2020

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December 2020

1. 31 Dec2020 Open Thread
2. 31 DecBest Albums of 2020
3. 31 DecDial the number to call/Get no answer at all
4. 31 DecThe fascist caucus
5. 31 DecIncreases in extreme human longevity: Some statistical questions
6. 31 DecA small redemption of a miserable year
7. 31 DecOperation Warped Deed (Update)
8. 31 DecBiden and IP
9. 31 DecNever give a sucker an even break
10. 31 DecGive Ben Sasse a cookie
11. 31 DecThis is the week that became infrastructure week
12. 31 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 756
13. 31 DecLGM Film Club, Part 107: How To Be Popular
14. 30 DecHow to fake populist
15. 30 DecWill Congressional certification of electoral college votes become yet another barrier to democracy? (Also includes Gilligan’s Island content)
16. 30 DecCOVID and Apocalyptic Evangelicalism
17. 30 DecJosh Hawley is a deeply serious person
18. 30 DecPragmatism and the Actual (Not Online) Left
19. 30 DecLGM Podcast: Brexiting with Brexit
20. 30 DecReading recommendations requested
21. 30 DecBest TV of 2020
22. 30 DecOakland General Strike
23. 30 DecNo white people were harmed in the course of this investigation
24. 30 DecWednesday NatSec Roundup
25. 30 DecTrump’s pardons are a closing tribute to fascism
26. 30 DecThis Day in Labor History: December 30, 1900
27. 30 DecA tale of our times in two tweets
28. 30 DecA (small) measure of justice
29. 30 DecLGM Film Club, Part 106: 1928 Fashion Show
30. 30 DecThis is peak wingnut
31. 29 DecTrump administration vaccine rollout has been a predictable fiasco
32. 29 DecClaiming victories as victories is good politics, even if the victories are partial
33. 29 DecLeave Your Best Progressives Where They Can Leverage the Most Power!
34. 29 DecThe Racism of Technology
35. 29 DecDeath on the Farms
36. 29 DecWhy white supremacists love DJT explained in 60 seconds
37. 29 DecOff white: A preliminary taxonomy
38. 29 DecHe could not possibly be better at this
39. 29 DecComrade Hawley, Anti-Imperialist
40. 29 DecThrow the bums out
41. 29 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 755
42. 29 DecWhen you choose to pretend to believe Republicans who you both know are lying, you still have made a choice
43. 29 DecMusic Notes
44. 29 DecLGM Film Club, Part 105: Out in the Rural
45. 29 DecWhy Amazon Workers Need a Union
46. 28 DecRevive Guaranteed Child Care As Progressive Policy
47. 28 DecTwitter is the copium of the people
48. 28 DecMango Sorbet
49. 28 DecMajor Polling Firm Now Openly Fascist
50. 28 DecAnd when they see their reflection, they’re fulfilled
51. 28 DecIdiocy and autocracy
52. 28 DecMonday NatSec Roundup
53. 28 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 754
54. 28 DecOh what a relief it is
55. 27 DecNFL Open Thread: the Luck of tanking edition
56. 27 DecRadicalism in Mainstream Entertainment, Again
57. 27 DecHow many GOP senators will object to the certification of the Electoral College vote?
58. 27 Dec“The President has got his war/ Folks don’t know just what it’s for/ Nobody gives us rhyme or reason/ Have one doubt, they call it treason:” Roberta Flack’s First Take at 50
59. 27 DecA Republican voting initiative we should all get behind
60. 26 DecToday is the day Donald Trump became president
61. 26 DecNBA Open Thread
62. 26 DecExecution of Lisa Montgomery delayed
63. 26 DecI found myself in a dark wood
64. 26 DecGood Riddance to Bad Rubbish
65. 25 DecA most Christmas outflankening
66. 25 DecNashville Bombing
67. 25 DecThe Great Disappointment
68. 25 DecHappy holidays from your friends at LGM
69. 25 DecAre there no poorhouses?
70. 25 DecNo, really, the leopards weren’t supposed to eat my face, specifically
71. 24 DecMerry Christmas
72. 24 DecWhile Trump is pardoning war criminals and corrupt cronies
73. 24 DecVirtually Every Trump Pardon is a Disgrace; Even the “Good Ones” are Marred by Arbitrariness
74. 24 DecHow to do it if it must be done
75. 24 DecRudy can defame
76. 24 DecTerminate with extreme bureaucratic prejudice
77. 23 DecGreat moments in mindless sycophancy
78. 23 DecTrump vetoes NDAA
79. 23 Dec“And then the situation turned violent”
80. 23 DecCongress and Credible Threats
81. 23 DecLetting the virus spread unchecked cannot fail, it can only be failed
82. 23 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 753
83. 23 DecThe outflankening of the outflankening
84. 23 DecDonald the Dove pardons more homicidal imperialists
85. 23 DecLGM Film Club, Part 104: Friedan
86. 22 DecWell the grifter he holds on to his claims of voter fraud because they’re money in the bank
87. 22 DecOur grifter problem
88. 22 DecSaving venues until live music comes back
89. 22 DecI Hate Oregon Nazis
90. 22 DecThe Haaland Agenda
91. 22 DecWhen You’ve Lost Gollum…
92. 22 DecThe last days of Donald
93. 22 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 752
94. 22 DecThe DeSantis DeSaster
95. 22 DecLGM Film Club, Part 103: Just Rambling Along
96. 22 DecWatch out Ron Johnson!
97. 21 DecJust Say No To Treason In Defense of Slavery
98. 21 DecHappy Solstice
99. 21 DecThe Horrors of Tyson
100. 21 DecSociopaths are Us
101. 21 DecThe Case for Letting Malibu Burn
102. 21 DecLGM Commenter Twitter Corps
103. 21 DecThe Games of 2020
104. 21 DecMonday NatSec Roundup
105. 21 DecTrump’s last outflankening
106. 21 DecIf the rule you followed has brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
107. 21 DecLGM Podcast: The Stimulus and Rural America
108. 21 DecThis Day in Labor History: December 21, 1907
109. 21 DecMendacity or Ineptitude?
110. 21 DecSociopaths and the women who love them
111. 21 DecLGM Film Club, Part 102: Socialism and the American Negro
112. 20 DecI Don’t Believe You (He Acts Like We Don’t Have a Death Plague)
113. 20 DecNFL Week 15 Open Thread
114. 20 DecWe (might) have a deal
115. 20 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 751
116. 20 DecDr. Jill Biden, Ed.D.
117. 20 DecBattered nation syndrome
118. 20 DecLGM Film Club, Part 101: The Corn Farmer
119. 20 DecMusic Notes
120. 19 DecJill Stein had to walk so Donald Trump could fly
121. 19 DecCentrist Dems Sure Hate the Left Side of Their Caucus
122. 19 DecWoah Nellie
123. 19 DecHaaland
124. 19 DecAmazon Union Election Is On
125. 19 DecAmerica’s Dumbest Senator: Let Them Eat Shit
126. 19 DecPeople are strange
127. 19 DecSaturday NatSec Roundup
128. 19 Dec“Guardians?”
129. 19 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 750
130. 19 DecPrint the legend
131. 19 DecLGM Film Club, Part 100: Goldwater’s Acceptance Speech
132. 18 DecThe Political Immodesty of the Roberts Court
133. 18 DecWhy Unions Are Suspicious of the Green New Deal
134. 18 DecRepublican Priorities: Delegitimizing All Democratic Governance
135. 18 DecWhat a White Religious Supremacist State Looks Like
136. 18 DecTrump Court hands its patron another parting gift
137. 18 DecHey, look who stole $617 million in Trump campaign money
138. 18 DecProgressives in the Biden FP Team
139. 18 DecHave you accepted Donald Trump into your heart?
140. 18 DecWhy do all these white supremacists keep showing up in my photo ops?
141. 18 DecOur Endangered Liquors
142. 18 DecLGM Film Club, Part 99: Tokyo, 1966
143. 18 DecThe leopards were not supposed to eat my face
144. 17 DecThe Final Defeat of Neoliberalism
145. 17 DecOn the other hand, her emails
146. 17 DecSome cheerful thoughts from Paul Waldman
147. 17 DecThursday NatSec Roundup
148. 17 DecHunter is headed to prison
149. 17 DecThank Warnock, Ossoff, and Abrams if Senate Republicans pass a relief bill
150. 17 DecTrump now rejecting the crypto-leftist bias of Fox, Breitbart, and Newsmax
151. 17 DecThis Day in Labor History: December 17, 1894
152. 17 Dec“We want them infected”
153. 17 DecLGM Film Club, Part 98: Soviet H-Bomb Test
154. 17 DecThe Trump years get the conclusion they deserve
155. 16 DecWeaponizing the free exercise clause
156. 16 DecThe Fuse
157. 16 DecPolitical Action in December 2020
158. 16 DecThe Rural Voter Issue
159. 16 DecSaving Minority History
160. 16 DecInsufferably self-important and cloyingly obsequious
161. 16 DecA couple of post-election notes
162. 16 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 749
163. 16 DecAguirre, the Wrath of Trump
164. 16 DecLGM Film Club, Part 97: La Valse
165. 16 Dec“What’s wrong with being sexy?” –Malcolm Gladwell
166. 15 DecCOVID’s Economic Impact on Women
167. 15 DecUnionbusters Know No Bottom
168. 15 DecLegends Speaking
169. 15 DecBill Barr was the worst Attorney General in American history
170. 15 DecHow’s that elite legal strike force doing?
171. 15 DecTrump is the ultimate Reaganite
172. 15 DecTrump administration concedes election to Joe Biden
173. 15 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 748
174. 15 DecBrexit Update from Delusional Britain
175. 15 DecBarr was corrupt until the end
176. 15 DecLGM Film Club, Part 96: Remember My Forgotten Man
177. 15 DecTrump administration has allowed extensive cyberespionage
178. 14 DecIdentity Politics and Biden Appointees
179. 14 DecBarr fired
180. 14 DecHow Lucky
181. 14 DecMake America White Again!
182. 14 DecFascism, Live and Direct
183. 14 DecHot-blooded bible thumping cash on the barrel honey
184. 14 DecInside the right wing bubble
185. 14 DecTrump administration sending alternative slate of electors to Congress
186. 14 DecLet me ride on the Wall Of Death one more time
187. 14 DecThe man who would never shut up
188. 14 DecIn Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
189. 14 DecJumping the queue
190. 13 DecJohn Le Carré, RIP
191. 13 DecTrump’s base responds to his loss
192. 13 DecNFL Open Thread: Gregggggg Edition
193. 13 DecA new Electoral College fiasco brewing
194. 13 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 747
195. 13 DecKim Ki-Duk, RIP
196. 12 DecUnpromising
197. 12 DecCharley Pride, RIP
198. 12 DecThe Republican war on democracy moves on to new fronts
199. 12 DecIt’s amazing that we have a safe COVID vaccine already
200. 12 DecWho writes Trump’s tweets?
201. 12 DecFormalist versus realist interpretations of the post-election litigation
202. 12 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 746
203. 12 DecWhen I Lost the Election For The Seventh Time
204. 12 DecLGM Film Club, Part 95: Ervin and Ehrlichman
205. 12 DecSupreme Court Won’t Do That
206. 12 DecYou say you want a revolution
207. 11 DecHouse Republicans are supporting war on democracy because they agree with it
208. 11 DecCleveland Heights Teachers Strike
209. 11 DecKidding on the square
210. 11 DecWhy Did Private Sector Unions Decline?
211. 11 DecClimate Change and Black Cemeteries
212. 11 DecToday in the World’s Worst Deliberative Body
213. 11 DecFriday NatSec Roundup
214. 11 DecNo, I Don’t Care About Your Polling Data
215. 11 DecDelenda est
216. 11 DecForgive Student Loans
217. 11 DecThe Bill Barr Death Machine
218. 11 DecLGM Film Club, Part 94: River of Gold
219. 11 DecForce Z
220. 11 DecThis Fuckin’ Guy
221. 10 Dec100 Republican House members endorse Texas’s attempted autogolpe
222. 10 DecDisbar the lawyers participating in an ongoing attempted judicial coup
223. 10 DecCrooks support frivolous election theft lawsuit filed by crook
224. 10 DecTexas v. Pennsylvania
225. 10 DecLosing It
226. 10 DecLGM Film Club, Part 93: I.F. Stone
227. 9 DecIs that, like, even a real number?
228. 9 DecThe wrong Johnson
229. 9 DecBreaking:Josh Hawley is a completely orthodox reactionary
230. 9 DecEdge of Tomorrow
231. 9 DecRegressive Taxation Again
232. 9 DecWill Trump pardon Assange?
233. 9 DecOrganize the Gyms!
234. 9 DecToday in the Sixth Extinction
235. 9 DecHow much land does a man need?
236. 9 DecWednesday NatSec Roundup
237. 9 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 745
238. 9 DecCrook files dumbest election lawsuit in known human history
239. 9 DecLGM Film Club, Part 92: Polio Vaccination
240. 8 DecHe couldn’t sell it. He’s not respected.
241. 8 DecDoug Jones as AG?
242. 8 DecChild Care in the Age of COVID
243. 8 DecThe Vaccine
244. 8 DecTrump’s Final Blows Against Neoliberalism
245. 8 DecSelling the idea that helping corporations pave Lake Tahoe for money is a noble enterprise
246. 8 DecSpace Force-ing
247. 8 DecAmerica’s dumbest senator wants more Americans to get sick and die
248. 8 DecImagine no possessions
249. 8 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 744
250. 8 DecTrump left 100 million doses of vaccine on the table
251. 8 DecLGM Film Club, Part 91: The Crime of Carelessness
252. 8 Dec#Deathsantis
253. 7 DecDick Allen
254. 7 DecTrump’s lawsuits continue to fail as lawsuits, succeed in their intended purpose
255. 7 DecTop Actors of the 21st Century
256. 7 DecRepublicans invite anti-vaxx crackpot as star witness
257. 7 DecDems and Rural Voters
258. 7 DecHow We Doing America?
259. 7 DecMonday NatSec Roundup
260. 7 DecLoyalty oaths and re-education sessions
261. 7 DecLGM Podcast: Talkin’ Georgia, Legal Elite Amorality, and COVID
262. 7 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 743
263. 7 DecLook who’s trying to slither away under cover of broad daylight
264. 6 DecRudy can get COVID
265. 6 DecNFL Open Thread: Gase’d
266. 6 DecThe Swedish Experiment
267. 6 DecHow close did we come to a second Trump term?
268. 6 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 742
269. 6 Dec“On the Government Website:” An Expert Critic’s Examination of Van Morrison’s Anti-Lockdown Songs
270. 6 DecThe devil went down to Georgia
271. 6 DecRudy’s star witness is a sex pest
272. 5 DecDisqualifying
273. 5 DecTrump urges Brian Kemp to nullify will of Georgia voters
274. 5 DecThe Titanium Sombrero
275. 5 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 741
276. 5 DecMasks Work
277. 5 DecLGM Film Club, Part 90: Bess Truman’s Champagne Bottle
278. 5 DecOur underachieving and self-serving elites
279. 4 DecMitch McConnell: criminal justice reform is a distraction from doing nothing
280. 4 DecThe Aristocrats and the Meritocracy: An Ongoing Series
281. 4 DecFriday NatSec Roundup
282. 4 DecThe State Level Trumps
283. 4 DecA 9/11 every day
284. 4 DecOur Morally Bankrupt Legal Elite
285. 4 DecWhy Do Salmon Die in Seattle?
286. 4 DecThey went to Jared’s Lawyer
287. 4 DecLGM Film Club, Part 89: Antonio Gaudi
288. 3 Dec“15 minutes after the Challenger blew up he’s selling NASA stock short”
289. 3 DecMcConnell to non-corporate America: drop dead
290. 3 DecYour Hungry Apparel Workers
291. 3 DecThe Elect
292. 3 DecAmerican Justice
293. 3 DecShock Doctrine: Higher Education Version
294. 3 DecThursday NatSec Roundup
295. 3 DecBut Biden Can Push Important Reforms in the U.S. Alliance System
296. 3 DecTalk: Why Biden Can’t Restore U.S. Hegemony
297. 3 DecHe stopped loving him today
298. 3 DecRudy Giuliani’s star witness
299. 3 DecYou’d be surprised how often that works
300. 3 DecLGM Film Club, Part 88: Children Who Labor
301. 2 DecOne of these days, Amy Coney Barrett will cast a vote that doesn’t kill people
302. 2 DecAnd then things got out of hand
303. 2 DecBiden and the Public Lands
304. 2 DecSpace Force!
305. 2 DecDo Corporations Have the Right to Profit Off Child Slavery? They Sure Want To!
306. 2 DecMerica!
307. 2 DecCampus PC is out of control
308. 2 DecTransnational Activism and the 19th Amendment
309. 2 DecBiden’s margin grows to nearly seven million votes
310. 2 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 740
311. 2 DecMitch McConnell opposes COVID relief for anyone but businesses who get their workers sick
312. 2 DecLGM Film Club, Part 87: The Battle of Michigan Avenue
313. 2 DecBill Barr is really angling for that firing that will reestablish his integritude to all the haters
314. 1 DecI Just Can’t Take All This Outflanking!
315. 1 DecDoing COVID Management Right
316. 1 DecThe Slave Labor Lobby, By Which I Mean Dozens of Major American Corporations
317. 1 DecBen Wittes vindicated at last!
318. 1 DecEverybody here hates you
319. 1 DecCOVID and the DIB
320. 1 DecThe future of the Republican party
321. 1 DecPunish the traitors!
322. 1 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 739
323. 1 DecAtlas Slinks
324. 1 DecLGM Film Club, Part 86: A Lively Affair

November 2020

1. 30 NovArizona and Wisconsin certify their votes
2. 30 NovThe Laffer Curve of Death
3. 30 NovUnions after the Election
4. 30 NovToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
5. 30 NovOrganizing Amazon
6. 30 NovTrump’s late rallies flopped
7. 30 NovThere’s something happening here
8. 30 NovLGM Podcast: Women of Color in the Suffrage Movement
9. 30 NovMonday NatSec Roundup
10. 30 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 738
11. 30 NovWhat’s the matter with Monroe County?
12. 29 NovI’d call it no grand bargain, the best I ever had
13. 29 NovNFL Open Thread: Another branch falls off the Belichick coaching tree
14. 29 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 737
15. 29 NovNFL requiring Denver to play a game tomorrow without a quarterback
16. 29 NovMusic Notes
17. 28 NovThe Republican war on labor and expertise
18. 28 NovThe Best and Brightest
19. 28 NovLooking at the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections in Michigan
20. 28 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 736
21. 28 NovLife under a death cult
22. 27 NovRelease the something
23. 27 NovOnward Christian hookers
24. 27 NovDonald Trump and the limits of legal realism
25. 27 NovThe Nail in the Coffin for Neoliberalism
26. 27 NovHow to help with food insecurity
27. 27 NovPresident gets mocked on Twitter, demands law be changed immediately to stop this threat to national insecurity
28. 27 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 735
29. 27 NovInside job
30. 26 NovPersons of bad faith
31. 26 NovThe Dersh enters the count room
32. 26 NovI admire its purity
33. 26 NovHappy Inferior Meat Day!
34. 26 NovJustice Neil Gorsuch explains it all for you
35. 26 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 734
36. 26 NovDavid Perdue is a crook
37. 25 NovLet us dispel with the fiction that avoidable mass death is bad
38. 25 NovAnother day in paradise
39. 25 NovArsonists demand that concerns about fire safety be taken seriously
40. 25 NovMocktails
41. 25 NovMaradona
42. 25 NovWednesday NatSec Roundup
43. 25 NovBirtherism and Donald Trump’s Republican Party
44. 25 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 733
45. 25 NovParty Above Country: the Ballad of Moscow Mitch
46. 25 NovWe know who we’re dealing with
47. 25 NovI hate people when they’re not polite
48. 24 NovThis could be fun
49. 24 NovPresidential impunity has repeatedly failed
50. 24 NovThe end of an error
51. 24 NovA mathematical demonstration of the insanity of the Electoral College
52. 24 NovWeaponizing the Long Arm of IP Law
53. 24 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 732
54. 24 NovSoumitra Chatterjee, RIP
55. 24 NovLGM Film Club, Part 85: Watching Rachael Ray from Mexico
56. 24 NovNot with a bang but a Twitter
57. 24 NovTrump beginning to doubt quality of elite strike force
58. 23 Nov3/4 of Michigan Board of State Canvassers follow black letter law rather than participate in Donald Trump’s scheme to steal the election
59. 23 NovBreaking Everything They Can
60. 23 NovDarkness at Noon: Trumpism as revolutionary cult
61. 23 NovHow American Guns Lead to Death in Latin America
62. 23 NovAmerican Child Labor
63. 23 NovI award you no points
64. 23 NovMonday NatSec Roundup
65. 23 NovLGM Podcast: Post-Election Blues
66. 23 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 731
67. 23 NovIt was never a partnership
68. 22 NovThe Republican establishment’s objection to Donald Trump’s election theft is that it’s ineffective
69. 22 NovNFL Open Thread: Fire This Asshole Again Edition
70. 22 NovTrumpism without Trump
71. 22 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 730
72. 22 NovMusic Notes
73. 21 NovAre you ready for some Calvinball?
74. 21 NovHigh on Rupert’s supply
75. 21 NovThe contingency of the failure of Trump’s Klown Koup
76. 21 NovNext Step: Rip Out the Copper Wire at DoJ
77. 21 NovSaturday NatSec Roundup
78. 21 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 729
79. 21 NovMore on Yalie Hedge Fund Elegy
80. 21 NovMI GOP concludes election isn’t close enough to steal
81. 20 NovWhat Activists Do
82. 20 NovBen Wittes is back to share his wisdom about the unshakeable integrity of American political institutions
83. 20 NovPolicing Is Unaccountable Violence
84. 20 NovWoman enabling fascism really not that into fascism
85. 20 NovAnother winner from Trump’s crack legal team
86. 20 NovThe old rugged cross
87. 20 NovDavid Perdue is a crook
88. 20 NovThe History of Policing is an Argument Against Reform
89. 20 NovCrimes committed right out in the open are still crimes
90. 20 NovThe kneecapping begins
91. 20 NovDonald Trump and his enablers are going to murder several hundred thousand Americans over the next few months
92. 20 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 728
93. 20 NovProfiles in slightly less than total cowardice
94. 20 NovThe Falsest Equivalency
95. 19 NovSmell the glove
96. 19 NovTrump is the logical product of the anti-democratic attitudes of Republican elites
97. 19 NovCome and see
98. 19 NovAn ongoing leadership failure
99. 19 NovAsking the wrong questions about Trump and fascism
100. 19 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 727
101. 19 NovWhy do all these white nationalists keep ending up in my administration?
102. 19 NovJust a Fun Side Bet
103. 18 NovEmily Murphy is damaging the country for no defensible reason
104. 18 NovNot just a river in Egypt
105. 18 NovThe Squad vs. the Mods Misses the Point
106. 18 NovWhy did the New York Times glorify a superspreader event?
107. 18 NovYou still don’t realize what you’re dealing with
108. 18 NovEnvironmental Racism in Action
109. 18 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 726
110. 18 NovPanic in Detroit
111. 18 NovCOVID and Child Labor
112. 18 NovThe autogolpe next time
113. 17 NovThe first victory of the Biden administration
114. 17 NovBut to take another pro, even your partner, who knows you, and has his eye on you
115. 17 NovThe Patents, the Power
116. 17 NovRadicalism in Mainstream Entertainment
117. 17 NovShorter Scott Atlas: “Might as well have a big Thanksgiving, we plan on killing grandma anyway”
118. 17 NovEndgame
119. 17 NovTuesday NatSec Roundup
120. 17 NovThis Day in Labor History: November 17, 1946
121. 17 NovLock Him Up
122. 17 NovSadly Lionel Hutz is not available
123. 17 NovA student debt jubilee should be a no-brainer
124. 16 Nov“We expect you to die”
125. 16 NovGet off the grift Emily
126. 16 NovThe ACA will (apparently) survive because it is a plan in the New Deal tradition
127. 16 NovCOVID’s been everywhere, man
128. 16 NovMommy I Won the Election
129. 16 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 725
130. 16 NovAtlas Shrugged
131. 15 Nov#Winning
132. 15 NovNFL Open Thread: Pardon My Coaching
133. 15 NovShorter Jonathan Turley: Witch hunts are good if the witches are acquitted
134. 15 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 724
135. 15 NovCheckmate
136. 14 NovAll of the president’s lawyers
137. 14 NovIt’s the Great Pumpkin, Donald Trump
138. 14 NovWhy Democrats Won Arizona
139. 14 NovThe Great Give Up
140. 14 NovAnother tricky day
141. 14 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 723
142. 14 NovI was cautioned to surrender This I could not do
143. 14 NovLGM Film Club, Part 84: The Way to Cook Meat
144. 14 NovAllow me to be your sommelier for the finest selections of this evening’s whines
145. 14 NovThat’s Not the Weber You’re Looking For
146. 13 NovSir, this is an Arby’s
147. 13 NovI definitely didn’t have this one on my bingo card
148. 13 NovIf hating Porter Wright is wrong, I don’t want to be right
149. 13 NovI started out on burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff: The future of right wing media
150. 13 NovFriday Natsec Roundup
151. 13 NovMaybe Pay Attention to Latino Communities?
152. 13 NovCalifornia Voters Choose Corporate Domination
153. 13 NovMr. Biden: Tear Down This Wall!
154. 13 NovCOVID comes at you fast
155. 13 NovJonathan Turley is just asking questions
156. 13 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 722
157. 13 Nov“I’ve told you once–you son of a bitch–I’m the best there’s ever been:” A Charlie Daniels Memoriam
158. 13 NovFuck you, pay them
159. 12 NovInsane conspiracy theorist who spends all day screaming at the TV got 73 million votes for president
160. 12 NovNever forget what they tried to do
161. 12 NovAnd just like that it’s over
162. 12 NovThe Future of Shore-Based Artillery
163. 12 NovIs our media learning? Major outlets are describing Trump’s defeat as Trump’s defeat
164. 12 NovUnreadable book turned into unwatchable movie
165. 12 NovDream Comfort Memory Despair: Happy 75th birthday Neil Young
166. 12 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 721
167. 12 NovFancy big law firm decides shilling for fascism not worth the headache
168. 12 NovShould the winner of the election take office? Views differ
169. 11 NovJon Voight calls for civil war
170. 11 NovHow to mitigate COVID
171. 11 NovThe man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad
172. 11 NovThis Day in Labor History: November 11, 1918
173. 11 NovWednesday NatSec Roundup
174. 11 NovI’d be a fool to do your dirty work
175. 11 NovRepublicans hate America
176. 11 NovThe Vote Fraud Fraud Continues
177. 11 NovThe circle of life
178. 10 NovA coup and a scam
179. 10 NovEleven is a hell of a rule
180. 10 NovGood Christian folk
181. 10 NovTrump got huge numbers of Americans killed
182. 10 NovAlexander Hamilton, Slaver
183. 10 NovHow much do you need to pay a Jones Day partner to help destroy liberal democracy?
184. 10 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 720
185. 10 NovDirector of DOJ’s Election Crimes Branch resigns over Barr’s invitation to intervene in elections
186. 10 NovLGM Film Club, Part 83: Dallas at the Crossroads
187. 10 NovProblematizing Crowdsourced Political Donations
188. 9 NovThe First 100 Days
189. 9 NovMcConnell announces continuation of his war on American democracy
190. 9 NovElectoral College denialism
191. 9 NovTrump fires the Secretary of Defense
192. 9 NovI can’t stand it, I know you planned it
193. 9 NovPatents for Power: Intellectual Property and the Diffusion of Military Technology
194. 9 NovPfizer announces its vaccine works immediately after election of Joe Biden
195. 9 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 719
196. 9 NovThey’re really going to do this apparently
197. 8 NovA final answer
198. 8 NovHow the Trump campaign ends: a landscaping company, a crematorium, a dildo, and an adult bookstore
199. 8 NovNeither Progressives nor Moderates Deserve Blame for 2020 Disappointments
200. 8 NovNFL Open Thread
201. 8 NovWhomp-whomp
202. 8 NovA sober assessment
203. 8 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 718
204. 8 NovMy Hectoring Lament: Chelady in Blue Requests We Not Become Complacent
205. 8 NovWe make a pretty good team
206. 8 NovBiden Thread
207. 7 NovWe beat the son of a bitch
208. 7 NovDon’t Worry About Anything
209. 7 NovThank God
210. 7 NovThe Trump administration is a floating superspreader event
211. 7 NovDestroying democracy one day at a time
212. 7 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 717
213. 7 NovConspiracism and the election
214. 7 NovThe politics of election calls
215. 6 NovAnd the grift goes on
216. 6 NovWhere Does the GOP Go From Here?
217. 6 NovHearsay on Hearsay
218. 6 NovSteiner’s counter-attack keeps getting delayed
219. 6 NovThe War on the War on Drugs
220. 6 NovLet the schadenfreude roll
221. 6 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 716
222. 6 NovToday is the day Donald Trump became ex-president
223. 6 NovLate night election update thread
224. 6 NovEgregious lies and smears
225. 5 NovWorld’s most treacherous man outraged by the lack of loyalty displayed by his allies
226. 5 NovOpen plans to steal elections are bad even if they fail
227. 5 NovTrump issues statement (to avoid Twitter censorship)
228. 5 NovCoping
229. 5 NovIf Donald Trump did not exist would it have been necessary to invent him?
230. 5 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 715
231. 5 NovLate night election update
232. 5 NovUncle Rupert turns off the lights
233. 4 NovOn some level, I think Trump doesn’t mind that it’s all going down like this
234. 4 NovThe highest office in the land
235. 4 NovTrump files lawsuits to stop vote counts in Pennsylvania and Michigan
236. 4 NovThe Tilted Election
237. 4 NovOur Respectable Senate Moderates will kill us all
238. 4 NovSome things
239. 4 NovWe are in a dark place
240. 4 NovAftermath
241. 4 NovThere’s got to be a morning after
242. 4 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 714
243. 4 NovCan the coup be stopped?
244. 4 NovOpen Thread #5: You forgot the poles edition
245. 4 NovOpen Thread #4
246. 4 NovOpen Thread 3: so we’re doing this again
247. 4 NovAnother election open thread: Preparing for the worst – Any tips?
248. 4 NovElection Open Thread #1: Justice Kavanaugh has made his decision, now let him enforce it edition
249. 3 NovAP VoteCast
250. 3 NovTurnout PA
251. 3 NovImagine a democratic election for president
252. 3 NovThe Plan Is to Drink Until the Pain Over
253. 3 Nov100,000,000 early votes
254. 3 NovThe dreamlife of mustaches
255. 3 NovHow does this happen?
256. 3 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 713
257. 3 NovDefeat the Fascist Snake
258. 3 NovToday is the day that Donald Trump became . . .
259. 3 NovYou never count your money while you’re sitting at the table [UPDATED]
260. 2 NovGOP Harris County suit tossed for lack of standing
261. 2 NovHe’s so cruel and unusual
262. 2 NovLGM Election Day Contest
263. 2 NovUnited States Senator is a very important job
264. 2 NovMonday NatSec Roundup
265. 2 NovNight sweats
266. 2 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 712
267. 2 NovTrump: FBI should be investigating imaginary terrorism rather than the real ones who support me
268. 1 NovTrump advisors: stealing the election is our only chance
269. 1 NovLGM Podcast: Election
270. 1 NovOur Own Private Dystopia
271. 1 NovNFL Open Thread: Capped Out Edition
272. 1 NovWhen the Electoral College Nearly Died
273. 1 NovThat joke isn’t funny any more
274. 1 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 711
275. 1 NovSome Sunday Distractions
276. 1 NovThe Nihilist in Chief

