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In the spirit of the season in the year 2025, the Bulwark offers you this all-star rendition of the Twelve Days of Grift-mas.

Take-aways:

1. Some of my colleagues can actually sing.

2. Not me, though.

3. We shouldn't do this more than once a year.

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The Bulwark Wishes You a Very Corrupt Christmas
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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December 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Bipartisan Team of Congressmen Drafts Articles of Impeachment for Bondi For Violation of Epstein Law
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Bipartisan Team of Congressmen Draft Articles of Impeachment for Bondi For Violation of Epstein Law
YouTube video by Glenn Kirschner
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December 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Bari Weiss, circa 1944;

“The media has already written about genocide in the concentration camps. We won’t run this story until we can get Himmler or Eichmann to sit down on the record and discuss it.”
NEW: Bari Weiss addresses her decision to hold last night's CECOT story on the CBS News morning editorial call: "Our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else..."
December 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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What a shameful question.

First, it is not what Congress "asked for." It is what a federal statute REQUIRES.

Second, WTF does "spirit but not intent" even mean?

CBS bent a knee and paid Trump, it has a new owner who wants to please Trump, and sadly this is the result.
BRENNAN: This isn't everything you asked for just yet, but would you acknowledge that they are complying with the spirit if not the intent of your law?

MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
December 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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The media continues to fail us, to downplay the seriousness of the situation, refusing to acknowledge how corrupt the cover-up of this whole episode is.
Washington Post's new headline is still wrong.

1. The release was not "huge."
2. DOJ missed the deadline to release all the files.
3, No mention of extensive redactions.

Support independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
December 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.

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December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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There are a lot of stories like this that seem not to effect the overall narrative of the war for some odd reason.
www.theconcis.com/p/novorossiy...
Novorossiysk Was Russia’s Last Sanctuary. It Just Fell.
The Black Sea Has No Safe Harbor Left for Russia
www.theconcis.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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this is illegal
December 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Exactly the sort of tyrannical behavior that the Constitution was written to prevent. See the Fourth Amendment in particular.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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December 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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This goes way beyond politics. This is pure evil.
This is both disgusting and expected.

The Scumbag-in-Chief
December 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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This is really good work.
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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"The liberty of the press is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them." —John Wilkes, the great 18th century British prophet of free speech and critic of George III
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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I’m furiously sick of this. Other reporters: where the hell are you?
The President of the United States has been verbally abusing female journalists for weeks

Quiet Piggy
You’re ugly inside & out
Are you a stupid person?
You’re the most obnoxious reporter. A terrible reporter

Enough. The White House press corps must him out

Make him explain himself or walk out
December 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Awful: Trump just admitted in a new interview that he knows "very little" about the Honduran ex-president he pardoned. This guy trafficked a gazillion times more drugs into the US than anyone Trump has executed. Wrecks his case for the boat bombings.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Trump Accidentally Sabotages Case for Bombings in New Interview Fiasco
The president’s claims about the boat killings and his pardon of the Honduran ex-president in a new Politico interview should finally convince Republicans that they, and we, must get to the bottom of ...
newrepublic.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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If I could, I’d vote for her. In a heartbeat.
It's official: Rep. Jasmine Crockett has announced she's running for U.S. Senate in Texas.
December 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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If the Fourteenth Amendment isn’t real then Section 3 isn’t real either and the justices are suddenly just people in funny clothes.
The Supreme Court Friday agreed to decide whether President Donald Trump can unilaterally limit the constitutional right to citizenship granted to virtually every person born in the United States. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Supreme Court to Hear Trump's Bid To Eliminate Birthright Citizenship
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Hey guys, we need a few volunteers to go rescue our two buddies in the ocean, next to the overturned boat with the floating cocaine. Pretty sure the American drones are tired and have gone to bed, so you should be fine.

OK, who's in?

Guys? Where's everyone going?
i'm actually skeptical that the cartel is going to send another boat to retrieve/continue the run of a small vessel that is being surveilled by the US military and already attacked once.
December 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Trump pardoned the ex-president of Honduras who shoveled hundreds of tons of cocaine into the U.S. He pardoned the founder of a black market who imported fentanyl from China.

These men poisoned America & killed millions. Whatever Trump’s illegal boat strikes are about, it sure isn’t drugs.
Trump move to pardon Honduras’s ex-president shows counter-drug effort is ‘based on lies and hypocrisy’
Why has Trump blown up alleged narco boats in the Caribbean and at the same time decided to let a big-time trafficker off the hook?
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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The bait-and-switch of the president and his allies citing the 100,000 tragic American deaths from drugs and then pretending that the illegal attacks on a few small Venezualan fishing boats will somehow help solve the problem is breathtakingly deceptive and cynical.
December 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Still can't figure out how those little outboard boats are gonna make it to America, 1200 miles away.
I joined @ms.now this afternoon to discuss the strikes on boats in the Caribbean.
December 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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So, seems like we’re not all that serious about fighting the war on drugs after all.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Former President of Honduras Is Freed From Prison After Trump Pardon
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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The Trump/GOP math doesn’t math! Trump/GOP pay for their $ handouts to billionaires by making everything unaffordable for Americans! 22 million Americans will have their health care premium costs skyrocket through the roof as of January 1st due to Trump/Republicans refuse to extend ACA tax credits!
December 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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I approve this message. It's going to be a threshold issue for me. That and completely dismantling ICE, fully implementing the Voting Rights Act, creating a national living wage (with subsidies for businesses that need it,) expanding the Supreme Court, and admitting DC and Puerto Rico as states.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM