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David M Weigel

@spdbump.bsky.social

170 followers 81 following 274 posts

Ex-Minnesotan in Philly. (And yes, this is really my name, and no, I don't write for Semafor. But he's good, isn't he?)

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Does he mean pioneer in the sense of died on the Oregon Trail of dysentery

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

If the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment meant to employ concepts drawn from the common law, but also they were under a general misapprehension as to how those concepts really worked? It's the misunderstanding that controls!

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

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Chris T. @readyuser.one · 21/12/2025

It's a pivot table designed to smell its own farts

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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

We did 163 essays at Evening News Plus. This was our last one: Why Journalism? substack.com/profile/5411...

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We did 163 essays at Evening News Plus. This was our last one: Why Journalism?

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Some people get into journalism because they’re skeptical of power, and others do so because they’re impressed by it. Moments like this are clarifying with respect to who’s who.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I've been on team "we're cooked" for a while. People are wired to believe the first facts (or "facts") they hear, and to get defensive if they're told they were mislead. Seen too many Facebook uncles say "well it could have been true" to be optimistic about this.

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thot catalog @thotcatalog.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

the moral of rudolph isn't about acceptance, it's about how quickly workplace discrimination evaporates when your 'flaw' becomes a marketable asset during q4

A still of Rudolph from the 1964 stop motion film Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer

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David M Weigel @spdbump.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

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Gaetz jokes he could be attorney general under Trump: ‘A boy can dream’

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) pushed back on critics of the House investigation into Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son, on Friday, saying a future Republican attorney general — like himself — could pu…

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David M Weigel @spdbump.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Me on this date in 1998: "Ha! I'm still writing '1996' on my checks!" Me on this date in 2024: "A check is a small rectangular piece of paper once used to transfer money between bank accounts."

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