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Senate hopes to provide large cash payments to senators to award their participation in seditious activity
Senate hopes to provide large cash payments to senators to award their participation in seditious activity - Lawyers, Guns & Money
As a coda to Trump’s blanket pardon of Johns Eastman, the Senate has given its Joshes Hawley a little treat: This hidden provision is so crooked and selfish, it doesn't even apply to US Representatives. Just US Senators. [image or embed] — Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) Nov 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM There’s no dealing like […]
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November 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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MLB’s betting partners to limit some prop bets
MLB's betting partners to limit some prop bets - Lawyers, Guns & Money
This is a problem that really should have been foreseen preemptively, but this is a quicker response than I expected: The day after two Cleveland Guardians pitchers were charged with setting up rigged bets on individual pitches, Major League Baseball announced that its betting company partners would limit this specific kind of bet, which the league said […]
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November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Thanks to the @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social crew for having me!

Shared my convictions around maintaining a robust, non-partisan civil service and getting this government to try as hard for the working class as it does for the ultra wealthy .
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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The Trump administration’s greatest atrocity
The Trump administration's greatest atrocity - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Impeach. Remove. The Hague: Your favorite Italian-origin fusilli and macaroni are poised to disappear from U.S. supermarket shelves. Italy’s biggest pasta exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January. The […]
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November 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and Kevin Roberts
Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and Kevin Roberts - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Trump coalition is showing signs of strain. It’s not surprising. The coalition contains a number of factions with different ideas about what to do with their 2024 electoral victory. The leader of the coalition, Donald Trump, has shown clearly that he prioritizes his power and enrichment. He has empowered others, like Russell Vought, Stephen […]
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November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Court keeps its powder dry on same-sex marriage
Court keeps its powder dry on same-sex marriage - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Remember lawless civil rights obstructionist Kim Davis? She’s the relatively rare litigant whose reactionary claims of religious freedom are too frivolous for even the Roberts Court: Davis’ chief claim is that she should be able to raise a constitutional defense to the lawsuit against her, claiming a First Amendment right to deny the marriage license […]
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November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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LGM Podcast: Ditching Mitch in '26 with @joelforkentucky.bsky.social and @dhnexon.bsky.social www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/lgm-... @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social
LGM Podcast: Ditching Mitch in '26 - Lawyers, Guns & Money
On the latest LGM podcast Dan and I had the opportunity to interview Joel Willett, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Kentucky’s 2026 US Senate seat. We talked about: Joel’s donation page is ...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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LGM Podcast: Ditching Mitch in ’26
LGM Podcast: Ditching Mitch in '26 - Lawyers, Guns & Money
On the latest LGM podcast Dan and I had the opportunity to interview Joel Willett, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Kentucky’s 2026 US Senate seat. We talked about: Joel’s donation page is here and his website is here, from which you can follow all of his socials if that’s the kind of thing you would normally do. Transcript is here.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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MAHA!
MAHA! - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Yes, let’s Make America Healthy Again, indeed. American inspections of foreign food facilities — which produce everything from crawfish to cookies for the U.S. market — have plummeted to historic lows this year, a ProPublica analysis of federal data shows, even as inspections reveal alarming conditions at some manufacturers.  About two dozen current and former […]
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November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Maybe a Decentralized Energy Grid Has Value
Maybe a Decentralized Energy Grid Has Value - Lawyers, Guns & Money
I mean, yes, obviously it does when it comes to solar energy. This story about Jamaican homes with solar immediately having power after the hurricane swept through has so many lessons about what could be in the United States and what will never be because of the vested interests of the fossil fuel industry and […]
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November 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,013
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,013 - Lawyers, Guns & Money
This is the grave of George Safford Parker. Born in Shullsberg, Wisconsin in 1863, Parker was well enough off to go to college at Upper Iowa University (which still exists, but I had never heard of it, which after this long in academia always surprises me when this happens) and then moved to Janesville, Wisconsin. […]
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November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Bottom up, top down
Bottom up, top down - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The general public that is not part of Trump’s minority base’s relationship to Trump in 2025: Trump and Hegseth booed mercilessly for 2 minutes straight tonight by Washington Commanders fans. [image or embed] — Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) Nov 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM The relationship of the typical elite person/institution to Trump in 2025: Fox […]
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November 10, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Fear of a less undemocratic senate
Fear of a less undemocratic senate - Lawyers, Guns & Money
I agree with Matt that this the critical to understanding what the pro-capitulation Dem senators were thinking. (And given that nobody facing re-election in 2026 voted for Trump here, it’s clear support within the caucus was greater than the number of votes cast, and the most plausible inference is that Schumer also supported it.) I […]
