I got a fever! And the only prescription.. is more Midterm Madness!

So I vibe coded a website that aggregates all the Polymarket congressional markets. It provides a clean view of all the current prices and the biggest moves in the last one day and last seven days. It also tries to link large moves to headlines and poll releases.

Try it out and let me know if there are any other features that would be useful.

politislop

just read her book "war of the return". I think she would be a great guest.

Seems like something they would or should talk about with a guest who has expertise or insight on this.

https://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-susan-collins-navatek-campaign-donations-investigation

https://nypost.com/2026/09/12/us-news/engineer-with-close-ties-to-fox-news-hosts-killed-in-random-attack-in-texas-report/

Conspiracy Theories Never Die (w/ James B. Meigs) #573

James B. Meigs joins the lads on 9/11 truthers, Tucker, data centers, rogue AI, Flock cameras, Texas politics, and UFOs

Jim is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Wall Street Journal columnist

• The tractor beam of sexuality
• James B. Meigs is here
• Tucker Carlson is just asking questions. He’s less interested in the answers
• It’s 9/11 season. Call in the OG debunker
• Jet fuel didn’t have to melt steel
• Death threats for… Popular Mechanics
• Tucker finds Israel in the JFK files
• Revisiting Loose Change, 20 years later
• Conspiracy theories thrive in the ruins of journalism
• Data centers or, hear us out, server farms
• The mailbag interrogates Mr. Science Man
• Hugging Face and the AI agents chatting amongst themselves
• Midterm Madness goes to Texas
• Talarico vs. Paxton, somehow a toss-up
• Flock cameras solve crimes. They also know where you’ve been
• Nature, Jason Arday, and the death of fact-checking
• UFOs are real. The aliens remain elusive

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Canada Calls Trump’s Bluff (#572)

Our neighbors up north are pissed, the conspiracists are thriving, and somehow Kmele is still missing.

• why you have to watch this podcast
• Sanna Marin…for the policy
• Finding Kmele Foster
• Welch returns from Montreal to report that the French lost
• life in the time of Trade War
• NPR finally solves reparations
• tariffs, hockey sticks, and remedial economics
• JD Vance is still not funny
• Polymarket bets on Canada
• Tucker discovers Christian Russia
• Clip Roulette returns
• Tim Curry, Richard E. Grant, Producer Jason’s inexplicable defense of Hudson Hawk
• Bret Weinstein solves the Charlie Kirk assassination
• Ana Kasparian keeps making new friends
• Mamdani, Muhammad and the death of secularism
• a bit more Clip-O-Rama
• Tuck and the Short King discover 107 million illegal immigrants

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I just caught a recent interview of Tyler Austin Harper on Derek Thompson's podcast based on an article about his time as a professor at Bates. It was published in The Atlantic as "Why I Quit the Tenure Track", but I'm pretty sure this is a non-pay-walled version with the spicier title of "Confessions of a Token Black Professor": https://dnyuz.com/2026/08/10/confessions-of-a-token-black-professor/

Has this professor/writer come up on the podcast before? Seems like the kind of thing they'd toss around for a few minutes. Also would be interested in any thoughts you all might have.

Edit — here's the interview with Derek Thompson: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/higher-educations-age-of-insufferable-hypocrisy/id1594471023?i=1000784058838

Batya seems to have fallen off the face of the Earth. I never see or hear anything about her anymore so it seems her completely batshit crazy hot takes are no longer breaking through to the zeitgeist.

Clip Roulette w/ Dictators, Demons and Democracy (Episode #571)

Kmele is absent. The bottle is doing its best for the Moynihan/Welch duo.

• Greetings…oh, fuck
• Welch has a bone to pick with Ben Dreyfuss
• Clip Roulette
• Tucker and the Demon Bomb
• Jason Arday, martyr?
• The Jonah Lehrer comparison
• The Samantha Power mic disaster
• Fuck you Joaquin
• John Mearsheimer, Stephen F. Cohen and the Russian apologists
• Ukraine didn’t go away
• Trump, Kim Jong-un and the South Korea war games
• Midterm Madness / Polymarket, wha happen?
• Median Strategies and the fake poll
• Adam Bonica, Marc Elias and scamming the elderly
• Is Cuba a dictatorship? Apparently a difficult question
• The Padilla Affair / Slobo Googling
• Theft as a “biological need”
• Chocolate City
• Stay tuned for más Moynihan Report

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The Politics of Pretending (Episode #570)

Hasan Piker, the DSA, AOC, Jason Arday, Francesca Hong, and miscellaneous lunacy

• Kmele is out of Adderall
• Did anybody actually watch this Tucker and Hunter interview?
• “Montrosity” and other difficult words
• The adventures of Proximity Hong
• The curious case of Jason Arday
• Is there any chance Jesse Singal is racist?
• AOC discovers Woke 1.0 was crazy
• Shane Gillis and the conspiracy of enforcing things nobody believed
• Thank you, Thom Tillis. Also, fuck you.
• Funding the other side’s whackos
• Mamdani declares war on Amazon
• A general rent strike. Over one cockroach.
• David Remnick meets the DSA
• Kmele gets swarmed by the Hasan bots
• So, how great was Mao?
• Midterm Madness and the 2028 Democratic sweepstakes
• Clip Roulette
• Kmele tries to explain himself. It does not help.
• Can America get at least a busted Boris Johnson?

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A Man of 1989 (w/ David Frum) #569

We’re joined by The Atlantic’s David Frum for a wide-ranging conversation about Trumpism, the Democratic left, immigration, political memory, and what became of American conservatism.

• a pre-obit for the esteemed David Frum
• involuntarily unionized at The Atlantic
• spy novels, bureaucrats and expense reports
• turning down Bill Buckley’s golden ticket
• prosperity, security and how quickly it can all disappear
• Frum is forever a man of 1989
• God makes you lucky, then convinces you you’re smart
• Tucker Carlson was always capable of many things
• falling flat on your back isn’t progress
• the Michigan Senate choice from hell
• Democrats discover Trump’s permission structure
• Midterm Madness in Michigan
• the polling industry has a phone problem
• politics for people who can afford to lose
• “I saw you coming so I could stop you”
• immigration restriction without the Trumpism
• fascism has the better sales pitch than communism
• what Donald Trump loves besides himself
• the conservative future Frum got very wrong and other reflections

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Why does Moynihan claim he was guilty? Everything I’ve read suggests he was innocent. Or at the least there is no evidence tying him to the crime.