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[janice shell]

But "the bulwark.com"?? You gotta be kidding!

Well...

The Bulwark is an American conservative, anti-Trump news and opinion website launched in 2018 by Sarah Longwell, with the support of Bill Kristol and Charlie Sykes.[1][2][3][4] It initially launched as a news aggregator but in 2019 was revamped using key staffers from the recently closed The Weekly Standard.[5] The Bulwark is owned by Center Enterprises, Inc., which operates under the trade name Bulwark Media.

History
Following the end of publication of The Weekly Standard in December 2018,[6] editor-in-chief Charlie Sykes said that "the murder of the Standard made it urgently necessary to create a home for rational, principled, fact-based center-right voices who were not cowed by Trumpism."[7] The site was created in December 2018 as a news aggregator as a project of the Defending Democracy Together Institute, a 501(c)(3) conservative advocacy group led in part by The Weekly Standard co-founder Bill Kristol.[8] Several former editors and writers of The Weekly Standard soon joined the staff and within weeks of launch began publishing original news and opinion pieces.[5] The website has frequently published pieces critical of Donald Trump and of pro-Trump elites in politics and the media.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bulwark_(website)

[BullNBear52]

Doom and bloom! How many times over the course of 250 years has American faced a crisis and rose up answer the challenge?

Are We Thinking Too Much About Politics?
Jul 11, 2025



On Tuesday, I posted this photo of my two dog friends, Mousse and Cookie, in a TBR live chat, along with the least provocative comment imaginable:
“Good morning TBR community! No matter how your day is going so far, I thought this photo of Mousse and Cookie might improve it ❤️”
Then something odd happened.
After a bunch of comments praising the dogs, the chat quickly veered to such topics as Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill, ICE raids, and even (eek!) Kash Patel.

This made we wonder: Are we thinking too much about politics?

That might sound hypocritical coming from someone who writes about politics every day. If we’re too obsessed with the Trump shitshow, then clearly I’m part of the problem.

But still.

We’re all faced with a tricky choice. If we bury our heads in the sand, the dictatorship wins. But if we’re in a constant state of panic, it also wins. It’s hard to mount an effective resistance if your hair’s on fire 24/7.

Maybe we should reframe the choice.

Well-informed concern and vigilance that lead to action? Good. Relentless doomscrolling and freakouts that induce catatonia? Bad.

Now, I’m not here to dispense New Age wisdom. (Full disclosure: I did live in California for 15 years.) But worrying nonstop about politics isn’t just bad for the resistance. It’s bad for your health.

When times are this dark, we need to find moments of light.

Last November, I interviewed my friend Susie Essman, the brilliant comedian many of you know from “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” She offered some advice that has stayed with me: focus on the small things in life that give you happiness.

Or, as she memorably put it, “The macro is fucked. We gotta go micro.”

Put that on a T-shirt.

Obviously, if you are in genuine crisis right now—you or someone close to you is in danger of being deported, for example, or you’ve lost your health insurance or federal job—none of this advice applies. It would be the height of insensitivity for me to tell you to chill.

But if your suffering is not at that acute level, try to take a little break from the macro. Take a walk. See a friend. Read a book. Listen to your favorite music.

It might improve your wellbeing. And it might refresh you for the fight.

As for pet photos, I’m not under the illusion that they will bring the Trump nightmare to an end. But they do no harm.

Love,

Andy
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/are-we-thinking-too-much-about-politics?