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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

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. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

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

"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.

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

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...

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

"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:

Wrote about it. www.thebulwark.com/p/is-this-wh...

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.

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

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

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.

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. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-want...

NEW: @eggerdc.bsky.social and @willsommer.bsky.social take on the story of how Donald Trump’s former Attorney General, Bill Barr, is now the target of a bizarre MAGA conspiracy theory — all thanks to a very curious “whistleblower” www.thebulwark.com/p/outrageous...

We have someone in charge of America's public health bureaucracy who will barely defend his own agency even after it's attacked by a gunman. Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-worst-...

The Kennedy Center is "a place where Trump's detestable qualities and his merely odd ones merge and interplay in interesting ways." And, maybe, less harmful ways. Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/lights-cam...

Trump’s got a new goon at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Let’s meet this disaster with @eggerdc.bsky.social

Camp Trump is the best Trump. www.thebulwark.com/p/lights-cam...

Elon Musk appears to be suggesting that Sam Altman is somehow gaming Twitter, the company that Elon Musk owns

"A sane world would have seen mRNA tech’s debut for what it was: a quantum leap forward in medicine with a surface of potential we’d barely scratched" -- @eggerdc.bsky.social in @thebulwark.com Morning Shots www.thebulwark.com/p/et-tu-jd-v...

"The dateline could be Belgrade or Bangkok, Caracas or Cairo. We’d read the stories, shake our heads, and reflect on the fragility of democracy in the Third World." It could be, but it's not. It's D.C. Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:

Trump and his allies pretend they're sticking up for public order. But this whole thing is shirts and skins. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-isnt...

The latest from YouGov: For context, there are about as many Democrats who found the Sydney Sweeney jeans campaign to be "offensive" as there are Democrats who support Trump's retaliatory tariffs. Probably not the best issue to capture the views of this group! today.yougov.com/topics/overv...

"Look at DOGE and you don’t see an elite strike force that was needed to figure out how to execute an intricate, novel task. You see a bunch of privileged elites who were granted the honor of mashing the delete key as part of the reward system in their clique." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-ge...

funniest outcome would be that trump killed epstein but it was over some obscure but relatively non scandalous 90s rich guy beef that trump lives for

Nobody wants to hear it but the answer is pickleball when the weather is good and racquetball when the weather is bad

"You'd imagine Trump would prefer not to be in a situation where his best strategic move appears to be to flirt with pardoning one of America’s most despicable criminals. But there is a strategy at work here." -- @eggerdc.bsky.social for @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/why-trump-...

A Ghislaine pardon might not be likely. But it's also not as implausible as you might think. Today's newsletter: www.thebulwark.com/p/why-trump-...

No good deed goes unpunished. www.youtube.com/watch?si=D87...

Well, when you put it that way... www.thebulwark.com/p/why-the-hu...

Remember back when Donald Trump was the world's biggest proponent of presidential immunity? He seems not to. www.thebulwark.com/p/how-many-o...

this website is insane

I will give Murdoch credit: Theranos also showed that he has genuine spine when it comes to attempts to kill a story

I just don’t understand why you would read any other newsletter than the one @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social, @eggerdc.bsky.social, @jimswift.bsky.social, and other Bulwark members put out. At the very least you will get some A+ headline work. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-donal...

We are taking these critiques to heart and will strive to deliver you far hornier political content in the future

Deep point by a Bulwark commenter: open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Pretty simple Dem message: If it’s a good thing to exempt individuals in the two “noncontiguous” states from health care cuts—which the Republicans have conceded it is—let’s do the right thing and exempt Americans in the other 48 states. By defeating this bill.

Super-quick take while reading the ruling: This is going to be a much bigger deal for challenges to *other* Trump policies than to birthright citizenship (where it's likely that lower courts will still be able to block the policy on a nationwide basis even after this ruling). *That's* the import.

Today’s legislation may be even less popular than the Obamacare repeal was. But it’s also a series of smaller, technical-sounding changes that are easier for Republicans to distort. Today's Morning Shots, from @eggerdc.bsky.social and @citizencohn.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-abo...

From Pete Hegseth to Pam Bondi to John Ratcliffe, yesterday was a perfect illustration of how Trump's own personal pathologies are now marching orders for the executive branch at every level. Today's newsletter: www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-abo...

There are now 59,000 people in immigration detention. Almost half have no criminal record www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-rec...

"As my Yiddish-speaking forebears would have told me: Mann tracht, un Gott lacht. Man plans, and God laughs. We get another type of Democratic nominee who seems poised to become a face of the party." Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:

The brutal arrests, detentions, and deportations are a stain on our collective consciousness and a black mark in our nation’s history. It is happening now, and it is going to get worse. Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:

It’s never good to see an opponent learn from his mistakes. So here’s some unsettling news: Like the Jurassic Park velociraptors opening the kitchen door, the White House is learning. Today's Morning Shots, from @eggerdc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/marco-rubi...

Can't lie this is a great bit

If you thought the ensuing backlash over the treatment of Alex Padilla might make federal agents more cautious about manhandling opposition politicians, you thought wrong. Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-goo...