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The Bulwark

The Bulwark is home to Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol, JVL, Sam Stein, and more. We are the largest pro-democracy bundle on Substack for news and analysis on politics and culture—supported by a community built on good-faith. www.thebulwark.com

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15:02

DHS Lied About a Veteran They Wrongfully Arrested (w/...

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2025/10/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comTim Miller is joined by George Retes, a U.S. Army veteran and American citizen who was wrongfully arrested and brutalized by ICE while simply trying to get to work. George shares his harrowing story of being surrounded by agents, pepper-sprayed, dragged from his car, locked in a detention center, and even placed on suicide watch—missing his young daughter’s birthday in the process. Read more about George’s story:

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21:37

Jacob Soboroff and Sarah McBride: Democracy at the...

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2025/10/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comThe administration may be trying to lay the groundwork for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act by invading Chicago, but the real human stories are breaking through: ordinary Chicagoans are outraged that good, decent immigrants are being snatched off the street and their families’ lives ruined. And while Kristi Noem keeps promoting the bad guys that are being rounded up, ICE is also treating American citizens

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32:15

How Orwell Helps Us Remember Truth

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2025/10/10

On this week’s episode, I’m joined by Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) to discuss his new documentary, Orwell: 2+2=5. We talked about his upbringing in Haiti and having to flee a dictatorial regime there, how social media and AI manipulations help degrade the idea of objective truth, and what can be done to combat this scourge. If you enjoyed the episode, I hope you check out his documentary: it’s playing in New York City and Los Angeles now, and you can find showtimes here. It should be expanding

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4:57

Trump is Crossing Lines That We Can’t Ignore (w/ Sen....

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2025/10/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comSam Stein is joined by Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii to discuss the ongoing government shutdown amid Russ Vought’s government control, and the situation in Chicago with the Texas National Guard and Trump calling for the mayor and governor’s arrest. Plus, Schatz’s surprising recent retweets of Marjorie Taylor Greene.As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams, and

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4:23

Joe Rogan Calls Out Trump’s Cruel Immigration Crackdown

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2025/10/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comTim Miller takes on Joe Rogan’s moment of moral clarity on immigration, where Rogan slams the idea of deporting longtime residents and families. Tim explains why this clip could shift the conversation, and why even some conservatives don’t want to be the “bad guys” in America’s immigration fight. As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams, and event archives

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3:14

RFK Jr. Blames Circumcision for Autism?!

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2025/10/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comSam Stein and Will Sommer break down one of RFK Jr.’s strangest moments yet: suggesting during a Trump cabinet meeting that circumcision might cause autism. The pair unpack the pseudoscience behind RFK’s claim, the misuse of disputed Danish studies, and the way his comments echo the administration’s earlier Tylenol panic.As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams,

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35:33

MTG's SHOCK Revolt! Dems Grow a SPINE? Tim's TWINK...

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2025/10/09

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comThe crew is back together, live in D.C. and fired up. From wild personal stories to real talk about how we face this moment as a country, this episode is all about connection, community, and not giving in to the chaos. When things get dark, we stick together.Watch, listen, and leave a comment. This ad-free video version of The Next Level is exclusively for Bulwark+ members. You can find The Next Level wherever you get

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8:28

Trump’s Surreal Antifa Summit Was Pure Theater

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2025/10/09

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comAndrew Egger and Will Sommer take on of the most surreal events of the Trump era: a White House “roundtable” where Trump met with right-wing influencers to discuss Antifa as if it were an organized terror group. Egger and Sommer expose the theater behind the event, the made-up claims of an “Antifa hierarchy,” and the absurd partnership between DHS and online agitators. It’s part authoritarian propaganda, part farce, and

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18:49

Sam Stein: A Bunch of Violent Keystone Cops

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2025/10/09

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comICE and other armed federal agents are doing their best to incite violence in blue cities so they can help Trump realize his unfulfilled dream from 2020 to impose a military crackdown. At the same time, Trump can only point to what happened in Portland five years ago during Black Lives Matter protests to try to bolster his case. Meanwhile, Comey has a pretty good shot to get his case dismissed—thanks in part to a Truth

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5:44

The Real Consequences of Shutdown Politics (w/ Mayor...

