Matt Flegenheimer
@mattfleg
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Reporter, @nytimes. ''Rob Thomas, circa 1998''-@NYTFridge
Joined November 2010
"My father dropped dead. His headline lives on." The great Bill Brink on the keys!
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It’s rare that a headline outlasts the person who wrote it. But long after my father’s death, “Ford to City: Drop Dead” still reverberates.
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“Andrew M. Cuomo, tieless but never casual…” With Cuomo on the ropes, read @mattfleg on the scion who has never really changed and who is making a big bet that the New York he ruled for so long has not either https://t.co/uA7BDeCkDB
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The former governor, a distant second in most polls of the New York City mayor’s race, is working harder to attract voters and remind them who he is.
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Over the moon to that my Oz the Mentalist profile is today's "Great Read" in @nytimes! Gift link: https://t.co/5XB89L0Mun
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that and many other details about the mayoral candidate's life as a teenager in this carefully observed piece by @mattfleg and @boreskes
https://t.co/7JX4u5kcce
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Zohran Mamdani’s time at the Bronx High School of Science expanded and helped shape his views of New York, from the cricket pitch to politics.
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"I’m going to do me," Eric Adams said. He kept that promise. https://t.co/sUZNb9krBA
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The quotable, luxury-loving, perpetually mysterious mayor took New Yorkers on a wild and unpredictable ride.
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The Wary, Warming, Wildly Consequential Alliance of Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani Always give @mattfleg a read >> https://t.co/TCDCGgBA4p
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She was the ‘big sister’ he hoped to impress. He seemed inexperienced to her. Now, they’re the faces of a political movement — and New York is its test case.
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“I don’t think I’m qualified to talk about politics,” Dr. Phil told me. And so, he insisted, he really hadn’t. https://t.co/f5cqalU6pk
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The daytime TV fixture seems to have taken a rightward turn. But don’t call it politics.
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Stephen A. Smith would like to be Joe Rogan and things of that nature.
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America’s best-known sports-talker is hosting boldface Democrats and MAGA luminaries and teasing a 2028 run. But what he really wants is ubiquitous political influence, and things of that nature.
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At ICONIQ Frontier, one question guided our conversations: What does it take to build at the frontier of AI? From @DarioAmodei to @drfeifei to @bradlightcap, a clear answer emerged amongst speakers: the most powerful force shaping AI isn’t technical. It’s human. How we lead,
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“I never count money,” Don King told me. “If you can count your money, you ain’t got none.” The decades-long, highly explicable, “only-in-America(n)” friendship of two men who never especially changed:
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The decades-long friendship of two men who never especially changed.
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"He was born," Mike Tyson told us, "in the perfect time." NYT dive (w/ the great @Bernstein) on Dana White, his value to Trump (and vice versa) and his high perch in the cage-match politics era:
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White, chief executive of the bloody and beloved Ultimate Fighting Championship, has shot to the peak of Trump-era culture and political influence. What does he want?
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.@danawhite is the PT Barnum of people choking each other into submission, if PT Barnum also hawked a line of canned whiskey & cola & bet $100k/blackjack hand. @mattfleg & @Bernstein on the cultural, political & business influence of the @ufc president.
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White, chief executive of the bloody and beloved Ultimate Fighting Championship, has shot to the peak of Trump-era culture and political influence. What does he want?
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Excited to announce "I Don't Want to Go Home," my oral history of @thestonepony, is available for pre-order! With 100s of interviews, from @Springsteen, @stevieVanZandt and @asburyjukes to @gaslightanthem, the @jonasbrothers & more. Out in early June!
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“Reading Nick Corasaniti’s delightful book about the storied Asbury Park, New Jersey, club is like sitting at your favorite bar listening to the old regular...
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Drilling 3s, working refs, signing bald heads: Caitlin Clark is the biggest star in college basketball. What comes next? https://t.co/Dte3c16NTC
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Her fiery competitiveness, no-look passes and 3-point bombs have made for must-see basketball in Iowa. What happens when she leaves?
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“You don’t need to learn to code to ship an app.” — Riley Brown AI can turn ideas into working apps, straight from your phone. I sat with Riley Brown, Co-founder of Vibe Code, and we built a voice-notes app live on iPhone Here’s what we did: Generated the UI with prompts
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I wrote about a, uh, treasured family tradition for @nytimestravel.
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After a pandemic hiatus, my family was finally back in Las Vegas for Christmas, and we were up $1.25. The world was ours.
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“Maybe I’ve just been called a right-wing crazy for so long that I thought I was,” Tucker Carlson told me. “But if I agree with pretty much everything Russell Brand says, I don’t know what I am.” For @NYTmag this week: “Russell Brand's Alternate Reality.”
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The British entertainer built an army of fans with his conspiracy-minded podcast. Now, amid sex-assault claims against him, they’ve become his whole world.
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"In a life of myriad miseries, the girl resigned herself to more." A remarkable and harrowing investigation into juvenile lockup from @sevendaysvt:
sevendaysvt.com
In Vermont’s juvenile lockup, a girl endured violence and isolation. She wasn’t the only one. And it was no secret.
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“Rudy loves opera,” Bill Bratton said. “Few operas end in a happy place.” @maggieNYT and me on a long-fraught subject for Giuliani allies -- his drinking -- and the attention it's earned from prosecutors in Trump's election case. https://t.co/gLRtOdV6or
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The former mayor’s drinking has become an investigative subplot in Donald Trump’s federal case over 2020 election interference. But long before that, friends had grown deeply concerned.
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EXCLUSIVE: The secret hand behind Andrew Cuomo’s online army? His sister, it turns out. For 18 months, Madeline Cuomo back channeled with grass-roots groups to help smear Andrew's accusers and rehab his image. He was “seeing everything,” she said. 1/x https://t.co/A3VnjUcJOF
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For nearly two years, Madeline Cuomo quietly worked with grass-roots activists to help smear her brother’s accusers. He was “seeing everything,” she told his defenders.
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“I think we’re coming to a fork in the road,” Mike Pence told me last weekend. The fork has arrived. https://t.co/CLR2QxC5gi
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The former vice president and Jan. 6 witness is campaigning to persuade voters. But is he also trying to warn them?
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Andrew Cuomo spent $1 billion to build a factory for Elon Musk — a would be solar panel factory that was supposed to save Buffalo. What the state got in return: “the biggest economic development boondoggle in American history.” From @bykowicz and me. https://t.co/ICuxRaSqn6
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New Tesla facility in Buffalo was supposed to house a huge solar-panel operation, but the project hasn’t turned out as planned.
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