How to Push Back on Fox

Amanda Carpenter on how two House Republicans are going back after FNC.

Leading The Bulwark…

How to Push Back on Fox

AMANDA CARPENTER: Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger aren’t giving them a free pass.

🎧 On the Pods… 🎧

Tim Miller on Our Political Dingleberries

Adam Kinzinger exits stage left, Hershel Walker enters stage right, and Liz Cheney goes YOLO. Plus, when will Democrats figure out how to sell their bill? Tim Miller joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.

A Whiff of Maoism

NY Magazine’s Jonathan Chait joins, along with The Bulwark’s Amanda Carpenter, to discuss the BBB deal (if there is one) and cancel culture.

For Bulwark+ Members… 🔐

Snowflake Cons Embrace Cancel Culture 🔓

THE TRIAD: The Purge: Kinzinger Edition 🔐

JVL: When evil is celebrated and good men are scorned.

TNB: Red flags in VA; False Flags on Fox 🔐

Tim Miller, Mona Charen, and Bill Kristol talk with National Journal’s Josh Kraushaar to about the Virginia governor's race and the false flags on Fox News.

SECRET PODCAST: Last Dance 🔐

One more show before Virginia.

From The Bulwark Aggregator…

• Rank-and-file force another chapter in spending saga - Zach C. Cohen and Casey Wooten, National Journal

• The Billionaires Tax Boondoggle Shows the Dems’ Desperation - Brian Riedl, The Daily Beast

• Andrew Cuomo charged over alleged groping of former aide: source - Julia Marsh, Carl Campanile, Bernadette Hogan and Bruce Golding, The NY Post

• The U.S. May Stand Alone as a Haven for Free Speech - J.D. Tuccille, Reason

• A crypto wallet shows an investor made an $8,000 shiba inu coin purchase last year. Today, it is worth $5.7 billion. - Matthew Fox, Business Insider

• President Biden meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican, bringing together the world’s two most powerful Catholics - Chico Harlan and Seung Min Kim, The Washington Post

• New Capitol Police document shows how unprepared they were for Jan. 6 riots - Betsy Woodruff Swan and Daniel Lippman, Politico

In Today’s Bulwark...

When ‘Jesus’ Came to Q

THOMAS LECAQUE: Holy war, the Storm, and the thin line between reality and theater.

The ‘Strange’ Writing of Robert Aickman

BILL RYAN: The author who demonstrates horror has always been elevated.

Truth Social Violated Mastodon’s ToS; Trump’s Entire Platform Might Now Be DOA

CHRIS TRUAX: Mar-a-Lago, we have a problem.

Cancel Cultural Appropriation

ROBERT TRACINSKI: Glenn Youngkin wants to put the Church Lady in charge of cancel culture.

'The French Dispatch' Review

SONNY BUNCH: And an assignment you won't want to skip.

🚨OVERTIME 🚨

On the Jukebox… As promised, Tim Miller’s Halloween playlist.

Happy Halloween! I hope it’s safe and fun, and if you’re carving a pumpkin, save the seeds, douse them in olive oil and sprinkle some Tony Chachere’s on them and bake them for a great treat.

Not the sharpest team…

Zach Everson @Z_Everson

Lauren Boebert's campaign just listed her as a candidate for Congress in Utah. Boebert represents Colorado. for @Forbes forbes.com/sites/zachever…

The whiplash is something…

Ken Girardin @PolicyEngineer

It's strange to see these "hooray, our imports!" takes from people who just finished four years of celebrating tariffs.

American Girl 🔥 @Yolo304741

Live footage of Governor DeSantis saving Christmas by rerouting cargo ships to Florida. https://t.co/oEeWdw8eB3

This does not inspire confidence… Baltimore cops carried fake guns to plant on victims if a shooting went wrong, VICE reports.

Cleveland lost a Man for Others… Mr. Gabor died last night. He was a fixture at my alma mater and was a formational theology and language teacher for tens of thousands of men who came through St. Ignatius. I always got a kick out of his “Think Greek” bumper sticker on his lectern. He was also our athletic director, and was insanely good at it. Recently, we’ve seen stories about fake sports high schools and how they’re really just frauds will to do things the wrong way to get ahead.

But Dale Gabor went about things in a different way, what was called “The Gabor Way”… which was about doing things right and not cutting corners. And his success, 20+ state titles and multiple national championships at a Blue Ribbon school, speaks for itself. I’m just sad that future generations won’t get to meet him. But I’m hopeful The Gabor Way will live on. RIP.

Your weird baseball fact of the day…

Matt Monagan @MattMonagan

Weird but true streaks: At least one teammate of John Smoltz has played in every World Series since 1982. Ted Simmons to Charlie Morton.

mlb.comEvery WS since ’82 has a Smoltz teammateSince 1982, there have been 38 World Series played (no Series was played in 1994 because of the strike). That’s 38 seasons -- nearly four decades of Fall Classic baseball -- with the current Fall Classic being the 39th. And for each one of those late October or sometimes early

That’s it for me for today. We’ll see you back on Monday. Tech support questions? Email support@substack.com. Questions for me? Drop me a line: swift@thebulwark.com

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