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Bret Baier: "Our new Fox News poll at 100 days job approval compared to other presidents, you see the president at 44%. And you see his first term at 45% at this mark, the 100 day mark. We have other new polls that are revealing some concerns."

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Sen. Murphy: “[Trump] is applying tariffs to basically…every company… He’s going to tell those companies, ‘If you want tariff relief, then this is what you have to do for me’… It’s not actually intended to create jobs… It’s just intended to increase his political power.”

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"Here was the voice of the wise old statesman. Here was a call for calm, dignity, and the rule of law. The administration’s reply?"

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FBI deputy director Dan Bongino continues to take heat from MAGA personalities who don’t think the agency is responding quickly or effectively to a spate of swattings aimed at InfoWars staffers and other right-wing internet figures.

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"One political scientist I know called it Mussolini meets Geek Squad...you just start unplugging stuff and firing people and taking over databases. What you're doing is reducing government's capacity without reducing government's commitments." @jonrauch.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social:

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"Trump, who has benefited from the protections of due process more than perhaps anyone else in American history, doesn’t see why it should be afforded to anyone else."

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"The webpage also makes clear that its content is now coming from the White House, not the Department of Health and Human Services, which had posted and maintained the site previously. That explains a lot."

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"The psychological effects of Trump’s action and its exacerbation of moral injury will likely be more veteran suicides, confrontations with the police, and the destruction of military families." At least they won't be executed like our Afghan allies will.

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"Turning the white evangelical church into a Republican party auxiliary has not worked....There is nothing Christ-like at all about the person and movement that white evangelicals have elevated and embraced." @jonrauch.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today’s Bulwark Podcast:

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Leavitt: "President Zelensky has been trying to litigate this peace negotiation in the press. And that's unacceptable to the president…The president is frustrated. His patience is wearing thin…Zelensky seems to be moving in the wrong direction."

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"Musk appears as much in denial as ever about it all. During the call, he said that those participating in protests at Tesla showrooms around the country were simply the jilted former recipients of government handouts." Nonetheless, he says he'll pull out.

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The Bulwark is coming to Chicago on May 28 and Nashville on May 29! Get your tickets and come see @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social, @timmiller.bsky.social, and @jvl.bsky.social! www.thebulwark.com/p/bulwark-ev...

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Rep. Torres: "Donald Trump claims that he has the authority to defund whatever program he wants...He treats America as a monarchy and sees us as his subjects. We are here to send a simple message: Donald Trump is no king. America is no monarchy. We are not his subjects."

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Sen. Kevin Cramer (R) on Pete Hegseth: "He's gonna need some help around him. I think one of the things he has lacked in the early days is some real expertise, institutional expertise, in the building."

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"Musk has been so prone to error that he has sought to turn it into a virtue—a manager with the capacity to admit flaws!"

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Q: "What would have happened to you if you had shared battle plans like this when you were a pilot?" Rep. Mikie Sherrill: "Like everyone else except Pete Hegseth, evidently, I would've been court-marshaled and drummed out of the military. This is absolutely ridiculous."

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"In the back of St. Peter’s Basilica, the 320,000-square-foot church at the center of the Vatican, a pen of journalists, priests, and content creators recorded videos and launched livestreams to discuss and spread the word of the day’s events."

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Öztürk’s case is a template of sorts for Trump’s new, relaxed standard for cracking down on constitutionally protected speech. But it’s also notable for another reason—the absolutely astonishing amount of lying it has occasioned. New from Bill Lueders:

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While Abrego Garcia has garnered by far the most attention of the detainees sent to El Salvador, the four House Democrats also asked for proof of life of Andry José Hernández Romero. Don't forget him. The latest Huddled Masses from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...

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Vance: "We've issued a very explicit proposal to both the Russians and the Ukrainians. And it's time for them either to say yes or the U.S. to walk away from this process."

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The purpose of the site has always been to provide one trustworthy, convenient source of basic, health-oriented information—what the disease is and how it presents, how the vaccine works, where to get tests and treatment. Until last week. @citizencohn.bsky.social:

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Vance: "The Ukrainians and the Russians are both gonna have to give up some of the territory they currently own. There's gonna have to be some territorial swaps."

