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Senior Editor and Cincinnati Bureau Chief at The Bulwark, Kentucky Colonel, Opinion Leader™, former hill staffer, Cleveland, Ohio, Cincy, DC and STL sports fan, cheap watch aficionado. 🫡 thebulwark.com, itscasualtime.com, MountWarshington.com
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“classified information, links, or attachments” is a poorly constructed and dizzyingly incomplete list.

Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

I googled. He's real. In certain special cases, I feel a new pope should forgo taking a new papal name and stick with his own, most excellent, one.

ALL DAY

Lane Thomas goes yard! #fortheland

High quality information here.

GODDAMN I WONDER WHERE YOU GOT IT, DID YOU JUST FIND IT IN SUNNY TEXAS YOU PIECE OF SHIT??

I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

"We don't work for DOGE. We have always worked for you." Yes!

“Just a few weeks ago, in early February, Musk told St Clair that the two ‘have a legion of kids to make.’” www.usermag.co/p/scoop-ashl...

Our new FBI Director sells a supplement that “detoxes other people’s vaccines out of your body.” Sure. Why not.

The whale was like, check this out, I'm gonna eat that guy for a second

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

It’s big that Senators are starting to speak up. Good.

Wisconsin is fighting back against Elon Musk and Donald Trump's lawless coup. Last night, West Bend turned out to demand accountability from Rep. Scott Fitzgerald for enabling the Musk/Trump rampage that's putting our country at risk. Check it out 👇 https://buff.ly/4kbs4Ob?

That's an expensive game so they really hate this car

I have seen pundits talk about sidestepping Trump like it's a good thing. Counter: no, it is not. You must always confront the threat.

Musk plans to "fix" Community Notes. He was proud of the feature (formerly known as Birdwatch) until... Community Notes debunked President Donald Trump's false claims about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Post here from @jonathanvanian.bsky.social+ me @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/02/21/e...

At least they can see the J6 choir at the Kennedy center.

lmao, jesus

NEW: The broad context for this coming Sunday's elections in Germany—and what they mean for Europe and the world. www.thebulwark.com/p/whats-at-s...

Fully loaded AMERICANA this week… on ground at CPAC, interview w Bernie about his anti “oligarchy” tour, talking w GLAAD about the impact of Trump taking “trans” out of all federal language, more and more semafor.com/s/BsM5JHGS8L...

I was like “wait, Elon’s weird CPAC bit reminds me of another grotesque swinging a chainsaw around” and @thebulwark.bsky.social’s @colinjones.bsky.social stitched it together for me:

Shell-shocked NNSA employees are unsure whether or when the axe might fall again. Many, sources say, are now eyeing early retirement or thinking about finding other work. Worse than you thought. Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social, @andreweggers.bsky.social, and Ben Parker:

Elon is out of his fuckin gourd man www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

Dems in disarray.mp4

GIRL(26): What is your stance on Crystals ME (94): I have never devolpeed a stance on Crystals. I am more interested in food & entertainment

There’s bigger game to hunt right now, but you know who absolutely fucking sucks? Dr. Drew. I’ve collected the receipts. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

There are many mysteries and ambiguities in life but the nature of this gesture is not among them. It's a Nazi salute.

Journalism watches!

“By refusing to call figures like Patel what they are, the press is failing its duty to inform the public-and, frankly, it is enabling the further erosion of democratic norms.”

NEW: A regional FEMA chief of staff took Elon Musk's Fork in the Road offer. He has proof of receipt. But they didn't honor it. Instead, they fired him 13 days later. Now, this retired Navy captain is speaking out. www.thebulwark.com/p/musk-doge-...

Somebody alert Chuck Grassley. Not only are there insane drug addicts at the highest level of our government doing unconstitutional things, but also the History channel has some relevant history. Maybe Chuckles can do some oversight along the lines of the government credit card hearings.

Trump claims to only care about the undocumented. Instead he is de-documenting those here legally.

Biden called him a dictator. Obama said he was a regional power and a quote jackass. That Mike Waltz can't call Putin a Dictator? If a Democrat was soft on Russia, we would be all over them. It's just an amazing data point in their transitioning. Disgraceful.

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

Carville: USAID spent $41 billion the federal budget is 6 trillion. Actually comes to something like .014%. So take that and put it against the 6 trillion and see what you have done when your president is responsible for more federal debt than any president in the history of the United States.

I don't think people really get how these employee purges are just going to break the culture of public organizations for a very long time.

"Will Elon Musk submit to a drug test?"