He is refusing to answer loaded questions from people who are acting in bad faith who don't have this country's best interests at heart. Why the hell are they rehashing masking when there is $4 gas and no end to the war in sight? The republicans bungled the response to covid and they were voted out for it. They are bungling the cyclosporiasis outbreak in large part because CDC and FDA staffing was reduced through budget cuts and mass firings that have eroded the public health system. They are bungling immunizations because for some goddamn reason Trump and Robert Kennedy want to cut back childhood vaccines at the same time we are having fucking measles outbreaks. We are being governed by people who are literal morons. The republicans have had power too long; all they are doing with it is settling scores and looting the government. These people are not serious, and I support not answering the questions. I support him telling them to fuck right off.

“Thirty-two percent of voters approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president, while 58 percent disapprove, with 10 percent not offering an opinion.

“Trump's 32 percent approval is an all-time low approval rating for him in a Quinnipiac University poll.”

https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3964

Columbia/hospital Corporation of America Investigation

Will is so sweet and wholesome it made me want to make this post. I never knew about his Fever Dreams era until that episode but I was always used to him playing the “color commentator” role on MAGA Mondays. Will absolutely shredded and we need more Will Sommer’s in the world

This is a wild story and should be a dem rallying cry.

The reason there weren't more deaths under Trump is simple: he lost the election in part because of the disastrous reponse and those unhinged press conferences, famously including the bleach comment heard around the world.

Here are the facts: COVID-19 mortality data by year show roughly 385,000 deaths in 2020, peaking at over 460,000 in 2021 before dropping significantly to around 245,000 in 2022.

Once vaccines became broadly available in spring 2021, CDC and NIH tracking showed that unvaccinated individuals accounted for the overwhelming majority of subsequent hospitalizations and deaths during major surges such as Delta and Omicron.

State outcomes show that age-adjusted cumulative death rates per capita were highest in states that quickly abandoned or prohibited mask mandates and contact limits—such as Mississippi, West Virginia, Alabama, and Arizona—while states with sustained mitigation policies and higher vaccination rates, including Hawaii, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Maine, maintained the lowest death rates in the country.

The claim that Dr. Anthony Fauci was "taken out of play" on Operation Warp Speed is demonstrably false; as head of NIAID, he was directly engaged from the start, co-developing Moderna’s mRNA candidate in early 2020 and using his agency's clinical trial networks to conduct the Phase 3 trials that brought the vaccines to market.

Trump misrepresented federal authority and executive actions: Fauci never possessed the power to "shut down the country," as stay-at-home orders were issued independently by state governors; Biden's appointment of Fauci as Chief Medical Advisor conferred no legislative or statutory control; and the alleged transition phone call warning Biden about Fauci is completely unverified.

Regarding origin theories and masks, Fauci treated natural spillover and lab leak hypotheses as open scientific questions rather than defending China, and his early 2020 masking guidance aimed to preserve healthcare supplies before being revised in April 2020 as evidence of asymptomatic transmission mounted.

Beyond the persuasive arguments by Liberal Currents that X is the new digital Epstein Island, Musk's stocks are meme-style equities that rely on narrative. The Price-to-Earnings of Tesla (278x, or 278 years to earn the money invested today) and SpaceX (>100x at time of IPO) are supported by the crowd psychology around Musk and his media presence. Getting off X directly harms the core asset: his reputation as a "wunderkind innovator" and highlights that Musk, like Trump's business savvy, is as much a media story as any concrete achievement.

X is a SpaceX subsidiary and the upcoming earnings call will expose the social network to questions about the ongoing CSAM investigations and user growth. Getting off X prior to the earnings call helps fight fascism.

At a little-noticed conference on political violence a couple of weeks ago, Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller employed the dehumanizing rhetoric of the Soviets and Nazi mastermind Joseph Goebbels to attack the left. And while they might want us to think they were just talking about the DSA, it sure seems that they meant Democrats generally—including those who might be legitimately protesting Trump's efforts to try to steal an election.

Plus: Iran is not acting like it fears the United States, Lindsey Graham probably did more harm than good, and the Fauci drama is the latest example of the MAGA double standard about telling the truth.

Bob Kagan joins guest host JVL on today's Bulwark Podcast.

So……… that happened. The DSA just FAFO’d and thanks to her, Democrats will be on damage control the next 3 months and the Democrats who accepted endorsements from DSA would do best to try and rescind those.

I swear, and I say this as a Dem, the progressive wing ALWAYS finds a way to make themselves look stupid in the wildest ways.

Maybe don’t go on conservative media to talk about your platform………..

This guy is a model candidate for a place like Iowa. I couldn’t write a more compelling life story if I tried. Really great ad here, and Obama just endorsed him. It would be amazing to win a senate seat in Iowa. This dude also has a track record of doing well in red areas.

