Editor at large, The Bulwark. Director, Defending Democracy Together. Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol. Never Trump.https://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3ml7g5wgmgs2e“So the past year’s trend of notable Democratic overperformance continued, this time in a mostly working-class district in Michigan, a swing state. The result certainly seems to bode well for November.” https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-happy-but-so-are-democrats-special-elections-primaries-midterms-mass-deportations-economy-iran?r=1emko06 May 2026 19:18 +0000at://did:plc:twasya42lpacrrncfhcrbjyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7g5wgmgs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3ml7fvojt222eAn awful lot of credulous quoting of “federal law enforcement” sources in the coverage of the Louise Lucas matter. Given the manifest politicization of Trump’s DOJ and FBI, why should media agree to quote any of these sources on background?06 May 2026 19:13 +0000at://did:plc:twasya42lpacrrncfhcrbjyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7fvojt222ehttps://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3ml7arqddpk2c“Everything we need to fix America is right here. And yet we are incapable of doing so. Partly because of the will of the people. But also because of structural barriers that have developed in the American system. Isn’t that the definition of enshittification?” https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/the-enshittified-states-of-america?r=1emko&utm_medium=ios06 May 2026 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:twasya42lpacrrncfhcrbjyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7arqddpk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3ml6xzvgkdc2w“It is sad and outrageous that 160 years after Thaddeus Stevens announced the intention “to write the Declaration’s promise of freedom and equality into the Constitution,” Trump is doing his best to trample on the Declaration, the Constitution, & liberal democracy.” https://open.substack.com/pub/defendingdemocracysdeclaration/p/thaddeus-stevens-the-fourteenth-amendment?r=1emko&utm_medium=ios06 May 2026 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:twasya42lpacrrncfhcrbjyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6xzvgkdc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3ml6t63i33s25Trump's happy about the Indiana primaries. But I'm cheerful about the Democratic romp in the Michigan special. And I'm cheered by the fact that the otherwise unfortunate continued Trumpification of the GOP has this important upside--a bigger Dem wave in November. https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/trump-is-happy-but-so-are-democrats-special-elections-primaries-midterms-mass-deportations-economy-iran?r=1emko&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web06 May 2026 13:38 +0000at://did:plc:twasya42lpacrrncfhcrbjyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6t63i33s25https://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3ml6rqkbcjk2o"Whenever I visit, I go see the Vietnam Wall first...Then I head across the river to Arlington to pay my respects. On your way, you pass through Memorial Circle, where Trump wants to put his arch. I can’t think of anything less fitting..." https://open.substack.com/pub/ofthebrave/p/im-a-vietnam-vet-the-arc-de-trump?r=1emko&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email06 May 2026 13:13 +0000at://did:plc:twasya42lpacrrncfhcrbjyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6rqkbcjk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3ml4nhprl322a“Trump built his political rise on the back of a conspiracy theory about Obama…After 2020, Trump made public commitment to a conspiracy theory (the stolen election) a requirement for all Republican candidates. In 2024, he added anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists…” https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/a-conspiracy-theory-we-can-all-believe-in?r=1emko&utm_medium=ios05 May 2026 16:51 +0000at://did:plc:twasya42lpacrrncfhcrbjyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4nhprl322ahttps://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3ml4mlzbft22aNeedless to say, this bonus isn’t going to attract “qualified lawyers” to Trump’s DOJ. It’s a payoff to Trump loyalists and opportunists willing to work there. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 16:35 +0000at://did:plc:twasya42lpacrrncfhcrbjyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4mlzbft22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3ml4h2lytec2yA fun discussion with @samsteindc.bsky.social on Trump making GOP members of Congress vote for $1 BILLION in taxpayer money for his ballroom. On the one hand, good politically for Dems. On the other hand, Trump's megalomania being so out of control is...worrisome. https://www.youtube.com/live/pt1yZevPY7E?si=BIktnVPouMZQOaNs05 May 2026 14:56 +0000at://did:plc:twasya42lpacrrncfhcrbjyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4h2lytec2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3ml4djhglik2k"The administration’s argument: We were at war with Iran then, we’re at war with Iran now, but if you squint at it you’ll agree lawmakers needn’t worry about getting involved...These Republican lawmakers are by now pretty much Olympic-caliber squinters." https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/abortion-politics-are-about-to-bite-trump-mifepristone-supreme-court-pro-life-choice-ukraine-russia?r=1emko&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web05 May 2026 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:twasya42lpacrrncfhcrbjyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4djhglik2khttps://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3ml4ddylx6c2b"From Donald Trump and JD Vance on