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chrislehmann

@chrislehmann.bsky.social
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DC bureau chief, The Nation. Former EIC, The Baffler and the New Republic. Powertown flaneur

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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At long last, sir, have you . . . no fucking clue what sports team you're talking about?
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Trumpaganda phase of democratic decline: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
Trump Is Using Your Taxpayer Money to Pay for Illegal Election Propaganda
But as brazen and authoritarian as the provenance of these ad spots are, they seem likely to backfire.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One byproduct of letting your party devolve into a Ceasarian cult of personality: many of your standard bearers become really really bad at basic politics.
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 22/09/2026
Today is the paperback release, with a new afterword, of GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY. It's my look at the rise of the tech right, the 2024 election, and the bankrupt ideologies animating tech oligarchs. www.bloomsbury.com/us/gilded-ra...
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I wrote up Adam Jentleson's supermajority scam for the old crew at @thebaffler.com thebaffler.com/latest/stupo...
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Stupormajority | Chris Lehmann
In his new book, Adam Jentleson offers a blueprint for reviving the Democratic Party’s political fortunes. No one should follow it.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Let the White House press briefings die: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
Trump Wants to Keep Journalists Out of the White House. He Should Get His Wish.
The president has banned MS NOW, CNN, and Politico from attending press briefings. The rest of the media should respond with a boycott.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Saying it loud for the Democratic leaders in the room: AI IS A KITCHEN TABLE ISSUE (my latest for @thenation.com) www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
AI Is a Kitchen-Table Issue
And with the Trump administration encouraging unregulated growth in the industry, Democrats need to start acting like it.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
To paraphrase that Nixon functionary in All the President's Men: If you could bring down Ed Sheeran, that would be beautiful. www.rollingstone.com/product-reco...
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Thousands of Ed Sheeran Tickets Remain Unsold for Singer's Tour, With Prices Down to $65 Online
Ticketmaster still has seats to all remaining Loop Tour dates, while some resellers are listing Sheeran tickets for below face value. See the latest prices and offers here.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We've finally hit the epicenter of the rightwing case against AI regulation
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Real populists want greater ballot access; stop calling MAGA "populist" (My latest Nation print column) www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Populists Can’t Be Populist if They Suppress the Vote
The crusade against ballot access, like virtually every other facet of Trump’s agenda, does nothing to serve the interests of “the people,” but our press is too brain-dead to notice.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Yes, please pretend that Trump is on the midterms ballot: My latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
Trump Wants Voters to Pretend He’s on the Ballot
But Republican midterm candidates are hoping everyone forgets he exists.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hell is, indeed, other people. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Vance met with ‘48’ chants in closed-door convention event
The vice president presented a stark choice in 2026 between commonsense Republicans and the “crazy people” on the left.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
How did we ever manage to end up on this timeline?
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Populist roots of the anti-data center uprising: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Trump Can’t Stop the Populist Uprising Against Data Centers
The grassroots revolt against AI oligarchs is reviving a more than a century-old fight against robber barons and their attempts to seize land, water, and political power.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The incredible vanishing immigration-crackdown consensus: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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One of the Biggest Myths of the Trump Era Is Unraveling
It turns out that people don't actually want a Gestapo force rounding up immigrants all over America.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18/08/2026
i don't know who thought it was a good idea for the high-profile pedophiles in charge of our government to develop a makework program for lesser known pedophiles within our federal policing apparatus. but i disagree with them
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Democrats defend their scam-industrial complex: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Democrats Really, Really, Really Don't Want People Investigating Their Scammy Fundraising
Several of the party's top committees threatened to raise legal hell over a new study into the way they pry money out of seniors.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I was recently interviewed for a Washingtonian feature on Brooks, and after an hourlong conversation, I was only quoted saying "He just makes this shit up." The video below spells out what I meant (and originally said) in incisive detail.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Pillow faceplant: my latest for @thenation.com thenation.com/article/politics/mike-lindell-trump-endorsement/?nc=1
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Is a Trump Endorsement Becoming a Liability?
The president’s backing failed to secure a primary win in Minnesota for Mike Lindell. And he’s not the only one.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Third Way to nowhere: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
Centrist Democrats Are Rolling Up Their Sleeves and Punching Left
The Third Way think tank is pouring millions of dollars into combatting not the GOP but the DSA.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The DNC dithers on: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
The Left Insurgence Is on the Rise—and the DNC Is Flailing
The outcome of the Michigan primaries calls Democratic conventional wisdom into question. Just don’t expect Ken Martin to do anything about that.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The old Rahm runaround: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Rahm Emanuel’s Losing Record
The Democratic establishment’s golden boy has shifted the party to the right and lost ground in crucial elections.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Joe McCarthy's ghost: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The GOP’s New Red Scare
McCarthyism, the second time as farce.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Dynamics of the hate election: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
Do Voters Hate Democrats More Than Republicans?
The GOP is staking its chances on the idea that Americans are more dissatisfied with the opposition party than with the one in power.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I wrote about the sad Trump Country Fair thing and the very specific and hilariously shitty vision of America that it expresses. The war on metaphor continues apace. defector.com/dead-country...
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Dead Country Fair | Defector
Things come out of Donald Trump’s mouth, then just keep on coming out of it. If he says something once, he will say it again, primarily to reinforce how powerfully and unprecedentedly successful he wa...
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Hard pass, lol
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Impeachment now! (Again) My latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Americans Want to Impeach Donald Trump
So why aren’t Democrats doing something about it?
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I’m glad all those mainstream publications ran all those big profiles of megyn kelly a few years ago presenting her as a complex character you can’t really put into one box. really helped
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Will trust-busting rescue the Democrats? My latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
Are Democrats Finding Their Spines?
At an Open Markets Institute conference, economic populism was on the agenda.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Looking forward to him launching a new Third Way movement for unaffiliated assholes with Tucker Carlson. www.mediaite.com/media/news/i...
mediaite.com
‘I’m Done, I’m Not in That F*cking Political Party’: James Carville Freaks Out After Progressives Win Big in Democratic Primaries
Democratic strategist James Carville called for a "schism" in the Democratic Party, stating that he wants nothing to do with the likes of three candidates who won their Democratic primaries in New Yor...
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23/06/2026
I would rather lobotomize myself with a wooden kitchen spoon
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Louis C.K., Stephen A. Smith to Honor Bill Maher at Kennedy Center Event
The Mark Twain prize ceremony is set to air on Netflix July 21.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I wrote about JD Vance and his new memoir, which is somehow worse than his earlier one: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
JD Vance's Latest Memoir Preaches to the MAGA Choir
The vice president claims to have reached a new level of spiritual maturity, but the evidence is nowhere in the pages of Communion.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Trump's Waterworld fiasco: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
Trump’s Reflecting Pool Renovations Are a Total Disaster
The president’s attempt to make his mark on the National Mall has become a big, wet mess.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Alan Greenspan's dead; his market delusions live on. inthesetimes.com/article/the-...
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The Zombie Economist
Alan Greenspan is baa-ack.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
To be fair, "longtime caddy and personal confidant" is more of a real job than "presidential historian."
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
How Peter Thiel continues to make the power elite dumber: My latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Banality of Peter Thiel’s Evil
Newly unearthed details of the tech giant’s secret annual retreat show the malignity of his influence—and the mundanity of his ideas.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 12/06/2026
We're hiring here @thenation for an Engagement Editor! Please spread widely: www.thenation.com/jobs/
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Jobs
The Nation magazine is seeking an Assistant Editor for News The Nation is hiring an assistant editor for breaking news. You should be a digital-native news junkie with an appetite for writing fast and...
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"It's a republic, not a democracy" say the people cheering for gladiatorial combat in the capital city in a mixture of patriotic fervor and celebration of the ruler's birthday.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Trillionaires shouldn't exist. What Elon Musk is costing us, by me: www.thenation.com/article/econ...
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What Elon Musk's Trillion-Dollar Payday Is Costing the Rest of Us
The tech mogul will leverage the initial public offering of SpaceX into more sociopathic wealth-hoarding.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Not high on my list of reasons to abolish the Senate, but it's definitely staying there
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Vengeance is his: The Roy Cohn phase of the Trump presidency; my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Vengeance Is the Only Thing Trump Has Left
Everything else is going wrong. So the president is turning to his favorite project: settling scores with his many enemies.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Wrote about Delaney Hall.
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Inside the Anti-ICE Protests at Delaney Hall
As federal agents increase the use of force at the facility, demonstrators are adopting new tactics.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Trump's election-lie strategy: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
Trump Wants You Talking About His Manners—Not His Election Lies
Don’t let Trump’s blowup on NBC’s Meet the Press distract from what he actually said.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
hey quick question, am I having a stroke
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The whole Iranian, uh, excursion was just blind idiocy right out of the gate: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...
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Early War Goal Was to Install Hard Line Former President as Iran’s Leader
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
It's the impunity, stupid: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
Trump’s Slush Fund Shows Off This Administration’s Shameless Impunity
Nixon and his henchmen went to great lengths to conceal their slush-money crimes. Trump and his MAGA coterie don’t have to worry about that.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I'd probably sign up for a streaming platform dedicated to humiliating Tony Dokoupil round the clock. Maybe Bari Weiss is actually a broadcast-news genius. defector.com/tony-dokoupi...
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Tony Dokoupil Flew 8,000 Miles Just To Eat More Shit | Defector
Donald Trump was in China this week for a series of meetings with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. In order to cover the historic summit, major American broadcasters sent their newscasters overseas to broad...
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Ben Schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"Netflix’s choice of manosphere star Shane Gillis to host the Kevin Hart roast looks more and more like the streaming platform gerrymandered its own show from getting too Black." – my new thing, up now @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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How Netflix Cashes In on the Comedy Culture Wars
The streamer managed to make a celebrity roast for the innocuous comedian Kevin Hart into an ideological free-fire zone—another sign of the Trumpification of pop culture.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Holy MAGA belligerence: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Hypocrisy of Trump’s 9-Hour Prayer Festival
The claim that the founders meant America to be a Christian nation isn’t just bad history—it’s a declaration of war by the religious right.
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chrislehmann @chrislehmann.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
That's going to be the big game-changer, clearly. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Pentagon considering re-naming Iran war ‘Sledgehammer’ if ceasefire collapses
A White House official tells NBC News says any new military combat operations against Iran would be conducted under a new name and operation.
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