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April 2019

30 AprPreviewing the 2024 Republican Platform
30 AprThe Election of Donald Trump Was a Fatal Blow to the Neoliberal Order
30 AprMy country right or left
30 AprThe Implications of Donald Trump’s Impunity
30 AprDestroying the Village In Order to Grift It
30 AprThe Courtesy of Donald Trump
30 AprThings Afoot in Venezuela?
30 Apr“Cleaving the Undead Flesh…”
30 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 465
30 AprWhy isn’t Jacob Wohl in jail?
29 AprThe Scab
29 AprHigher Education in the New Gilded Age
29 AprThe White Minnesota Freak Out
29 AprThe Impeachment Temptation
29 AprJoe Biden
29 AprThe Great Cycle of Ratfucking
29 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 464
29 AprGame of Thrones Open Thread
28 AprNo More Inaccurate Refrains
28 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 463
28 AprSomething Bad Happened To Some Clowns
28 AprConnecting the dots
28 AprAnother thing that’s going to get people killed
27 AprThe Ongoing Threat of White Nationalist Terror
27 AprThe Ongoing Adventures of Sleazy Republican Fixer Bill Barr
27 AprIt’s A Nice Racket
27 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 462
27 AprNFL Draft/Actual NHL Playoff Thread
26 AprAvengers Open Thread
26 AprRepublicans Hate The Voters They Need
26 AprJoey Unbeatable
26 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 461
26 AprNFL Draft/NHL Round 2 Open Thread
25 AprNo quarter
25 AprThe Judicial Wing of the Chamber of Commerce
25 AprAll the subpoenas
25 AprThe Roosevelt
25 AprThere`s a reputation to be made
24 AprA Man In John Roberts’s Position Can Afford to be Made to Look Ridiculous
24 AprPlease Don’t Microaggression My Triggers
24 AprOur Friends in the Middle East
24 AprBourbon: A Victim?
24 AprThe Media’s Failure on Climate Change
24 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 460
23 AprOur Neoconfederate Court
23 AprAnother day, another fascist outburst
23 AprOn Replacing Ken Burns’ The Civil War
23 AprThe War on Liberal Arts Education
23 AprToward a Theory of Dumb Guys
23 AprWhoops!
23 AprStop and Shop Victory
23 AprRepublican War on Voting Rights to Accelerate
22 AprEarth Day
22 AprI can’t even
22 AprWomen in the Labor Movement
22 AprJust what this party needed (Update)
22 AprTrump: It Is Illegal For Congress to Perform Oversight
22 AprHeckuva Job, Spokane Valley
22 AprElizabeth Warren continues to lap the field in terms of actual policy proposals
22 AprMutiny!
22 AprThe Tenement Museum Organizes
22 AprNew Book Monday
22 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 459
22 AprI’m Not Sure About This Sequel
21 AprToday in Our Tech Bro Betters
21 AprEaster Horror
21 AprSpam
20 AprThe Sleazy Lies of Sleazy Liar Bill Barr
20 AprStop and Shop Strike Update
20 AprToday in the Swamp
20 AprWarren and Race
20 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 20, 1949
20 Apr“A Marked Man On A Marked Occasion”: An Easter Rising With The Paranoid Style + A Conversation With Jinx Lennon
19 AprOn the road to fascism
19 AprThe Assange Collusion
19 AprGeopolitical Suicide by a Thousand Cuts: Economic Interdependence Edition
19 AprImpeaching Trump
19 AprBerlin by Jason Lutes
19 AprWarren’s Public Lands Policy
19 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 19, 1911
18 AprThere was a crooked man
18 AprA massive and unbelievable crime on a scale before unseen
18 AprEndorsements
18 AprProfessional Fixer Bill Barr Lied His Ass Off In His Preemptive Memo
18 AprThe Human and Environmental Cost of Renewable Energy
18 AprAdvances in American Statues
18 AprNever give a sucker an even break
18 AprThe Age of Political Grift
18 AprIs Our Media Learning Anything At All?
18 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 18, 1912
17 AprEvents and Talks
17 AprIf You Can Fake Integrity, You Have It Made
17 AprThe Bipartisan Dream
17 AprThe Very Serious People of the Republican Party
17 AprStop and Shop Strike Update
17 AprThe Bart O’Kavanaugh Effect
17 AprHaake Take
17 AprThe Armed Citizen
17 AprBangladeshi Workers: Still Oppressed
17 AprThe Non-Interventionist Mindset of Donald Trump
16 AprTrump vs. the Trump Administration
16 AprThe Fixer
16 AprBeyond Meat
16 AprImmigration and Unions
16 AprRecent Developments on the Progressive Foreign Policy Front
16 AprWhat to Do about Bernie?
16 AprHow Your Notre Dame Fire Sausage Was Made
16 AprToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
16 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 458
15 AprBernie’s Tax Returns Reveal…Nothing of Any Particular Interest
15 AprExploiting grief to engage in moral preening
15 AprGame of Thrones Spoiler Thread
15 AprNotre Dame
15 AprThe Machinery of Death
15 AprA Lot of People Are Saying
15 AprFor Sale: A License to Lose Money
15 AprOur First Climate Refugees
15 AprSelf-Checkout: A Union-Busting Technology
15 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 457
15 AprBibi Andersson, RIP
15 AprSunday Prestige TV Thread
14 AprCivilité, vacuité, malhonnêteté
14 AprWashington, DC Is Broken, Vol. 1: An Investigation Into DC’s Ongoing Sports Crisis By Elizabeth Nelson And Timothy Bracy
