Jim Swift
@jimswift.bsky.social
Senior Editor and Cincinnati Bureau Chief at The Bulwark Kentucky Colonel, Ope-inion Leader™, former hill staffer, Cleveland, Ohio, Cincy, DC and STL sports fan, cheap watch aficionado. 🫡 thebulwark.com, itscasualtime.com, MountWarshington.com
It's not going well bsky.app/profile/atru...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 17h agoNEWSMAX: Your daughter fractured her collarbone and there was a handprint on her upper chest, and it left a bruise. How did that happen? MAX MILLER: What I can tell you is I didn't do that. 9 of the 11 previous days was my ex-wife's care. What's so troubling about child protective services is ...
Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign has largely avoided contentious public events, yet somehow keeps finding controversy in unexpected places. @jimswift.bsky.social with a dispatch from the Ohio campaign trail:
Vivek Ramaswamy Gets a Reality Check at the County Fair
He handled the hecklers. Explaining how he would pay for all his promises was harder.
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"It seems that many Trump officials don’t really want to do the hard work that comes with being a government official; they’d rather play one on TV." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
RFK Jr has a new cooking show. Are any Trump officials doing their actual jobs? | Arwa Mahdawi
Shouldn’t the health secretary have his hands full with the cyclosporiasis outbreak, measles or rabbit fever? Not when there are crispy salmon cakes to prepare, writes Arwa Mahdawi
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As one does, with a tweet sent out at 3:32 am
Politico@politico.com · 19h agoChuck Edwards says he will end reelection bid after censure recommendation
Missouri voters on individual candidates: "Give me the most absurd fascist you can find." Missouri voters on ballot measures: "Long live the people's revolution!" I will never understand that state.
Ash McGonigal@ashmcgonigal.com · 19h agoMissouri baffles me because when it comes to partisan politics they are beet red, but when it comes to the ballot measures the progressive position almost always wins.
missouriindependent.com/2026/08/04/m...
Missouri voters reject income tax phaseout, initiative petition changes • Missouri Independent
Missouri voters resoundingly rejected major Republican priorities on Tuesday as proposals to eliminate the income tax and change the way majorities are counted lost by large margins across the state.
missouriindependent.com
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Inbox: won't somebody think of the teen drivers in florida?
I'd say this is real mask off stuff, but it's been off for years.
These guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.
Where are Bari Weiss and Matt Taibbi?!
Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 2d agoThe Free Speech Brigade going after Americans "for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission". (It was never about free speech and I sincerely hope that every single media outlet is aware of this now...) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Coulda told you that like a decade ago, Big John.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
NEWS: Former Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) has endorsed Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) for re-election Flake: “I’m still a conservative Republican. But character matters. And I want someone in that seat who takes the institution seriously and will protect the institution.”
Very proud of my timeline that at nobody is trying to to pretend that Francesca Hong's candidacy isn't a disaster and spin otherwise.
Transportation secretary Sean Duffy benefited from millions in corporate donations to make a show about road trips. But two months after Duffy said the show would premiere, it doesn't appear to exist at all. My latest False Flag @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-the-h...
What the Hell Happened to Sean Duffy’s Road-Trip TV Show?
Three months after it was announced, the secretary of transportation’s summer show—funded by companies he regulates—hasn’t aired a single episode.
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ICE already has a program that forces immigrants to download a phone app and check in via face rec, so it’s really just a choice to tag people like animals.
Ted Hesson@tedhesson.bsky.social · 2d agoICE is beginning to outfit Haitian immigrants with ankle monitors after the Trump admin ended their deportation protections www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
What. They were begging for a ceasefire. How could this happen
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2d agoIran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) carried out an attack on a US base in Kuwait using three drones, according to a source familiar with the matter.-i24 News
If you can't make it there You can't make in Eau Claire It's up to you, New York, New York
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 3d ago“‘Let me tell you something: My name is Eric Adams,’ he continues, as the boos begin to rain down.” hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-i...
And so many good Ohioans showed up this morning to support our neighbors.