A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Here's rocker Steve Winwood's solo, outdoors, COVID-era recording of "Now the Green Blade Riseth" (twentieth-century words set to a carol a few centuries older). See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpU0...

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Here's rocker Steve Winwood's solo, outdoors, COVID-era recording of "Now the Green Blade Riseth" (twentieth-century words set to a carol a few centuries older). See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpU0...

Look, I just want to live in a pluralistic society with efficient government services, walkable cities, and every kind of fusion taco that can exist. Kimchi? Butter chicken? French tacos (which everyone else would call a burrito but the French are French) All a yes across the board.

While reading 'The Hobbit' with my 6- and 4-year-olds tonight, we reached my favorite line: "It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."

Miami has seen more ICE arrests over the last year than any other city in the United States—"a remarkable distinction considering Miami’s status as a metropolis that became MAGAfied thanks to Trump’s gains with Latinos." www.thebulwark.com/p/welcome-to...

It's almost like there is a trade-off between loyalty and competence 🤔

Remembering a very special Bulwark reader. www.thebulwark.com/p/shane-digi...

"Liberalism is a conversation. It has been for centuries, and it will be for centuries more. We haven't figured it all out yet, but we do know there are certain bedrock principles that are non-negotiable, because they are simply the way we ought to treat one another." — @aaronrosspowell.com

Really does look like Putin:

Free @stephenking.bsky.social -style story idea, courtesy of my 10-year-old, free for anyone to run with: a food truck that comes to life at night... because the customers that it fed during the day become the prey it must feed on at night.

Lindsey Graham tweeted this morning that "if it’s not clear to Iran and others by now that President Trump means what he says then I don’t know when it will ever be." Really?: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-glos...

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The Fisk Jubilee Singers—the legendary choir of Nashville's Fisk University—made this recording of the great black spiritual "Were You There" back in the 1950s. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLVd...

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The Fisk Jubilee Singers—the legendary choir of Nashville's Fisk University—made this recording of the great black spiritual "Were You There" back in the 1950s. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLVd...

Crazy things Pete Hegseth did YESTERDAY alone: 1) Fired head of the Army 2) Changed rules to allow military personnel to carry personal weapons on bases 3) Fired head of the Chaplain Corps 4) NBC reports he blocked promotions of a dozen Black or female officers All further evidence for my column:

(We've already started to receive emails from people irked that we used "staunched" instead of "stanched" in this headline.)

NEW: "Film productions have been fleeing from California…largely because of incredibly generous subsidies in states like Georgia & countries like England. The number of shoot days in Los Angeles is in precipitous decline, dropping 16 percent between 2024 and 2025." www.thebulwark.com/p/america-is...

Guys, the President was literally threatening to invade the territory of a NATO country earlier this year, to the point where they had to deploy troops to deter it. That has consequences.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

NEW: "Trump likes to move on women. He also apparently likes to fire them." No one should shed tears for Pam Bondi or Kristi Noem. But it is striking that Trump has fired these two women, when so many firing-worthy men were right there. www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The French composer and organist Maurice Duruflé's 1960 setting of "Ubi caritas"—often heard on Maundy Thursday—here in a 2019 performance by Early Music Vancouver. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxT_...

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The French composer and organist Maurice Duruflé's 1960 setting of "Ubi caritas"—often heard on Maundy Thursday—here in a 2019 performance by Early Music Vancouver. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxT_...

"Trump doesn’t want the American people to think too hard about the lack of justification for the war....And he wants to divert attention as much as possible from the real-world consequences of his war for the American and global economy." www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-pat...

Even as Jonathan Keeperman’s personal star has risen, his right-wing publishing house has been melting down. www.thebulwark.com/p/inside-the...

"Any one of these things might be seen as political suicide in an election year. But all of them together, at once? It really starts to look like a deliberate plan to undermine his own party." www.thebulwark.com/p/is-trump-t...

"The Islamic Republic is still in full control of Iran. The supreme leader was chosen completely independently of American input. Iran’s nuclear program remains as destroyed as it was in June.…Trump concedes that America is willing to end operations with the strait still closed." So: Iran won.

"In an instant, Sauer had been forced to highlight not just the arbitrariness of the executive order—as if Trump is the boss of the Constitution—but also the fundamental unworkability of his interpretation of the Citizenship Clause." www.thebulwark.com/p/justices-q...

Jan. 6 rioter who received a taxpayer funded salary from the Trump administration and worked for DOJ’s “weaponization” working group is out. “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, you fucking criminal,” says a former Jan. 6 prosecutor.

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hahahaha

Trump's Stare Decisis Staredown! www.thebulwark.com/p/justices-q...

NEW: A look inside the meltdown at one creepy far-right manosphere publisher. www.thebulwark.com/p/inside-the...

Key line here: "By abdicating responsibility for the strait and saying it should be someone else’s problem, America is inviting into existence a rival economic and military alliance."👇

NEW: America Lost. Iran Won. Trump Shat the Bed. www.thebulwark.com/p/america-lo...

Real, and to some persuasive, 2024 arguments: Elect Harris, get a new Middle East war; elect Trump, get peace The US economy was historically awful Regional war in the Middle East wouldn't matter and Biden wrongly worked to avoid it Displays of toughness make other countries do whatever you want

good thread on creativity and AI:

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: This year marks the centennial of George Gershwin's Three Preludes for piano; he first performed them in late 1926. The second of the three, in C♯ minor—which Gershwin called "a sort of blues lullaby"—was recorded here by Evgeny Kissin in 2021. See you around.

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: This year marks the centennial of George Gershwin's Three Preludes for piano; he first performed them in late 1926. The second of the three, in C♯ minor—which Gershwin called "a sort of blues lullaby"—was recorded here by Evgeny Kissin in 2021. See you around.

Come hang out with us tonight after Trump's speech

"Part of me looks at this monstrosity and, for the first time in my life, starts rooting for climate change. Let the ocean swallow it.…Another part of me hopes that it stands for all eternity as a monument to the American people. It is an exemplar of Trumpism; an almost perfect tribute to our age."👇

Huge news for Bump-heads!

Catch @crampell.bsky.social on Slate's What Next? podcast talking oil-supply disruption and renewable energy! lnk.thebulwark.com/4v6qmmD

I saw this NYT article claiming Trump has been "intently focused" on something for a decade—something other than himself—and I just gotta say, these April Fool's pranks are going too far.

There's a lot that's screwed up about Orbán's final campaign push—but what most stands out is how he is campaigning not so much against his opponent and the opposition party but rather against Zelensky and Ukraine. It's really sick. www.thebulwark.com/p/orban-will...

You know who has been having a pretty okay couple of weeks? This guy: www.thebulwark.com/p/zelensky-k...

The Trump Library is planned to built on a parking lot that until recently belonged to Miami Dade College. Check out the sordid tale of how it came to be in Trump's hands: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-great-...

Marco Rubio in 2023

"The rules for nonprofit entities were abused to the point of death, allowing a supposed work of charity to become payola for the Trump family."👇

"You will be shocked to learn that there is a shell game happening with the nonprofit vehicles supposedly behind Trump’s library." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-great-...

And then late last year, the prognosis of a few months came. Shane had a wonderful celebration of life, that I was lucky to attend. Here's a taste: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-n...