If you don't read Will Bunch, you're not living right. His column alone makes my Philadelphia Inquirer subscription worth it. It's also part of why I sacked the fascism lite of the NYT years ago.
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College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,
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November 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
If you don't read Will Bunch, you're not living right. His column alone makes my Philadelphia Inquirer subscription worth it. It's also part of why I sacked the fascism lite of the NYT years ago.
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People use fascism loosely to speak of that which they dislike, but the term has a meaning. Most reductively: cult of personality; nationalism; eroticized violence, internal enemies, purity myths, politicized gender.
September 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
People use fascism loosely to speak of that which they dislike, but the term has a meaning. Most reductively: cult of personality; nationalism; eroticized violence, internal enemies, purity myths, politicized gender.
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They accuse the left of censorship. Then they use censorship.
They accuse the left of rigging elections. Then they rig elections.
They accuse the left of provoking and committing political violence. Then they provoke and commit political violence.
I’m noticing a pattern here.
They accuse the left of rigging elections. Then they rig elections.
They accuse the left of provoking and committing political violence. Then they provoke and commit political violence.
I’m noticing a pattern here.
September 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
They accuse the left of censorship. Then they use censorship.
They accuse the left of rigging elections. Then they rig elections.
They accuse the left of provoking and committing political violence. Then they provoke and commit political violence.
I’m noticing a pattern here.
They accuse the left of rigging elections. Then they rig elections.
They accuse the left of provoking and committing political violence. Then they provoke and commit political violence.
I’m noticing a pattern here.
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So all the death-penalty clamoring on the right suddenly stopped when it came out the shooter from from a pro-MAGA law-enforcement family
The sudden fountain of empathy for killers who come from "a family that looks just like mine"
The sudden fountain of empathy for killers who come from "a family that looks just like mine"
September 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
So all the death-penalty clamoring on the right suddenly stopped when it came out the shooter from from a pro-MAGA law-enforcement family
The sudden fountain of empathy for killers who come from "a family that looks just like mine"
The sudden fountain of empathy for killers who come from "a family that looks just like mine"
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If you don’t count covid victims people won’t die.
If you don’t measure carbon the temperature won’t rise.
If you fudge unemployment numbers the economy will soar.
Our fool is building his paradise
If you don’t measure carbon the temperature won’t rise.
If you fudge unemployment numbers the economy will soar.
Our fool is building his paradise
August 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
If you don’t count covid victims people won’t die.
If you don’t measure carbon the temperature won’t rise.
If you fudge unemployment numbers the economy will soar.
Our fool is building his paradise
If you don’t measure carbon the temperature won’t rise.
If you fudge unemployment numbers the economy will soar.
Our fool is building his paradise
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Free the Spokane 9
Largely ignored in a small market, this week's federal indictment of 9 anti-ICE protesters in Washington state, including a former council president, shows how far the Trump regime will go to crush dissent
This was always the plan. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Largely ignored in a small market, this week's federal indictment of 9 anti-ICE protesters in Washington state, including a former council president, shows how far the Trump regime will go to crush dissent
This was always the plan. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The Trump regime is arresting protesters now. This was the plan all along | Will Bunch
Federal felony charges against nine ICE protesters in Spokane reveal how Trump's secret police are expanding their web.
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July 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Free the Spokane 9
Largely ignored in a small market, this week's federal indictment of 9 anti-ICE protesters in Washington state, including a former council president, shows how far the Trump regime will go to crush dissent
This was always the plan. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Largely ignored in a small market, this week's federal indictment of 9 anti-ICE protesters in Washington state, including a former council president, shows how far the Trump regime will go to crush dissent
This was always the plan. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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And yet overall approval basically unchanged. Once you get down to the low 40’s people’s approval isn’t really being driven by issues.
Trump's Net Approval on...
