Jen the Libertarian

Because nobody learned anything from the reaction to the Slate piece navel gazing about Mayor Pete's relative gayness and if he's gaying correctly I have to do a sequel to an episode I did back in March, discussing the TNR piece on Buttigieg and the Jezebel companion piece

Let's hope I don't ever have to do a part 3

Later than usual weekly roundup but I was waiting to see how a few stories panned out

I (briefly because ugh) the Social Dems / Pelosi / Trump drama, where we ended up on the Census citizenship question, and all the things that happened on the immigration front this week

This is about Zach Frost's ridiculous email newsletter rant but it's about more than that because it's not just Zach doing this nonsense and it's spilling over into IRL life and it's a bit frightening 

It was a busy news week despite being a holiday week - there's Andy Ngo, the Trump administration trying to sneak a question on to the Census, Justin Amash finally peaces out of the GOP, and I discuss the Q2 fundraising numbers for both the Dems and Trump / RNC

Here is my valiant attempt to try to debunk some of the things I hear / read about immigration and the asylum process, hopefully it will be of some help to the general discourse (yeah I know I'm not holding my breath either but I tried)

Here we are, discussing the first Democrat debate of the primary season. Yes it is June 2019. This is the world we live in now. 

So here are my thoughts after actually watching in real time both nights of the debates, I do keep this kinda high level because lol I'm not going to get granular on 4 hours of debate. I cannot overemphasize the 4 hours part. Yep. 

I sat down with Alex Merced (vice chair of LP National among other things) about publicly identifying as a libertarian, how to get more people to do that, and being a home for the newly politically homeless 

You find all of Alex's various projects here - https://main.whoisalexmerced.com

Another week that feels like a whole month has come and gone and while thankfully we're not starting a new war (yet) there's plenty to talk about, like Hawley's dumb internet censorship bill an what the hell just happened with Iran and ICE's week of bad news 

Art and I sit down again to discuss our somewhat opposing views on the merits of social media, Laura Loomer and Katie McHugh, and what if anything can be done to "fix" social media

Link to Art's piece on Loomer - https://spectator.us/tale-laura-loomer/

Link to Rosie Grey's piece on Katie McHugh - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/katie-mchugh 

Since I didn't do a weekly roundup last week this is a two week weekly roundup. Of course I have thoughts on the ridiculous Maza / Crowder fight, the Mexican tariffs that aren't (yet), and where Justin Amash is going to land now that he's officially left the HFC