1052: Secret Podcast: Trump Begins Arresting Journalists
The Next Level
The Bulwark
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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JVL and Sarah came in hottt today, angry about . . . all of it? Journalists are now being arrested. Masked DHS agents are still terrorizing Minneapolis. The worst “free speech” people you know are building a state media ecosystem. And the Melania movie is here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. This is JVL here with my best friend, Sarah Longwell, publisher of the bulwark. |
| 0:06.1 | We're doing a speed show this week because there is a lot to do and we had to go late today |
| 0:12.5 | and there are a million things going on and we're on a type timeline. But first, Sarah, we're going to |
| 0:19.2 | Minneapolis. We're going to Minneapolis. Tickets are going to Minneapolis. We're going to Minneapolis. |
| 0:21.9 | Tickets are on sale now. We are going to be there on February 19th. It's going to |
| 0:27.4 | be you, me, Bill, Sam, maybe more people. All profits. Tim. Tim. Tim, obviously. |
| 0:36.0 | All profits from the show. |
| 0:37.8 | I'm going to go to a great local charity, Second Harvest Heartland, which helps feed people in the Twin Cities area. |
| 0:46.2 | Very important because a lot of people can't leave their homes. |
| 0:49.7 | And a lot of people are losing their businesses because, you know, nobody else can leave their homes. |
| 0:56.3 | It's great. |
| 0:58.6 | Anyway, we're very happy to try to help. |
| 1:01.2 | And we hope that if you're in the area and you can come out, you do. |
| 1:05.3 | It's going to be great. |
| 1:06.1 | A lot of laughs. |
| 1:07.3 | It's going to be a real, you know, real. |
| 1:09.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.0 | I don't know if it'll be the most |
| 1:12.0 | uplifting show, but it is important to us to feel like we're showing up. Yeah. No, that's what |
| 1:18.2 | like just like, I don't know, it feels like the least we can do. Because we're so fucking |
| 1:22.9 | proud of all the people in Minneapolis. They've been amazing. Here we are. The best of us. |
| 1:28.3 | Okay. |
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