14 AprThe Incitement Against Ilhan Omar
13 AprIn a shocking turn of events, Andrew Sullivan sides with the MAGAts.
13 AprHow The Rats Were Fucked And Where It Got Us
13 AprCould Amazon Be a Leader in Fighting Climate Change?
13 AprNBA Playoff Preview
13 AprTurning Addicts Into Slaves
13 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 456
13 AprEarly American Women
12 AprTrump promises top government official that he’ll pardon him if he defies the law to implement illegal policy
12 AprSexism and the 2020 Democratic Primary
12 AprStop and Shop Strike
12 AprHistorians to the Rescue!
12 AprHonoring Foreign Fascists in a Fascist America
12 AprThe Secret to a Happy Ending Is Knowing When to Roll the Credits
12 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 455
12 AprWhen Elvis Got Strange: Reflections on The 1973 Concert Film Aloha From Hawaii
12 AprAn Authoritarian Does What
11 AprContemplating Trump’s re-election
11 AprPost hoc hero
11 AprProfessional Cover-Up Artist Tries To Create Diversion For Trump
11 AprThe Policy Details The Left Should Embrace
11 Apr“I am not that political”
11 AprA Family Where Corruption is Unknown
11 AprWhat is Pope Himmler Up to These Days?
11 AprI’m Beginning to Think Jared Kushner May Not Bring Peace to the Middle East
11 AprAssange Arrested
11 AprMetropolitan Police remove smelly garbage from embassy
11 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 454
11 AprNHL Playoff Preview Round One
11 AprCongratulations Chicago
10 AprThe Logical Next Step for the Christian Jihad
10 AprRace and Drug Discourse
10 AprThat Sweet, Sweet NIMBYism
10 AprIf Bernie Sanders hadn’t existed, it would have been necessary to invent him
10 AprIs Our Media Sexist?
10 AprLooked at the pictures then I turned the pages
10 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 453
10 AprThe Real Scandal Is What’s Etc.
9 AprThe absurdity of an 80something president
9 AprShe Will Return: R.E.M.’s Reckoning Turns 35
9 AprThe End of the Incumbency Advantage
9 AprAvoiding the F-35 Trap
9 AprOn the Israeli Election
9 AprThe NBA and White Privilege
9 AprThe copy, paste, repeat presidency
9 AprBad Framing in Labor Reporting
9 AprProve It All The Rest Of Her Life
9 AprLife in Rhode Island: Environment Edition
9 AprThe Burlington Strategery
8 AprTrump told border agents not to let migrants in
8 AprTrump’s DHS to Get Even More Authoritarian and Racist
8 AprOur Green Lantern
8 AprThe anti-anti-Trump vote
8 AprLawless Party Defends Lawless President
8 AprThe Battlecruiser Squadron…
8 AprThe acting president
8 AprReprehensible Homeland Security Secretary To Be Replaced By Someone Even Worse
7 AprWashington State Democrats choose democracy
7 AprBeneath the Law
7 AprGot in the House like a Pigeon from Hell: The Pretenders’ Learning to Crawl Turns 35
7 Apr“Your Prime Minister”
6 AprMusic Notes
6 AprThere’s never a wrong time to write about white men who are running for president
6 AprUnder Rug Swept
6 AprThe Fox Effect
6 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 452
6 AprHow Can We Forget You Ever Existed If You Won’t Go Away?
5 AprA Man Who Is Now Mindful About Respecting Personal Space
5 AprWarren Calls For Eliminating the Filibuster
5 AprHey Joe
5 AprSocialist Forestry
5 AprThe Christian Life
5 AprA Political History of the Future: A People’s Future of the United States, edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams
5 AprHell Exists On Earth? Yes.
5 AprAdventures in the American meritocracy
5 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 451
4 AprA Man of Great Integritude
4 AprThe Information Security Administration
4 AprYou *Are* The Sucker, Senate Dems Edition
4 AprThe Man Who Sold the World
4 AprBernie Sanders and taxes
4 AprThis Day in Labor History: The Research Project
4 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 450
4 AprProfessional Republican Cover-Up Artist Engaged In A Cover-Up
3 AprThe Wisconsin Disaster
3 AprWhat Could Go Wrong?
3 AprToday in the High and Mighty Principles of Rheeism
3 AprJust Not That Woman
3 AprDonald Trump, moral zombies and the uncanny valley
3 AprDonald Trump’s Racism Has Material Consequences
3 AprTourney Challenge Updates
3 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 449
3 AprThe Kook Kronikles Kontinued
3 AprThen Again, Too Few to Mention
2 AprTorturing the Eighth Amendment
2 AprThe ongoing cognitive decline of Donald Trump
2 AprPoint, Counterpoint
2 AprThe Real Issue with Free Speech on Campus
2 AprTexas and Racial Violence
2 AprCameron’s Folly
2 AprBrexit of champions
2 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 448
2 AprLGM Review of Books: Silvia Federici and Arlen Austin, Eds., Wages for Housework: The New York Committee, 1972-1977: History, Theory, Documents
1 AprThe Aristocrats!
1 AprWhat year is it in China?
1 AprI Can’t Work for That Corporation: 30 Years of Say Anything…
1 Apr“I wondered aloud if I would be able to find a decent meal in what was surely a culinary heart of darkness.”
1 AprRoberts Court Five: Death by Torture Does Not Violate the Eighth Amendment
1 AprTalent is not scarce
1 AprSour Cream Sauce for All Your Tex-Mex Foods

March 2019

31 MarCould We Get Less Hacky Showrunners Please
31 MarI Would Like To Report A Homicide
31 MarLinks R’ Us
31 MarTrump cuts aid to three Mexican countries
31 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 31, 1840
30 MarThe Idea Of Joe Biden Being the 2020 Democratic Nominee Is Absurd
30 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 447
30 MarHeavy Rotation
30 MarThe Iran Contra Precedent
29 MarSometimes, It’s Who You Most Expect
29 MarMultiply this by X
29 MarBarr promises to release all of the Mueller report except for the naughty bits
29 MarInstitutions Matter
29 MarJulian Slade’s “Salad Days”
29 MarAgnès Varda, RIP
29 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 29, 1965
29 MarIn Massive Upset, Supreme Court Republicans Prove Capable of Shame
28 MarIt’s the Cover-Up
28 Mar“All for themselves, after all.”
28 MarAlways Be Defrauding
28 MarOpening Day Open Thread
28 MarThe plot against America
28 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 446
28 MarTrump’s fraud pick for the Fed owes $75,000 in taxes because he “accidentally” deducted child support payments
28 MarMarker 2
28 MarThose Rats Didn’t Fuck Themselves
27 Mar$2.00 A Day
27 MarThe Cruelty is the Point
27 MarRegrets
27 MarYou Ever Think They’re Not Acting?
27 MarThe Worst People in the World
27 MarThe Christian Caliphate
27 MarCensoring the Mueller report
27 MarGronk
27 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 445
27 MarCome Hang Out With Me in Boston
26 MarDeep Thoughts, By Mike Lee
26 MarThe Cabinet of Evil
26 MarArt News
26 MarPsycho Analysis
26 MarOccupied Territory
26 MarThe Man Who Murdered Shame
26 MarWhy Focusing on the Presidency Is Bad Politics
26 MarMore Horrors from the Slave Trade
26 MarEFGoldman, RIP
26 MarLGM Beer Talk: We Need More Beers That Serve As Industrial Grade Liquids
25 MarAstroturf’d
25 MarWhat Is Beyond Self-Parody?
25 MarDonald Trump’s Racism Has Material Consequences
25 MarIchiro Coda
25 MarLeave Russia ALOOOOOOONE!!
25 MarTrump Not Vindicated By His Hand-Picked Partisan Hack’s Partisan Hackery
25 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 444
24 MarThe Brief Summary of the Mueller Report By Trump’s AG Does Not Exonerate Trump
24 MarMusic Notes
24 MarMen With Nothing to Hide
24 MarToday in Russian Ratfucking Troofer Hot Takes
24 MarTo the Streets
23 Mar“I Am Totally Vindicated By This Report Whose Contents I Have Not Seen”
23 Mar“Credit” Where Credit Is Due
23 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 443
22 MarThis Ridiculous Country
22 MarMueller report is done
22 MarJohn Roberts, Man of Integritude
22 MarMC 800-ft IDW
22 MarBad Deal or Worse No Deal
22 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 442
22 MarLook, Just Nominate A Woman
21 MarLarge Adult Body Parts
21 MarThe Information Security Administration
21 MarToday in America is not a normal country
21 MarBurning a witch
21 MarEnd stage bothersiderism
21 MarHe Lied, They Died
21 MarPessimistic Militancy
21 MarTime Horizons and Great Power Competition
21 MarHickenloopermentum
21 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 21, 1866
21 MarBringing Empirical Evidence to Economics
20 MarWhere For Art Thou The “Resistance”?
20 MarFrontier and Flight Attendant Activism
20 MarThis indecision’s bugging me
20 MarDead hand control
20 MarIt’s A Put On
20 MarJoe Biden should be a complete non-starter for the Democratic nomination
20 MarPod Talk
20 MarJapan’s New Aircraft Carriers
20 MarThe New New Jim Crow
20 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 441
20 MarThe Iron Triangle
19 MarThe immigrant song
19 MarWon’t you come and join the party dress to kill redux
19 MarSpecial Snowflake Demands $250M Worth of Safe Space
