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@eggerdc.bsky.social reflects on his experience going to Pierre Damas Bel’s funeral: “ It was hard to be there. It was good to be there…I mean, it's real. It's human beings who are impacted by all this.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h

"A failing, 80-year-old sociopath, surrounded by loyalists and bitter-enders, facing the end of his rule, while the world burns. The period of maximum danger may still lie ahead of us."

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The Forces of Trumpism Are in Disarray

This is what it looks like when a movement begins to come apart.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h

@eggerdc.bsky.social reacts to Trump reciting “The Snake,” an anti-immigrant poem that he dedicated to Springfield: “ This guy makes people worse…When they get into that sort of MAGA mob mentality, a lot of that nuance drops away, and they're just kinda ready to rock with ‘The Snake.’"

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11h

Andrew Egger very interesting this morning on the Trump rally he attended last night in Vandalia, Ohio. On the same day as the funeral service for Pierre Damas Bel (which Andrews also attended), Trump celebrated what ICE was doing in nearby Springfield. Awful. www.youtube.com/live/jPod9BI...

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A Trump Rally, A Funeral and a Revealing Day in Ohio | Bulwark on Sunday

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A Trump Rally, A Funeral and a Revealing Day in Ohio | Bulwark on Sunday

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13h

In new NYT/Siena poll of AK, IA, KS, OH, & TX, all won by Trump by > 10% in 2024, Trump approve-disapprove: AK: 41%-56% (June was 47%-49%) IA: 40%-58% (June 44%-54%) KS: 40%-55% (no poll in June) OH: 38%-59% (June 44%-54%) TX: 40%-58% (June 44%-52%) Blue wave city. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Toplines: September 2026 Times/Siena Poll of the Likely Electorate in Iowa

Results of a New York Times/Siena poll conducted among 606 voters from Sept. 22 to Oct. 1, 2026.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13h

Trump has invited Putin to attend the G20 meeting in FL. "Putin directs a war of conquest, filled with atrocities. Democratic governments often have to deal with monsters such as Putin. But they do not have to invite these monsters to international gatherings." open.substack.com/pub/thenextm...

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Putin Our Invitee

On President Trump’s invitation to the Russian dictator to attend the next G20.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14h

Live, at 10:00 am Sunday ET: Andrew Egger joins me to report from Ohio. Andrew attended the tragic funeral of 20-year-old Haitian immigrant Pierre Damas Bel in Springfield, and then Donald Trump’s unhinged rally in nearby Vandalia. Quite a day. www.youtube.com/live/jPod9BI...

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A Trump Rally, A Funeral and a Revealing Day in Ohio | Bulwark on Sunday

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/10/2026

Donald Trump posted Tom Cotton's private phone number because the Arkansas senator is blocking his push for permanent daylight saving time. @saletan.bsky.social and @cheetah.bsky.social break down this strange fight.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The MAGA Monoculture will lose. A new day is coming for the American Multiculture.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“OpenAI promotes autonomy, although the company was recently forced to cancel the launch of GPT-6.1 Astra due to the model's tendency to lie and unpredictable behavior during tests…OpenAI's agents attacked more than 100 organizations during trials.” What could go wrong? gagadget.com/en/728430-op...

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OpenAI Unveils Dots: AI Agents with Human-Like Reasoning and 4000 Plugins for Personalized Help

OpenAI launched dots — autonomous AI agents based on the GPT-6 Astra model, which operate on personal cloud servers and support over 4000 plugins.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tom Homan: “I think September is going to be the highest deportations of any month in the history of ICE. We are removing and arresting more people right now than we ever have in the history of this nation. Wait until you see what we do next year.” ABOLISH ICE. www.thebulwark.com/p/doral-flor...

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Trump Turned His Beloved Golf Hub Into a Ghost Town

In Doral, there are empty tables, shuttered businesses, and families struggling to survive after their loved ones have been thrown in detention.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Phillips O'Brien: "So even if the Trump administration gets an acceptable peace deal, it’ll be in a worse strategic position than it was in February. And states in the area are making their own calculations that the US is not going to be as reliable." youtu.be/BQ7pkSM8zKg?...

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Phillips O'Brien on a Dynamic Middle East After the Iran War

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We talked to Truckers who are turning on Trump because of the war in Iran. "It's going to put us out of business for sure."

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this is by far the best "I quit my AI job over safety concerns" essay yet because it is the first one that is able to talk about safety concerns in practical terms and that understands "safety" as a topic with extensive literature in analogous fields www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Two changes are urgently needed. First: AI companies need to rely more on the safety expertise that already exists in other fields. And second, before we create systems significantly more capable than the ones we have today, we need new science to ensure that more capable models (and their successors) will make safe choices when we aren’t looking.

Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear-power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster. Right now, AI companies don’t know how—but other people do. In a nuclear-power plant, the technical systems and rules people follow are set up so that, if equipment breaks or someone pushes the wrong button, we still won’t risk a meltdown. OpenAI and other labs are growing and deploying frontier AI with far less redundancy and rigor than this, even though the harm from an irreversible loss of control would be much greater than the harm from any single meltdown. Even short of a full loss of control, we could see autonomous swarms of AI agents that act without human permission. Imagine “rogue” agents that work like teams of hackers (for example, holding hospital computer systems for ransom) but never need to sleep.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“For Rufo integration of nonwhite immigrants isn’t the desired outcome at all. Successful integration is a problem. So while he dresses up his objections in the language of “cultural cohesion” and “high trust” societies, those are protective camouflage…” www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

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Editor's Notes: "The Indian Question" Shows That No One Is Safe From White Nationalism

That is the entire point.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

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We Have No Supreme Court

The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026

"The vision of life liberalism offers is the one that most expresses who we truly are. Reaction demands submission and promises bliss; millenarianism exalts suffering and promises righteousness. Both flee from the terror of freedom." www.liberalcurrents.com/remember-who...

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Remember Who You Are, Liberal

Chapter 20 (pp. 162–168) from The Reconstruction Papers.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Trump’s second term has been a protracted demolition of his image as a populist every bit as thorough as the destruction of the East Wing.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-popu...

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Trump’s Populist Image Is Dead

That’s the price of corruption.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A suggestion for the Bulwark Pope: If the Chicago White Sox make the World Series, how could His Holiness not go to their first home game on Monday, Oct. 26. And the day before, on Sunday, he could celebrate Mass in Springfield, OH, to show support for the persecuted Haitians.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What I'd enjoy, as an inveterate underdog-rooter: The wild card playoff survivors defeat the #1 and #2 seeds in all four MLB division series. Could happen, no? Call it a wild card wave.

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Mlb Fan Chicago Cubs

ALT: Mlb Fan Chicago Cubs

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"The President of the United States said he felt bad for the men accused of committing horrific crimes against a woman who reported being sexually assaulted. He said nothing about the courage it took for her to come forward or the trauma she has endured." open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...

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The President's decline is in a freefall

At 3:54 pm Donald Trump emerged from the White House with freshly colored hair and makeup, as Marine One's engine roared in the background. He walked directly over to the waiting press, threw his hand...

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“The protests against the Arc de Trumph…have folks there every day. They have brought a bunch of rocking chairs down to Memorial Circle, and if any equipment shows up to actually begin work on the arch, they plan to block the path with the rockers.” hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/the-case-o...

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The Case of the Missing Basketball Tickets (satire)

Friday “Fun,” 2 October 2026

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Notice how they also brag about the number of naturalizations having plummeted; a sign of how much they detest legal immigration. /also, the removals number is largely fake. The actual number is 650-700k.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m sorry, what’s that acronym again?

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Phillips O'Brien on a Dynamic Middle East After the Iran War

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In which I explain (away) the incriminating photo of me with...President Nixon.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 02/10/2026

Bill Kristol: "Trump's approval has gone from 50%...to 37%. That's a huge drop, and it's gonna take his party down with him. And the only question is how deep it goes."

