chrislehmann
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DC bureau chief, The Nation. Former EIC, The Baffler and the New Republic. Powertown flaneur
Trump's paranoid SCOTUS tantrum: my latest for
@thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Trump's Attack on the Supreme Court Was Unhinged Even for Him
The president went on a wild rant alleging that the justices who struck down his tariffs were part of a vast global conspiracy to destroy him.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-supreme-court-tariff-conspiracy/
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Tfw the Republican Party's leadership caste is shamed by [checks notes] the King of England
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Starting to rethink my across-the-board opposition to this technology
www.slowboring.com/p/ai-progres...
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A.I. progress is giving me writer’s block
It’s hard to write good articles when you have no idea if everything is about to change.
https://www.slowboring.com/p/ai-progress-is-giving-me-writers
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CBS's newest Colbert fiasco: my latest for
@thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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CBS Surrenders to Trump
CBS tried to bury an interview critical of Trump. Stephen Colbert made it an indictment of the administration’s assaults on the First Amendment.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/cbs-stephen-colbert-equal-time-doctrine-bari-weiss/
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Emma Berquist
7 days ago
medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday
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Philip Bump
11 days ago
Shot, and one-hell-of-a-chaser.
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The managing-decline phase of MAGA: my latest for
@thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
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Don’t Let Trump Fool You. The Economy Is Bad, And He Is to Blame.
The Trump administration’s efforts to distract from the bad economy just divert attention from one dumpster fire to another.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/trump-economy-jobs-report/
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The vigilante meme of Minneapolis: my latest for
@thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Racist Lie Behind ICE’s Mission in Minneapolis
It was never about straightforward enforcement of immigration law.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ice-fraud-somali-minneapolis/
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Tim Onion
13 days ago
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
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My latest set of podcast lamentations, expertly curated by
@matthew.flux.community
, below:
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Samantha Burns
18 days ago
haha holy shit
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Jeff Bezos, journalistic supervillain: my latest for
@thenation.com
thenation.com/article/society/washington-post-layoffs-analysis-jeff-bezos/?nc=1
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Jeff Bezos’s Destruction of “The Washington Post” Is a Disgraceful Plutocratic Crime
It turns out that democracy doesn’t die in darkness at all—it succumbs to repeated group muggings at the hands of the monied power elite.
https://thenation.com/article/society/washington-post-layoffs-analysis-jeff-bezos/?nc=1
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Jack Mirkinson
19 days ago
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on
@thenation.com
, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read!
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/a-day-for-gaza-intro-explainer/
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John Nichols
19 days ago
A DAY FOR GAZA The Nation, as part of its ongoing commitment to cover Gaza, devotes its entire Feb. 3 website to writers, photographers, thinkers who are in or from Gaza. “Collectively, the pieces embody an enduring affirmation of Gaza’s refusal, in the face of the world’s neglect, to be erased.”
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A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/a-day-for-gaza-intro-explainer/
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Jacob Silverman
20 days ago
The GILDED RAGE audiobook, which I narrated, is on Spotify, along with Audible, Libby, and other platforms.
open.spotify.com/show/6brLAHE...
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Gilded Rage
https://open.spotify.com/show/6brLAHENYgUCgmSd0WNNLp?si=a461da07304b4baf
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Elizabeth Spiers
20 days ago
Some brave journalists go to war zones and get shot at. I went to the Melania movie, and would probably opt for being shot at over having to sit through it again
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Melania at the Multiplex
Packaging a $75 million bribe from Jeff Bezos as a vapid, content-challenged biopic.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/melania-trump-brett-ratner-jeff-bezos/
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Normal health tips in a serenely functioning democracy
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22 days ago
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Lindsey Graham again doing heroic work in reminding us all that the US Senate should be abolished.