🟤 Immigration: -16 (was +3 in March)
🟤 The Economy: -20
🟤 Foreign affairs: -20
🟤 Tariffs: -22
🟤 Health care: -24
🟤 The federal budget: -26
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Big Beautiful Bill
Support: 39%
Oppose: 61%
🟤 Immigration: -16 (was +3 in March)
🟤 The Economy: -20
🟤 Foreign affairs: -20
🟤 Tariffs: -22
🟤 Health care: -24
🟤 The federal budget: -26
——
Big Beautiful Bill
Support: 39%
Oppose: 61%
CNN/SRSS poll July 10-13
President Trump
Approve: 42% (+1)
Disapprove: 58% (-1)
(Shift since April)
President Trump
Approve: 42% (+1)
Disapprove: 58% (-1)
(Shift since April)
July 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
And yet overall approval basically unchanged. Once you get down to the low 40’s people’s approval isn’t really being driven by issues.
Republican liars
July 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Republican liars
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Jeffrey Epstein was never 'just a distraction' - not to MAGA which saw him as the embodiment of immoral liberal hypocrisy, and which is much madder about their bubble bursting than any Medicaid cuts
What Dems must learn from the Epstein meltdown. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
What Dems must learn from the Epstein meltdown. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
MAGA cares more about Jeffrey Epstein than dying without Medicaid, which explains everything
MAGA rage over the Trump regime's failure to show an Epstein conspiracy reveals what matters inside a right-wing bubble.
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July 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Jeffrey Epstein was never 'just a distraction' - not to MAGA which saw him as the embodiment of immoral liberal hypocrisy, and which is much madder about their bubble bursting than any Medicaid cuts
What Dems must learn from the Epstein meltdown. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
What Dems must learn from the Epstein meltdown. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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It’s a struggle to keep the big picture in focus with the various assaults on democracy from all GOP corners, one of the reasons I so appreciate @vermontgmg.bsky.social’s brilliant pattern detection skills & thoughtful analysis
We’ve seen two episodes in the last week that together raise some intriguing questions about who is actually in charge and how decisions are being made in the Trump White House? Welcome to the age of "acting presidents" and "acting princelings." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/who-actual...
Who actually is the President of the United States right now?
What Stephen Miller and Bridge Colby tell us about the "epochs" and "ages" of Trump 2.0
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July 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
It’s a struggle to keep the big picture in focus with the various assaults on democracy from all GOP corners, one of the reasons I so appreciate @vermontgmg.bsky.social’s brilliant pattern detection skills & thoughtful analysis
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Worth noting that in 1973 after Vietnam and with the Watergate scandal raging the U.S.reputation in the world seemed like an all-time low
Until now
Until now
Over the past six months, the dollar has declined more than 10% compared with a basket of currencies from the U.S.’ major trading partners — something it has not done since 1973.
Today, it sits at a three-year low.
Today, it sits at a three-year low.
The U.S. dollar has fallen at the fastest clip since 1973. Here's what that means.
Some global investors no longer expect the U.S. economy to outperform the rest of the world.
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July 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Worth noting that in 1973 after Vietnam and with the Watergate scandal raging the U.S.reputation in the world seemed like an all-time low
Until now
Until now
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Very important thread
It's very obvious that the NYT has put people in editorial positions who view it as part of their job to upset the left. This is, in the bizarro, insular world of US elites, seen as a way to restore balance & regain the trust of the right.
Putting aside the merits of the larger effort ...
Putting aside the merits of the larger effort ...
July 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Very important thread
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"The dollar is off to its worst start to a year in more than half a century."
The Dollar Has Its Worst Start to a Year Since 1973
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July 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"The dollar is off to its worst start to a year in more than half a century."
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I suspect these policies will be reversed at some point but I want the innocent people who have been rounded up and deported to be allowed back. Not realistic, I know. But still. I hate this so much. So many hard working people's lives ruined for no reason.
"We saw ICE agents on farms, pointing assault rifles at cows, and removing half the workforce,'' said American Business Immigration Coalition President Rebecca Shi, whose coalition represents 1,700 employers and supports increased legal immigration.
ICE Raids Scare Off Workers and Baffle Businesses
President Trump’s ICE raids have scared off workers and caused chaos for farmers, cattle ranchers and hotel and restaurant managers.
buff.ly
June 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I suspect these policies will be reversed at some point but I want the innocent people who have been rounded up and deported to be allowed back. Not realistic, I know. But still. I hate this so much. So many hard working people's lives ruined for no reason.