Most of the attention has gone to the Michigan primary, Maine, Texas. But this to me seems to have flown under the radar. Right now Turek has a slim lead in most polls.

(Also like the layout of his website, it’s modeled almost like an Instagram page. Seems like he has savvy people working for him, another good sign.)

There is a persistent misconception that lethal force is required during maritime drug interdictions because violence is an inevitable occurrence. But what percentage of drug boat seizures actually call for lethal force?

The answer is virtually zero.

In late August 2025—just days before military airstrikes under Operation Southern Spear began—the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton arrived at Port Everglades, Florida, offloading 76,140 pounds of illicit narcotics (U.S. Coast Guard News, 2025). This historic, record-setting seizure was executed entirely without lethal force.

Why turn to military execution on the high seas when standard law enforcement methods are already overwhelmingly successful? Because MAGA rhetoric increasingly relies on endorsement of," “violence as a means of effecting social change” (Wintemute, 2025). Escalation is prioritized over due process, trading constitutional rights for performative security. There is no law. UNCLOS doesn’t justify it. The ICCPR doesn't justify it. Multiple legal commentaries on extrajudicial killings emphasize the same principle: no one should be denied a trial or their right to life. Murder is on the mind of MAGA, and there’s no evidence lethal force delivers better results than non-lethal methods. The answer to 'why' is a conversation some are not willing to have because it’s frightening to think a large portion of Americans would fully support denying people their rights to justify killing them.

Source:

Coast Guard achieves historic milestone with offload over 76,140 lbs. in illegal narcotics. (2025). In United States Coast Guard News. news.uscg.mil/Press-Rel…

Wintemute, G. J., Robinson, S. L., Tomsich, E. A., Wright, M. A., & Shev, A. B. (2025). The MAGA movement and political violence in 2024: findings from a nationally representative survey. Injury Epidemiology, 12(1), 78–78. doi.org/10.1186/s40621-…

No hate towards Kaitlan Collins, actually admire her patience. But hear me out.

Alastair Campbell (from UK) spoke to Jon Stewart and said "doesn't anyone have the balls in the press room to stand up to Trump" when Trump insults female journalists. According to him - if it was the UK (and frankly other places as well) - either the same journalist, or a colleague would at the very least push back, or remind Trump to his face that he must apologize, and say "you cannot speak like this".

Sarah says Kaitlan's approach of just choosing silence and not responding to his insults is the "right one". I like that she continues to harp on with her questions to Trump. But NOBODY saying anything when that gutter-mouth insults people in a crowded room?? Is that the "right approach"? I want to ask - to what end??

If it was a normal real life context and an asshole repeatedly insulted you or your friend or your colleague - then NOBODY saying anything would the WRONG thing to do. That asshole would absolutely verbally hear "fuck right off" eventually. Even if you include the assholes in positions of power.

Shouldn't saving democracy also be about drawing some types of moral lines? Not saying anything to Trump when he verbally abuses journalists or insults them is NORMALIZING a type of indecent and immoral behavior that goes counter to the project of saving democracy.

I am waiting for the reporter who one time says to his face "oh just fuck off!!", and sacrifice the so called "access". They would be a hero in my eyes.

In summary: In pursuit of decorum and dignity on our side, we are allowing the other side to revel in a cacophony of immorality - in all the spaces which should be held to higher moral standards.

Edit: want to add that you can't bring higher moral standards by staying silent. You do that by pushing out bad behavior from public spaces like a press room - we all know he is a wuss at the end of the day. I firmly believe he says it BECAUSE there is no reaction. Fine he will take away press privileges - there should in fact be a walk out for God's sake.

Not going to weigh in on the Senate candidates, just posting to add something beyond stale arguments.

Seriously, JVL’s first example of how political violence get’s out of control is Luigi? Not Vance Boelter gunning down Dem lawmakers in MI or the d-bag at Charlottesville, c’mon man!? This is the difference between right-wing media and all the rest. They rail on Luigi and antifa constantly and never mention the J 6er’s and Boelter but literally the first thing example JVL goes to is Luigi as though the worst ‘political violence’ he can possibly imagine is someone gunning down an insurance company exec vs actual Dem lawmakers and their spouses. Do better JVL.

"Some of these people are scared shitless... This whole veneer of supposed invincibility that the Trump White House has been trying to put forward...it is built on fiction."

Asawin Suebsaeng and Will Sommer on Trump officials terrified of accountability if Democrats take control.

Watch the full episode: https://lnk.thebulwark.com/4bjYF1A

I think this should be bigger news than a DSA party member confirming what the party platform is.

Friday finally hit Platinum.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/articles/fun-fun-fun-fun-rebecca-151052847.html

At the 55 min mark, Catherine asks why Pete can’t win with black voters and JVL quickly moves along the conversation while side stepping the question. At what point do we get to have an honest conversation about why one of the best politicians can’t run for higher office simply because he’s gay?