The #DSA Isn’t Confused. It’s Correcting.
Give them this much: they figured out what went wrong, and they fixed it. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Simple: yank all federal funding: “Republicans in House DOGE subcommittee excoriate a Smithsonian administrator” www.npr.org/2026/07/2…
The Parasite Was Always the Insurgency
A year ago the accusation was “hostile takeover.” Now it’s “parasite.” Same charge, new noun, same people making it. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Unlimited Shrimp For All
Damola Adamolekun for President, 2028, or the closest thing the Constitution will let him have. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Papers, Please
America is the only country on earth that thinks a membership check is a manhunt. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Who the Fuck Is “We,” Kemosabe?
On the collectivizing pronoun, borrowed crowds, and the difference between “I” and everyone you’ve drafted without asking open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Is America the Dad with the Timeout or the Belt?
On planks, whistles, Göring memes, and the gap between a threat and a follow-through open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Push The Button, Chucklehead
A completely remedial explanation of the No Agenda six-week cycle, with a Berlin origin story and a Lost joke you didn’t ask for open.substack.com/pub/chris…
The Window Was Closing
Why the 2022 invasion looks less like conquest and more like a country racing a deadline open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Nobody Put You In The Water
Why “debt slavery” is the wrong metaphor, and what scuba training teaches you about arguing with someone who’s already panicking open.substack.com/pub/chris…
The False Choice
Why “pick the Nazi or pick the socialist” is a trick question, and Americans were never on that menu open.substack.com/pub/chris…
The Balloon We Keep Inflating
We didn’t solve mortality. We just found more efficient ways to postpone the correction open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Super-surprised it’s taken so long
Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the F.B.I. would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents www.nytimes.com/2026/07/1…®i_id=68038104&segment_id=223365&user_id=43b188223c20b83024b329424895e8df
Homelander Trump
Why the mask came off, and why it was never a guardrail to begin with open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Homelander Trump
Why the mask came off, and why it was never a guardrail to begin with open.substack.com/pub/chris…
Democrats and liberals forget that the Right believes that it’s been under direct partisan lawfare attack since 2015. So this is all just reprisal. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/…
Propaganda vs propaganda!
What did some swing state voters think of President Trump’s primetime speech on elections? www.npr.org/2026/07/1…
Drip, then espresso snob, then Nespresso snob, then moka-pot Bustelo snob—full stations of the cross. Now: a heaping scoop of Nestlé instant whisked into whole milk, warmed slow in a small All-Clad pot, poured into a thermal mug, sipped all weekend morning. This is coffee at peace with itself.
The Gospel According to Zeus> What it actually meant to live under his law, before every retelling turned him into a tantrum with a lightning bolthttps://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/the-gospel-according-to-zeus?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1