Matt Welch
@MattWelch
Editor at large, @Reason. Co-conspirator, @wethefifth (http://wethefifth.com). Writer, The View Level. Note spelling of last name.
If you loved the way NYC schools were run in 2019-21, you're gonna REALLY love Mayor Mamdani! reason.com/2025/07/10/the…
Never hire podcasters.
“Bongino has told colleagues that his association with the administration’s decision to keep the files private has eroded his credibility among the base of support that fueled his rise as a successful podcaster and media personality."
This umpire has been absolutely BRUTAL then goes on a power trip talking to the Angels dugout. Yikes.
As founder of Camper Van Beethoven and @TheBandCracker, @davidclowery helped define '80s and '90s indie music and alt-rock. For @reason, I spoke with him abt his epic new record (Fathers, Sons, and Brothers), what went wrong with @spotify and @pandoramusic, & life after irony.
Ozzy Osbourne as televangelist & moral crusader Reverend Aaron Gilstrom in Trick or Treat (1986) RIP Ozzy
"you have to understand that I am TERRIBLE businessman. I mean, I’m awful. I have had many opportunities over the years to supervise other people, edit them, organize them, etc. I have failed on every occasion when I had the opportunity to do this. I have made a good living…
Terrifying and extremely moving account from @FreshParsley of his family being swept away by the Guadalupe River. "My Family and the Flood: A Firsthand Account." texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…
A lot of people are suggesting this shows Hunter’s intelligence, but I can tell you: go into any trap house, and two‑thirds of crack addicts, when talking about drugs, no matter how messed up, how confused, all of a sound like Ivy League PhDs in chemistry, psychology, and…
Hunter Biden breaks down the difference between crack & cocaine and why crack is so addictive
“As someone who was an early critic of the Russiagate narrative, I can report that Gabbard did not get the goods.” - @EliLake
Even land acknowledgments are not nearly so straightforward as one might believe. In some cases they cloud history more than revealing it.
I was attending an event in my home town of St. Louis at Washington university. The speaker opened the event with something I had previously never heard; a land acknowledgment that we were standing on historic Osage land. Not far from there in the unaffiliated Washington state…
Back in 1987, I interviewed #OzzyOsbourne for the heavy metal mag 'Metallix: It'll Rock You To Shreds!' while he was promoting Randy Rhoads Tribute. I was stunned by what a nice and affable person he was and he talked about how much he loved @PaulMcCartney and the Beatles, among…
Ozzy Osbourne meeting his lifelong idol, Paul McCartney in 2001.
This is Jacob Misiorowski's 7th MLB start. He has thrown 28.2 innings. Among starting pitchers he ranks 4th in MLB in the pitch tracking era (2008-2025) in 101+ mph pitches in a career. Hunter Greene 141 Jacob deGrom 50 Justin Verlander 46 Jacob Misiorowski 39
📢When legacy media turned hostile to honest conversation, journalist @NancyRomm built something new. With a few friends, a tiny Chinatown apartment, and zero investors, she launched Paloma Media: a media company dedicated to truth, fun, and free speech.
Bill James, 2009: "Sometime between 2020 and 2030, Dick Allen will be elected to the Hall of Fame." web.archive.org/web/2009080603…
Hunter Biden walks free while this Iowa man serves 4 years for the same "crime." The two cases illustrate the haphazard impact of an arbitrary, constitutionally dubious gun law. reason.com/2025/07/21/hun…
UPS non-delivery update: Who needs you @ups! Who also had ripped my name and any identifying info from the package. And thank you Tyrus!