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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Jun 17
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20m
"While only 1 percent of Democrats say they endorse non-democratic government in the United States, fully 10 percent of Republicans now say as much." It could be worse! www.thebulwark.com/p/violence-h...
We Hate Each Other More than We Understand
A great deal more than we understand each other.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 49m
Simply producing cinematic footage is not enough. DHS has also turned to MAGA’s strongest soldiers in the culture wars to help them spread it. And those right-wing influencers, in turn, have focused their efforts on one platform: Elon Musk’s X. www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-propag...
The ICE Propaganda Campaign Goes Into Overdrive
MAGA commentators are stepping up as soldiers in Trump’s culture war to provoke confrontations against “Antifa” with the backing of DHS.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h
"Either what Trump is doing is legal, or it is illegal. If it is legal, then Trumpism must be defeated and there then must be a concerted effort to reform the law....If it is illegal, then eventually, someone has to go to jail." www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...
Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next
We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h
One week into the shutdown fight the signs of Republican weakness are impossible to miss, up to and including Trump declaring, "We have a negotiation going on right now with the Democrats that could lead to very good things." 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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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h
Gov. Wes Moore: "Trump yesterday threatened to withhold back pay for our federal workers. I want to be clear, those comments are reckless, those comments are  irresponsible, and importantly, those comments are illegal. To our federal workers, I'm sorry."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h
Republicans are trying to do to Smith’s investigations what they did to the Russia investigation: They’re trying to recast Trump as the victim. In the face of so much lying, it’s sometimes hard to maintain your grip on reality. You have us. www.thebulwark.com/p/bondi-host...
Bondi to Congress: 🖕
The attorney general came to the Hill to deliver a message to Democrats: Your ‘oversight’ couldn't matter to us less.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h
Republicans "couldn’t cobble together a single palatable health care law in the first Trump presidency, and they don’t have any desire to try again."
The Obamacare Repeal Movement Is Dead. Long Live Obamacare Repeal.
“It’s probably gonna happen after the midterms.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h
It’s not enough to round up and detain those here illegally; video of it must be shot, edited, dramatized, and disseminated. ICE is now in the content creation business.

The latest edition of Huddled Masses from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-propag...
The ICE Propaganda Campaign Goes Into Overdrive
MAGA commentators are stepping up as soldiers in Trump’s culture war to provoke confrontations against “Antifa” with the backing of DHS.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h
"The president of the United States is choosing to escalate a conflict between the federal government and the state of Illinois into, also, a state-on-state conflict."

It isn't what it kind of sounds like, yet, but it's pointing in that direction. @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h
"Eve uses it to create a tree bearing fruit—which is somehow both simultaneously on the metaphorical nose yet also slightly askew, as if the writer kind of forgot how the whole Eden/Eve thing worked." Tron: Ares is that kind of movie. www.thebulwark.com/p/tron-ares-...
‘Tron: Ares’ Review
A video game without rules is just boring chaos.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h
Soboroff: “Are you willing to direct the state police to arrest any federal officials for what they're doing here?”

Pritzker: “We don't break the law here in Illinois. I'm not going to direct our state police to break the law the way that Donald Trump directs people to break the law.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h
We have just a few tickets left to tonight’s Bulwark Live show in DC!

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h
Pritzker: “The federal government is not communicating with our state…It’s unconscionable…They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h
Pritzker on Trump calling for his arrest: “Trump always chickens out… We’ve done nothing wrong here. And very importantly, it’s Donald Trump that is breaching the Constitution, breaking the law. We’re taking him to court, and I believe we’re going to win.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3h
Pritzker: “This is a convicted felon…who is threatening to jail me. This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump: If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3h
"The gaps are wide but perhaps not as deep as we fear, and there remain opportunities for leaders to appeal to unity and mutual respect." They just need to do that. www.thebulwark.com/p/violence-h...
We Hate Each Other More than We Understand
A great deal more than we understand each other.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3h
"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021.
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Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next
We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h
Gov. Josh Shapiro: "I respect the Canadian people and Canada's sovereignty... When POTUS bullies Canada, threatens to make them the 51st state, belittles them, undermines their sovereignty, that undermines the interests of our farmers and the people who work in our factories."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h
A Turning Point spokesman confirmed that Charlie Kirk's texts about Jewish donors are real.

"I'm not even gonna get into what the stereotypes are."

@willsommer.bsky.social and @samsteindc.bsky.social talk Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens, and Israel:
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s claim about insurance costs checks out. Her characterization of GOP leadership also has the ring of truth.

You never know what will come out of a shutdown fight.
Democrats Are Winning the Shutdown Fight
Turns out Republicans still haven’t figured out the politics of health care.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h
"Republicans in the Senate are trying to rewrite history to make Jack Smith the bad guy and Donald Trump the innocent victim. It's complete bullshit and the article explains why. So I hope you'll read it."

Read it from @saletan.bsky.social in today's Morning Shots www.thebulwark.com/p/bondi-host...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h
"If a deal is to be made on the ACA to get us past the government funding impasse, it will be a narrow one on the issue of subsidies. But even that is more than most Republicans want to think about right now." www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h
For the first time since Trump took office in January, it feels like Democrats are the ones with the upper hand and Republicans are the ones in disarray.

Read about it in the latest edition of The Breakdown from @citizencohn.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h
Tron itself "doesn’t really hold up and is dated in the absolute worst sort of ways, a relic of its time that feels as hokey as any of the Z-grade schlock mocked on Mystery Science Theater." This attempted resurrection? Nah.

@sonnybunch.bsky.social reviews: www.thebulwark.com/p/tron-ares-...
‘Tron: Ares’ Review
A video game without rules is just boring chaos.
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