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Community comes before strategy. love this from @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/community-...

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NEW -- Trump can pardon whomever he wants. And he seems to be doing so. But he can't pardon this MAGA cause célèbre and it's driving MAGA nuts www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-can-...

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NEW: A far-right political activist with a history of anti-gay rhetoric and promoting conspiracy theories about Barack Obama was fired from a senior leadership role at the Kennedy Center after CNN asked about his past comments. www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/p...

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“People lose sight of the fact that politics is by and large a candidate-driven enterprise. But it is a Democratic article of faith that enough expertise and enough dollars can solve any problem, up to and including authenticity" -- James Carville www.thebulwark.com/p/vampire-co...

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The vampire consultant class if back www.thebulwark.com/p/vampire-co...

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Elon Isn’t Tony Stark. He’s Michael Scott. www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-musk-...

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It's a fallacy that Republicans are not going after Obamacare. Their bill would make a number of technical but very substantial changes. Millions could lose coverage. @citizencohn.bsky.social unpacks it www.thebulwark.com/p/they-are-i...

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The anti-vaxxers think the healthy food evangelists are kinda soft and missing the real targets. RFK Jr.'s top ally has quit his post so that he can sue the government and criticize RFK. The MAHA movement is in disarray. That and some hilarious/insane James O'Keffe stuff in this newsletter

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NEW: Congressman Glenn Ivey went to El Salvador over the weekend to meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He spoke with @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social about why and what happened when he was rebuffed. www.thebulwark.com/p/democratic...

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NEW -- Welcome to the Substack election. Dems are already flocking to the platform. It's where a lot of 2028 is going to be waged. www.thebulwark.com/p/substack-e...

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

not sure if they're reading this feed. but if you're an international student at harvard please drop me a line. i'm at asteinindc.09 on signal. dms open too

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NEW -- Major changes are in store for Democrats. Donors saying they won't fund candidates who don't release comprehensive medicals. Biden operatives likely to be blacklisted. Primary schedule very much open to being changed www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

submitted 9 days ago • 64 comments

NEW -- We're far past the point of the actual policy mattering to the big beautiful bill. But the Medicaid work requirements so central to the deal have, in fact, been tried in states before. And it's failed miserably, writes www.thebulwark.com/p/the-gops-b...

submitted 10 days ago • 41 comments

What we know as of now: Trump DOJ has arrested an adversarial judge, brought charges against a Democratic member of Congress, and now is investigating a Democratic candidate for mayor of NYC.

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"Instead of being given... trust from the conspiracists, Bongino is now being treated as a 'deep state traitor' for telling them that the wild theories he used to preach... aren’t true." @willsommer.bsky.social on conspiracy-theory arsonists who are trying—and failing—to put out fires they started.

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What happens when the conspiracy theorists gain power and confront the fact that the conspiracies aren't real? A portrait of governance in Trump 2.0 www.thebulwark.com/p/real-reaso...

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NEW -- Trump fired her for not agreeing to give Mel Gibson back his guns. The country's ex pardon attorney explains the ordeal and why she thinks others aren't speaking out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HGZ...

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NEW -- Veterans of the '06 cycle are starting to see parallels with '26. And the Qatari airline gift story is one reason why. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-dems-a...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Ex Rep. Tom Malinowski raises the prospect that the Qatar airline was not a gift TO Trump but the end product of shakedown BY Trump www.youtube.com/watch?si=eqh...

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It's wildly unappreciated how insanely rushed this GOP megabill is. They're making major health care policy changes through private negotiations over two weekend days with no hearings, expert analysis, or public insight. www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-tak...

submitted 12 days ago • 37 comments

really grateful to be able to publish this piece on Biden, written by a man who knows him, loves him, worked for him, but wants to see things go differently now www.thebulwark.com/p/joe-biden-...

submitted 15 days ago • 30 comments

Going live in SEVEN minutes with @citizencohn.bsky.social for an emergency chat on the major changes that Republicans are now aggressively pushing on Medicaid and health care. hop on, join us YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeTF... or Substack open.substack.com/live-stream/...

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Years from now it will be very trying to hear the chorus of "if only there had been signs for where things were going" www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-whit...

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Fascinating case from Bill here that Trump wants his corrupt acts to be done in public www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-want...

