Scott Lemieux
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What used to be is gone and what ought to be ought not to be so hard. Tweets speak for myself only.
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Mike Tanier
about 3 hours ago
There's making a deal with the devil. And then there's going back to the devil every year and saying, "Hey, can you give me some free wings and nachos? In return, I'll let you jam hot pokers down all my orifices for an extra 5 million years."
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Browns restructure Deshaun Watson’s contract again, add a lot of salary cap space
The Cleveland Browns have even more salary cap space as Deshaun Watson’s contract is once again restructured
https://www.dawgsbynature.com/cleveland-browns-news/119066/browns-restructure-deshaun-watsons-contract-salary-cap-space
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This is so good:
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The rantings of a demented grandpa should be quite a bit more disturbing if he happens to be president of the United States
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The rantings of a demented grandpa should be quite a bit more disturbing if he happens to be president of the United States - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Posted early this morning: I’m sure Bret Stephens and Ross Douthat can turn this utterly incoherent screeching into a masterful if audacious Plan ™, with the help of a little Straussian hermeneutics a...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/the-rantings-of-a-demented-grandpa-should-be-quite-a-bit-more-disturbing-if-he-happens-to-be-president-of-the-united-states
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Greg Sargent
about 4 hours ago
Support for the Iran war is at an abysmal 38%, per G. Elliott Morris's average of polls. That's the lowest initial support for a war in memory. Also, CNN finds 59% don't trust Trump to make right decisions with force in Iran. There's no rally-around-flag effect. 4/
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Diane Ademu-John
about 22 hours ago
“…and just like that, the DoD was back…”
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The REAL Russiagate was Russia engaging in extensive and material ratufcking of the 2016 elections, and getting a phenomenally high return on its investment
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Russia first - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Russia is providing intelligence about American militray assets to Iran: Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that ano...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/russia-first
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Tim Onion
about 18 hours ago
He's yelling at the dumbass Fox News guy. Definitely starting to feel the heat. Will it matter? Who knows, but he's not comfy right now and that makes me feel good.
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julie khaner
about 15 hours ago
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Another round of congratulations to the voters who were upset about inflation in an otherwise robust economy and so decided to put Donnie Stagflation in the White House:
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Peace, prosperity, these are the demons you must slay if you wish to own the libs - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Another round of congratulations to the voters who were upset about inflation in an otherwise robust economy and so decided to put Donnie Stagflation in the White House: The Federal Reserve’s biggest ...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/peace-prosperity-these-are-the-demons-you-must-slay-if-you-wish-to-own-the-libs
about 19 hours ago
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norbizness
about 20 hours ago
Apparently the legal justification cited by a DOJ attorney (whose training includes catching an episode of Matlock at the bar with the sound off) for not paying off our ever-rising tariff refund is that the American people and companies are mooks and they don't pay mooks.
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Daniel Drezner
about 20 hours ago
"Just 36% approve of how Trump is handling Iran, and a majority (55%) thinks Iran either represents a minor threat or no threat at all to the United States."
www.npr.org/2026/03/06/n...
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Poll: A majority of Americans opposes U.S. military action in Iran
Most Americans disapprove of President Trump's handling of Iran, and a majority sees Iran as either only a minor threat or no threat at all, an NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/06/nx-s1-5737627/iran-us-military-poll-trump-approval
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frovo
7 days ago
ME: pack a bag, we’re flying to kansas MY WAYWARD SON: what kind of bag
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"Why do all these slurs keep showing up in my group chat?"
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about 20 hours ago
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Kashana
about 21 hours ago
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
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Lester Burnham
2 days ago
BREAKING: U.S. Central Command is now saying internally that this war against Iran is likely to last through September, per POLITICO
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The polity decided to put Donnie from Queens — the loud-mouthed moron at the end of the bar, who thinks we should just nuke the ragheads, and also the Jets should trade a fourth-round draft pick for Josh Allen — in the Oval Office, and this is the result
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/trum...
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Trump demands unconditional surrender in what is not a war, legally speaking - Lawyers, Guns & Money
A friend remarks that if you can demand unconditional surrender in what isn’t a war, you have achieved Buddha nature: “MIDDLE EASTMarch 6, 2026 3:53 AM UTCAfter a week of war, Trump demands Iran’s ‘un...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/trump-demands-unconditional-surrender-in-what-is-not-a-war-legally-speaking
about 21 hours ago
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Alejandra Caraballo
1 day ago
High gas prices, war in the middle east, unpopular president, soaring unemployment. Welcome back second term Bush administration.
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Justin Wolfers
1 day ago
The U.S. economy has lost jobs since "Liberation Day."
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Dave Weigel
1 day ago
Three kinds of Supporting Actress Oscar wins: - big star who they want to give a Best Actress award to eventually - older actress who never got the recognition people think she deserved - non-white actress who never gets another good role
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Charles Я. Davis
1 day ago
Expert analysis indicates that the elementary school in Minab, Iran, was hit by the US military with "picture perfect" targeted strikes.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
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Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/world/middleeast/iran-school-us-strikes-naval-base.html
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Dr. Katherine Haenschen
1 day ago
“When you think about it, we weren’t trying to make history or trying to rewrite history. We were responding to the problems of the particular time.” What a life! Rest in power.
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Adam S. Rust
1 day ago
My pitch for Casablanca always is "It's good, it's fun, it's movies. Liking movies and not liking Casablanca is an impossibility. You are guaranteed a good time." I have never had anyone disagree after they watch it.