19 MarThis stupid country
19 MarTourney Challenge Reminders
19 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 440
19 MarPete Buttigieg
19 Mar“Look, he fled before sentencing and never came back, he’s paid his debt to society in full.”
18 MarWhen the AFL-CIO Attempts to Prove That It Will Not Lead the Workers’ Movement of the Future
18 MarHave our methods become unsound?
18 MarThe Trump Family’s Worst Capo?
18 MarRevisiting the Case for Reparations
18 MarAge and the presidency
18 MarHerodotus
18 MarIf You’re Catching Flak From Both Sides, You Must Be Over the Target!
18 MarDOPUS orders workers to seize the means of production
18 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 439
18 MarOf Course Obama-to-Trump Voters Can Be Motivated By Racial Resentments
17 MarTwo Directions
17 MarDick Dale, RIP
17 MarMake America Anglo-Saxon Again
17 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 17, 1966
17 MarWorthwhile Massachusetts Initiatives
16 MarThree Cheers For Parliamentary Democracy
16 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 438
16 MarBirch Bayh
16 MarOrganize the Presidential Campaigns
15 MarIt’s A Man’s World
15 MarDonald Trump is an aspiring fascist, and institutional and cultural forces can’t contain him indefinitely
15 MarThe “intellectual dark web” is just a way of monetizing fascist fellow traveling
15 MarThe Rules Could Fail to Produce A 2020 Democratic Candidate Before the Convention
15 Mar“My blood is European”
15 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 437
15 Mar“renewed white identity and common purpose”
15 MarAnd Now Beto
14 MarYou Fucked Up, You Trusted Us
14 MarHoward Schultz’s schmattas to riches story doesn’t check out at all
14 MarUnpaid “Paid” Leave
14 MarLGM Tourney Challenge II
14 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 436
14 MarIs the Times Learning? (No.)
14 MarQuality Historical Documents
13 MarTrump Racisted, People Died
13 MarFever, diarrhea, vomiting and other symptoms of a failed nation
13 MarBrexit open thread
13 MarThe Fine Line Between Legal and Illegal Bribery
13 MarLGM Tourney Challenge
13 MarOK, otherwise blameless life besides this mortgage fraud scheme here
13 MarI’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger recipe today [update]
13 MarStopping the Machinery of Death
13 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 435
13 MarAnd the Torch Moves Up the Rust Belt
12 MarPeople Voting? NO, THANK YOU.
12 MarSpeaking of student athletes
12 MarRobbing a bank is nothing compared to owning one
12 MarImpeaching Trump Would Be Purely Symbolic, And There’s No Reason To Think It Would be Effective Symbolism
12 MarIsn’t bribing somebody to get your kid into USC like bribing the maitre d’ at Olive Garden?
12 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 434
12 MarTrump insanity watch, AM edition
12 MarI Am Beginning To Question Whether Tucker Carlson Is Arguing in Good Faith
11 MarFederal appeals court moves to unseal documents in Jeffrey Epstein international sex trafficking case
11 MarKill Yr Filibuster
11 MarThe State of the Race
11 MarA People’s History of the Marvel Universe, Week 14 (The Hellfire Club)
11 MarTrump budget calls for $845 billion cut in Medicare, massive Pentagon spending increases
11 MarCaptain Marvel
11 Mar51
11 MarViolence and sarcasm
11 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 433
10 MarSometimes It’s Who You Most Suspect
10 Mar“Daylight Savings Time” Should be Standard Time
10 MarRed Book
10 MarDonald Trump is an anti-vaxxer
10 MarThe Wabtec Strike
10 MarLGM Review of Books: Naomi Klein, No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
10 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 432
10 MarMore Strikes, Less Transparency
9 MarPity the Poor Plutocratic Sports Owner
9 MarDamn Those Historians and Their Facts
9 MarWhy Primary Challenges to Lame Democrats from Safe Districts Is a Good Idea
9 MarOur Water History
9 MarThe Impact of Jenny McCarthyism
9 MarFor The Next Democratic Congress
9 MarMidterms!
9 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 431
9 MarMan Out Of Time
9 MarDonald Trump, Religious Guru
8 MarWords that scream for your submission and no-one’s jamming their transmission
8 MarQuick question for the group
8 MarYou didn’t think we would have only one Chinese sex trafficking and Donald Trump story today did you?
8 MarNeoliberalism Has Finally Been Defeated
8 MarShine out, shine on
8 MarThe Employer-Fascist Alliance
8 MarThe Incineration of Tokyo
8 MarBlameless
8 MarPlutocrat whose fortune is built on sex slavery watched Super Bowl with Trump
8 MarJustice Aversion
8 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 430
8 MarAn otherwise blameless life
7 MarDual loyalty and the fetishizing of the state
7 MarMan Puts Party, Country Above Vanity
7 MarCorrosion of Conformity
7 MarMarking the unmarked category
7 MarPeople forget Forget they’re hiding
7 MarLabor Law and the Democratic Primary
7 MarThursday Food Links and Open Thread
7 MarWhite Policing/Black Bodies
7 MarIlhan Omar in a Context of a Changing Washington
7 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 429
7 MarCampus P.C. Doesn’t Get Much More Out of Control Than This
6 MarWednesday Evening Links
6 MarArt is anything you can get away with
6 MarThe Dishonest Hacks Who Attack Ilhan Omar
6 MarWashington state: Primary or Caucus
6 MarGet Your Latest Civil War News Right Here!
6 MarWill Trump accept the legitimacy of the election if he loses next November?
6 MarLordstown: The End of the Industrial Era in America
6 MarPower, Corruption, and Lies
6 MarThat Was Overdetermined
6 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 428
6 MarThe Moral Importance Of Luck
5 MarThank You For Your Emolument
5 MarChecking In On State TV
5 MarThai Red Curry Pumpkin Soup
5 MarSo You’re Saying There’s Still A Chance
5 Mar“Free Tibet?”
5 MarIslamophobia in Action
5 MarLynching: An American Story
5 MarOn Evangelical Support for Donald Trump
5 MarThe Dead of Bangladesh
5 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 427
5 MarYoung Neoconfederates
4 MarReal Talk From America’s Shittiest Presidential Candidate
4 MarWhitaker whitakes off
4 MarJohn Hickenlooper, Political Super Genius
4 MarThe Erie Strike
4 MarWhy is Fox News treated as something other than a propaganda outlet?
4 MarPutting the Vulgar in Vulgar Marxism
4 MarThe world’s second-oldest profession
4 MarMeet the T-Rex
4 MarLet’s Call This What It Is, A Shakedown
4 MarEvaluating the top prospects in the NFL draft
4 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 426
4 MarNever Mind the Senate Here’s the Bullock
3 MarWe shoot down dreams, we stiletto in the back
3 MarDoing the Work
3 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 425
3 MarMusic Notes
3 MarAngry white nationalist loner engages in incoherent two-hour rant
2 MarAnother Coup From America’s Master Negotiator
2 MarForever in debt to your priceless advice
2 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 424
2 MarToday In Neoconfederate Jurisprudence
2 MarHickenloopermentum
1 MarThe Obvious Indefensibility of the Electoral College
1 MarCelery! Now that I’ve Got Your Attention: CELERY!
1 MarThis is the future Republicans want
1 MarHanoi Fallout
1 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 423
1 MarThe Information Security Presidency

February 2019

January 2019

