Hearst editor and columnist. Former Washington Post columnist. Author of "The Aftermath," NYT editor's pick. You are not entitled to my attention.
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Philip Bump retweeted
Apr 14
Efforts to defeat Zohran Mamdani’s push for higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations have led to stories predicting companies would flee New York.
But the numbers tell a different story.
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19 Oct 2025
Hello! I don’t really post here anymore but I thought my old Twitter followers might like to know that 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫.
Check it out!
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Philip Bump retweeted
15 Aug 2025
A White House official tried, on condition of anonymity, to defend President Trump's false claim that the US has sent Ukraine $350 billion. How? By adding in such things as...the cost of US inflation to US households. cnn.com/2025/08/15/politics/…
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11 Aug 2025
Back in May, I documented the slow evolution of the Oval Office in Trump's second term. I figured it was time for an update — with an acknowledgement that these changes also serve as a metaphor.
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11 Aug 2025
If you're curious about DC's actual crime rate, this has your answers. jasher.substack.com/p/assess…
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6 Aug 2025
I'd been mulling over an essay about reality and AI and politics even while at The Post. Now I've written it. pbump.net/o/blurred-world/
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Philip Bump retweeted
5 Aug 2025
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Philip Bump retweeted
3 Aug 2025
⚠Preliminary info: #earthquake (#sismo) about 4 mi N of New York City (New York) 1 min ago (local time 22:18:51)❗MAGNITUDE NOT AVAILABLE YET❗Updates at:
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23 Jul 2025
Earlier today, the RNC sent out a fundraising email playing up the idea that American cities were terrifying hellholes. So I looked at polling to see just how pervasive this idea was — and if it held even when Republicans had been to these places.
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22 Jul 2025
Trump declared the (bogus) Gabbard allegations to be the "biggest scandal" in history, a superlative he has previously used to describe Hillary's email server, Hunter's business, Biden's autopen, efforts to hide Biden's decline … and other things, too.
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18 Jul 2025
In re: Colbert, my column for The Washington Post today deals with media companies and institutions capitulating in the face of Trump’s authoritarianism. Gift link: wapo.st/3IzN4QA
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17 Jul 2025
For my column today, I wrote about how Trump leveraged America's collapsing trust in institutions — and how his second term has accelerated that collapse. Gift link: wapo.st/3IzN4QA
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17 Jul 2025
It's been 10 years since Trump took the lead in the Republican primary, going on to win just under 50% of votes cast in that primary. Today, the percentage of Republicans who identify as MAGA sits at … just about 50 percent. Gift link: wapo.st/3Gv1Ya5
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16 Jul 2025
An interesting element of YouGov's polling on "MAGA Republicans" is how much more likely Republicans under 30 are to use that term than are Republicans aged 30 to 44. Free to read: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-r…
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16 Jul 2025
Ten years ago this weekend, Trump first took the lead in the GOP primary contest. He ended up getting just shy of half the votes cast in that primary — about the percentage of Republicans who now identify as "MAGA." Gift link: wapo.st/3Gv1Ya5
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15 Jul 2025
My Trump-Epstein take is that Trump rode on the backs of conspiracy theorists for more than a decade, until he finally couldn’t make the case that he wasn’t one of the elites they hated. Gift link: wapo.st/44Jak5R
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14 Jul 2025
Here are the groups that Republicans and Democrats see as facing discrimination in the U.S. today. (Free to read: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-r… )
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14 Jul 2025
People often see Trump as the fount of the right's fixation on conspiracy theories. But he isn't; he was just very good at leveraging and exploiting that fixation. Epstein, though, is one he can't control.
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14 Jul 2025
Trump's political career was built on leveraging Real Americans™ vs. The Elites conspiracy theories. Epstein might be first time he hasn't been able to convince his base that he's part of that first group. Gift link: wapo.st/44Jak5R
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