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December 6, 2025
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December 6, 2025
On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of...
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December 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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December 5, 2025
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December 5, 2025
Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.
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December 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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🥳Saturday Bonus Cartoons
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🥳Saturday Bonus Cartoons
Today’s lineup features a double-shot of satire: cartoons skewering Pete Hegseth and the increasingly drowsy Donald Trump.
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December 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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December 4, 2025
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December 4, 2025
“What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence committee, said.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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December 3, 2025
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December 3, 2025
Republican Matt Van Epps won yesterday’s special election in Tennessee’s seventh congressional district, but Republicans aren’t celebrating triumphantly.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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😴“Nap Time” Edition
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😴“Nap Time” Edition
President Trump began Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting with his usual warm-up routine: calling Joe Biden “Sleepy,” assuring reporters he himself was “sharper than I was 25 years ago,” and insisting The New Y...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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December 2, 2025
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December 2, 2025
The news of last Friday, November 28, that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a Joint Special Operations commander overseeing an attack on a small vessel carrying 11 people on September 2 to “kill ev...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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December 1, 2025
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December 1, 2025
President Donald J.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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☠️“War Crimes” Edition
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☠️“War Crimes” Edition
It turns out there is one thing that can still shock the Trump administration: someone reminding the U.S.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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When ICE Came to Bethlehem
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When ICE Came to Bethlehem
The frigid air was thick was the smell of damp straw and animal dung.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Winner of this week’s Joseph Welch Award
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Winner of this week’s Joseph Welch Award
For standing up to tyranny. In honor of attorney Joseph Welch, who represented the U.S. Army in the Army-McCarthy Hearings of June 1954.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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November 30, 2025
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November 30, 2025
On Friday evening, the Wall Street Journal published an article about the Trump administration’s negotiations with Russia over Ukraine that illuminated the administration’s approach to the world at ho...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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November 29, 2025
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November 29, 2025
In the wake of yesterday’s report from Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Special Operations to kill the survivors of a September 2 stri...
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November 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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November 28, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... This administration gets more disgusting every day.
November 28, 2025
As Trump’s popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking, and Trump’s mental acuity slips, there is a frantic feel to the administration, as if Trump’s people are trying to ...
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November 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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🎊Saturday Bonus Cartoons
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🎊Saturday Bonus Cartoons
Move over, Thanksgiving!
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November 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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November 26, 2025
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November 26, 2025
Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday…but not for the reasons we generally remember.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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🦃“Giving Thanks” Edition
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🦃“Giving Thanks” Edition
Counterpoint is thankful for all our subscribers, paid and free alike.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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November 25, 2025
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November 25, 2025
Last week, a poll conducted for Global EV Alliance, made up of electric vehicle driver associations around the world, found that 52% of Americans would avoid buying a Tesla for political reasons.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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November 24, 2025
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November 24, 2025
U.S.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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✌️“Peace Plan” Edition
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✌️“Peace Plan” Edition
Trump’s new Ukraine “peace plan” landed with the global reaction you’d expect when Jared Kushner suddenly reappears holding a 28-point Word document: confusion, disbelief, and international facepalmin...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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How Did 6 Million People Vote In Burke County, Florida—When It Doesn't Exist?
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How Did 6 Million People Vote In Burke County, Florida—When It Doesn't Exist?
And Why Over 1.5 Million Votes for Harris Disappeared on Election Night
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November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Russian Unreality and American Weakness
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Russian Unreality and American Weakness
Notes from a bizarre moment of diplomatic history
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November 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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November 22, 2025
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November 22, 2025
On Tuesday, six Democratic lawmakers, themselves veterans of the U.S.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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November 21, 2025
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November 21, 2025
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people today.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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🙌Saturday Bonus Cartoons
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🙌Saturday Bonus Cartoons
Today’s lineup includes cartoons on Epstein, the Department of Education, Democratic infighting, the Supreme Court, and a few other gems!
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November 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM