From Grandma being confused by the monthly text donations she subscribed to or parents asking if they should be concerned about a youngster admiring Nick Fuentes, The Bulwark writers report back from Christmas with their families. "That's an underappreciated feature of our political age: It's not just that things are bad, it's that they're relentlessly so. You can't turn it off. You can't escape it. You can't distinguish between real and fake, good and bad, normal and abnormal. The stuff keeps piling up."

The biggest loser in the Russian war against Ukraine is the United States of America.[image or embed]

-- The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) Dec 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM

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