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Matt Wagner
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Literary agent specializing in how-to and reference @Fresh Books
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October 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
How is this a shock poll? He’s terrible for the economy and everyone knows it. www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...
SHOCK POLL: Majority Believe Trump Has Hurt Economy — Just 2 in 10 Say He’s Helped
A new Pew Research poll found that a majority of Americans believe that the effect of Trump's policies on the economy has been to make it worse.
www.mediaite.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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September 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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And just like that, $450 million of YOUR taxpayer dollars down the drain. All for this cruel spectacle that nobody asked for.

apnews.com/article/flor...
Top Florida official says 'Alligator Alcatraz' will likely be empty within days, email shows
A top Florida official says the controversial state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades will likely be empty in a matter of days, even as Republican Gov.
apnews.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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“On the one hand, a relatively small group of people will retain, and intentionally develop, the capacity for concentration and long-form reasoning. On the other, a larger general population will be effectively post-literate — with all the consequences this implies for cognitive clarity.”
Opinion | Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.
July 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.

Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care.

I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
May 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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I can’t believe the guy who attacked the Capitol would do this.
April 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Putting a 25% tariff on automobiles and then saying congestion pricing is a "tax on the working class" is actually so funny tbh
April 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Are you, like millions of Americans, looking to buy a Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Nissan, or Kia?

Trump is making it 25% MORE EXPENSIVE. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
March 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Imagine: your tax payments, which are likely crushing to make, will be used for all of the time the President of the United States wastes in the courts with his frivolous lawsuits IN YOUR NAME.
March 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.

It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.

They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.

I’m happy to invest and/or help
March 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.
December 19, 2024 at 10:22 PM
@ is the new egg
December 14, 2024 at 5:04 PM