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4 days ago | 
thebulwark.com | Tim Miller |William Kristol
Tim and Bill may have different takes on the wisdom of the U.S. bombing of Iran's nuclear sites—and on potential regime change—but they see eye-to-eye on the risks of Trump's ego and his incapable advisers in a dangerous situation. And where is the missing enriched uranium? Meanwhile, Stephen Miller's masked goons violently assaulted an immigrant landscaper and father of three Marines in Southern California.
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1 week ago | 
thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Jim Swift
Worth keeping an eye on the strains growing between GOP appropriators and Donald Trump’s OMB Director Russell Vought. Politico reports:The White House budget director has been persistently touting the virtues of “pocket rescissions,” a tactic he has floated as a way to codify the spending cuts Elon Musk made while atop his Department of Government Efficiency initiative, and which the federal government’s top watchdog says is illegal. . . .
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1 week ago | 
thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Jim Swift
With one week to go, Andrew Cuomo holds a shrinking but still substantial lead over democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in polling for New York City’s Democratic primary for mayor. A new Marist poll this morning finds Cuomo leading Mamdani through every stage of the city’s ranked-choice voting, eventually winning out at 55 percent to Mamdani’s 45 percent. This will be one to watch. Happy Wednesday. by Andrew EggerLast Thursday, California Sen.
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1 week ago | 
thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Cathy Young |Jim Swift
Minnesota is reeling from the shootings of several state lawmakers, but Donald Trump wants you to know he’s much too busy to call Gov. Tim Walz about the tragedy. After all, that’s time he could be using to slag on Tim Walz. “I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One early this morning. “I’m not calling. Why would I call him? I could call and say, ‘Hi, how you doing?’ The guy doesn’t have a clue. He’s a mess.
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1 week ago | 
thebulwark.com | Tim Miller |William Kristol |Terry Moran
In contrast to the saddest military junta parade in history, millions of patriotic people took to the streets on Saturday to defend American values and principles against Trump. But the deflated birthday boy now wants to ramp up the militarization of our largest cities on a completely partisan basis to achieve his mass deportation.
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1 week ago | 
thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Will Selber |Jim Swift
It may be true that Stephen Miller is a “world-class hater” driven by “bile” rather than “brains,” but if you report for ABC News, you’re apparently not allowed to say it. The network’s former star Terry Moran—fired last week for what the network called “a clear violation of ABC News policies” and we call “a pretty good tweet”—will join Tim this morning at 10 a.m. EDT for a live Substack chat. Should be a good time! Happy Monday.
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2 weeks ago | 
thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Will Selber |Jim Swift
Yesterday was one of those days when the news seemed to grow more existential by the moment. There was Trump’s apparent about-face on immigration enforcement, the manhandling of Sen. Alex Padilla at a DHS press conference, a judge’s ruling that Trump’s use of California’s National Guard was unconstitutional, and then Israel’s attack on Iran.
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2 weeks ago | 
thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Jim Swift
We hope that President Trump enjoyed his trip to the Kennedy Center to see Les Miserables last night. As we’ve argued in the past, as far as we’re concerned, the more time the big guy spends running around the Kennedy Center, doing interior design at the White House, micromanaging the installation of flagpoles on the lawn, and so on, the better for the rest of us. Happy Thursday. byAndrew EggerA year ago, if you’d told somebody familiar with Robert F.
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2 weeks ago | 
thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Jim Swift
The catfight heard ’round the world seems to have fully sputtered out: “I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week,” Elon Musk tweeted shortly after 3 a.m. this morning. “They went too far.”It’s unclear what early-morning intelligence Musk might have received to have made him reevaluate his former claims that Trump had been alarmingly close to Jeffrey Epstein and was now making the federal government cover that fact up.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Jim Swift
9 hours ago‘Other States Are Next’: California Gov. Gavin Newsom Addresses Nation in Speech Against Trump“What’s happening right now is very different than anything we’ve seen before,” Gavin Newsom, the Governor of California, said in a speech Tuesday night that was seemingly addressed as much to his own state’s residents as to the nation. “This isn’t just about protests here in Los Angeles. When …17 hours agoKristi Noem Tries To Tell Californians How To Vote"Gov.