31 JanThe Centrist Fallacy
31 JanHappy Social Security Check Day!
31 JanHow American Corporations Exploit the Global Poor Through Outsourcing and Subcontracting
31 JanThe Ultimate Consumer Wank Vanity Candidate
31 JanThe Problem Is Guns
31 JanWhat is it like to be a billionaire?
31 JanMitch McConnell: Free and Fair Elections Would Be Disastrous For the Republican Party
30 JanThe Trump Court and the Second Amendment
30 JanMake America Hat Again
30 JanO, Wisconnsin
30 JanThose Rats Won’t Fuck Themselves!
30 JanWhat Wednesdays
30 JanThe only good thing you can say about Donald Trump
30 JanHow Old Am I? The Replacements’ Don’t Tell A Soul Turns 30
30 JanChecking In On the Most Ridiculous 2020 Democratic Primary Campaigns
30 JanButts are a Gateway Drug to More Butts
29 JanWhy Schultz Is Running
29 JanErik Visits an American Grave, Part 406
29 JanThey’re All Bad
29 JanPride (In the Name Of My Wonderful Self)
28 JanOne Thing You Can Never Say, That You Haven’t Been Told
28 JanA tweet of biblical proportions
28 JanWon’t Someone Please Take the Politics Out of Politics
28 JanTaking Howard Schultz seriously
28 JanThe One MAGA Hat Mystery I Can’t Solve
28 JanA cavalcade of nativist nonsense for your Monday morning
28 JanThe Paranoid Style In American Blogging
28 JanWill Donald Trump Face a Significant Primary Challenge? [SPOILER: no]
28 JanBorder Patrol Agents Asked to Retroactively Substantiate Racist Trump Conspiracy Theories
27 JanI’ve Recorded In Denmark
27 JanWasted opportunity – Bernard Media and the blown chance to pants RWNJs
27 JanErik Visits an American Grave, Part 405
27 JanA Stark Tension
27 JanIs Clarence Thomas retiring soon? Is Howard Schultz running for president?
27 JanMusic Notes
27 JanAnatomy of a Ratfucking
26 JanThe Entire Republican Party Needs to Be Destroyed, Part the Zillion
26 JanThe Advantage of Netflix is That I Can Hate Watch the Hillbilly Elegy Movie Without Paying Extra Money
26 JanHow Many Cops Are Nazis?
26 JanGetting the Gang Back Together
26 JanA short list of responsible parties, now with an update
26 JanChecking In With A Great American Public Intellectual
26 JanDonald Trump and Sam Alito, So Happy Together
25 JanHow will the Trump presidency end?
25 Jan“Do We Have Your Attention Now, Leader McConnell?”
25 JanStone Indicted, Collaborated With Enormously Successful Ratfucking Campaign
25 JanAnd a man in my position can’t afford to be made to look ridiculous
25 JanPass That Popcorn
25 JanThe Information Security Presidency
25 JanGeneral Strikes and the Shutdown
25 JanFrankie Five Angels
25 JanFucking Grocery Stores, How Do They Work?
24 JanToday in the Global Decline of Human Rights and Political Dissidents
24 JanThe silver lining at the end of the world
24 JanBangladeshi Workers: Still Fighting
24 JanTriaging Climate
24 JanTrump’s Wall is the New Confederate Monument
24 JanWhat comes after farce again?
24 JanProfessional Liars and the People Who Represent Them
24 JanErik Visits an American Grave, Part 404
24 JanFlounder In Chief Folds
24 JanThoughts on Davos
23 JanVenezuela?
23 JanNancy Pelosi tells Trump not to bother showing up at her house
23 JanAnd their families — their families were taken care of