October 2020

1. 31 OctThe New Old Jim Crow
2. 31 OctTexas Republicans go full fash
3. 31 OctHow Union Busting Works in Iowa
4. 31 OctMuseums!
5. 31 OctEarly voting totals continue to be off the charts
6. 31 OctConnery RIP
7. 31 OctSean Connery, RIP
8. 31 OctCleaning Up the Pollution? Nah.
9. 31 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 710
10. 30 OctThey were practiced at the art of deception
11. 30 OctNorth DaCovid
12. 30 OctDonald Trump is the Republican Party
13. 30 OctTrump pandemic worse than ever
14. 30 OctWhat Abolition Means
15. 30 OctLGM Podcast: Latino Cities
16. 30 OctBill Barr helped Trump carry out bribery scheme
17. 30 OctGeneral Strike for Democracy
18. 30 OctFriday NatSec Roundup
19. 30 OctRepublican attempts to steal the election are a major crisis even if they fail
20. 30 OctFantasy Baseball Classic Results
21. 30 OctPurge the Courts
22. 30 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 709
23. 30 Oct8th Circuit Threatens to Steal Minnesota Election
24. 29 OctThey can only win by cheating
25. 29 OctHow high will turnout be in the 2020 election and how will it matter?
26. 29 OctPersons with delicate constitutions may wish to look away
27. 29 OctBabe, I’m Gonna Leave You
28. 29 OctDon’t Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out, Glenn
29. 29 OctIf Donald Trump isn’t taking the pandemic seriously enough, does that necessarily mean that Joe Biden is taking it *too* seriously?
30. 29 OctI’m never gonna know you now, but I’m gonna love you anyhow
31. 29 OctI Like Big Boats!
32. 29 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 708
33. 29 OctThere was nothing in Guiliani’s vault, and it was definitely Tucker’s fault
34. 29 OctLGM Film Club, Part 82: Batgirl Demands Equal Pay
35. 28 OctSam Alito: we will steal the election if it’s close
36. 28 OctBilly Joe Shaver, RIP
37. 28 OctThe White Nostalgia of the CCC
38. 28 OctThe coming pivot to “it’s OK to try to steal elections if you fail”
39. 28 OctReally interesting stats from CNN poll
40. 28 OctTurns out a drunk rapist with a super shady financial past who got into Yale as a legacy and then lied about that under oath (and a lot else besides) isn’t some sort of brilliant legal thinker after all
41. 28 OctDid Donald Trump Destroy the Republican Party? Spoiler Alert: No.
42. 28 OctThe Violence To Come. Maybe.
43. 28 OctCOVID Isn’t the Black Swan that Beat Trump, It’s the Black Swan that Could Have Saved Him
44. 28 OctWednesday NatSec Roundup
45. 28 OctLibertarianism for utter dumbshits
46. 28 OctLisa Blatt thinks it’s OK for Brett Kavanaugh to rape five women if he promotes one of them
47. 28 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 707
48. 28 OctYou are (sometimes) forgiven
49. 27 OctSweet and clear as moonlight through the pines
50. 27 OctSome are mathematicians, some are carpenters’ wives
51. 27 OctRequiem for a grifter
52. 27 OctThe First Temptation of Amy Coney Barrett
53. 27 OctPlayed them all the old songs
54. 27 OctAmy Coathanger Barrett and the anti-democratic feedback loop
55. 27 OctThe state of the race with one week to go
56. 27 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 706
57. 27 OctJustice Bart O’Kavanaugh: counting votes is theft
58. 26 OctHypersonics for Everyone!
59. 26 OctMalevolence and incompetence are often hard to disentangle
60. 26 OctMitch McConnell’s Court-Packing
61. 26 OctMonday NatSec Roundup
62. 26 OctJared Kushner implores black people not to be so lazy and shiftless
63. 26 OctWhen the gang that couldn’t ratfuck straight met Rupert Murdoch’s actual journalists
64. 26 OctShe can bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan
65. 26 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 705
66. 26 OctSometimes My Mind Wanders and I Think About Turpitude
67. 26 OctThe right incentives
68. 25 OctI honestly cannot imagine anyone possibly being better at this
69. 25 OctWorld Series/NFL open thread
70. 25 OctRebeccas
71. 25 OctDrum’s deficient democratic theory
72. 25 OctLiberals are largely incapable of even imagining the possibility of a liberal Supreme Court
73. 25 OctMurc’s laying down of the law
74. 25 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 704
75. 25 OctYour android replica is acting up again
76. 25 OctMusic Notes
77. 24 OctNoah’s arc of history
78. 24 OctIndia’s Carrier Aspirations
79. 24 Oct“The Things That Didn’t Kill You Made You Weird for a Time:” Talking With James Jackson Toth about ‘The Toth Zone’
80. 24 OctConservation easements are a massive scam
81. 24 OctLGM Podcast: Iron Empires
82. 24 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 703
83. 24 OctThe new tone
84. 24 OctJames Comey Day
85. 23 OctToday is the day Donald Trump once again became president
86. 23 OctIt’s difficult to grasp exactly how paranoid and generally crazy these people are
87. 23 OctTrump’s newly announced second term agenda targets crucial 12-year-old boy demographic
88. 23 OctRemember, Fox is the “respectable” end of the right wing media ecosystem
89. 23 OctTrump Has Truly Defeated Neoliberalism
90. 23 OctRepublicans can’t win free and fair national elections
91. 23 OctFriday NatSec Roundup
92. 23 OctThe forces of evil in a Bozo nightmare
93. 23 OctBorat comes to Rudy’s defense
94. 23 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 702
95. 23 OctThere is a debate tonight
96. 22 OctRoger Taney’s Knife
97. 22 OctThe new maniac tough guys of Twitter
98. 22 OctBrave, brave sir Donalde
99. 22 OctACB and the Maternal Civilizing Mission
100. 22 OctApproaching the theoretical limits of bothsiderism
101. 22 OctThe nation may not survive all this but at least we got some good laughs along the way
102. 22 OctWhere’s My Roy Cohn James Comey?
103. 22 OctJoe Biden and the historical moment
104. 22 OctJohn Roberts’s latest assault on the right to vote
105. 21 OctOf monsters and men
106. 21 OctShowrunners having quite a day so far
107. 21 OctFinally, the Republican Plan to replace the ACA if their hack judges strike it down is revealed
108. 21 OctI’ve aged a year since then
109. 21 OctWe have been governed for 4 years by the worst people on Earth
110. 21 OctSmash and grab
111. 21 OctDaniel Dale should get combat pay
112. 21 OctWhy Did the 1619 Project Cause Such Outrage?
113. 21 OctWednesday NatSec Roundup
114. 21 OctHe just could not possibly be better at this
115. 20 OctThe Gender Gap
116. 20 OctThe Bolivian Coup Overturned
117. 20 OctRemember the Alamo, when help was on the way
118. 20 OctRadical legal scholar says Dems will probably have to reform the courts
119. 20 OctJust throwing this out there
120. 20 OctLike Rain on Bull Connor’s wedding day
121. 20 OctVoter fraud and fraud on the voters
122. 20 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 701
123. 20 OctWartime Consiglieres
124. 19 OctI have a special practice
125. 19 OctNeoconfederate judges are an existential threat to American democracy
126. 19 OctHow Donald Trump and Scott Walker looted Wisconsin taxpayers to pay off Foxconn in exchange for nothing
127. 19 OctKeep Bob Hope Alive
128. 19 OctPropaganda mills fill the vacuum left by the death of local news
129. 19 OctReality is unfair to right wingers (The Never Ending Story)
130. 19 OctTrump to bury Biden with blizzard of top-tier talent
131. 19 OctMonday NatSec Roundup
132. 19 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 700
133. 19 OctThey don’t ratfuck ’em like they used to
134. 18 OctGame 7/NFL Open Thread
135. 18 OctThere’s something happening here
136. 18 OctQuick TV Rec: Ted Lasso
137. 18 OctIt’s time for an American president
138. 18 OctKeeping the American right wing respectable
139. 18 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 699
140. 18 OctThe Textualists!
141. 17 OctLife at Foxconn
142. 17 OctThird Wave Covidism: Indifference
143. 17 OctACAB: The Antebellum Years
144. 17 OctOriginalism and the Reconstruction Amendments
145. 17 OctAnother career U.S. Attorney offers hearty “fuck you” to Bill Barr
146. 17 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 698
147. 17 OctA mark and a con
148. 17 Oct“Can I use Your Hairspray?” A Review of The Replacements’ ‘Pleased To Meet Me’ reissue
149. 16 Oct2020, I’ll Tell You What
150. 16 OctLadies and Gentlemen, The Republican Party
151. 16 OctAmerica has a choice: Republican-dominated courts, or democracy
152. 16 OctRoberts, he played this one beautifully
153. 16 OctFriday NatSec Roundup
154. 16 OctThey’re so good at this
155. 16 OctEvery day three things like this
156. 16 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 697
157. 16 OctLGM Film Club, Part 81: Brubeck
158. 16 OctAbolish ICE
159. 15 OctEat Your Greens
160. 15 OctTrump celebrates summary execution by his brownshirts
161. 15 OctThe most worthless Democratic senator
162. 15 OctPeacocks for Trump
163. 15 OctBut there’s an animal that winter won’t affect at all. He sits by fireplaces waiting for the winter’s fall.
164. 15 OctRepublican Policy Goals Achieved
165. 15 OctYour creature comforts aren’t the only things worth fighting for
166. 15 OctThe hidden victims of the Trump administration’s disastrous COVID response
167. 15 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 696
168. 15 OctIf you’re not inside, you’re outside, OK?
169. 14 OctPull my finger, with Josh Hawley
170. 14 OctGood times are coming; I hear it everywhere I go
171. 14 OctI’m a loser baby
172. 14 OctThe prophecies of Mark Uterus
173. 14 OctWednesday NatSec Roundup
174. 14 OctMust we all be part of the same hypocrisy
175. 14 OctThis Day in Labor History: October 14, 1840
176. 14 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 695
177. 14 OctHe’s so good at this
178. 13 OctNot even pretending any more
179. 13 OctDoes federal law ban voter intimidation? Views differ
180. 13 OctThe Fate of Hermes
181. 13 OctMcConnell seems to have given Sen. Deeply Concerned a golden ticket
182. 13 OctIs Mike Pence literally possessed by Satan? Teach the controversy!
183. 13 Oct“genuinely victimized by the prospect of equality”
184. 13 OctRefusing to vote early as right wing virtue signaling
185. 13 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 694
186. 12 OctYou said it!
187. 12 OctAll About Amy
188. 12 OctThe Robert Bork Memorial Shell Game
189. 12 OctJoe Morgan
190. 12 OctMonday NatSec Roundup
191. 12 OctThe polling booth goons are coming back
192. 12 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 693
193. 12 OctNice Woman? I don’t give a shit. Good mother? Fuck you! Go home and play with your kids
194. 12 OctMusic Notes
195. 11 OctNo you don’t remember anything at all
196. 11 OctNFL Open Thread: Week 5
197. 11 OctBob and Whitey
198. 11 OctStill waiting
199. 11 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 692
200. 11 OctMemories (Can’t Wait)
201. 11 OctThe devil, he has a plan
202. 10 OctThe outflanking never ends
203. 10 OctMaking sure sin city still shines brighter than creation’s dark
204. 10 OctRod Dreher tosses his cookies
205. 10 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 691
206. 10 OctWatch Out
207. 10 OctThe Party of Death
208. 9 OctThere is no American tradition of minority factions using the Supreme Court to stop popular national majorities from governing
209. 9 OctNYT political desk tacitly admits it blew 2016
210. 9 OctStairway to Freebird
211. 9 OctThe election is happening right now
212. 9 OctAmy Coney Barrett is being put on the Court in large measure to extinguish a woman’s right to choose
213. 9 OctFriday NatSec Roundup
214. 9 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 690
215. 9 OctTrump calls for purge of opposition
216. 8 OctWhat “We’re a republic, not a democracy” means
217. 8 OctThat’s the way you do it
218. 8 OctTrumpistas having a very normal one
219. 8 OctViolence in the name of liberty is no vice
220. 8 OctLicense to ratfuck
221. 8 OctThe crackup
222. 8 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 689
223. 8 OctMike Pence’s fly has a Twitter account
224. 8 OctThe undercard
225. 7 OctDemocrats need to be prepared to act against lawless Republican judges where they can
226. 7 OctGetting high all the time hope you all are too
227. 7 OctPay Check Don’s Greatest Outflankening
228. 7 OctWednesday NatSec Roundup
229. 7 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 688
230. 7 OctLGM contest: Come up with a good response to this email
231. 7 Oct“We need to take away children”
232. 6 OctAlito, Gorsuch and Thomas want legally cast ballots thrown out to help Lindsey Graham
233. 6 OctTwilight of the Gods
234. 6 OctEvil like you wouldn’t believe
235. 6 OctJust like a woman
236. 6 OctDo the economics of news coverage in the US help protect the Electoral College?
237. 6 OctFuture podcasts: reader’s choice
238. 6 OctHe’s so good at this
239. 6 OctFour weeks
240. 6 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 687
241. 6 OctTrump administration overrules FDA’s vaccine approval protocols
242. 6 OctRepublicans can’t believe elite immunity isn’t comprehensive
243. 5 OctBarrett nomination hearings officially set for next Monday through Thursday
244. 5 OctDon’t fear the reaper
245. 5 OctThis is fine
246. 5 OctWhite rural electorate in Pennsylvania less economically anxious about Joe Biden than Hillary Clinton
247. 5 OctLGM Podcast: Richard Oakes and Native Liberation
248. 5 OctMonday NatSec Roundup
249. 5 OctTrump’s illness and the 25th amendment
250. 5 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 686
251. 5 OctGreat moments in both sidesism
252. 5 OctLGM Film Club, Part 80: Doctor Utopia
253. 4 OctThe President of the United States is a remorseless sociopath
254. 4 OctPirates and Food History
255. 4 OctRemember the Pueblo Revolt
256. 4 OctExport Controls!
257. 4 OctNFL Open Thread: You’ve been GASED
258. 4 OctRevitalizing Black Cemeteries
259. 4 OctOne of the guys
260. 4 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 685
261. 4 OctHe’s so good at this
262. 3 OctThe Supreme Court’s existential threat to American democracy
263. 3 OctPresidential Failures to Disclose
264. 3 OctThe Pro-Choice Republicans
265. 3 OctCollateral Damage
266. 3 OctRepublicans try to hold Senate with some meaningless trivia
267. 3 OctSuper Spreader
268. 2 OctSpeaking of Walter Reed
269. 2 OctWalter Reed
270. 2 OctMike Lee, Amy Coney Barrett, and a Coalition of Neoconfederate Sociopaths
271. 2 OctThe State of the Race in Kentucky
272. 2 OctMore thoughts and prayers
273. 2 OctA Very Special Episode of America, the Trump Years
274. 2 OctFriday NatSec Roundup
275. 2 OctTrump attended a fundraiser and roundtable after finding out that Hope Hicks was symptomatic
276. 2 OctWhat if Trump has COVID-19 ?
277. 2 OctHope is not a plan
278. 1 OctThe Borking of Amy Coney Barrett
279. 1 OctReally subtle
280. 1 OctTrump bailing from more debates?
281. 1 OctOn Conservative “Legal Methodology”
282. 1 OctHow will Trump react to electoral defeat?
283. 1 OctThe Vote Fraud Fraud 2020
284. 1 OctLGM Podcast: RBG
285. 1 OctSoothing lies from our corrupt legal academic elites
286. 1 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 684
287. 1 OctDispatches from the bunker

September 2020

1. 30 SepHe’s so good at this
2. 30 SepThe day the 1970s pop music died
3. 30 SepWednesday NatSec Roundup
4. 30 SepThe Working Class Whisperer
5. 30 SepHow NBC bailed out Donald Trump
6. 30 SepJust Say No to Politainment
7. 30 SepWill You Shut Up, Man?
8. 30 SepThis Day in Labor History: September 30, 1899
9. 30 SepThis is the bottom right?
10. 30 SepSo I guess we’re doing this
11. 29 SepThe problem with savvy is that the takes always get worse
12. 29 SepThe not so great debate
13. 29 SepManufacturing in Ohio has declined substantially under Trump
14. 29 SepAll in the Family and the Politics of Nostalgia
15. 29 SepThe Road Not Taken on Taiwan Policy
16. 29 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 683
17. 29 SepDonald Trump has outright stolen many, many times as much money as a middle class couple will earn in a lifetime
18. 28 SepDonald Trump’s tax crimes
19. 28 SepThe Democratic case against Barrett should be the ACA
20. 28 SepSomething for something (Update: A good question, but the wrong question)
21. 28 SepDisaster at the LGM Patreon League
22. 28 SepMonday NatSec Roundup
23. 28 SepThe Producer
24. 28 SepWhen wingnut identity politics gets ghoulish
25. 28 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 682
26. 28 SepTrump owes his whole inheritance
27. 28 SepLGM Film Club, Part 79: Dog Factory
28. 28 SepAll for you Damien!
29. 27 SepPower Matters
30. 27 SepWhy Trump hid his taxes
31. 27 SepSlogan v. Policy
32. 27 SepKen Burns in the Black Lives Matter Age
33. 27 SepNFL Open Thread
34. 27 SepNagorno Karabakh Fighting Flares
35. 27 SepA funny thing about law (not funny like a clown)
36. 27 SepThis Day in Labor History: September 27, 2005
37. 27 SepMrs. America
38. 26 SepThis will hurt you more than it hurts me
39. 26 SepSympathy for the Despots
40. 26 SepWe contemplate eternity beneath the vast indifference of heaven
41. 26 SepMachines, Gloster!
42. 26 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 681
43. 26 SepTurning your state into a death trap to own the libs
44. 26 SepLGM Film Club, Part 78: China and the Chinese
45. 25 SepPeople are here spreading mistakes and arguing passionately with the facts wrong.
46. 25 SepAmy Coney Barrett will be on the SCOTUS before the October term starts
47. 25 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 680
48. 25 SepTorturing Our Prisoners
49. 25 SepHistorians Speaking Back
50. 25 SepTwo Centuries of Compromise
51. 25 SepSenator Luthor Proposes Escalation of Longstanding Florida Tradition
52. 25 SepToday on the White Power Hour
53. 25 SepLGM Film Club, Part 77: The Man Who Laughs
54. 24 SepOur Misguided Republican Daddies
55. 24 SepThe Supreme Court and the murder of Breonna Taylor
56. 24 SepBreonna Taylor Open Thread
57. 24 SepThursday NatSec Roundup
58. 24 SepIt’s the end of the world as we know it
59. 24 SepCollege re-openings have mostly been a disaster
60. 24 SepThe principled principles of Mitt Romney, man of principle
61. 23 SepMaking Jim Crow Again
62. 23 SepBalls and strikes, strikes and balls
63. 23 SepLGM Podcast: Made Men
64. 23 SepThe Plan
65. 23 SepThe highest ratfuckers in the land
66. 23 SepThe next war on the ACA
67. 22 SepToday in the bad faith industrial take complex
68. 22 Sep“Where does Ron DeSantis go to get his apology?” –Jacobin
69. 22 SepThe Loons!
70. 22 SepNew Mexico’s Permanent Transformation
71. 22 SepLGM Playoff Baseball Classic
72. 22 SepAnd that’s a wrap
73. 22 SepW Nostalgia
74. 22 SepIs it ageist to ask why old people are so terrible?
75. 22 SepTuesday NatSec Roundup
76. 22 SepNever has campus PC been more out of control
77. 22 SepGet Mad, Get Even, Be Smart
78. 22 SepRight now ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
79. 21 SepHerrenvolk democracy, GOP-style
80. 21 SepAmy Coney Barrett has a current life expectancy approaching 50 years
81. 21 SepWait until they’ve got you running
82. 21 SepWe are all reasonable men here
83. 21 SepWhen the refs get worked
84. 21 SepHow Republican elites learned to stop worrying and love the Donald
85. 20 SepHow to Get Away with Murder
86. 20 SepNorms for thee, not for me
87. 20 SepNFL Week 2 Open Thread
88. 20 SepHow the right wing legal machine actually works
89. 20 SepInsulting Your Intelligence, with Rich Lowry
90. 20 SepLGM Film Club, Part 76: Native Food
91. 19 SepThe end of Democratic quiescence on the Supreme Court
92. 19 SepA prayer for our daughters
93. 19 SepLike a pipe bomb ready to blow
94. 19 SepLGM Film Club, Part 75: Taco Bell, 1979
95. 18 SepThe End
96. 18 SepThe ground game in presidential elections
97. 18 SepJimi Hendrix
98. 18 SepElite Panic
99. 18 SepOn Trump’s Suburban Fear Mongering
100. 18 SepWhy COVID Spreads Among the Young
101. 18 SepFriday NatSec Roundup
102. 18 SepSometimes in Life, You Get What You Ask For
103. 18 SepDispatches From Morotai Island
104. 18 SepEverything Was For the Taking: 30 Years of Goodfellas and the “Layla” sequence
105. 18 SepSacrifices to Daddy Trump
106. 18 SepLGM Film Club, Part 74: Welles on Cavett
107. 17 SepPolitical reform must be the top priority of the next Democratic trifecta
108. 17 SepThe Wages of Coal
109. 17 Sep“No political correctness” means “mandatory indoctrination in right wing propaganda masquerading as history”
110. 17 SepNeoliberalism Has Truly Been Defeated
111. 17 SepNurses Unite!
112. 17 SepThe Madness of Consigliere Barr
113. 17 SepThe American Nation With Real Leadership
114. 17 SepEverything is Fine!
115. 17 SepWilliam Barr is a disgusting fascist pig who makes John Mitchell look like Louis Brandeis
116. 17 SepThis Day in Labor History: September 17, 1868
117. 17 SepWell don’t trust your soul to no backwoods southern lawyer
118. 17 SepLGM Film Club, Part 73: You Are On Indian Land
119. 17 SepGeorge Atiyeh
120. 16 SepE Pluribus Something
121. 16 SepDonald Trump with a law degree
122. 16 SepTrump’s COVID catastrophe
123. 16 SepBig 10 Conference: Nothing is more important to us than the welfare of our serfs
124. 16 SepThis Day in Labor History: September 16, 2004
125. 16 SepThe man who wanted to be on TV
126. 16 SepApart from that Mrs. Lincoln
127. 16 SepLGM Film Club, Part 72: Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-I.W.W. Rat
128. 15 Sep“You fucked up, you thought I was arguing in good faith”
129. 15 SepHow bad of a president do you have to be to get Scientific American to endorse your opponent?
130. 15 SepMicrobrewery Workers United!
131. 15 SepWhite patriarchal supremacy and the future of America
132. 15 SepOregon Militias Advance
133. 15 SepCOVID-19 and Environmental Racism
134. 15 SepIt’s like a Dow 36,000 when all you need is a relief bill
135. 15 SepEast Asia’s Geriatric Peace?
136. 15 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 679
137. 15 SepI would do anything for Trump but I won’t do that
138. 15 SepLGM Film Club, Part 71: Cane River
139. 14 SepMaking Lochner Great Again
140. 14 SepVoter Suppression: Native Edition
141. 14 SepSterilization: The Never Ending Policy of Sadistic Racists
142. 14 SepI just can’t even any more
143. 14 SepTrump Fire Policy
144. 14 SepEven by the standards of the moment this is completely bonkers
145. 14 SepLGM Podcast: Breaking Up the Team
146. 14 SepMonday NatSec Roundup
147. 14 SepNow I don’t claim to be an A student
148. 14 SepThe president of the United States keeps doing fascisms
149. 14 SepLGM Film Club, Part 70: Trance and Dance in Bali
150. 13 SepMusic Notes
151. 13 SepHow Anti-democratic practices get normalized
152. 13 SepCOVID’s Greatest Tragedy
153. 13 SepThe Forgotten Workers
154. 13 SepThe Winter of Our Discontent
155. 13 SepNFL Open Thread: 2020 preview
156. 13 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 678
157. 13 SepTrump flunkies tying to manipulate CDC reports to mislead the public
158. 12 SepThe Green Party: Using Republican money to undermine democracy and get Republicans elected
159. 12 SepWild About Harry
160. 12 SepToots Hibbert
161. 12 SepIf we were vampires and white supremacy was intriguing
162. 11 SepThe greenest ratfucking
163. 11 SepMaking Florida Jim Crow Again
164. 11 SepThe F-15EX and the Digital Century Series
165. 11 SepMeanwhile, out here
166. 11 SepAnd now it’s the tallest
167. 11 SepInoculated against reality
168. 11 SepThis Day in Labor History: September 11, 1921
169. 11 Sep“I saved his ass”
170. 11 SepLGM Film Club, Part 69: Maidstone
171. 10 SepOregon Burning
172. 10 SepThe Latest Step in Making Unions Effectively Illegal
173. 10 SepIn America, Dreams Can Come True
174. 10 SepBy populist demand
175. 10 SepAnnals of right wing grift
176. 10 SepAny jackass can kick down a barn
177. 10 SepLGM Podcast: NFL 2020
178. 10 SepClose presidential elections and alternate histories
179. 10 SepHe’s so good at this
180. 9 SepReflections on the Woodward Recording
181. 9 SepRepublican staffer accidentally tells the truth about Republican health care policy
182. 9 SepAll in for Trump
183. 9 SepTrump lied, people died, Trump didn’t care
184. 9 SepWednesday NatSec Roundup
185. 9 SepMore Adventures in Scary Campus Political Correctness
186. 9 SepThe greatest separators of fools from their money party harder than they like to admit
187. 9 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 677
188. 9 SepI have a special practice
189. 8 SepGoverning by gaslight
190. 8 SepPaying for the party
191. 8 SepPolitics and the university
192. 8 SepLGM Podcast: Pandemic and the Economics of Big Sports
193. 8 SepThe Cords that Bind…
194. 8 SepDemocrats should not repeal the only good part of Trump’s tax cut
195. 8 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 676
196. 8 SepEvery time a bell rings a grifter gets his wings
197. 8 SepLGM Film Club, Part 68: A Fistful of Dollars
198. 7 SepLeBron v. Trump
199. 7 SepBrewery Workers of the World, Unite! All You Have to Lose is Your Crappy Jobs!
200. 7 SepAnother Step Toward Fascism
201. 7 SepToday in Cleetus Safaris
202. 7 SepThose rats certainly aren’t going to fuck themselves
203. 7 SepMonday NatSec Roundup
204. 7 SepTwo sports notes
205. 7 SepSunday Book Review: The Culture of Military Organizations
206. 6 SepHaving a normal one, with Tailgunner Ted Cruz
207. 6 SepOde to DeJoy
208. 6 SepOutflanked XIV: the tax cut outflankening
209. 6 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 675
210. 6 SepI see your Dumbkirk, and raise you Donald Trump making a video in which he belittles and then fires a “Faux-bama”
211. 6 SepDumbkirk
212. 6 SepLGM Film Club, Part 67: John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
213. 5 SepThe sweet smell of success
214. 5 SepThe conventions changed nothing
215. 5 SepFascism and the Postal Service
216. 5 SepIf Trump Loses…..
217. 5 SepRead Along With My Gilded Age Graduate Seminar
218. 5 SepIt’s a tricky navigation from the wanting to the having all the needs of a kinky hypocrite
219. 5 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 674
220. 5 SepLGM Film Club, Part 66: Ornette, Made in America
221. 4 SepFox News national correspondent confirms the Atlantic story
222. 4 SepMy “this summary execution was necessary to uphold the rule of law” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
223. 4 SepThe Republican Party Was Not a Third Party
224. 4 SepThe Rise of Community-Based Striking
225. 4 SepWhy Was Michael Reinoehl Killed?
226. 4 SepThe Politics of COVID
227. 4 SepOff White
228. 4 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 673
229. 4 SepLosers and suckers
230. 4 SepLGM Film Club, Part 65: The Naked Spur
231. 3 SepThree versions of Judas
232. 3 SepNo-knock warrants are never justifiable
233. 3 SepGoodfellas v. Casino
234. 3 SepA Party of Fascist Murderers
235. 3 SepWhere We Stand on COVID Today
236. 3 SepThe NFL’s “Commitment” to Racial Justice
237. 3 SepThursday NatSec Roundup
238. 3 SepHow many ways to get what you want
239. 3 SepThe Trump virus and the Trump vaccine
240. 3 SepLGM Podcast: Monopoly!
241. 3 SepThe Franchise
242. 3 SepLGM Film Club, Part 64: Sprout Wings and Fly
243. 2 SepSpeaking of white supremacy and vote suppression
244. 2 SepHow white supremacy works in American culture and media
245. 2 SepThe Problem of America is the Problem of Whiteness
246. 2 SepDelaying Citizenship: Another Republican Vote Suppression Tactic
247. 2 SepSocialism: The Unending Republican Talking Point
248. 2 SepMissile Tests!
249. 2 SepFair, rigged, and fake elections, or, why Donald Trump is even money to get re-elected
250. 2 SepThere are problems in these times
251. 2 SepUnity 08 12 16 20!
252. 1 SepStop making me do what I was already going to do anyway
253. 1 SepThe wind began to howl
254. 1 SepToday’s outbursts of insanity
255. 1 SepUsing taboo words in the classroom
256. 1 SepBuckeye Trumps
257. 1 SepTuesday NatSec Roundup
258. 1 SepJohn Thompson
259. 1 SepSometimes you miss a short putt, and sometimes you shoot a man seven times in the back without a good reason
260. 1 SepPlenty of good murderers on our side

