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- Voters: Can we have more moderate cultural or policy positions? Tim Walz: Best I can do is talk about football with podcasters
- "If you want to signal that you'd like to get more bribes, what's the best way to do that? Take one bribe...he's opened the door to just unimaginable amounts of corruption." @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:
- It's easy to recognize that your electoral prospects aren't looking great. It's harder to decide what to do about it.
- Democrats need to focus on popular, practical ideas—like growth, safety, and common sense—to win voters and fix what’s broken. ICYMI, @mattyglesias.bsky.social joins @johnavlon.bsky.social:
- At the end of March, Joe Rogan hit Trump hard on the cruelty and lawlessness of his deportation policies. It isn't traditional media that's getting Trump's abuses talked about:
- Trump's corruption is way, way, way worse than you think. Listen up to @profgalloway.com here.
- Trump: “Basically, what we’re doing is equalizing. That’s a new word that I came up with, which I think is probably the best word.”
- "Not to worry. Attorney General Pam Bondi—once a registered lobbyist for Qatar, as it happens—has concluded that the transaction is permissible under U.S. law and the Constitution." Of course! Today's Morning Shots, from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @citizencohn.bsky.social:
- "How do these men spout such utter garbage with a straight face? The answer is that they’re in these jobs precisely because they’re the sort of people who can do it."
- Rep. Brendan Boyle on Qatar gifting Trump a plane: "I give Donald Trump credit, he is the greatest grifter in American history...Even if polls show it's not the issue that's top of mind for most voters, right and wrong still matter. We have to pursue this legally in the courts."
