Podbit · The Bulwark Podcast
Graham Platner leads Susan Collins 49-47 in Maine but is losing white non-college voters 59-36. David French argues the DSA's logic — that a man with a Nazi tattoo and a history of sexting represents authentic working-class values — is deeply condescending. Working-class values used to mean a man's word is his bond, not overlooking character failures.
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The Mamdani clip arrives as a kind of palate cleanser after the legal heavy lifting. Asked on This Week whether the natural-born citizen requirement should be amended so he could run for president, Mamdani simply says the Constitution looks good as it is — no hedging, no hint of self-interest. [1] — David French "Zohran Mamdani said the Constitution looks fine as-is when asked whether the natural-born citizen requirement should change for his benefit…" 43:50 Miller's point is modest but pointed: contrast this with Trump's years of winking at birthers and suggesting the rules might be reinterpretable. The minimum standard of 'won't change the Constitution to benefit yourself' is apparently not cleared by everyone. French, however, genuinely disagrees with Mamdani's conclusion — he thinks any U.S. citizen, naturalized or natural-born, should be equally eligible to be president, that we're all equally citizens. He even taught a class called 'Five Constitutional Amendments to Save America' and notes this isn't on his urgent list, but he'd support it. Miller jokes that this clip will be weaponized by MAGA social media to claim French is trying to help Zohran become president.
A Siena/NYT poll shows Graham Platner losing white non-college voters 59-36 in Maine, despite leading Susan Collins 49-47 overall.
After a tabloid savaged him for months over his broken engagement, Kierkegaard turned his personal humiliation into devastating philosophical critique. He argued that mass media creates a phantom 'public opinion,' incentivizes people to suppress their individuality, and produces the leveling effect — a culture where standing out is a liability.
Ten years ago, 90% of tech media coverage was relentlessly negative and Kalanick felt he couldn't speak freely. Today, the rise of independent podcasters and Elon Musk buying Twitter has fundamentally changed the game — and it's why he's finally willing to talk.
Kay Classman, 28, was arrested for repeatedly posing as a 16-year-old and enrolling in Bronx high schools across multiple districts. She wasn't a predator — just someone so sad and lonely she wanted her lost childhood back. That's somehow sadder.
Disney, Meta, and Paramount have collectively paid Trump roughly $60 million to settle what Galloway calls nuisance lawsuits — all routed to his presidential library. Newsrooms are folding. The White House is handpicking press pool participants. This is what the end of a free press looks like.
One cheap fake documentary made by a teenager in his mother's basement convinced 16% of Americans that 9/11 was an inside job. Social media didn't invent conspiracy — it just gave it a rocket engine.
A progressive organization with a stated mission to destroy Turning Point USA received millions from ActBlue and is now publicly pushing the narrative that TPUSA insiders and Israel murdered Charlie Kirk. Andrew Wilson traced the network of accounts all amplifying the same conspiracy in perfect unison.
The microphone-bomb theory fails on every physical front: no smoke, no ignition, mic on the wrong side of the wound. And the .30-06 rifle round used is extensively documented by the US Army — it does not always produce a through-and-through wound. Wilson argues this is a well-studied projectile with well-understood behavior.
Andrew Wilson publicly offered Candace Owens $300,000 to debate her theory that Israel and TPUSA murdered Charlie Kirk. She refused. He argues that flat-earthers will debate anyone, but Kirk conspiracy theorists won't defend their claims under scrutiny.
Erika Kirk became the CEO of TPUSA while grieving her husband's murder in public, and now faces tens of thousands accusing her of conspiring to kill him. Andrew Wilson calls it mind-boggling psychological torture. The sparklers at the memorial weren't suspicious — they were a grieving widow doing her best in an impossible situation.
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