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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Jun 17
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The Bulwark is home to Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol, JVL, Sam Stein, and more. We are the largest pro-democracy bundle on Substack for news and analysis on politics and culture—supported b...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h
Trump didn’t just instruct his cronies to look into Letitia James to see what they could rustle up. Instead, he twisted the entire federal government into a shape designed to produce the criminal indictment he demanded. Be shocked, if you still can be.
The Insidious Effort To Rationalize Trump’s Lawfare
This is not a president justified in going after those who went after him. It’s a person making a mockery of our justice system.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3h
"Hemingwayesque in their brevity and violent candor, the films are humanistic tragicomedies, with a tenderness and a poetry in their language and assumptions about life." ICYMI Hannah Long on the best westerns you never heard of: www.thebulwark.com/p/randolph-s...
Randolph Scott, Virtuous Loner of the West
Lonesomeness, nobility, and anti-machismo: the ‘Ranown’ westerns are an underappreciated treasure of American cinema.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h
"Horror isn’t merely about being scared: It’s about hopelessness and misery. What else is there to be frightened of? They’re the basis of the genre. This can be seen even in Beaumont’s most seemingly run-of-the-mill and ostensibly 'basic' short stories."
The Hopeless Horror of Charles Beaumont
The writer died before his fortieth birthday—but left behind an influential catalogue of stories and unforgettable Twilight Zone episodes.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7h
Sometimes nowadays Watergate can feel almost quaint, but this is a good refresher on Nixon's corruption and poor character, and how Nixon wrote the playbook in many ways for Trump. ICYMI @jilldlawrence.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-nixo...
Trump’s Abuses of Power Show We Didn’t Learn Much From the Nixon Era
That failure is implicit in nearly every frame of a new documentary about Katharine Graham.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7h
Q: "Have [the Qataris] changed their behavior from 2017 when you accused them of funding terrorism?"

Trump: "I don't know. In 2017, I didn't really know them very well."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7h
Trump: "Literally, you walk over from Iran to Qatar. You can walk it in one second. You go, boom, boom, and now you're in Qatar."

Qatar and Iran do not share a land border.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h
"Gilded Rage" isn’t simply a rehash of existing reportage. What separates Silverman’s book from other writeups, and where his book truly shines, is in his attempt to get at the root of Silicon Valley’s anti-democratic lurch. ICYMI @cjcmichel.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/why-our-te...
Why Our Tech Overlords Took a Hard Right Turn
A new book tells the story of how Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs became angry admirers of authoritarianism.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h
Zelensky: "We will be very happy to nominate President Trump next year for the Nobel Prize if he will...pressure and stop Putin...God bless that he can do it, of course in this case we will nominate him and we will be proud to congratulate him."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h
Rep. Jim Himes on Trump blowing up boats in the Caribbean: "The White House has not shared what they believe their legal justification is. They did put out a memo. I will tell you based on what I know now and the reading of that memo, these are illegal killings."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h
If Johnson fully assumes the role of grand Republican villain—a distant second to Trump, of course—he would be the first speaker to don the mantle of national partisan villainy since Nancy Pelosi. An accomplishment. ICYMI @cheetah.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/mike-johns...
Mike Johnson Is Becoming the New Liberal Bogeyman
The low-key House speaker’s success and defiance are turning him into a prime political target.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h
Rep. Jim Himes: "Trump's rhetoric has always been skeptical of the Ukrainians and bizarrely friendly to Vladimir Putin. His actions to date have been insufficient — just as Biden's actions were insufficient."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h
Q: "The Republican governor of Oklahoma...said 'We believe in a federalist system...Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma.'...What's your response?"

Vance: "I'd say to Governor Stitt... Illinois is a different case from Chicago."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h
Gov. Pritzker: "The Insurrection Act is called the Insurrection Act for a reason — there has to be an insurrection in order for [Trump] to be allowed to invoke it. He can say anything he wants, but if the Constitution means anything...the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h
Gov. Pritzker on Trump's threat to jail him: "I am not afraid. Do I think he could do it? He might. As I've said before, come and get me....I will stand up for the law and the constitution."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h
Gov. Pritzker on Trump's threat to jail him: "I'm not afraid. I'm going to stand up for the people of my state. We've all gotta stand together."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h
Sen. Mark Kelly: "The president has indicated that he wants to do something about [ACA subsidies], and he wants the government open. Well, we want this fixed and we want the government open. So why is there a problem here?"
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h
Welker: "Are you seriously considering invoking the Insurrection Act?"

Vance: "Well, the president's looking at all of his options right now."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h
Sen. Mark Kelly on Chuck Schumer saying "every day gets better for Democrats" during the shutdown:

"For me, this is not political...I don't think this is better for anyone...It's not about that. It's protecting people from crazy increases in the cost of their healthcare."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h
"Why is Megyn Kelly, not someone known to dodge a high-profile political fight, shrinking from this one? She claims it’s because, as a matter of principle, she won’t be forced to take positions under pressure. I have another explanation." @willsommer.bsky.social:
Why Is Megyn Kelly Afraid to Take on Candace Owens?
Right-wing media’s old guard is scared of its younger, crazier rivals.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h
Sen. Mark Kelly: "The president has previously said...that government shutdowns are on the president and all you need to do is get everyone in a room and have a serious conversation. And they're refusing to do that. They are holding people's healthcare hostage."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h
"I would say, OK, so I'm getting the National Guard. This is what I need. I need you to take more of my violent crime cases. I need you to target my major gangs."

John Miller talks how he would use the National Guard with @johnavlon.bsky.social in the latest episode of How To Fix It:
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h
Fighting corruption is not some wonky distraction from defending democracy; it's a core part of it. ICYMI @davidsirota.com:
How Anti-Corruption Can Be a Winning Issue for Democrats
It’s a powerful, unifying theme—and it’s tied to the crisis of democracy under Trump.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h
There is exceptionally little patience within the Democratic party at this moment for campaigns that are viewed as money sucks, vanity projects, or unnecessary risks. ICYMI @lauren-egan.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Are Done With Vanity Candidates
Party insiders worry about running long-shots or no-shots who’ll drain money and energy.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 19h
It’s not enough to round up and detain those here illegally; video of it must be shot, edited, dramatized, and disseminated. ICE is now in the content creation business. ICYMI @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-propag...
The ICE Propaganda Campaign Goes Into Overdrive
MAGA commentators are stepping up as soldiers in Trump’s culture war to provoke confrontations against “Antifa” with the backing of DHS.
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