The Fifth Column

<p>-Welch enters his Charles Nelson Reilly era</p><p>-Laura Branigan, Happy Mondays, and songs you didn’t know were covers</p><p>-Puerto Rico’s revenge</p><p>-The cadres are closing in</p><p>-<a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSuwzawP5gI">Reihan Salam and Larry Flynt</a></p><p>-DAC hits the media circuit and refuses to answer the easiest question in politics</p><p>-Aber Kawas explains 9/11, in a Miss South Carolina sort of way</p><p>-Vaporware word clouds masquerading as policy</p><p>-No borders, no prisons, no TSA PreCheck… no joke</p><p>-Nationalizing airlines, abolishing comfort, and calling it justice</p><p>-Mamdani’s machine, the DSA bench, and the Democratic Party’s growing nervous breakdown</p><p>-Polymarket vs. the polls</p><p>-The internet is not a socialist invention, no matter how hard socialists try</p><p>-Senate Republicans discover Trump skepticism several years too late</p><p>-The SAVE Act tantrum and the incredible courage of people who already lost</p><p>-Tucker, Trump, Iran, inflation, and the limits of MAGA obedience</p><p>-Peter Thiel’s terrifying secret network of people talking at conferences</p><p>-Moynihan goes to Dialog and accidentally joins the Illuminati</p><p>-Kmele reports back from the alleged cabal</p><p>-Bohemian Grove was cooler because at least you had to break in</p><p><strong>Prefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifdom? </strong><strong>This episode premieres over on our YouTube channel at 12PM EST.</strong></p><p><p>The Fifth Column (A Podcast) is a listener/viewer supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></p><p><strong>Follow The Fifth Column</strong></p><p>YouTube: <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/9e5f160b-065d-42ce-92a4-edf21df804ae?j=eyJ1IjoiZTQzMWYifQ.dc-8vtNe6mnVPNyWzBj8PVjHOlHrTw5oo2hNegjrHnA">@wethefifth</a>Instagram: <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/49442cc1-448b-481d-a04c-a58e62415aa9?j=eyJ1IjoiZTQzMWYifQ.dc-8vtNe6mnVPNyWzBj8PVjHOlHrTw5oo2hNegjrHnA">@we.the.fifth</a>X: <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/e5c13b74-b540-4b93-a1ed-2ba2670462c1?j=eyJ1IjoiZTQzMWYifQ.dc-8vtNe6mnVPNyWzBj8PVjHOlHrTw5oo2hNegjrHnA">@wethefifth</a>TikTok: <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/971da500-8db0-4269-9aaf-7d7459adf93a?j=eyJ1IjoiZTQzMWYifQ.dc-8vtNe6mnVPNyWzBj8PVjHOlHrTw5oo2hNegjrHnA">@wethefifth</a>Facebook: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/@thefifthcolumn">@thefifthcolumn</a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.wethefifth.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">www.wethefifth.com/subscribe</a>

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_7">www.wethefifth.com</a><br/><br/><p>Michael A. Cohen is a columnist for MSNOW, a senior fellow at Tufts University’s Fletcher School, and co-director of its Afghanistan Assumptions Project. He also writes the <a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/truthandcons">Truth and Consequences</a> newsletter. He is not the former fixer of Donald Trump.</p><p>-The correct Michael Cohen stops by</p><p>-Mamdani flexes in the primaries and three congress critters cometh</p><p>-DAC gets worse the more…</p>

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_7">www.wethefifth.com</a><br/><br/><p>-Ethnicity as performance</p><p>-Manhattan politics with the president of the Manhattan Institute</p><p>-Dan Goldman orders coffee, receives moral instruction</p><p>-The many political personalities of Brad Lander</p><p>-Taxpayer-funded activism and the Office of Mass Engagement</p><p>-Mamdani and the borg beneath the campaign</p><p>-AOC, cadres, and disciplined political parties</p><p>-Gaza as the om…</p>

<p>-Kmele debuts his Sebastian Bach beach jeans</p><p>-The Iran deal is like the JCPOA, but a lot worse</p><p>-Lebanon sneaks into a U.S.-Iran deal</p><p>-Strait of Hormuz, 60-day promises, and negotiating with hostage-takers</p><p>-Why can’t the hawks ever learn?</p><p>-Ukraine brings the war home to Russia</p><p>-Drones, oil refineries, and the new cost of war</p><p>-Europe wakes up… sort of</p><p>-Meloni jabs her digits at Trump</p><p>-Polymarket checks the damage in Israeli politics</p><p>-as well as NY-13 and the rise of the DSA</p><p>-Hamilton Heights is Gaza now</p><p>-Mamdani’s little machine comes for Dan Goldman</p><p>-Gaza replaces BLM as the Democratic purity test</p><p>-The long-term problem with Mamdani economics</p><p>-Gavin Newsom vs. Trump’s DOJ</p><p>-The New York Times makes the Epstein suicide case</p><p>-Tucker, Trump, Loomer, and the inevitable reunion</p><p>-Baseball is gay in June</p><p><strong>Prefer to watch & chat live with other members of the Fifdom? </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/KvSXPqFdVc0"><strong>This episode premieres over on our YouTube channel at 12PM EST.</strong></a></p><p><p>The Fifth Column (A Podcast) is a viewer/listener supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.wethefifth.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">www.wethefifth.com/subscribe</a>

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit <a href="https://www.wethefifth.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_7">www.wethefifth.com</a><br/><br/><p><a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/12423170-batya-ungar-sargon">Batya Ungar-Sargon</a>, host of Batya! on NewsNation, returns!!! And with a new book, <em>The Jews and the Left</em>, about antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and why so much of the modern left has made Jews the enemy. </p><p>-JD Vance, Tucker, and the anti-Israel right</p><p>-The Iran deal, Rubio’s silence, and Trump’s trial balloon</p><p>-What Batya got wrong about the war</p><p>-Could Trump have sold the war better?</p>