Jim Newell
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Senior politics writer at Slate.
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Ben Jacobs
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Polls have just closed in Kentucky. If you want to know what's going on in the Bluegrass State, check out my deep dive on the most expensive primary in American history for
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Americaâs Hottest Primary Has Clues About Whatâs Coming After Trump. Itâs Not Pretty.
The Epstein files, a MAGA civil war, and an alleged sex scandal have turbocharged a House race.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/05/thomas-massie-ed-gallrein-kentucky-primary.html?gift_token=oFPn6PUKSli0qm5pbuYpXQ
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Brendan Ballou
21 days ago
WHEN COMPANIES RUN THE COURTS is out today. It tells how the Supreme Court created a shadow justice system where companies pay judges, and where people almost always lose. Whether you know it or not, you are a part of this system. Get the book and find out how to escape:
shorturl.at/D0KZ0
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When Companies Run the Courts: How Forced Arbitration Became Americaâs Secret Justice System
When Companies Run the Courts: How Forced Arbitration Became Americaâs Secret Justice System [Ballou, Brendan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. When Companies Run the Courts: How Forced Arbitration Became Americaâs Secret Justice System
https://www.amazon.com/When-Companies-Run-Courts-Arbitration/dp/1541705718
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On the grim gerrymandering future post-Callais
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The Supreme Court Just Opened the Door to a 2028 Nightmare
The justices' Voting Rights Act decision will set off a scramble to rig elections for years to come.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/04/the-supreme-courts-callais-decision-midterms-2028.html
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Mary Harris
about 1 month ago
It's been a minute since we've had
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on the show and I have missed him. BUT HE'S BACK!!!!
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Congressâs Purge Era
Whoa, did Congress just do something bipartisan?
https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next/2026/04/congress-is-redressing-and-redistricting
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On the state of redistricting!
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Republicans Started a Nationwide Fight Over Redistricting. Did They Just Lose?
In Virginia, Democrats struck yet another blow against Trumpâs plan to rig the midterms.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/04/virginia-redistricting-vote-trump-midterms.html
about 1 month ago
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.
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's write-up of this Markwayne Mullin hearing is truly đŽđšđ¨âđłđ
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Markwayne Mullinâs Confirmation Hearing Was the Funniest in Agesâand Might Have a Stunning Outcome
During Wednesdayâs Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing into Mullinâs nomination, bygones would not be bygones.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/03/markwayne-mullin-secret-mission-rand-paul-john-fetterman.html
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Mary Harris
3 months ago
Please allow yourself a lil treat Which is this article
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Yes, Trumpâs Homeland Security Pick Tried to Start a Literal Fight at a Senate Hearing. But Thereâs So Much More.
Trying to fight a hearing witness is on the list of Markwayne Mullin's wildest moments, but it might not be the top.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/03/markwayne-mullin-trump-dhs-kristi-noem.html
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Mary Harris
3 months ago
This
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joint makes a compelling case for scrapping the SOTU altogether - and I gotta say - it kinda goes hand in glove with today's show. Like: what are we even doing here
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The State of the Union Has a Massive Problemâand an Obvious Solution
Donât say the presidentâs big speech never matters. The most recent one caused a lot of harm.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/02/state-of-the-union-trump-biden-sotu.html
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Paul Hudrick
4 months ago
Sixers hold a moment of silence for Dan McQuade.
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A typical
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DM: Him sending a Getty photo of Anna Nicole Smith posing with mugging police officers at Philly Live 8 from 2005 and saying he could probably ID all the officers within a couple of days.
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When I interned at Philly Weekly, I sat next to Dan as he wrote his very funny blog, Philadelphia Will Do, which looked like the most fun job in the world. It inspired me try the same path. In spite of this, I always liked him. A terrible loss.
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Dan McQuade, 1983â2026 | Defector
Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his diag...
https://defector.com/dan-mcquade-1983-2026
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Ben Mathis-Lilley
9 months ago
Itâs 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 Iâve seen.
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The Biggest Difference Between the Trump Era and the Obama Era
How did literally everything go up for debate?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/09/trump-era-vs-obama-era-politics-lessons-democrats.html
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Finally Alex gets an honest job
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10 months ago
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Henry Grabar
12 months ago
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:
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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.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/06/big-beautiful-bill-stephen-miller-immigration-democrats-los-angeles-marines.html
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Ben Mathis-Lilley
12 months ago
What it was like in the shit in 2025
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Excerpts From the Memoir of a Marine Deployed to Los Angeles in 2025
A dispatch from the front (of the drive-thru) line.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/06/los-angeles-marines-protests-donald-trump-the-things-they-carried-parody.html
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Jon Bois
about 1 year ago
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 â you'll be making millions of dollars
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Ryan J. Reilly âpaints a vivid and urgent portrait of⌠disarrayâ
about 1 year ago
"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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Jane Coaston
about 1 year ago
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"
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Fun with numbers and math.
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The DOJ Says Trump Has Saved 258 Million Lives. I Asked Them What Thatâs Based On.
âAre you ready for this, media?â No, actually!
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/trump-news-doj-fentanyl-pam-bondi-lives-saved.html
about 1 year ago
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Chris Hayes
about 1 year ago
Vance's face here is pretty funny
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Ian Boudreau
about 1 year ago
That's right. Without Trump, two thirds of Americans (all cops) would be dead from fentanyl
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The Medicaid cuts are coming into view.
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Itâs Becoming Clearer How Exactly Republicans Are Going to Make Cuts to Medicaid
Itâs put House Republican factions at loggerheads, but they canât dance around the question any longer.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/medicaid-cuts-republicans-trump-budget-bill.html
about 1 year ago
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Nitish Pahwa
about 1 year ago
as the great
@jim-newell.bsky.social
notes: "This is not just a symbolic fight to wage, or one that only serves to satisfy liberalsâ desire to feel morally righteous. The stakes are real."
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Mike Drucker
about 1 year ago
CEOs upset about Trumpâs tariffs sound like mob bosses shouting âI thought we had a deal!â at the Joker.
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Robinson Meyer
about 1 year ago
Every day we learn anew just how much classified ads were perhaps the load-bearing pillar of American hegemony
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Celebrating Liberation Day with a reminder that Congress is very powerful when it chooses to be!
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Lawmakers Could Stop Trumpâs Tariffs. Hereâs Whatâs Holding Them Back.
Most Republicans in Congress are free-traders at their core. So why are they letting the president run wild?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/trump-news-tariffs-republicans-congress-house-senate.html
about 1 year ago
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The Brian Lehrer Show
about 1 year ago
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
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Lizzie O'Leary
about 1 year ago
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...
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I Knew the Signal Chat Leak Reminded Me of Something. Now I Know What.
The national security boys chat was lit last week.
https://slate.com/life/2025/03/atlantic-chat-leak-signal-trump-vance-hegseth.html
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Tony Ho Tran
about 1 year ago
I spoke with
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about his newest book "Everything Is Tuberculosis." It's an important and terrifyingly-relevant story about one of the deadliest diseases in human historyâand the decisions we make to keep it alive.
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Whatâs Happening With Tuberculosis Is a Terrible Tragedy. The Person Who Can Make Sense of It Isnât Who Youâd Expect.
John Greenâs latest book might seem like a departureâat first.
https://slate.com/technology/2025/03/john-green-tuberculosis-book-fault-in-our-stars.html
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Dave Itzkoff
about 1 year ago
[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?
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onion person
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iâm losing it
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Day trader has thoughts
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Nick Denton Has Had Enough of America
The former media mogul discusses how he became âashamedâ of Gawker and why heâs selling his apartment and moving to Budapest.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/nick-denton-gawker-apartment-thiel-budapest.html
about 1 year ago
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Dan Clyne
about 1 year ago
God dammit. Timing couldnât be worse but here goes. Chuck Schumer and I are launching our new podcast âSoul Deep: A Weekly Deep Dive Into the Music of Collective Soulâ tomorrow. I do NOT support his latest decision and want to make clear this is strictly a music podcast. Please check it out
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Slate Union
about 1 year ago
On Monday morning, Slate was suddenly informed that six of its employeesâincluding three editors, two of whom were members of the unionâwere being laid off, just months after four other staffers were also let go. The Slate Union's official statement reads as follows:
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Molly Reynolds
about 1 year ago
"Vote for the bill so that the president can refuse to spend the money you just voted for" is whole other level of saying the quiet part out loud.
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G Elliott Morris
about 1 year ago
ABC News has now fully taken down the old 538 website, including all interactive projects since 2014. Aside from erasing history this prevents access to publicly released data, including raw polls, averages, model estimates & story dta. Totally unacceptable for a company (allegedly) doing journalism
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Katie Rayford
about 1 year ago
At
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, we believe access is important. In order to make sure that federal workersâincluding those who have recently left government, voluntarily or involuntarilyâmaintain access to critical reporting, weâre offering free Slate Plus for the next 6 months:
slate.com/fed-plus
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If youâre a federal employeeâcurrent or recently laid offâSlate Plus is free for six months.
Thousands of federal employees are facing job cutsâor working under growing uncertainty. Slate is offering them six months of Slate Plus for free.
https://slate.com/fed-plus
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Mary Harris
about 1 year ago
It's not like Trump is going in front of Congress hat-in-hand tonight. But as
@jim-newell.bsky.social
explains -- he still needs these guys. The path for continuing austerity measures (and/or fat tax cuts!) runs thru them:
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Why Trump Needs Congress
Congress has to pass a budget before March 14 to avert aâyou guessed itâgovernment shutdown.
https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next/2025/03/will-trump-get-his-dream-budget
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Rodger Sherman
over 1 year ago
Russia coming back to win the Cold War in 2025 after the ESPN win probability chart said the USA had a 99.999999999% chance of victory
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Jeremy Konyndyk
over 1 year ago
So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
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I wrote about how the GOP coalition is quite different from what it was in 2017, but the agenda's still the same
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The Republican Partyâs Constituency Has Changed. They Arenât Acting Like It.
The congressional majority has a priority. It would be really bad for their constituents.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/trump-medicaid-cuts-republicans-reconciliation-mike-johnson.html
over 1 year ago
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Ryan J. Reilly âpaints a vivid and urgent portrait of⌠disarrayâ
over 1 year ago
Quick reaction from a federal law enforcement official: âMen like Emil Bove would rather destroy the federal criminal justice system than just get therapy, itâs appalling.â
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Timothy Burke
over 1 year ago
this man is a millennial
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Seth Maxon
over 1 year ago
Clarifying
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joint on âDang, Dems are in a tight spot!â
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Do You Want the Democrats to Do Something? Pay Attention on March 14.
Itâs risky. But itâs a place they could take a stand.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/democrats-trump-executive-orders-doge-government-shutdown-leverage.html
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If you are a federal worker/contractor with interesting information and stories about the current times, please reach me at jimnewell.85 on Signal.
over 1 year ago
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Seth Maxon
over 1 year ago
The media âscandalâ that Trump said could be âthe biggest scandal in historyâ is not!
@jim-newell.bsky.social
patiently explains.
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The Most Ridiculous âScandalâ Yet of the New Trump Era
The rage about this is absurdly misplaced.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/usaid-politico-pro-funding-scandal-explained-payroll.html
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Alex Kirshner
over 1 year ago
remembering this interesting
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story from 2023. there's been a big fight lately about DCA, with Delta wanting a busy small airport to get more flights and United fighting against it (obviously for its own reasons)
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Why Two of Americaâs Biggest Airlines Are Battling It Outâand Pulling Congress Into the Fray
A fight over the D.C. airport is splitting loyalties.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/reagan-national-airport-delta-united-federal-aviation-reauthorization.html#
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Lizzie O'Leary
over 1 year ago
great
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joint. noting the thing where RFK jr seemed to .. not know how some real important HHS programs work.
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RFK Jr.âs Confirmation Could Be in Danger. A Republicanâs Question Showed Why.
At the hearing, the HHS nomineeâs biggest liability was revealed.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/rfk-jr-kennedy-confirmation-hearing-hhs-vaccines.html
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Dave Weigel
over 1 year ago
Why would they ask the Senate parliamentarian about a memo from OMB?
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