“Look, I would have concerns should we decide to bomb London. We don’t have those plans,” he said. “So would I be concerned about NATO if the United States started attacking NATO countries? I mean, that’s obvious, but that’s not what’s happening.” www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...

Already gone international

I am begging people to try to have some fun amid the chaos

It's a secret third thing www.thebulwark.com/p/nicolas-ma...

the pasta-stained tupperware begging me to scrub it before tossing it into the dishwasher

It's even worse than that. Bolsonaro fell onto a floor covered in hundreds of mousetraps, which clattered and snipped him all over. He is receiving medical attention.

It’s our first day back in the Senate after the holiday break. I’ve got A LOT of questions about Venezuela for lawmakers. I’m sure you do too. If you wanna know what I hear, check it out in tomorrow’s newsletter @ presspass.thebulwark.com

lol of course

Why did they put Maduro in a matching Nike tech fleece set??? Or was he in one when they grabbed him? I need answers

LIVE: We're reacting now with @samsteindc.bsky.social, @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social, @cheetah.bsky.social, @markhertling.bsky.social and Ben Parker to Trump saying that the U.S. is going to be running Venezuela: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aeaw...

I also love America and believe in its stated values. And I understand that this pronouncement lands very differently when it comes from an organization that has intentionally been overhauled in order to curry favor with a jingoistic proto-fascist who says his opponents hate the country.

The Florida-ization of Italy www.wantedinrome.com/news/italy-m...

I was born in April 1805 Napoleon was master of Europe Only the BRITISH FLEET stood before him Oceans were now battlefields

Bill the Butcher will return in Avengers: Doomsday

The new season of Emily in Paris prominently features the Colosseo Quadrato, otherwise known as Mussolini’s colosseum.

Caso Epstein, nuove rivelazioni su Trump: ha viaggiato almeno 8 volte sul jet del finanziere pedofilo https://www.corriere.it/esteri/25_dicembre_23/caso-epstein-nuove-rivelazioni-su-trump-i-viaggi-sul-jet-del-finanziere-e-la-lettera-a-larry-nassar-874a4da1-619a-49f2-88b3-672901ea9xlk.shtml

They are going to be painted gold aren’t they

I left my heart in Seattle Franerisco

John Kennedy fundraising for Scalise keeps sending out the same email “madder than a wet hen in a tote sack” whatever that means…

Some Dems are gonna be very weary of pursuing something like this in an election year when they currently have the GOP in a bind and forced to deal with health care, their single worst policy issue. I would even anticipate some House Dems sit out a privileged impeachment table vote.

The first week back on the Hill is gonna be insane.

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

This should terrify you, but if you need a pick me up, just watch this vid bsky.app/profile/rudb...

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

There's been a lot of chaos this year. Here are some of my favorite pieces I've written for @thebulwark.com in 2025 if you wanna relive the horror Dispatch from the J6ers Inaugural ball www.thebulwark.com/p/where-we-g...

Real ones will spot the Dripping Wet Surf Shop stickers from Sydney on the tale of the board.

Please Do Not Release Any More Epstein Files, They Are Not Important, by A Guy In The Epstein Files

Been trying (and failing) to convince my wife to watch Apocalypto for years. This @sonnybunch.bsky.social review of the new Avatar provides the perfect opening for another shot. Did you like it? Yes? Great, I have a comparable film we should watch next. www.thebulwark.com/p/avatar-fir...

Yesterday's newsletter was about how you should expect more discharge petitions as Mike Johnson loses his grip on the House. This morning, we have another successful trigger www.thebulwark.com/p/mike-johns...

The 3-year ACA extension discharge petition has received its 218th signature. It will get a vote.

Every single day this White House finds new ways to upset me

You shouldn't interpret what's happening as some great bipartisan awakening. It's just that everyone has a breaking point when the leaders won't play ball and there are ways in which they can go around the party brass www.thebulwark.com/p/mike-johns...

Americans want health insurance companies to have talking animal spokesmen on their TV every 13 minutes during football games

how your family looks at you over the holidays when you finally come downstairs hungover at 11:47am

jump scare

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.

American security experts fear that growing networks of foreign spies, combined with new technology, represent an unprecedented threat—one the FBI, the primary agency tasked with thwarting hostile foreign intelligence services, may struggle to address.

Study Finds Young People Now Watch More YouTube Content Than Zoetropes Of Galloping Horses https://theonion.com/study-finds-young-people-now-watch-more-youtube-content-than-zoetropes-of-galloping-horses/

They hate that they have to do this again www.thebulwark.com/p/senate-hou...

Just a random congressman purchasing half a million dollars in Netflix stock a couple weeks before they announce a potential merger with Warner Bros. I spoke to Rep. Fields about it this afternoon. Will have more in my newsletter tomorrow presspass.thebulwark.com

ICE trying to ORDER a church to REMOVE A NATIVITY SCENE is one of the most astonishing First Amendment violations I've seen in ever

"there's a new serif in town"

Yes, I do sleep in a suit and tie.

I might do this on occasion, sharing with readers details they might not know about modern reporting. Most if not all Hill reporters use AI for fast transcription but I've stopped, because it can place a barrier on how you understand what you've just been told. www.thebulwark.com/i/180815207/...

The Taliban has added menswear guys to their list of oppressed peoples www.cbsnews.com/news/taliban...

Last week I wrote about why this is in the "make up a dumb new idea to generate free PR" category of legislation. The enforcement is nonsensical. You don't renounce citizenship to the US govt, you do it to the govt of which you hold that 2nd citizenship, the US has no database of dual citizens, etc.

Keep seeing people say Avatar has no cultural impact and that no one ever quotes any dialogue from it. It's false. I quote Avatar literally every time I play golf. "I love this putter Ronnie! I love this putter" when I make my one good putt.

Today is the 10th anniversary of one of the stupidest tweets ever written

This is not something you would do if you respect and care about your audience www.axios.com/2025/12/02/c...