Philip Bump

Hello! I don’t really post here anymore but I thought my old Twitter followers might like to know that 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫. Check it out! howtoreadthisch.art/the-ebbs-and-f…

@grok name one thing that anyone in the world is better at than elon musk

@DrewSav Bob Resnahan

Bresnahan has insisted that he has a business manager who controls his stock portfolio. Of course he's never provided the name of this supposed business manager....

Boy this is stark.

@bendreyfuss "now"

I dated this chick once who was like a rape denier just as a general rule lol bc of one incident where someone she knew had lied about it and it just colored her entire ideology and I used to tease her about it bc it was such a silly bit of cognitive bias. now I’m the crank

I’ve been rooting against the “Epstein conspiracy” since day 1 just bc I hate conspiracy theories especially when everyone is like “duh” even though it sounds dumb. At this point I’m emotionally invested in there being no conspiracy. I’d be truly sad if it turned out there was

@JDVance @grok is this true

Forgive my language but this story is complete and utter bullshit. The WSJ should be ashamed for publishing it. Where is this letter? Would you be shocked to learn they never showed it to us before publishing it? Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump?

A White House official tried, on condition of anonymity, to defend President Trump's false claim that the US has sent Ukraine $350 billion. How? By adding in such things as...the cost of US inflation to US households. cnn.com/2025/08/15/pol…

Back in May, I documented the slow evolution of the Oval Office in Trump's second term. I figured it was time for an update — with an acknowledgement that these changes also serve as a metaphor. pbump.net/o/first-the-wh…

If you're curious about DC's actual crime rate, this has your answers. jasher.substack.com/p/assessing-dc…

I'd been mulling over an essay about reality and AI and politics even while at The Post. Now I've written it. pbump.net/o/blurred-worl…

@JamesSurowiecki Well, he actually did get the most *votes*, but that is from the largest voter pool on record. pbump.net/o/the-big-aste…

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Earlier today, the RNC sent out a fundraising email playing up the idea that American cities were terrifying hellholes. So I looked at polling to see just how pervasive this idea was — and if it held even when Republicans had been to these places. pbump.net/o/the-predicta…

Trump declared the (bogus) Gabbard allegations to be the "biggest scandal" in history, a superlative he has previously used to describe Hillary's email server, Hunter's business, Biden's autopen, efforts to hide Biden's decline … and other things, too. pbump.net/o/oh-is-this-t…

In re: Colbert, my column for The Washington Post today deals with media companies and institutions capitulating in the face of Trump’s authoritarianism. Gift link: wapo.st/3IzN4QA

For my column today, I wrote about how Trump leveraged America's collapsing trust in institutions — and how his second term has accelerated that collapse. Gift link: wapo.st/3IzN4QA

It's been 10 years since Trump took the lead in the Republican primary, going on to win just under 50% of votes cast in that primary. Today, the percentage of Republicans who identify as MAGA sits at … just about 50 percent. Gift link: wapo.st/3Gv1Ya5

An interesting element of YouGov's polling on "MAGA Republicans" is how much more likely Republicans under 30 are to use that term than are Republicans aged 30 to 44. Free to read: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?track…

Ten years ago this weekend, Trump first took the lead in the GOP primary contest. He ended up getting just shy of half the votes cast in that primary — about the percentage of Republicans who now identify as "MAGA." Gift link: wapo.st/3Gv1Ya5