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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h
"You can’t assume an American version of Medicare for All would look like the systems in France, Germany, or Taiwan. And by the same token, you can’t assume it’d look like Canada’s."
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Rogers Tries to Make El-Sayed’s Health Care Plan Scary
But how many of the Michigan Republican’s claims hold up?
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3h
So many of Trump’s open abuses of power over the last two years are easy to comprehend and have played out right in the open. It would simply be a matter of congressional Democrats picking their favorites.
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Impeach Him Again
There’s never been a better time.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h
"The movie *almost* works based solely on the power and charisma and boundless energy of Cruise. For a movie about the need to embrace renewable energy, there’s some grim pleasure to be taken from the fact that Cruise himself is a self-charging dynamo."
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‘Digger’ Review
No one can be told what ‘Digger’ is. You have to experience it for yourself.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h
There’s still a thriving QAnon subculture online that the administration needs to activate before the midterms. This is maybe one way:
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Bizarro White House Vid Has QAnon Buzzing
While Republicans cringed at the champagne-soaked spectacle, conspiracy theorists scoured it for a message.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social challenge Scott Jennings’s claim that he had a lengthy foreign-policy conversation with Mitch McConnell: “How many words would you say in total Senator McConnell issued during your 20-minute conversation? Was it more than three?”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h
Despite the energy Vance has spent cultivating the MAGA New Right, it’s not clear that Americans actually vote for ideologues.
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The Man Who Would Inherit MAGA
JD Vance has spent years sucking up to the “five families” of the New Right. But does the vice president actually believe anything?
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h
"The third ad replays his promise, delivered throughout 2024, that he would 'expel the warmongers from our government.'" Hmm. He doesn't mean to vote his party out, does he?
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Congratulations, You’re a Trump Campaign Donor
Your tax dollars are funding his TV ads. And the White House says you should be proud to pay.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6h
@timmiller.bsky.social: “Jared Kushner should be up there the first day you have the gavel. And then after that, I'd start subpoenaing every company these guys have a contract with.” @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: “The kids are where I think everybody needs to start looking.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6h
"If this all sounds optimistic, it shouldn’t. When regimes fall—even wicked regimes—chaos and instability follow. Nowhere is it written that whatever follows Trumpism must be more liberal."
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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 · 6h
"Each time he mentioned higher rates of abortion following the overturning of Roe, attendees shook their heads in disbelief....Tony Perkins placed the primary blame for this situation on former President Joe Biden rather than Trump."
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An Evangelical Kingmaker Is Lost in the Age of Trump
Four years after Dobbs, evangelical leaders are confronting a Republican party increasingly uninterested in abortion.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7h
Trump has spent months trying to reshape the midterms through redistricting, mail voting, voter databases, and claims of noncitizen voting. @amandacarpenter.bsky.social tells @timmiller.bsky.social how most of the big efforts have flopped so far: “Their plans are failing spectacularly.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7h
Dems who lived through past bloodbaths see something similar happening—in reverse. ICYMI Lauren Egan:
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Could a Wave THIS Big Actually Happen?
Dems who lived through past bloodbaths see something similar happening—in reverse.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7h
Maybe impeachment is like an old engine that needs a few false starts before it roars to life
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Impeach Him Again
There’s never been a better time.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h
Trump’s evangelical allies thought overturning Roe would cement their influence. But some of their leaders are discovering just how little sway they still have. @cheetah.bsky.social went inside a major evangelical summit to see why cracks are starting to show. lnk.thebulwark.com/4hSCSS6?utm_...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h
“Imagine if Adam McKay and David Sirota decided that they needed to be even more literal in their messaging and slapped on a patina of pretentiousness, and you have some idea of Digger’s modus operandi.”
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‘Digger’ Review
No one can be told what ‘Digger’ is. You have to experience it for yourself.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h
Let them eat QAke
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Bizarro White House Vid Has QAnon Buzzing
While Republicans cringed at the champagne-soaked spectacle, conspiracy theorists scoured it for a message.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h
@crampell.bsky.social on the Canadian "insult" that set Trump off: "They don't want to be annexed by the United States. They don't want to become the fifty-first state. I know, huge insult."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h
"A long time ago in what feels like a galaxy far, far away, I used to compare JD Vance to Anakin Skywalker....it’s fair to say of Vance: He’s more machine now than man."
