousness—seeing the world through your own eyes and how others see you—isn’t new for the marginalized. But @JoanCWilliams says it should be required for the privileged too. 👀 Watch:
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Diddy is facing serious prison time because of this guy. Wouldn't understand Freak-Offs. Eschewed Baby Oil.
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I am a muse.
A while ago @pescami admonished me for blaming everything that's going wrong in our politics on nihilism. My response came two months later, at a bar, two martinis in, in the form of a stream-of-consicousness rant clumsily typed on a phone. Here goes:
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I did a great Substack Live with @UnorthodoxMark. I'll link to it in the next tweet, bc X likes it when you make it fun and hard to access. We talked campus antisemitism, the Lemonheads, Fountains of Wayne, and Zohran Mamdani. Of course.
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Today on The Gist: A tax cut so big and beautiful, it guts Medicaid. Then @bethanymac12 joins me from Minnesota’s Iron Range, where the fight over U.S. Steel reveals what happens when union politics and working-class reality stop matching up. 🎧 Listen:
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Murkowski working it - “There is even a provision that would allow certain Alaskan whaling captains to deduct more of their expenses.”. Via @CatieEdmondson @sangerkatz
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I’m going LIVE with @UnorthodoxMark. We’ll get into the messy overlap of anti-Zionism & antisemitism—and what happens when a Glastonbury crowd cheers for the IDF on the BBC. Tuesday, July 1 at 6:30PM ET. Only on Substack. ➡️Join us:
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Can a masterpiece redeem its creator?. Daniel Kehlmann joins me to talk about genius, morality, and why we still admire the worst people—if their work is brilliant. 👀 Wacth the interview:
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G.W. Pabst escaped the Nazis—then returned by choice. Daniel Kehlmann joins to explore the moral compromises of art under dictatorship. Plus: Ben Wittes on why the laws of war are both essential and maddening. And: Republicans face a choice—oppose Trump, or stay in office. Not.
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