Yesterday, on 8/14/26, Luigi Mangione stood up in a Manhattan federal courtroom and pled guilty to two federal stalking charges connected to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. He admitted, in plain language, that he shot Thompson and that Thompson died. No plea deal. No negotiated sentence range. Just a straight guilty plea inContinue reading “Luigi Mangione Just Pled Guilty, and I Already Know Where His Defense Is Headed”
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The Laugh Reacts: What Watching the Left Defend a Rich Kid Taught Me About Tribalism
I want to start with the moment that actually broke something open for me, which was not some grand political betrayal or a policy fight, it was small, almost embarrassingly small, it was a string of laugh react emojis under a comment I made pointing out that Luigi Mangione grew up wealthy, went to oneContinue reading “The Laugh Reacts: What Watching the Left Defend a Rich Kid Taught Me About Tribalism”