The Bulwark community has raised more than $100,000 for the Haitian Support Center in Springfield, Ohio, which is helping families with food, transportation, legal assistance, and other basic needs. If you’re able, please consider donating.

The Bulwark Community Stands With Springfield

Over the past year, we’ve been telling you about what is happening to Springfield’s Haitian community, and about the extraordinary people there who have stepped up to help their friends and neighbors through an incredibly difficult time. Now we’re asking the Bulwark community to step up with them. We’re raising money for the Haitian Support Center, which is on the ground in Springfield helping families with food, transportation, legal assistance, and other basic needs.

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Sean Duffy's son-in-law is raking in campaign cash from donors with business before Duffy's Department of Transportation. Some eyebrow-raising stuff here from @brendanhartnett.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/wanna-infl...

Wanna Influence Sean Duffy? Try His Son-in-Law’s Campaign.

Transportation interests have poured money into Michael Alfonso’s congressional bid while seeking decisions from Duffy’s department.

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Lt. Gen. @markhertling.bsky.social analyzes the state of the USS Lincoln and the soldiers still at sea fighting this war: “It takes a toll on human beings when you're that long in combat and that long at sea.”

Trump has exposed and created the machinery for another authoritarian presidency down the line. The next job is to shut that possibility down.

After Trump: Proposals for a Post-Authoritarian America

How Democrats can lead the charge for a new Reconstruction—if they can avoid becoming what they defeat.

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"Trump imported kayfabe to American politics…Where American politicians had previously felt the need to pantomime earnestness and consistency, Trump was openly playacting." Another absolute banger from @jvl.bsky.social for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...

Trump’s America Is Really Hulk Hogan’s America

The lies, the grievance, the spectacle—and the political movement built from all three.

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NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.

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We went back to the scene of the crime… Brendan Hartnett & @jaredpoland.bsky.social tell @timmiller.bsky.social what it was like to visit the unholy grounds at the Great American State Fair where MAGA Manny got arrested for pleasuring himself:

"I showed up about three minutes before, sat in the grass, and I was the only person there when they started." @jaredpoland.bsky.social tells @timmiller.bsky.social about the depressing, prime-time podcast taping he saw at the Great American State Fair:

My colleagues @jaredpoland.bsky.social and @brendanhartnett.bsky.social visited Trump's fair on the National Mall and brought back this review of what they saw (and tasted: "This actually might be the worst pretzel I've ever had"). www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUlX...

Trump’s America 250 Event Is LITERALLY Falling Apart

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Yes, Trump is once again lying about his crowd sizes. Here’s @jaredpoland.bsky.social to break it down.

@jaredpoland.bsky.social: "The speech was definitely a short one by Trump's standards…His speech last night came in just a little under 30 minutes…A lot of people got their picture of Trump and headed to the gates."

@jaredpoland.bsky.social: "I think this celebration would have been a lot better had Trump not made himself the center of it — but unfortunately with Donald Trump, he's incapable of doing that. He wants to be at the center of every bit of this America 250 celebration."

The Knicks lost tonight but at least New York got to show Donald Trump how they feel about him. @timmiller.bsky.social reacts to Trump's appearance at MSG for Game 3 of the NBA finals: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_4i...

Trump Crashed the NBA Finals and Got Exactly What He Deserved

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New York hates Trump so much they booed him during the National Anthem.

@jaredpoland.bsky.social reacts to Kevin Hassett: "Last time I checked, going into credit card debt and spending more at the pump are both things Americans would like to avoid... This is yet another example of how out of touch this White House is."

EXCLUSIVE: The State Department is close to finalizing a radical redesign of the U.S. Passport to include a picture of President Donald Trump

EXCLUSIVE: State Dept. Finalizing Plan to Put Trump Picture on U.S. Passports

The new design would mark yet another U.S. government property upon which the president has plastered his likeness.

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Markwayne Mullin at DHS will be more of the same. After the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, he echoed many of the same talking points pushed by Kristi Noem. Listen for yourself:

NEW from me and @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social for @thebulwark.com Markwayne Mullin: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Noem Boss The Oklahoma senator tapped to be the new DHS chief is more of the same. www.thebulwark.com/p/senator-ma...

Markwayne Mullin: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Noem Boss

The Oklahoma senator tapped to be the new DHS chief is more of the same.

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VIDEO accompanying the article ☝️, put together by our @jaredpoland.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/theb...

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Markwayne Mullin at DHS will be more of the same. After the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, he echoed many of the same talking points pushed by Kristi Noem. Listen for yourself:

NEW: What should we expect from Markwayne Mullin as head of DHS? Is there any reason to believe his policies will be any different from Kristi Noem's? Nope—not based on what he's said over the past year. We've got the receipts: www.thebulwark.com/p/senator-ma...

Markwayne Mullin: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Noem Boss

The Oklahoma senator tapped to be the new DHS chief is more of the same.

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Coming soon to Truth Social:

Late last week, we published an article asking whether DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin actually believes the lies she spreads. Yesterday, she announced she's stepping down. Here, from @jaredpoland.bsky.social, is our list of her top-five most egregious lies. www.thebulwark.com/p/tricia-mcl...

Tricia McLaughlin’s Top Five Lies

The outgoing Homeland Security flack’s pattern of mendacity.

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Tricia McLaughlin earned a reputation for extraordinary, shameless lying. To mark the occasion of her departure, here are five of the most heinous lies McLaughlin told during her tenure at DHS. My latest for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/tricia-mcl...

Tricia McLaughlin’s Top Five Lies

The outgoing Homeland Security flack’s pattern of mendacity.

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Whether insisting that the immigrants being detained and/or deported are hardened criminals, or that the Americans killed by ICE were domestic terrorists, Tricia McLaughlin has sure told a lot of whoppers. @jaredpoland.bsky.social compiles the top five: lnk.thebulwark.com/4kF1eP6

Tricia McLaughlin’s Top Five Lies

The outgoing Homeland Security flack’s pattern of mendacity.

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Looks like someone forgot to give Gramps his meds again... "The first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup." (h/t @jaredpoland.bsky.social)

Bad Bunny, one week before his Super Bowl halftime performance, starts a Grammy acceptance speech: "Before I say thanks to God, I'm gonna say: ICE out."

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Ice out

"Three days on the three-dollar meal plan had helped me realize something important: The diet had taken not only a physical toll, but a mental one." @jaredpoland.bsky.social did it so you don't have to:

No Joy in Cooking

Secretary of agriculture Brooke Rollins recently suggested Americans can get the nutrition they need on $3 meals. Here’s what happened when I tried to follow her plan.

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In case you missed this yesterday, here are Alex Pretti's colleagues gathered to pay tribute to him. www.thedailybeast.com/heartbreakin...

Trump, earlier this evening in Iowa, said this: “We need people to come in legally, but they have to show that they can love our country, not hate our country…They have to show that they can love our country. They have to be proud. Not like Ilhan Omar.”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8mo ago

JUST NOW… rep. Omar attacked and sprayed with a liquid…

Lest you believe that DHS has eased up on Minnesota today.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking. Warning: video is hard to watch