A little while ago, a drug-company exec fainted in the Oval Office, and several people standing nearby—other executives, White House staffers—come over to help. But look at Trump's reaction. www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-...

Get ready: Receipts, our new economic newsletter from @crampell.bsky.social, is dropping the first edition tonight! Subscribe now to get it in your inbox: www.thebulwark.com/subscribe

Purely as a thought experiment: "Throw out everything you know about how stubborn and unreliable the president is. And imagine: What might a do-popular-things pivot from Trump look like at this moment? More importantly, could such a pivot work?" www.thebulwark.com/p/heres-what...

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

NEW: As a wise Supreme Court justice (Robert Jackson) once said, "emergency powers...tend to kindle emergencies." www.thebulwark.com/p/which-cons...

NEW: Why does Kash Patel's official jet keep flying to Nashville, where his girlfriend lives, sitting on the tarmac for an hour or two, and then flying back to the D.C. area? www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel...

The first woman speaker of the House, the second-longest-serving woman in the history of the House, and the fifth-longest-serving speaker, Nancy Pelosi will not be running for re-election. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Sandy Denny's song is a "lovely, lovely thing," Nina Simone said. Although the covers of this song, especially Simone's and Judy Collins's, are better known, I really like this recording of Denny singing it herself. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcD2...

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Sandy Denny's song is a "lovely, lovely thing," Nina Simone said. Although the covers of this song, especially Simone's and Judy Collins's, are better known, I really like this recording of Denny singing it herself. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcD2...

If you don't remember this individual, take a minute and google her so you can properly be glad she has been defeated.

Friends don't let friends call it Newsweek. Misleads people my age and older. Call it Zombie Newsweek.

Do you think a human being wrote this Newsweek headline without having read the article beneath it, and so without understanding that the Supreme Court did *not* rule on Trump's tariffs today? Or do you think some AI wrote the headline and made the mistake?

Disgusting stuff

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

NEW: After last night's wins, Democrats are starting to talk much more optimistically about their chances of retaking not just the House but even the Senate in 2026. Reporting from @lauren-egan.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

ABOUT LAST NIGHT: Gov. Josh Shapiro joins our Sarah Longwell www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

"The test of a first-rate intelligence," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." Exit polls show Californians overwhelmingly deplore gerrymandering—yet voted for it to counter Texas's power grab. 👇

NEW: Trump and his allies are trying to deflect blame for yesterday's overwhelming GOP defeat. But the exit polls make it clear that Republicans lost votes because of Trump and his policies. www.thebulwark.com/p/hey-republ...

"Trump is now pot-committed to his deportation reign of terror. He’s spent the money on DHS and is in the process of hiring thousands of ICE agents. Having insisted that America should be a 'Where are your papers?' society, there’s no climb-down available to him that his base will accept."

Interesting: Right-wing impresario Chris Rufo has an article in City Journal in which he advises conservatives on how to understand what white nationalist Nick Fuentes is up to. Rufo draws on Baudrillard, a thinker long despised on the American right (alongside Derrida, Foucault, Lacan).

NEW: "The single most important data point last night was the Hispanic vote." www.thebulwark.com/p/2025-elect...

Hahahaha

Johnson's claim that this Congress has been "arguably the most productive of all time" is such bullshit. Even setting aside the longest government shutdown in U.S. history (!), this Congress has been historically unproductive*, and the main big bill it passed included very harmful provisions.

a tacky one in a strip mall next to an ailing shoney's you know it smells like cheap, tasteless scrambled eggs and stale coffee in there

Johnson's gross use of the words "tragedy" and "immoral" to describe the success of Prop 50 in California makes him sound so desperate.

"Mamdani’s own lyrical description of the coalition he stitched together included immigrants he said have often been forgotten by the city’s politics: 'Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas, Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses, Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties.'"

it's giving wedding venue

I like it when good news follows good news.

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Okay, no, this is not a lullaby, not by any stretch of the imagination, but this one is for the Bluesky mood tonight. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAa4...

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Okay, no, this is not a lullaby, not by any stretch of the imagination, but this one is for the Bluesky mood tonight. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAa4...

Bulwark election-night livestream still underway, digging into the numbers with @timmiller.bsky.social, @jvl.bsky.social, and @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj91...

Katie Couric and Lis Smith join The Bulwark livestream...

Great question for Hakeem Jeffries from @samsteindc.bsky.social: When's the last time you talked with Mike Johnson or Donald Trump? 👇

Winsome, lose some.

LIVESTREAM: Election night coverage from The Bulwark has begun—with Rep. Hakeem Jeffries joining as a guest right now: www.youtube.com/live/Vj91h-g...

The legal ethics committee of the D.C. Bar is ringing warning bells about the deals that Big Law firms cut with the Trump administration. www.thebulwark.com/p/big-law-bi...

Trump's untethered foreign policy weakens NATO, confuses allies on other continents, emboldens adversaries, and cheapens the seriousness of both diplomats and military forces. www.thebulwark.com/p/nigeria-ro...

NEW: Actual quote from actual Senate Republican about Trump's secret ballroom donors: "Well, private funds are paying for it, so I don’t know, do they have to release that? I mean if somebody’s going to give $400 million dollars, they might not want it released." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-whit...

hahaha, I love this story so much

NEW: "A perfectly pleasing creature feature that revels in the absurdity of putting the universe’s greatest killing machine on a planet designed to kill invaders." www.thebulwark.com/p/predator-b...

"So Trump is doing worse [with independent voters] than Biden at literally the lowest point in his presidency." 👇

The economy used to be Trump's strongest issue in the opinion polls. But as voters come to realize that Trump is not just doing a bad job but ACTIVELY working to make the economy worse, his poll numbers are plunging: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkSJ...

NEW: A few things to watch for this Election Day. (Plus, links to our Election Night coverage.) www.thebulwark.com/p/election-d...

hahahahahaha

U.S. Steel. Nvidia. Intel. Westinghouse. By squeezing one company after another, Trump "is literally seizing the means of production," writes @jvl.bsky.social. He's "a socialist...trying to make the American economy function more like Communist China." And all the while calling Mamdani a communist.

"Scorsese has embodied the dominance of filmmaking on the cultural imagination in a way that nearly no one else has. I fear to think what it will mean when he leaves the stage for good."