Matt Flegenheimer
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Reporter, @nytimes. ''Rob Thomas, circa 1998''-@NYTFridge
Joined November 2010
“I don’t think I’m qualified to talk about politics,” Dr. Phil told me. And so, he insisted, he really hadn’t.
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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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“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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RT @kenvogel: .@danawhite is the PT Barnum of people choking each other into submission, if PT Barnum also hawked a line of canned whiskey….
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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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RT @NYTnickc: Excited to announce "I Don't Want to Go Home," my oral history of @thestonepony, is available for pre-order! . With 100s of i….
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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?.
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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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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:
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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.
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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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RT @npfandos: EXCLUSIVE: The secret hand behind Andrew Cuomo’s online army? His sister, it turns out. For 18 months, Madeline Cuomo back c….
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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.
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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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RT @thetrough: Andrew Cuomo spent $1 billion to build a factory for Elon Musk — a would be solar panel factory that was supposed to save Bu….
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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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RT @emmagf: The Mayor Had a Photo of a Fallen Officer. Was His Story About It True?
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Mayor Eric Adams has often talked about a wrinkled photo of a fallen police officer that he kept in his wallet. Now that photo and the story have been called into question.
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“There’s sort of a nihilism at the core.”. In print today: Gutfeld(!)(?)(.).
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Greg Gutfeld has installed his brand of insult conservatism as the institutional voice for the next generation of Fox News viewer. And it’s catching on.
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DeSantis 2024 began with a moment of silence. And then several more. How a zeitgeisty gambit devolved into a conference call from hell:.
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The Florida governor wanted to show off his tech savvy by announcing his presidential campaign on Twitter. It quickly devolved into the conference call from hell.
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"You have a moment," his wife would say, arguing against waiting. Ron and Casey DeSantis believe this moment is theirs.
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For years, Democrats have worried about the prospect of a more disciplined heir to Trump. In Florida’s pugilistic governor, that candidate may have arrived.
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