Philip Bump
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Washington Post national columnist. How To Read This Chart newsletter. Author of "The Aftermath," NYT editor's pick. You are not entitled to my attention.
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Joined March 2007
True to form, even when attempting to disparage me, James Comer gets the facts wrong. A badge of honor nonetheless.
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The thing about the Agriculture Secretary suggesting that Medicaid recipients replace deported farm workers is that the point was to downplay the deportations. The ludicrousness makes that obvious. Gift link:
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From my (free to read) update newsletter: Both before and after the GOP spending bill passed, Americans (and Republicans) mostly opposed cutting Medicaid spending.
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Wrote about the Medicaid-for-agricultural-labor idea, why it was floated and why it would obviously not work. Gift link:
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In the (free to read) newsletter that accompanies new columns, I included this map of actual members of the actual No Labels Party. Nice work, North Carolina!
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I wrote about Elon Musk's "third" party and why political parties exist and which ones already do and the average age of the lingering members of the Reform Party. Gift link:
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The useful political lesson of the Mamdani-Columbia story is that racial self-identification can be more complicated than a lot of (White) people appreciate. Gift link:
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RT @lennybronner: What if Trump’s gains with minorities weren’t about Trump at all?. @andrewvandam and I took a look at recent election res….
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There is an important political lesson in the Mamdani/college application story. It isn't the one the article was focused on. Gift link:
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The (free to read) newsletter this week covers 1) good news about murders and 2) documenting New York City.
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Mirroring Trump, Republicans have turned even more sharply against pluralism in the past few years. Gift link:
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Wrote about one of the most striking poll results I've seen in quite some time — a shift that explains an awful lot about the second Trump administration. Gift link:
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People who don’t pay any attention to political news aren’t that worried about the state of American democracy. Free to read:
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Look guys, the president wants you to pay attention to some matters and I don’t think you’ve been paying attention to those matters so I made a quiz to see if you deserved thanks for your matters attention. Gift link:
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It is not good that indifference to party politics correlates with indifference to information about politics. Free to read:
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Trump keeps thanking people for their attention to various matters. So I made a quiz to let you see if you were actually paying the attention he sought. Gift link:
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When I wrote about this two weeks ago, I tried to figure out what the lowest possible baseline value could be for a 413% year-over-year increase. It was 8 assaults. It appears that was actually the starting point for this metric.
NEW: DHS tells @FoxNews that assaults against ICE/federal agents conducting immigration enforcement are now up nearly 700% over the same time last year. I asked DHS for the underlying raw data:. 1/21/2024 - 6/30/2024 10 assaults.1/21/2024 - 6/30/2025 79 assaults. 690% increase.
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Given the Mamdani discourse, I wrote a bit about billionaires. If you were given $100 a day and aimed to have as much wealth as the world’s billionaires, you’d have had to have started about when animals first developed the ability to breathe oxygen.
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Given the likelihood that ICE will soon see a massive boost in its budget, I figured I’d document what it’s doing to the country with the money it has. Gift link:
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With ICE poised to receive a massive infusion of cash courtesy the Republican spending bill, I figured it was worth documenting what they've been doing with the money they've currently got. Gift link:
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