Why has today’s Senate, individually and collectively, surrendered its free will, backbone, and constitutional duties? The key is Trump. lnk.thebulwark.com/48UgS3H

Musk is, apparently, unimpressed with Doge's success. Well, if the objective was to make government more efficient, he is right. But if Doge's objective was to kill hundreds of thousands of adults and children overseas, it was a brilliant success! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

As a geriatrician, I know some other words for the weave, like tangentiality and circumlocution.

Heather Cox Richardson offers the most lucid explanation(s) of the way Trump and his cronies are taking a hammer to our beautiful America. Get her daily letter wherever you get your podcasts.

Don’t they all?

1) Impose massive tariffs on China 2) China retaliates by ending its soybean imports 3) Cut deal w/ China so they'll buy our soybeans 4) China buys only 20%, so far, of what it agreed to purchase 5) Offer $12 billion to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Happy Birthday Professor!! Enjoy your day!

If you follow discussions of hepatitis B immunization of infants on social media, you’ll come to 2 conclusions: 1) none of those who agree with the ACIP’s new changes have read any experts’ comments about why they’re bad; and, 2) it wouldn’t matter if they had. #vaccineswork

Tennessee right now in a district that was Trump +22:

"These people are garbage." —Donald Trump, while being garbage. “They took billions of dollars.” —Donald Trump, while taking billions of dollars. "They accomplish nothing." —Donald Trump, while accomplishing nothing. "All they do is complain." —Donald Trump, while complaining. #Projection

Sen. Kelly: “[Trump] is ignorant to the Constitution and has no regard for the rule of law…I will not be intimidated by this president. I am not going to be silenced by this president or the people around him because I've given too much in service to this country to back down to this guy.”

“I have absolutely no idea which part of my body the MRI was looking at. BUT I’M 1000% SURE IT WASN’T THE BRAIN!!!” It was the brain, if only to see if he has one.

He doesn’t care about you.

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WATCH: “ICE has become a fascist institution and should be abolished in its current form.” @timmiller.bsky.social of @thebulwark.com tells 20 Gen Z conservatives why masked ICE agents going after brown people and attacking even 🇺🇸 citizens is un-American Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DRjAzHR...

The Three Stooges of Justice

Pete Hegseth is right: Mark Kelly shouldn't be a senator. He should take Hegseth's job and be SECDEF. I'll be on MSNOW at 4pm to talk more about it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

True tale: A Baltimore police colonel called a rival at 3 a.m. from a crime scene: "Leon, I got you now. You fucked up. You wrote "POLICE" backwards on the front of the EVU truck." "Eddie, that's so it reads correctly in a rear view mirror." Long pause. "Aw Leon, you got an answer for everything."

Or you could stay, impeach him, and then leave.

Any vaccine related social media posts through Monday 11/24 need to let people know public comments to the CDC are open. We need comments from everyone who supports vaccines. bsky.app/profile/kait...

Maryland launches free vaccine program for uninsured adults - yes! More of this please. #vaccinessavelives

"Ukraine is fighting for the values we claim as our own: freedom, sovereignty, human dignity, democratic self-determination....If we fail to support that, we are not merely abandoning Ukraine. We are abandoning ourselves." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ihTiSP

Goddam right. You do the right thing -- which this republic desperately needs done -- and they pull your credentials. So what? You have a phone and your have your sources. or you should. And you continue to report on this presidency as your colleagues now do outside the Pentagon. Enough dishonor.

Politicians exaggerate, distort, and lie all the time. This is—however regrettable—an accepted part of our democratic politics. But until 2025, it was assumed that important, apolitical government agencies did *not* lie. www.thebulwark.com/p/is-rfk-jr-...

If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.

The CDC rewrote its vaccine guidance to suggest infant vaccines may cause autism. The federal government is no longer a reliable source of truth. And that’s what authoritarianism looks like; when science becomes political messaging. @jvl.bsky.social in The Triad: lnk.thebulwark.com/49xjMNW?utm_...

It’s quaint, I know, but the President of the United States calling for the hanging of Democratic service members for saying that no one should follow an illegal order should inspire a conversation about the 25th Amendment.

"Kids will get sick because of what the CDC just did. Some of them will die. But the even bigger story is that the U.S. government is no longer a reliable source of information" @jvl.bsky.social's latest Triad on RFK Jr. and his cranks. Only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/is-rfk-jr-...

open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi... RFK Jr. just reversed the CDC's position on vaccines and autism.

Is it better described as Lucy and the football or "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"?

WAPO SCOOP: U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols wapo.st/3Mbd9a6

"The wind moves across the ridge, brushing the flags and passing across the graves. And if you stand there long enough, you can almost hear his words carried back through time—not as history, but as instruction." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-great-...

"One of the things that we have to do in a post-Trump era is return to a place where we think dictators are bad." @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social revisits the moment Trump sided with Putin over U.S. intelligence in Helsinki, and how he’s now dropped the pretense of pretending dictators are bad.

Do you think a president who incited a riot to overturn an election he lied about losing is going to acknowledge that grocery prices are not in fact going down? www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-tell...

One is reminded of the crowds growing thinner during that legendary, if ill-fated North American tour of Spinal Tap: "Their appeal has become more selective." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Usually, JVL is the prince of darkness, but I have to agree with him that we may be seeing the high water mark of Trump here. Consider his evidence:

If Trump can't even make sense talking about one of his favorite things, his mind must really be deteriorating. Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-n...

Epstein survivors just demanded the release of the files in this new PSA. Watch it here.

Sen. Cassidy is putting our health at risk b/c he trusted a deranged, drug-addicted idiot, who spouts off medical conspiracy theories as if they are facts. This man is up for re-election in 2026, and the good people of Louisiana should vote him OUT in favor of a Dem who exercises better judgement.

Rep. Thomas Massie: "I would remind my Republican colleagues who are deciding how to vote that Donald Trump can protect you in red districts right now by giving you an endorsement. But in 2030, he's not gonna be the president and you will have voted to protect pedophiles."

If you call yourself a follower of Jesus Christ but support the pepper-spraying and arresting ministers, then thou art staggeringly full of crap.

Please read this thread - it will reduce your doomscrolling and suggest actions citizens (that is all of us) can take.

IT WAS THE BEST MRI OF WHATEVER EVER IT WAS SO AMAZING IT EVEN HAD DR. LECTER IN TEARS AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

"I've known Jeff [Epstein] for 15 years. Terrific guy. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side." --Donald Trump in 2002 to New York magazine.

NEW: The DOJ is in settlement talks with Mike Flynn for $50M. They're robbing us blind. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I’ve been injured by this administration. Where do I go for my settlement?

Fetterman, Senator Who Survived Stroke, Hospitalized After Fall www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u... - so concerning. Other reports have stated that the Senator doesn’t keep appointments with his doctors and is not compliant with his medicines. I hope he gets the help he needs.

If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.

An important side note about today's Epstein/Trump revelations. They show that Todd Blanche's questioning of Maxwell was either (a) completely incompetent; or (b) intentionally crafted not to elicit facts incriminating Trump. Either way, he is not fit to serve as Deputy Attorney General.