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Pete Buttigieg's return to Iowa was obviously, first and foremost, about Pete Buttigieg. But it also spotlighted a party at an interesting, opportunity-filled crossroads. www.thebulwark.com/p/pete-butti...

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NEW: At the same time the Trump administration is tossing hundreds of students out of the country over anti-semitic tweets it has actively welcomed in an Afrikaner refugee who said Jews are "untrustworthy and dangerous" www.thebulwark.com/p/an-afrikan...

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Hi. if you work at a university and are privvy to how much money has been cut from research budgets by the federal government—ideally if you have internal documents to share—we have a tipline for you thebulwark.com/tips

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NEW: Internal University of Arizona emails we obtained show that the college has lost $60.3 million in federal research funds as of May 2. Meanwhile, the European Commission is putting together a $500m package to lure US scientists www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-has-a...

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Bernie Sanders' office has put out a report this morning on Trump's NIH cuts: "Trump officials effectively cut $2.7 billion in [NIH] funding in the first three months of 2025 – including a 31 percent cut to cancer research through March, compared to the same timeframe last year."

submitted 18 days ago • 20 comments

Can Dems appeal to moderates without adopting moderate policies? www.thebulwark.com/p/hard-calls...

submitted 19 days ago • 31 comments

I'm biased. But there is not a more essential reporter/writer for the major health care/medicaid debate underway than @citizencohn.bsky.social . Today's newsletter is a must read. www.thebulwark.com/p/3-prebutta...

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So the Daily Caller promised a bunch of MAGA fans a blow out 100 day party, featuring Trump at the Kennedy center. Then they moved it to Arlington, no VIPS came, and then asked attendees to bring their own booze. What a grift! www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-world...

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"There is no more striking instance of degeneracy than Trump’s mass deportation policy. But as painful as the sight of this moral rot is the recognition that we voted for it." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-shame-...

submitted 23 days ago • 14 comments

This was a tremendously fun story to read. But i also think it's kinda important. having some sort of fluency and credibility in online political culture and discourse really matters for a campaign. https://www.thebulwark.coam/p/jb-pritzker-aka-cococnutbigboy-meme-genghis-khan

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

let them eat dolls www.thebulwark.com/p/let-them-e...

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hahahaha, the guys had some fun with the thumbnail for this video: www.thebulwark.com/p/did-whitme...

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NEW: She Called a 5-Year-Old the N-Word.... ... And the online right rallied to her side. www.thebulwark.com/p/she-called...

submitted 25 days ago • 27 comments

Trying to book someone knowledgable to talk about what the hell is going on at Newark and at the FAA in general. Who would be a good guest to talk about it on the youtubes?

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NEW: The law firms that capitulated to Trump are privately telling congressional Dems they're under no obligation to take on pro-bono clients the president demands, per letters we obtained. It's unclear if Trump reads the deal the same way. The WH didn't comment. www.thebulwark.com/p/brian-kemp...

submitted 25 days ago • 13 comments

Trump’s ideas often begin as bizarre off-the-cuff thoughts and are instantly turned into policy by those around him. ICYMI, @samsteindc.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social discuss the president's latest brain dump:

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Call out for help. Are you seeing company's listing "tariff surcharges" on their reciepts? I've begun spotting a few. But am curious how widespread this is. Send a screenshot if you're comfortable. DMs are open. Or just in the replies.

submitted 30 days ago • 15 comments

oh my

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This from @jvl.bsky.social is essential www.thebulwark.com/p/america-al...

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An incredibly helpful outline of the MASSIVE holes Republicans have to fill if they want to complete their big beautiful bill, via the incomparable @citizencohn.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/five-big-q...

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

The VA is trying to sniff out anti-Christian bias within the ranks, even setting up a hotline for employees to rat out colleagues: [email protected] www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-in-r...

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NEW: "Trump's Trade War Lies Explained in 10 Minutes and 39 Seconds" by @saletan.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-tra...

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NEW -- Trump and his allies are trying to rewrite the history of COVID, in a way that not only erases their own role in the pandemic’s harms but seems likely to leave America more vulnerable to the next one. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-turn...

submitted 38 days ago • 12 comments

NEW -- Trump 2.0 was supposed to be more professionalized than Trump 1.0. But, so far, it's been defined by repeated fuck ups of immense consequence, in ways that make the Trump 1.0 missteps look minor from me, stepping in for @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/the-art-of...

submitted 39 days ago • 21 comments