August 2020

1. 31 AugReal Principled Men of Principle
2. 31 AugI always wanted you to admire my backhand
3. 31 AugThe paranoid style, Hook ’em Horns edition
4. 31 AugI’m not saying we won’t get our hair mussed
5. 31 AugCBP Racial Profiling
6. 31 AugAnother Step for Fascism
7. 31 AugOn the International Used Clothing Market
8. 31 AugVoting Republican can get you killed
9. 31 AugMusic Notes
10. 30 AugRosenstein shut down investigation into the Trump campaign’s collaboration with Russia
11. 30 AugTrump administration preemptively covers up election ratfucking
12. 30 AugAnother good night for Vladimir Putin
13. 30 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 672
14. 30 AugLGM Film Club, Part 63: Uncle Spliffy
15. 29 AugTo show that they can
16. 29 AugUber Targeting Labor Activists
17. 29 AugThe Education Disaster
18. 29 AugOn the Players Strike
19. 29 AugThe Hatch Act is not a dead letter
20. 29 AugThe autocrats
21. 29 AugThis Day in Labor History: August 29, 1933
22. 29 AugWakanda Forever
23. 29 AugBecause he’s an asshole
24. 28 AugGetting Results
25. 28 AugA quarter million dead
26. 28 AugProjecting your hopes/anxieties onto imaginary voters is the worst theater criticism punditry of all
27. 28 AugAndrew Sullivan: Fascist
28. 28 AugDenialism about what Republicans actually believe
29. 28 AugRepublicans argue Trump must be elected to save country from the chaos that has been unleashed under President Joe Biden
30. 28 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 671
31. 28 AugLost your job? Mitch McConnell wants you to lose your home
32. 28 AugLGM Film Club, Part 62: Howlin’ Wolf
33. 27 AugThe Athletes Strike
34. 27 AugLittle triggers in your grip
35. 27 AugFun for the whole family: What if there were no 22nd Amendment?
36. 27 AugCOVID Gag Rule
37. 27 AugWhat exactly does Jacob Wohl have to do to end up in prison?
38. 27 AugOrganizing Southern Hospitals
39. 27 AugNefarious reporters interfering with Donald Trump’s inalienable right to steal taxpayer money
40. 27 AugThe Criminal Injustice System
41. 27 AugDebating debates
42. 27 AugRepublicans get the world’s most generous grading curve
43. 27 AugDemocracy and its discontents
44. 27 AugThe Burning of Bonhomme Richard
45. 27 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 670
46. 27 AugHe Had a Reason to Get Back to Lake Charles
47. 27 AugMost-watched host on most-watched cable network endorses lynching
48. 27 AugWildcat Strikes!
49. 26 AugBrewers join strike action against racist police violence
50. 26 AugPassive-aggressive fascism
51. 26 AugMilwaukee Bucks boycott NBA playoff game to protest racist violence in Wisconsin
52. 26 AugHuman sacrifice to win the news cycle
53. 26 AugTrump’s Amerika
54. 26 AugWisconsin Fascism
55. 26 AugTennessee Republicans vote to disenfranchise protestors
56. 26 AugWednesday NatSec Roundup
57. 26 AugJed Rubenfeld gets kicked off Yale’s faculty for two years
58. 26 AugThis Day in Labor History: August 26, 1922
59. 26 AugAnti-Semitic conspiracy theorist somehow landed featured role at RNC
60. 26 AugLGM Film Club, Part 61: Hellzapoppin
61. 25 AugA most entitled sex pest
62. 25 AugThe Police Brotherhood
63. 25 AugCollege admins will blame students when their ill-conceived re-opening plans fail
64. 25 AugLeaning In: Historical Edition
65. 25 AugThe Cruelty is the Point
66. 25 AugRNC speaker excited and proud that police will profile her biracial son because of the color of his skin
67. 25 AugHow Are Our “Essential Workers” Doing?
68. 25 AugRepublicans in full
69. 25 AugThe Return of Russia’s Battlecruisers
70. 25 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 669
71. 25 AugMachines were unplugged
72. 25 AugLGM Film Club, Part 60: Why Husbands Flirt
73. 24 AugBlue States: Crack Down on ICE
74. 24 AugCalifornia and the Apocalypse
75. 24 AugFalwell resigns
76. 24 AugTrump and Class
77. 24 AugToday is the day Vladimir Putin stopped poisoning his political opponents
78. 24 AugHalf cocked excuses for bullet abuse regarding anything browner than tan
79. 24 AugThis post is not about Jerry Falwell Jr. watching the pool boy have sex with his (Jerry’s) wife
80. 24 AugThe Machinery of Progressive Foreign Policy
81. 24 AugDems in Disarray!!!!: DNC Edition
82. 24 AugBoston’s not a big college town
83. 24 AugMonday NatSec Roundup
84. 24 AugUnions: Complicated Organizations with Complicated People
85. 24 AugRepublicans: Maximizing COVID Workplace Deaths
86. 24 AugLGM Film Club, Part 59: Jemez Dances
87. 24 AugThe Party of Ideas (TM) in 2020
88. 23 AugMedicare For All is not a morality car wash
89. 23 AugThe Murdoch administration
90. 23 AugMunchin’s war on the USPS
91. 23 AugLGM Film Club, Part 58: The Fall of the House of Usher
92. 22 AugGenocide Keeps Paying Off
93. 22 AugThe man Trump wishes he was
94. 22 AugGlenn’s Vision of the Working Class
95. 22 AugWhy Biden Won the Nomination
96. 22 AugThis is excellent news for John McCain
97. 22 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 668
98. 22 AugNot even the fee for the gaming license
99. 22 AugLGM Film Club, Part 57: I’m Insured
100. 21 AugRoger, get me out of this
101. 21 Aug“Build Back Better”
102. 21 AugMexico’s War on Junk Food
103. 21 AugDo I have to come right out and tell you everything?
104. 21 AugToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
105. 21 AugLiteral Toxic Masculinity
106. 21 AugThe rats have already been fucked
107. 21 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 667
108. 21 AugDNC Day 4
109. 21 AugLGM Film Club, Part 56: Eisenhower Hearts Treason in Defense of Slavery Lee
110. 20 AugA stand up guy
111. 20 AugHBCUs and the Election
112. 20 AugTrump petitions Supreme Court to allow him to block critics on Twitter
113. 20 AugVisualizing Mexican Food in New York
114. 20 AugPelosi’s Very Bad Decision
115. 20 AugWe were involved in minor real estate deals many years ago
116. 20 AugToday in Donald Trump’s World
117. 20 AugThere’s nothing to whipping a fool
118. 20 AugThis actually sort of works
119. 20 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 666
120. 20 AugWhat if Sherman’s March was an inside job?
121. 20 AugLGM Film Club, Part 55: Ron Stumps for Slade
122. 19 AugHold tight we’re in for nasty weather
123. 19 AugTrump: Am I currently saving America from being taken over by a satanic pedophiliac cannibalistic cult? Maybe!
124. 19 AugTennessee Fascism
125. 19 AugThe Long Price of the War on Crime
126. 19 AugCOVID and cultural memory
127. 19 AugAmerican Fascism
128. 19 AugWednesday NatSec Roundup
129. 19 AugBehind the furrowed brow
130. 19 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 665
131. 19 AugThis is fine
132. 19 AugPointless Politainment
133. 18 AugAn Endless Cycle of Meaningless Behavior
134. 18 Aug“Did I say elect? I meant ratfuck.”
135. 18 AugDeJoy claims he will postpone sabotage of the USPS until after election
136. 18 AugWomen’s Suffrage on the Centennial
137. 18 AugVoting By Gaslight
138. 18 AugFine ‘Em!
139. 18 AugEverybody knows he was with the Russians too
140. 18 AugThe IndoPac Carrier Race Bounces Along…
141. 18 AugMoney Talks
142. 18 AugTrump’s big pardon announcement
143. 18 AugKeep Chuckin’ Those Facts!
144. 18 AugThe system has failed
145. 18 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 664
146. 18 AugZoom DNC Day 1
147. 18 AugLet’s Be Optimistic Again!
148. 17 AugThere should never be a Democratic presidential caucus again
149. 17 AugNobody could have predicted etc.
150. 17 AugRace and class redux
151. 17 AugI don’t see any method at all, sir.
152. 17 AugMonday NatSec Roundup
153. 17 AugA Trifecta Wish List Part II: Policy
154. 17 AugThe WiFi Problem
155. 17 AugCOVID Immunity is (Probably) Real
156. 17 AugLGM Film Club, Part 54: CIA on the Soviets
157. 16 AugThe appearance of safety
158. 16 AugOn Class Reductionism and the American Left
159. 16 AugDirect Action Against ICE
160. 16 AugThe Upcoming Sick Out
161. 16 AugIdea laundering
162. 16 AugIt all started with the border, and that’s still where it is today
163. 16 AugLGM Film Club, Part 53: Why the Kremlin Hates Bananas
164. 15 AugDo Trump’s actions and words reflect his views about the USPS, views differ
165. 15 AugMake Mass Murder Great Again
166. 15 AugThe Texas Rangers
167. 15 AugAll Cops Are Bad. And They Should Still Have Collective Bargaining Rights
168. 15 AugThe Republican Party, 2021
169. 15 AugA hidden disaster
170. 15 AugBirtherism Too
171. 14 AugBecause he can
172. 14 AugFlorida Man Accused of Voter Fraud Requests Mail in Ballot
173. 14 AugMore Subversion of the U.S. Agency for Global Media
174. 14 AugGone Fishin’
175. 14 AugHow to vote early without voting by mail
176. 14 AugA most desperate ratfucking
177. 14 AugRalph Nader, Reply Guy
178. 14 AugTrump Gets a New Medical Adviser as Seen on TV
179. 13 AugOh you’re no fun any more
180. 13 AugBars over kids — it’s the American way
181. 13 AugThe quiet parts loud, vote suppression edition
182. 13 AugThey’re building landing strips for gay Martians
183. 13 AugThursday NatSec Roundup
184. 13 AugTrump’s war on social security
185. 13 AugThrowing out the first racisms
186. 13 AugLGM Film Club, Part 52: Reinhardt & Grappelli
187. 12 AugThe Senate is institutionalized white supremacy
188. 12 AugVote as early as you can
189. 12 AugWhy Harris Matters
190. 12 AugThe Little Trumps
191. 12 AugOur Tech Betters
192. 12 AugQAnon coming to Congress
193. 12 AugLatinx
194. 12 AugLGM Film Club, Part 51: The Battle of Chile
195. 12 AugKatie Porter for Senate!
196. 11 AugI Get 10 Miles to the Gallon/I Ain’t Got No Good Intentions
197. 11 AugChalk
198. 11 AugThe Shadow Docket
199. 11 AugBiden has made his VP pick
200. 11 AugChina’s Gator Navy
201. 11 AugOutflanked: The Fake Working Class Outflankeing
202. 11 AugCancel Culture
203. 11 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 663
204. 11 AugWhat a Country
205. 10 AugIt’s not “Congress” that’s the problem
206. 10 AugDestroying the USPS
207. 10 AugThis Day in Labor History: August 10, 1935
208. 10 AugLGM Podcast: Environmental History of the Civil War
209. 10 AugFinancial bleg
210. 10 AugSome people have to play their little etc.
211. 10 AugMonday NatSec Roundup
212. 10 AugThe Other Shoe
213. 9 AugOutflanked XVII: The Authoritarian Vaporware Outflankening
214. 9 AugOutlier
215. 9 AugLGM Film Club, Part 50: Imagine the Sound
216. 8 AugWe will get fooled again
217. 8 AugWho amongst us can remember 2016 anyway
218. 8 AugThe Continuance of Child Labor
219. 8 AugThe End of the Monarch Butterflies
220. 8 AugThe Congressional Primaries
221. 8 AugLiberty University Unzipped
222. 8 AugCampus PC is out of control
223. 7 AugMusic Notes
224. 7 AugAttempt to pass relief bill founders because Senate Republicans refuse to seriously negotiate
225. 7 AugThe Passive-Aggressive Vices of John Roberts
226. 7 AugThe Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
227. 7 AugThe old Jim Crow
228. 7 AugGood White Parents
229. 7 AugPriorities
230. 7 AugLGM Film Club, Part 49: Hiroshima
231. 6 AugHiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years later
232. 6 AugThe Party of Death
233. 6 AugThis may sound familiar
234. 6 AugVote the pandemic profiteer out
235. 6 AugLGM Film Club, Part 48: Trotsky
236. 5 AugTrump: The Next Lost Cause?
237. 5 Aug‘Qualified Immunity’ is a judicially-created doctrine of white supremacy
238. 5 AugThe Problem of White Parents
239. 5 AugPaycheck Donnie don’t need no stinking Constitution
240. 5 AugIs Our Media Learning, Part the Million?
241. 5 AugEvictiontastic
242. 5 AugWednesday NatSec Roundup
243. 5 AugSome people have to play their little games
244. 5 AugMedicaid wins again
245. 5 AugA Trifecta Wish List Part I: Institutional Arrangements
246. 5 AugClose the bars and bail them out
247. 5 AugBREAKING! Completely botching pandemic response not good for incumbent president
248. 5 AugLGM Film Club, Part 47: Dream of a Rarebit Fiend, Animated Edition
249. 5 AugThis won’t end well
250. 5 AugOpening Schools in Israel
251. 4 AugThe Ongoing Republican War on Wildlife
252. 4 AugRacism, Dishonesty, and Cato: A Recipe from Hades
253. 4 AugTalking the Rona on the Intertubes
254. 4 AugThe Mary Rosh Award For Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Sockpuppetry
255. 4 AugWe have cases
256. 4 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 662
257. 4 AugThe New Tone
258. 4 AugLGM Film Club, Part 46: Psychiatry in Russia
259. 4 AugDonald Trump is running a criminal enterprise
260. 3 AugPolitics is an iterated game
261. 3 AugWe Don’t Need Bill Clinton’s History of Civil Rights
262. 3 AugNative Women and Suffrage
263. 3 AugHow White Supremacy Operates
264. 3 AugLGM Podcast: Learning to Fight
265. 3 AugMonday NatSec Roundup
266. 3 AugWill Trump sabotage vaccine development?
267. 2 AugBlaming “Congress” for failing to pass a COVID relief bill is carrying Mitch McConnell’s water
268. 2 AugDon’t want to work on Emmert’s farm no more
269. 2 AugEverything You Ever Wanted to Know about Sex with Demons
270. 2 AugWilford Brimley
271. 2 AugDid Trump suffer some sort of medical crisis today?
272. 2 AugDaydream believing is not a plan
273. 1 AugSay what you will about nihilistic projection, it’s an ethos
274. 1 AugAn American Story [RETRACTED]
275. 1 AugIs this about Sarah Cooper?