down, the Trump administration has talked about Ukraine as a sort of geopolitical beggar...That view has always been not only morally idiotic but strategically short-sighted." https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/abortion-politics-are-about-to-bite-trump-mifepristone-supreme-court-pro-life-choice-ukraine-russia?r=1emko&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web05 May 2026 13:50 +0000at://did:plc:twasya42lpacrrncfhcrbjyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4ddylx6c2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3ml4d6nv5m222"If the Court throws out the mifepristone-by-mail status quo, it will sharpen the salience of abortion as an issue—one that currently favors Democrats. But if they decline to throw it out, the pressure from pro-lifers [will be] on Trump to change the rules..." https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/abortion-politics-are-about-to-bite-trump-mifepristone-supreme-court-pro-life-choice-ukraine-russia?r=1emko&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web05 May 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:twasya42lpacrrncfhcrbjyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4d6nv5m222https://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3ml4cpitfcs2gA perceptive piece by @parkermolloy.com: "Shining a sympathetic spotlight on Carlson now does the work of laundering his reputation for the next time he attacks [his] next target. The infighting on the right is useful. Boosting the people doing it is not." https://open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/p/dont-fall-for-the-tucker-carlson?r=1emko&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email05 May 2026 13:38 +0000at://did:plc:twasya42lpacrrncfhcrbjyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4cpitfcs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3ml2q5tfklc2wCome for our talk about Todd Blanche’s idiotic but menacing "86 47" prosecution, Trump’s idiotic but damaging withdrawal of troops from Germany, and his idiotic conduct of the war. Stay for our rant against idiotic Dems pointlessly sniping at each other. https://youtu.be/3oZdrsQj_sw?si=tHyEuKutoyYPmtMi04 May 2026 22:34 +0000at://did:plc:twasya42lpacrrncfhcrbjyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2q5tfklc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3ml4be33bvc2eAmericans for decades (actually, forever): What America means is no Big Brother. The Trump administration: We are Big Brother. https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/05/politics/va-investigation-vigil-alex-pretti05 May 2026 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:twasya42lpacrrncfhcrbjyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4be33bvc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3ml4akft52c2eIs there anything more pathetic--dare I say unmanly?--than Hegseth and Blanche using their public appearances to desperately lobby Trump to keep them in their job (Hegseth) or promote them from Acting to the real job (Blanche)? I guess Rubio at the WH podium today will make it a trio of sycophancy.05 May 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:twasya42lpacrrncfhcrbjyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4akft52c2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3ml454v5f2k2g“In the West, even erstwhile Ukraine skeptics now hail “the Ukrainian miracle.” And in Russia, even the war-hawk bloggers are increasingly speaking of defeats and “dead-end” warfare.” https://www.thebulwark.com/p/in-russia-victory-day-is-starting-to-feel-like-defeat-ukraine-war-drone-parade-putin05 May 2026 11:58 +0000at://did:plc:twasya42lpacrrncfhcrbjyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml454v5f2k2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3ml44nymi7k2g“Trump ran on the promise to cut people’s costs, and he didn’t do it. In fact, he seems focused on everything other than lowering prices…Trump’s obsession with the ballroom fits in this category, but it also stands out because it’s so dumb and pointless.” https://open.substack.com/pub/messagebox/p/why-trumps-ballroom-fixation-is-a?r=1emko&utm_medium=ios05 May 2026 11:50 +0000at://did:plc:twasya42lpacrrncfhcrbjyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml44nymi7k2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3ml42xor7o22g“The tireless and unyielding cycle of denial about the 2020 election is churning with new strength. Trump’s lies about the election he lost… continue to get plenty of air cover from his allies, nominees and appointees.” https://open.substack.com/pub/macfarlanenews/p/day-ahead-my-daily-editorial-note-7ad?selection=66a65586-ef5a-4ad9-9a36-0a1a55608e89&r=1emko&utm_medium=ios https://election.is05 May 2026 11:20 +0000at://did:plc:twasya42lpacrrncfhcrbjyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml42xor7o22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3ml35dhne722w“Secretary Hegseth’s decision reflects a defensive crouch masquerading as ideological courage. It presumes fragility. It implies that military officers cannot withstand exposure to disagreement…It suggests that all military officers should be right-leaning conservatives.” https://x.com/rgoodlaw/status/2051282623356420604?s=1205 May 2026 02:29 +0000at://did:plc:twasya42lpacrrncfhcrbjyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml35dhne722whttps://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3ml2q5tfklc2wCome for our talk about Todd Blanche’s idiotic but menacing "86 47" prosecution, Trump’s idiotic but damaging withdrawal of troops from Germany, and his idiotic conduct of the war. Stay for our rant against idiotic Dems pointlessly sniping at each other. https://youtu.be/3oZdrsQj_sw?si=tHyEuKutoyYPmtMi04 May 2026 22:34 +0000at://did:plc:twasya42lpacrrncfhcrbjyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2q5tfklc2w