A Never Trump natalism newsletter is my love language (and Shannon Last's apparently...)

'Have! More! Babies!'
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Trump's curious claim about our founders: “The founders wanted the president to have immunity so the president can feel free to make decisions...If you don’t have a strong form of immunity you’re not going to have anything. You’re not going to have a president that can function.”

Come watch The Next Level with Jonathan V. Last, Sarah Longwell, and @timodc live in Philadelphia on Wednesday, May 1! Tickets available here: bulwarkinpa.rsvpify.com/?securityToken…

'The War of Putin’s Aggression has become in a way a world war. The civilized world stands with Ukraine. The dictators of China, Iran, and North Korea stand with Putin...The Republican party tilts toward Putin. The Democratic party stands with Ukraine.'
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'Republicans are not so much isolationist as pro-authoritarian. They’ve made Orbán a pinup and mouth Russian disinformation.'
An important point from Mona Charen: Today's Republicans aren't sincere if misguided isolationists. They are pro-authoritarian.
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Trump might be able to broadly pull off a posture of being “moderate” on abortion. Voters, after all, perceive him as a social moderate (he’s no Mike Pence). But that won’t help in states like Arizona with full bans in place and ballot initiatives to keep abortion legal.

The fall of Roe v. Wade, Donald Trump's evolution on abortion, and the real-world impact on people across the country.

Watch Kasie Hunt 👇

Here's Mona Charen examining how Trump's GOP became, de facto, Putin's GOP
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Celebrating D-day for a photo op to revel in the glory and sacrifices of the Greatest Generation when half of these clowns would have been bitching from the cheap seats about how “we should worry about our own border instead of France’s!”

Pisses me off.

If you think Trump is an existential threat to American democracy, and then refuse to vote for the one person who can ensure that that threat doesn’t come to fruition, I think that’s a dereliction of duty to America.

Refreshing to talk last night about what could go *right* !!

…with futurist Ari Wallach and EP Kathryn Murdoch on their new PBS show A Brief History of the Future A Brief History of the Future. Check it out — fascinating stuff! (@SecretaryPete is an episode talking about the future of transportation)

We had to cut 10 minutes of this episode because ⁦Tim Miller⁩, ⁦Jonathan V. Last⁩ and I were laughing so hard. thebulwark.com/p/the-1860s-ar…

“My decision to vote for Biden at this point is not because I think he’s done such a great job or that I think he’s the best president that we’ve ever had…Democracy is on the ballot and so that’s why I have made the choice to vote for Joe Biden this year.”

.Sarah Longwell on the Arizona abortion ban:

“It's a disaster for [Trump]...It's going to take swing voters who have been backsliding against Biden and put them back in Biden's column because now abortion is literally on the ballot.”

This is one effective and powerful and short-and-to-the-point message.

In The Bulwark , Gabriel Schoenfeld 🇮🇱🇺🇦🇺🇸 brings the backstory on the man behind that crazy video Trump promoted on Truth Social last week. thebulwark.com/p/trumps-virtu…

New Ad: Donald Trump is 'honored' that he overturned Roe v. Wade.

Because of Trump, 33,360,789 women now live in a state where abortion is banned without exceptions for rape or incest.

The humiliation never stop for Ron DeSantis.

Stephen Richer (Stephen Richer—MaricopaCountyRecorder (prsnl acct)) offers himself as 'somebody who will say that two plus two is four, even if my party doesn't want it to be four.' On such men and women, our democracy depends. nationalreview.com/corner/a-repub…

Piers Morgan: “Trump says he will fix the Ukraine war in 24 hours.”

Chris Christie: “I know how he'll do it. He'll bend over like he always does to Vladimir Putin and hand him Ukraine because he thinks he is a terrific person and an honest guy.” (2023)