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The Man Who Would Inherit MAGA
JD Vance has spent years sucking up to the “five families” of the New Right. But does the vice president actually believe anything?
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h
"In the Biden administration, 'We can do this' meant overcoming a pandemic. In the Trump administration, it means the president can do anything he wants."
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Congratulations, You’re a Trump Campaign Donor
Your tax dollars are funding his TV ads. And the White House says you should be proud to pay.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h
Russia’s shadow war against the West is escalating. At the same time, figures with ties to Moscow keep turning up around Trump’s inner circle. Evan Gershkovich tells @timmiller.bsky.social why it’s a counterintelligence nightmare.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h
Vance on lnk.thebulwark.com/46Wmaev: "The one thing I said is, 'Don't let it be a clusterfuck like lnk.thebulwark.com/46Wmaev.' Sorry, hopefully no kids in the back. Or, excuse me, like lnk.thebulwark.com/3TXW7k8. lnk.thebulwark.com/46Wmaev has got to be the good version of that."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h
El-Sayed is performing better with 2024 Trump voters than other Democratic Senate candidates in swing states. So @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social did a focus group in Michigan, with 2024 Trump voters who disapprove of Trump’s job performance, to look into that:
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Why Abdul El-Sayed Is Overperforming With Trump Voters
He might have a lucky (political) horseshoe.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h
"'This administration knows exactly what they’re doing, and their main goal is to end legal immigration to the United States.'"
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Trump to Foreign Students: F*ck Off
Trump promised green cards for “the best and brightest”—but he’s making legal immigration a gauntlet of red tape, fees, and threats.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h
@eggerdc.bsky.social reacts to Democrats who are against impeaching Trump for a third time: “I'm leaning more and more on the opposite side of this thing. I think the president should, in fact, face yet another one of these suckers, whether or not it works.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h
"Was this a tone-deaf post about living it up while the economy tanks, or the most audacious QAnon dog whistle of all time?" A question these guys force us to ask:
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Bizarro White House Vid Has QAnon Buzzing
While Republicans cringed at the champagne-soaked spectacle, conspiracy theorists scoured it for a message.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h
Q: "Cattle groups are warning that ICE crackdowns in Kansas…are bringing up prices. Any comment?" Trump: "ICE has done a fantastic job."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h
Trump on Kim Jong Un: "He's a friend of mine…I like him. I get in a lot of heat when I say that. People say, 'That's terrible.' He does have a nuclear capacity, pretty large…As long as I'm around he's going to be fine. You know why? Because he respects me and he likes me."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h
Q: "Americans think the federal government is not doing enough in terms of AI. What is your message to them?" Trump: "Our companies are dominating the world. They're dominating China. They're dominating everybody. We want to keep it that way."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h
"At some point it’s going to dawn on him that the type of guys he admires most—Putin, Xi, Kim Jong-un—don’t get to retire from the lifestyle. I genuinely don’t know what he’ll do."
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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 · 12h
"Everyone from Big Oil executives to his most die-hard rallygoers has expressed doubt about whether the president’s priorities are in line with the country’s needs." Evangelical Christians, too. The latest edition of Press Pass from @cheetah.bsky.social:
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An Evangelical Kingmaker Is Lost in the Age of Trump
Four years after Dobbs, evangelical leaders are confronting a Republican party increasingly uninterested in abortion.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h
"It’s possible Vance really is very shallow. Or perhaps he really is amoral. Or maybe he believes it all. It’s hard to know which option is worse."
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The Man Who Would Inherit MAGA
JD Vance has spent years sucking up to the “five families” of the New Right. But does the vice president actually believe anything?
