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It's almost cute, honestly.

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Walt Nauta, the guy who faced felony charges for helping Trump hide classified documents until Trump’s DOJ made it go away…

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"Every day is stupid now, but not all stupid days are created equal. Some days, when the stupidity feels less evil than pointless, are enervating. You’d rather just log off and take a nap. You have to remind yourself: These are actually the good stupid days. You’d rather these than the others."

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Got a good laugh and some needed cheer from this @eggerdc.bsky.social piece on the stupidity in which we daily marinate. “What did it all mean? Who was it all for? Who knows! Just a few days of pointless value-destroying market chaos, begun at whim, ended at whim.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-cabi...

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This is so profoundly strange from @slotkin.senate.gov. The Harris campaign ran one of the most aggressive outreach efforts to moderates, independents, and soft Republicans in recent memory!

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Ax murderer, standing over bloody corpse clutching bloody ax, pledges all future cuts will be made with a scalpel

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Newt Gingrich says the "McKinley Model" requires high tariffs over a three-year transition period. Notable: Three years after the 1890 McKinley tariff, the economy had fallen into a severe depression. The GDP shrank by 10% and unemployment hit 18%. Certainly not the economic model I'd be copying. 😳

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This quote is gonna be in so many books.

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The online right has gone completely berserk at exactly the same moment that we've gotten a White House that takes all its cues from the online right. I'm sure it's fine though.

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On Nov 8 I wrote about the strength of the economy Trump was inheriting, how easy it would be for him simply to coast on it and take credit, and how he nevertheless seemed "dead set on policies that could seriously complicated the economic picture" www.thebulwark.com/p/will-trump...

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rips massive line of coke "The best, is yet, to come!!!!"

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There's no real-world concession, but she did the one thing that rings sweetly in Trump's ear: She got on the phone and was properly obliging and supplicant. That's why Mexico is getting out of the "stop fentanyl or else" tariffs and Canada isn't.

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"President Trump has paused intelligence sharing with Ukraine. This could prove devastating. America’s intelligence support to Ukraine still helps the Ukrainians counterbalance the Russian advantages in numbers and mass." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-vict...

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"Trump calculated that he needed to foster a sense of grievance among his base if he was going to ever be president again. The best way to do that was to not just challenge the results but deliberately to build a conspiracy around them. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-vict...

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For six weeks, Trump and Musk have run a blitzkrieg against the government, not bothering to let little things like “laws” and “reason” get in their way. But their momentum may be slowing, as public opinion darkens against them and court losses start to pile up. Today's newsletter:

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"several federal judges in the Washington D.C. area had received pizzas sent anonymously to their homes, which is being interpreted by law enforcement as a form of intimidation meant to convey that a target’s address is known." www.reuters.com/world/us/jud...

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Chatted w Sam and Lauren about the latest in town hall politics: angry constituents, Democratic organizers, and Republicans insisting everyone yelling at them at events is the latter not the former youtu.be/mMJMJKL7QCU?...

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"So our allies are properly alarmed and outraged. The Putin regime, on the other hand, is gleeful and triumphant." Never surprising, never not shocking and shameful. Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social, @eggerdc.bsky.social, and @samsteindc.bsky.social:

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NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

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Dem voters are fed up with their party leadership. So much so, that there could be a wave of primary challenges in 2026. www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

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In today's newsletter, read @lauren-egan.bsky.social on the possibility of a coming Democratic crackup: www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

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"It's not clear which position is more inimical to the goal of establishing high-speed rail travel in the United States: the active denial, or the passive non-accomplishment." www.indignity.net/too-much-chu...

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Unbelievable news. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers. New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The fact that Byron York, out of the loudest shouters about the dangers of a “deep state,” can suggest it’s illegitimate to identify the people who have been given unprecedented power to change the government shows how utterly lost to nonsensical fascist propaganda some “conservatives” are.

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George W. Bush’s famed PEPFAR program, a source of bipartisan pride for decades, is just one victim in the latest round of "cuts" - which undersells how blunt and haphazard this all is. Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social, @eggerdc.bsky.social, and @samsteindc.bsky.social:

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More and more people are saying this

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www.thebulwark.com/p/it-is-happ...

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Other than sowing endless chaos and heaping ritual humiliations on the heads of the government employees the GOP base loves to hate, this is basically the value add for DOGE: giving cover for Republicans to cut as little spending as they want and as many taxes as they want

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Brave to @jeffstein.bsky.social, WaPo's chief economics correspondent, for not wasting any time in stating what must be stated. Hopefully the first of many.

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SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."

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This has to be one of the biggest opsec fails I've ever seen in my life. The actual director of the FBI driving around in the most conspicuous vehicle imaginable made even more so by it being neon red.

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this is unreal, what are we even doing here

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This to me is one of the central stories about current US politics. The tech barons who decisively threw their support behind Trump wanted commercial benefits, of course; but even more, they wanted to discipline their own employees. That’s the real content of all the anti-DEI stuff.

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The cherry on top of Glenn Youngkin's "good news, government leeches, now you can get a real job" event yesterday: It was hosted by Capital One. Laid off from your career helping impoverished people abroad? Perhaps we can interest you in a bright new future in predatory loans right here at home!

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Glenn Youngkin has "seemingly decided the best way to proceed is by trying to convince federal workers that getting laid off is the best thing that could have happened to them." That's one spin. Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:

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You ever fail to talk yourself out of a headline? www.thebulwark.com/p/doge-lates...

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NEW: OPM is now telling federal agencies that workers WILL NOT lose their jobs if they fail to respond to the "What did you do last week" email and that responding is voluntary. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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"world's richest man" (pejorative)

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what would be really neat is if REN's mom deported her asshole son from her house hopenothate.org.uk/2024/06/20/e...

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Three-year-old's self-portrait (mom contributed the shoes)

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Last night Elon Musk posted an out-of-context screenshot of a Social Security spreadsheet and began speculating wildly about some sort of massive fraud. As soon as I pointed out that the truth was likely less exciting, I got an email from a former SSA worker (I confirmed) who said... basically that.

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We need a total shutdown on adults using horny slang

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"Every current and former NNSA employee who spoke to The Bulwark was alarmed Musk didn’t realize how unsuited the 'turn everything off and see what breaks' model was when you are talking about the safe handling and proper maintenance of America’s nuclear arsenal." www.thebulwark.com/p/inside-dog...

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NEW: The Energy Department tried to spin its DOGE-directed firing of nuclear-safety officials as affecting just non-critical staff. But this wasn’t close to true. In fact, one of the officials locked out of his work accounts was the top authority for all nuclear-safety matters in the agency.

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Is it bad to purge the ... top authority for nuclear-safety matters at the National Nuclear Security Administration, plus a Los Alamos emergency-preparedness manager and a radiation-protection manager? Because it seems kinda bad! Via @eggerdc.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/inside-dog...

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NEW: The Department of Energy this week minimized its quickly-reversed firings of NNSA officials as having hit "primarily administrative and clerical" employees. In reality, those locked out included the agency's top authority for all nuclear-safety matters. Today's newsletter:

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