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November 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Democrats: Caving Like The Losers That They Are
Democrats: Caving Like The Losers That They Are - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Paul and Scott have already covered the basics of all of this in detail, but I am absolutely, 100% disgusted at the Democratic Senate caucus for caving in return for absolutely nothing. What better sums up the Democratic Party than this? Very slowly, glacially slow, the Democratic Party is realizing how to face Republicans. But […]
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November 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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I could not foresee this thing happening to you
I could not foresee this thing happening to you - Lawyers, Guns & Money
I wish: A bipartisan Senate deal has been reached to fund the government through January 30 and to set a vote on an Affordable Care Act bill in December, in a major sign the government shutdown is poised to end, according to a source familiar with the matter. The deal includes a reversal of Trump’s firings of […]
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November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky
I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky - Lawyers, Guns & Money
This proposal would be even worse than the no deal on extending ACA subsidies bill being floated earlier: Democrats and Republicans have been locked for more than a month in a standoff over healthcare coverage, with Democrats repeatedly blocking a GOP bill to reopen the government. Without an extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act credits, […]
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November 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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James Watson, 1928-2025
James Watson, 1928-2025 - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Erik is falling down on his job of obituarying notable scumbags, so I will have to step in. James D. Watson died this week at 97. He acquired his Nobel Prize by stealing Rosalind Franklin’s x-ray data that showed that DNA has a helical structure, and then a lucky guess during a time when lots […]
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November 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Boats, but from Space!
Boats, but from Space! - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The fine folks at The Space Review have a series that retells the history of the rise of the aircraft carrier and the twilight of the battleship through photos from space. The United States developed several generations of reconnaissance satellites during the Cold War. CORONA was the first in 1960, and although its cameras were […]
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November 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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NFL Open Thread
NFL Open Thread - Lawyers, Guns & Money
R.I.P.: “I definitely appreciate that,” Kneeland said at the time. “Great athlete. Great person. Micah said he wanted to sit down and dissect some Cam Jordan film with me. We’re gonna get around to that. It’s a great feeling to have somebody like Micah speak so highly about me.” This fall, Kneeland was in the […]
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November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Federal Judge Resigns
Federal Judge Resigns - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Mark L. Wolf, appointed by Ronald Reagan, has resigned his federal judgeship because of Donald Trump’s lawlessness. He writes his reasons in The Atlantic. I think that’s a gift link – let me know if it isn’t. Wolf was a senior judge – which means semi-retired – and his successor has been appointed. So he […]
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November 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Dems in Disarray!
Dems in Disarray! - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The MSM can’t help itself. No matter what Democrats do, they have to be in disarray. Thus, with leftist candidate like Mamdani winning New York and centrist candidates like Spanberger winning Virginia, it must mean civil war: The victories this past week of a democratic socialist in the New York mayor’s race and two moderate […]
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November 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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More from Donald Trump, Friend of the American Working Class
More from Donald Trump, Friend of the American Working Class - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Trump once again shows his genuine hate for the poor: The Trump administration told states that they must “immediately undo” any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, in a move that added to the chaos and uncertainty surrounding the nation’s largest anti-hunger program during the government shutdown. The Agriculture Department issued […]
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November 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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On a cult of personality and its consequences
On a cult of personality and its consequences - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Genuine never-Trump conservative David French is looking into a cloudy crystal ball, in an attempt to divine what happens to the Republican party and the wider conservative — which at this point means radical reactionary — political movement in America post-Trump. (French assumes that Trump is a lame duck president, which is assuming something of […]
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November 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,012
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,012 - Lawyers, Guns & Money
This is the grave of Oliver Winchester. Born in 1810 in Boston, I think Winchester grew up pretty well off, though I’m not totally sure. By the 1850s, he was working as a clothing manufacturer in New York. He already had some capital available and so when he saw that a gun manufacturer in Connecticut […]
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November 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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President presiding over economic and governmental trainwreck laser-focused on gratifying his own ego
President presiding over economic and governmental trainwreck laser-focused on gratifying his own ego - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Here’s a man definitely moving heaven and Earth to get the government open to prevent the affliction of further suffering: President Donald Trump wants the Washington Commanders to name their planned $3.7 billion stadium after him, multiple sources with knowledge of the situation told ESPN. A senior White House source said there have been back-channel communications with […]
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November 9, 2025 at 6:41 AM