Margaret Thatcher – "free" market extremist, authoritarian jingoist, and BFF to any number of right-wing military dictators – is dead. She's a Reagan-level hero to conservatives, and I once admired her myself in my stupider youth, but in reality she was Echidne of the Snakes: The egocentric "feminism" of Margaret Thatcher.

Messaging Matters: The disconnectedness of Florida's Bentley-driving 1%ers.

Human Voices: The 100-mile Fourth Amendment violations of the DHS.

The Reaction (@mjwstickings). I'll be here all week.

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