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Ben Shapiro is a conservative provocateur. Ever since he was a teen-ager at U.C.L.A. writing op-eds for the Daily Bruin, he has shown a penchant for the rhetorical grenade. Women who have abortions are "baby killers." Western civilization is "superior" to other civilizations. "Israelis like to build," he tweeted in 2010. "Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage. This is not a difficult issue. #settlementsrock." Shapiro is now forty-two, and his rhetoric has mellowed only somewhat.

Six weeks after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk in September, University of Mississippi junior Lesley Lachman was standing in a campus parking lot near her sorority, Pi Beta Phi, scanning the calendar on her phone. She had interviews coming up with PBS, a local radio station, and Fox & Friends, before which she needed to redo her nails.

Tucker Carlson has long been a standard-bearer for far-right views, such as the racist conspiracy theory known as the "great replacement." He recently did a chatty interview with the white supremacist Nick Fuentes, an admirer of Hitler. They trace how Carlson's sense of personal resentment toward the establishment grew; how launching his own website radicalized his politics in the years before MAGA;

The violent federal occupation of Minneapolis - and the subsequent killings of two residents at the hands of immigration agents - began with a vlog. Nick Shirley, a roving 23-year-old with a smartphone and a taste for outrage, made a YouTube video with unfounded allegations of fraud at daycares operated by the local Somali American community. Like so much partisan media in history, he was trying to rile up the right-wing base. But he was also playing to another audience: the algorithm.

You can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that.

Shortly after the progressive candidate appeared on The View earlier this month, FCC Chair Brendan Carr confirmed that he's opening an investigation into the ABC show, telling Laura Ingraham, the days that these legacy media broadcasters get to decide what we can say, what we can think, who we can vote for are over. ABC hasn't publicly commented on the action.

I've teamed up with @KidRock to deliver two simple messages to the American people: GET ACTIVE + EAT REAL FOOD, declared Kennedy in an X post featuring the video, which begins with the two shirtless men Kennedy in jeans and Rock in shorts smiling for the camera together before the words, Secretary Kennedy and Kid Rock's ROCK OUT WORK OUT appear on screen.

Senate Republicans need to go to the mat for this and they need to get this across the finish line, otherwise there's going to be a lot of Republican voters, or would-be Republican voters, that are gonna feel like, Why would we keep voting for Republicans? Why would we want to give them a majority if when we do, they do nothing.'

Business leaders who believe staying quiet about the Trump administration will protect their companies are making a dangerous miscalculation, says Reid Hoffman. The LinkedIn cofounder and tech investor said in an episode of the "Rapid Response" podcast published Tuesday that he rejects the idea that executives can simply wait out political turbulence. "The theory that if you just keep your mouth shut, the storm will blow over and it won't be a problem - you should be disabused of that theory now," Hoffman said.