Will Saletan

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Writer, @thebulwark.bsky.social. Email: [email protected]. You can also find me at http://substack.com/@saletan and http://post.news/@/saletan

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Nikki Haley says 1) no woman should be jailed for getting an abortion, 2) we should respect each woman’s personal experience, and 3) we should let the people closest to the issue decide. She's right. And that's why she — and everyone — should support freedom of choice. lnk.thebulwark.com/3LxyK9w

The Pro-Life Case for Choicelnk.thebulwark.com Nikki Haley says abortion is a deeply personal issue. She’s right.

Ramaswamy has issued an alarming new threat. As VP, "he would have required Congress to impose new federal rules," including a "ban on early in-person voting." "Only if Congress yielded to these demands would he have certified the election results on January 6." https://lnk.thebulwark.com/3szigr2

Vivek Ramaswamy Is a Threat to Democracylnk.thebulwark.com As vice president, he says, he would certify election results—but only if Congress passes new restrictions on voting.

Republicans are demanding: 1) a ban on transgender people in the military, and 2) reinstatement of personnel who refused orders to get vaccinated against COVID. They pretend that the “woke mind virus” is a threat to military readiness, but an actual virus isn’t. https://lnk.thebulwark.com/3QRqCo6

Culture Warriors: GOP Hypocrisy and Lies About the Armed Forceslnk.thebulwark.com Republicans insist that service members who defied COVID vax orders should be reinstated—yet those arguments are flipped when it comes to demanding that transgender personnel be discharged.

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@saletan.bsky.social: What We Know About What Trump Knew

What We Know About What Trump Knewplus.thebulwark.com There’s no need to guess whether Trump really believed what he said about the 2020 election: just look at the record.

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A joint @saletan.bsky.social / @jvl.bsky.social Triad: New Poll: Some Republican Voters Might Actually Care About Trump's (Alleged) Crimes

New Poll: Some Republican Voters Might Actually Care About Trump's (Alleged) Crimesthetriad.thebulwark.com And a counterpoint: What if they believe he's guilty, but don't care?

This was the most delightful and interesting interview I've had in a long time. We talked about the perils of online polarization, the importance of self-correction, and the corruption that comes from hating your opponents. Enjoy! https://pod.link/1536169792/episode/cbf4d04152f68ce79ebc75b7f8d4e7bb

Talkin‘ Politics & Religion Without Killin‘ Each Otherpod.link Politics and Religion. We’re not supposed to talk about that, right? Wrong! We only say that nowadays because the loudest, most extreme voices have taken over the whole conversation. Well, we‘re t...

"Republicans stumbled into authoritarianism ... almost through a kind of sleepwalking." It was ad hoc: "Every time Trump abused his power, Graham simply broadened his interpretation of presidential authority to cover that offense." Catch Episode 5, out today. https://lnk.thebulwark.com/3Ok5Kme

Ep. 5: The Corruption of Lindsey Grahamlnk.thebulwark.com By the time of the Ukraine scandal and impeachment, Lindsey Graham and other Republicans had grown tired of defending Trump’s corrupt behavior. But they didn’t blame Trump—they blamed the inves...

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ICYMI @saletan.bsky.social's "The Corruption of Lindsey Graham" is a must-read - a painfully illustrative look at how a Republican elite who knew better bent the knee and gave in to authoritarianism https://specialto.thebulwark.com/p/the-corruption-of-lindsey-graham

"In 2015, Graham had called out Trump as a race-baiting bigot. Now, just four years later—with a revised vocabulary and a clear conscience—Graham was rationalizing race-baiting." In Episode 4, Graham excuses Trump's ethnic attacks on Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and AOC. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Y3VYcG

Ep. 4: The Corruption of Lindsey Grahamlnk.thebulwark.com After the 2018 midterms, Lindsey Graham moved to a new stage of collaboration with Trump. Graham was no longer just protecting him from accountability—he began helping Trump to usurp power. The Bulw...

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While Lindsey Graham spent most of the '16 campaign excoriating Trump as a toxic demagogue, he began transforming into his chief apologist after the election—in an effort to influence Trump on natsec and foreign policy. Listen to @saletan.bsky.social read Episode 2!

