Philip Bump
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· Oct 11
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NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028.
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www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
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Oh, a *** outlet contrived a *** investigation and published a *** story that *** people seized on to promote their *** prior rhetoric? That’s a surprise.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Oh, a *** outlet contrived a *** investigation and published a *** story that *** people seized on to promote their *** prior rhetoric? That’s a surprise.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
I’d never heard of this person, so I did Google her and this and “PodcastAI” is what came up.
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I’d never heard of this person, so I did Google her and this and “PodcastAI” is what came up.
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New data shows that the CCRB retroactively doctored public data for more than 10,000 misconduct allegations against NYPD officers.
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The NYPD’s Watchdog Whitewashed More Than 10,000 Misconduct Allegations in Public Data, New Evidence Shows
Allegations of lying, sexual misconduct, bigoted statements, and racist policing were among those quietly reclassified by the Civilian Complaint Review Board.
hellgatenyc.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
New data shows that the CCRB retroactively doctored public data for more than 10,000 misconduct allegations against NYPD officers.
hellgatenyc.com/ccrb-whitewa...
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They just know who’s actually going to have money.
Filling out a banking form that asks for my occupation, and in what I am choosing to consider as a sign of the times, "journalist" is not a selectable option, but "cryptocurrency" is
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
They just know who’s actually going to have money.
A century later, we’re exploring the converse to this truism.
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
A century later, we’re exploring the converse to this truism.
Guess some people haven’t heard of Blueskyism.
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Guess some people haven’t heard of Blueskyism.
Still lots of slack in the Goon economy.
Rhodes: Trump should “call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing”
On The Gateway Pundit podcast, Stewart Rhodes announces he is relaunching the Oath Keepers
www.mediamatters.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Still lots of slack in the Goon economy.
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“If you tilt some of the most commonly cited data points this way or that, you can just as easily argue on the behalf of a woman crisis as a man crisis—or, perhaps most accurately, for an ongoing multidirectional crisis affecting us all.”
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“If you tilt some of the most commonly cited data points this way or that, you can just as easily argue on the behalf of a woman crisis as a man crisis—or, perhaps most accurately, for an ongoing multidirectional crisis affecting us all.”
I think normal people may not know how totally unmoored Bartiromo has been during the Trump era. A brief thread.
‘We Don’t Know They Were Wrong’: Fox’s Maria Bartiromo Defends Trump Pardons by Re-Upping Stolen Election Conspiracy
‘We Don’t Know They Were Wrong’: Fox’s Maria Bartiromo Defends Trump Pardons by Re-Upping Stolen Election Conspiracy
Bartiromo argued that because of 2020 election mail-in voting “we don’t know” if those pardoned were “wrong” and there was “more investigation” to be done.
The post ‘We Don’t Know They Were Wrong’: Fox’s Maria Bartiromo Defends Trump Pardons by Re-Upping Stolen Election Conspiracy first appeared on Mediaite.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I think normal people may not know how totally unmoored Bartiromo has been during the Trump era. A brief thread.
Reposted by Philip Bump
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
![STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.
Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.
...
And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.
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He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreialm4skuozqobejpd6vx4m6kuwsgtidxmmxvj3ftcff6otiuyohiy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
Reposted by Philip Bump
Here's how the Senate shutdown vote broke down by state vote in 2024 and senator ideology.
The two pink dots to the left of the Arizona senators are the senators from Nevada.
The two pink dots to the left of the Arizona senators are the senators from Nevada.
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Here's how the Senate shutdown vote broke down by state vote in 2024 and senator ideology.
The two pink dots to the left of the Arizona senators are the senators from Nevada.
The two pink dots to the left of the Arizona senators are the senators from Nevada.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. apnews.com/article/supr...
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. apnews.com/article/supr...
Beginning concussion protocol after slapping my forehead so hard. bsky.app/profile/atru...
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Beginning concussion protocol after slapping my forehead so hard. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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fresh off caving, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is going on Fox & Friends
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
fresh off caving, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is going on Fox & Friends
I think Schumer thought the crowd at the Commanders game was saying Boo-urns.
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I think Schumer thought the crowd at the Commanders game was saying Boo-urns.
This is really telling! It doesn't work like that anymore, bud. None of it works like that — even if it did on Jan. 19.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
This is really telling! It doesn't work like that anymore, bud. None of it works like that — even if it did on Jan. 19.
Trump administering an oath of allegiance to the Constitution is ironic in general but in DC in particular I’m not sure what other response you’d expect.
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Trump administering an oath of allegiance to the Constitution is ironic in general but in DC in particular I’m not sure what other response you’d expect.
Someone reminded me of this piece I wrote 11 years ago.
What would happen if the government shut down — and never reopened?
The absolute worst-case scenario of next week's worst-case scenario.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Someone reminded me of this piece I wrote 11 years ago.
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This video is a refreshing postscript on Nixon that will sound familiar to anyone living in 2025.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGJc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGJc...
President Nixon Appealed To The Jerks
YouTube video by David Hoffman
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This video is a refreshing postscript on Nixon that will sound familiar to anyone living in 2025.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGJc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGJc...
The real reason the right opposes higher education is that if kids leave home and are exposed to more varieties of music they’ll realize that country music sucks. (I am at Tractor Supply.)
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The real reason the right opposes higher education is that if kids leave home and are exposed to more varieties of music they’ll realize that country music sucks. (I am at Tractor Supply.)
Yesterday’s newsletter looked at:
- how TV drove the creation of red-vs-blue
- Trump’s shutdown trophy
- what behaviors are acceptable where
… and more!
All free to read. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
- how TV drove the creation of red-vs-blue
- Trump’s shutdown trophy
- what behaviors are acceptable where
… and more!
All free to read. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Yesterday’s newsletter looked at:
- how TV drove the creation of red-vs-blue
- Trump’s shutdown trophy
- what behaviors are acceptable where
… and more!
All free to read. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
- how TV drove the creation of red-vs-blue
- Trump’s shutdown trophy
- what behaviors are acceptable where
… and more!
All free to read. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
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A leading federal judge quits in protest of Trump's corruption-- & to fight it
Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why I Am Leaving the Federal Bench
A judge explains his reasons for resigning.
www.theatlantic.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A leading federal judge quits in protest of Trump's corruption-- & to fight it
Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
It’s very funny to think that the guy who didn’t know what the 13 stripes on the flag meant has a nuanced understanding of the intentions and debates of the founding fathers.
The president seems to have been briefed on how the tariffs oral argument at SCOTUS went:
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It’s very funny to think that the guy who didn’t know what the 13 stripes on the flag meant has a nuanced understanding of the intentions and debates of the founding fathers.