The Bulwark
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The Bulwark is an American news and opinion website launched in 2018 by Sarah Longwell, with the support of Bill Kristol and Charlie Sykes. It initially launched as a news aggregator but in 2019 was revamped using key staffers from the recently closed The Weekly Standard. — Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- 🌶️ Worded to stir 76% of its headlines · median 32 · 2.4× the median
- ⛈️ Bad news 60% of its headlines · median 40 · 1.5× the median
- ✏️ Rewrites 1 per 100 headlines · median 3.6 · 28% of the median
- 📡 Wire copy 0% AP or Reuters headlines · median 0 · like the median outlet
The bar is this outlet; the tick ▏ is the median of the 145 outlets on the outlets page, over 30 days.
🧬 Its fingerprint
🦗 No fingerprint: it's in too few of our stories in the last weeks (we build stories from US and UK front pages), or it's an aggregator.
🎭 The feelings in its headlines
🤬 more anger than most less calm 🥛
Its headlines on its front page now against the average outlet's, ranked-choice style: to the right in orange, more of a feeling than the average outlet; to the left in teal, less; grey, within 2 points of it. The figure is in percentage points; hover or tap a row for both shares.
- 🤬 anger +22 pts
- 🤮 disgust +9 pts
- 😱 fear +5 pts
- 🤯 surprise +2 pts
- 🤞 hope ≈ +1
- 😄 joy ≈ -2
- 😭 sadness -4 pts
- 🥛 no strong feeling -33 pts
📰 On its front page now
🐑 With the pack
headlines in our stories, by the story's rank among the 73 we follow now (the most outlets first); the bar is how many outlets run the story, 🫏 blue the left-rated share and 🐘 red the right-rated
🦄 Only here
headlines in none of the stories we follow: few or no other outlets ran them, as far as our matching can tell; numbered by their place on its front page
- 🦄 The Dark Lesson From the Midterms
- 🦄 Trump's Electoral Fraud Claims Are Now Evidence-Proof
- 🦄 To Rein In Trump, Pass a 'No Kings Act'
- 🦄 Pete Hegseth's Failure to Learn
- 🦄 Dems Won Big. Naturally, They're Fighting About It
- 🦄 A Republic, If We Can Fix It
- 🦄 Stephen Miller Is Still Trump's Daddy on Immigration
- 🦄 Stephen Miller Is a Problem
- 🦄 Please, Democrats: Don't Have This Fight Again
- 🦄 Former DOJ Official Tears Apart Trump Admin's Threat to Congress (w/ Elliot Williams)
- 🦄 Neera Tanden Thinks Democrats Can Finish Off MAGA for Good (Plus: John Arnold) | Receipts
- 🦄 Susan Glasser: POTUS's Desperate Fight to Regain Leverage
🦄 all 17 only here
- 🦄 Laura Loomer's MAGA Pay-for-Play Feud Takes a Very Suspicious Turn | MAGA Wednesdays
- 🦄 Jonathan V. Last Destroy All Monsters This isn't the time for negotiation. It's the time for ruthless aggression
- 🦄 Sam Stein Laura Loomer's MAGA Pay-for-Play Feud Takes a Very Suspicious Turn | MAGA Wednesdays A recording from The Bulwark's live video
- 🦄 Catherine Rampell Former DOJ Official Tears Apart Trump Admin's Threat to Congress (w/ Elliot Williams) The White House is threatening criminal charges against Democrats for investigating the Trump administration
- 🦄 The All-Encompassing Terror of 'Godzilla Minus Zero'