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Shorter Trump administration: Data centers good. Homes bad.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A couple of additional points. 1. Trump is intrigued by the Insurrection Act, and loyalists are urging him to invoke it. He might try to. Are we ready? 2. Hegseth is a man of overweening ambition. He wants to be president. He'll try, by means fair or foul. www.thebulwark.com/p/not-to-ala...

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Not To Alarm You, But Trump’s Brain Is Melted

And Hegseth’s neo-fascism is out in the open.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Fascism is both a permanent temptation, and, as history teaches and current events show, a powerful one. As history also teaches, it can be defeated. But first one has to recognize it for what it is. Trump and Hegseth have helped us in this task." www.thebulwark.com/p/not-to-ala...

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Not To Alarm You, But Trump’s Brain Is Melted

And Hegseth’s neo-fascism is out in the open.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The remarks of both Trump and Hegseth are appalling. They’re alarming. But they’re also instructive. In the Trump interview and the Hegseth speech, these enemies of liberty and law, of decency and democracy, reveal what they believe, and make clear who they are." www.thebulwark.com/p/not-to-ala...

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Not To Alarm You, But Trump’s Brain Is Melted

And Hegseth’s neo-fascism is out in the open.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This morning’s newsletter: Not to alarm you...but things are pretty damn rotten in the executive branch of our federal government, as Ur-Idiocy joins hands with Ur-Fascism. www.thebulwark.com/p/not-to-ala...

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Not To Alarm You, But Trump’s Brain Is Melted

And Hegseth’s neo-fascism is out in the open.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's revealing that Vance calls Epstein "a creep." Really, that's all he was? It's revealing that Trump dismisses a question about the Cornell scandal, saying he's sure Cornell will do what's right. Being a Trumpist means not taking sexual assault--not taking rape--seriously.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"It was nice of Trump to throw the glitzy lunch for the AI guys and sign off on their no-safeguards policy. It should make it even easier for Dems to say that Trump and his party are bought and paid for by big AI. The tsunami forecast could turn out to be right." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-ai-b...

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Trump + AI = Blue Tsunami

It doesn’t take super intelligence to realize the GOP is screwed.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Don’t know too much about Koko, but am pretty sure the comparison is unfair to him.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Truckers of the world, unite! Against Trump’s failed and foolish war…

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Trump + AI = Blue Tsunami

It doesn’t take super intelligence to realize the GOP is screwed.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tom Joscelyn: "There are some weeks in our history that matter more than others. This is the week the president of the U.S. went in front of the U.N. and said that any concerns about AI are a hoax. It's scary. Maybe others can step up." youtu.be/gtZv6V35DQE?...

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Trump Is Gambling With America’s AI Future w/Bill Kristol and Tom Joscleyn

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Let’s remember that Sen. Eric Schmitt is a white nationalist who employs other white nationalists while spreading white nationalist/racist conspiracy theories. missouriindependent.com/2025/09/15/m... White supremacists never fail to demonstrate how they’re inferior:

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/09/2026

"It was bitterly ironic to see Darline Graham demand that Smith, of all people, should feel ashamed....in today’s GOP, there is no shame."

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Jack Smith and the Republican Smear Squad

If holding Trump accountable makes you an enemy of the GOP, the party has told you everything you need to know.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Watching Hegseth, I think of Eco's 'Ur-Fascism': "Since war and heroism are difficult, the Ur-Fascist transfers his will to power to sexual matters. This is the origin of machismo (which implies both disdain for women and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits)." www.nybooks.com/articles/199...

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Ur-Fascism | Umberto Eco

I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contra...

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NEW. Phillips O'Brien explains the problem isn't merely Trump and Hegseth. "The military didn’t prepare for this war. So the military bears [some] responsibility for failures...And I don’t know now whether they are capable of speaking truth to power." youtu.be/-pp7dTdIB1U?...

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Phillips O'Brien on Ukraine, Iran, and What's Next

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