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Hegseth: “Our colleges and universities have become anti-American DEI-worshipping, woke factories…We need students of Western civilization and the pillars of our republic…who understand the faith of Jerusalem, the philosophy of Athens, the power of Rome, and the freedom of Philadelphia circa 1776.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12m

Hegseth: “We’re calling every governor in the country…step up to the plate, and bring us their best sales pitch. If your state wants the honor of hosting 15-25,000 of America’s great troops, show us why and how you’re gonna do it.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22m

Republicans were all-in on Trump’s immigration crackdown. Now that ICE is wreaking havoc back home and their own races are getting tighter, some endangered incumbents are scrambling to distance themselves from the agenda they helped enable. lnk.thebulwark.com/4rFnxYt?utm_...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 52m

Ambassador David Perdue says Trump offered to sell American weapons to China. Trump claims he “never heard" about it. Lt. Gen. @markhertling.bsky.social on why neither answer is acceptable.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h

Hegseth: "The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h

Hegseth: "We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that: no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals — just warriors."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h

Trump: “We’re just mailing you about $60 billion worth of funds that we had leftover from a previous administration that did not manage their funds properly.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h

Trump: “By the end of this administration, so less than two and a half years. Sad. When I think about that I say, “That’s getting quick.’”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h

Trump, speaking at a Hispanic Heritage Month event: “I hate to do this to the Mexicans, we love the Mexicans, but the Gulf of Mexico is now the Gulf of America. Is that okay? There could be a few people in the room that don’t love that one, but what the hell.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h

Trump: “We have the highest level of individual wealth, meaning a person’s wealth, individually.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h

Trump introducing Marco Rubio: “Everyone has fallen in love with him…Watch what he does with Cuba.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h

Trump: “I’m the only president that donated his salary. They pay me $550,000 a year. In my first term I donated it...In my second term I donated it too…I donated my salary to the White House Preservation Fund.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h

Trump on Iran: “Very soon you’’ll see things happening…We have virtually total control of the Hormuz Strait.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h

Trump: “As a politician, you’re not allowed to talk about the beauty of a woman because it’s the immediate end of your political career.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h

Trump on Iraq: “Likewise, in Iran, we have been there for 6 months, with 18 killed, by the way one is too many. But they lost 4,500. We lost 18.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h

Trump on Iraq: “23 years, 4,500 dead soldiers, 31,000 badly injured…In comparison to our war with Venezuela, we lost 0 soldiers...and the war lasted for exactly 148 minutes. The fake news doesn’t talk about that.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h

Brian Fitzpatrick is blanketing the airwaves with attack ads against his Democratic challenger, Bob Harvie. But these ads rely on blog posts from Fitzpatrick's felon buddy and wedding guest. @brendanhartnett.bsky.social reacts to Politico's bombshell story on Fitzpatrick's campaign.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3h

Q: “Wherever you go you are the Attorney General…” Blanche: “That’s not what the law says…I’m allowed to go and support administrative priorities in my personal capacity.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3h

Q: “You have engaged in partisan activities, you have appeared at political rallies, and it has long been the norm that the sitting AG did not do that.” Blanche: “I’m not violating any rule or law…If Democrats want me to come and speak at their rally, they can just give me a call.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h

Blanche: “Certainly judges have exhibited what we view as a bias against the Department of Homeland Security.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h

Q: “President Trump in 2020 asked his Justice Department to say the election was fraudulent. Do you think that is the role of the Justice Department?” Blanche: “I think it’s our job to investigate and prosecute.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h

Blanche: “The DOJ filed a judicial misconduct complaint…against all but one district court judge...these judges talked to the media, or at least to the New York Times, about cases, some of which are ongoing, in a matter that the department views as a clear violation of their ethical duties.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h

@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 · 18h

@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 · 19h

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 · 20h

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 · 21h

@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 · 22h

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 · 23h

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 · 23h

@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.”