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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 · 2h

You do have to read Bill's riff on "The Sound of Silence" www.thebulwark.com/p/insidious-...

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

It's easy to think you're one of the "good" immigrants until they come for you, too. An old news hook, an eternal phenomenon. www.thebulwark.com/p/adventures...

Adventures in Stove-Touching

Come meet the Hispanic-majority Pennsylvania town that voted for Trump and still loves him. (But there’s good news in here, too.)

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3h

The Gilded Age may have revealed the excesses of an unchecked oligarchy, but at least it left behind centers of learning, culture, and philanthropy. Today’s roster of plutocrats seems uninterested in that. 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 · 3h

Full Bulwark Podcast:

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3h

"Her mother died suddenly. And so Nori, 18 years old, was in a country that she didn't know, without the family that she grew up with, with basically no place to go and nothing to do."

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks the reality of Trump's immigration policy with @timmiller.bsky.social:

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h

"His 1955 story 'The Crooked Man,' which imagines a world where homosexuality is the norm, and the shame and casting out from society is suffered by heterosexuals, precedes Martin Amis’s similar 'Straight Fiction' by forty years." www.thebulwark.com/p/hopeless-h...

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 · 4h

Trump is Nixon with no capacity to feel regret or shame, and enabled by a party and Congress that won't put the country first. 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 · 4h

Full show:

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h

"We have to engage in this moment with the ruthless survival skills of an LGBTQ kid in Florida or in North Dakota who does not have the luxury of prioritizing purity and perfection over goodwill and good intentions."

@mcbride.house.gov joins @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social:

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h

An executive who cannot be removed but whose power is fenced in is one thing. An invulnerable executive whose power has expanded to encompass nearly all of daily life begins to look like a monarch with a defined term. www.thebulwark.com/p/is-this-wh...

Is This What ‘Late-Stage Democracy’ Looks Like?

What if the Constitution *is* a suicide pact?

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h

"These brief, disquieting, interludes...more so than a heedless plunging into passages of extreme graphic violence and sexual sadism, is what pushing the envelope of the genre really is." From the archives, @faceyouhate.bsky.social on shortform horror: www.thebulwark.com/p/horror-in-...

Horror in Brief

Ramsey Campbell and the power of the short story in horror writing.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h

"She said to me after that - Samantha, 21 years old - all my life I've prepared for this moment. All my life, my mom, 53 years old, who was just going to get meat for a stew, has told me one day this could come."

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks ICE with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Pod

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6h

The end of the enhanced Obamacare subsidies could be "the foundation for a big political backlash, one that might come disproportionately from Republican districts and states—and some key GOP constituencies." From before the shutdown, and still relevant:

If the Government Shuts Down, Obamacare Will Be Why

The clock is ticking to avert a big rise in health care costs.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6h

"'People don’t like the idea of doing these things to kids. Over and over again this administration thinks there is support for the idea that we as a country can do this to children and they’re 80/20 issues.'"

Exclusive: Dems Fire Back at Trump’s ‘Freaky’ Kid Self-Deportation Plan

It is both not as gross AND worse than you think.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6h

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. www.thebulwark.com/p/insidious-...

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 · 7h

Clean, good government is central to functioning liberal democracy www.thebulwark.com/p/anti-corru...

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 · 7h

The right-wing tech oligarchs are perhaps more oligarch than right-wing. 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.

www.thebulwark.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h

"Like 'The Indian Piper,' 'The Pool' is a story of a writer—a writer not unlike Beaumont—who is pulled back from the brink of something unspeakable. But what comes after that return from the brink?" www.thebulwark.com/p/hopeless-h...

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 · 8h

Q: "How many layoffs have you authorized?"

Trump: "A lot. It will be Democrat oriented...They should be Democrat oriented. It will be a lot and we'll announce the numbers over the next couple of days, but it will be a lot of people...Many of them will be fired."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h

Trump: "Astra Zeneca will also list many of their most popular drugs online at TrumpRX.gov?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=The+Bulwark&utm_campaign=publer. I don't know why they put the Name Trump. I didn't tell them to do it, but I'm honored to let them do it."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h

"To focus on the 'woke left' as a threat to liberalism in America in late 2025 while soft-pedaling the threat from the authoritarian/populist right that now holds the levers of power is a sign of either extraordinary myopia or bad faith."

Bari Weiss, CBS News, and the Triumph of Faux Balance

The record of the Free Press shows her journey from independent to MAGA fellow traveler.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h

"In his tearful farewell speech, excerpted in the Graham documentary, Nixon seemed to convey the self-knowledge—the shame—that he had blown it. But shame is no longer a factor, much less a defining factor, in public life."

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 · 8h

Full show:

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YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lafe...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h

Healthcare cuts are a funding mechanism for Trump to reward tech oligarchs and other billionaires. Slashing the safety net and consolidating power go together for him.

@mcbride.house.gov joins @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social from this week's D.C. live show!

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