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Philip Bump

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Hearst data editor and columnist Formerly: Washington Post Book: "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America" Newsletter: www.ctinsider.com/newsletters/data/ Email: hello@pbump.com Signal: pbump.11

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Philip Bump@pbump.com · 2h ago

Watching the El-Sayed presser and noting the appeal to 2024 Trump voters on prices. Prompts the question: what is the pitch Rogers could make to Harris voters?

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 3d ago

The thing about RFK is that he was born into a bubble and spent decades and decades in that bubble and as a result he is very bad at dealing with the real world.

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 4d ago

For no other reason than that I have a particular knowledge here: the best way to alleviate poison ivy rash itching is immersing the affected area in near-scalding water. Itch dissipates and stays gone for a while.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4d ago

If you think you’ve touched poison ivy, what you do next can make a big difference in the way your body reacts. Here’s what dermatologists recommend, plus other important facts about poison ivy you should know:

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 4d ago

Look, a lot of people are clowning on Adam O'Neal for taking a job for which he wasn't qualified in service of helping a billionaire curry favor with an autocrat, using his position to build an unpopular and facile video series and then bailing on the role in barely over a year.

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 5d ago

DOJ just kicking the door wide open to people putting their hands in reflecting pools. This isn’t the America I grew up in.

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d ago

FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"

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Philip Bump@pbump.com · 5d ago

As I've said before: What high-paying long-term jobs do they pretend exist here? A data center isn't a place where execs come and do Big Deals. Go to the server room at your workplace; are there lots of rich people in there spending money?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 7d ago

They should ask how The Post managed to turn its business around using the same strat– excuse me, I’m being handed a note.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 7d ago

NEW: Under Bari Weiss, CBS News has shifted to the right to try to grab some of Fox News' audience. Not only have they failed to do that, but they've driven off so much of their core audience that CBS Mornings is now perilously close to getting beaten by Fox & Friends. zeteo.com/p/mamdani-de...

Since taking over CBS News last fall, Weiss has actively shifted the network to the right in an apparent effort to capture some of the conservative audience that regularly watches Fox. At the same time, she wants to appeal to the supposed “70% of the audience that identifies themselves as center-left to center-right,” as her boss David Ellison asserted after he purchased her anti-woke blog The Free Press. The problem is that her strategy appears to be driving an increasing number of CBS News’s core audience away while failing to attract any of Fox’s viewers. In fact, according to Nielsen data obtained by Zeteo, the news network’s weekday offerings are in danger of getting passed by Murdoch’s cable news programs head-to-head. During July, ‘CBS Mornings’ averaged just 1.623 million total viewers per day, compared to the 1.436 million that ‘Fox & Friends’ pulled in for the month. The gap between the shows, now at 13%, has narrowed considerably. When Weiss became the head of the network, ‘CBS Mornings’ held a 26% advantage over Fox’s morning program. July was the lowest-rated month in ‘CBS Mornings’ history. And while the summer months typically bring lower ratings for news shows, the gap between ‘CBS Mornings’ and ‘Fox & Friends’ is tighter than it was last July – when the CBS show held a 23% advantage. Additionally, ‘CBS Evening News’ is on track for its worst month since Weiss installed Tony Dokoupil as its anchor, averaging just 3.814 million total viewers a night. It is also the fourth consecutive month that the program has attracted fewer than 4 million viewers. When reached for comment, a CBS News spokesperson shared a Paramount press release boasting that ‘CBS Evening News’ was narrowly up 2% in total viewers compared to last year, which was the program’s worst July in history.
JM Rieger@riegerreport.bsky.social · 7d ago

On Monday — 553 days into his second term — Trump again blamed Biden for high prices, despite repeatedly promising to lower prices on Day One. I dug into the archives to see how Trump's rhetoric compared with federal economic data in a new supercut for @ms.now.