361 w/ Ilya Shapiro "Free Speech, Free San Francisco, Free Weigel"

* Kmele is flying* Dude has four parents. Not one isn’t a terrorist* The decline and fall of San Francisco, Part I * Fiona Dourif’s piece on how California fails the mentally ill* A sexy retweet* Ilya Shapiro quits Georgetown. He stops by to tell us why* Ilya apologized. Should he have?* He mentioned it, we’ll link to it: the paperback edition of Supreme Disorder * Shapiro: Cato abandoned me* Dave Weigel gets suspended because of his colleague and “close friend,” Sammy “the Bull” Sonmez,” rats him out* Another editors note re: the TikTok lady* A St. Louis Cardinal tweeted bad words when he was 14* Everything is dumb* CNN retools, but all the tools still work there* If you ask the question “should I have kids on account of climate change,” you probably shouldn’t have kids* A primetime January 6th hearing, produced by Busby Berkeley* Breaking: Chesa the Chavista needs a new job* The decline and fall of San Francisco, Part II This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe