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Justin Slaughter

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Justin Slaughter

@JBSDC

VP, Regulatory Affairs @paradigm. Prev. Senior Adviser @secgov & Chief Policy Adviser @cftc. Alum of @NRDems, & @SenMarkey. Carbon-based.

Maryland, USA

Joined October 2008

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Justin Slaughter
@JBSDC
Mar 12
Good Thursday morning. I’m happy to announce the release of Paradigm’s first poll for this year & our first on prediction markets. I’ll cut to the chase. Over a third of American voters have already used prediction markets, either to put money on them or to browse them for info.
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Justin Slaughter
@JBSDC
Oct 19, 2025
They found the crown of France lying in a gutter.
Masterpieces of France
@FrenchArt_
Oct 19, 2025
The crown of Empress Eugénie (1826–1920), stolen earlier today, has been found broken outside the Louvre Museum.
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Justin Slaughter
@JBSDC
Feb 4, 2025
The vast bulk of people in the career government bureaucracy don’t actually want to work in the private sector. This is one thing that folks outside of the government frequently don’t get. They’re choosing lower pay for consistency of work and a pension.
Jim VandeHei
@JimVandeHei
Feb 4, 2025
🚨🚨Scoop: 20,000 federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says axios.com/2025/02/04/tru…
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Justin Slaughter
@JBSDC
Oct 25, 2024
I too am sad the Biden Admin’s theory that full employment, industrial policy, & competition policy would be super popular and bring back working class voters we lost to Trump was wrong. But it seems clear the issue is it was never economic anxiety. We all just read 2016 wrong.
Matt Stoller
@matthewstoller
Oct 25, 2024
The person at fault for Harris's struggles is Barack Obama. He's the one who destroyed the credibility of the Democratic Party, and made it impossible to talk positively about anything we've done.
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Justin Slaughter
@JBSDC
Apr 18, 2023
Chair Gensler just testified that he taught multiple courses on crypto but has never owned or used it. How can you teach a course about something you've never owned or used? @MIT
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Justin Slaughter
@JBSDC
Jul 6, 2024
A good rule of thumb: if someone ever tells you that they’re the only person on the planet who can lead a country or an organization, that’s a sign their judgment has become clouded and they shouldn’t be in charge.
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Justin Slaughter
@JBSDC
May 22, 2025
To state the obvious, if just one of the three safe blue seats vacant due to Democratic member deaths had a current member in it, the reconciliation bill would have failed.
Jake Sherman
@JakeSherman
May 22, 2025
🚨THE HOUSE has passed the Republican reconciliation package. The vote was 215-214-1. WARREN DAVIDSON and THOMAS MASSIE are nos, along with every Democrat. HFC Chair ANDY HARRIS voted present. This is a big, big win for Speaker MIKE JOHNSON. And HAKEEM JEFFRIES says this is
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Justin Slaughter
@JBSDC
Nov 8, 2024
Harris beat the spread and probably by being nominee prevented a 1980 style loss for the party. Biden and his team and allies are the guilty folks.
YouGov America
@YouGovAmerica
Nov 8, 2024
NEW Economist/YouGov Poll, Nov. 6-7 (post-election) If in the election for president this year the Democratic nominee was Joe Biden and the Republican nominee was Donald Trump, would registered voters have voted for... Donald Trump 49% Joe Biden 42% d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econ…
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Justin Slaughter
@JBSDC
Nov 6, 2024
From a former Biden WH staffer: “No Dems are going to fight with crypto to the death anymore. We have too many other things to worry about and crypto clearly has more staying power than we thought.”
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Justin Slaughter
@JBSDC
May 3, 2025
The memes are fun, but the big over performance of Labor without a leadership spill means left parties globally, and especially the Democrats here, should start aggressively studying what the Labor campaign did right. This was the most successful incumbent election since Covid.
Matt Popovich
@mpopv
May 3, 2025
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Justin Slaughter
@JBSDC
Nov 6, 2024
If you’re blaming Democrats defeat primarily on misinformation or disinformation, just stop what you’re doing and consider logging off for a few days. This wasn’t a loss on comms or messaging. This was voters hating the outcome of our last four years of governance.
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Justin Slaughter
@JBSDC
Jun 28, 2024
There’s been lots of news in the last 24 hours, but it’s possible that the most consequential event amidst all this will be the Supreme Court’s decision in a case known as Loper Bright. Basically, it will trigger a sea change in all regulations. Thread.
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Justin Slaughter
@JBSDC
Jan 11, 2025
We need some glasnost on why the Walz pick proved to be so bad, on the level of Palin 2008 in terms of being totally counterproductive at appealing to the voters targeted by the pick: young men. To start, Walz wasn’t an ideal that men aspire to. We don’t want to be Phil Dunphy.
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Justin Slaughter
@JBSDC
Nov 18, 2024
It’s kind of shocking VP Harris kept things to a 2004 style loss and not a 1980 style catastrophe. With these kinds of numbers, Pres. Trump should’ve won the popular vote by 5-8, won some non-swing states, and gotten the GOP another 3-5 Senate seats & 25-30 more House seats.
Will Jordan
@williamjordann
Nov 18, 2024
Trump job approval, 2024 ("when he was president") and 2020 in AP VoteCast National: +5 (-6) AZ: +3 (-8) GA: +13 (-2) MI: +2 (-4) NC: +9 (+4) NV: +3 (0) PA: +8 (-2) WI: +6 (-2)
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