# Mike Pesca

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## [Resets Refunds and Renaissance Fairs of Togetherness](https://mikepesca.substack.com/p/resets-refunds-and-renaissance-fairs)

_2026-08-04 · Mike Pesca_

Guidance on my Substack infrequency and what to do about a less Gisty world.

## [Gisty Headlines With Little to No Context](https://mikepesca.substack.com/p/gisty-headlines-with-little-to-no)

_2026-07-21 · Mike Pesca_

It's unfortunate that we stopped doing The Gist List when the news gives you headlines like this.

## [Is That BS? Can Wind Actually Burn Your Skin?](https://mikepesca.substack.com/p/is-that-bs-can-wind-actually-burn)

_2026-07-10 · Sadie Dingfelder_

After the ski boom of the 1960s left millions of Americans with embarrassing goggle tans, scientists built tiny wind tunnels for mice.

## [Qatar Force One](https://mikepesca.substack.com/p/trump-qatar-air-force-one-theodore-roosevelt-library)

_2026-07-02 · Mike Pesca_

Plus: Taylor Swift: botanist and colonist, California’s World Cup vote count, birthright citizenship’s Plan B & the vibecession gets a vibe check.

## [Live with Chris Cillizza + Mike Pesca!](https://mikepesca.substack.com/p/live-with-chris-cillizza-mike-pesca)

_2026-07-02 · Mike Pesca_

A recording from Mike Pesca and Chris Cillizza's live video

[Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/204737111/5db599e52b5a9c2fe4909cee680e1793.mp3)

## [Have YOU Seen John Adams?](https://mikepesca.substack.com/p/philadelphia-reenactors-america-250-john-adams)

_2026-06-29 · Mike Pesca_

Plus: True crime in Angel’s Landing, bodies stacking up in Paris’ mortuaries & Hong Kong’s patriotism seminar.

## [The Cluster Caucus](https://mikepesca.substack.com/p/trump-senate-republicans-contentious-lunch-save-act)

_2026-06-26 · Mike Pesca_

Plus: Mexican soccer fans chant “homophobic slur” during Pride Month, Trump is mad as a murder hornet & the French drowning epidemic.

## [The Miracle](https://mikepesca.substack.com/p/ai-additive-miracle-loaves-fishes)

_2026-06-24 · Mike Pesca_

AI might look more like a miracle than a tool—one we condemn in public yet devour in private.

## [The Oozing Purulence of the Wound That Was Brexit](https://mikepesca.substack.com/p/mamdani-nyc-primary-socialist-realignment)

_2026-06-22 · Mike Pesca_

Plus: Iran’s $300 billion carrot, Polymarket is flying a little too close to the sun & UK\_Prime-Minister\_V7\_FINAL\_4REALTHISTIME.exe.

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## [The Art of the Iran Deal](https://mikepesca.substack.com/p/trump-iran-deal-concessions)

_2026-06-18 · Mike Pesca_

Plus: D.C.’s patriotic reflecting pool turns Qaddafi green, California’s high-speed rail discovers server farms & Trump’s Cabinet is guzzling down sauerkraut.