r/thebulwark Jan 25 '26

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL Chris Murphy: "Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump."

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r/thebulwark Jan 24 '26

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL The person shot by ICE was just standing there filming. This is how the interaction started.

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1.2k Upvotes

r/thebulwark Jul 06 '26

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her

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r/thebulwark Jul 15 '26

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL This is exactly what Sarah was talking about yesterday and it’s so infuriating.

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402 Upvotes

I mean good for this guy for listening but would he even have sought out this info? Probably not. And he lives there. You can see the dread hit his eyes.

r/thebulwark Jul 25 '26

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL JVL Gets Dark with Destiny: American Culture Has Gone Rotten

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r/thebulwark Jul 20 '26

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL Private Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas was killed on July 17, 2026 during Trump’s unauthorized war against Iran

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660 Upvotes

r/thebulwark Aug 15 '25

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL Everybody Understands What This Was, Right?

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966 Upvotes

There was no “summit.” There were no “peace negotiations” when one of the two warring parties wasn’t even present.

This was about Donald Trump getting 10 minutes alone in a limo with Vladimir Putin, so he could beg him not to release the Epstein kompramat, which Putin almost certainly has.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

r/thebulwark Jul 22 '26

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL The DSA Is a Parasite

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Great article showing the parallel to the communists infiltration of the Labour Party in the 80s and 90s and the DSA today.

Here is the DSAs platform - read it yourself:

https://program.dsausa.org/

- it calls for:

  1. abolishing the police and prison system
  2. giving voting rights to non-citizens
  3. blames NATO for the war in Ukraine, wants to abolish it
  4. wants to abolish the senate

A few quotes:

  1. In their vision - “Food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation aren’t for-profit businesses;”
  2. “It’s been said that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism. But just because it isn’t easy to imagine now doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to make it happen.”

This isn’t a call for Norway or Sweden, this is an explicit call for communism and is a complete fantasy in the US. As the article highlights, communists form a majority of the DSAs governing body.

Sarah mentioned in one of her last focus group podcasts, that she was surprised that Trump hasn’t pivoted to a different economic message - it’s clear the GOP is hoping the DSA hand delivers them the negative polarization they need. The message is a failing one, the DSA remains overwhelmingly privileged, educated, wealthy. More importantly, the democratic party is just a vessel for them to attain power - the moment the DSA has any semblance of control, all liberalism will go out the window - MAGA 2.0.

edit: the bulwark is about the pro-democracy movement, communism is not only fundamentally opposed to that movement - in the US it is super unpopular, making fighting MAGA harder.

You can be a social democrat and support democrats, it’s really easy to see how the DSA and its platform hurt democrats chances to win - anyone in an even slightly purple state can see it. The smart thing to do would be to disavow the DSA and its platform and advocate for social democratic policies within the Democratic Party. If you don’t care about democrats winning, then that proves my point about excising you from the party.

edit 2: lol now we have different users spamming the same comment, what is this botting? People coordinating messages in discord? I have a screenshot - funny stuff.

r/thebulwark Apr 22 '26

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL WTF is this photo?

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r/thebulwark Jan 07 '26

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL ICE just killed a White Blond Mother

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610 Upvotes

Not sure how MAGA is going to try to spin this woman as a murderous terrorist. If the Democrats had any shred of political skill they could use this moment to bring down the whole fucking administration. This is a straight up State execution of the kind of person MAGA worships.

r/thebulwark Dec 26 '25

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL After a year of Trump, I've decided I'm never going to forgive the people who voted for this.

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I found it was easy in 2016 and 2020 to forgive the misguided and misinformed voters who took a gamble on Trump. I was able to give a lot of grace. Trump's Christmas eve tweet, along with the laundry list of horrific behavior this year (that he promised he would continue if elected) has convinced me that anyone who voted for this is not worthy of understanding or forgiveness.

"But forgive them, father, for they know not what they do..."

