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December 2021

1. 31 DecPaying people not to get vaccinated
2. 31 DecA Capitalist is a Capitalist No Matter Which Political Party They Join
3. 31 DecGuerilla Abortion Tactics
4. 31 DecBetty White RIP
5. 31 DecThunberg
6. 31 DecCadillac desert
7. 31 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 987
8. 31 DecThe Fire This Time
9. 30 DecWhere’s Ron?
10. 30 DecAccused sex criminal Alan Dershowitz presented by BBC as impartial analyst of convicted sex criminal’s Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction
11. 30 DecFate of the Afghan Air Force
12. 30 DecBest TV of 2021
13. 30 DecThe collateral damage of the Republican war on the vaccine
14. 30 DecDjokovic skipping the Australian Open because of vaccine requirement?
15. 30 DecBowl games and COVID
16. 30 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 986
17. 30 DecHarry Reid’s playbook was to ignore Politico Playbook
18. 29 DecGhislaine Maxwell found guilty on five of six counts, including most serious
19. 29 DecJohn Roberts and the insulation of the Supreme Court from backlash
20. 29 DecPandemic Update
21. 29 DecThe mysterious inability to find an anti-authoritarian Republican MAGA viewers like
22. 29 DecGod, family, Bitcoin
23. 29 DecWednesday NatSec Roundup
24. 29 DecMan “harboring extremist views” (actually completely standard Republican views) murders five people in Denver
25. 29 DecLord Manchin Doesn’t Care About Climate Change
26. 29 DecThe Master
27. 29 DecLGM Film Club, Part 237: Only Lovers Left Alive
28. 29 DecHarry Reid, RIP
29. 29 DecJohn Madden, RIP
30. 28 DecFascist munchkin defines legal voting by Those People as election theft
31. 28 DecSince when did conspiring to overthrow the government become some sort of so-called “crime?”
32. 28 DecThe Webb telescope
33. 28 DecPublic Pressure on Unionizing Progressive Employers Works
34. 28 DecBoric
35. 28 DecChina’s Looking Omicron in the Face
36. 28 DecToday’s Secret Word is “Antitrust”
37. 28 DecCancelling John Marshall
38. 28 DecGreater Idaho
39. 28 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 985
40. 28 DecA Litany of the Dead
41. 28 DecLGM Film Club, Part 236: The Phantom of the Monastery
42. 27 DecElectric Vehicles and the Labor Movement
43. 27 DecI am beginning to think that Jared Schmeck is not a free-thinking independent
44. 27 DecOmicron follies
45. 27 DecThe Christmas Truce
46. 27 DecMaking restaurant workers wash their hands after using the restroom is fascism
47. 27 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 984
48. 26 DecMurc’s Law is an endlessly forgiving mistress (if her partner is a Republican)
49. 26 DecPSA – How To Find N95 Masks
50. 26 DecWhither Satire
51. 26 DecThe expanding universe
52. 26 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 983
53. 25 Dec“So the falcon’s heard the falconer, huh?”
54. 25 DecLGM Through the Eyes of AI
55. 25 DecA Deadwood Christmas
56. 25 DecChristmas Escapes
57. 25 DecBut family cannot be helped
58. 25 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 982
59. 24 DecIdaho Public Health
60. 24 DecShooting Down Santa
61. 24 DecThe violent sedition of 1/6
62. 24 DecI was promised *unmitigated* sociopathy!
63. 24 DecOmicron thread
64. 24 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 981
65. 24 DecChristmas Eve
66. 23 DecWill Trump’s sudden enthusiasm for COVID vaccines cost him significant support?
