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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 7h

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/

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"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 · 8h

[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 · 8h

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 · 9h

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.

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Pete Puma @petepuma.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 8h

"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 · 9h

Kavanaugh search and seizures

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 13h

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 · 17h

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.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 17h

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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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 11h

omg

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 12h

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 11h

Yankees take the lead on a HR from

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 11h

That dropped fly ball really feels like a series-flipping disaster

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 15h

It truly is the government of landlords and used car dealers because anyone familiar with either of these occupations knows that they are the last bastions of men who, for no reason but their own sloven incompetence, seek out imagined excuse to violate basic contract law and routine regulations.

Ryan Mattson @rmattson.bsky.social · 15h

Not to discount the enormous damage they have done, and still can do, but this really might be one of the dumbest governments in the history of the world.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 11h

Josh "The Running Man" Hawley tries to distract from his participation in an election theft conspiracy, falls into a gopher hole: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/how-...

How to play dumb - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Here’s the Running Man trying to distract from his participation in an election theft conspiracy and falling into a gopher hole: Josh Hawley, Yale Law School ‘06, Missouri Attorney General 2017-2019, ...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 12h

Completely unacceptable to even have to use Munoz here

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 18h

Josh Hawley and Yale Law School, ladies and gentlemen.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 12h

Hopefully it won't matter but why the fuck are you trying to steal third with two outs

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 12h

He looked great when he first came back but (understandably) has definitely lost some command down the stretch

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 13h

Good player but is he clutch?

JM =^) @jm539581.bsky.social · 13h

Vladimir Guerrero Jr has done it again with a two-run home run in the top of the first

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h

"In effect, these voters responded to the most comprehensive attempt to provide concrete benefits to them since the New Deal by loading an economic shotgun and pointing it directly at themselves." prospect.org/politics/202...

House Republicans Take Aim at Red-State Economies

President Biden bent over backwards to help left-behind communities get factories and jobs. Their congressional representatives don’t appreciate it.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 15h

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
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