Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast.

I'm your host, Tim Miller.

It is our first episode of 2025.

And so I'm delighted to be here with Favor of the Pod, staff writer at the Atlantic,

author of 10 books, most recently Trumpocalypse.

It's David

from. How you doing, David? All right. Thank you. Although I think we have to take,

since you're in New Orleans, a moment of horrified silence for this terrible incident. More

details are known, but just the carnage just looks horrifying. And what a terrible thing for your

city. It is horrible.

And it's a sad wadering in the new year.

I mean, we had 15 are dead here and many more injured. So TBD on a final count there.

The perpetrator was driving a truck with an ISIS flag and turned onto Bourbon

Street off of Canal.

They're usually bollards there to protect against us, but they were replacing them for the Super Bowl. So

unclear whether that was bad luck or timing on behalf of the perpetrator. Also, there's the

cyber truck attack in Vegas. There was a mass shooting in Queens last night, did a nightclub.

The CNN headline, I was just making sure I had my

facts right this morning looking through everything, was New Orleans attacked deadliest since

main mass shooting. Yeah. I don't even remember the main mass shooting, which I think tells you a

little something about American life. So I'm just wondering if you have any other top-line thoughts based

on what we know now. It's a violent society, more violent than peer nations. And there are

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