July 2020

1. 31 JulNext 2
2. 31 JulReal Americans
3. 31 JulPresumed guilty
4. 31 JulRafales Arrive in India!
5. 31 JulFriday NatSec Roundup
6. 31 JulThis Day in Labor History: July 31, 1905
7. 31 JulNever before has campus PC been more out of control
8. 31 JulHow Jared Kushner subverted Jared Kushner’s secret plan to save America
9. 31 JulMy Perfect Sex Life, by Alan Dershowitz, Esq.
10. 31 JulYour Midnight Not At All Surprising but Still Revoltingly Disgusting News
11. 31 JulAll the gold and silver are being stolen away
12. 30 JulCo-founder of Federalist Society calls for Trump’s impeachment and removal
13. 30 JulThe filibuster will be killed by the next Dem trifecta
14. 30 JulJohn Lewis’s funeral
15. 30 JulDeath cult is getting increasingly literal and indiscriminate
16. 30 JulGOP members of Congress are encouraging/requiring their staff (including interns) NOT to wear masks
17. 30 JulOutflanked XV: Pay Check Don Does More Bold Economic Populisms
18. 30 JulHere we go
19. 30 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 661
20. 30 JulBut I run a great car pool!
21. 30 JulLGM Film Club, Part 45: Close-Up
22. 29 JulHow sexism works
23. 29 JulThe pandemic wil exacerbate inequality in America
24. 29 JulReason to believe
25. 29 JulThe Military Demographic Conundrum
26. 29 JulTrump’s Unaffordable Housing Policy
27. 29 JulUnions Demand Safety
28. 29 JulThoughts and Prayers
29. 29 JulChildcare Workers Win!
30. 29 JulJohn Roberts has made his decision, now let him enforce it
31. 29 JulTrump Views Russian Bounties as an Appropriate Response to the Premise of Rambo III
32. 29 JulThe Next Teacher Strike Wave: COVID Edition
33. 29 JulRacial “anxiety”
34. 29 JulMisogyny and the Vice Presidency
35. 29 JulLGM Film Club, Part 44: Nabokov on Lolita
36. 28 JulCampus PC is out of control
37. 28 JulHow’s that pivot going?
38. 28 JulFrat Culture and Confederate Nostalgia
39. 28 JulYou don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
40. 28 JulTrump is the Symptom, Not the Disease
41. 28 JulDefector
42. 28 JulThe worst and best of classic rock playlists
43. 28 JulWhat if Trump loses by six million votes but wins the Electoral College?
44. 28 JulTrump Withdraws Self-Invitation to Yankee Stadium
45. 28 JulThis Day in Labor History: July 28, 1869
46. 28 JulA World of Fail
47. 27 JulOutflanked XIV: A Most Trumpian Outflankening
48. 27 JulThe Accusation
49. 27 Jul150,000
50. 27 JulI’m not sure how much more outflanking I can take
51. 27 JulThe 4-Game MLB Season
52. 27 JulLGM Podcast: Damn the Torpedo (Bombers), Full Speed Ahead!
53. 27 JulGive a boy a target for his grievance and he might get it in his head they need to pay
54. 27 JulTom Cotton, slavery apologist
55. 27 JulLieberman’s folly
56. 26 JulNever get high on your own supply
57. 26 JulIs Our Media Learning?
58. 26 JulHe seems nice
59. 26 JulTea Spots and Forced Empathy
60. 26 JulHow to murder your citizens
61. 25 JulYou start wearing blue and brown
62. 25 JulMitch McConnell, SUPERGENIUS
63. 25 JulLittle Beirut’s Peculiar Structure of Government and The Troubles
64. 25 JulHow did a completely open grifter get elected president of the United States?
65. 25 JulHeroes in theory, peons in practice
66. 25 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 660
67. 25 Jul“Are you stu-peeed? Zhat money’s shphent.”
68. 24 JulThe COVID catastrophe
69. 24 JulThe Burning of Bonhomme Richard
70. 24 JulThe Article III Response
71. 24 JulLiving in Reaganland
72. 24 JulFlorida Man Murdered On House Floor
73. 24 JulFriday NatSec Roundup
74. 24 JulTrump proudly turns over a ten high to Roy Cooper’s full house
75. 24 JulLGM Film Club, Part 43: So You Want a Television
76. 23 JulWeiss privilege
77. 23 JulIn a normal world this would by itself would get a president impeached
78. 23 JulI am beginning to think the Trump administration did not want citizenship data to enforce the Voting Rights Act
79. 23 JulDealing with Problematic Histories: Generally Progressive People Edition
80. 23 JulThe Joys of Public History
81. 23 JulHow Anti-Blackness Infects Other Minority Groups
82. 23 JulNo man born with a living soul can be working for the clampdown
83. 23 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 659
84. 23 JulPerson Woman Man Camera TV
85. 23 JulThe fundamental incoherence of “cancel culture”
86. 22 Jul(Likely) Illegal Federal Crackdown Commanded by (Likely) Illegal Acting Cabinet Secretary
87. 22 JulBREAKING! Most people do not want their children exposed to deadly virus
88. 22 JulNot Me, Us
89. 22 JulWednesday NatSec Roundup
90. 22 JulThe radical Republicans
91. 22 JulA misogynist asshole says what?
92. 22 JulA most Woody grift
93. 22 JulLGM Film Club, Part 42: Hot News Margie
94. 21 JulGame recognize game
95. 21 JulGig Workers Are Employees
96. 21 JulTrump Destroying the Desert
97. 21 JulBoth Sides!
98. 21 JulThe pivot
99. 21 JulMapping the China Debate
100. 21 JulHouseholder arrested
101. 21 JulIt was farcical, but it wasn’t comical
102. 21 JulAmerican Idol
103. 21 JulWhite Liberals and Race, Again
104. 21 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 658
105. 21 JulTrump’s storm troopers
106. 21 JulTucker allegedly blackballed guest who refused invitation to go trout fishing
107. 21 JulLGM Film Club, Part 41: Check Mate
108. 20 JulRequire Ethnic Studies
109. 20 JulNo testing for you
110. 20 JulStrike For Black Lives
111. 20 JulRush Limbaugh and “feminazis”
112. 20 JulHit Against Family of Federal Judge
113. 20 JulLGM Podcast: Killer Whales
114. 20 JulThe Trumpiest Trumps Outside of Trumpland
115. 20 JulMonday NatSec Roundup
116. 20 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 657
117. 20 JulToo orange to fail
118. 19 JulTwo Stolen Years
119. 19 JulBeautiful World Wars
120. 19 JulIs re-opening schools without suppressing the virus viable?
121. 19 JulBoth sides, Ken Burns documentary edition
122. 19 JulThis Day in Labor History: July 19, 1881
123. 19 JulI expect you to die
124. 18 JulJohn Lewis, Founding Father
125. 18 JulAuthority Jerkoff
126. 18 JulLadies and Gentlemen, Start Your Mythology!
127. 18 Jul#Whites
128. 18 JulAt Least We Can No Longer Pretend That There Is No Crisis
129. 18 JulWhat the Trump Campaign Lacked was a Little Structuring
130. 18 Jul“records show that no effort was made to save her”
131. 18 JulJohn Lewis
132. 18 JulThey’re so good at this
133. 17 JulThomas Jefferson’s Constitutional Hardball
134. 17 JulThey Consider It Leakage
135. 17 JulThe absurdity of the Supreme Court
136. 17 JulWilliam’s army are on their way
137. 17 JulThe COVID Childcare Crisis
138. 17 JulHe’s Rocking the Suburbs Just Like Lester Maddox Did
139. 16 JulThe Daniel Snyder sexual harassment industrial complex
140. 16 JulHe’s got a TV in every room
141. 16 JulJohn Roberts’s Latest Tribute to Roger Taney
142. 16 JulHe Committed Murder
143. 16 JulCancelling the John C. Stennis
144. 16 JulAnother Reason why Everything is Terrible
145. 16 JulAll Your Buried Corpses Now Begin to Speak
146. 16 JulReparations
147. 16 JulWhite Liberals and Race
148. 16 Jul“Human Behavior Remains A Mystery to Me”: 20 Years of Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential
149. 16 JulLGM Film Club, Part 40: The Exiles
150. 16 JulDeSantis Ducey
151. 15 JulThe John Roberts Death Machine
152. 15 JulLOL nothing matters
153. 15 JulThe Real Confederacy
154. 15 JulDon’t Give Up the (Battle)Ship!
155. 15 JulBiden’s Buy American Plan
156. 15 JulBlind Justice
157. 15 JulThe Pro-Nazi McCarthy
158. 15 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 656
159. 15 JulThe Tuberville Sessions
160. 15 JulLGM Film Club, Part 39: Paris on Parade
161. 14 Jul2020, the gift that keeps on giving
162. 14 JulIt’s not fair
163. 14 JulICE backs off racist extortion racket
164. 14 JulThe Greatest Day in Journalism History
165. 14 JulRocket to Russia
166. 14 Jul“Self-Expelled”
167. 14 JulTuesday NatSec Roundup
168. 14 JulGorsuch and Native Americans
169. 14 JulI used to hate the fool in me, but only in the morning now I tolerate him all day long
170. 14 JulLGM Film Club, Part 38: The Bottle and the Throttle
171. 14 JulGrowing Support for Universal Basic Income
172. 13 JulCOVID and Child Labor
173. 13 JulWill the United States still exist in another generation or three?
174. 13 JulGavin Newsom ends experiment in DeSantisism
175. 13 JulWillful denial is not a plan
176. 13 JulThe Mellon Legacy
177. 13 JulThe Washington Death Cult Moves to Fix Education
178. 13 JulBurying Access Hollywood
179. 13 JulBonhomme Richard
180. 13 JulThis is America
181. 13 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 655
182. 13 JulLeft a good job in the city
183. 13 JulDaniel Snyder to make Donald Trump ragetweet
184. 13 JulLGM Film Club, Part 37: Men and Iron
185. 12 JulThe Abbott of Death
186. 12 JulHunger in the Time of COVID
187. 12 JulThe Dumb, It Burns
188. 12 JulLatin America’s Problematic Statues
189. 12 JulSacrifices to Daddy Trump
190. 12 JulEvangelicals and patriarchy
191. 12 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 654
192. 12 JulMusic Notes
193. 11 Jul“Lord knows, I can’t change” sounds better in the song than it does with hell to pay
194. 11 JulDark Satanic Millian Liberalism
195. 11 JulOne Effect of COVID
196. 11 JulHistories of Cop Technologies
197. 11 JulLatinos and the Cops
198. 11 JulWhat To Do About Jefferson
199. 11 JulProfessional racist also does it for free
200. 11 JulEverybody Must Get Stoned
201. 11 JulLGM Film Club, Part 36: Blacksmithing Scene
202. 10 JulKicks just keep getting harder to find
203. 10 JulDerby House
204. 10 JulVoice of America First?
205. 10 JulWhee
206. 10 JulThe Battle for Small-Town America
207. 10 JulEula Bingham, RIP
208. 10 JulRattlers
209. 10 JulNeil Gorsuch Cancels Andrew Jackson
210. 10 JulDown so far even the Devil won’t stay
211. 10 JulLGM Film Club, Part 35: The End of an Old Song
212. 10 JulFreedom’s Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose
213. 9 JulBlack Collective Farms
214. 9 JulInternalized Racism and Romantic Preferences
215. 9 JulI think this wins today’s Internet
216. 9 JulJohn Roberts v. The Public Interest
217. 9 JulLGM Podcast: College Football and the ‘Rona
218. 9 JulJohn Roberts decided the American people don’t get to see Donald Trump’s tax returns before the election that will determine whether we will still sort of have some sort of democracy afterwards
219. 9 JulDonald Trump has found a cure for cancer
220. 9 JulThis is excellent news for John McCain!
221. 9 JulThis Day in Labor History: July 9, 1640
222. 9 Jul“They do not believe in free speech; they believe in free speech FOR THEM.”
223. 9 JulNaming And Shaming
224. 9 JulLGM Film Club, Part 34: Peter Thiel Biopic
225. 8 JulThe Science of Seed Spying
226. 8 JulRoberts Court invents broad exemptions to civil rights law for religious employers
227. 8 JulSomebody loan me a dime
228. 8 JulTrump threatening to extort primary/secondary schools into opening
229. 8 JulFrom “Geopolitical Suicide” to Just Plain “Suicide”
230. 8 JulScandinavian DeSantisism
231. 8 JulI wouldn’t cry for lost souls, you might drown
232. 8 JulTonight on America’s Most Watched Cable News Show
233. 8 JulLGM Film Club, Part 33: À Propos de Nice
234. 8 JulJumpstart Seattle: how Amazon won the battle, then lost the war
235. 7 JulThe Vote Suppression Industrial Complex
236. 7 JulThe Children’s Illustrated Clausewitz
237. 7 JulCensorship and “censorship”
238. 7 JulMaggie will shoot it straight into your vein
239. 7 JulFrom New Zealand to America: COVID-19 in Israel
240. 7 JulTuesday NatSec Roundup
241. 7 JulWhispers
242. 7 JulAmerican Courts and Corporate Global Accountability
243. 7 JulMurc’s law, racial unmarked category edition
244. 7 JulThe History of the Siege of Lisbon by Tourist Mobs
245. 7 JulThis Day in Labor History: July 7, 1903
246. 7 JulMLB testing regime already failing
247. 7 JulLGM Film Club, Part 32: The Exploding Whale
248. 6 JulNot Locking Down America Kills People. So Does Locking Down America.
249. 6 JulElk and Mountaintop Removal
250. 6 JulICE continues ethnic cleansing of higher ed
251. 6 JulDean Kagan rejects Professor Lessig’s galaxy-brained scheme to make Electoral College even worse
252. 6 JulCOVID notes
253. 6 JulHong Kong
254. 6 JulRepublicans struggle to find donors sociopathic enough to fund superspreader convention
255. 6 JulEnnio Morricone, RIP
256. 6 JulLGM Podcast: Decentering Rachel Carson
257. 6 JulOne reason Republicans don’t give a shit about COVID
258. 5 JulThe Grift Never Stops
259. 5 JulMeaningful Contact Tracing in the United States is Hopeless
260. 5 JulLi Zhensheng, RIP
261. 5 JulThe Racism Never Stopped
262. 5 JulBlack Lives Matter: European Edition
263. 5 JulSocial media and national insanity
264. 5 JulPlease Great God COVID, Only You Can Save Us from Ourselves!
265. 5 JulMichael Flynn takes the QAnon oath with his friends
266. 5 JulLittle Trump, big pandemic
267. 5 JulWe chose the words, and yeah, we drew the lines
268. 4 JulRepublicans fear closing barn door will not prevent horse that is already two counties over from escaping
269. 4 JulOn Hamilton and Revolution
270. 4 JulNo, really, close the damn bars
271. 4 JulArsenal Plane!
272. 4 JulPeople’s History of the Marvel Universe, Week 18: the Social Worker and the Cop
273. 4 JulTough Love for America
274. 4 JulTrump delivers Andrew Sullivan’s magnificent speech against cancel culture at Mt. Rushmore
275. 4 JulThis Day in Labor History: July 4, 1857
276. 4 JulLet them eat statues
277. 4 JulAnd all the dead bodies piled up in mounds
278. 3 JulLook what the cat dragged in
279. 3 JulThe killing of Elijah McClain
280. 3 JulThe Quiet Parts Through An Airhorn
281. 3 JulWe’ll sit and talk of Hollywood and the good things there for hire
282. 3 JulLA’s freeway system is a Confederate monument
283. 3 JulTriumph of the shill
284. 3 JulJohn Roberts to Alabama voters: drop dead, literally
285. 3 JulLGM Film Club, Part 31: The End of St. Petersburg
286. 3 JulSpeaking of the Trump Death Cult
287. 2 JulThe Trump Death Cult
288. 2 JulTrump Concludes He Hasn’t Been Racist Enough
289. 2 JulCasualties of war
290. 2 JulSo Many Scandals, So Little Time
291. 2 JulWhen Your Union is Fascist
292. 2 JulAn armed society is a polite society
293. 2 JulGovernment Works, So We’d Better Down It in a Bathtub
294. 2 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 653
295. 2 JulThe Mitch McConnell Concern Trolling Hour
296. 2 JulLGM Film Club, Part 30: Colorful North Carolina
297. 2 JulAftermath in the Bluegrass
298. 1 JulIn-person college instruction in Fall 2020 would be senseless
299. 1 JulDownfall
300. 1 JulSenate GOP: Please ratfuck this election!
301. 1 JulThe Medical Case Against Reopening Campuses
302. 1 JulSpeaking of far right nut jobs, say hello to Associate Justice Neomi Rao
303. 1 JulQAnon nut case wins GOP primary in Colorado swing district
304. 1 JulOklahoma Hearts Obamacare
305. 1 JulShorter John Roberts: The Establishment clause violates the free exercise clause
306. 1 JulLGM Film Club, Part 29: Supermarket Checkout