67. 23 DecJoan Didion
68. 23 DecOne powerful motivation for conspiracy theories is that they can help evade the conclusion that you’re a massive sucker
69. 23 DecUpdating Expectations of the F-35
70. 23 DecMassive undercounting of deaths caused directly by COVID-19
71. 23 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 980
72. 23 DecLGM Film Club, Part 235: Vertigo
73. 23 DecThe Manchin Base
74. 22 DecPlaying Indian
75. 22 DecStupid Covid Conspiracy Theories
76. 22 DecThe Ongoing Transformation of the Aircraft Carrier
77. 22 DecMore evidence that Omicron produces milder infections than previous strains
78. 22 DecHis ideas made some people mad
79. 22 DecShe just sit there as the night grows still
80. 22 DecRumors of war
81. 22 DecWednesday NatSec Roundup
82. 22 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 979
83. 22 DecOmicron and K-12
84. 21 DecSome good news on Omicron?
85. 21 DecJoe Manchin’s devotion to Clinton-era bullshit likely to end agenda overwhelmingly supported by all other wings of the party
86. 21 DecThe rube-runners and the rubes
87. 21 DecPeter Thiel lickspittle promotes another conspiracy theory
88. 21 DecAmerica Gone Mad
89. 21 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 978
90. 21 Dec73% of new COVID cases in the USA last week were the Omicron variant
91. 20 DecThe “I am negotiating in good faith” banner on my yacht has many people asking questions already answered by my banner
92. 20 DecWhy isn’t there more flopping in American football?
93. 20 DecInside the terminal MA scam
94. 20 DecLeft twitter very upset about Biden White House’s insensitivity toward 3 year olds who read WH press releases
95. 20 DecLGM Podcast: Learning to Fall Out of Love with Your Job
96. 20 DecA grand unified theory of MAGA
97. 20 DecThe Republican party is pro-COVID
98. 20 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 977
99. 20 DecTell me flattering lies or the country gets it
100. 19 DecThe Herman Cain awards are going to be busy in 2022
101. 19 DecNostalgia is not a plan
102. 19 DecFun Times with Historians
103. 19 DecNFL Open Thread: Urban Renewal Edition
104. 19 DecThe Games of 2021
105. 19 DecYour Personal Lord and Savior Has Spoken
106. 19 DecThis is a stupid conversation
107. 19 DecJust because you’re extremely stupid doesn’t mean you’re not evil
108. 19 DecMusic Notes
109. 18 DecThere’s no such thing as someone else’s war
110. 18 DecThe platonic ideal of the Florida Man
111. 18 DecTransforming students who won’t read the syllabus into doctrinaire leftists
112. 18 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 976
113. 18 DecA 3 million person Nuremberg rally every day
114. 17 DecHe tells it like it is!
115. 17 DecMifepristone and the future of abortion access
116. 17 DecUgly Dark Twisted Fantasy
117. 17 DecWell, This Is A Nonstarter
118. 17 DecNow I really want to eat a gingerbread person
119. 17 Decbell hooks
120. 17 DecJoe Biden’s disgraceful cave on family separation
121. 17 DecFriday NatSec Roundup
122. 17 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 975
123. 17 DecTurning mountains into oceans, putting people on the moon
124. 16 DecIf you think it doesn’t matter which president appoints federal judges, why did you retire strategically?
125. 16 DecCOVID update
126. 16 DecUrban Meyer is the Jimmy Lake of Bobby Petrinos
127. 16 DecUrban Meyer discovers it’s much harder to win when the other team gets paid too
128. 16 DecThis Day in Labor History: December 16, 1977
129. 16 DecThe Authoritarian Caucus
130. 16 DecLGM Film Club, Part 234: The Man Who Knew Too Much
131. 15 DecThe hopeless incoherence of opposition to expanding the Supreme Court
132. 15 DecIt’s not a lie if it confirms your reactionary priors
133. 15 DecHow much would you have to be paid to read this book?
134. 15 DecBiden Speaks Up
135. 15 DecRecreating Jim Crow
136. 15 DecThe Battle for the Starbucks Union
137. 15 DecThe Court and Gavin Newsom’s hypocrisy trolling
138. 15 DecWhat are the humanities good for?
139. 15 DecThis Day in Labor History: December 15, 1989
140. 15 DecHouse holds Meadows in Contempt
141. 15 DecLGM Film Club, Part 233: Judex
142. 15 DecThe atomistic consumer model for COVID response is bad in all of its forms
143. 14 DecHow Much Longer?
144. 14 DecReal Reasons for Democratic Struggles with Latinos
145. 14 DecContrarian brain, an incurable condition
146. 14 DecTelling the Truth about Poverty
147. 14 DecCan Essential and Front Line Workers Build Permanent Gains from the Pandemic?
148. 14 DecFascist-enabling network enables fascism
149. 14 DecBut his emails
150. 14 DecKentucky workers told to risk death if they wanted to keep their jobs
151. 14 DecDisturbing The Network
152. 14 DecLGM Film Club, Part 232: The Lad from Old Ireland
153. 13 DecNeil Gorsuch’s monument to bad faith
154. 13 DecLGM Podcast: Honor Bound
155. 13 DecThe United Fruit Strategy
156. 13 DecCollege football coaching salaries and upper administrative comp
157. 13 DecOne cancelled right wing speaker is a tragedy; one million deaths is a statistic
158. 13 DecProgressives Are Not Why Democrats Are Struggling
159. 13 DecRare Victories for Garment Workers
160. 13 DecLGM College Bowl Mania
161. 13 DecCancel Culture!
162. 13 DecSirens were blowing, clouds spat rain, and as the things came through, it sounded like a train
163. 13 DecCOVID and healthism
164. 13 DecSuccession season finale open thread
165. 13 DecUnilateral disarmament is the worst kind
166. 12 DecNFL Open Thread: Judge lest ye be coached by Judge edition
167. 12 DecThe paranoid style (with typos)
168. 12 DecCaste and COVID
169. 12 DecOf Mice and Minutemen: A Discussion with Ari Surdoval about his Debut Novel Double Nickels
170. 12 DecMusic Notes
171. 11 DecWhy do all these seditionists keep showing up at my White House?
172. 11 DecThe Post-Roe world will be worse than the pre-Roe status quo ante
173. 11 DecElite Republicans hope that Donald Trump can be replaced by clone of Donald Trump
174. 11 DecThe DOJ’s code breakers
175. 11 DecTornadoes Hit Western Kentucky
176. 11 DecCampus PC is out of control, Cajun style
177. 11 DecLGM Film Club, Part 231: The French Connection
178. 10 DecDemaryius Thomas’s mother
179. 10 DecIs This Some of That Critical Race Theory I Keep Hearing About?
180. 10 DecCalhounhite Court allows Calhounite statute to remain in force
181. 10 DecForce Z
182. 10 DecIt’s Not Easy To Get Back To The JCPOA
183. 10 DecThe Wages of Green Energy Supply Chains
184. 10 DecHow Did NAFTA Shift Our Politics?
185. 10 DecStarbucks Union
186. 10 DecOn the one hand, I disapprove of fascism
187. 10 DecPeople who refuse vaccination should be denied hospital admission for COVID-19
188. 10 DecEverything Jim Crow is new again
189. 10 DecDie on your own supply
190. 10 DecVideo Conference for Democracy
191. 10 DecMark Meadows sent Trump a PowerPoint urging Pence to throw out election results and declare mail-in ballots illegal
192. 9 DecFrom Dole to Trump
193. 9 DecRoberts Court: The Establishment Clause is unconstitutional
194. 9 DecMetaPod Notes
195. 9 DecYou and your coal mining friends
196. 9 DecCancel culture comes for priceless work of art
197. 9 DecEconomy continues to struggle as jobless claims hit 52-year low
198. 9 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 974
199. 9 Dec“It’s So Easy To Slip:” The Legend of Lowell George in Eight and a half songs
200. 9 DecMAGA, from the “left” [LOL]
201. 8 DecHow Ron DeSantis won the pandemic with cancel culture
202. 8 DecBluetoothghazi, Day 3
203. 8 DecWhat’s Happening in Bangladesh
