Mike’s Blog Roundup

Richard Gadd Visits the Criterion Closet
By Steve in Manhattan — May 22, 2026

First Draft - slush funds are OKIYAR!

Dispatches From a Collapsing State - Trump, China, and moving beyond this wretched order;

Jack Hopkins Now - if Democrats get crushed in the midterms …

The Field Negro - the death of voting rights;

The Grim Historian - how the Goldwater Rule broke the 25th Amendment.

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