chrislehmann
@chrislehmann.bsky.social
DC bureau chief, The Nation. Former EIC, The Baffler and the New Republic. Powertown flaneur
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...
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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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
Will trust-busting rescue the Democrats? My latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Are Democrats Finding Their Spines?
At an Open Markets Institute conference, economic populism was on the agenda.
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Looking forward to him launching a new Third Way movement for unaffiliated assholes with Tucker Carlson. www.mediaite.com/media/news/i...
‘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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I would rather lobotomize myself with a wooden kitchen spoon
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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I wrote about JD Vance and his new memoir, which is somehow worse than his earlier one: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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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Alan Greenspan's dead; his market delusions live on. inthesetimes.com/article/the-...
The Zombie Economist
Alan Greenspan is baa-ack.
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To be fair, "longtime caddy and personal confidant" is more of a real job than "presidential historian."
David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 2mo agoI just can’t even
How Peter Thiel continues to make the power elite dumber: My latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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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"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.
Trillionaires shouldn't exist. What Elon Musk is costing us, by me: www.thenation.com/article/econ...
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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Not high on my list of reasons to abolish the Senate, but it's definitely staying there
Senator Amy Klobuchar@klobuchar.senate.gov · 2mo agoHappy National Seersucker Day! Great to join my colleagues from both sides of the aisle in kicking off summer with this time-honored tradition.
Vengeance is his: The Roy Cohn phase of the Trump presidency; my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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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The whole Iranian, uh, excursion was just blind idiocy right out of the gate: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...
Early War Goal Was to Install Hard Line Former President as Iran’s Leader
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It's the impunity, stupid: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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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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...
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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"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...
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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That's going to be the big game-changer, clearly. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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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I wrote about billionaires whining about Mamdani and the teeny tiny tax he wants them to pay on their multimillion dollar pied-a-terres. www.thenation.com/article/econ...
The Billionaires’ Bathos Club
American plutocrats can’t stop whining about how extremely modest tax increases are killing their initiative.
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