Lawyers, Guns and Money

Lawyers, Guns and Money is a blog focused on politics and culture, primarily authored by a team of eight scholars. The blog was established in May 2004 by David Watkins, Rob Farley, and Scott Lemieux.

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Tulsi: it is a fireable offense to present facts that are inconvenient for Dear Leader

1 day ago | lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Scott Lemieux

There were people who thought this authoritarian lickspittle would be a viable presidential candidate for the Democratic Party:Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has fired two top intelligence officials who oversaw a recent intelligence assessment which contradicted President Donald Trump’s assertions that the gang Tren de Aragua is operating under the direction of the Venezuelan regime, two officials said Wednesday.
Contextualize This Image

1 day ago | lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Erik Loomis

Thanks to the people who recognized that this set of images came from My Perestroika. There were people trying to use AI to answer this question and again, I’d rather die than use AI and the very wrong answers AI was presenting didn’t change my mind. So yeah, this is the last of these great images. Here’s one more from this excellent film: Let’s talk about the Funeral of Brezhnev game. Whatever you want to think it is.
Make America Unhealthy (to pay for yet another upper-class tax cut) Again

2 days ago | lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Scott Lemieux

The House Republicans are proposing savage cuts to Medicaid:A 7.6 million increase in the number of uninsured Americans would represent a massive jump, equivalent to about 30 percent of the total uninsured population . And even that data point doesn’t fully capture the impact of what Republicans are proposing—in part, because it’s not just the newly uninsured who would feel it.
How do you say "My offer is this: nothing" in Mandarin?

2 days ago | lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Scott Lemieux

Trump’s entire “negotiating” style is based on bullying people or entities with far less leverage. When he’s dealing with people he needs at least as much as they need him, he’s got absolutely nothing and any intelligent counterparty knows it [gift link]:President Trump’s decision to impose, and then walk back, triple-digit tariffs on Chinese products over the past month demonstrated the power and global reach of U.S. trade policy.
Here's a Truly Horrible Democrat

2 days ago | lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Erik Loomis

Gavin Newsom makes Jared Polis look like J.B. Pritzker:Gov. Gavin Newsom will call Wednesday for California to scale back health care for undocumented immigrants to help balance the state budget, retrenching on his desire to deliver “universal health care for all.”The move comes days after the Trump administration targeted a different state-funded program for immigrants in California and signaled that it would continue to scrutinize benefits for undocumented individuals.
Lawyers, Guns & Money

2 days ago | lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Erik Loomis

In February, Ella Stapleton, then a senior at Northeastern University, was reviewing lecture notes from her organizational behavior class when she noticed something odd. Was that a query to ChatGPT from her professor? Halfway through the document, which her business professor had made for a lesson on models of leadership, was an instruction to ChatGPT to “expand on all areas.
Lawyers, Guns & Money

2 days ago | lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Erik Loomis

It annoys me that it was Donald Trump who convinced Rob Manfred to end the lifetime suspensions of those believed to have gambled on the game. But it’s the right call. I always thought it was dumb to ban Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson from the game after their deaths. I highly doubt that either make the Hall of Fame, for that would then focus attention on the even more egregious and ridiculous blocking of Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Alex Rodriguez.
Poor Democratic Governance

2 days ago | lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Erik Loomis

Another reason why I reject the current liberal world of “let’s all just be the big tent and talk about the insane orange man and focus on the next election” is that it completely ignores the longer term power issues that must be fixed if Democrats are going to hold power long enough to flush this generation of Republicans down the toilet.
What they do, not what they say

2 days ago | lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Scott Lemieux

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy keeps going on TV and insisting it’s safe to fly in and out of Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey, despite a string of extremely frightening outages and workforce shortages recently. But Duffy has now admitted he changed a flight booked for his wife on Monday so that she wouldn’t have to travel through Newark. Duffy made the startling admission to David Webb, a conservative radio host, during his SiriusXM show on Monday.
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,883

2 days ago | lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Erik Loomis

This is the grave of Chris Doleman. Born in 1961 in Indianapolis, Doleman’s family was in York, Pennsylvania by the time he reached high school. Doleman was already a fantastic athlete and excellent football player in high school. He took an extra year after that to play at Valley Forge Military Academy, probably to get his grades in order too. Then he went to play at the University of Pittsburgh. With the Panthers, he was an absolutely devastating linebacker.