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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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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 57m
506 citizens have been detained by ICE during the second Trump administration www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/506-...
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506 citizens have been detained by ICE during the second Trump administration - Lawyers, Guns & Money
But I was assured by the highest, for lack of a better term, court in the land that this was unpossible: “DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake.” “There are no ‘indiscriminate’ stops.” Allegat...
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 1h
If your argument "works" only because you assume most people will recognize that it's bullshit, that doesn't say much for your argument
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Steven Hyden @stevenhyden.bsky.social · 7h
I wrote about the new RUBBER SOUL box set and the fussy comparisons of various mixes (Giles Martin, 2009, 1988, etc.) and also tried to figure out where RUBBER SOUL lands in my personal Beatles albums ranking (and why ranking Beatles albums is fun). tinyurl.com/83tzu6wz
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Give Me Your Ranking Of Beatles Albums (Here’s Mine)
The new “Rubber Soul” box set is a good excuse to discuss rock’s most vaunted catalog
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 3h
Republicans are dumpind money into South Carolina, if you're wondering how things are going www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/hang...
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Hanging on in loud desperation - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Here’s a good indication of how things are going for the party of war and high prices right now: The main super PAC supporting Republican Senate candidates plans to inject $5 million into the South Ca...
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 5h
New: As Trump's meme coin dangled a gala dinner with the president for its top buyers, the wallet holding the creators' tokens moved ~$70M of $TRUMP to an account where it can be sold. @jeffstein.bsky.social for @washingtonsun.com
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Trump’s Meme Coin Firm Wants You to Buy. Insiders Are Preparing to Sell.
Trump personally made more than $600 million from his meme coin last year.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 4h
“We must fight the fascists in every way except the only way that could stop them”
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 4h
A Cancer on the Body of Christ: The Ballad of Jim Bakker www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/a-ca...
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A Cancer on the Body of Christ: The Ballad of Jim Bakker - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jim Bakker is dead, at the age of 86.   Among the grosser religious grifters of American history, Bakker was a pure thief, someone who may or may not have really believed in his version of far-right C...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h
The NY Fed examines how tariffs affected inflation and finds that, without them, goods prices would have declined as of last February. libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/10/how-...
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 5h
Not only is near-total presidential immunity not an ”unmistakable“ structural inference from the Constitution, it is completely at war with the Constitution's restraints on executive power and contradicts the text of the impeachment clause itself
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h
one funny thing about Alito is he is constantly fuming over his critics. just a big blubbering baby.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 6h
Hey hey -- it's publication day! Couldn't be more excited for this to be out in the world. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 16h
Great lede www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...
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FootiusMaximus @footiusmaximus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jason Isbell back on stage for a whole show with Drive By Truckers last night😭 youtu.be/-5mp6ibHsZ8?...
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Drive-By Truckers (w/Jason Isbell) "Outfit" ShoalsFest; Florence, AL October 3, 2026
YouTube video by RS T'ner
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h
anyway in a just world a giant cartoon piano would fall on hanania and tracey in the middle of their pro rape podcast
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 17h
What a brilliant and beautiful piece this is. A pleasure to read and think about.
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 20h
I wonder if the CAQ regrets not fixing the electoral system?
CAQ 1 seat from 16 of the vote
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 17h
If people could stop preemptively throwing in the towel on this Clinton-Biden-Harris state in a +10 Dem environment that would be swell
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 21h
I think Trump actually believes that "vegan" just means someone whose diet includes literally any vegetables other than the shredded iceberg on a Big Mac
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 21h
The state that elected JD Vance trying to get to the World Series
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 21h
Dennis Hastert www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/denn...
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Dennis Hastert - Lawyers, Guns & Money
A would prefer a rest without peace, actually: Former Rep. Dennis Hastert, who served eight years as speaker of the House — longer than any other Republican in U.S. history — and then spent more than ...
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 23h
All this tells me is that Wayne has never participated in a spelling bee because they give you a literal book of 20 letter words you will never use in life and you are expected to study them. And as a lower class hick alumna / 3rd place state spelling bee champion, in my opinion, Wayne is a dumbass
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have never seen someone excel at getting money for doing absolutely nothing like David Zaslav.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Are people getting worse and to what extent is this Donald Trump’s fault? www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/are-...
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Are people getting worse and to what extent is this Donald Trump's fault? - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Michigan football friend had this experience this morning: On a delayed flight that just landed. Flight attendants asked everyone who didn’t have a connection to remain seated because there were a handful of people that needed to get off immediately to catch their next flight. The plane pulls up to the gate and everyone gets […]
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Waiting for the End of the World:” Elvis Costello’s ‘My Aim Is True’ on its 49th Anniversary: from @paranoiacs.bsky.social www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/wait...
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"Waiting for the End of the World:" Elvis Costello's 'My Aim Is True' on its 49th Anniversary - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Hello friends! Elizabeth here. Just wanted to let you know, in case you missed it, that I reviewed the 49th Anniversary box set reissue of Elvis Costello’s 1977 masterpiece My Aim Is True over at Pitc...
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
CLASH OF THE TITANS (1981)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
yeah, the reason republicans are just not going to budge from texas is the reason why armies try not to abandon their capitals. it isn’t necessarily a strategic defeat to lose the seat of power, but it is a profound blow to morale.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The chances this crew was going to call a ticky-tack leveraging penalty were 100%
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Aaron Schatz @aaronschatz.com · 04/10/2026
This man has to watch Trump rallies and news conferences non-stop for his job and it turns out the thing that will break him is Kyler Murray.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you're a blue state NIMBY, you ride with Donald Trump and Sam Alito. End of story
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Can't wait for the YouTube grinders to explain who was to blame for this pick
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Worst call yet from this awful “look at ME!” officiating crew
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jesus having to cheer for Nick Sirianni is absolute torture, how Eagles fans do it I have no idea
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
NEW YORK JETS INTERCEPTION THERE IS NO HISTORICAL PRECEDENT
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Matt Lombardo @mattlombardo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Settle in with your morning coffee, and what I’m hearing from sources across the NFL on the league’s biggest storylines ☕️
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When they do not skip on the prosciutto
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sir Jacob William Rees-Mogging.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Top issues for the midterm electorate: 1. The ARTEMIS SPLASHDOWN 2. Appropriate aspirin doses 3. Manually changing clocks
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Wyatt Sinclair @crumblsucks.wyattswickedgoods.com · 04/10/2026
Austin Wells while he was rounding second base in the eighth inning of Game One of the ALDS against the Tampa Bay Rays (October 3, 2026)
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I effing despise RFK Jr. I had a cancer caused by HPV that had a massive impact on my life. I would have loved to have a vaccine that could have prevented all of that and whatnot. Yet that fool has claimed that HPV vaccines themselves cause cancer and he’s making bank on that lie and others.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tampa had to have that one, and they got it
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Laser focused on the material needs of the persuadable voter
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Banger after banger, Dolores O'Riordan was one of one. Seeing them live was nuts. She was an absolute rock and roll star
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Armando Iannucci series we’re all living in is getting a little baroque: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/gran...
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Grandpa Sundown doxxes Tom Cotton over daylight savings bill - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Armando Iannucci series we’re all living in is getting a little baroque: President Donald Trump on Saturday appeared to share Sen. Tom Cotton’s cellphone number in a social media post amid a push ...
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Red Sox would have pulled Rasmussen in the fifth inning
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
LOL that is 2026 Seattle Mariners-caliber baserunning right there
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
Doxxing your most racist loyalist because you missed Hannity because you thought it was 8 but it was actually 9.
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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
it's hard to square "originalism" with "we're gonna keep rewriting the reconstruction amendments"
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Comparisons between MAGA and McCarthyism are dime a dozen. What's novel now is that today's Republicans are acting like McCarthy allies in the period between "have you no decency" and the censure vote that formally ended his reign of terror. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...
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Republican Disarray And The Second Failure Of McCarthyism
The missing ingredient, for now, is consequences.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As someone who does teach con law, the idea that the Republicans on the Roberts Court are just too committed to "originalism" is farcical. You will search the opinions in Shelby County or Trump v. US (inter many alia) in vain for even the slightest trace of it
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