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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 31m
Trump’s response to the friction over Canadian trade policy has been to tariff, bully, and ban his way to prosperity. To which American dairy farmers are now saying: *Please, stop helping.* The latest edition of Receipts from @crampell.bsky.social:
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Who Cut The Cheese? Trump Did.
The dairy industry was supposed to be the one sector that benefited from Trump’s trade war.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h
"These TV spots do not push a specific government program or policy. They’re just paeans to Trump himself. I asked every senator I could find what they thought about the ads. Some of them were very blunt."
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GOP Senators Blast Trump’s Gov’t-Funded Ads
Lawmakers see another abuse of presidential power. They’re struggling to find a remedy.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7h
"The bond market can be broadly understood as a device that measures risk....The market sees more risk than at any time since shortly after 9/11. Sit with that for a minute."
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Oil Risk Premiums Are BACK! 🤯
The money is scared.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h
Vance: "If you look at the Epstein files which were released…what is the one obvious thing? Donald Trump didn't just throw him out of his club, he turned Jeffrey Epstein in to to the local police for being a creep."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h
Vance: "There is so much that I'm proud of. Absolutely, we need to get more done. Which is why you need to give us two more years to get great results for the American people."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h
Trump brings aide Margo Martin on stage and gives her a kiss on the cheek: “I’m not allowed to say she’s beautiful…Her mom and dad are here…I see why she’s good looking. I believe in the resource theory. Fast horses, right?”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h
"Voters seem to have noticed that the Trump administration doesn’t agree with them." General, and specific:
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Trump + AI = Blue Tsunami
It doesn’t take super intelligence to realize the GOP is screwed.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h
Trump: "I'm here in Oklahoma and I'm really here because I love you people…We're worried about Michigan. We're worried about Texas. We're worried about a few states."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h
Trump on Dennis Rodman and Enes Kanter: "I'm giving them a full pardon that they can go into women's sports anytime they want."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h
The American military should experiment relentlessly with better ways of identifying future commanders. A new, untested test is not the way to do it.
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The Pentagon Has a New Test for Top Officers. It’s Not Clear Why.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s rationale was less than convincing.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h
Trump: "Pretend I'm running, please. Just pretend."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h
"Senators from both parties...described familiar feelings of impotence in response to the president’s latest flouting of laws and norms."
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GOP Senators Blast Trump’s Gov’t-Funded Ads
Lawmakers see another abuse of presidential power. They’re struggling to find a remedy.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h
Trump in Oklahoma: "We're going to send Ken Paxton to the U.S. Senate. He is, whether you love him or don't love him, he is a little controversial."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h
"There are plenty of other signs that this is a Daily Wire production. An overweight liberal in a mobility scooter 'BELLOWS as only one with morbid obesity can.' Posing as an innocent laborer, the MS-13 member begs other characters to protect him." lnk.thebulwark.com/4rHwK2l
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The Daily Wire Is Quietly Shooting a Pro-ICE Movie. We Got the Script.
Locals aren’t happy about the film’s take on the ICE shooting of Renée Good.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h
Trump in Oklahoma: "You know why I'm here?…I felt I had an obligation. All these races, I think they're going to be — you gotta get out and you gotta vote for your great future senator, future governor…They're going to win."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h
Trump: "We do so well in Oklahoma…They say, 'Why are you going to Oklahoma?' You know why? Because I won Oklahoma all three times."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h
Rep. Monica De La Cruz is "'trying to do damage control, given the district is over 80 percent Hispanic and [the Rio Grande Valley] is the worst-hit region in Texas with the ICE raids, without angering Trump.'" Easier said than done.
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Skittish Republicans Discover That ICE Is Bad—for Their Campaigns
Some endangered incumbents are trying to outrun the electoral consequences of Trump’s immigration agenda.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h
Watch the full episode of Bulwark Takes:
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Trump Crashes Out: You Haven't Asked "One F**king Positive Question"
Catherine Rampell and Andrew Egger break down Donald Trump’s bizarre new interview with Time Magazine, from his claims about having the “highest” IQ to his ever-changing story about how long the war in Iran was supposed to last.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h
@crampell.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social react to Trump boasting that he has "the highest of IQs" while suggesting his own supposedly superior brain is the safeguard America needs against the risks of AI. "This is beyond parody."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h
"No committee or operative is particularly keen to telegraph their election-closing campaign tactics. Ultimately, we will have to wait until the post-election FEC reports to find out just how uncomfortable Democrats really are with such a strategy."