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actioncookbook
3 days ago
"a guy who believes in Trump's war also believes that being interviewed by Isaac Chotiner will go well for him" is in and of itself a data point against the war
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PMC Vanguardist
1 day ago
"God has a plan for all of us" is a pretty astonishing thing to say when someone set herself on fire because of you.
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America First (TM)
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ProPublica
1 day ago
The FDA webpage had a stark warning: Some purported autism “cures” or treatments, including chlorine dioxide and raw camel milk, are dangerous and make misleading claims. Now, under RFK Jr.’s leadership, that advisory is gone.
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Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments
The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-fda-removes-autism-treatments-warning?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1772769608&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Casualties of please-do-not-call-this-a-war
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Casualties of please-do-not-call-this-a-war - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Whether or not you want to call this war a war, it is certainly hell: The Feb. 28 strike that hit an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab is the deadliest known episode of civilian ...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/casualties-of-please-do-not-call-this-a-war
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Lee Drutman
2 days ago
Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)
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Travis
2 days ago
good Lord what is happening in there
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Don't mention the war
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Don't mention the war - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Party of Endless War os trying to deny its status through the sheer power of intelligence-insulting euphemism: When President Trump gave reporters a brief update this week on the accelerating bomb...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/dont-mention-the-war-3
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Noem to be replaced by someone similarly evil, notably stupider:
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Noem is apparently being fired and is set to be replaced by Markwayne Mullin - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Who achieves the remarkable status of “dumb by the standards of recent Oklahoma senators.” I’m guessing what happened here is that Trump was fed up with Noem, but somebody convinced him to do this fau...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/noem-is-apparently-fired-and-being-replaced-by-markwayne-mullin
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Jill Business Waffles Dilts
2 days ago
I gather that everyone here is 100% certain Donald Trump is a misogynist. So who here actually knew that his wife is a woman? And how does that influence your certainty?
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Judd Legum
2 days ago
1. FACT: The Trump administration started a war in the Middle East with NO PLAN WHATSOEVER to ensure the safety of the hundreds of thousands of American citizens in the region.
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Hundreds of thousands of Americans stranded in a war zone
Americans in 14 countries were not advised to evacuate until three days after the Trump administration began major combat operations in Iran. By that time, much of the region’s airspace and most…
https://popular.info/p/hundreds-of-thousands-of-americans
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Philip Bump
2 days ago
Will Texas turn blue in November? Well [takes a long drag off of a joint] what does “blue” even *mean*, man?
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Opinion | Red v. blue is too simplistic — America is mostly made up of purplish states
Philip Bump: Election results in Texas and North Carolina have Democrats dreaming big about “turning” red states blue.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/texas-north-carolina-primary-elections-red-blue-state
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Jeremy Wallace
2 days ago
The war is a distraction from the other wars.
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James Downie
3 days ago
It rules that the biggest name in conspiracy mongering about propaganda and shadowy elites is the son of the former head of Voice of America, tried to join the CIA, and is on the record in multiple legal cases admitting that his viewers shouldn't trust him.
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Chris Geidner
3 days ago
And, the story of the mystery man.
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If one accepts this premise, I have very bad news about podcasting, punditry, and academia
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Mehdi Hasan
3 days ago
“Bari Weiss Is Going Full ‘Propaganda-Palooza’ With the Iran War” Read our media columnist Justin Baragona’s latest scoops from inside pro-Israel, pro-war CBS News:
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Bari Weiss Is Going Full ‘Propaganda-Palooza’ With the Iran War
The CBS News war coverage is going exactly as we thought it would. Plus, Gayle King goes 'all in' on Weiss, while CNN commentator Scott Jennings sucks up to her.
https://zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss-cbs-iran-war-dukoupil
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Weegar will be better with Utah than he's played this year but this is still really tidy work by Conroy
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This is, I swear, an actual thing that Tom Cotton tweeted
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Asawin Suebsaeng
3 days ago
the ceiling
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Looks like it's time for another "but isn't making America Healthy Again a good idea in principle?" sanewasher in the Atlantic
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The reason that that USA Box Wine wasn’t able to “move forward” with the case is that the claim that there’s something even arguably illegal about a president using an autopen is barking insanity
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An aura of systematic mendacity con't - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Justice Department, after calls by President Trump to investigate former President Joseph R. Biden Jr., scrutinized whether Mr. Biden and his aides broke the law in using the autopen to sign presi...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/an-aura-of-systematic-mendacity-cont
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes
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Even the losers get lucky sometimes - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Here’s a bit of Nazi war porn from lifelong catastrophic fuckup who failed upward Pete Hegseth: Flying over their capital. Death and destruction from the sky all day long. We’re playing for keeps. Our...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/even-the-losers-get-lucky-sometimes
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The one silver lining to the Ellisons trying to make even more of the media regime-aligned is that Netflix is almost certainly correct that this is a horrible business deal the Ellisons are going to take a massive bath on
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Aaron Rupar
3 days ago
Karoline Leavitt says American boots on the ground in Iran are "on the table"
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“Trump will OUTFLANK the libs” is a way for a certain type of pundit/influencer to demonstrate Savvy even though after all these years it’s batting .000 after many, many swings
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Micah
4 days ago
yeah the damage a single bad billionaire can do wildly outstrips any positive impact even a theoretically ideal billionaire can have more, I think that the kind of person you need to be to become a billionaire tends to select for the worst outcomes in all but the rarest of cases
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Unless you consider Congress like the playoffs HEY-YO
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