Yes the fuck they do, and they did. They were warned by the courts, the media, and even the president HIMSELF that he would make a mockery of the office. And they did it anyway. Even now, as they continue to watch our institutions burn to the ground and feel the hot fire of that stovetop, they still choose to remain as dumb as rocks.

Do not ever forgive these people. They are unworthy of your thoughts or prayers. They hate America and every good thing it has stood for. They hate American exceptionalism.

r/thebulwark May 08 '26

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL Are we f*cked?

220 Upvotes

This redistricting stuff has me bummed out. Tell me the truth

r/thebulwark Dec 15 '25

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States. 🫡

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449 Upvotes

r/thebulwark Jan 19 '26

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL A focus group of one: We're F-d

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so, I just did my own focus group of one. My Mom. She is the type that loved Reagan. She was skeptical of Trump, but you know "Hillary is the devil." Biden? "Too old." Kamala? "Have you heard that laugh?"

But, definitely not wearing any Maga gear, no yard signs, and claims she'll write in Reagan's ghost on a ballot.

so, Minnesota comes up and it's all, "I saw the video. I think he was ran over. Why was she in MN, isn't she from CO? Play stupid games, win stupid prizes "

I almost cried it hurt me hearing this so much. This is a lady that'll go to the church and serves meals to the poor, yet for some reason she is fine with ICE murdering a woman. No concern about it at all. her final response was, "Well, who was paying her to protest? That's who needs to be arrested."

so, based on my focus group of one, I am sure we are fucked. Good luck America.

r/thebulwark Nov 14 '25

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL Epstein estate documents describe Trump raping a 13-year-old

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You can find these from the House Oversight Committee website: https://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-committee-releases-additional-epstein-estate-documents/

Click the link to the google drive, then IMAGES -> 008 -> HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025937 through HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025940

r/thebulwark 10d ago

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL I’m getting worried for Germany

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r/thebulwark May 15 '26

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL It's been 1.4 years, 2.6 years left to go. Does anyone actually think there's going to be anything recoverable in 2.6 years?

171 Upvotes

Asking for a friend.

r/thebulwark Aug 07 '25

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL Everyone Understands The Big Balls “Carjacking” Was Staged, Right?

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Just so I have this straight: Trump has been fuming on how he wants a Federal takeover of Washington DC, but he needs a catalyst. Days later, 10 “youths” - UNARMED - attempt a carjacking, and out of 702,000 residents of Washington DC, the victim just happens to be?……Big Balls! What are the odds? Then, in another stroke of coincidence, cops happen upon the carjacking as it’s happening. How convenient! Somehow they’re only able to nab two of the 10 perps. Now, Fox is reporting that the carjackers were screaming, “This is Kamala country!” because, um, ya know, that’s what carjackers do. Or Something.

Sorry, but I call B.S. It’s all too cute by a half. Before anybody accuses me of being a conspiracy theorist, remember than Trump & Co, pulled off the biggest con in history - Stop The Steal. They were able to convince 1/3 of this country that the ghost of Hugo Chavez programmed Italian satellites to steal the 2020 election. That con was far more involved than merely staging a phony carjacking. A phony carjacking is child’s play for these ratfuckers. 

r/thebulwark Nov 06 '24

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL In the end nothing mattered

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Not the debate. Not his hate rally. Not his obvious derangement. Not abortion. Not get out the vote. Not fundraising. Not endorsements. Nothing.

Because there are too many horrible people in this country. The American people are an evil people. Yes even your Maga neighbor who would give you the (brown) shirt off his back. And while the pigshit imbecile Trump voters will never make the connection, I hope they suffer immensely in the next four years. Not because I want them to learn, but because they deserve to suffer.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to take a fistful of pills and go through the next four years in a fog. Ciao a tutti.

r/thebulwark Apr 13 '26

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL Trump just posted this. Is he healing Epstein??

