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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 2d

In Trump's America, "military police are heroic patriots by virtue of being in *his* military police," writes @eggerdc.bsky.social. And the law's only job is "getting out of their way."

Conversely, "people who object to his will—whenever, wherever—are dangerous insurgents who must be rooted out."

The Rule of Law vs. The Rule of Trump

A crisis moment in the defining debate of our time.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 3d

My colleagues and I are SUPER excited about this: The amazing @crampell.bsky.social is joining our team at The Bulwark.

www.semafor.com/article/10/0...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8d

What the hell was that?

We're about to react LIVE to Trump and Hegseth's strange speech to generals

Reaction to Hegseth & Trump’s Strange Speech to Generals

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 15d

Read @eggerdc.bsky.social on the (bad) impersonation of a medical professional that took place at the White House yesterday www.thebulwark.com/p/hes-not-a-...

He’s Not a Doctor. But He Did Stay at the White House Last Night.

In retrospect, maybe the era of bleach-injection speculation wasn’t so bad.

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Andrew Egger @eggerdc.bsky.social · 15d

Look this is just why it's important to read labels closely.

HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 16d

Oh my god, they weren't kidding, I've just seen the warnings leaflet that comes with a box of Tylenol. How were they keeping this quiet?!

A drug leaflet that repeatedly says Trump's name is in the Epstein Files

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15d

Welcome to the ass-kissing festival

@eggerdc.bsky.social and @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social break down Trump's UN appearance.

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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 15d

Check out @eggerdc.bsky.social and @cathyyoung63.bsky.social in @thebulwark.com's Morning Shots.

As Trump says, "Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen." www.thebulwark.com/p/hes-not-a-...

He’s Not a Doctor. But He Did Stay at the White House Last Night.

In retrospect, maybe the era of bleach-injection speculation wasn’t so bad.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 19d

Listen to @samsteindc.bsky.social: If you like media that doesn't feel that it has to like shut up in order to get on the good side of Big Brother, subscribe to the Bulwark

Do it here right now: www.thebulwark.com/subscribe

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Andrew Egger @eggerdc.bsky.social · 20d

The best SNL moment of the last few years was the post-election moment where they got LMM on stage to head-fake a Hamilton resistlib anthem and then smash cut to a 10-minute James Austin Johnson Trump monologue instead

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 20d

the past is another country

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 21d

The same people who bragged about "creating" the Haitian dog-eating story now demand that comedians have their facts exactly accurate at all times, or else the power of the federal government will be unleashed on them.
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Emergency Triad: First, They Came for Jimmy Kimmel

What happens when comedians are held to stricter standards than vice presidents?

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Andrew Egger @eggerdc.bsky.social · 22d

Or like, I don't know. In an emergency use your tie or your jacket sleeve or something!

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Andrew Egger @eggerdc.bsky.social · 22d

For me, the most shocking moment of Kash Patel's Senate testimony today was when he cleaned his glasses with his thumb

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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 23d

"Miller’s promise ... is to bring down the fist of the state on radical left organizations, to take away their money and their power." That's *in addition* to his pledge to "take away [the] freedom" of "those who have broken the law."

@eggerdc.bsky.social on Stephen Miller's plan to purge the left.

It’s Stephen Miller’s Show Now

The most powerful guy in Trump’s ear has a plan for how to respond to the death of Charlie Kirk. You’re not going to like it.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23d

Stephen Miller vs. Spencer Cox? @eggerdc.bsky.social outlines two radically different Republican responses to the murder of Charlie Kirk, in his contribution to today's Morning Shots newsletter

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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 23d

Another pair of must-reads in today's Morning Shots

@eggerdc.bsky.social on the rhetoric of Stephen Miller

@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social on the persecution of transgender Americans www.thebulwark.com/p/its-stephe...

It’s Stephen Miller’s Show Now

The most powerful guy in Trump’s ear has a plan for how to respond to the death of Charlie Kirk. You’re not going to like it.

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Andrew Egger @eggerdc.bsky.social · 27d

I was in 1st grade during Bush v. Gore and 13 when birtherism took off. Other than that, this guy's got me pegged

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 27d

"Kirk wasn’t my enemy. My enemy—an enemy I share with many who would call themselves *my* enemy—is the person who shot him, and anyone else who would reach for violence as a means to a political end."

Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:

Is This Who We Are?

Political violence has always been a dark part of America. Can we move past it again?

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Andrew Egger @eggerdc.bsky.social · 27d

Wrote about it.

www.thebulwark.com/p/is-this-wh...

Is This Who We Are?

Political violence has always been a dark part of America. Can we move past it again?

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 28d

HAPPENING NOW: The Trump administration withdraws its claim that parents of the Guatemalan children it tried to send back last month had requested their return.

DOJ says it has no basis for that claim now in light of contradictory info provided by the Guatemalan government.

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Andrew Egger @eggerdc.bsky.social · Aug 22

I go huge swaths of time forgetting Sean Davis exists and it's so exciting whenever I remember. He's just a cut above.

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · Aug 22

so the reason the Times jumped on the chip story so fast is...they had been trying for weeks to nail down a bigger story about systematic bribery of Chinese-language news outlets

Jennie Coughlin @jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · Aug 21

Yesterday a lot of folks were gobsmacked that Winnie Greco had insisted on handing @katiehonan.bsky.social a red envelope of cash in a potato chip bag at an Adams campaign event. Here's a new story from some of my colleagues that seems to connect some dots.

Red Envelopes With Cash Are Changing Hands at Adams Campaign Rallies

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · Aug 22

Frieze, Fulton County Dept. of Health and Wellness, Atlanta, Georgia.
They don't decorate public buildings the way they used to.

It makes me feel better already.
Go get 'em doc.
Not today Death, not today.

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Andrew Egger @eggerdc.bsky.social · Aug 18

Trump doesn't care about crime stats. He knows what security feels like in the shortform-video age: Videos of cops cracking heads breaking into MAGA's drip-feed of crime content.
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Trump Wants Cop Violence in Your Feed

Plus: How much of the damage of the Alaska summit can Zelensky and the Europeans undo?

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