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21 hours ago | 
thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Jim Swift
Hard to turn around these days without tripping over an embarrassing story about Pete Hegseth’s clown-car Defense Department, but here’s one particularly evocative vignette from Politico about his outgoing chief of staff, Joe Kasper:At times, Kasper’s detractors say his leadership seemed almost juvenile. He graphically described his bowel movements to colleagues in one high-level meeting, according to two people who were in the meetings.
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2 days ago | 
thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Jim Swift |Joe Perticone
If you were an ailing pope, one of the metal things you could do is gut it through Holy Week out of sheer force of will and die on Easter Monday. RIP, Francis. Happy Monday. by Joe PerticoneVATICAN CITY—I was walking along the Tiber river when a push notification delivered the news that Pope Francis, a pragmatic leader of the church who emphasized practicing compassion above nearly everything else, had died Monday morning after celebrating Easter. I arrived in the Piazza San Pietro soon thereafter.
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5 days ago | 
thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Jim Swift
A major intra-Democratic story to watch going forward: David Hogg, one of several vice chairs of the Democratic National Committee, is planning on spending millions on primary challenges against some House Democratic incumbents next year through a separate group he leads. As you might expect, many House Democrats are less than thrilled about this. “What a disappointment from leadership,” Rep. Hillary Scholten, a Michigan swing-district lawmaker, told Axios.
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6 days ago | 
thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Jim Swift
The Trump administration, it seems, isn’t happy “just” to cut Harvard University off from federal grants for declining a functional federal takeover at the private institution.
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1 week ago | 
thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Jonathan Cohn
Tim Miller and guests discuss the latest political news for the flagship podcast of the Never Trump movement and the reality-based community. Every weekday we provide insightful analysis, political hot-takes, an unabashed defense of liberal democracy and long-form interviews that cut through the "both-sides" BS. Plus a few laughs to help you wash down the crazy. An ad-free edition is exclusively available for Bulwark+ members.
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1 week ago | 
open.substack.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger
No time to give it its due, what with the constitutional crisis, but we can’t fully pass over Trump’s wild assertion yesterday that Ukraine started the war with Russia: “You don’t start a war against someone twenty times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles.”Okay, now on to the worse stuff. Happy Tuesday.
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1 week ago | 
thebulwark.com | Tim Miller |William Kristol
We are here: Trump is openly defying the Supreme Court while sitting side-by-side with a Latin American strongman who openly mocked our judicial system from inside the Oval Office. Trump so badly wants his one-man rule and Republicans keep helping him, while corporate America keeps trying to get on his good side. Meanwhile, the intimidation is chilling free speech on college campuses and within immigrant communities. Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.
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1 week ago | 
thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Jim Swift
Last night, JVL fired off a great emergency Triad on the Trump administration’s breathtaking snubbing of the Supreme Court order requiring it to facilitate the return from El Salvador of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If you haven’t yet, we hope you’ll give it a read. The hour grows late. Happy Monday. by Andrew EggerThe tariff whiplash, it seems, will continue until economic morale improves.
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1 week ago | 
thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Sarah Longwell
This week on Bulwark on Sunday, Sarah Longwell joins Bill Kristol to tell you exactly what to do to stop Trump’s corruption and chaos. Available for iOS and AndroidAs always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams, and event archives exclusively for Bulwark+ members. Don’t care for video? Use the controls on the left side of the player to toggle to audio. Add Bulwark+ Takes feed to your player of choice, here. Discussion about this video
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1 week ago | 
thebulwark.com | William Kristol |Andrew Egger |Jim Swift
“The Golden Age is coming,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick proclaimed this morning. “We are committed to protecting our interests, engaging in global negotiations and exploding our economy.”We don’t know about you, but we’ve had about enough of these guys exploding our economy. Happy Thursday. by Andrew EggerThe unstoppable force of crashing markets versus the immovable object of Donald Trump’s belief in the salutary power of tariffs: For days, everyone’s been wondering which would win.
