Podbit · The Bulwark Podcast
Calls to repeal the 19th Amendment aren't ideology — they're an admission of failure. If you can't persuade women to vote for you after 106 years, the problem isn't suffrage. It's that lots of women vote Republican, fewer than they used to, and the right would rather strip rights than make a better case.
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Jane Coaston leads on Caitlin Clark, issuing a challenge: of all the men passionately defending Clark, how many can name another white heterosexual WNBA player, let alone any WNBA player? Tim Miller concedes he looked up Clark's actual stats — she is the second leading scorer on the Indiana Fever, who are in third place in the conference — and frames her as the 'Jamal Murray of the WNBA' right now: good, not transcendent, with room to grow. He notes that if the Fever win a title and Clark has a Jalen Brunson run, she will receive appropriate recognition. Coaston calls out the lesbophobia subtext: older white men writing permission slips for themselves to attack WNBA players they frame as being mean to the one straight woman on the court. Both hosts agree the WNBA has a legitimate, separate problem with foul-calling inconsistency — calling both the Angel Reese-Brittney Griner incident and the broader pattern of either over-officiating or under-officiating — that has nothing to do with Clark specifically.
A fringe but growing movement among right-wing figures is calling for repeal of the 19th Amendment — passed 106 years ago — claiming it empowered emotion over order in politics.
Fei-Fei Li went back to Stanford from Google in 2018 specifically to build a multi-stakeholder governance framework for AI. Her argument: market forces are not societal norms. Just as biology uses IRBs and cars have safety laws, AI needs layered oversight from educators, governments, and the public — not just a few industry titans.
Andrew Santino's personal MCU of political villains is collapsing. He and Bobby speculated that a circulating photo of Mitch McConnell with a Chinese official was AI-generated compositing two separate images.
Mass surveillance is here to stay. The real battle isn't stopping cameras — it's ensuring judges and laws keep that data out of family court and civil disputes, admitting it only for violent crimes and national security. The surveillance economy currently yields more upside than downside, but only if we build the legal guardrails now.
When people cite Scandinavia as proof socialism works, Galloway says they've got it backwards. Northern Europe runs highly competitive free-market economies with more competition in many sectors than the US — they just make sure taxes are actually paid and redistributed. Billionaires and universal healthcare can coexist.
Two percent adjustments to income tax and stamp duty tweaks are deck-chair rearrangements. The UK's competitiveness hinges on four structural levers: currency valuation, energy costs, regulatory burden, and tax rates. Devalue the pound, build 56 nuclear plants, slash red tape, introduce a flat tax — and the country transforms.
Lisbon had one of Europe's worst heroin crises. Then Portugal legalised drugs and redirected all enforcement money into rehabilitation and housing. Crime collapsed. Addiction fell. Then politics moved the money elsewhere, and the problem started creeping back. Chesterton's Fence: you forget why you were spending that money.
Congress passed the Boland Amendment 411 to 0, explicitly banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras. Reagan signed it — then immediately moved the operation deeper underground, essentially responding to a bipartisan prohibition by going more illegal.
The CIA planted mines in Nicaraguan commercial harbors, wrote the Contras' press releases taking credit, and promptly blew up ships from four allied nations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, Congress erupted, and the Boland Amendments multiplied.
Oliver North was a decorated Marine and devout Catholic with zero covert operations experience. He ran the entire shadow war against Congress — planes, airstrips, arms shipments, shell companies — learning on the job. And by every operational measure, he crushed it.
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