204. 8 DecAn Oral History of the Blogosphere Episode I: Matt Yglesias
205. 8 DecWednesday NatSec Roundup
206. 8 DecWhen mental faculties skip a generation
207. 8 DecThe triumph of right wing propaganda in America
208. 8 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 973
209. 8 DecTexas flagrantly violated the 14th Amendment and the guaranty clause to guarantee one-party rule, and the Roberts Court will love it
210. 7 DecInflation
211. 7 DecCOVID has probably killed, directly and indirectly, more than one million Americans
212. 7 DecThe incentives for endless war
213. 7 DecAll Manner of December 7…
214. 7 DecRight wing judge decides that Magna Carta and the Statute De Donis prohibit Biden administration from mandating vaccines for employees of federal contractors
215. 7 DecThe Very Serious People of the Conservative Movement
216. 7 DecCountering Corruption
217. 7 DecHerp-faced moron to head Trump TV
218. 7 DecPolitical hobbyism
219. 7 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 972
220. 7 DecBut her earphones
221. 7 DecTucker Carlson, Serial Killer
222. 6 DecThe “Sending the Issue Back to the States” Canard
223. 6 DecHiatt
224. 6 DecDole
225. 6 DecWorking toward the Axel Springer
226. 6 Dec‘Nuff Said
227. 6 DecKnowing When to Roll the Credits
228. 6 DecStopping the coming steal
229. 6 DecThis Day in Labor History: December 6, 1970
230. 6 DecLGM Film Club, Part 230: Polygraph
231. 5 DecWill Russia Invade Ukraine?
232. 5 DecFederal judges failing to take senior status
233. 5 DecBob Dole
234. 5 DecBut Maddie and Connor Just Deserve the Best Schools
235. 5 DecNFL Open Thread: Oh No Not Again Edition
236. 5 DecVoters Don’t Care About Good Governance
237. 5 DecThe Injunction
238. 5 DecMerrick Garland’s dereliction of duty
239. 5 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 971
240. 5 DecAn army of Crumbleys
241. 5 DecLGM Film Club, Part 229: The Hazards of Helen: Escape on the Fast Freight
242. 5 DecMusic Notes
243. 4 DecAre women people or passive vessels for God’s fetuses? Views differ
244. 4 DecThe Risk of Striking While Undocumented
245. 4 DecWho Funded the Coup Attempt?
246. 4 DecThe Party of Death: Show Me Edition
247. 4 DecMAGA scum have bail set at $500K each
248. 4 DecThe many populisms of Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson
249. 4 DecMedia is more negative toward Biden today than Trump in 2020
250. 4 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 970
251. 4 DecBullshit artistry
252. 3 DecThe alienable kind
253. 3 DecBruises on the fruit tender age in bloom
254. 3 DecSpace War!
255. 3 DecStephen Breyer is doing a terrible job
256. 3 DecOmicron likely to wreak havoc on people relying on natural immunity
257. 3 DecCorrection
258. 3 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 969
259. 3 DecThe terrorists have won
260. 3 DecToday in the Party of Calhoun
261. 3 DecI wouldn’t say *self* fulfilling
262. 2 DecLife begins at conception and ends at birth is the eternal Republican credo
263. 2 DecElections post-Roe
264. 2 DecTrump knowingly tried to kill Joe Biden
265. 2 DecRepublicans Again Prepare To Hold Us All Hostage
266. 2 DecAn army of Rittenhouses
267. 2 DecDonald Trump could have very easily and knowingly killed Joe Biden by giving him COVID and it’s not even a story
268. 2 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 968
269. 2 DecThe Assassination of Reproductive Freedom by the Serial Sexual Assaulter Donald Trump and the Coward Susan Collins
270. 1 DecImagine Holding Fascist Presidents Accountable
271. 1 DecLGMopoly, Here We Come!
