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Senior Editor and Cincinnati Bureau Chief at The Bulwark Kentucky Colonel, Ope-inion Leaderβ„’, former hill staffer, Cleveland, Ohio, Cincy, DC and STL sports fan, cheap watch aficionado. 🫑 thebulwark.com, itscasualtime.com, MountWarshington.com

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Opinion | Why the latest racist, antisemitic college MAGA group chat points to the GOP's future Anthony L. Fisher Young MAGA activist leaders β€”the heirs to Charlie Kirk’s legacy β€” keep getting outed as bigots. And the right’s mostly just yawns.

A leaked Florida college group chat revealed TPUSA's chapter president β€” and other young Republican activist leaders β€” giddily using antisemitic, racist and fascist rhetoric.

The heirs to Charlie Kirk’s legacy keep getting outed as bigots. And the right mostly just shrugs.

(new @ms.now column)

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How to Eat An Elephant The essential plan to save America by persuading voters to discard MAGA into the ash heap of history (where it belongs). Featuring a foreword by Jonathan V. Last.

Get it here: bit.ly/4rWlX3S

06.03.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We’ve got some big news: @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social is releasing her first book and you can pre-order it now!

β€œHow to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time” is the playbook for consigning MAGA-style politics to the ash heap of history where it belongs.

Order now before it drops on Sept. 8.

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Go Try the Wayfarer x Carmelo's Pizza Collab While you still have time.

You have 2 days left to try this wonderful pizza.

www.mountwarshington.com/p/go-try-the...

06.03.2026 17:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œIt was the Special Envoy, with the Shield, in the Americas.”

06.03.2026 12:17 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I really encourage everyone to spend some time with the DHS Flickr page, which in one year posted thousands and thousands of glamour shot propaganda photos of Kristi Noem and little else. Our tax dollars! www.flickr.com/photos/dhsgov/

06.03.2026 12:15 πŸ‘ 664 πŸ” 190 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 20
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Trump Puts Noem Down Like a Dog Her tenureβ€”with its illegal deportations, immigrant pain, and killings of U.S. citizensβ€”ends this month.

NEW from me: Trump Puts Noem Down Like a Dog

www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-puts... via @thebulwark.com

05.03.2026 22:12 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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Trump Puts Noem Down Like a Dog Her tenureβ€”with its illegal deportations, immigrant pain, and killings of U.S. citizensβ€”ends this month.

"A big part of Noem’s legacy also will be her alleged corruption: her use of government planes for personal purposes, her abuse of her staff, her unprecedented choice to live in housing usually reserved for the commandant of the Coast Guardβ€”the list goes on."
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-puts...

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Antti Paalanen – Takatukka (Live) // UMK26
Antti Paalanen – Takatukka (Live) // UMK26 YouTube video by Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu

I have just learned about this artist and now you have to learn too.

youtu.be/BQNMBYSvFVQ?...

06.03.2026 00:31 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Beautiful night in the Queen City

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05.03.2026 22:19 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Today, a video on the ballroom testimony.

Tomorrow, we let the dogs out, so to speak.

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Second Harvest Heartland Donation Form - Second Harvest Heartland

Donate here: bit.ly/4rcNrkz

05.03.2026 20:27 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Thank you Bulwark community!

You raised over $96,000 for Second Harvest Heartland in less than 24 hours!

Along with the $60,000 raised at our shows, these funds will help provide 474,021 meals to the Minneapolis community,

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Your next Oklahoma Senator (appointed) options:

Mary Fallin
Ryan Walters
Joe Exotic
Sam Bankman-Fried
Scott Pruitt
J.C. Watts

05.03.2026 20:02 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2

I cannot wait to see the @davejorgenson.bsky.social joint on this.

05.03.2026 19:24 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

What's that? I am just getting news that Kristi Noem has been scheduled to be joining the ranks of the funemployed.

05.03.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Cincinnati is a very parochial town. If she plans to stay local, it’ll be an interesting experiment. Since she’s tight with Trump, maybe the move is to wait it out and hope Yohoβ€”and a bottle of rum much older than Noem’s 8-day-old contractorβ€”can help pay the bills.

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It is Dayton tavern style, but in this case, it's Dayton Kentucky!

05.03.2026 14:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why?

www.instagram.com/reel/DVet4ly...

05.03.2026 14:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

But did you see the pizza I posted this morning that I'm getting for dinner?

05.03.2026 14:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I legitimately don't understand why the Democrats would post this? Is it because I'm old? Or are they bad at social? Both?

05.03.2026 14:14 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Cincinnati-area native Tricia McLaughlin has left the Department of Homeland Security but not the scrutiny of Congress.

www.cincinnati.com/story/news/p...

05.03.2026 14:05 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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Very excited to try this. If you're in the Cincinnati area and haven't gone to Carmelo's yet, you're missing out.

05.03.2026 13:18 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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So we’re just going to forget all about this and never ask Trump, Leavitt or Hegseth about it again after the first day because this is totally normal so who cares.

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β€œIf the wee nippers won’t eat the broccoli, serve the nippers with kumara.” Sweet as.

05.03.2026 12:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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You missed the era of memes. There are even t-shirts.

05.03.2026 12:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I saw a MAGA reply guy trying to neg bad baseball dan saying "I know you're part of Never Trump, Inc." and I'm thinking buddy that hasn't been true of anyone at National Review in years. They're all Trumpers now.

05.03.2026 12:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Past the point of no return
No backward glances:
Our games of make believe are at an end

Past all thought of "if" or "when"
No use resisting:
Abandon thought and let the dream descend

05.03.2026 12:14 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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In the Shadow of Fear, a Moment of Peace An unexpected encounter near the federal building DHS has been using near Minneapolis.
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