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February 18, 2025
Young Snipers in Love Across The Gorge
The Gorge is a wildly silly action-sci-fi-horror-romance, released on Apple TV+ on Valentine’s Day to alert you to the way it stresses the “unusual love story” angle. Maintaining a conventionally brooding atmosphere through gloomy CGI, The Gorge is about two top snipers stationed in towers on opposite sides of a […]
February 18, 2025
Giving Away the Store to Putin
Trump is A-OK with all the murder and mayhem Russia has unleashed on Ukraine, and he’s making a mockery of all his enablers who claimed he’d do a Reagan-esque kind of deal. Instead, Ukraine wasn’t even invited to the “peace” talks, while Trump tries to impose an extortion deal on […]
February 18, 2025
In search of a new generation of trans leaders
Published 2025-02-18 13:42 1:42 February 18, 2025 pm Ahead of her sophomore year of college, Lily Rood was thinking about her future: her career, her LGBTQ+ advocacy, her interest in politics and government. As the first transgender woman to be class president at Mount Holyoke College — and someone who […]
February 18, 2025
AOC Strikes Back at Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan
Andrew Egger and Joe Perticone discuss Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s defiant strikes at Trump Border Czar Tom Homan as he repeatedly goes after her for supporting education of laws and constitutional rights. Leave a comment As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams and […]
February 18, 2025
Syria Remains a Battleground for Competing Regional Powers
As the smoke settles on the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria and its replacement by Islamist leadership under Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), it is clear that Turkey’s far-right governing bloc has emerged from the tumult strong and emboldened. What is less clear is whether this will mean that […]
February 18, 2025
Democratic Donors Are Afraid of Trump. I’m Sick of It.
Tim Miller appeared on MSNBC’s The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle to discuss Democratic donors who are afraid of Trump seeking retribution against them. Leave a comment As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams and event archives exclusively for Bulwark+ members. […]
February 18, 2025
Meet Kevin Hassett: Conservatism’s Invincible Ignoramus
Programming note: Today on WTF 2.0 I’m going to be joined by ’s Ed Condon to talk about Catholic Church inside baseball: What’s happening with Catholic Charities and USAID and the Trump administration and JD Vance? I’ll go live on Substack and the site around 1:00 p.m. We’ll send out […]
February 18, 2025
Trump Is Moving to Kill a Key Federal Environmental Law
Over the weekend, the Trump administration appeared to begin the process of rolling back enforcement of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the “Magna Carta” of federal environmental law. In a filing submitted February 16, administration officials announced an interim rule titled “Removal of National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations.” NEPA […]
February 18, 2025
Can Federal Workers Stop Trump?
The second Trump administration has the federal workforce in its crosshairs. Spearheading the effort is Elon Musk (the richest man in the world) and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (not actually a government department). Donald Trump and Musk have taken a shotgun-blast approach: instituting a hiring freeze, shutting down […]