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How Some TOTAL Unknowns Could F*ck Up Republicans’ Midterms
Libertarian candidates are polling surprisingly well. In close races, a few points could be all Democrats need.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h
"When you’re paying $34 per barrel just to move the product and the oil costs at least $10 per barrel to get out of the ground, well, work it out, mate. Prices suddenly have a much higher floor. And we ain’t never going back."
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Oil Risk Premiums Are BACK! 🤯
The money is scared.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h
Trump is using your tax dollars to bankroll ads about purging the “deep state” and going after his enemies. @cheetah.bsky.social reports that even Republicans in Congress think the campaign-style spots could be illegal, but they have little idea how to stop them. lnk.thebulwark.com/4AJCyN8?utm_...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h
Watch the full episode of The Bulwark Daily:
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Josh Barro and Jonathan V. Last: The Patriotic Cowboys Wrecking Our Economy
Finally, some accountability in Washington: Sen.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h
@timmiller.bsky.social and Josh Barro on the collapse of Trump’s economic brand as voters sour on the economy he promised to fix. “The shine finally came off because he finally did something that was very clearly his fault that made the economy worse in a way that everybody feels.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h
Trump said his trade war with Canada would help American dairy. Instead, it’s hammering U.S. cheesemakers and wiping out export business. @crampell.bsky.social reports on the farmers now begging Trump to stop “helping.” lnk.thebulwark.com/4rGhJxQ?utm_...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h
You miss all the offices you don't run for. Some long-shot Democratic candidates with a chance in November, as the political environment only gets worse for Trump's party:
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More Democrats Who Can Win Red America
Tim Miller has more candidates to watch and support.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h
"President Donald Trump yesterday reiterated his threat to 'blow up' Iran, telling reporters that 'we have to make that decision: We blow them up or make a deal.'" Yeah, *again.*
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Trump + AI = Blue Tsunami
It doesn’t take super intelligence to realize the GOP is screwed.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h
Subscribe on Spotify lnk.thebulwark.com/4ysuVJe and Apple Podcasts: lnk.thebulwark.com/4AKXCmo
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Psycho Politics with George Conway
Podcast · Psycho Politics with George Conway · American politics has gone a little psycho, and George Conway is here to make sense of it. Joined by friends, colleagues, and expert guests, George digs into the legal battles, political fights, elections, personalities, and power struggles shaping American politics, from Trump and the courts to primaries, the future of democracy, and whatever fresh absurdity is consuming Washington.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h
American politics has gone a little psycho. George Conway is here to make sense of it. Psycho Politics with @gtconway.bsky.social, a new podcast from The Bulwark. First episode drops Monday, October 12.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h
"'When you talk about people who are on Social Security and nothing else, they start making choices about how often they eat just so they can stay kind of warm and survive the winter.'"
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Dems’ Newest Campaign Line: Trump’s Gonna Freeze You to Death
High fuel prices are squeezing truckers and farmers—and threatening to make winter painfully expensive.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h
Watch @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social's full conversation with @janecoaston.bsky.social:
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Trump Gets Rich While Americans Struggle to Pay the Bills (w/ Sarah Longwell)
The midterms are next month, and President Donald Trump's approval rating on issues like the economy is slipping. But are Democrats capitalizing on it? Is th...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "I think Gavin Newsom's performance art in trying to sort of be like Trump played well for a minute on Twitter but didn't have staying power because people like holding the mirror up, but they don't wanna be that, actually. They want to be better."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h
"I got my hands on a draft of the script, and I’ll say this: I don’t think this movie will be any more of a hit than Shapiro’s last effort."
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The Daily Wire Is Quietly Shooting a Pro-ICE Movie. We Got the Script.
