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Reporting on Congress and sometimes clothes for The Bulwark. Perticone@thebulwark.com πŸ“ D.C.

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showing up in my chef uniform to protest affordable housing next to my michelin star restaurant

06.03.2026 15:25 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gen-Z identical twins model civility as political foes One is MAGA, one is liberal. Both say they love each other.

These twins suck www.yahoo.com/news/article...

05.03.2026 21:35 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gambling on War Is MAGA’s Latest Gold Rush Some lawmakers want to ban the prediction-market manipulations.

Like dogfighting, gambling on war is the sort of hobby that is best described in simple, direct moral terms. (β€œSatanic” was the one that came to my mind.) www.thebulwark.com/p/gambling-o...

05.03.2026 20:04 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Democrat’s plan would eliminate federal incomes taxes for half of U.S. workers Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s tax relief plan could benefit tens of millions of middle-class workers, with a focus on those making at or below a living wage.

It appears that enough people have convinced Chris Van Hollen of the silly idea that he's an actual 2028 contender. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

05.03.2026 15:46 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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On this date one year ago

27.02.2026 15:18 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

most of the replies to this are just blue sky libs complaining that the mayor of america's largest city uses twitter

26.02.2026 21:28 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bulwark reader Rich Cook guessed it. Every subheading in today's newsletter is a Frank Miller title

26.02.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The No New Wars President Is Beating the War Drums Will Congress do anything about the impending bombing of Iran?

We have a few comic book fans who read Press Pass. I'm hoping at least one catches the easter eggs in today's newsletter www.thebulwark.com/p/the-no-new...

26.02.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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The No New Wars President Is Beating the War Drums Will Congress do anything about the impending bombing of Iran?

If we're going to replay 2003 as a country I am requesting that BMX become cool again as well. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-no-new...

26.02.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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From the politics community on Reddit: I’m Joe Perticone, The Bulwark's Capitol Hill reporter covering Congress. I’ll be inside the chamber for tonight’s State of the Union. AMA. Explore this post and more from the politics community

Reddit AMA is LIVE. I'll start answering questions when I'm inside the House chamber and the speech begins, around 9pm. www.reddit.com/r/politics/c...

24.02.2026 23:56 πŸ‘ 83 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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A Republican’s Sex Scandal Could Paralyze the House Plus: Join me inside the House chamber for the State of the Union.

Trying something new tonight for my, idk, 10th state of the union/presidential address to a joint meeting of Congress:

I will be doing a reddit AMA from inside the House chamber during tonight's speech. Ask me anything you wanna know that you're not seeing on TV www.thebulwark.com/p/a-republic...

24.02.2026 20:22 πŸ‘ 76 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Another Rod Dreher profile? In this economy?

13.02.2026 15:43 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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11.02.2026 20:17 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also in January, Billy Long (Trump's Iceland amb. nom) joked on the House floor that Iceland would be a state with him as governor. These fuckups can cause widespread panic.

10.02.2026 20:06 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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So You Lied About Your Relationship With a Sex Trafficker. Now What? Howard Lutnick searches for a way out of his Epstein pickle.

In today's newsletter, about a week after Trump repeatedly said "Iceland" when he meant "Greenland" in his Davos speech, the Iceland amb. to the US hired a big K street firm to "provide strategic advice on navigating engagements with the United States government." www.thebulwark.com/p/so-you-lie...

10.02.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
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Please, Not Another Kennedy Nancy Pelosi reportedly plans to endorse JFK’s grandson for Congress. Why?

"One lesson that can be drawn from the second Trump administration is that being a member of the Kennedy family does not qualify you for public service. Yet many Camelot-besotted Democrats remain stubbornly immune to this conclusion."
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10.02.2026 17:53 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œAmerican Indian” is not an offensive term and the weirdos who searched through my tens of thousands of posts to try and find something they could use to label me a racist are not acting in good faith. The game of trying to set up rhetorical tripwires to attack people you hate is incredibly toxic.

09.02.2026 19:00 πŸ‘ 846 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 73 πŸ“Œ 26
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James Comer Gives Dems an Unexpected Gift The House Oversight Committee swung at Clinton but might have hit Trump.

It's very funny how this happened www.thebulwark.com/p/james-come...

05.02.2026 20:04 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Fortify War unit" is one of his steps. I don't even know what this means. Is it referring to a team of reporters in warzones or just what he calls the sales department?

05.02.2026 18:33 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ah, the solution for WaPo is to just buy several other media outlets (?) and make it like Axios, which has also not avoided layoffs under Jim's leadership.

05.02.2026 18:29 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 9

The most common error Hollywood makes is having politicians be named β€œJohn Smith” or something. In reality they all have names like Gus Bilirakis, Denver Riggleman, Dutch Ruppersberger, Dave Loebsack, or John Boehner.

05.02.2026 00:02 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The House loses another all-time House Guyℒ️ name. Up there with Markwayne Mullin, Newt Gingrich, and Dick Swett.

04.02.2026 23:57 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Aaaand she's in the Oval holding a MAGA hat right after we hit publish. Subscribe to the most prophetic newsletter around @ presspass.thebulwark.com

03.02.2026 21:29 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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The Lobster Roll-back: How Susan Collins Gets Trump Carveouts Her endangered status means the MAGA agenda doesn't hit as hard in Maine

Susan Collins gets special treatment from Trump because she's so endangered in the Senate. www.thebulwark.com/p/susan-coll...

03.02.2026 20:12 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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Il volto di Meloni su un angelo in una basilica romana. La premier ironizza, imbarazzo in Vicariato Un decoratore volontario ha riprodotto le fattezze della premier durante i restauri del monumento a Umberto II di Savoia nella basilica romana di San Lorenzo i…

A fresco of an angel now looks like Giorgia Meloni after its restoration, causing a major uproar.

You simply cannot fathom the hilariousness of the scandals that regularly occur in Italy. Greatest country on earth. www.lastampa.it/politica/202...

02.02.2026 20:53 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I would love to know what kind of vintage, sherling lined leather bomber jacket the pilot is presumably wearing in these temps

31.01.2026 22:09 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

His name almost never came up on Capitol Hill before June 2015

28.01.2026 21:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The city cleared Constitution Ave across from the Senate. They did this by creating a 10ft mound of snow in the middle of the crosswalk.

28.01.2026 21:38 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

This isn't me saying 'nothing matters.' It's that any way you seek to stop this madness will not be accomplished by convincing a Republican senator to abandon their leader. That ship has sailed.

28.01.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I get bored with these constant pleas from Dems for their colleagues to follow their conscience. We're on year 10 of this. They've seen the few Rs who have stood up and watched their careers go down in flames, living under constant death threats. It's just not happening.

28.01.2026 21:29 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1