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Trump walks back his China tariffs and his threat to fire Jerome Powell, and Musk steps back from DOGE. What we're seeing isn't circumspection, but polity gravity forcing Trump's hand. Good. Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:

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"Should any trusted Afghan ally be deported, the Taliban will almost certainly execute them." That's what deportation means for Afghans in America. Will Selber on the Trump administration's shameful Afghan refugee reversal:

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Progressive Democrats are debating whether some older members of Congress who have strong legislative and ideological records should be spared primary challenges. How comprehensively and aggressively should Dems seek new blood?

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"A time may soon come when words, however reasoned, will not suffice. When no ruling from the Court can constrain the executive or preserve the peace. The mind drifts to Bleeding Kansas. To Harpers Ferry. What a mess we are in."

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"Even when I travel 4,500 miles from Trump, he still manages to show up in the same city. Does anyone know how to lift a curse?"

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Q: "If you were president and this were your secretary of defense, what would you do?" Rep. Don Bacon: "I wouldn't tolerate it. I would hold them accountable and I'd fire them."

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"It is precisely because these errors are being made in the service of larger projects that the administration is fixated on that they feel and indeed are more consequential."

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"Replacing Hegseth may ultimately do little to repair to the damage Trump has done at home and abroad. But the long journey back to democratic accountability and political responsibility begins with a single step."

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"The paper, Bongino wrote, was trying to make a big deal out of how he had hurt himself sparring with an FBI trainer." That's how the FBI's second in command is spending his time.

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"Trump signaled a willingness to hand Ukraine over to Moscow in exchange for quiet on the European front—a trade he realistically can’t make, because the Europeans and especially the Ukrainians have a say."

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"'People that age die,' the strategist added. 'You have to think about the job a little bit differently when the stakes are this high.'"

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"That's why I use the word stupid so much: because this is so stupid! Stupid fascism." "A good Nazi would take this woman and put her to work, and then go to the people and say hey, I solved cancer." @timmiller.bsky.social and @michaelsteele.bsky.social discuss the stupidity of it all:

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Watch: Tim Miller and Sarah Longwell share their take on the cowardice of institutions, the bravery of individuals, and the terrifying implications of a media ecosystem that’s bending to MAGA pressure. youtu.be/x8QwEqKHI6Y?...

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"The administration sought to complete this sordid operation on Good Friday—the time, the Gospels say, when the sun’s light failed and darkness covered the land."

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"Tourists from all over came to the square as well. Many were reciting the Rosary—in Italian, French, Spanish, English, and some languages I couldn’t identify." In Vatican City, without a Pope. The latest Press Pass from @cheetah.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/public-gri...

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An errant, insane Trump thought may emerge in the form of a single tweet—rattling the news cycle and then vanishing without a trace—but if that idea reemerges on multiple occasions, it quickly threatens to jump into official administration policy.

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During the campaign, Trump claimed that he could “end the war in 24 hours.” It was obvious then and it’s even more obvious now that there’s only one way to guarantee a war ends in 24 hours: surrender.

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[email protected]: "I know you have a kid, Andrew, are you gonna decide what school they go to based on which principal seems like he's the biggest p*ssy hound?" Because that's how Andrew Schulz is picking his president. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_nq...

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The extent to which Trump’s first three months back in office have been characterized by mistakes—from bumbling embarrassments to calamitous errors—is breathtaking. A catalogue in today's Triad, from @samsteindc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-art-of...

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Leavitt on recent firings at the Pentagon: “We take leaks with the upmost seriously across this administration…The president has made it clear it's an unacceptable behavior.”

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Watch: @timmiller.bsky.social breaks down comedian Andrew Schulz's bizarre logic for going MAGA, and the dumb, dangerous red-pill nonsense:

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Will voters buy Mike Johnson’s argument that taking away America’s most vital health safety net program is the best way to help its most vulnerable citizens?

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Dan Bongino, Master of the Streisand Effect www.thebulwark.com/p/dan-bongin...

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"Earlier this month, I wrote about Bongino’s solution, which included tweeting a lot about how hard he was working while urging folks to trust him that progress was being made. He’s definitely continued the tweets." The latest False Flag from @willsommer.bsky.social:

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