June 2020

1. 30 JunCOVID and patience
2. 30 JunHigher Education and the Economics of Pandemic
3. 30 JunIf only this strategy were available for US history since November 2000
4. 30 JunCarl Reiner
5. 30 JunTuesday NatSec Roundup
6. 30 JunFocus on the Service Industry
7. 30 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 652
8. 30 JunThe deep state strikes back
9. 30 Jun“He’s toughest… with those he looks at as weaklings and weakest with the ones he ought to be tough with”
10. 30 JunMueller Whiffed
11. 29 JunDownballot
12. 29 JunNewspaper Unionbusting
13. 29 Jun1.5 Cheers For June Medical
14. 29 Jun“We Have To Remember That Schools Serve a Variety of Functions Beyond Academic Education”: A Discussion With MDRC’S K-12 Education Policy Director William Corrin Regarding the Daunting New Realities of American Public Education
15. 29 JunSlate Star Codex
16. 29 JunRoberts Sticks it to the Neoconfederates again
17. 29 JunA Most Kavanaugh Kover-Up
18. 29 JunSee if you can guess what this power couple does for a living
19. 28 JunAnd so it begins
20. 28 JunThe Cheapness of Institutional Claims of Anti-Racism
21. 28 JunMore From Our Oh-So-Progressive Neighbors to the North
22. 28 JunCOVID Security Theater
23. 28 JunClose the Damned Bars
24. 28 JunThe Trump delusion
25. 28 JunCOVID-19 and the Prison Overcrowding Crisis
26. 27 JunNobody Holds Trump Supporters in Greater Contempt Than Donald Trump
27. 27 JunOutflanked XXI: A Pre-existing Outflankening
28. 27 JunThe Visa Question
29. 27 JunPandemic protection for me but not for thee
30. 27 JunWhy Trump’s LAW AND ORDER Message is Failing
31. 27 JunOutflanked XX: A Most Nixonian Outflanking
32. 27 JunThe Hard Question of Police Unions
33. 27 JunSystemic Police Violence: Northern Edition
34. 27 JunRhode Island’s Racist History
35. 27 JunThis is Starting to Feel a Bit Like an Actual Cold War
36. 27 JunNow he worships at an altar of a stagnant pool and when he sees his reflection, he’s fulfilled
37. 27 JunLGM Film Club, Part 28: Purely Coincidental
38. 26 JunDancing Like It Was 1865
39. 26 JunPolice Violence and the Latino Community
40. 26 Jun“I have rape-colored skin.”
41. 26 JunCrying won’t help you, praying won’t do you no good
42. 26 JunToday in Republican Governance
43. 26 JunNYC Gives Me a Birthday Present
44. 26 JunThe China Arms Control Scam
45. 26 JunRemember when Bret Stephens told us that COVID was just a NYC problem?
46. 26 JunLiving in Barry Goldwater’s State
47. 25 JunThesis: an out-of-control pandemic, peaceful mass protest and economic depression are bad for an unpopular incumbent
48. 25 JunOutflanked XIX: The Air Siren, Not a Dog Whistle Outflankening
49. 25 JunWhat happens to the GOP after Trump?
50. 25 JunGet Your Hot Reagan Museum Jobs Here!
51. 25 JunAh Toy
52. 25 JunSeems About Right
53. 25 JunThe Pathetic Lives of the Confederate Die-Hards
54. 25 JunThe Failed States of America
55. 25 JunThursday NatSec Roundup
56. 25 JunWhat Are You Gonna Do
57. 25 JunAs far back I can remember, I wanted to be in roving gangs of wise guys, anarchists & looters
58. 25 JunLGM Film Club, Part 27: The Garbage Plate
59. 24 JunThe filibuster as we know it will not survive a Dem trifecta in 2021
60. 24 JunUngating Alert
61. 24 JunBirds of a Reactionary Feather Flock Together
62. 24 JunFascist judge appointed by fascist leader orders dismissal of case against fascist leader’s minion
63. 24 JunKidding on the square
64. 24 JunKentucky: The Day After
65. 24 JunLGM Podcast: Environmental History of the Japanese Incarceration
66. 24 JunWhat the Confederacy Was
67. 24 JunLGM Film Club, Part 26: Mickey, The Firefighting Cat of Minneapolis
68. 23 JunCompetence vs. malignant nihilism, an illustration
69. 23 JunI have a special practice. I handle one client
70. 23 JunAverage household wealth, 1989-2019
71. 23 Jun3 Horrifying Natural Experiments
72. 23 JunA Different Podcast
73. 23 JunPaycation, all I ever wanted, paycation happy to get away…
74. 23 JunTennis anyone?
75. 23 JunJust Say No to Corporate Blackwashing
76. 23 JunOther Necessary Name Changes
77. 23 JunEverybody (Baseball’s Back)
78. 23 JunLGM Film Club, Part 25: More Power to the American Farmer
79. 23 JunYe Olde Statue
80. 22 JunThe Latest in Kentucky
81. 22 JunD.C. Statehood 2021
82. 22 JunThe Gang That Couldn’t Ratfuck Straight
83. 22 JunTrump admits he asked for less COVID testing because positive tests make the US look bad
84. 22 JunMonday NatSec Roundup
85. 22 JunTake the Streets Back From Cars
86. 22 JunPolitics and Protest, Revisited
87. 22 JunOn Complicated Statues
88. 22 JunThis Day in Labor History: June 22, 1944
89. 22 JunLGM Film Club, Part 24: Men and Dust
90. 21 JunCancelling Racist Statues is Good, Actually
91. 21 JunRichard Nixon, the Last Liberal President
92. 21 JunThe Sacrificed Food Workers
93. 21 JunTrudging slowly over the South Lawn…
94. 21 JunOn Looting
95. 21 JunRace and Remembrance in New Mexico
96. 21 JunEpic Fail
97. 21 JunNever do a free-form jazz exploration for a festival crowd
98. 20 JunLGM Film Club, Part 23: Take Me Back to Tulsa
99. 20 JunGood seats are still available
100. 20 JunScenes From a Death Cult
101. 20 JunIt Begins in Tulsa
102. 20 JunBill Barr, Public Enemy
103. 20 JunSuppression of a Different Kind
104. 20 JunA Hero For Our Times
105. 20 JunShermantastic
106. 20 JunTrump definitely learned his lesson
107. 20 JunThere’s no such thing as someone else’s war
108. 20 JunLGM Film Club, Part 22: Mountain Fresh to Go
109. 19 JunHow’s the Republican Party Doing?
110. 19 JunThe Slaves Freed Themselves
111. 19 JunWhat does higher ed do this fall?
112. 19 JunNorth American Pro Sports Are Almost Certainly Not Happening in 2020
113. 19 JunProtest Works
114. 19 JunA Case Study in the “New McCarthyism”
115. 19 JunLGM Podcast: White Working Class Anti-Unionism
116. 19 JunHolm
117. 19 JunAmerican Gnostic
118. 19 JunGoing Down Fast
119. 19 JunKeep Austin Sick
120. 19 JunLGM Film Club, Part 21: This is Life
121. 18 JunFlorida Man III: Mission Accomplished
122. 18 JunFlorida Man II: Orange Crush
123. 18 JunMatt Gaetz
124. 18 JunFlorida man
125. 18 JunArbitrary and Capricious
126. 18 JunExceedingly tedious and slightly unhinged
127. 18 JunCareer opportunities
128. 18 JunCampus PC is out of control
129. 18 JunLGM Film Club, Part 20: Just Like Billy Sunday
130. 17 JunCommuniques from Maggie’s farm
131. 17 JunCold-Blooded Murderer Indicted for Murder
132. 17 JunCrank who agreed to work with Donald Trump discovers Donald Trump is unfit to be president
133. 17 JunNo one talks to the Caudillo
134. 17 JunHow Will K-12 Happen in the Fall?
135. 17 JunThe Protests and the Election
136. 17 JunPolicing Doesn’t “Work”: An Evergreen Truth
137. 17 JunWe were warned: Trump is doing to the country exactly what he did to his businesses
138. 17 JunThe “Environmentalists Are Killing Our Jobs” Claim, New England Edition
139. 17 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 651
140. 17 JunSuperspreader Events
141. 16 JunLGM Film Club, Part 19: Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
142. 16 JunBostock and the majoritarian difficulty
143. 16 JunThe U.S. Embassy in Seoul did something smart; the Trump administration was having none of it
144. 16 JunRadio Rwanda
145. 16 JunThe Republican Party Must Be Crushed Into Dust, Part the Zillion
146. 16 JunLabor troubles
147. 16 JunThe Tech of Death
148. 16 JunLGM Podcast: Inside the Anti-Abortion Movement
149. 16 JunTuesday NatSec Roundup
150. 16 JunYour Age Is The Hardest Age: Lawyers, Guns and Money Turns 16 and It Needs Your Love
151. 16 JunKeeping up with the Chapos
152. 16 JunLGM Film Club, Part 18: 1974 Jerry Lewis Telethon
153. 15 JunThinking about making a donation doesn’t really count
154. 15 JunFundraising
155. 15 JunThanks for reading
156. 15 JunHappy Birthday to Us!
157. 15 JunToward Neutral Principles of Anti-Anti Trumpism
158. 14 JunLGM Film Club, Part 17: Dr. Pepper
159. 14 JunThe Future of the Republican Party
160. 14 JunHoist on your own John Roberts
161. 14 Jun“Sleeping in a drive-thru must not end in death”
162. 14 JunIt won’t hurt when I fall down from this barstool
163. 14 JunOutside in the cold distance a wildcat did growl
164. 14 JunLGM Film Club, Part 16: Don’t Put It In Your Mouth
165. 13 JunMusic Notes
166. 13 JunNYPD denying due process to expose people to deadly virus out of spite
167. 13 JunHere’s Something Not Terrible
168. 13 JunGenocide: The COVID-Frontier
169. 13 JunMt. Rushmore: One of America’s Worst Places
170. 13 JunIt Ain’t 1968
171. 13 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 650
172. 13 JunBecause we are living in the material world
173. 13 JunLGM Film Club, Part 15: Let’s Make a Sandwich
174. 12 JunLabor Rights Talk
175. 12 JunWell, you know
176. 12 JunThe Rapidly Expanding Frontiers of Fighting Our Racist History
177. 12 JunLoving Day
178. 12 JunApology Not Offered
179. 12 JunThe coming 2020 ratf*ck: cutouts and conduits edition
180. 12 JunNobody has less concern for Donald Trump’s supporters than Donald Trump
181. 12 JunHow Timber Companies Destroy Rural Oregon
182. 12 JunAre we the Blob?
183. 12 JunLGM Film Club, Part 14: Telly!
184. 11 JunOutflanked! XVIII: The Treason in Defense of Slavery Outflankening
185. 11 JunBut he’ll always have Greenwald
186. 11 JunMaking Protests Work
187. 11 JunBrown Grad Student Unionism
188. 11 JunWho let the dog whistles out
189. 11 JunYes, you could make “Blazing Saddles” today
190. 11 JunHow Black Lives Matter Can Be Turned Into Anti-Unionism
191. 11 JunThis sounds like a department with everything to hide
192. 11 JunLGM Film Club, Part 13: Grounded
193. 11 JunSandwiches
194. 10 JunPresident Reanimated Corpse of Andrew Johnson
195. 10 JunThe art of war
196. 10 JunThe Dude-itors
197. 10 JunBen Shapiro wants his safe space NOW
198. 10 JunD.C. Statehood should be an urgent priority for the next Democratic Congress
199. 10 JunThe roots of racist policing
200. 10 JunA Correct Take
201. 9 JunBeyond 1968
202. 9 JunStephen Miller is preparing Trump’s big speech on the colored question
203. 9 JunRomney Revisionism
204. 9 Jun“Strategic Deflations”
205. 9 JunGrampa is switching from FOX to the harder stuff
206. 9 JunThe Small Town Protests
207. 9 JunTuesday NatSec Roundup
208. 9 JunTin soldiers and Barr is coming
209. 9 JunLGM Film Club, Part 12: How They Rob Men in Chicago
210. 8 JunNever Let A Crisis Go To Waste
211. 8 JunThe Fight Against Racist Statues Goes Global
212. 8 JunBunker Baby is very upset about the very unfair polls
213. 8 JunThe party of big government
214. 8 JunIt’s Not Just About the Cops
215. 8 JunThey said they’d make me major if I met all their demands
216. 8 JunThe Roots of Violent Protest: Violent Cops
217. 8 Jun*This* will be the day Donald Trump finally becomes president
218. 8 JunLGM Film Club, Part 11: Within Our Gates
219. 8 JunWhy Minneapolis
220. 7 JunBuh-Bye
221. 7 JunProtest Works
222. 7 JunChemical weapons and the authoritarian mind
223. 7 JunWhat Podcasts are You Listening to?
224. 7 JunI can’t breathe
225. 7 JunWealth hoarding at elite universities
226. 7 JunZuckerberg’s army are on their way
227. 7 JunLGM Film Club, Part 10: Memorial Day Massacre
228. 6 JunAn Evening of Labor Theatre
229. 6 JunWill no one rid me of these turbulent protestors?
230. 6 Jun“Voter fraud is a real problem. I should know, I’ve been committing it.”
231. 6 JunThe Myth of “Meaningful Oversight”
232. 6 JunNFL admits officially that it was wrong about Black Lives Matters
233. 6 JunOn Cop Media
234. 6 JunA riot of their own
235. 6 JunLGM Film Club, Part 9: Yellow Fever in Colombia
236. 6 JunFox News, its employees and viewers are racist fucks.
237. 5 JunAutomation and Farming
238. 5 JunCan we call an end to “powerful media organizations massively insult your intelligence week” now?
239. 5 JunThe Animals Return
240. 5 JunFake free speech warriors
241. 5 JunLeaving Europe
242. 5 JunThe Cesspool of the Times Leadership
243. 5 JunMrs. America
244. 5 JunThis Day in Labor History: June 5, 1939
245. 5 JunLGM Podcast: Accounting for the True Costs of Automobiles
246. 5 JunTo serve and protect
247. 5 JunLGM Film Club, Part 8: Pussyweight Title Bout
248. 4 JunNew York Times resolves to publish fewer fact-challenged fascisms
249. 4 JunMutual Aid
250. 4 JunSam Alito is an accessory to murder of Breonna Taylor
251. 4 JunLet’s check in and see how conservative intellectuals are handling the revolution
252. 4 JunHow hard it is for meaner men without the lead to sell it
253. 4 JunWhite Women and White Supremacy
254. 4 JunHard to believe that speech is free now
255. 4 JunForcing Out Racist Police Unions
256. 4 JunThursday NatSec Roundup
257. 4 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 649
258. 4 JunDon’t you make my brownshirt blue
259. 4 JunNew York Times reporters do not like being told their lives should be put at risk
260. 4 JunLGM Film Club, Part 7: Symphony in Black
261. 4 JunTear Down the Confederate Statues!
262. 3 JunThe Seniors Speak
263. 3 JunNYT opinion section goes full fash
264. 3 JunKeith Ellison steps in to actually enforce the law
265. 3 JunShaming and shunning
266. 3 JunOn “Domestic Terror” and the Path Toward Dictatorship
267. 3 JunWho are your favorite black creators?
268. 3 JunIt is difficult to get a man to understand something when his precise rank on the Fortune 500 depends on his not understanding it
269. 3 JunDon’t Let the Door Hit You
270. 3 JunMoscow Mitch Goes Full Tankie
271. 3 JunLGM Film Club, Part 6: Janie’s Janie
272. 2 JunLabor Theatre
273. 2 JunSomewhere later on you’ll have to take a stand
274. 2 JunA stale smell raising through a sickening summer haze
275. 2 JunA Shining City on a Hill
276. 2 JunTuesday NatSec Roundup
277. 2 JunGod said to Abraham: Kill me a son
278. 2 JunThe Very Short Walk of Shame
279. 2 JunWhy We Are Reopening
280. 2 JunIn Other Terrible News…..
281. 2 JunOn “Luck” and Economic Decline
282. 2 JunI assume the NRA is very upset about this
283. 2 JunWalking Into Munich
284. 2 JunThe Price of Freedom
285. 2 JunGlenn Has Thoughts
286. 2 JunTrump had peaceful protestors attacked to get a photo op
287. 2 JunLGM Film Club, Part 5: West Coast Logging
288. 1 JunSome questions about the Floyd case
289. 1 JunNeck restraints are a routine practice of Minneapolis police
290. 1 JunHas Thomas Friedman Begun to Understand His Outsized Role in the Destroying the World?
291. 1 JunTrump slinks out of bunker for long enough to demand fascist response from governors
292. 1 JunWhat To Do About Police Unions
293. 1 JunTom Cotton: Fascist
294. 1 JunWhy won’t people wear masks?
295. 1 JunDerek Chauvin is the essence of MAGA
296. 1 JunLGM Film Club, Part 4: Lou Reed Interview

