Philip Bump

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Washington Post: National columnist. Newsletter: "How To Read This Chart." Book: "The Aftermath." [email protected]

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Watching Pixar shorts with the boys that are 15 years older than my oldest.

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Katie Notopoulos

It’s truly thrilling.

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Matt Novak

Director’s cut of Napoleon that is just the battle scenes and this.

Am I cooler than the least cool thing imaginable? Yeah, probably.

You’re cool, but are you contracting-Ebola-while-torturing-puppies-at-a-Creed-concert cool?

Oh, go away.

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Pwnallthethings

This is historically the case.

Try reading the article.

The extent to which you don’t know what you’re talking about is exceeded only by the extent to which you think you know what you’re talking about.

Newsletter this week is a buffet of random stuff that is largely not about politics. Free to read! s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

How To Read This Chart: CHART-O-RAMAs2.washingtonpost.com Plus, the tensions of the world relegated to footnotes.

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Joseph Galbo

In this area you can be confident it is at least a tick-dispersal mechanism. But look at the fawn we saw this morning!

This is also why this issue gets more ongoing attention than SCOTUS/immunity: it is unresolved and evolving, even if it is not as important. bsky.app/profile/mbkp...

The biggest issue with Biden coverage is that he’s now The Story, which means that most of the press is focused on The Story and not any of the context or consequences. If we were having a serious discussion about qualifications for presidency, age, and the two main candidates, I’d be fine with it.

There are lots of manifestations of media criticism, but perhaps the grossest is when journalists sense a weakness and rush to show how much smarter they are than everyone else.

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Old Millenial™️

You should read the article.

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@SIfill

OK. Well, the post is a reference to the claim to which I'm responding. It is not my formulation.

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@SIfill

This appears to be a response to the post and not the article.

Congrats to Peter Sniffy-Belch for his victory in Grumbling-on-Donk.

Very fun to see the Yankees lose at home. Like watching a bully trip on stairs.

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Peter Sagal

There is no age requirement, Peter, so perhaps our kids could get the job.

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The Achiever formerly known as Karl

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Ben Harris

I mean, I haven’t been so I can’t say. But Vegas??

I have been to seven of these cities and I will tell you right now I have been to at least 20 others that are prettier than Vegas or Chicago and that putting NYC (which I love!) here over SF is deranged.

Wish I were rich enough to roll up to the Yankees game today wearing a jersey for their opponent (the Reds) but with Jeter’s name and number.

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David_j_roth

True take stans get weekday delivery.

How Americans view America. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Great experiment here in partisan bias: views of policy without (dot) and with (arrow) the proposing candidate being mentioned.

Colossal has long been one of my favorite sites. Excited to see them here.

Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...

What the new Times poll tells us and what it doesn’t. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | One question answered: The debate made Biden’s position worsewww.washingtonpost.com Countless questions, most unanswerable, remain.

The top concern among Biden supporters in a recent poll? The threat to democracy. The reason most support Biden? He isn’t Trump. Yet in the debate and since, this argument has faltered. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Biden and Democratic legislators undercut their party’s central messagewww.washingtonpost.com Most supporters of President Biden plan to vote for him because he isn’t Donald Trump. But Biden and his party have downplayed that distinction.

A second American Revolution, this one aimed at unwinding democracy in favor of a monarchy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The target of the right’s ‘revolution’ is pluralistic democracy itselfwww.washingtonpost.com The president of the Heritage Foundation said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”