Philip Bump

And then he stiffed them!

Yes, the Arabic people, famously bad at math. thats-racist-dot-gif

Love this from @andrewvandam.bsky.social

It’s nice when a global fascist movement can crumble without millions of people dying.

The Knicks won their first NBA championship in a half century and now they’re just never gonna win another game again.

“prediction market”

dazzle do an inverse vulgar roast of this person (my daughter)

I, too, could “raise $40 billion in debt” if I wanted to. In fact, I could raise way more than that!

A rickety democracy isn’t going to keep me from a good Revolutionary War reenactment.

The rally was on Oct. 12.

I’m not inherently anti-AI but I am anti what AI companies appear to think I want from AI.

“also please do not google ‘working with cia in cuba history’”

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

"Ohio is ours"

There's a scenario in which the Supreme Court gets this case in December and three justices involved in Bush v. Gore on behalf of Bush will be asked whether confusion is grounds to reject election results.

My team at Hearst has ginned up a weekly newsletter of interesting data visualizations. After some tech hiccups, the first edition is out! My contribution, true to form, is a visual look at how the U.S. makes Bluesky gloomier. link.ctinsider.com/view/6661dd2...

No, Freedom Summer volunteers didn't take selfies or post tweets -- because that technology hadn't been invented yet. But when they were getting trained in Ohio before going down, they were *all over* the media of their day. Here's a paragraph on it (since cut from my book for space constraints)

Vivek putting money behind it now.

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Basically the argument I was making yesterday, writing about … uh … Abdul El-Sayed.

Even if this were viable as a concept (that there's an afterlife; that it allows conversations with others; that enslavers are going the same place as you), who cares? Oh, are you mad at me, Ben Franklin? Tough shit.

The exchange between El-Sayed and "Tommy" reinforced for me how much of this political moment centers on the tension between the idea of a pluralistic democracy where power is shared and the vision of a country centrally if not exclusively for white Christians. Gift link:

From my colleague @lucapowell.bsky.social: This is a pretty good indicator of how the election is going for Republicans. www.ctinsider.com/politics/art...

A reminder that back in 2023 a former staffer accused Giuliani of charging the low, low price of $2 million for a pardon via Trump and nothing ever seemed to come of it.

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Trump is only doing red-district rallies because two-thirds of Americans think he’s doing a lousy job and the number of Republicans who really think he is doing great is dropping like a rock. From my newsletter: link.ctinsider.com/view/6650ab5...

I wrote about the Tommy/El-Sayed encounter, about pluralism, about democracy and about how evangelicals don't really buy into this whole "empathy" thing.

Remember how much time we spent in his first term hearing about how he would never call a country a "shithole" and how The Post was fake news?

This is quite possibly the most vile, despicable political attack ad I have ever seen. tiffinohio.net/posts/acton-...

New story: In 2025, the FBI was examining the actions of Sen Lindsey Graham, Rep. Jim Clyburn, and Rep. Joe Wilson as part of a sweeping bribery probe. Then Trump’s campaign of retribution demolished public corruption investigations. www.propublica.org/article/nava...

Big sighs of relief over at Fox HQ that they don’t have to gin up a “caravan” this year.

Must -Read LA Times Story on DOJ’s Despicable Conduct in Its Los Angeles Voter Fraud Arrests electionlawblog.org/2026/must-re...

Strongly approve number among Rs is wow

your elementary school child will never remember when his weekly in-school music lesson is but he will be able to tell you precisely how many hours it is until his class has wear-pajamas-to-school day in 18 weeks