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Jim Newell
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Senior politics writer at Slate. Back in January.
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Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls? Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.
October 9, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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It’s a true fact: I got a Business Job in the Business World, which I start next week. But on my last day, Slate let me do one last job: A post about [portentously] all that I’ve seen. slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Biggest Difference Between the Trump Era and the Obama Era
How did literally everything go up for debate?
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September 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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he is always of the largest leviathanic proportions
September 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Finally Alex gets an honest job
alexsammon.bsky.social alex sammon @alexsammon.bsky.social · Aug 4
i got one of those low effort spam texts from "Indeed," offering a low effort, well-paid remote job. I spent the last two months working in a Filipino clickfarm, for a very disappointed woman named Cathy. slate.com/technology/2...
I Responded to One of the Spam Texts From a “Recruiter”—Then Took the Job. It Got Weirder Than I Could Have Imagined.
The story of “Cathy,” my scammer.
slate.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Congress is about to allocate tens of BILLIONS to expand ICE -- why aren't Senate Democrats talking about it? @jim-newell.bsky.social asked them: slate.com/news-and-pol...
Stephen Miller Is About to Secure the Policy Achievement of His Lifetime. Democrats Are Strangely Silent.
An A-list Democratic villain believes this to be the West's best legislative work in generations.
slate.com
June 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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What it was like in the shit in 2025 slate.com/news-and-pol...
Excerpts From the Memoir of a Marine Deployed to Los Angeles in 2025
A dispatch from the front (of the drive-thru) line.
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June 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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free advice for game developers: try to make the next smash hit video game, such as grand theft auto. if you do, you'll be making more than just a video game – you'll be making millions of dollars
May 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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"The FoundingFathers knew this!"

"to rule otherwise would be unfaithful to the judgment and vision of the Founding Fathers!"

Two exclamation points!!

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May 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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I 100 percent think that everyone should assume their chosen political thing is deeply unpopular and work to make it popular, rather than assume "everyone also wants this, it's just those evil somethings stopping it from happening"
mattyglesias.bsky.social Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · May 25
This is why I emphasized "study public opinion accurately."

Progressives have invested huge sums of money in misleading polls to convince people that all of their ideas are popular when it isn't true and it's been very damaging.

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jeremyke.bsky.social Jeremy Espenshade @jeremyke.bsky.social · May 25
Nearly every Democratic platform policy is broadly popular and nearly every Republican platform policy is broadly unpopular. I don't understand what you're suggesting would be different. Even if no Democrat held any unpopular position, Fox and Co would claim they did anyway.
May 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Fun with numbers and math. slate.com/news-and-pol...
The DOJ Says Trump Has Saved 258 Million Lives. I Asked Them What That’s Based On.
“Are you ready for this, media?” No, actually!
slate.com
May 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Vance's face here is pretty funny
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 30
"Are you ready for this, media?" -- Bondi turns to the press and credits Trump for saving "258 million lives"
April 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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That's right. Without Trump, two thirds of Americans (all cops) would be dead from fentanyl
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 30
"Are you ready for this, media?" -- Bondi turns to the press and credits Trump for saving "258 million lives"
April 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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The Medicaid cuts are coming into view. slate.com/news-and-pol...
It’s Becoming Clearer How Exactly Republicans Are Going to Make Cuts to Medicaid
It’s put House Republican factions at loggerheads, but they can’t dance around the question any longer.
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April 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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as the great @jim-newell.bsky.social notes: "This is not just a symbolic fight to wage, or one that only serves to satisfy liberals’ desire to feel morally righteous. The stakes are real." slate.com/news-and-pol...
sahilkapur.bsky.social Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · Apr 18
NEW: A deportation case exposes a rift among Democrats over how to take on Trump

One camp sees a pivotal moment to lean in and fight a lawless move.

Another camp sees a trap and wants to pivot to hitting Trump on his growing economic vulnerability.