Ep. 2 The Corruption of Lindsey Grahamwww.thebulwark.com While Lindsey Graham spent most of the 2016 campaign excoriating Trump as a toxic demagogue, he began transforming into his chief apologist after the election—in an effort to influence Trump on nati...

On Face the Nation, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox explains his decision to “pause” transgender medical interventions for minors. “We have not looked at the long-term impacts of these hormone blockers [and] surgeries," he says. "And we don't have enough data to support moving forward right now.”

Transcript: Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on "Face the Nation," July 9, 2023www.cbsnews.com The following is a transcript of an interview with Utah Gov. Spencer Cox that aired on "Face the Nation" on July 9, 2023.

Has anyone figured out how to create, on this app, the equivalent of a Twitter list? i.e., a feed that consists of a select list of accounts you've specified (e.g. categorized by sports, politics, etc.) BlueSky has a feed generator that requires coding. I'm looking for something much simpler.

"Why would tens of millions of users flee one free social platform for another?" "Because Elon Musk turned Twitter into a company that hated most of its users. He believed... he could afford to treat them with disdain." @jvl.bsky.social on Musk's fatal arrogance. https://lnk.thebulwark.com/43aSnKR

Many Republicans embraced Trump "to hurt/enrage the out group," notes @jvl.bsky.social. Now comes the scary question, via DeSantis: "After seven years of going along with the authoritarian impulse," have they developed "an affirmative preference for illiberalism?" https://lnk.thebulwark.com/3XDXa6m

"The GOP stole a Supreme Court seat" by blocking Garland and seating Barrett, writes @timmiller.bsky.social. You can't celebrate that and then "clutch your pearls when the left looks at ways—within the Constitution and the law—to try to balance the playing field." https://lnk.thebulwark.com/43fYuO3

After a Stolen Supreme Court Seat, What’s a Norms-Lover to Do?lnk.thebulwark.com Plus: Is Threads really the ‘Twitter killer’?

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So DeSantis is pushing a quack constitutional theory that state governments can declare they being “invaded,” assume military powers and deport undocumented immigrants across the border My latest: https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/07/06/why-ron-desantis-is-talking-about-an-immigrant-invasion/

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After staging a failed coup and inciting a violent insurrection, the ex-president seems to have directed one of his deranged supporters to the home of his predecessor (arrested after saying "he was looking to get a 'good angle on a shot'"). What would you say if you saw it in another country?

Trump seems to have provoked an assassination attempt on Obama but it’s not being covered as a big political story bc msm political desks don’t want to look biased https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-obama-justice-department-capitol-mccarthy-27934bbd095111e7eb2bac5b5bb24e06

Trump posted what he said was Obama's address, prosecutors say. An armed man was soon arrested thereapnews.com Federal prosecutors say former President Donald Trump posted on his social media platform what he claimed was the home address of former President Barack Obama the same day a man with guns in his van ...

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Listen to @saletan.bsky.social reading Chapter 1 of "The Corruption of Lindsey Graham."

Ep. 1: The Corruption of Lindsey Graham | The Bulwark Podcastwww.youtube.com Lindsey Graham was once one of Donald Trump's fiercest critics—before becoming one of his most important collaborators. His eventual capitulation is really a...

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@saletan.bsky.social's "The Corruption of Lindsey Graham" —read by the author!—premieres today.

Ep. 1: The Corruption of Lindsey Grahamwww.thebulwark.com Lindsey Graham was once one of Donald Trump’s fiercest critics—before becoming one of his most important collaborators. His eventual capitulation is really a story about what happened to the whole...

What happened to Lindsey Graham? How did he end up where he is now, groveling to Trump voters as they boo him? A new audio series from @thebulwark.bsky.social explains how Graham lost his way. You can get it every Monday in the Bulwark Pod feed. Here's Episode 1. https://lnk.thebulwark.com/3JDDtpt

Ep. 1: The Corruption of Lindsey Grahamlnk.thebulwark.com Lindsey Graham was once one of Donald Trump’s fiercest critics—before becoming one of his most important collaborators. His eventual capitulation is really a story about what happened to the whole...

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