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2025/10/09

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comLauren Egan sits down with Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas to look beyond D.C. and see what the government shutdown really means for Americans far from Capitol Hill. Mayor Lucas explains how tens of thousands of federal workers in the Midwest are going unpaid while still expected to work, and how that strain ripples through food pantries, healthcare, and housing programs. He calls out the moral hypocrisy of a government

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4:15

The Completely Bizarre Fight That’s Eating the Right

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2025/10/08

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comCandace Owens and Dinesh D’Souza are in the weirdest feud on the internet, and somehow it involves farm animals. Then Candace brings up a dream she had where she was visited by a ghost. JVL, Sarah, and Will try to make sense of MAGA’s new reality show.As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams, and event archives exclusively for Bulwark+ members.Don’t care for

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9:30

Trump is Turning ICE and the National Guard Into His...

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2025/10/08

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comJVL and Andrew Egger take on Donald Trump’s latest threats to jail his political opponents—including governors and protesters—as he sends National Guard troops into Chicago.As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams, and event archives exclusively for Bulwark+ members.Don’t care for video? Use the controls on the left side of the player to toggle to audio.Add

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19:28

Casey Newton: Lawlessness and Danger in Tech's Brave...

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2025/10/08

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comTrump’s TikTok deal looks like classic crony capitalism as well as open theft. But China has bigger fish to fry with trade than its TikTok algorithm—which led Congress last year to ban the app in the U.S. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley thinks they’re building a machine god with AI, but we really may be heading into catastrophe. Plus, the armed invasion of Chicago, Sam Altman seems disconnected from reality, and Tim Cook’s

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5:32

Leaked Charlie Kirk Messages Spark Rift Inside...

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2025/10/08

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comSam Stein and Will Sommer take on Candace Owens leaking Charlie Kirk’s texts, the “New Charlie Kirk” Brilyn Hollyhand’s failed debut, and MAGA turning on Trump’s own lawyer.Read Will Sommer’s newsletter — False FlagAs always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams, and event archives exclusively for Bulwark+ members.Don’t care for video? Use the controls on the left side

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8:31

Tim Miller: People Will Be ASHAMED for Being Involved...

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2025/10/08

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comTim Miller joins Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House to discuss the alarming National Guard escalation in Chicago, DHS using Zach Bryan’s music as propaganda, and his interview with Kevin Clancy from Barstool Sports.Watch Deadline: White House on MSNBCAs always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short videos, livestreams, and event archives exclusively for Bulwark+ members.Don’t

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14:55

Jake Tapper: Trump Is Making the Country Less Safe

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2025/10/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comA new kind of McCarthyism has settled in at the Justice Department, where career prosecutors—including those handling tough national security cases—are getting canned for voicing any opposition to politically-motivated demands from top DOJ officials. And those who survive the ongoing purge are literally working in fear that they are being surveilled by the FBI. Meanwhile, MTG may play a role in resolving the shutdown

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23:35

LIVE Reaction: AG Pam Bondi Faces the Senate in...

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2025/10/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comSam Stein and Andrew Egger are live, reacting to the extremely contentious Pam Bondi Senate hearing. Attorney General Pam Bondi is under fire before the Senate Judiciary Committee after the shocking indictment of former FBI Director James Comey—part of Donald Trump’s widening campaign to punish his political enemies.

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54:55

Dwayne Johnson's 'Smashing Machine'

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2025/10/07

Before we get to the episode, a quick note: we are spinning off Across the Movie Aisle into its own separate thing; it will no longer be part of the Bulwark network of shows, but it will still exist on Substack at movieaisle.substack.com. If you listen via Apple, nothing much will change for the moment; if you listen via Substack there may be a few changes for you. But we’ll cover that next week in our first episode at the new spot. —SBOn this week’s episode, Sonny, Peter, and Alyssa look at the

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4:26

Is Trump Considering Pardons for Sex Offenders?

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2025/10/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comTrump’s old friend Ghislaine Maxwell is back in the headlines and once again, he’s pretending he barely knows her. From his creepy sympathy for Epstein’s circle to his casual cruelty toward migrants and veterans, the hypocrisy couldn’t be clearer.Tickets to Bulwark Live in DC (10/8) with Sarah, Tim and JVL are on sale now at https://TheBulwark.com/events.As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is

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4:30

Stephen Miller Calls Sam Stein ‘Repugnant’

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2025/10/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comTim Miller and Sam Stein discuss the explosive online feud between Sam and Stephen Miller over the weekend, with Sam calling out Miller for saying a Trump-appointed judge is “terrorist,” and Miller’s response claiming Sam is “repugnant.”Check out Sam’s Twitter interaction with Stephen Miller: https://x.com/samstein/status/1974668611081126351As always: Watch, listen, and leave a comment. Bulwark+ Takes is home to short

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