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Abrego Garcia's deportation case exposes a rift among Democrats over how to take on Trump
As some Democrats vocally push for the release of the man the administration says was mistakenly deported, others have sought to steer clear and focus on high prices and economic issues.
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April 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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CEOs upset about Trump’s tariffs sound like mob bosses shouting “I thought we had a deal!” at the Joker.
April 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Every day we learn anew just how much classified ads were perhaps the load-bearing pillar of American hegemony
April 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Celebrating Liberation Day with a reminder that Congress is very powerful when it chooses to be! slate.com/news-and-pol...
Lawmakers Could Stop Trump’s Tariffs. Here’s What’s Holding Them Back.
Most Republicans in Congress are free-traders at their core. So why are they letting the president run wild?
slate.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Today:
- Monday Morning Politics, with @jim-newell.bsky.social,
- @elkue.bsky.social on composting in NYC,
- @strausbaugh.bsky.social on 100 Years of Greenwich Village,
- @deeshtho.bsky.social on NYC's upcoming baseball season

Live at 10 on 93.9 FM, AM820 or @wnyc.org
March 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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There are deep and important national security, moral and legal issues at stake with the signal group leaks. And then there is the kind of analysis only @lukewinkie.bsky.social can provide. slate.com/life/2025/03...
I Knew the Signal Chat Leak Reminded Me of Something. Now I Know What.
The national security boys chat was lit last week.
slate.com
March 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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I spoke with @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social about his newest book "Everything Is Tuberculosis." It's an important and terrifyingly-relevant story about one of the deadliest diseases in human history—and the decisions we make to keep it alive.

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What’s Happening With Tuberculosis Is a Terrible Tragedy. The Person Who Can Make Sense of It Isn’t Who You’d Expect.
John Green’s latest book might seem like a departure—at first.
slate.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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[hegseth] Just CONFIRMED w/CENTCOM we are a GO for mission launch.

[friend who once got a text from hegseth where he accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?
March 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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i’m losing it
March 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Nick Denton Has Had Enough of America
The former media mogul discusses how he became “ashamed” of Gawker and why he’s selling his apartment and moving to Budapest.
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March 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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God dammit. Timing couldn’t be worse but here goes.

Chuck Schumer and I are launching our new podcast “Soul Deep: A Weekly Deep Dive Into the Music of Collective Soul” tomorrow. I do NOT support his latest decision and want to make clear this is strictly a music podcast. Please check it out
March 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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slateunion.bsky.social
On Monday morning, Slate was suddenly informed that six of its employees—including three editors, two of whom were members of the union—were being laid off, just months after four other staffers were also let go. The Slate Union's official statement reads as follows:
The Slate Union logo—the Slate S featuring upward fist and surrounded by pink and white stripes—is seen above a statement: We, the Slate Union, are united in our belief that management’s decision yesterday to lay off three editorial employees—along with three of our coworkers in other departments—was misguided, foolish, and cruel. The cuts are not these employees’ failures; they are the result of the failure of this company to follow its obligations to its workers. When you can’t find a way to make the most out of smart, talented journalists, that’s a failure of management—and Slate staffers are right to believe it’s incumbent upon management to find ways to solve that problem that don’t involve job losses. Otherwise, what are we investing in journalism for? What are we asking Slate Plus members to invest in us for? There are particular aspects of these layoffs that we in the union find particularly outrageous. Eliminating three editors with their hands on politics and business will put an unbearable strain on others in the department, at the precise moment when coverage of these two subjects is crucial to the magazine’s success. One of the laid-off editors had union-negotiated parental leave approaching—as did another union member who was laid off just months ago. Another one of the laid-off employees was about to go on a honeymoon, and yet another was about to meet the qualifications for their pension benefit. The affected worker will be paid out for their parental leave, but the timing of these departures appears to be designed to make other union members think twice before utilizing the leave they have the contractual right to take. Not to mention, that one of the laid-off editors was hired not even a year ago—after a protracted search—calls management’s strategy into question, to put it lightly. Slate has had two consecutive years of profitability. The fact that management views employees as chits to be discarded at any hint of trouble, instead of valuable people whose work makes our shop successful and profitable, is an enormous mistake. We insist that, in the upcoming contract negotiations, Slate commits to policies that treat layoffs not as a hair-trigger response to adversity but as an absolute last resort, one that will not be undertaken without consulting with the union and the employees in question. Simply paying out extra severance to a laid-off employee should no longer be a substitute for warnings about the state of our business and, more importantly, real attempts to save our staffers’ jobs. Anything short of this will demonstrate that Slate values the jobs of its executives more than its rank-and-file workers, and that good journalism by good journalists is no longer the north star of the magazine.
March 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM