Philip Bump
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Email: [email protected]
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· Oct 11
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A century later, we’re exploring the converse to this truism.
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
A century later, we’re exploring the converse to this truism.
Guess some people haven’t heard of Blueskyism.
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Guess some people haven’t heard of Blueskyism.
Still lots of slack in the Goon economy.
Rhodes: Trump should “call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing”
On The Gateway Pundit podcast, Stewart Rhodes announces he is relaunching the Oath Keepers
www.mediamatters.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Still lots of slack in the Goon economy.
Reposted by Philip Bump
“If you tilt some of the most commonly cited data points this way or that, you can just as easily argue on the behalf of a woman crisis as a man crisis—or, perhaps most accurately, for an ongoing multidirectional crisis affecting us all.”
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“If you tilt some of the most commonly cited data points this way or that, you can just as easily argue on the behalf of a woman crisis as a man crisis—or, perhaps most accurately, for an ongoing multidirectional crisis affecting us all.”
I think normal people may not know how totally unmoored Bartiromo has been during the Trump era. A brief thread.
‘We Don’t Know They Were Wrong’: Fox’s Maria Bartiromo Defends Trump Pardons by Re-Upping Stolen Election Conspiracy
‘We Don’t Know They Were Wrong’: Fox’s Maria Bartiromo Defends Trump Pardons by Re-Upping Stolen Election Conspiracy
Bartiromo argued that because of 2020 election mail-in voting “we don’t know” if those pardoned were “wrong” and there was “more investigation” to be done.
The post ‘We Don’t Know They Were Wrong’: Fox’s Maria Bartiromo Defends Trump Pardons by Re-Upping Stolen Election Conspiracy first appeared on Mediaite.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I think normal people may not know how totally unmoored Bartiromo has been during the Trump era. A brief thread.
Reposted by Philip Bump
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
![STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.
Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.
...
And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.
...
He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreialm4skuozqobejpd6vx4m6kuwsgtidxmmxvj3ftcff6otiuyohiy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
Reposted by Philip Bump
Here's how the Senate shutdown vote broke down by state vote in 2024 and senator ideology.
The two pink dots to the left of the Arizona senators are the senators from Nevada.
The two pink dots to the left of the Arizona senators are the senators from Nevada.
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Here's how the Senate shutdown vote broke down by state vote in 2024 and senator ideology.
The two pink dots to the left of the Arizona senators are the senators from Nevada.
The two pink dots to the left of the Arizona senators are the senators from Nevada.
Reposted by Philip Bump
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. apnews.com/article/supr...
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. apnews.com/article/supr...
Beginning concussion protocol after slapping my forehead so hard. bsky.app/profile/atru...
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Beginning concussion protocol after slapping my forehead so hard. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Reposted by Philip Bump
fresh off caving, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is going on Fox & Friends
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
fresh off caving, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is going on Fox & Friends
I think Schumer thought the crowd at the Commanders game was saying Boo-urns.
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I think Schumer thought the crowd at the Commanders game was saying Boo-urns.
This is really telling! It doesn't work like that anymore, bud. None of it works like that — even if it did on Jan. 19.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
This is really telling! It doesn't work like that anymore, bud. None of it works like that — even if it did on Jan. 19.
Trump administering an oath of allegiance to the Constitution is ironic in general but in DC in particular I’m not sure what other response you’d expect.
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Trump administering an oath of allegiance to the Constitution is ironic in general but in DC in particular I’m not sure what other response you’d expect.
Someone reminded me of this piece I wrote 11 years ago.
What would happen if the government shut down — and never reopened?
The absolute worst-case scenario of next week's worst-case scenario.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Someone reminded me of this piece I wrote 11 years ago.
Reposted by Philip Bump
This video is a refreshing postscript on Nixon that will sound familiar to anyone living in 2025.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGJc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGJc...
President Nixon Appealed To The Jerks
YouTube video by David Hoffman
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This video is a refreshing postscript on Nixon that will sound familiar to anyone living in 2025.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGJc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGJc...
The real reason the right opposes higher education is that if kids leave home and are exposed to more varieties of music they’ll realize that country music sucks. (I am at Tractor Supply.)
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The real reason the right opposes higher education is that if kids leave home and are exposed to more varieties of music they’ll realize that country music sucks. (I am at Tractor Supply.)
Yesterday’s newsletter looked at:
- how TV drove the creation of red-vs-blue
- Trump’s shutdown trophy
- what behaviors are acceptable where
… and more!
All free to read. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
- how TV drove the creation of red-vs-blue
- Trump’s shutdown trophy
- what behaviors are acceptable where
… and more!
All free to read. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Yesterday’s newsletter looked at:
- how TV drove the creation of red-vs-blue
- Trump’s shutdown trophy
- what behaviors are acceptable where
… and more!
All free to read. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
- how TV drove the creation of red-vs-blue
- Trump’s shutdown trophy
- what behaviors are acceptable where
… and more!
All free to read. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
Reposted by Philip Bump
A leading federal judge quits in protest of Trump's corruption-- & to fight it
Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why I Am Leaving the Federal Bench
A judge explains his reasons for resigning.
www.theatlantic.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A leading federal judge quits in protest of Trump's corruption-- & to fight it
Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
It’s very funny to think that the guy who didn’t know what the 13 stripes on the flag meant has a nuanced understanding of the intentions and debates of the founding fathers.
The president seems to have been briefed on how the tariffs oral argument at SCOTUS went:
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It’s very funny to think that the guy who didn’t know what the 13 stripes on the flag meant has a nuanced understanding of the intentions and debates of the founding fathers.
Hiking with the kids yesterday, came across this vine that had grown into a knot.
November 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Hiking with the kids yesterday, came across this vine that had grown into a knot.
The last thing I want to be is one of those people who’s constantly flacking shit, BUT this week’s newsletter is pretty great. It includes a brief history of how TV networks covered presidential results — and how the blue-red assignations were set by 1988.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
US Election Night 1980 NBC live coverage 11-4-1980
YouTube video by Memoryretro
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November 9, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The last thing I want to be is one of those people who’s constantly flacking shit, BUT this week’s newsletter is pretty great. It includes a brief history of how TV networks covered presidential results — and how the blue-red assignations were set by 1988.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
Reposted by Philip Bump
This week, in the free-to-read newsletter:
1. The history of red and blue in TV campaign coverage.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/682c3344?m...
1. The history of red and blue in TV campaign coverage.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/682c3344?m...
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This week, in the free-to-read newsletter:
1. The history of red and blue in TV campaign coverage.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/682c3344?m...
1. The history of red and blue in TV campaign coverage.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/682c3344?m...
How dare ANYONE suggest a sitting president is enfeebled! - Team Trump, 2025
Our doddering octogenarian president. "A WaPo analysis of multiple videofeeds found that Trump spent nearly 20 minutes apparently battling to keep his eyes open… The White House denied that Trump was dozing during the Oval Office event and suggested the question was inappropriate.”
A closer look at Trump’s apparent struggles to fight off sleep in the Oval Office
A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds found that Trump spent nearly 20 minutes battling to keep his eyes open at a recent Oval Office event.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
How dare ANYONE suggest a sitting president is enfeebled! - Team Trump, 2025
Prediction markets: Not very predictive!
www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
November 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Prediction markets: Not very predictive!
www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...