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Philip Bump
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MSNBC contributor
Former Washington Post columnist
Book: "The Aftermath"
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The newsletter is out! Snow snow snow snow snow snow snow. Free, as always.
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There's no viz-ness like snow viz-ness
Look, I'm not happy about that joke either. But sometimes the creative process floats one over the plate and you just have to take a swing at it, earning a bloop single. Anyway, this week's theme is s...
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nuh-uh you did it first
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

LESLEY STAHL: You contributed to the toxic culture. You were out there pounding, insulting people

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: You've contributed to it as well

STAHL: I want you to respond to what you have done in terms of insulting people

MTG: I'd like for you to respond to that
December 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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A thread of what was in this week's newsletter. The theme: ❄️ SNOW ❄️
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1/6. When snow has first arrived in the U.S., over the decades.
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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I guess Ted Cruz is busy making homophobic jokes about Tucker Carlson? I guess that’s what he’s up to?
December 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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“Records reviewed by the AP identify only nine of the 38 people arrested in the first days as having criminal histories that rose beyond traffic violations — information the intelligence bulletins warn “should not be distributed to the media.” www.nola.com/news/catahou...
Records reviewed by AP detail online monitoring, arrests in New Orleans immigration crackdown
Records reviewed by the AP show that few of those arrested have criminal histories beyond traffic violations.
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December 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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when you realize you're looking at ai
December 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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A thread of the goodies in this week's newsletter.
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A thread of what was in this week's newsletter. The theme: ❄️ SNOW ❄️
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1/6. When snow has first arrived in the U.S., over the decades.
December 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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“After they broke up, Ferreira said in court records that Michael Leavitt had in the past threatened to try to get her deported.”
December 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Well, if that’s coming from a senior government official…
December 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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I spoke with Any Lucía López Belloza, the Babson College student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when ICE deported her.

"My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me.

www.thecut.com/article/any-...
I Wanted to Surprise My Family on Thanksgiving. ICE Deported Me Instead.
How the Trump administration turned a college freshman’s life upside down.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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@bencollins.bsky.social always with the jokes
December 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Just a top to bottom scam, to raise money for a candidate who can’t run again.
December 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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We had the boys pick out toys that could go to Toys For Tots, explaining that some kids weren’t as lucky as they were at Christmas, etc. Then the eight year-old hit me with the ol’ “well, isn’t Santa going to bring them toys?” and, man, Santa is definitely hard to reconcile with a sense of charity.
December 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Imagine seeing this on a Christmas tree and not knowing it’s from a movie
A claymation whale ornament. The base reads “bye, buddy. Hope you find your dad!”
December 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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i’m not thrilled tbh
December 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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The newsletter is out! This week: SNOW.
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There's no viz-ness like snow viz-ness
Look, I'm not happy about that joke either. But sometimes the creative process floats one over the plate and you just have to take a swing at it, earning a bloop single. Anyway, this week's theme is s...
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December 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Especially when the putative data is mostly just cherry-picking to match your vibes.
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d
perils of structuring your political beliefs according to political winds and issue polls
goldwagnathan.bsky.social Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 2d
I continue to think that Matty coming out against birthright citizenship a few months ago should have been taken as a major warning sign that the group chats have already decided to surrender on this.
December 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
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December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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The newsletter this week is all about SNOW.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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The newsletter is out! Snow snow snow snow snow snow snow. Free, as always.
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There's no viz-ness like snow viz-ness
Look, I'm not happy about that joke either. But sometimes the creative process floats one over the plate and you just have to take a swing at it, earning a bloop single. Anyway, this week's theme is s...
www.howtoreadthisch.art
December 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Trumpworld likes to present comparisons of his anti-immigrant rhetoric with 1930s Germany as inherently hyperbolic. So I asked some historians if they were.
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It's very important at this point to note one reason that comparisons between now and then are clumsy: It's not always clear what "then" we're referring to. Looking back in time, we see what Hitler and the Nazis became and know what they did. But an observer in 1939 - much less 1933 or the years prior — didn't know what was to come. As we don't today. Is the administration a mirror image of Nazism? Well, it depends very much on what stage of Nazism you are considering.
December 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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A bit on the nose.
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December 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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“How dare you insult the emperor’s clothes”
December 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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People should start indicating how they’d like their meat cooked when ordering McDonald’s drive-through.
December 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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