Chris Lehmann

@lehmannchris

When reality becomes digital, and the big hankering cometh, I'll vote for life in the big choice poll. See also: @[email protected]

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Joined January 2008

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Chris Lehmann@lehmannchris · 24 h

Jeffrey Epstein, House-wrecker: my latest for @thenation thenation.com/article/politi…

lehmannchris's tweet card. The lesson for Democrats is that they should force confrontations, especially when they drive a wedge into the GOP base.

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Chris Lehmann@lehmannchris · Jul 15

MAGA's Epstein crack-up: my latest for @thenation thenation.com/article/politi…

lehmannchris's tweet card. The president’s denial of the existence of government material on Jeffrey Epstein isn’t going over well with his followers.

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Chris Lehmann@lehmannchris · Jul 10

Me trying to get people to pay attention Trump's incredibly blatant crypto bribes

JJacob Silverman@SilvermanJacob · Jul 10

NEW: Last month, World Liberty Financial, Trump's main crypto company, announced its biggest investment yet: $100 million from a UAE company called Aqua 1 Foundation. I couldn't find any evidence that Aqua 1 exists. thenation.com/article/archiv…

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Chris Lehmann@lehmannchris · Jul 11

Armed McCarthyism: my latest for @thenation thenation.com/article/societ…

lehmannchris's tweet card. Society / July 11, 2025 ICE Is Following the Lead of Anti-Palestinian Doxxing Groups The agency’s brutal racial profiling has drawn its latest targets from the McCarthyite blacklists of organizations...

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Chris Lehmann@lehmannchris · Jul 8

Egging on Elon: my latest for @thenation thenation.com/article/politi…

lehmannchris's tweet card. July 8, 2025 Why I Welcome Elon Musk’s “America Party” The tech mogul’s latest intervention in US politics serves as a perfect proof of concept for the futility and stupidity of billionaire-driven...

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Chris Lehmann@lehmannchris · Jul 5

Pretty wild that the disastrous W. response to Katrina permanently stained his presidency, while Trump’s gutting of the extreme-rain tracking system at NWS prior to the Texas tragedy is just greeted with a shrug. Our media/policy discourse seems to be irretrievably broken

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Chris Lehmann@lehmannchris · Jul 1

The big brutal immigration police state: my latest for @thenation thenation.com/article/societ…

lehmannchris's tweet card. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party’s floundering over immigration leaves it without an opposition strategy.

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Chris Lehmann@lehmannchris · Jun 11

Moran overboard: my latest for @thenation thenation.com/article/politi…

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Chris Lehmann@lehmannchris · Jun 10

The J6 grudge behind Trump's LA invasion: my latest for @thenation thenation.com/article/societ…

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Chris Lehmann@lehmannchris · Jun 9

MAGA’s civilization schtick: my latest for @thenation thenation.com/article/societ…

lehmannchris's tweet card. The Trump administration’s rhetoric echoes the same old fantasy of racial purity that animated the 20th-century right.

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Chris Lehmann@lehmannchris · Jun 5

Class is (still) dismissed: my latest for @thenation thenation.com/article/politi…

lehmannchris's tweet card. A sparsely attended forum about the working class held at a $40 million think tank—yep, sounds about right.

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Chris Lehmann@lehmannchris · May 29

Dems in dismal array: my latest for @thenation thenation.com/article/politi…

lehmannchris's tweet card. A new analysis of voting patterns in the last election suggests that the party is woefully unprepared for the path forward.

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Chris Lehmann@lehmannchris · May 28

Nice euphemism for “trashes,” WaPo!

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Chris Lehmann@lehmannchris · May 23

It took some doing, but the WaPo op-ed team found a more ludicrous economics commentator than Megan McArdle.

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