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Adam Keiper
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Executive editor, The Bulwark (thebulwark.com) /// Cofounder of The New Atlantis (thenewatlantis.com) and American Purpose (americanpurpose.com).
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: To mark the anniversary of the wreck of the 'Edmund Fitzgerald' on Lake Superior (November 10, 1975), here's Gordon Lightfoot's famous song about it—as covered even more hauntingly by the Punch Brothers, including Chris Thile singing and on mandolin. See you around.
Punch Brothers cover Gordon Lightfoot "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" 3/3/22 Boston, MA
YouTube video by Less Than Face Productions
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November 11, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: To mark the anniversary of the wreck of the 'Edmund Fitzgerald' on Lake Superior (November 10, 1975), here's Gordon Lightfoot's famous song about it—as covered even more hauntingly by the Punch Brothers, including Chris Thile singing and on mandolin. See you around.
Punch Brothers cover Gordon Lightfoot "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" 3/3/22 Boston, MA
YouTube video by Less Than Face Productions
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November 11, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Ken Burns is back at The Bulwark, baby.
www.thebulwark.com/p/ken-burns-...
Ken Burns: The Revolutionaries Were EXACTLY Like Us
Ken Burns joins John Avlon for a conversation that feels like a pep talk America desperately needs.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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"The president’s critics have often diagnosed him as a narcissist. But his supporters, too, have felt the sting of his indifference....This pathological solipsism makes Trump incapable of patriotism. He thinks America without him is worthless."

www.thebulwark.com/p/no-one-mat...
No One Matters to Trump But Trump
His self-serving treatment of last week’s elections shows his disregard for his party.
www.thebulwark.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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This is extraordinary writing: My colleague Jonathan Cohn's description of the strengths and potential vulnerabilities of the three top Democratic contenders for the 2026 Michigan Senate race. You'll find something to admire and to be concerned about for each.
www.thebulwark.com/p/michigan-s...
This State Will Determine If Dems Win the Senate—and Give an MRI of Their Soul
A three-way contest for the nomination in Michigan is a microcosm of the debate over the party’s future.
www.thebulwark.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Pipe dreams: in tones ranging from the gleefully speculative to the casually defamatory, right-wing influencers and lawmakers jumped to promote the notion that a particular named federal employee planted the unsolved Jan. 6 pipe bombs. Things have now begun to deflate. [Will Sommer, @thebulwark.com]
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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"Elise Stefanik's choices are less puzzling if she sees the race [for New York governor] as yet another way to demonstrate her fealty to Trump."
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Elise Stefanik’s Bad Bet on MAGA Politics
For a promise of power, she has let herself be yanked around. Now she’s launched a Trumpian campaign for governor of New York.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Instead of uncovering the possible identity of the Jan. 6 pipe bomb-dropping suspect, the Blaze may have a legal mess on its hands.

Will Sommer takes a look in the latest edition of False Flag, only on The Bulwark.
The Blaze’s Pipe-Bomb Bombshell Appears to Bomb
The right-wing outlet claimed to solve the Jan. 6th pipe-bomb mystery. Things quickly looked less certain.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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NEW: How the Blaze's supposed scoop about the identity of the January 6th pipe bomb–planter apparently went awry.
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The Blaze’s Pipe-Bomb Bombshell Appears to Bomb
The right-wing outlet claimed to solve the Jan. 6th pipe-bomb mystery. Things quickly looked less certain.
www.thebulwark.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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I gave my 6-year-old daughter a ten-minute summary of the major wars the United States has been involved in (since she was learning about Veterans Day), and then, unrelatedly, taught her and her 9- and 3-year-old brothers pretty much all the lyrics to this song. Pretty productive use of car time.
adamkeiper.com Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · Feb 17
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: After a long talk today with a teacher from Memphis, I found I had this tune stuck in my head: "That's How I Got to Memphis" by Tom T. Hall. (Yeah, it's the song from the series finale of 'The Newsroom.') Maybe it'll be stuck in your head now, too. See you around.
That's How I Got To Memphis
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November 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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hanging with my bros after a hard day of terrorizing immigrants

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Border Patrol Agents Pose At The Bean For Apparent Photo Op
The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, 'Little Village!'"
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November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Here's an odd one—the mournful closing music, called "The Lonely Man," for episodes of 'The Incredible Hulk,' which aired from 1978 to 1982. This was written by pianist, arranger, and composer Joe Harnell (1924-2005). See you around.
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The Lonely Man Theme (From "The Incredible Hulk")
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November 10, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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This is not the first time we've seen federal agents direct chemical agents indiscriminately at members of the public in Chicago. Not at people attacking them or even protestors, just people going on with their day.
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royalpratt.bsky.social Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Democrats need to stop thinking like an electoral opposition party and start thinking like insurgents trying to engineer the overthrow of a dictator. But elected Dems seem temperamentally unable to do this.
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Least surprising pardon news so far. Appalling.
Screenshot of a tweet from @kyledcheney dated late on 9 Nov 2025 reading "BREAKING: President rump has pardoned Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Christina Bobb, Boris Epshteyn and dozens of false GOP electors and other key figures involved in his effort to overturn the 2020 election results, per pardon attorney Ed Martin". It quote-tweets @EagleEdMartin who has screenshots of a list of names. https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1987745182062895565
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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"The White House’s assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out. Silence, for me, is now intolerable."

