From Horror to History
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From Horror to History
Matthew Rees on a birthday, a bus accident, and a terrorist attack.
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From Horror to History
MATTHEW C. REES: A birthday, a bus accident, and a terrorist attack.
🎧 On the Pods… 🎧
Insurrectionist Republicans, reflections on a sad anniversary, and what if Roe is reversed
Heath Mayo, founder of Principles First, joins the regular panel to discuss abortion, insurrection, and whether the global war on terror was a mistake.
Tom Nichols on Confronting the Crazies
On today's podcast, Tom Nichols joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss Chris Christie; the Biden mandates; the thirsty politicians of Ohio; and our deeply unserious politics.
For Bulwark+ Members… 🔐
MORNING SHOTS: 6 Takes On The Mother of Mandates 🔓
CHARLIE SYKES on Justice vs. DeSantis
THE TRIAD: Biden's Vaccine Mandate Is a Huge Gamble 🔐
JVL: The politics of trying to keep people from dying.
TNB: Reflections on 9/11 at 20. 🔐
Sarah Longwell, JVL, Ben Parker, and Bill Kristol talk about that fateful September day.
SECRET POD: Mandatory 🔐
Sarah and JVL talk about the politics of the vaccine mandate. Andrew Yang’s third-party dream. And 9/11.
From The Bulwark Aggregator…
Congress wakes up to its staff retention problems after Covid, bomb threats and riots - Katherine Tully-McManus, Politico
Trump aides flock to Cheney challenger’s campaign - Alex Isenstadt, Politico
Businesses Question Logistics, Cost of Biden Vaccine Plan - Jonathan Roeder, Bloomberg Businessweek
Sweeping new vaccine mandates for 100 million Americans - Zeke Miller, AP
We’re Asking the Impossible of Vaccines - Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic
Ex-Marines in neo-Nazi terror cell planned to attack power grid as precursor to assassination campaign: government - Jordan Green, Raw Story
Suspect in Florida quadruple homicide falsely believed he was saving sex-trafficking victim, authorities say - Antonio Planas, NBC
In Today’s Bulwark...
Are Biden’s New Vaccination Mandates Legal?
KIMBERLY WEHLE: There will be court fights, but constitutional and statutory footing looks solid.
On 9/11, The Political Was Personal
MONA CHAREN: Our individual reactions seemed rational. Our political reactions, perhaps less so.
9/11 Up Close. But from a Distance.
TIM MILLER: Being 19 at the end of the world.
'The Card Counter' Review
SONNY BUNCH wonders: Can Nicole Kidman entice viewers back into theaters?
🚨OVERTIME 🚨
Happy Friday! One of the best parts about living in Washington are the military bands, so as we think back 20 years to 9/11, this is on my jukebox today.
Being a police pilot on 9/11. A story from Mike Mountjoy, a Fairfax County police officer.
The absurdity of the Jones Act. At CATO, this dispatch from Colin Grabow is a must read:
American Seafoods Company (ASC), however, has been able to find a way around the Jones Act morass. For the past 20 years, the company has loaded fish in Dutch Harbor, Alaska onto foreign ships that are then sent to New Brunswick, Canada via the Panama Canal. From there—and this is the interesting part of the arrangement—the seafood is offloaded and placed onto a very short stretch of railroad track, taken up and down the railroad on a journey to nowhere, then offloaded again and placed on trucks for transportation to the United States.
Why?
At issue is a little‐known part of the Jones Act called the third proviso. At its most basic, the proviso states that the law does not apply to merchandise transported between points within the continental United States, including Alaska, if the journey involves the use of Canadian rail lines. ASC states that the short piece of railroad in New Brunswick qualifies under the proviso and that the entire arrangement is aboveboard, while CBP—which has yet to comment on the matter—apparently feels differently.
ASC and its supply chain folks are being hit with fines totaling $350 million.
Let’s repeal the Jones Act. This is absurd.
ZEBRAS ON THE LOOSE! Washington loves a good animal escape story. A few years back it was a Red Panda named… Rusty. (Coincidence!) Now, it’s a bunch of Zebras in the Maryland burbs.
Why did Jim Jordan spend $38k on home security? This seems a little… strange?
A worthwhile thread on COVID, anti-vaxxers, and social media…
More on the “Ground Zero Mosque” story… At Mother Jones, a reader sends in, a story about how some of the biggest critics of building a cultural center and/or Mosque were funded by… the feds.
The old 9:30 club is coming back… As a replica. Pretty cool news for D.C. music fans.
That’s it for me for today. We’ll see you back here on Monday. Tech support questions? Email support@substack.com. Questions for me? Drop me a line: swift@thebulwark.com
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