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23 days ago
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Solomon
23 days ago
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
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Waiting patiently for all the signatories of the Harper's Letter to rally to Don Lemon's defense
23 days ago
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Bobo takes bullshit job: my latest for
@thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Smug and Vacuous David Brooks Is Perfect for “The Atlantic”
The former New York Times columnist is a one-man cottage industry of lazy cultural stereotyping.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/david-brooks-atlantic-smug-ponderous/
23 days ago
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Time for Dems to get vertebrate: my latest for
@thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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This Is the Perfect Moment for Democrats to Grow a Spine
After the murder of Alex Pretti by federal agents, the least national Democrats can do is dismantle ICE.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-immigration-policy-ice/
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Mary Joy
28 days ago
GOP runs BS investigations of Benghazi, servers, Hunter's laptop, etc. Dems confront the most serious scandals in postwar era and they're: "seems like a lot of work."
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Mark Harris
28 days ago
This is from the NYT masthead editorial about the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The highlighted line invalidates not just the editorial, but the very idea of newspaper editorials crafted by the consensus of a board. Better to publish nothing at all than to publish a line like this.
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Too Big to Fail
28 days ago
Literally EVERYTHING else aside: Officers involved in shootings - even shootings that everybody agrees were justified - always take time off to emotionally process their experience, go to therapy, process it. Sending somebody right back out says "this is an everyday part of your job, expect it."
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Really looking forward to the plague of frogs at the next JD Vance press conference.
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28 days ago
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Asawin Suebsaeng
28 days ago
Do you know how hard this is to do
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS
29 days ago
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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Jacqueline Sweet
29 days ago
Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
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Jay Willis
29 days ago
I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
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The Davos populist: my latest for
@thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Trump Brings His Phony Populism to Davos
Nothing says "I care about working people" like a speech to an audience of billionaires at an exclusive Swiss ski resort.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-davos-speech/
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Jacob Silverman
about 1 month ago
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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One Year Into Trump 2.0, Elon Musk Is Still Poised to Be Kingmaker
The neofascist tech oligarch was cast out of Trump’s inner circle, but his money and influence are still omnipresent.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/elon-musk-donald-trump-maga/#
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The real Donroe doctrine: give me gilded baubles, or I'll randomly invade a place
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Linked Greenland Push to Nobel Prize Snub, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/19/us/trump-news?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20260119&instance_id=169530&nl=breaking-news®i_id=59619384&segment_id=213913&user_id=f38b6c9dd98551aea60e7df5daf174a0
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For all the savvy Dem consultant types insisting that the response to Renee Good's murder should be a call for more ICE training: Shooter Jonathan Ross WAS A FIREARMS TRAINER
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It's not a game, you fucking imbeciles
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Among other things, the whole point of reporting is to convey information to people who were not in the room.
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Someone else who didn't read the Searchlight Institute memo
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Kashana
about 1 month ago
“As a reasonable centrist, I think the paramilitary death squads need better training.”
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Me too, as of today
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about 1 month ago
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The Onion
about 1 month ago
DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars
https://theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchlist-of-mothers-driving-cars/
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This vile quisling should just stick to saying he doesn't follow the news.
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about 2 months ago
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Periodic reminder that Trump first came to political prominence by emblazoning racist lies about the Central Park 5 in New York City papers. Time is a flat circle.
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Dems dither over Venezuela: my latest for
@thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Democrats Are Doing What They Do Best on Venezuela: Nothing
Donald Trump staged an illegal coup. Chuck Schumer’s response? Empty words and meaningless parliamentary maneuvers.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-venezuela-schumer-trump/
about 2 months ago
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Harper’s Magazine
about 2 months ago
“This backward-spooling collapse into strongman interventionism is the result of Congress’s baseline failure to shield its own constitutional powers.”
@chrislehmann.bsky.social
on the War Powers Act and the case for impeachment.
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The Decisive Moment, by Chris Lehmann
Why Congress must impeach Trump
https://buff.ly/lIvl6Qi
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Quel merde
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about 2 months ago
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Fuck you and the contrarian take you rode in on.
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Elizabeth Spiers
2 months ago
I wrote about Bari Weiss doing the hard work of defending the rich and powerful
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Bari Weiss's Counter-Journalistic Crusade Targets "60 Minutes"
The new editor-in-chief at CBS News has shown she's not merely stupendously unqualified--she's ideologically opposed to the practice of good journalism.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bari-weisss-60-minutes-cbs-skydance/
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Just leaving this here:
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