@mattlaslo.bsky.social
Veteran congressional reporter (from VICE to WIRED), political comms professor, public speaker, etc. Founder: AskaPol.com & TheLCB.com
If at first you don’t succeed…triple down with air strikes? 🧐
05.12.2025 21:49 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW EXCLUSIVE:
The war on drugs has “not been successful,” Sen. Roger Marshall tells @mattlaslo.bsky.social — but he supports bombing drug cartels in Caribbean anyway.
LISTEN YOURSELF — interactive political journalism — at Ask a Pol Politics on Substack www.askapolpolitics.com/p/sen-marsha...
INBOX:
“We are deeply concerned that your agencies are making the banking system more fragile, at the exact moment you should be strengthening it,” Senators @ewarren & @SenJackReed write to banking regulators.
PDF of letter: www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
WASHINGTON — To end the longest government shutdown in American history, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators came together and agreed to kick the can.
The can seems to have hit a brick wall…
Read my entire feature here: www.msn.com/en-au/news/o...
NEW:
'Just want to kill it': Dems say Trump absence from health care talks shows true GOP aim
My latest is live: www.msn.com/en-au/news/o...
On cue, @cnn promotes Pentagon’s latest propaganda…
05.12.2025 00:31 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Congress is done for the week.
It’s not even 5. And it’s Thursday!!!
“Today’s arrest of the alleged DC pipe bomber is a momentous day for the American public, for the FBI, JTTF and our partners, the Capitol Police, Metropolitan Police Department and ATF,” assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington field office Darren Cox says.
04.12.2025 18:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0NEW EXCLUSIVE:
“It’s painful,” Speaker @nancypelosi.bsky.social remembers Charlie Kirk joking about husband’s attack. “I’m steel, but my grandchildren, my children are not steel.“
Interactive political journalism — Ask a Pol Politics at Substack (for now) www.askapolpolitics.com/p/charlie-ki...
Epstein saga far from over…
23.11.2025 02:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW EXCLUSIVE:
Rep. @beccabalintvt.bsky.social, Democrats and survivors “very worried” Trump buries Epstein files he signed into law this week.
Interactive political journalism — full exchange at Ask a Pol Politics on Substack www.askapolpolitics.com/p/balint-ver...
Wait. Trump meets with a Democratic Socialist in the White House and then MTG resigns!?! Coincidence?
Someone needs to check on America’s space lasers…
Why’s the @washingtonpost.com’s Coast Guard swastika scoop on page 12 today?
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“I’ve got this new addiction…” I overheard a GOP leader tell a committee Chair…
…he then told him about a new game on his phone.
“I thought you were gonna say cocaine,” I interjected.
They almost fell over laughing.
“The White House says the President does not want to execute members of Congress,” was just said on @npr.org
21.11.2025 13:05 — 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 6 📌 4
HOLY SH*T:
I made the (e)dictionary!
Guess I’m above average when it comes to using “clampdown” in a sentence. Watch out now.
🙇♂️ @merriamwebster6.bsky.social www.merriam-webster.com/sentences/cl...
Do small fires “erupt”?
20.11.2025 23:10 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Anyone know why all these firetrucks and other first responders are outside House side of the Capitol right now?
20.11.2025 22:36 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 1PSA: After starting their Washington work week Tuesday evening, US Senators are now officially on their Thanksgiving break.
It’s not even 5pm on Thursday…
And an SEC investigation
15.11.2025 19:35 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Just updated CV…it’s a lot.
But only part of it I geek out over are academic journals that, say, cite my data privacy and gun control work for @wired.com, criminal justice pieces for @vicenews.bsky.social, overdose/fentanyl features in @rollingstone.com or Baltimore riot coverage for @npr.org, etc
5 bucks says IRS audits MTG
15.11.2025 15:25 — 👍 29 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 1
Awesome! Hope more regions follow suit:
A “win-win” partnership brings a surge of reporting firepower to hyperlocal news outlets around Boston, by @sarahscire.bsky.social @niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/a-wi...
*and haven’t been for more than a month now
09.11.2025 20:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Don’t forget, House Republicans aren’t in Washington.
09.11.2025 20:39 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0so much wrong going on here
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Happy Friday night from the @washingtonpost.com
08.11.2025 01:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Of course there’s a “mobile shredding” truck in Washington.
Spotted a couple blocks from Trump’s White House. Wonder if they shred phones…
Old enough to remember Sen. @elissaslotkin.bsky.social brushing congressional press corps aside earlier today…refusing to entertain our questions…before finding respite in infotainment!?!
Gross.
Congressional reporters read; cable anchors tweet on X.
Be. Better.
- Prof. Laslo
“No, no, that was last week,” Sen. Gillibrand tells me of reports crypto reform has found itself mired in partisan gridlock. “This week we’re back on track.”
Instill any crypto confidence in you?