23 JanSpeaking of clueless old white guys who want to be president
23 JanCould Worker Activism End the Government Shutdown?
23 JanNew Stealth Bombers
23 JanThe Next Frontier of the Teachers’ Movement
23 JanNo to Biden, Part the Zillion
23 JanAuthoritarianism Breeds Authoritarianism
23 JanShould being a white man be a negative for Democratic presidential candidates?
23 JanErik Visits an American Grave, Part 403
23 JanGar
22 JanThe Recent Strike Wave
22 JanNot a good morning at CNN
22 JanRoberts Five Is Once Again Donald Trump’s Partner In Bigotry
22 JanThe Most Dangerous GLCMs…
22 JanOn the Covington Catholic Gaslightling Campaign
22 JanAcademy Awards Discussion Thread
22 JanThe billionaire next door
22 JanThis Day in Labor History: January 22, 1599
22 JanRudy Can Fail If You Give ‘Em Enough Rope
22 JanDonald Trump Is Very Unpopular and the Tax Cut Won’t Help
21 JanThe Historic 2020 Democratic Primary
21 JanKamala Harris is running for president
21 JanMegalodon’t Deny Our Existence!
21 JanTulsimentum!
21 JanErik Visits an American Grave, Part 402
21 JanJared Kushner, SUPERGENIUS
21 JanAnd everything under the sun is in tune
21 JanRepublican rituals
20 JanTwo Years
20 JanNFL Open Thread: Conference Championship Edition
20 JanThe Presumption of White Male Innocence in the Face of All Available Evidence
20 JanErik Visits an American Grave, Part 401
20 JanWe Can Do Better
20 JanMusic Notes
19 JanApparently this is a thing that happened
19 JanTrump proposes compromise in which Democrats bail him out in exchange for nothing
19 JanWhat MAGA Means
19 JanThe Definitive Podcast List
19 Jan70% is a Modest Reform
19 JanErik Visits an American Grave, Part 400
19 JanDemocracy: Generally Better Than Not Democracy
18 JanMarch for Lies (Update)
18 Jan“Bugger all else but sand in Klatch. Still got some in his sandals”
18 JanIt takes a Village
18 JanTrump’s Attorney General: Trump Broke the Law
18 JanPlan for PLAN SSBN Sorrows…
18 JanI Would Not Want Any Member That Would Join This Club
18 JanThe Producers
18 JanErik Visits an American Grave, Part 399
18 JanBuzzfeed Commits Outrageous Act of McCarthyism
18 JanWhat’s A Few Thousand Kidnapped Children Between White Nationalist Authoritarians?
18 JanThursday Night Open Thread
17 JanSteve King is Clearly an Outlier in the Republican Party
17 JanReactionary Moral Crusaders of the Past
17 JanSickout
17 JanTrump cancels Pelosi’s trip to a war zone out of sheer pique
17 JanTalking People Must Live By Work with Money on the Left
17 JanTrying to Make the Pauls Happen in 2019, And Other Arguments Of Similar Quality
17 JanA new theory about current events
17 JanRich Lowry is…Right
17 JanA Maverick In Full
17 JanThis Day in Labor History: January 17, 1915
17 JanThe president had a lot of buffers
16 JanThe Gang That Can’t Even Do Racism Right
16 JanAll hail Leader Pelosi
16 JanGillibrand In
16 JanFurther Developments Along the IP Front…
16 JanTulsi Gabbard’s Record on Syria Is Not Really Anti-War
16 JanErik Visits an American Grave, Part 398
16 JanWe need a total and complete shutdown of Michigan State until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on