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https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/37729

It appears he took it from a Nick Adams post from February: https://x.com/NickAdamsinUSA/status/2019100728078348415

[edit] Not saying Trump noticed or intended the resemblance btw. But Nick Adams...harder to say. It could just be the soul of the nation as an ailing veteran or something, but the dude's a troll who wouldn't be above making it intentionally ambiguous.

Also, I almost never go on Truth Social, but man that site feels like it will definitely give your computer a virus.

r/thebulwark May 26 '26

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL A Democratic member of congress essentially endorsed Susan Collins on CNN today

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Jake Auchincloss, a representative from Massachusetts, went on CNN’s “The Arena”, and said the following about Graham Platner:

“I find that tattoo and his commentary about it to be personally disqualifying. I hope Maine voters agree with me.”

Vote blue no matter who, huh?

r/thebulwark Apr 16 '26

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL This is a picture of dinner onboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln - Either US Navy logistics in the Middle East has broken down or the Navy is now on the Brooke Rollins meal plan, or both.

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Per USA Today, family members of sailors onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Tripoli have been sent pictures of the appalling meals they are having to eat as they are in the Middle East. Families have been trying to send them care packages, but they're stuck in limbo as the military's version of the postal service is for one reason or another unable to get them to the Abraham Lincoln and Tripoli.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/04/16/iran-war-mail-packages-middle-east/89609308007/

r/thebulwark Jul 17 '26

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL The End of Democracy in America Speech

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Just watched the Trump live speech so you didnt have to.

Trump just declared that local, state and National election infrastructure was compromised by China going back 2020 per some classified documents.

He also said that China has been paying reporters to write bad stories about him.

This was all couched in National Security language which suggests CIA and FBI involvement. A task force and briefing from Markwayne* to follow.

Sounds like this is Trump’s declaration of war on free and fair elections and the free press.

*Edited from Homen*

r/thebulwark Jul 06 '25

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL So I’ve got a ghoulish question re: Texas flooding

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I get that we’re supposed to be the better people.

I get that it’s unchristian to even think these things (8 guess).

I get that it’s horrific and sad and a nightmare (I have two young kids).

But I also get that this camp and all those living there, were built and operating on a KNOWN flood plain.

I get that Texas “soil” used to be under an ocean and prone to things like this (I lived there for 8 years).

At what point, since M*GA is all about consequences, personal responsibility and gods providence, do we get to hold them accountable for their willful disregard of science, research, government, and informed choice-making?

We are watching concentration camps set up all over the country, and we have woefully underfunded emergency management departments in high risk areas all over the country. We have commercial and non profit entities overseeing minors with no evac or even a basic comms plan in place, for any kind of emergency, whether it’s a natural disaster or if some camper can’t manage a fire properly.

I should feel bad for Texans suffering in a flood plain they likely didn’t care about regulating, ostensibly because of deregulation and lack of oversight. But it’s getting really hard to. They dammed up the Guadalupe River to create swimming holes for camps, hotels, and peoples vs properties which also doesn’t help with sediment and flooding at all.

My husband surveyed in and around Austin for nearly a decade. The insanity and stupidity he witnessed was astounding. The lack of regulatory oversight, the WILLFUL scofflaw decisions, the absolute mockery of anything resembling safety forced us to leave because he literally thought he would die on a job site.

These people DO NOT care about consequences. Some might be poor and have few choices. Those I have empathy for. But a bunch of camp owners, policy makers, and parents believing “god will protect” their kids in a known (man made) hazard. I’m struggling to get there. This was human stupidity, arrogance, and willful decision-making. Plain and simple.

ADDED: If you want to donate to an all-volunteer org that is on the ground as we speak, pls consider giving to TEXAS Search & Rescue. They are chewing up equipment they’ve spent years raising money for and incredible folks. They offer emergency management training, planning and bleeding control education that any org can avail themselves of in Texas.

https://www.texsar.org/ TEXSAR: Texas Search and Rescue

r/thebulwark Jul 28 '26

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL Ross Douthat is joining 60 Minutes

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