—Federal judge Mark Wolf explaining why he has resigned, giving up his lifetime appointment

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why I Am Resigning
A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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NEW: Three Democrats are vying for Michigan's U.S. Senate seat in 2026. Each is formidable in his or her own way. The race is a microcosm of the larger debates about how the party should position itself nationally.
www.thebulwark.com/p/michigan-s...
This State Will Determine If Dems Win the Senate—and Give an MRI of Their Soul
A three-way contest for the nomination in Michigan is a microcosm of the debate over the party’s future.
www.thebulwark.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Aged like roadkill in RFK’s trunk.
• whitehouse.gov FACT SHEETS FACT SHEET: PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP ENDS DEI MADNESS AND RESTORES EXCELLENCE AND SAFETY WITHIN THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION January 22, 2025
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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No matter how hard I try, and no matter how long it goes on, I just can't get used to the president of the United States routinely promoting lies of the most imbecilic and easily disprovable nature (or in this case mistaking satire for reality).
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A screenshot of a Truth Social post from Donald Trump dated 9 November 2025 in which he wrote "WOW!" and quote-tweeted a meme saying "Breaking: DOGE halts yearly payment of $2.5 million to Barack Obama for 'royalties linked to Obamacare.' Obama has collected this payment since 2010, for a total of $40 million in taxpayer dollars."
November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: You'll hear the trio of Duke Ellington on the piano, Oscar Pettiford on bass, and Sonny Greer on drums in this March 1946 recording. See you around.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Three questions:
1. Is who politicians follow online newsworthy?
2. Is the vice-president more important than a primary candidate to be junior Senator from Texas?
3. If the answer is yes to the first two, why isn’t Axios doing a fuck ton of stories about who JD Vance is following?
axios.com Axios @axios.com · 2d
James Talarico, a Texas Democrat running for U.S. Senate who has put his faith at the forefront of his campaign, follows several adult film performers, escorts and OnlyFans models on Instagram, according to an Axios review.
Faith-forward Texas Senate candidate follows porn actors, escorts online
James Talarico has become a sensation in Texas politics by talking about how his Christianity is the basis for his progressive politics.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Reading the original H.G. Wells War of the Worlds and losing my mind that the author hated the artist's tripod illustrations so much, 3/4s in, the book detours into an entire paragraph where the protag complains about how shit these tripod drawings are and then just continues on
Its motion was so swift, complex, and perfect that at first I did not see it as a machine, in spite of its metallic glitter. The fighting-machines were coordinated and animated to an extraordinary pitch, but nothing to compare with this. People who have never seen these structures, and have only the ill-imagined efforts of artists or the imperfect descriptions of such eye-witnesses as myself to go upon, scarcely realise that living quality. Illustration I recall particularly the illustration of one of the first pamphlets to give a consecutive account of the war. The artist had evidently made a hasty study of one of the fighting-machines, and there his knowledge ended. He presented them as tilted, stiff tripods, without either flexibility or subtlety, and with an altogether misleading monotony of effect. The pamphlet containing these renderings had a considerable vogue, and I mention them here simply to warn the reader against the impression they may have created. They were no more like the Martians I saw in action than a Dutch doll is like a human being. To my mind, the pamphlet would have been much better without them. At first, I say, the handling-machine did not impress me as a machine, but as a crablike creature with a glittering integument, the controlling Martian whose delicate tentacles actuated its movements seeming to be simply the equivalent of the crab's cerebral portion. But then I perceived the resemblance of its grey-brown, shiny, leathery integument to that of the other sprawling bodies beyond, and the true nature of this dexterous workman dawned upon me. With that realisation my interest shifted to those other creatures, the real Martians. Already I had had a transient impression of these, and the first nausea no longer obscured my observation. Moreover, I was concealed and motionless, and under no urgency of action. Warwick Goble's illustrations of the tripods. The are very stiff 2d silhouettes of water towers with tentacles coming out of the top
October 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Part of me is glad Trump is now unconstrained, and is defacing and demeaning everything he touches.

It means that for the next three years we’ll have constant reminders not just of the need to defeat him, but also of the importance of ripping out Trumpism’s poisonous legacy and beginning anew.
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I really think what’s needed here is more gold.
November 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment.

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FBI Informant Who Lied About Bidens Quietly Released From Jail Sparking Trump Pardon Fears
Alexander Smirnov was quietly furloughed from prison months ago.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM