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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 9h

Hard-hitting stuff at the Bezos post

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Mario Delgado Genzor @mariodelgadogenzor.bsky.social · 21h

Something tells me these Mariners are going to experience the most brutal playoff loss we've seen in a while no matter how far they make it. The fact that they're actually good only makes it worse.

Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 21h

Man, the Mariners have wasted so much opportunity in this series Just asking to lose.

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The Misrules of Acquisition @livingonferenginar.bsky.social · 21h

the dork in question is Jed Rubenfeld, husband of Amy Chua of Tiger Mom fame, who also mentored Vance. The fix was in, and it was most likely a very gentle 'debate'

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 21h

At Yale Political Union, 72% of students voted against Curtis Yarvin’s resolution to “end the democratic experiment.”

He debated a Yale Law professor on the question.

New rule: Anyone who “debates” Yarvin is an even bigger and more desperate dork.

yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/10...

Yarvin argues for American monarchy at closed-door debate

Curtis Yarvin, who is known for his anti-democratic views, argued to “end the democratic experiment” against Yale Law School professor Jed Rubenfeld in front of the Yale Political Union Tuesday evenin...

yaledailynews.com

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 13h

Dems really need more major politicians who are comfortable speaking extemporaneously, as opposed to this shit

Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, this seems like the Katie Porter who responded to losing a primary by calling it rigged.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train wreck interview with her and said “now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.”

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 13h

IMPORTANT UPDATE bsky.app/profile/quil...

Comrade Quill @quillbo.bsky.social · 14h

DAAAAA YANKEES LOSE

Vlad and Papi coming together to hate. A-Rod and Jeter just having to sit there and take it.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 15h

This makes the very likely Game 5 Mariners loss at least somewhat more palatable

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

Every other outlet reporting that House Republicans are in open revolt while the Senate Republicans feel boxed in, but yeah, the Free Press has its finger right on the meme pulse of things.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17h

This is the kind of free-thinking, hard-hitting journalism they're going to be getting at CBS soon.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 19h

So we’re getting a game 5, in which the best pitcher in the American League will start for the second time, voluntarily, against the Mariners’ #4 starter (90 ERA+!) I would much prefer for the results of Dan Wilson’s extremely stupid experiment to have been forever unknown

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 20h

Javy Baez? The guy who last drew a walk during the first term of the Trump administration?

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 22h

Congrats on beating Cal Raleigh’s regular season home run total, I guess

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

TESLA SELLS 61 CARS IN INDIA IN SEPTEMBER 2025

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 23h

It's the reason why he's bad at politics, eg

www.huffpost.com/entry/govern...

Mike Johnson Crashes Democrats' Epstein Press Event Outside His Office

Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego wound up arguing with Johnson for five minutes.

www.huffpost.com

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Pete Croatto @petecroatto.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, I will watch this. (Also, please read @greenwell.bsky.social’s excellent “Bad Company.”)

Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1d

The documentary "Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink," about how Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is gobbling up newspapers across America and gutting them, is available to watch on PBS.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 23h

I'm quoted in this story about Trump losing the support of his 2024 coalition www.vox.com/politics/464...

Are Trump’s voters turning against him?

Many of his newest supporters are having doubts.

www.vox.com

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 23h

Roberts Court to invent inalienable right to impose disabilities on LGBTQ people www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/robe...

Roberts Court to invent inalienable right to impose disabilities on LGBTQ people - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Apparently in consecutive terms the Republican Six are going to rule that states can ban medical treatments for trans people that doctors think are appropriate but cannot ban “gender conversion” thera...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 1d

Neither of which would have happened without the star defenseman Chiarelli handed him on the way out the door, whose ability it took Holland years to realize

Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 1d

"The way to keep discriminating on the basis of race is to keep discriminating on the basis of race" -- John Roberts www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/kava...

Kavanaugh searches and seizures - Lawyers, Guns & Money

The facts of the infamous ICE raid in Chicago keep getting worse, and even more damning of Brett Kavanaugh’s farcical alternate-universe concurrence: Residents of a South Shore apartment building were...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 1d

If only we at least had some anecdotal evidence of what it would look like if you tried to beat the Oilers in the playoffs with Cody Ceci in the top 4 on a team with more impressive offensive talent than LA

EvolvingWild @evolvingwild.evolving-hockey.com · 1d

I'm a prophet?

Screenshot from the Pacific division review from this article on EH: https://evolving-hockey.com/blog/2025-2026-team-point-projections/

The following segment is highlighted:

"While they let a few of their underperforming players go (namely Trevor Lewis), they’ve also added some questionable players to fill in (Ceci and Dumoulin). "

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 1d

[Christopher Walken voice] "Holland's art is destroying teams by signing useless binkies to exorbitant contracts. He's about to paint his masterpiece"

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes, the man who wrote a book on the “unfortunate consequences” of the Civil Rights act is here to (quite turgidly) defend Hegseth’s anxiety-riddled bigotry.

And, despite having never served has thoughts about unit cohesion.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Despite a raw vocabulary and some rude provocations,” Pete Hegseth “outlined a nuanced vision of the military’s purpose and its relationship to civilian society,” writes Christopher Caldwell.

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech on D.E.I. in the Military Was Actually Pretty Good

Despite some rude provocations, he outlined a nuanced vision of the military.

nyti.ms

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Pete Puma @petepuma.bsky.social · 1d

If you believe there’s crime in DC, Portland, or Chicago that warrants federal forces, you’re a fucking idiot.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 1d

"But there is a lot of money in making things that are just good enough to get people to buy them. That's how we end up with Marvel movies, infinite remakes, one thousand books about fucking vampires, and bad paintings reselling for millions of dollars" defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 1d

Kavanaugh search and seizures

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 1d

My latest newsletter: reviews of new albums by Taylor Swift, Jeff Tweedy, Robert Plant. Plus, Saint Etienne says farewell, Ronnie Wood gets his own Anthology, Los Straitjackets break away from Nick Lowe, checking in on Sloan.

In Review: Taylor Swift, Jeff Tweedy, Robert Plant

Plus: Saint Etienne says farewell, Ronnie Wood gets his own Anthology, Los Straitjackets break away from Nick Lowe, checking in on Sloan.

sterlewine.substack.com

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d

This guy is such a dumb dipshit. How do you have “plenary authority” when you are using authority under power delegated by a statute (which you just cited) that contains specific conditions and limitations?? I am guessing he realized how idiotic he sounded the minute it came out of his mouth

Blanche Devereaux @gingerkap23.bsky.social · 1d

Miller oopsie doodled and said the quiet part out loud, talking about DT aka himself having “plenary authority”:

A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations

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