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h
Sarah Matthews reacts to Speaker Mike Johnson saying Republicans would do “exactly what we have been doing already” if they keep the House.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h
Videos that promote Trump can’t be accused of meddling in the midterms, the White House argues, because "President Trump is not on the ballot." That's funny, because Trump has explicitly urged his supporters to "pretend I’m on the ballot."
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Congratulations, You’re a Trump Campaign Donor
Your tax dollars are funding his TV ads. And the White House says you should be proud to pay.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h
Q: "Is it the belief of everybody that you're meeting with today that no regulation of AI is necessary?" Trump: "There's a belief that there should be self-regulation."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h
Trump on AI regulation: "We're going to be signing a document today at about 5:00 renaming artificial intelligence…And we're going to be renaming it 'super intelligence.'"
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h
@samsteindc.bsky.social on Trump’s unkept promises of tariff rebates for Americans: "When you never actually do it, it's still there to promise for something else. So he's figured out a loophole in the budget system.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h
Crucially, all of Trump's more recent impeachment-worthy conduct has taken place against the backdrop of worsening economic conditions. This is perhaps the biggest difference between today and 2019.
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Impeach Him Again
There’s never been a better time.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h
Dr. Oz: “Russell Brand was backstage hugging the Secretary of Agriculture.” Brand: “She initiated that contact, I should make clear.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h
Q: "What is your message to farmers, some of whom may be struggling right now as they see the war continue and the tariffs continue?" Rollins: "For Iran to have a nuclear weapon is a catastrophic idea for the world and that had to be stopped…Most of our farmers understand it."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h
"In general, the level of support for the Haitian community has been nothing like the mobilization in Minnesota. There are brave and generous volunteers working to help, but they seem to be the minority." Yes, that is bad.
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The Hard Lessons of Springfield
There are plenty of people happy about what is happening to the Haitian community.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h
This explanation—that Dan Scavino was putting out a signal to the QAnon crowd—is perhaps the one semi-convincing reason he would put out this post.
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Bizarro White House Vid Has QAnon Buzzing
While Republicans cringed at the champagne-soaked spectacle, conspiracy theorists scoured it for a message.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h
"Vance has made himself the great hope of what we might think of as the interlinked 'five families' of the New Right."
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The Man Who Would Inherit MAGA
JD Vance has spent years sucking up to the “five families” of the New Right. But does the vice president actually believe anything?
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h
Darline Graham: “I think you were just trying to bully my brother and other allies of President Trump. You caused my brother and a lot of other senators a lot of stress, and that makes me sick.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h
Sen. Booker: “This is an 8-year attempt to lie to the American people, and this is their closing argument, everybody. Right before an election, this is what they want to spend their time on, perpetrating a lie. This committee’s Republicans are more concerned with Trump than the truth.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h
"Walk with me through the burning wreckage of Trump’s Republican party." Not so dark a Triad from @jvl.bsky.social:
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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 · 15h
Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury for denying he attended a Feb. 3, 2024 Atlanta Hawks vs. Golden State Warriors game. Turns out, Jack Smith was actually at an Iowa Hawkeyes game in Maryland, watching Caitlin Clark play. @samsteindc.bsky.social breaks down Schmitt's humiliation:
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h
Ted Cruz: “Do you have any regrets?” Jack Smith: “I regret that the people I worked with have been unfairly fired and vilified for doing their job.” Ted Cruz: “Congratulations, because you have succeeded…[in] weaponizing the DOJ and the federal government to go after your political opponents.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h
Ted Cruz: “Is it a crime to be a Republican?” Jack Smith: “Absolutely not.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h
"It’s a matryoshka doll of nuttiness, I guess is what I’m saying: insanity layered on top of inanity, albeit imbued with real life via a sort of gleefully manic verve by Tom Cruise." @sonnybunch.bsky.social reviews "Digger":
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‘Digger’ Review
No one can be told what ‘Digger’ is. You have to experience it for yourself.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h
"The first video shows him standing in front of the words 'PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.' That picture was taken last October, four months before he launched the current war in Iran." Mission not accomplished.
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Congratulations, You’re a Trump Campaign Donor
Your tax dollars are funding his TV ads. And the White House says you should be proud to pay.
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