Adam Keiper

NEW MARIST POLL LIKELY VOTERS OF MAINE: Jackson 49% Collins 47% Pingree 44% Charles 44% maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/the-mi...

The party of "stop being so offended" has complaints about Cheesecake Factory jokes and Halloween. Sam Stein and Will Sommer discuss the right’s expanding scold caucus. www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-monda...

Republicans have been attacking Abdul El-Sayed by claiming that he wants to promote sharia law. But nobody asks his opponent, Republican Mike Rogers, why he's part of a party where leaders seem so willing to impose their faith on society. www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-closes...

The "Blue Wall" has become an increasingly precarious element of Democratic presidential campaigning. This year’s races could offer clues about where 2028 candidates could build additional paths to 270. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-blo...

This is legit wild. One of the Trumpiest GOP kooks we’ve had holding high office here in Texas makes an absolute spot-on, beautiful, non-partisan call for government transparency against the governor’s attempt to hide his emails with Elon Musk.

Jennifer Shuford, the CDC's deputy director and chief medical officer, who "was hired in April as part of a new four-person leadership team" to run the CDC "and restore confidence in the agency" will be leaving after just six months on the job. 👀 wapo.st/4zbhMof

Voters don’t have to confess they were conned to turn against Trump. They can simply decide he hasn’t done the job: "You don't have to say 'I was foolish for believing them.' You could just say 'I'm going to fire you and hire the next guy.'" The new @gtconway.bsky.social show:

"Buckle up, buttercup. There are no easy answers here. The downside risk is pretty rough. But the upside outcome? You’re gonna need a cigarette for what I’m calling the HULK SMASH Kaiju Tsunami..."👇

I honestly was not sure if this was a new or recycled allegation, which says a lot about our President.

"What I want you to take away from this is the dramatic disconnect between the vibes and the polls." www.thebulwark.com/p/whos-right...

Behind the right-wing Old Glory Club’s embarrassing public breakup is a consequential question: How much extremism can members advertise while building influence inside the Republican party? www.thebulwark.com/p/right-wing...

This guy continues to find new ways to disgust.

*clears throat loudly enough to be heard in Terre Haute*

lol www.irishstar.com/news/politic...

Trump’s rally material is “reheated sludge—microwaved leftovers from 2016 and 2024.” The new ingredients: other people’s asses and promises with political strings attached. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-rall...

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: A decade ago, Daniel Barenboim put out an album of himself just having a blast with his new piano that he helped design. I'm not convinced that the instrument sounds great on all the tracks, but for this famous sonata by Scarlatti, it shines. See you around.

Wow: Lula wins in Brazil—"a rebuke to a conservative movement sweeping Latin American presidencies that President Trump has trumpeted." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...

NEW: Iowa. Ohio. Texas. Kansas. Democrats see opportunities this November in states Trump won three times. Whether those openings carry over to 2028 depends partly on what the party builds now. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-blo...

The Amy Acton smear is appalling. So is the Trump administration's quieter work of cutting victim services, sidelining child exploitation investigations, and weakening protections against sexual abuse.👇

From Michigan attack ads to AI-generated scenes of a Muslim “takeover,” Republicans are betting that fear of Islam can win votes. The midterms will test that calculation. www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-closes...

We showed Vivek Ramaswamy's vile ad smearing Amy Acton to Ohioans who had voted for Trump. We wanted to know if they thought it was basically fine or if they thought Ramaswamy had gone too far. Here's what they told us: www.thebulwark.com/p/how-ohio-t...

Yeah, this man should not be allowed to practice law, and any failure to take away his ability to practice law after all of this would be a part of the end of the rule of law in America.

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Tonight I got to see 'The Score,' a stageplay now at D.C.'s Shakespeare Theatre with Brian Cox playing Johann Sebastian Bach. A major plot point involves a musical theme that Bach set to both a three-voice fugue and—in this piece—a six-voice (!) fugue. See you around.

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Tonight I got to see 'The Score,' a stageplay now at D.C.'s Shakespeare Theatre with Brian Cox playing Johann Sebastian Bach. A major plot point involves a musical theme that Bach set to both a three-voice fugue and—in this piece—a six-voice (!) fugue. See you around.

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"ICE is facial recognition, ICE is surveillance, and ICE is coming after you regardless of your status." — @aoc.bsky.social 👇

NEW: ICE is becoming more than an instrument of mass deportation. Its name is a threat at a school volleyball game. Its power turns an petty dispute with an unsettling former boss into an immigration detention nightmare. Oh—and don't think U.S. citizens are safe. www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-doesnt...

If you were writing a satire about an arrogant defense secretary whose staff broke Eisenhower's globe while trying to flatter him, your editor might ask you to dial it back. www.thebulwark.com/p/everything...

"The same people who insist on policing public bathrooms to protect little girls from sexual predators are also smearing an actual child rape survivor."👇

NEW: Let's put into context Trump's embrace of the smearing of Amy Acton: It fits his administration's broader record of abandoning the victims of sexual abuse—and shielding their predators. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-crue...

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Rachmaninoff composed "Lilacs"—a musical setting for a poem by Ekaterina Beketova—because he needed money to pay for his wedding and honeymoon. This performance by the soprano Albina Shagimuratova was recorded in 2023. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q9y...

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Rachmaninoff composed "Lilacs"—a musical setting for a poem by Ekaterina Beketova—because he needed money to pay for his wedding and honeymoon. This performance by the soprano Albina Shagimuratova was recorded in 2023. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q9y...

NEW: GOP operative Scott Presler built his reputation registering Republicans and accusing Dems of voter fraud. But a review by The Bulwark found GOP operatives from other states voting from his home—and evidence raising questions about their residency. www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-operat...

a little watercolor that I made #art #watercolor #painting #illustration

I don’t think Elon actually knows what “live by the sword, die by the sword” means. He just keeps posting it.

“Astroturf organizations that advertise themselves as bravely crossing party lines are hardly a novel concept.” The money behind “Democrats for Mike Rogers” tells the story. www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

“One of the first orders of business of the next Congress will be the impeachment of Hegseth and his removal from office.” Breaking Ike’s globe probably won’t be among the articles of impeachment. But it sure as hell is an apt metaphor. www.thebulwark.com/p/everything...

“Look, the news is all bad. . . . The one bright spot, at least for your humble narrator, is that there’s a whole mess of good movies on the horizon as we head into awards season.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-must-w...

Beaver County resident here. People like Scott thinks no one is paying attention out here in the middle of nowhere. Scott likes to post on facebook and take pictures with locals like he is a celebrity 😂 Kudos to Brenden at The Bulwark.

Who paid for Vivek Ramaswamy's pro-pedophile ad campaign? Here they are

NEW: A bunch of these forthcoming movies look amazing. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-must-w...