15 JanWhy it’s racist to call racists racist
15 JanNo Brexit (Updated with a very important question)
15 JanThe gravedigger of American democracy
15 JanEvolution of the PLAAF
15 JanThe Non-Interventionist Mindset of Donald J. Trump
15 JanErik Visits an American Grave, Part 397
15 JanGlenn’s Latest Appearance on Tucker’s White Power Hour
15 JanMan Deemed Too Racist to Serve on Committees As Representative of Donald Trump’s Republican Party
14 JanMeal of Champions!
14 JanA History of the National Security State Through Comprehensive Exam Questions
14 Jan“I Support A Full Investigation…Into How Blue Lives Matter!”
14 JanJay Paterno is now is now a blogger for the Saudi government
14 JanJared Kushner, SUPERGENIUS
14 JanOur man in Moscow
14 JanErik Visits an American Grave, Part 396
14 Jan“Powerful Interests”
14 JanThe Shutdown Is A Disaster For A Lot of People
13 JanToday Was a Good Day (I Murdered Some Looters)
13 JanGreat Advances in Strikes
13 JanThe Big Electoral Story of 2019
13 JanNFL Divisional Round Open Thread 2: Into the Rivers We’d Ride
13 JanMy Daily Routine
13 JanEnd Ag-Gag Laws
13 JanErik Visits an American Grave, Part 395
13 JanThe key is to assume the worst
12 JanNFL Divisional Round Open Thread
12 JanBird Box
12 JanNope
12 JanThe Shart of the Deal
12 JanErik Visits an American Grave, Part 394
12 JanThe Shit Had Hit the Fan
12 JanNot Tulsi Time
11 JanReforming the SCOTUS
11 JanSherrod Brown Being the Democratic Presidential Nominee Is A Terrible Idea
11 JanBetting the Farm
11 JanSharp Objects/Sharp Objects
11 JanThe Wages of White Nationalist Symbolism
11 JanThis Day in Labor History: January 11, 1968
11 JanTwenty Years
10 JanThe Potemkin Wall
10 JanWhite House gearing up to replace RBG
10 JanYour Vote is Precious and Pure
10 JanThe Proto-Trump
10 JanThe Cross-Straits Military Balance
10 JanThe tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with E. Ccoli
10 JanBoth sides: The never ending story
10 JanErik Visits an American Grave, Part 393
10 JanIt’s Like, How Much More Jets Could This Be?
9 JanBoycotting white supremacists
9 JanThe collusion debate is over
9 JanSpecial Snowflake Triggered By Proxy, Needs Safe Space
9 JanCommunist Street
9 JanBowl Mania Winner!
9 JanIs Our Media Learning?
9 JanDonald Trump Is Bad At Presidenting
9 JanNew Frontiers In Both Sidesism
9 JanErik Visits an American Grave, Part 392
9 JanThe truth about Trump
8 Jan“Just cough up some dough, Mac!”
8 JanHe Was With the Russians Too
8 JanMiller time
8 JanThe Books I’m Looking Forward To in 2019
8 JanI Want You To Hurt Like I Do
8 JanErik Visits an American Grave, Part 391
8 JanThe Republican Party: America’s Assignment Editor
7 JanThe mysterious case of Mme. Calment
7 JanThese Are Not Very Bright Guys
7 JanRbg 2
7 JanThe Great White Male Hope
7 JanPunk Rock Movies 2018
7 JanMartinique
7 JanErik Visits an American Grave, Part 390
7 JanMusic Notes
6 JanTucker Carlson utters more than fourteen words evincing skepticism about finance capitalism: Conservative pundits blanch in pure horror
6 JanGraham
6 JanThe Freakout Continues
6 JanToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
6 JanErik Visits an American Grave, Part 389
6 JanNFL Wildcard Sunday Open Thread: Throw Schotty From the Train Edition
6 JanScenes from the Government Shutdown: National Parks Edition
5 JanNFL Wildcard Round Open Thread
5 JanGreat Grifters in American History
5 JanErik Visits an American Grave, Part 388
5 Jan“Extremism”
4 JanThis Will Be Bad
4 JanMore of This
4 JanConfident Predictions About Presidential Campaign Candidate Quality Are Always Misguided
4 JanRace and Schools
4 JanErik Visits an American (Abroad) Grave, Part 387
3 JanThe Coming Judicial War on Gun Control
3 JanGimme back my gavel
3 JanDid Zinke Run Out of Crayon?
3 JanHow Subcontracting and Outsourcing Undermine Workers Rights: Government Shutdown Edition
3 JanThe Year in Strikes
3 JanThey Will Get Fooled Again
3 JanErik Visits an American Grave, Part 386
3 JanElizabeth Warren’s Likability Problem
2 JanInsleementum!
2 JanWhoops!
2 JanToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
2 JanThe Fascist War on Native People
2 JanSally4Never
2 JanThe Ryan Legacy
2 JanRage 2
2 JanErik Visits an American Grave, Part 385
2 JanA Dissenting View on Mitt
2 JanBrave, Brave Sir Mittens
1 JanWho’s Ready for a Year of Republican Concern Trolling?
1 JanHow Can Elizabeth Warren Stop Hitting Herself?
1 JanThe GOP War on Teaching History
1 JanOscar Grant and the Politics of Rebellion
1 JanA Post-Obama Democratic Politics
1 JanTop Ten of 2018
1 JanAmerican Guns: Global Tools of Destruction
1 JanThis Day in Labor History: January 1, 1867
1 JanNew Year’s Eve Open Thread