#TimMiller of #TheBulwark interviews #MarkCuban Worth the listen and watch. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/mark-cuban-character-is-destiny
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@RickiTarr @rightsprung @d4rkness I have found there are others who have had a similar transformation. #TimMiller #SarahLongwell and #JonathanVLast of #TheBulwark are among them https://www.thebulwark.com/s/bulwarkpodcast
Nice post analysis, compare & contrast #NoKings vs the Tangerine Birthday Tank Parade.
No Kings: Stand Against Trump’s Un-American Birthday Bash – The Bulwark
(Composite / Photos: GettyImages / Shutterstock)No Kings: Stand Against Trump’s Un-American Birthday Bash
He claims it’s about the Army, but it’s really about him.By Jeffrey C. Isaac, Jun 12, 2025
JUNE 14 IS A SPECIAL DAY. It was officially designated in 1949 as Flag Day—not one of the federal holidays for which anybody gets time off from work, but an honored day to remember the adoption by the Second Continental Congress of the Stars and Stripes as the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777.
But Donald Trump has chosen another event from two years earlier as the anniversary on which he is pinning his enormous military parade on the streets of Washington, D.C.: the creation of the U.S. Army by that same Second Continental Congress on June 14, 1775. This would make June 14, 2025 an occasion to celebrate what Trump regards as the indissoluble link between the nation, its capacity for violence, and himself, the indispensable avatar of “patriotism” and redeemer of American Greatness.
There are several problems here, but let’s start with an easy one: To be historically accurate, the 250th Army birthday that Trump claims to commemorate is a fake. At best, you can say it fudges the historical record.
Read more: No Kings: Stand Against Trump’s Un-American Birthday Bash – The BulwarkSource Links: No Kings: Stand Against Trump’s Un-American Birthday Bash
#2025 #America #Books #DonaldTrump #FlagDay #History #June14th #Library #NoKings #Politics #Resistance #TheBulwark #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates
#TimMiller of #TheBulwark interviews #GeneralMarkHertling about #Trump speech at #FtBragg https://www.thebulwark.com/p/mark-hertling-contrary-to-american
#SarahLongwell of #TheBulwark interviews #AmyWalter of the #CookPoliticalReport about #NewJersey #Gubernatorial candidates https://www.thebulwark.com/p/new-jerseys-very-odd-year-with-amy
Here's the Bulwark interview/event with Justin Jones the other night! #JustinJobes #TennesseeThree #TheBulwark
https://youtu.be/mwa_C3kf0zQ
#TimMiller interviews #PeteButtigieg on #TheBulwark https://youtu.be/giZtjgXXfUA
I went to a Bulwark Live event last night in Nashville and it was awesome! It made me feel hopeful for the first time in a while. One of the highlights was Justin Jones, one of my state legislators who got kicked out by the Tennessee republican supermajority a few years ago after trying to force change after yet another school shooting. He's inspirational. And only 29!! He said as punishment for the incident a few years ago he was removed from his committees and put on the agriculture committee because he has no experience with agriculture. But he started traveling around the state meeting with farmers, and now he's one of the only elected officials meeting with them about the impacts of tariffs. He said a lot of people in deep red districts are changing their minds about democrats because they're the only ones trying to talk to and help people. This is how to do it!! #TheBulwark #JustinJones #TennesseeThree
A Marine's Case Against MAGA (W/
Michael Wood)
A talk with Michael Wood, a Marine Corps veteran with two Purple Hearts, about his service in Afghanistan and what Memorial Day means to those who served. They also discuss Texas politics, Wood’s 2021 run as a Never-Trump Republican, and whether he might challenge Ken Paxton as a Democrat in the next Senate race.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iVzQtr3Eig
#USPol #MichaelWood #MemorialDay #NeverTrump #TheBulwark #DFW #LeftTheRight
The editor of @bulwarkonline, Jonathan V. Last, explains the risk of audience capture | @destiny
The Gulf of Anti-America – The Bulwark
President Donald Trump (right) on May 16, 2025 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates—the third leg of his tour of the region, after Saudi Arabia and Qatar. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images)How Donald Trump demeaned our country and its values in his tour of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE.
