Matt Flegenheimer
@mattfleg
Reporter, @nytimes. ''Rob Thomas, circa 1998''-@NYTFridge
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"The swamp will not defeat him," Anthony Scaramucci once said, third-personally.
"Your ego is always talking to you," he now says, second-personally.
How the Mooch found favo(u)r, 11 days and 9 years later, as a Trump-explaining UK podcast guy.
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The (Very) Manhattan Moms Whose Sons Are Running for Congress
@mattfleg
So this is how it feels.
A SENSE OF WHERE FLEG IS
(watching game one with dollar bill)
via @mattfleg
Strange things are happening.
“If I’m the story of the World Cup,” Andrew Giuliani said, “then the World Cup has not gone well.”
The story of Andrew Giuliani:
"My father dropped dead. His headline lives on." The great Bill Brink on the keys!
“Andrew M. Cuomo, tieless but never casual…”
With Cuomo on the ropes, read @mattfleg on the scion who has never really changed and who is making a big bet that the New York he ruled for so long has not either
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Over the moon to that my Oz the Mentalist profile is today's "Great Read" in @nytimes! Gift link:
that and many other details about the mayoral candidate's life as a teenager in this carefully observed piece by @mattfleg and @boreskes
"I’m going to do me," Eric Adams said.
He kept that promise.
The Wary, Warming, Wildly Consequential Alliance of Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani
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“I don’t think I’m qualified to talk about politics,” Dr. Phil told me. And so, he insisted, he really hadn’t.
Stephen A. Smith would like to be Joe Rogan and things of that nature.
“I never count money,” Don King told me. “If you can count your money, you ain’t got none.”
The decades-long, highly explicable, “only-in-America(n)” friendship of two men who never especially changed:
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"He was born," Mike Tyson told us, "in the perfect time."
NYT dive (w/ the great @Bernstein) on Dana White, his value to Trump (and vice versa) and his high perch in the cage-match politics era:
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.@danawhite is the PT Barnum of people choking each other into submission, if PT Barnum also hawked a line of canned whiskey & cola & bet $100k/blackjack hand.
@mattfleg & @Bernstein on the cultural, political & business influence of the @ufc president.
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Excited to announce "I Don't Want to Go Home," my oral history of @thestonepony, is available for pre-order!
With 100s of interviews, from @Springsteen, @stevieVanZandt and @asburyjukes to @gaslightanthem, the @jonasbrothers & more.
Out in early June!
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