Dems Aren’t Buying Reports of Alito Staying Put How the left is preparing for a midterm-year Trump SCOTUS vacancy—or even two.

How Democrats and their allies are preparing for a Supreme Court vacancy, just in case...

By @lauren-egan.bsky.social

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RFK Jr.’s No-Good-But-Maybe-Not-That-Bad Week The CDC is in line to get a normie director—but it will still be tough to escape Kennedy and his anti-vaccine crusade.

The anti-vaccination movement is FURIOUS over Trump's pick for CDC director

But will it really make a difference as long as RFK Jr. is in charge?

A closer look here... www.thebulwark.com/p/kennedy-rf...

Government Workers Say They’re Getting Inundated With Religion “This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

Stephen Miller is so vile that he boomeranged immigration into a beloved public good

Trump orders more access to psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin and ibogaine The president is directing federal agencies to boost research into the drugs and support clinical trials, moves championed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Trump & RFK are making psychedelics (like LSD & MDMA) "available in controlled therapeutic settings."

I have no opinion on their medical potential b/c they haven't been studied enough. But I think it strange that an admin. so insistent on new clinical

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RFK Jr.’s No-Good-But-Maybe-Not-That-Bad Week The CDC is in line to get a normie director—but it will still be tough to escape Kennedy and his anti-vaccine crusade.

NEW at @thebulwark.com

I wrote about the well-credentialed, highly regarded doctor Trump just picked to run CDC

And what it says — and doesn’t say — about the future of RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccination crusade www.thebulwark.com/p/kennedy-rf...

A Bittersweet 20th Birthday for Romneycare Mitt Romney’s legacy is a reminder of how governing used to work.

"It says something that the MAGA base treats Romney as a persona non grata, while Democrats in one of America’s bluest states will embrace him the way they did on Monday." ICYMI @citizencohn.bsky.social catches up with Mitt Romney: www.thebulwark.com/p/a-bittersw...

Video: Mitt Romney on the 20th Anniversary of a Landmark Health Care Law Jonathan Cohn speaks with Mitt Romney as he reflects on the 20th anniversary of Massachusetts’ landmark health care law.

Also… I got to interview Romney

We talked about why he got interested in health care, how he ended up partnering with Ted Kennedy

And what he thinks of politics today www.thebulwark.com/p/video-mitt...

A Bittersweet 20th Birthday for Romneycare Mitt Romney’s legacy is a reminder of how governing used to work.

NEW at @thebulwark.com

Mitt Romney returned to Massachusetts this week, to celebrate the 20th birthday of Romneycare

I wrote about him, the festivities and the law’s backstory — and how it’s all a bittersweet reminder of what governing used to look like www.thebulwark.com/p/a-bittersw...

What I Saw When Hasan Piker and Abdul El-Sayed Came to Town Two theories about the Senate race making so much news right now.

NEW at @thebulwark.com

I wrote about Abdul El-Sayed’s raucous university rallies this week

Why the challenge for him is showing he can reach voters beyond campus

And why the challenge for his opponents is showing they can win over those kids www.thebulwark.com/p/what-i-saw...

What I Saw When Hasan Piker and Abdul El-Sayed Came to Town Two theories about the Senate race making so much news right now.

NEW at @thebulwark.com

What I saw when Hasan Piker and Abdul El-Sayed came to town www.thebulwark.com/p/what-i-saw...

Thanks to @citizencohn.bsky.social for the shoutout of my book Coverage Denied! Really enjoyed discussing these important issues of health care access.

"In isolation, this is lunacy, but it's especially galling when you think about like what the opportunity costs are, right? Like what we don't have money for, but we do have money for this."

Catherine Rampell and Sam Stein discuss Trump's insane new budget proposal.

Is Trump *Trying* to Lose the Midterms? Between rising prices and gilded ballrooms, Trump has practically giftwrapped oppo ads for Democrats.

Is Trump *trying* to lose the midterms?

@crampell.bsky.social tries to figure it out www.thebulwark.com/p/is-trump-t...

How Big Is the Democrats’ ‘Big Tent’? The creation of the Hasan Piker litmus test.

So just how big is the Democrats' big tent?

@lauren-egan.bsky.social on the Hasan Piker controversy, and questions it raises www.thebulwark.com/p/how-big-is...

The responses to this thread are pure gold

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Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Hegseth’s unprecedented embrace of Christian nationalism sparks backlash The defense secretary isn’t just exercising his faith in line with his conscience, he’s also erasing the First Amendment’s church-state line.

Good points here from @stevebenen.com: Pete Hegseth isn't just claiming that God sanctions his bloodlust and his war crimes; he's also erasing the church-state separation in numerous ways, which Steve helpfully lists in this piece:
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RFK Jr., Creature of the Tanning Salon, Throws the Industry a Bone The HHS secretary has crispy, orange-toned skin in the game.

NEW at @thebulwark.com

The FDA just nixed a rule to protect kids from cancer-causing tanning bed rays

Does that sound like gold-standard science?

And making America healthy again?

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Dems Quietly Start Their Next Big Health Care Effort They want to undo the damage done by Trump—and some are laying the groundwork for bigger reforms.

“I do think people recognize that, as we wage the fight to defend coverage and consumer protection and specific communities under attack, that we don’t fall into a trap of defending the status quo that people thought rightly was broken,” said @awright2care.bsky.social.
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When ICE Brings You the Patient … Hospitals Must Stop Victimizing Forensic Patients Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 26, No. 3, 2026)

Article includes an interview with (and perspectives from) @bioethxmark.bsky.social from Loyola

He's author of a new paper arguing that we need to update hospital policies that had been written for standard law enforcement, not ICE raids www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NKRJV...

Why the ICE Raid in ‘The Pitt’ Matters The popular HBO show took on masked federal agents causing chaos for hospital patients and personnel.

"The Pitt" has not been shy about weaving political issues into its storylines

Especially true for a recent episode on immigration enforcement in hospitals

Great analysis -- and behind-the-scenes look -- from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/why-the-ic...

Thank you!

Dems Quietly Start Their Next Big Health Care Effort They want to undo the damage done by Trump—and some are laying the groundwork for bigger reforms.

That sound you (barely) hear is the sound of the health care debate shifting from where it's been stuck for the last 15 years

I wrote about that shift -- and a group of Democrats who say they want to be ready when it does

NEW at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

"When we talked, tears came to his eyes... in a way that really caused me to bond with him."

Al Gore tells @timmiller.bsky.social about a moment where Mike Pence expressed the profound effect Gore's decision to certify the 2000 election played in his role on Jan. 6, 2021.

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

He Had a Full Ride at Duke—Until America Cut Him Off Student visas for Africa’s best and brightest were canceled by the Trump administration, leaving behind empty seats and broken dreams.

Zero Americans benefit from this.

All of us, every Conservative and every Liberal American, are watching our future hobbled.

Shattering a treasured national asset: our former status as the top destination for global talent, hard-wrought by generations of visionary Republicans and Democrats.

"Science is not a 35-page, college B+ quality research paper to justify [altering the vaccine schedule]" - @citizencohn.bsky.social of @thebulwark.com

Listen to the @msignorile.bsky.social Show LIVE weekdays 3pm-6pm ET and On Demand at Signorile.com

It’s not just vaccines: Parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns | CNN Doctors across the nation are alarmed that skepticism fueled by rising anti-science sentiment and medical mistrust is increasingly reaching beyond vaccines to other proven, routine, preventive care fo...

“Nature will allow 1 in 5 human infants to die in the first year of life, which is why generations of scientists and doctors have worked to bring that number way, way down.”
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