Locals aren’t happy about the film’s take on the ICE shooting of Renée Good.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h
Watch the full episode of Bulwark Takes with @mpolymer1.bsky.social and @michaeldweiss.bsky.social:
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A Suspected Terror Plot Just Took a Much More Alarming Turn
Former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos and national security reporter Michael Weiss take on the attempted hijacking of a flight bound for Tel Aviv, a suspected plot targeting an air base in Britain, and the troubling signs that Iran may be taking its fight abroad.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h
Former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos analyzes the potential terrorist attack that occurred on a flight over the Middle East: “If it's a lone wolf terrorist attack…that is the hardest type of attack to thwart because there's no cell to penetrate.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h
Marshall is not the only Republican suddenly beginning to see ICE’s aggressive enforcement and lawlessness as politically toxic, something Americans have been signaling to pollsters since last summer. But they don't know quite what to do about it.
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Skittish Republicans Discover That ICE Is Bad—for Their Campaigns
Some endangered incumbents are trying to outrun the electoral consequences of Trump’s immigration agenda.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h
Trump: "We took over Venezuela…We took over tremendous wealth."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h
Trump: "President Xi, we get along great. He's a great, great gentleman…He's a real leader. I always say, he's central casting. But we get along great."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h
Trump: "The only thing we're doing badly at is public relations. In other words, we're doing a phenomenal job, but maybe by a combination of things, maybe we're doing a bad job in selling it."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h
Trump: "We have to have a fair and free media, which we don't have. You have some very good reporters there, but you have some very bad ones. You have some evil, sicko people."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h
"The big question is not just how much of the vote Libertarian candidates will win in these contests. It’s also whether Democratic groups will spend money in the final weeks of the election in support of those Libertarian candidates."
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How Some TOTAL Unknowns Could F*ck Up Republicans’ Midterms
Libertarian candidates are polling surprisingly well. In close races, a few points could be all Democrats need.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h
Watch the full episode of The Bulwark Daily:
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Josh Barro and Jonathan V. Last: The Patriotic Cowboys Wrecking Our Economy
Finally, some accountability in Washington: Sen.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h
@timmiller.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social torch Pete Hegseth for obsessing over “fatties, “weirdos,” and testosterone while failing at the actual job of leading the Defense Department. "This whole thing is preposterous. It is just performative nonsense."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16h
There’s a possibility for a more productive conversation here—one that could even lead to some meaningful, if modest, bipartisan legislation. That would require going in a very different direction than the administration seems to be contemplating.
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How to Mess Up Childcare. Brought to You by Trump.
A proposal the administration is preparing comes just as left and right were finding some common ground.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16h
"The film, with the working title Pawn Shop, centers on an Antifa siege of a Minneapolis pawn shop amid anti-ICE unrest." It's probably not any better than it sounds.
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The Daily Wire Is Quietly Shooting a Pro-ICE Movie. We Got the Script.
Locals aren’t happy about the film’s take on the ICE shooting of Renée Good.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h
"The market is learning that Donald Trump’s wars can remain irrational longer than they can remain solvent. Markets have decided that they no longer see an off-ramp for Trump—so they are now pricing in the war risk."
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Oil Risk Premiums Are BACK! 🤯
The money is scared.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h
Trump is using taxpayer dollars to fund campaign ads—and even Republican senators are calling foul. @cheetah.bsky.social reports on GOP lawmakers blasting the scheme while admitting they have little idea how to stop it. lnk.thebulwark.com/4AJCyN8?utm_...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h
Watch the full episode of Bulwark Takes with Marc Polymeropoulos and @michaeldweiss.bsky.social:
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A Suspected Terror Plot Just Took a Much More Alarming Turn
Former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos and national security reporter Michael Weiss take on the attempted hijacking of a flight bound for Tel Aviv, a suspected plot targeting an air base in Britain, and the troubling signs that Iran may be taking its fight abroad.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h
@mpolymer1.bsky.social says the FBI's counterterrorism agents are very good at keeping us safe. The problem is who's giving the orders: "You have a leadership which is more worried about taking these FBI agents and chasing migrants at Home Depot."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18h
Roger Marshall is suddenly stuck in a close election fight during a cycle that could be brutal for Republicans, in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in nearly a century. And he knows the administration isn't helping his case.
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Skittish Republicans Discover That ICE Is Bad—for Their Campaigns
Some endangered incumbents are trying to outrun the electoral consequences of Trump’s immigration agenda.
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