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ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a “secret police,” with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believ...
ICE believes it will never face accountability again
The Trump administration is letting an unaccountable secret police form at the heart of our democracy.
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June 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a “secret police,” with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believ...
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I too fail to remember essays that I did not write and barely read.
I'd say "this is not rocket science" but, in its complete and total failure, it very much is like rocket science as practiced today. bsky.app/profile/brad...
I'd say "this is not rocket science" but, in its complete and total failure, it very much is like rocket science as practiced today. bsky.app/profile/brad...
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I too fail to remember essays that I did not write and barely read.
I'd say "this is not rocket science" but, in its complete and total failure, it very much is like rocket science as practiced today. bsky.app/profile/brad...
I'd say "this is not rocket science" but, in its complete and total failure, it very much is like rocket science as practiced today. bsky.app/profile/brad...
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The Supreme Court ruled that the Equal Protection Clause does not protect everybody equally. Instead it upheld the Tennessee law that seeks to eradicate trans kids.
My latest in @thenation
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My latest in @thenation
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The Supreme Court's Anti-Trans Decision Will Live In Infamy
In its bigotry and deceitfulness, US v. Skrmetti is destined to be seen alongside Plessy, Dobbs, Dred Scott, and all of the court's other most notorious decisions.
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June 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The Supreme Court ruled that the Equal Protection Clause does not protect everybody equally. Instead it upheld the Tennessee law that seeks to eradicate trans kids.
My latest in @thenation
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
My latest in @thenation
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The era of "thoughts and prayers" now feels like the good ol' days. Saturday's Minnesota assassination saw top Republicans lying about the shooter's politics, even joking
The truth? Most political violence is from the right and their leaders egg it on. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
The truth? Most political violence is from the right and their leaders egg it on. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
When politicians cheer American violence | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, what a regal wedding tells us about Dems in disarray.
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June 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The era of "thoughts and prayers" now feels like the good ol' days. Saturday's Minnesota assassination saw top Republicans lying about the shooter's politics, even joking
The truth? Most political violence is from the right and their leaders egg it on. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
The truth? Most political violence is from the right and their leaders egg it on. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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Pretty sure the Antichrist is already here
A reminder: Israeli Ambassador Mike Huckabee believes that Israel is central to triggering the rise of the Antichrist, the rapture, the return of Christ, the battle of Armageddon, and, you know, the end of the world, generally.
June 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Pretty sure the Antichrist is already here
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Third Act, 100,000 progressive Americans over the age of 60, called today for Kristi Noem to resign or be impeached.
Outraged. Federal agents tackled and handcuffed Sen. Alex Padilla while he was doing his job.
Some of us are old enough to have witnessed scenes like this in the fascist nations we fought in WWII. None of us have ever seen anything quite like it in the U.S. before today.
Some of us are old enough to have witnessed scenes like this in the fascist nations we fought in WWII. None of us have ever seen anything quite like it in the U.S. before today.
June 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Third Act, 100,000 progressive Americans over the age of 60, called today for Kristi Noem to resign or be impeached.
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What happened yesterday should radicalize you
The LA ICE raid was full-on fascism
The Abrego Garcia case is an abomination. We have a government that concocts charges against anyone it doesn't like, and pardons any criminal that supports Trump. And they are just getting started
Free Kilmar!
The LA ICE raid was full-on fascism
The Abrego Garcia case is an abomination. We have a government that concocts charges against anyone it doesn't like, and pardons any criminal that supports Trump. And they are just getting started
Free Kilmar!
June 7, 2025 at 10:34 AM
What happened yesterday should radicalize you
The LA ICE raid was full-on fascism
The Abrego Garcia case is an abomination. We have a government that concocts charges against anyone it doesn't like, and pardons any criminal that supports Trump. And they are just getting started
Free Kilmar!
The LA ICE raid was full-on fascism
The Abrego Garcia case is an abomination. We have a government that concocts charges against anyone it doesn't like, and pardons any criminal that supports Trump. And they are just getting started
Free Kilmar!