May 2020

1. 31 MayTrump is in the worst position of any incumbent president since the advent of polling
2. 31 MayDeposed Monarch Blogging Update: House Bourbon
3. 31 MayFascism Will Soon Be the Law of the Land
4. 31 MayReadings on Protesting George Floyd’s Murder
5. 31 MayCops attacking journalists for committing journalism
6. 31 MayThat’s why pencils have erasers
7. 31 May“Are You Stupid Or What?”
8. 31 MayBill DeBlasio thinks it’s OK for the NYPD to run over protestors
9. 31 MayWhat we have here is a failure to hold police remotely accountable
10. 31 MayLGM Film Club: Part 3: Preminger Meets Buckley
11. 30 MayProtests in at least 30 cities across the USA
12. 30 MayTrump DOJ: the 14th Amendment Enacted Mr. Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia
13. 30 MaySaturday NatSec Roundup
14. 30 MayIt Looks as if white people are sabotaging the #BLM protests
15. 30 MaySome fascist wank material from President Toughguy
16. 30 MayOne Vote From Wisconsin
17. 30 MayCops Are Fascists
18. 29 MayOutflanked XVII: A $2400 Fistful of Outflankening
19. 29 MayLGM Film Club: Part 2: Coolidge Speaks
20. 29 MayBy an amazing coincidence, George Floyd had a fatal heart attack while Derek Chauvin was “kneeling” on (or very near!) his neck
21. 29 MayTrump Announces Withdrawal From WHO
22. 29 MayChauvin charged with murder
23. 29 MayThe politics of protest
24. 29 MayFascism: Minnesota Nice Edition
25. 29 MayThis Day in Labor History: May 29, 1935
26. 29 MayLGM Podcast: VP2
27. 29 MayI asked for water, he gave me gasoline
28. 29 MayKlobuchar really should not be the vp pick, cont’d
29. 29 MayFire Away
30. 28 MayArea pundit shocked to discover that Republican attacks on Obama were not made entirely in good faith
31. 28 MayOn Rioting and Police Abolition
32. 28 MayThe (gender) politics of COVID-19
33. 28 MayIs Donald Trump a Psycho? Yes.
34. 28 MayOn Rioting
35. 28 MayJohnstown Flood 2: New Gilded Age Boogaloo
36. 28 MayThe Future is COVID-19
37. 28 MayTrump re-tweets video that begins with speaker declaring that “the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat”
38. 28 MayThe Republican Party is a remorseless nest of sociopaths
39. 28 MayFacebook is awful and Mark Zuckerberg is one of the worst people in the world
40. 27 MayLarry Kramer, RIP
41. 27 MayFood Workers and COVID-19
42. 27 MayIs Our Media Learning?
43. 27 MayLGM Podcast: VP 1
44. 27 MayHow the rich spend their money (it’s on basement villages!)
45. 27 MayToday in the Republican War on Voting Rights
46. 27 MayWhich side are you on?
47. 27 MayWednesday NatSec Roundup
48. 27 MayBecause he’s an asshole
49. 26 MayBiden’s Agenda
50. 26 MayThe Dead Chicken That Will Be Used to Attack the Regulatory State
51. 26 MayThe Murder of George Floyd
52. 26 MaySociopaths ‘r US
53. 26 MayTrump the Tanly Man
54. 26 MayNo good answers
55. 26 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 648
56. 26 MayBite the Big Apple
57. 26 May“really shady fucking business”
58. 25 MayA voting rights victory in Florida, for now
59. 25 May“Jimmy, you know what to do”
60. 25 MayAlbert Memmi, RIP
61. 25 MayL’Etat, C’est Trump
62. 25 MayA Tempest in European Security Studies
63. 25 MayMemorial Day
64. 25 MayEverything Is Fine!
65. 25 MayMonday NatSec Roundup
66. 25 MayThe Four-Day Workweek
67. 25 MayThe Problem With Craft Distilleries
68. 24 MayMusic Notes
69. 24 MayThe racial bias of the SAT
70. 24 MayThere’s some blood in your grits from your hand which I bit
71. 24 MayThe GOP cult
72. 24 MayWhite Backlash: A Defining Feature of American History
73. 24 MayAnother Saturday Night
74. 23 May200 Epstein Coefficients
75. 23 May“Every funeral home in this area has become a sweatshop.”
76. 23 May“It’s nice to be liked, but you shouldn’t go out there trying to be liked”: The trip to Greece
77. 23 MayIn a Pandemic, Everyone is a Mark
78. 23 MayWorkers Should Not Have to Return to Terrible Low Wage Jobs
79. 23 MayBack Into the Meatpacking Plants!
80. 23 MayThe Decline of Louisiana
81. 23 MayDonald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk
82. 22 MayLGM Film Club: Part 1: The Flintstones Smoke
83. 22 MayTo make a long story short is a phrase whose origins are complicated and rambling
84. 22 MayTrump urges supporters to expose themselves to deadly pandemic in particularly unsafe environments
85. 22 MayState Incapacity Authoritarianism
86. 22 MayUC to end standardized testing requirements for undergrads
87. 22 MayLife in the Times of the Mad Emperor, The Plague Year, Day 143
88. 21 MayThe Political Science of Joe Biden
89. 21 MayThe Moral Meats
90. 21 MayTesting Positive for Stupidity
91. 21 MayThe Upcoming Housing Crisis
92. 21 MayState propaganda network a bit too subtle for cult leader’s liking
93. 21 MayOSHA Reform
94. 21 MayBrad Parscale
95. 21 MayJoan the Baptist
96. 21 MayOutflanked XVII: The owning the National Guard outflankening
97. 21 MayCriminal justice reform on the ballot
98. 21 MayMeat and American Ancestor Memory
99. 20 MayToday in American Ethnic Cleansing
100. 20 MayLearning from the Great Depression for Today
101. 20 MayThe corporatization of American higher education and the looming financial crisis
102. 20 MayTrump threatens to extort Democratic states to suppress voting
103. 20 MayBlockbuster scandal to bring down Obama and Biden administrations simultaneously
104. 20 MayWednesday NatSec Roundup
105. 20 MayLGM Review of Books: Andrew Delbanco, The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
106. 20 MayOutflanked XVI: The let them eat tort reform outflankening
107. 19 MayMichael Piccoli, RIP
108. 19 MayPandemics: A Fact of Life In Globalization
109. 19 MayBuying Norma McCorvey
110. 19 MaySomeone else will play the part of her
111. 19 MayTaking the war on voting rights to the next level
112. 19 MayMaking robberies into larcenies, making rapes disappear
113. 19 MayPaprika and Pork
114. 19 MayNormalizing Trump, normalizing Republicans
115. 19 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 647
116. 19 MayKarl Rove’s Air Siren
117. 19 MayThe exception to the rule
118. 18 MayMusic Notes
119. 18 MayTaking the 25th
120. 18 MaySecretary of State asks president to fire Inspector General investigating Secretary of State
121. 18 MayCholera and Our Cities
122. 18 MayA Nation of Meat
123. 18 MayThe Rhode Island Reopening
124. 18 MayDoorDash is a scam
125. 18 MayKnowledge Statecraft
126. 18 MayMonday NatSec Roundup
127. 18 MayDon’t quit your day job. Come to think of it, quit your day job, but don’t do any comedy either
128. 18 MayA Party of Trumps
129. 17 MayThe Floating Proletariat
130. 17 MayThere needs to be a Cleek’s Law for Twitter’s Dumbest “Leftists”
131. 17 MayThe New New Deal
132. 17 MayMeatpacking: It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way
133. 17 MayAmerica’s Dumbest Senator Applauds King Trump
134. 17 MayAmash and out
135. 17 MayNothing we can say is gonna change anything now
136. 17 MayThe History of White People in America
137. 16 MayFacing Freedom
138. 16 MayIn Memoriam
139. 16 MayNO WAR BUT PATENT WAR
140. 16 MayCOVID-19 and the Need for Unions
141. 16 MayOutflanked XV: the Hoover Outflankening
142. 16 MayGaming out future SCOTUS nominations
143. 16 MayThe Beaches of COVID
144. 16 MayAnd we couldn’t do nothin’ about it
145. 16 MayThe Fact That Presidents Are “Undermined” By Scandals Does Not Make Congressional Oversight Unconstitutional
146. 15 MayHas the Roberts Court Finally Met An Attempt to Undermine Democracy It Doesn’t Like?
147. 15 MayWho goes Nazi?
148. 15 MayQuick Book Rec: American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
149. 15 MayOther Side of the Mirror
150. 15 MayFriday Links
151. 15 MayThe new birtherism
152. 15 MayLockdown Prohibition? Let’s Bring Back That Jake Leg!
153. 15 MayCOVID-19 is not the flu
154. 15 MayNotice how in the count room nobody ever seems to see anything
155. 14 MayLife Under A Plutocratic Death Cult
156. 14 MayThursday NatSec Roundup
157. 14 MayPurity of essence
158. 14 MayMoving Beyond the Lockdown
159. 14 MayPresented Without Comment
160. 14 MayPeon Coal
161. 14 MaySocial Survival in the Pandemic
162. 14 MayHack Republican “Judges” Order More Wisconsinites to Die Again
163. 13 MayDo Not Be a Fool
164. 13 MayCOVID-19 As the Next Step in a Half-Millennia of Genocide
165. 13 MayHow the Left Should Think About Elections
166. 13 MayHappy Birthday Stevie Wonder
167. 13 MayRepublicans buy magazine subscriptions too
168. 13 MayTrump’s taxes and white conservative privilege
169. 13 MayKing Me
170. 13 MayPardon My Norms!
171. 12 MayThe Sound of One Shoe Dropping
172. 12 MayTrump Court Seems Poised to Side With Trump in Tax Return Case
173. 12 MayOutflanked XIV: A Most Viral Outflankening
174. 12 MayTwo months in
175. 12 MayHacking the Vaccine
176. 12 MayNumber of People Willing to Risk Choking to Death Alone to Eat In at Ruby Tuesday’s Surprisingly Limited
177. 12 MayLabor Organizing in the COVID Depression
178. 11 MayYou know what the crime is
179. 11 MayWarspite’s Echo
180. 11 MayNow what?
181. 11 MayMonday NatSec Roundup
182. 11 MayNegligent Genocide
183. 11 MayTrump’s taxes and John Roberts’ long game
184. 11 MayUnion Busters of the Day
185. 11 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 646
186. 11 MayThoughts and Prayers
187. 10 MayOutflanked XIII: the Social Security Outflankening
188. 10 MayBurned all my notebooks (what good are notebooks?)
189. 10 MayHow the Pandemic Ends
190. 10 MayCOVID-19 and International Unionbusting
191. 10 MayWhy Protect Workers When You Could Just Expose Some Prisoners?
192. 10 MayAre tests useless because they only come up positive when people are sick? Views differ
193. 9 MayMusic Notes
194. 9 MayLittle Richard, R.I.P.
195. 9 MayMy chest is aching, burns like a furnace, the burning keeps me alive
196. 9 MayThis Day in Labor History: May 9, 1909
197. 9 MayCOVID-19 and the Racial Contract
198. 8 MayTechnicalities
199. 8 MayI needed money ’cause I had none
200. 8 MayBored at Home? Want to Research Your City’s Past?
201. 8 MayNever Let a Crisis Get in the Way of Racism
202. 8 MayThe Unwitting Herd Immunity Experiments
203. 8 MayPelosi and Automatic Stabilizers
204. 8 MayThe Alpha and Omega Has Arrived
205. 8 MayThe paranoid style goes viral
206. 8 MayThe Masks of Nyorangelathotep
207. 8 MayLynch Mob Actually Arrested
208. 8 MayTry to find someone who loves you as much as Republicans love to stop black people from voting
209. 7 May1919 vs 2020
210. 7 MayWhy We Are “Reopening”
211. 7 MayA Leader to Lead the Nation
212. 7 MayIn like Flynn
213. 7 MayOutflanked XII: The Hoover Outflankening
214. 7 MayAin’t that fresh
215. 7 MayMitigation and chaos
216. 7 MayThursday NatSec Roundup
217. 7 MayOutflanked XII: the healthcare outflankening
218. 6 MaySay what you will about irrational sociopathy, at least it’s an ethos
219. 6 MayThe Unnatural
220. 6 MayBlast from the Past
221. 6 MayUnionize the Campaigns
222. 6 MayA Metaphor for Genocide
223. 6 MayThe Cenk Cost Fallacy [update]
224. 6 MayThere’s that moderating influence again
225. 6 MayThis will hurt you more than it hurts me
226. 5 MayCinco De Me-yo (Open Thread)
227. 5 MayThe American Way of Death
228. 5 MayOutflanked XI: A Most Capital Outflankening
229. 5 MayThe world is a ghetto
230. 5 MayPlan to export Liberty (TM) to Venezuela appears to have hit a snag
231. 5 MayPresident Scumbag Has Thoughts About Women
232. 5 MayAt what point do we start calling this Trump’s third genocide?
233. 5 MayCourier Journal
234. 5 MayTuesday NatSec Roundup
235. 5 MayThe Party is the Problem
236. 5 MayDysfunctional Government is Deadly
237. 5 MayThe plan
238. 4 MayCOVID-19 and the Fight for an Equitable California
239. 4 MayMath and the plutocracy
240. 4 MayVote By Mail
241. 4 MayRed America: The Next COVID Frontier
242. 4 MayFreedom Isn’t Free
243. 4 MayOutflanked X: The Barr Outflankening
244. 4 MayFour dead in Ohio
245. 4 MayCOVID-19 and the American Working Class
246. 4 MayThose Rats Won’t Fuck Themselves!
247. 3 MayBurnishing Bush
248. 3 MayTheory: Pandemic and economic depression are bad for the incumbent party
249. 3 MayLeadership?
250. 3 MayFortunate sons
251. 3 MayRichard Epsteins all the way down
252. 3 MayLochneriffic
253. 2 MayMusic Notes
254. 2 MayGetting the ratfuckers back together
255. 2 MayActual COVID-caused deaths in USA may be double official totals
256. 2 MayHow Harvard Laundered A Child Molester’s Reputation
257. 2 MayCOVID-19 and The Future of Work
258. 2 MayI Hate Illinois Nazis
259. 1 MayWorthwhile Canadian Initiative
260. 1 MayOne Last Job
261. 1 MayNever again is what you swore the time before
262. 1 MayRadical May
263. 1 MayBiden [Finally] Responds
264. 1 MayFriday NatSec Roundup
265. 1 MayIf this is a war, we’re losing badly
266. 1 MayIt Weighs On You
267. 1 MayThis Day in Labor History: May 1, 1877
268. 1 MayPost-Apocalyptic
269. 1 MayWhy don’t Democrats share Mitch McConnell’s principled commitment to transparency and good government?

April 2020

1. 30 AprThe Transparency Trap
2. 30 AprTrolling for dollars
3. 30 AprThe Outflankening IX: Protect Finance Against Consumers Edition
4. 30 AprThe Devil Went Down to the Governor’s Mansion in Georgia
5. 30 AprYou can open public accommodations, but you can’t make people patronize them
6. 29 AprTara Reade revisited
7. 29 AprHacktacular! Sending voters in the path of a deadly virus to rig an election edition
8. 29 AprWhen words lose their meaning
9. 29 AprJustin Amash Announces Vanity Campaign
10. 29 AprOutflanked VIII: The Iowa Outflankening
11. 28 AprIt’s Jared Kushner’s world
12. 28 AprWhat Republicans Are
13. 28 AprLochnertastic
14. 28 AprRepublicans: The Party of Worker Death
15. 28 AprTry to lead the coalition you have, not the one you wish you had
16. 28 AprNo will whatsoever
17. 28 AprTuesday NatSec Roundup
18. 28 AprMore COVID-19 undercounts
19. 28 AprThings are almost certainly much worse than official death counts indicate
20. 27 AprAgainst the Electoral College
21. 27 AprThe Biden situation
22. 27 AprNew York’s Disastrous Failure of Governance
23. 27 AprIt’s Not Just Blue States That Will Drop Dead if McConnell Gets His Way
24. 27 AprTrump the quitter
25. 27 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 27, 1978
26. 27 AprCheckout Time in Vegas
27. 26 AprLeader of Prominent Left Journal: Liberalism vs. Fascism¯\_(ツ)_/¯
28. 26 AprNoble prizes
29. 26 AprHow Your Disaster Capitalism Fueled Union Busting Sausage Gets Made
30. 26 AprHey Nineteen
31. 26 AprUnchallenged
32. 26 AprMusic Notes
33. 25 AprDonald Trump, Political SUPERGENIUS
34. 25 AprMultipolar Populism
35. 25 AprThe Nursing Home Disaster
36. 25 AprSaturday NatSec Roundup
37. 25 Apr“as catastrophically stupid an idea that anyone could ever imagine”
38. 25 AprEverything is Fine!
39. 25 AprMay Day Extravaganza
40. 24 AprEconomic Anxiety (TM), Sponsored by Betsy DeVos
41. 24 AprStronger than dirt
42. 24 AprI meant to do that
43. 24 AprExit Happenings
44. 24 AprDoes mainlining Clorox carry significant health benefits? Views differ
45. 24 AprThe Trump Show
46. 24 AprPoison Pills
47. 24 AprBut you’re going to get used to and you’d better resign yourself
48. 24 AprNFL Draft Open Thread
49. 23 AprTrump suggests people inject themselves with bleach, alcohol, and light to destroy the invisible enemy
50. 23 AprYesterday was Earth Day and You Probably Didn’t Care
51. 23 AprA failed state
52. 23 AprSam Alito, Anti-Anti Racist
53. 23 AprSocialized Risk for the Wealthy
54. 23 AprPremature lifting of stay-home orders will not actually stop the economy from cratering
55. 23 AprThe buck stops anywhere but here
56. 22 AprMcConnell to America: Drop Dead
57. 22 AprHeckuva job
58. 22 AprTop federal official in charge of vaccine research removed for not getting his mind right
59. 22 AprOutflanked VI: Tired of all the Outflankening
60. 22 AprWatching the Wrong Propaganda Can Get You Killed
61. 22 AprThe Plot Against America
62. 22 AprSouthern Culture on the Skids
63. 22 AprWednesday NatSec Roundup
64. 22 AprTrump Supporters Are Deeply Weird Even By the Standards of Personality Cults
65. 21 AprThere is no violin small enough
66. 21 AprA Smarter Left Electoral Politics
67. 21 AprAstroTurf Movement 2: New Gilded Age Boogaloo
68. 21 AprThe Old Man and the Internet
69. 21 AprHydroxychloroquine
70. 21 AprOur Team is Governed by Idiots
71. 21 AprOrganized Labor and COVID-19: A Conversation
72. 21 AprRichard Epstein has yet more to say about our little pandemic
73. 21 AprDonald Trump Becoming the Leader of the Republican Party is a Mystery That Will Never Be Explained
74. 21 AprWorld’s second-worst leader may now also be brain dead
75. 21 AprWhen All You Have Is A White Nationalist Hammer
76. 20 AprTrump Extorting Governors to Kill Their Own Citizens
77. 20 AprPetri dishes of democracy
78. 20 AprNotes on prevalence
79. 20 AprTalking Venture Brothers, “Operation P.R.O.M” with Elana @ Graphic Policy
80. 20 AprStates engage in desperate measures to evade Jared Kushner stealing their essential medical supplies
81. 20 AprMonday NatSec Roundup
82. 20 AprSocial Distancing Policies Are Widely Supported by the American People
83. 19 AprThe Rush to Austerity Begins
84. 19 AprYou got away with it
85. 19 AprWhat Could Be Worse than This?
86. 19 AprI could tell by his bloodstained hands
87. 19 AprHot Takes! Get Your Fake Leftist Hot Takes Here!
88. 18 AprWi not trei a holiday in Sweeden this yer ?
89. 18 AprWarren for Veep?
90. 18 AprCan Republicans be persuaded to make a deal for a corporate bailout?
91. 18 AprDeep Thoughts From the Applebee’s Salad Bar
92. 18 AprOrganizing in the Age of COVID-19
93. 17 AprA Woman to Blame
94. 17 AprWhat will happen to big time college sports during the pandemic?
95. 17 AprThis is all part of God’s increasingly mysterious plan
96. 17 AprNoted for Absolutely No Reason
97. 17 AprFriday NatSec Roundup
98. 17 AprRepublicans in Murder-Suicide Pact With Country
99. 17 AprToday in Republican Governance
100. 16 AprThe Bait and the switch
101. 16 AprDon’t climb into the cage with the leopard if you don’t want the leopard to eat your face
102. 16 AprCOVID news update
103. 16 AprI gotta dinosaur for a representative, it’s got a small brain and refuses to learn
104. 16 AprThe Relentless Republican War On Democracy Continues
105. 16 AprThe last remnants of the old Republic have been swept away
106. 16 AprThe stench of desperation
107. 15 Apr“Opening Up” Public Accommodations Nobody Wants to Use Can’t Save the Economy
108. 15 AprThe Ariana Grande theory of politics
109. 15 AprOur Brilliant Leaders
110. 15 AprGlobal Governance in 2020
111. 15 AprWHO could’ve known?
112. 15 AprWednesday NatSec Roundup
113. 15 AprW.H.O. Are You
114. 15 AprA Ghost to Most
115. 14 AprNo Way to Beat The Spread
116. 14 AprThe F-35 and its IP Issues
117. 14 AprHarvard freezes pay, hiring, cuts top admin salaries, discretionary spending, capital projects
118. 14 AprA Virginia Lesson
119. 14 AprTheocratic political correctness
120. 14 AprApollo 13
121. 14 AprTales from the Before Time
122. 14 AprNegligent Homicide In Vain
123. 13 AprCould Bernie have won by ramping up attacks on Biden? (SPOILER: no)
124. 13 AprCommittee of Public Safety will consider new order to re-open America Inc.
125. 13 AprBernie Endorses
126. 13 AprI synthesized the relevant information (Monday Odds and Ends)
127. 13 AprThe War on the USPS
128. 13 AprMonday NatSec Roundup
129. 13 AprCan the Fauci Survive?
130. 13 AprTrump and Moscow Mitch
131. 12 AprDo not pick a purple or red state senator as a vice presidential nominee
132. 12 AprFood Shortages?
133. 12 AprBobbing and squinting just like a nitwit
134. 12 AprThe Arizona Plan
135. 12 AprThe worst thing in the world
136. 12 AprOutflanked V: The Greatest Outflankening
137. 11 AprMusic Notes
138. 11 AprTurns out President of the United States is an important job
139. 11 AprWhat to Expect When You’re Expecting Havoc from North Korea?
140. 11 AprToday’s Galaxy-Brained “You Don’t Have to Care About Supreme Court” Take
141. 11 AprThe Urgent Necessity of Testing
142. 10 AprLand of the Free, Home of the Brave
143. 10 AprI’m getting used to it now
144. 10 AprGovernment By Scumbag
145. 10 AprHow Are You?
146. 10 AprWhat’s next?
147. 10 AprA Plague of Plaques
148. 10 AprHungary on Lake Michigan
149. 10 AprFriday NatSec Roundup
150. 10 AprThank You, Bernie Sanders
151. 10 AprJoe Pizza
152. 10 AprBut what he really loved to do was steal. I mean, he actually enjoyed it.
153. 9 AprThe Hobart Attack
154. 9 AprTrump: Republicans should be able to vote safely, everyone else needs to choose between their franchise and their health
155. 9 AprHow your neocofederate affirmative action network sausage gets made
156. 9 AprPolicing and the Problems of “Reform”
157. 9 AprCOVID-19 and the War on Workers
158. 9 AprCOVID-19 and the Prison Crisis
159. 9 AprSelf-Made
160. 9 AprIn Other Horrible News
161. 9 AprCampus PC is out of control
162. 9 AprRepublicans are going to openly try to steal the 2020 elections
163. 8 AprA campaign’s relationship with the press should be instrumental, and other lessons
164. 8 AprIt is what it is
165. 8 AprWednesday NatSec Roundup
166. 8 AprGendering Police Repression
167. 8 AprSanders suspends campaign
168. 8 AprMy Life with John Prine
169. 8 AprJohn Prine
170. 8 AprThe Trump Court and the 2020 Election
171. 7 AprOther Things Out of Wisconsin
172. 7 AprGood news is on the way
173. 7 AprWisconsin and the Republican War on Democracy
174. 7 AprDying to vote
175. 7 AprFirestorm
176. 7 AprLGM Podcast: Market Power, the Regulatory State, and Expert Capital
177. 7 AprOpen Skies
178. 7 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 7, 1947
179. 7 AprThe British Twenty-fifth Amendment
180. 7 AprAmerica’s Orbans
181. 7 AprRoberts Gang Attacks the Right To Vote Again
182. 6 AprSome people claim there’s a woman from Minnesota to blame, but in fact it’s your own damn fault
183. 6 AprAl Kaline
184. 6 AprCan Joe Biden be Emails-ed?
185. 6 AprCrozier Considerations
186. 6 AprOCCUPIED TERRITORY
187. 6 AprMonday NatSec Roundup
188. 6 AprCOVID-19 and the Racial Crisis
189. 6 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 6, 1905
190. 6 AprThe Outflanking IV: Tired of all the outflankening
191. 6 AprSunday Book Review: Fever of War
192. 5 AprLGM Review of Books: Annelise Orleck, “We Are All Fast Food Workers Now:” The Global Uprising against Poverty Wages
193. 5 AprCrozier Tests Positive
194. 5 AprWhatcha Baking/Making?
195. 5 Apr“It did not have to happen this way”
196. 5 AprMass Politics!
197. 4 AprThe Debt We Owe (Open Thread)
198. 4 AprMaybe making a semi-literate reality TV president wasn’t that great an idea
199. 4 AprHow Trump Supports the Troops
200. 4 AprWait — I thought we were owning the *libs*!
201. 4 AprThe Covid rackets
202. 4 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 4, 1936
203. 4 AprHer Majesty’s Most Loyal Opposition
204. 4 AprTrump fires Intelligence Community Inspector Michael Atkinson
205. 4 Apr“Just so you know, voluntary means mandatory”: Revisiting Richard Linklater’s ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ in the absence of baseball
206. 3 AprBill Withers, RIP
207. 3 AprA Most Dangerous Game
208. 3 AprA couple of Friday afternoon thoughts on things other than That Thing
209. 3 AprOutflanked 3: the Healthcare Outflankening
210. 3 AprHigher Ed and the ‘Rona
211. 3 AprJob Guarantee When?
212. 3 AprBelated Book Release Announcement
213. 3 Apr“Dilettantism raised to the level of sociopathy”
214. 3 AprSouthern Exceptionalism
215. 2 AprFailson of every portfolio
216. 2 AprWall Street Journal publishes op-ed on COVID-19 by climate denialists
217. 2 AprLocal control!
218. 2 AprPandemic and Economic Cataclysm Open Thread
219. 2 AprThursday NatSec Roundup
220. 2 AprMAGA all the way down
221. 2 AprRiverboat Don
222. 2 AprGotta kick at the darkness ’till it bleeds daylight
223. 1 AprHaving served its purpose, Originalism is taken out and unceremoniously shot
224. 1 AprI’m smart and I want respect!
225. 1 AprEpstein and Sunstein
226. 1 Apr“Thirty seconds after the Challenger blew up, he’s on the phone selling NASA stock short”
227. 1 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 1, 1951
228. 1 AprNational press reports Trump once again about to become president
229. 1 AprBehold, for I have become a progressive concern troll

March 2020

1. 31 MarMusic Notes
2. 31 MarRed Governors Take the Blue Pill
3. 31 MarScientists identify first object to exceed the speed of light
4. 31 MarThe Worst Stimulus Idea Ever?
5. 31 MarThe socialist turn
6. 31 MarDoes the Atlantic Ocean Have Water In It? Views Differ
7. 31 MarCOVID-19 Meets CVN-71
8. 31 MarVoting Republican Will Get You Killed
9. 31 MarTuesday NatSec Roundup
10. 31 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 31, 1921
11. 31 MarPut that drinking jacket on and enjoy a little fog
12. 30 MarThe Quiet Parts Loud, Disenfranchisement Edition
13. 30 MarA plague of libertarians
14. 30 MarBudapest Dreams
15. 30 MarViral Hegemony?
16. 30 MarSocial Distancing Works
17. 30 MarSometimes Even the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution Must Have to Stand Naked
18. 29 MarOpen Thread Odds and Ends
19. 29 Mar“It’s thirty-six hours past Judgment Day”: Reckoning with Bob Dylan’s Murder Most Foul
20. 29 MarWho Could Have Known?
21. 29 MarLearning from Animal Quarantines
22. 29 MarThe Trump Show
23. 29 MarTrump Lavishes Resources on his Adopted Home State While Starving Others
24. 29 MarFlorida man
25. 29 MarDenialism as an ethos
26. 28 MarApril 14
27. 28 MarThe woman who knew too much
28. 28 MarThe Lost Month and Lost Lives
29. 28 MarThe Broadband Gap
30. 28 MarFinally, Trump Consults the Experts
31. 28 MarDelusional MAGA governors will get a lot of people killed
32. 27 MarIdiot Nation (Whatcha Making?)
33. 27 MarIt’s time to retroactively shut down the University of Chicago Law School in 1990 until we can figure out what the hell is going on
34. 27 MarRegarding the pain of others
35. 27 MarAny jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one
36. 27 MarMobilizing to Protect Electoral Integrity
37. 27 MarFriday NatSec Roundup
38. 27 MarTrump blocking emergency medical supplies from being sent to Michigan because he doesn’t like the nasty woman governor who said mean things about him
39. 27 MarThe Countercycle Problem
40. 27 MarRepublican Governance is a Catastrophe
41. 27 MarBiden Allegations
42. 26 MarThe Spanish Flu in Asia
43. 26 MarAmerican Exceptionalism
44. 26 MarI will be remembered as the greatest baseball player of all time (I have a plan)
45. 26 MarGood news: Author of Imperial College study massively revises predicted deaths downward after UK adopts intensive suppression efforts
46. 26 MarThe Second Pandemic
47. 26 MarGood on Bernie
48. 26 Mar3.28 million file unemployment claims
49. 26 MarSenate Unanimously Passes Stimulus Bill
50. 26 MarThree Weeks?
51. 25 MarRepublican senators threaten to renege on stimulus deal
52. 25 MarThis would probably sound better in German
53. 25 MarWhat Was Bernie’s Campaign, Exactly?
54. 25 MarTrump predicts thousands of suicides if his resorts don’t open up again very soon
55. 25 MarWednesday NatSec Roundup
56. 25 MarTrump Might Warm to Felon Voting. He Already Warms to Felons.
57. 25 MarAMLO’s Incredible Irresponsibility
58. 25 MarA reminder that we still don’t know what the hell is going on
59. 25 MarThe Deal
60. 25 MarLife begins at conception and ends at birth
61. 24 MarPer 538’s poll curation, Trump’s approval is now higher than at any point in his presidency
62. 24 MarMore thoughts from the sociopath-in-Chief
63. 24 MarIs there any defense for Bernie Sanders’s decision to continue to campaign?
64. 24 MarElecting Republicans can get you killed
65. 24 MarCoronavirus update
66. 24 MarA Note on Advertisements
67. 24 MarA Deadly Conflict of Interest
68. 24 MarBoulder city government strongly urges homeless people to stop being homeless as soon as possible
69. 24 MarRadical Outliers
70. 23 MarStop Airing Trump’s Bullshit Sessions
71. 23 MarBut he did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night
72. 23 MarMitch McConnell has tried nothing and he’s all out of ideas
73. 23 MarIf COVID-19 is our first taste of international cooperation after American hegemony, we’re in real trouble
74. 23 MarPresident Big Baby is getting very cranky
75. 23 MarMonday NatSec Roundup
76. 23 MarFox News and the Wages of Epistemic Closure
77. 23 MarOutflanked 2: The Outflankening
78. 22 MarRepublicans Can’t Stop Being Republicans Even To Save Their Political Lives
79. 22 MarHacky Screenwriters Deliver Another Obvious Plot Twist
80. 22 MarLet the “free market” sort it out
81. 22 MarWe’re in this terrible situation because the government is in the hands of terrible people (Republicans)
82. 21 MarMint! That! Coin!
83. 21 MarThey Really Believe This Shit
84. 21 MarOh. Bernie, I Apologize; I forgot you were there.
85. 21 MarIncompetence is a Republican problem, not just a Trump problem
86. 21 MarHow to make Dubya look like Winston Churchill
87. 21 MarKnow When To Fold ‘Em
88. 21 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 21, 1877
89. 21 Mar“Above all, the government is an insurance company with an army”: A sober discussion with author Bruce Gibney about the ramifications and aftermath of the coronavirus
90. 20 MarTgifml
91. 20 MarThe pure evil of the Republican caucus
92. 20 MarToday is the day Donald Trump became president
93. 20 MarThe real virus
94. 20 MarPandemic Profiteers
95. 20 MarUnemployment claims next week likely to be 200% HIGHER than previous record
96. 20 MarPardon My Outflanking
97. 19 MarThe Grift Never Stops
98. 19 MarMajor social decision making in conditions of extreme uncertainty
99. 19 MarWhat if Hillary Was President During the Pandemic?
100. 19 MarThe Trump virus
101. 19 MarKing Solomon he never lived ’round here
102. 19 MarTest Failure
103. 18 MarOutflanked Again!
104. 18 MarThe Senate Death Caucus
105. 18 MarCan you own the libs when the libs have already owned you?
106. 18 MarWe Have Always Been at War with the “Chinese Virus”
107. 18 MarWhat would a rational harm reduction strategy for coronavirus look like?
108. 18 MarThe Federal Reserve and the Pandemic of 2020
109. 18 MarToday is the day Ted Bundy became a good Uber driver
110. 18 MarThey’re so close to getting it.
111. 18 MarBye-bye, fucko
112. 18 MarWhat should be done about the rest of the primaries?
113. 18 MarO’Brien’d
114. 17 MarYesterday’s Savvy Lefty Hero Strikes Again
115. 17 MarTry to parody this
116. 17 MarOutflanked again!
117. 17 MarHow long can quarantine measures be maintained?
118. 17 MarA squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner
119. 17 MarDoes Pelosi Remember that this is not a normal presidency?
120. 17 MarAdapting to a Rapidly Changing Environment…of Economic Policy
121. 17 MarAll elections should be by mail
122. 17 MarTuesday NatSec Roundup
123. 17 MarFirst, as tragedy and farce, then as tragedy and farce
124. 17 MarThe System is in Trouble
125. 17 MarLet It Go (Again)
126. 16 MarThe Sacrifice
127. 16 MarOutflanked
128. 16 MarSports for Social Distance
129. 16 MarThe street, and the game, and what happened here today
130. 16 MarNegotiating with sociopaths
131. 16 MarSanders is Waving Goodbye
132. 16 MarRoasted Cauliflower and Onion Gratin with Bacon
133. 16 MarEpistemic closure will get people killed
134. 16 MarWhat Kind of Endgame Does the Sanders Campaign Want?
135. 15 MarSlow Motion Apocalypse/Bernie-Biden Open Thread
136. 15 MarWhat Does the Republican Death Cult Learn from Mass Death? How to Cause More Mass Death!
137. 15 MarFrom all this you’d imagine that there must be something learned
138. 15 MarCOVID-19 and security theater
139. 15 MarEpitaph for America: “I’ll Do What I Want”
140. 15 MarWhat if being governed by incompetent racist authoritarians is bad?
141. 14 MarWhen A Death Cult Is In Power During a Pandemic
142. 14 MarMurc’s Law: Coronavirus Edition
143. 14 MarThe Worst People in the World
144. 14 MarSaturday NatSec Roundup
145. 14 MarAn American Meltdown
146. 14 MarCharles Wuorinen, RIP
147. 14 MarThe glib replies the same defeats
148. 13 MarThrow the whole damn CEO away
149. 13 MarIt’s the spirit of the age: Jared Kushner edition
150. 13 MarA Medical Katrina
151. 13 MarThe Trump “Administration” Panic of 2020
152. 13 MarA Coronavirus story
153. 13 MarThere are no good Republicans in Congress
154. 13 MarGross Incompetence Matters
155. 13 MarPandemic Vlogging
156. 12 MarBlood on the highway
157. 12 MarTrump: Can We Stimulate the Economy Without Helping Working People?
158. 12 MarWhat if the incompetence doesn’t ameliorate the malevolence?
159. 12 MarThe Grift Never Stops
160. 12 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 645
161. 12 MarThe King’s Speech
162. 12 MarCoronavirus and Incarceration
163. 11 MarMax Von Sydow, RIP
164. 11 MarJared Kushner is apparently a central player in crafting the administration’s response to the COVID-19 epidemic
165. 11 MarThe Republican Death Cult Literally Goes Viral
166. 11 MarRepublicans Are Champing at the Bit to Own the Libs (Again)
167. 11 MarThe plague
168. 11 MarWeinstein and Trump
169. 11 MarLessons From Virginia
170. 11 MarWednesday NatSec Roundup
171. 11 MarBernie Sanders and COVID-19
172. 11 MarPrimaries, cooler?
173. 11 MarIntermediate Tuesday Open Thread
174. 10 Mar“Dis shale, is stale.”
175. 10 MarBernie Sanders and the failure of the youth vote strategy
176. 10 MarPutting a Marginally Literate Racist Reality Show Host in the White House Seemed Like a Great Idea, What Went Wrong?
177. 10 MarThe Spanish Flu
178. 10 MarClouds
179. 9 MarThe End
180. 9 MarYou’ve been bitten by a true believer (Update: You’ve been bitten by someone’s false beliefs.)
181. 9 MarJack Welch
182. 9 MarSecond-biggest annual tennis tournament in the USA was just cancelled
183. 9 MarThe Lighthouse
184. 9 MarYou dance with the one what brung ya
185. 9 MarMonday NatSec Roundup
186. 9 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 644
187. 9 MarLook out below
188. 8 MarWe Can Fix Our Environmental Problems
189. 8 MarWhat Does Joe Biden Stand For?
190. 8 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 643
191. 8 MarOh Glorious Day
192. 8 MarMore sacrifices to the Electoral College
193. 7 MarAssholes Have to Stick Together
194. 7 MarCoronavirus Blogging
195. 7 MarWho Suffers When We Shut Everything Down for Coronavirus?
196. 7 MarWhere’s All the Outrage from Those Oh So Concerned About Latin America When Someone Says Fidel Castro Wasn’t a Monster?
197. 7 MarThe Prince and the President
198. 7 MarElon Musk: No Progressive Hero
199. 7 MarThe (Big) Sky’s No Longer the Limit
200. 7 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 642
201. 7 MarThe president sends his envoy packing
202. 7 MarDispatch from the land of COVID-19
203. 6 MarTGIF Open Thread
204. 6 MarMcCoy Tyner, RIP
205. 6 MarIt’s Time For Some Game Theory
206. 6 MarThe academic precariat’s precarious future
207. 6 MarThe Worst Story on Bernie Sanders Ever Written
208. 6 MarIf Only We Could Choose Who the 2% Would Be
209. 6 MarThe Boss is Never the Friend of Justice
210. 6 MarStrike 7
211. 6 MarOn Bernie, Biden, Black Voters, and Whiteness
212. 6 MarFriday NatSec Roundup
213. 6 MarThe Institutionalists!
214. 5 MarWhy Biden’s Southern Victories Matter Far More than “Momentum”
215. 5 MarYour daily reminder that the Trump administration is more than anything else a scam to enrich himself and his family
216. 5 MarWhatcha Watchin’?
217. 5 MarToday in the 21st Century Jungle
218. 5 MarSure We Fetishize the Free Market. But What if We Can Own the Libs Instead?
219. 5 MarUAW President Indicted
220. 5 MarWarren ends presidential campaign
221. 5 MarPatriarchy is a hell of a drug
222. 5 MarI guess the breadsticks are OK
223. 5 MarNo Bullocks
224. 4 Mar30 2
225. 4 MarThis seems relevant
226. 4 MarVoter suppression Texas style
227. 4 MarA Few Thoughts
228. 4 MarWednesday NatSec Roundup
229. 4 MarBloomberg drops out and endorses Biden
230. 4 MarWhat’s Next
231. 4 MarThe morning after
232. 4 MarLGM Review of Books: Jonathan M. Metzl: Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland
233. 4 MarSuper Tuesday thoughts/Open Thread III
234. 4 MarMusic Notes
235. 4 MarSuper Tuesday Open Thread II
236. 3 MarSuper Tuesday Open Thread I
237. 3 MarVote For Who You Think Would be the Best President
238. 3 MarRespectable
239. 3 MarStarbucks and Its Workers
240. 3 Mar“We think democracy is better. But is it? In terms of outcomes?”
241. 3 MarBernie’s FP
242. 3 MarOfficial Super Tuesday Endorsement
243. 3 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 641
244. 3 MarVoting on Super Tuesday
245. 3 MarIt’s About Time
246. 2 MarBetting markets now see the race between Biden and Sanders as essentially a tossup
247. 2 MarWomen and the presidency
248. 2 MarIt’s Republicans are concerned about Hunter Biden’s resume o’clock
249. 2 MarKlobuchar dropping out, endorsing Biden
250. 2 MarThe Economic Threat of COVID-19
251. 2 MarLet’s Check in on The Federalist
252. 2 MarA Trumpian moment
253. 2 MarSuper Tuesday Calculator
254. 2 MarMonday NatSec Roundup
255. 2 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 640
256. 2 MarEverything is fine dot gif
257. 2 MarBloomberg is Starting to Feel (A Lot) Like Ross Perot
258. 1 MarPete Is Out
259. 1 MarWe all want to change the world
260. 1 MarLove in vain
261. 1 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 639
262. 1 Mar3 Presidential Campaigns, One State
263. 1 MarSaturday Open Thread