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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h

TONIGHT! Join the Bulwark team in DC for a special live event at @thelincolndc.bsky.social! We're low on tickets, so get yours now: www.ticketmaster.com/event/150063...

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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 4h

They’ve even got Marjorie Taylor Greene endorsing their top demand…. www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

Democrats Are Winning the Shutdown Fight

Turns out Republicans still haven’t figured out the politics of health care.

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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 18h

Make sure to read @saletan.bsky.social

He really captures the way Republicans are framing the shutdown debate -- and using a (false) claim about immigrants to undermine support for policies that will benefit many millions

www.thebulwark.com/p/when-in-do...

When in Doubt, Blame the Immigrants

No. You’re not experiencing déjà vu. The current Republican government shutdown talking point is the same one they’ve trotted out before.

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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 1d

Can read the article here

www.thebulwark.com/p/government...

Also … is it me or is my face getting bigger in these videos?

Illegal Immigrants Are Already Getting Health Care Under Donald Trump

The program financing ER care for illegal immigrants has been around for four decades, and not even Trump wants to take it away.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Republicans have retreated to a small federal program that covers emergency room care for those who can't pay. It does indeed help cover care for illegal immigrants, but the thing is, Reagan signed it into law. Read about it in The Breakdown from @citizencohn.bsky.social:

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 3d

This is a really outstanding post. "That’s the point of the compact. .... It is about control. Specifically it is about turning existing federal law, over which the administration has limited control, into terms of a 'deal' that offers the government much more control."

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 3d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 2d

Seems like a good time to revisit why we require hospitals to provide emergency care, no questions asked -- and why we help them with the costs.

And how the president who signed those provisions into law wasn't Joe Biden.

It was Ronald Reagan. www.thebulwark.com/p/government...

Illegal Immigrants Are Already Getting Health Care Under Donald Trump

The program financing ER care for illegal immigrants has been around for four decades, and not even Trump wants to take it away.

www.thebulwark.com

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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 2d

I am a huge fan of @crampell.bsky.social -- and hugely excited I get to be her colleague now www.semafor.com/article/10/0...

Washington Post economics columnist moves to The Bulwark

Catherine Rampell will write a weekly economics and policy-focused newsletter for the anti-Trump media brand.

www.semafor.com

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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans accusing Democrats of trying to cut rural hospital funds may be their most cynical attack yet

@samsteindc.bsky.social & @saletan.bsky.social call them on it here www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kTL...

Kristen Welker Calls Out Mike Johnson—He Doubles Down

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 2d

How big is the Democratic tent?

An ex-Republican running in Georgia wants to find out

New dispatch from @lauren-egan.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/can-a-repe...

Can a Repentant, Regretful Republican Thrive as a Dem?

Geoff Duncan isn’t just running for governor of Georgia as a Democrat. He’s testing how wide the party’s ‘big tent’ can stretch.

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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 2d

Fortunately @thebulwark.com crack production team was able to improvise, and insert a graphic www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQC7...

Screen shot of me during the interview, with an image of the same ATPM movie poster superimposed on the bookshelves behind me (I was at a public library)

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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 2d

Saw the movie when I was young and -- cliché warning -- it absolutely made me want to be a journalist

So excited to talk about it youtube.com/watch?v=oQC7...

Only problem: I wasn't in my office, where I have the film's promo poster on display

Image of me in my office, with ATPM poster behind me

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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 2d

We talked about how the movie is a time capsule of journalism and writing -- and movie-making too

And of course parallels to now, a "Watergate every day" as @jvl.bsky.social put it www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQC7...

“All the President’s Men” vs. Trump’s Daily Insanity

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 2d

This was such an absolute treat

@sonnybunch.bsky.social let me sit in on @thebulwark.com "Movie Club" to discuss one of my all-time favorite films, All the President's Men

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQC7...

“All the President’s Men” vs. Trump’s Daily Insanity

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 3d

I have learned so much from @pkrugman.bsky.social over the years

What a privilege to come on his show, to talk about this subject that matters so much to both of us substack.com/@paulkrugman...

Talking With Jonathan Cohn

The coming premium apocalypse, the shutdown, and more

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

The Republican strategy is essentially "We're going to talk about illegal aliens so you won't notice we're taking away your health insurance." @citizencohn.bsky.social:

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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 5d

Almost have to admire Johnson's ability to keep a straight face while saying Trump and Vought love federal workers, take no pleasure in these decisions, etc.

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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 5d

Speaker Johnson fretting about impact of a shutdown on low-income Americans minutes after boasting about GOP cuts that will mean millions lose health insurance -- and millions more losing food assistance -- is an interesting contrast

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11thhourmsnbc.bsky.social @11thhourmsnbc.bsky.social · 5d

"[Republicans] don't think they can win the [health care] debate. So, they are trying to move the debate over to immigration."

@citizencohn.bsky.social dispels the GOP's false claims about the government shutdown with @stephruhle.bsky.social on the #11thHour.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5d

Bari Weiss and JD Vance are very similar figures with very similar skills.

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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 5d

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

Thanks Red Sox for a great season.

Disappointed, but the future is bright. mason.gmu.edu/~rmatz/giama...

a man wearing a boston jersey holds a microphone

ALT: a man wearing a boston jersey holds a microphone

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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 7d

Every time you hear Trump, Vance or a GOP leader talk about “illegal aliens” getting health care, remember they are trying desperately to dodge blame for an insurance premium jump about to hit 20M+ Americans

Also they are lying www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...

The Republican Shutdown Argument is a Giant Lie

No, Democrats aren’t trying to fund health care for “illegal aliens.”

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Red Sox @redsox.com · 7d

One down.

TEXT: "Wild Card Game 1- WIN"
IMAGE: Black and white photo of Crochet pitching at Yankee Stadium overlaid with "Tremendously Locked In" logos.

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