NEW: A horrific new bill introduced by Chip Roy would weaponize immigration law to target "socialism"—defined so loosely as to include even advocacy about economic equality—so that naturalized citizens could be stripped of their citizenship and deported.
www.thebulwark.com/p/chip-roy-d...
It's pretty easy for Hill creatures like to see Chip Roy as feckless because he always stamps his feet and yells about legislation and then votes with Trump anyway. But @saletan.bsky.social flags how he is promoting rampant Islamophobia to advance his career.
www.thebulwark.com/p/chip-roy-d...
"To spell out his point, literally, Rep. Chip Roy has titled his bill the 'Measures Against Marxism’s Dangerous Adherents and Noxious Islamists (MAMDANI) Act of 2026.'" Very serious man, you see.
The latest edition of Press Pass, from @saletan.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4cMlIlI
A three-minute display of absolute soullessness. She won't criticize even a blunt call for genocide, if it comes from the leader of her own party.
These politically driven prosecutions are one of the key steps toward making the United States an authoritarian country.
It’s crucial that jurors, grand jurors, judges, and honest prosecutors continue to hold the line against them. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...
Republicans deported immigrants, they got rid of DEI, they banned men in women's sports. So who's left to run against in the election? Who can be the new Republican boogeyman?
@saletan.bsky.social breaks down how Republicans are dressing up anti-Muslim bigotry as "Sharia-free America."
"Among white evangelicals, 81 percent said the United States should be a Christian nation, and 65 percent said the Bible should override the people’s will." These folks have nothing to say about *that.*
The border crisis is over, DEI has been purged, and the panic over transgender bathrooms is getting old. What can House Republicans run against? Don't call them bigots, but their answer is "Muslims."
The latest edition of Press Pass, from @saletan.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4vtMNT9
sounds like a new K Street firm
The creepy Trump-as-Jesus picture Trump posted to Truth Social on 12 April 2026.
"Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous—whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light....Supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way....And then I see the disinfectant...by injection inside or almost a cleaning."
“We have the world's dumbest president, and today we got a really good look at just how dumb he is.”
@saletan.bsky.social awards a new Nobel Prize for stupidity to the president and comments on the discrepancies in his story on the Iran war.
It's not a counterpunch, guys. The pope didn't throw a punch. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/u...
Joe Kernen comes close to having a coronary on air as Pete Buttigieg dogwalks him all over the Squawk Box studio about Trump's economic mismanagement and inflation
Oh my goodness. This fight should have been stopped in the first round.
Kernen is left with his pants around his ankles. Quoting GOP approval numbers for the war would be an embarrassment to an actual journalist.
"When traders front-run a market-moving Trump post, or a military announcement, or some other confidential ... information, they’re taking money from all the other investors who didn’t have access" to that information.
@crampell.bsky.social explains how Trump's network of rich insiders screws you.
Trump is a war criminal. Not a conflicted one. An enthusiastic one. Trump *fantasizes* about war crimes.
Read about it from @saletan.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3QsajzG
"Trump thinks about oil the same way he thinks about women: The aggressor is entitled to take what he wants."
@saletan.bsky.social on Trump's grotesque freestyling about plunder and atrocities: lnk.thebulwark.com/3QsajzG
Why is Trump bragging about taking Venezuela's oil, proposing to take Iran's oil, threatening to destroy "a whole civilization," and talking about charging his own tolls in the Strait of Hormuz?
Because he's a war criminal. And he's already hunting for his next prey.
My breakdown of his crimes.
Yes, this is definitely what your administration does when you have nothing to hide. www.cnn.com/2026/04/08/p...
On Fox, House Intel Chairman Rep. Rick Crawford (R-AR) echoes Trump's claim that he has achieved regime change in Iran.
"He is trying to create the conditions under which the Iranian people can now reclaim their country," says Crawford. But in the meantime, "The reality is the regime has changed."
What has happened in the United States is simple. There were people in our government who had moral principles. They got in Trump’s way when he wanted to commit war crimes.
He has purged those people and replaced them with people who, like him, have no principles. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...
Credit to @jaketapper.bsky.social for reading the whole disgusting tweet when others on TV wouldn't.
Sanitizing this behavior is bad journalism and bad for accountability in a democracy. Let the people see the truth.
On Fox, Sen. McCormick (R-PA) says NATO countries have betrayed us.
"We asked NATO to let us use its bases ... for our operations in Iran. And they refused to do that ... I don't think we're getting divorced, but I think this is a real example of them betraying the very mission and notion of NATO."
Best unheralded reporting assignment of the year so far. And executed to a perfect crisp 🧇
“At the Waffle Houses of Rome this week, Mr. Phillips’s assertion of supernatural travel was met with skepticism. … Estelle Mandeville, 27 … noted that she, personally, had come to Rome in a 2018 Kia Niro.”
Delicious. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...
Donald Trump is using a lot of words that don't mean "war" to describe his very-much-a-war entanglement in Iran.
Read the whole thing from @saletan.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-expa...
"NATO (n): Nations for Anything Trump Orders." And many, many more.
The expanded edition of Trump's War Glossary, from @saletan.bsky.social:
He calls the war a "stopover." He says Iran is "begging" when they're rejecting his demands. He says we've done "regime change" when the regime is still there. And we're still fighting two weeks after he said the war was "over."
My breakdown of Trump's twisted vocabulary.
"If you are the 'secretary of war,' your job is not to win a political fight with the other party. Your job is to win an actual war....He's helping Iran by dividing America."
@saletan.bsky.social on Pete Hegseth over at Bulwark Takes:
