Matthew Voss

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Except for the damage done by unhinged ranting and threats to seize the territory of a loyal friend and ally just to get a reaffirmation of the status quo against dangers that weren't actually happening, sure, I guess it's a big improvement over "going to war against NATO"

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

This is, in fact, not a big deal, and it is no different from the situation we’ve always had, except our allies now think we’re led by a lunatic

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

“Trump Derangement Syndrome” is a fun little concept.

There absolutely are normal Trump decisions that make people madder bc they dislike him so much. But if you’d said two years ago, “Trump will threaten to bulldoze the Kennedy Center unless his name is on it,” you’d have been hospitalized for late stage TDS.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

The President has decided that in order to make ground beef cheaper, he will cut tariffs on ground beef. And I'm wondering if he could generalize from this one product to other products, and perhaps concede that tariffs raise prices on American consumers.

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

Two senators released a January 2021 text from Anthony Fauci this week, in which he told colleagues that fever after the second vaccine dose could theoretically be associated with miscarriage in the first trimester. The text is circulating as evidence that covid vaccines cause miscarriage. This question was studied extensively in the years that followed, and the results deserve to circulate at least as widely as the text.
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[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Trump released documents that confirm Russia tried to interfere in the 2020 election to hurt Biden. It says Russia tried to "orchestrate a high-profile corruption scandal" and push narratives about "voter fraud resulting from mail-in balloting"

[Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot]

In his much-anticipated speech, Trump made quite a few allegations about elections. Let's break down some of them here...

[Jerusalem @JerusalemDemsas]

Elon Musk bragged about feeding USAID into the "wood chipper" but now he pretends that whatever happens as a result isn't his fault.

If DOGE had saved the federal government billions of dollars, you can be sure he would be taking credit for that.

But somehow he's not responsible for the consequences of eliminating these programs?

Today at @TheArgumentMag we published a thorough explanation for why we should hold @elonmusk responsible for the deaths of *at best* 700,000 people.

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[Matthew Voss @voss_matthew]

By the way, even Grok notes that surgical masks were still beneficial during the pandemic.

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[Matthew Voss @voss_matthew]

In the 3 months following this initial Sand post, Iowa Covid cases increased ~10x, and were followed up by Iowa's highest death counts of the pandemic. Governor Reynolds pushed off addressing the increase until after the election, when the case count had already peaked.

[Zach Lahn @ZachLahn]

Thinking this statement could be true is evidence of being completely unfit for leadership.

Widely available pre-Covid RCT studies were very clear: surgical masks do not to protect from airborne viral particles.

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

Trump has claimed an Iran deal was right around the corner for more than two months now.

No fewer than 37 times, he's indicated a deal was imminent or that Iran was desperate for one.

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[Matthew Voss @voss_matthew]

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[Matthew Voss @voss_matthew]

Remember, Elon Musk claimed that DOGE would cut the deficit by $1 trillion by October 2025 by eliminating waste and fraud (and earlier, claimed that DOGE would cut it by $2 trillion).

[Jennifer Jacobs @JenniferJJacobs]

"What I've seen, what I've heard, is that we could balance the federal budget if the only dollars that went out of the Treasury went to individuals who were properly, lawfully, correctly eligible to receive them," White House's @StephenM says at anti-fraud meeting with @VP.

[Matthew Voss @voss_matthew]

We don't really know for sure how much DOGE cut, because of how many errors their own cost-cutting trackers contained.

But we do know that it was not close to their initial goals, and we know that federal spending in Trump's first year was higher than it was in Biden's last.

[Richard Deitsch @richarddeitsch]

President Obama tells Reuters in a phone call just now that he is "seriously considering making Chile the 51st US state" adding that there is trillions of lithium there and that "Chile loves Obama."

Having been alive for more than eight years, I know how that paragraph would have played in 2013. And it tells you a lot about the U.S. now.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Just a reminder that DOGE failed at every possible level:

* At the micro level, they misread, misled and straight up lied about many of the 'savings'. They'd announce '500m saved!' and it would be some contract where the money was 98% already spent and already wasn't being renewed.
* At the macro level, they didn't impact spending at all. The government spent more in 2025 than 2024.
* At the institutional level, they didn't even convince the GOP that deficits are a problem worth caring about. The GOP only signature bill in 2025 exploded the deficit by trillions of dollars.
* At a personal level, Elon got run out of town with his tail between his legs. The most notable public facts about the Cracked Coders are that one of them was a mini-Hitler, one was called 'big balls', and none of them bothered to learn how the government actually works before they set it on fire.

They gutted a bunch of important institutions, fired whole departments at random, decimated medical research funding, killed millions of people dependent on USAID, and still failed at every possible level.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

On the Strait of Hormuz we've gone from:

1. Don't need help
2. We need help
3. Why aren't folks helping?
4. Helps on the way
5. Not telling you who is helping
6. Helps not actually on the way but we don't need it anyway
7. We may just abandon it and leave it to everyone else

[Kathryn Watson @kathrynw5]

"I always thought he was weak on security," Trump says of the person he put in charge and subsequently left in charge of security

[Matthew Voss @voss_matthew]

@rossdgers17 @Clones007 Idk what would happen in a rematch, but worth noting that it was Momcilovic's fourth game this year with 8 threes and 14th with 20+ points. But it was Dell'Orso's first game this season with more than four threes and just his fourth with 20+ points.