ON FRIDAY, AS HE RETURNED to the United States from a four-day tour of the Persian Gulf, Donald Trump berated Bruce Springsteen for criticizing him on foreign soil. “I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States,” Trump fumed on Truth Social. Out of respect for America, Trump wrote, Springsteen “ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country.”
Trump’s indignation was comically insincere. His whole trip to the Gulf was about badmouthing America and renouncing American values.
A normal American president might have used such a trip to reaffirm our nation’s enduring relationships with the host countries. Instead, Trump portrayed himself as the essential link. In Qatar, he said the U.S.-Saudi partnership was strong “because of my relationship with the crown prince and the family.” That’s how a monarch thinks: Bonds between countries are really just bonds between the ruling families.
A normal president might have emphasized the continuity of America’s commitments across parties and administrations. Instead, Trump belittled and spurned previous American presidents. He subjected Saudi and Qatari audiences to bizarre rants about how badly he had supposedly trounced his domestic opponents in the 2024 election (fact check: he won, but it wasn’t a trouncing), including details about how many states, counties, and electoral votes he had won. “It was an obliteration,” he crowed.
Source Links: The Gulf of Anti-America
#America #AmericanValues #Demeaned #DonaldTrump #GulfOfAntiAmerica #MiddleEast #Qatar #SaudiArabia #TheBulwark #Trip #Trump #UAE
Surviving Bad Presidents – The Bulwark
(Composite / Photos: Fototeca Gilardi / GettyImages) Book CoverThe Presidents and the People
Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy
and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It
by Corey Brettschneider
Norton, 358 pp., $32.50
SPEAKING ON THE PERPETUATION of our political institutions, a young Abraham Lincoln began by noting that “we find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.” We have inherited these fundamental blessings, he said. How shall we maintain them? What challenges do we face in perpetuating America’s republican experiment? What dangers can we expect to face? Lincoln insisted the danger to America was internal: “If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
Compared to the wisdom and sobriety of the mature Lincoln, the young Lincoln of the Lyceum Address seems overly dramatic—yet his insistence that the greatest threat to America’s form of government has been internal is altogether right. As president, Lincoln was forced to save the republic against Southern states who sought to dissolve the Union in order to preserve slavery, while he acted not only to preserve the Union but to make it “worthy of the saving” by eradicating slavery.
Today, as we witness a president with utter disregard for our political institutions, who seems intent on destroying them and retreating from the promise of American ideals, who on January 6th encouraged the very sort of lawless mob that worried Lincoln, it can feel as if the republic is doomed. Indeed, that the American people have opted to “die by suicide.” But while the current moment is unique, America has faced serious threats to our institutions and constitutional values from presidents before. Not just disagreements about the proper ordering of constitutional values, or over creating and reforming America’s political institutions, but threats that struck at the very heart of constitutional government.
Source Links: Surviving Bad Presidents
#2025 #America #BadPresidents #Books #History #Libraries #Library #NewBook #Politics #Reading #Resistance #Surviving #TheBulwark #Trump #UnitedStates
Jonathan Cohn from The Bulwark reveals a growing divide in the GOP as Trump pushes for a significant legislative bill amid concerns over Medicaid cuts. Activist Laura Loomer's rising influence highlights tensions, as she warns that these cuts threaten essential services for low-income Americans. Loomer's confrontational approach against Republicans who support Medicaid reductions complicates GOP politics. For full insights, read more: https://www.alternet.org/medicaid-big-beautiful-bill/ #DonaldTrump #RepublicanParty #Medicaid #LauraLoomer #MAGA #JonathanCohn #TheBulwark #Congress
Reading #TheBulwark article about @GOP cuts to #Medicaid and @LauraLoomer and the #Wreckage and #Chaos it would cause to #RedStates. Here is an estimate of the numbers of #Republican #Constituents that would be effected. https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/laura-loomer-just-called-the-gop-bluff-on-medicaid-cuts-maga
The dementia is Strong with This One.
#TimMIller #TheBulwark #DementiaDon
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