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The news cycle doesn’t slow down, and neither does The Bulwark. Bulwark Takes brings you bite-sized takes on the news of the day from the entire Bulwark team, including Tim Miller, Sarah Longwell, and Bill Kristol, and more.
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True85% confidence5 sourcesSep 15, 2026Justices Alito and Thomas wrote in a dissent that the Postal Service has statutory authority to adopt rules and regulations for the collection, handling, transportation, delivery, forwarding, returning, and holding of mail.Said by BThe primary text of Justice Alito's dissent, joined by Justice Thomas, states that the Postal Service's authority to promulgate the rule is a statutory question and that Congress may authorize the Postal Service to issue such rules; Reuters and other outlets quote him saying the Postal Service has broad authority to regulate the mail. The excerpted sources do not reproduce the exact list of mail-handling powers (collection, handling, transportation, etc.), but that detail is peripheral to the core assertion and is consistent with the statutory language the post attributes to the dissent.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True70% confidence4 sourcesSep 15, 2026The Supreme Court previously stated that no party had standing to sue over the United States Postal Service's election rules until the agency released its final rule.The Supreme Court's August 24, 2026 per curiam order in Trump v. California lifted the injunction because the states' challenge was premature: the Court found the states lacked standing and the case unripe before USPS had issued a final rule, and it said federal courts review final rules, not proposals. The sources say the states lacked standing, not literally 'no party', and the final rule was published August 21, three days before the order, so the chronology is looser than the post's 'until' implies, but the core assertion holds.True90% confidence6 sourcesSep 15, 2026Countries that use mail-in voting include Canada, Germany, Iceland, South Korea, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Poland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.Said by BThe ten countries named match the International IDEA list of countries that allow all voters to vote by postal ballot, as reported by FactCheck.org, Snopes, Statista, and IDEA's own page, all before the 2026-09-15 posting date. The claim's wording departs only trivially from the passage ("include" versus "The other countries include"), which does not change the substance; sources differ on whether Denmark belongs on the all-voter list, but that does not affect the ten named countries.True85% confidence6 sourcesSep 15, 2026In August 2025, Donald Trump revealed a world leader who suggested the idea of mail-in ballot restrictions to him.Reuters and other tier1 outlets confirm that in August 2025 Trump told Hannity that Vladimir Putin had said mail-in voting cannot produce a fair election, and Trump then moved to end mail-in ballots. Fact-checkers dispute Trump's account of Putin saying the 2020 election was rigged, but that dispute concerns the content of Putin's remark, not whether Trump revealed that Putin raised the idea.True95% confidence8 sourcesSep 5, 2026Fox News announced that Maria Bartiromo is no longer hosting her show.Said by AFox News Media announced on September 3, 2026 that it was parting ways with Maria Bartiromo, and her shows were renamed or handed to rotating hosts, so the claim holds as of the September 5 posting date. The post says the announcement came 'yesterday' (September 4), but the sources date it to Thursday, September 3; that timing detail is peripheral and does not change the verdict. Her attorney disputed reports that she was fired or no longer working at Fox, but that dispute does not contradict Fox's announcement.True90% confidence8 sourcesSep 5, 2026Fox News paid almost a billion dollars in legal settlements.Said by BMultiple tier1 and tier2 sources (AP, Reuters, BBC, NPR, NBC, CNN) confirm Fox agreed in April 2023 to pay $787.5 million to settle Dominion's defamation suit, which is 'almost a billion' in the loose sense the post used. The claim's 'legal settlements' plural is a minor imprecision; the sources document one settlement, not several, but the core assertion of nearly a billion dollars in settlement payments holds.True95% confidence6 sourcesSep 5, 2026Fox News paid a 787,500,000 dollar settlement to Dominion.Said by BMultiple tier1 and tier2 sources (AP, Reuters, BBC, NPR, NBC, CNN) report that Fox News and Fox Corp agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million to settle the defamation lawsuit in April 2023, averting a trial. The post called the payment 'fines,' but the claim's 'settlement' is the accurate label for the same $787.5 million payment, so the extraction does not add a new fact.True90% confidence8 sourcesSep 5, 2026Maria Bartiromo interviewed Sidney Powell regarding Dominion voting software.Multiple tier1/tier2 sources (NPR, CBS, NYT, Deadline, Iowa Public Radio, AP) report that Maria Bartiromo hosted Sidney Powell on Fox's Sunday Morning Futures around November 8, 2020 and discussed Dominion software and voting irregularities, which matches the claim; the scripted exchange quoted in CBS and Deadline confirms the Dominion-software framing. The claim is an accurate paraphrase of the passage's referents (Sydney = Sidney Powell, Dominion software), and the sources also document that the content was debunked, but the claim itself only asserts the interview occurred on this topic.True95% confidence8 sourcesSep 5, 2026Maria Bartiromo has left Fox Business and Fox News.Said by AMultiple tier1 sources, including Reuters and AP, report that Fox News Media parted ways with Maria Bartiromo effective September 3, 2026, ending her roles at Fox Business and Fox News. The post's spelling "Bartram" is resolved to Bartiromo by the post's title and the other sources, and the claim does not depart from the passage.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True85% confidence8 sourcesSep 5, 2026Mike Huckabee tweeted that Maria Bartiromo is a hardworking journalist and class act.Said by AMultiple sources quote Huckabee's X post calling Bartiromo the "smartest hardest working journalist" and "absolutely class act," so the claim matches the tweet. The claim drops "smartest" but that is a benign omission, and the extraction does not add anything the post says.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True95% confidence7 sourcesSep 5, 2026The Inspector General for the Department of Labor released an investigation into former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer.Said by AThe DOL Office of Inspector General released an investigation report on former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, reported by AP, NBC, NPR, and Politico and listed on the OIG's own findings page. The post's 'today' corresponds to a release that sources date to Thursday, September 4, 2026, a minor detail that does not affect the core claim.True85% confidence5 sourcesSep 5, 2026Lori Chavez-DeRemer traveled to Oregon for personal reasons between April 15 and April 20, 2025.Said by AMultiple sources, including the Labor Department inspector general report as reported by AP, ABC, and others, describe Chavez-DeRemer's personal travel to Oregon in April 2025. The New Republic quotes the IG report giving the exact dates as April 15–20, 2025, which matches the claim.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.