272. 1 DecWhy We Need Preexisting Supply Chain Rules
273. 1 DecThe sky too is foldin’ over you
274. 1 DecRoe v. Wade will be overruled
275. 1 DecJoe the Dove
276. 1 DecPlay stupid games, win stupid prizes
277. 1 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 967
278. 1 DecTrump judge stops vaccine mandate with Powerline blog post

November 2021

1. 30 NovGuns guns guns
2. 30 NovThe “Sister Souljah moment” is a revealing pundit’s fallacy
3. 30 NovOn Executive Power
4. 30 NovYet more cancel culture
5. 30 NovHappy Hanukkah from Lara Logan
6. 30 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 966
7. 30 NovDoh 2
8. 30 NovTalkin’ Unions
9. 29 NovAbout this JFK worship of yours
10. 29 NovSilicon Valley’s neo-reactionaries
11. 29 NovThe Conservative Chill on Academic Inquiry
12. 29 NovSearching for Abigail
13. 29 NovGet Back
14. 29 NovLand Acknowledgements
15. 29 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 965
16. 29 NovWhen someone persuades me that I am wrong, I change my mind. What do you do?
17. 28 NovGet Vaccinated
18. 28 NovNFL Open Thread: Sean Payton’s Hill to Die on Edition
19. 28 NovThe New Lost Cause
20. 28 NovDecision making under cognitive pressure: examples from football
21. 28 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 964
22. 28 NovNo, fuck you
23. 27 NovWhatever happened to Donald Trump’s modest proletarianism?
24. 27 NovDon’t cross the Wirecutter picket line
25. 27 NovAnother win for the Party of Death
26. 27 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 963
27. 27 NovStephen Sondheim
28. 27 NovThe New Variant
29. 26 NovIt’s funny because it’s true
30. 26 NovBiden announces travel ban in response to the Nu variant
31. 26 NovEverything is terrible
32. 26 NovHappy Black Friday!
33. 26 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 962
34. 26 NovEverything neoconfederate is neoconfederate again
35. 25 NovCounterfactual Electoral Outcomes and U.S. Democratic Deconsolidation
36. 25 NovThanksgiving football/parades/fettucine alfredo/whatever open thread
37. 25 NovHappy Inferior Meat Day
38. 25 NovI’m feeling thankful for the small things today
39. 25 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 961
40. 25 NovAaron Rodgers’s personal physician approaching full fash
41. 24 NovWhat was the most important election of the 21st century?
42. 24 NovThe Biden Boom is excellent news for Donald Trump
43. 24 NovAll three defendants found guilty in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery
44. 24 NovRodgers Rate
45. 24 NovThe Russian ASAT
46. 24 NovThe Impunity is the Point
47. 24 NovThe paranoid fantasy world of the anti-woke I don’t support Republicans but crowd
48. 24 NovI got your economic anxiety right here
49. 24 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 960
50. 24 NovIt’s like 10,000 horse dewormers when all you need is a vaccine
51. 24 NovNIMBYism and local control
52. 23 NovThe induced despair of undermining democracy
53. 23 NovThe conspiratorial mindset
54. 23 NovTrump’s handpicked Senate candidate somehow too misogynist for Republican Party in 2022
55. 23 NovEvery man his own priest staring at the Internet
56. 23 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 959
57. 23 NovMAGA: the Glengarry leads
58. 23 NovLGM Film Club, Part 228: The Teddy Bears
59. 22 NovCancel Culture!
60. 22 NovHow Not to Get Invited to Teach at Austin University
61. 22 NovCan I Blame the Capitalists for Turkey?
62. 22 NovClosing the barn door when the horse is four counties over
63. 22 NovMonday NatSec Roundup
64. 22 NovHow To Respond To The Russian Buildup?
65. 22 Nov“Socialist” anti-vaxxism, an oxymoron for morons
66. 22 NovShould Biden run again in 2024?
67. 22 NovThis Day in Labor History: November 22, 1919
68. 22 NovDark times
69. 21 Nov“I was very clear that the leopards were supposed to eat YOUR face”
70. 21 NovSorting the US population in terms of levels of political engagement
71. 21 NovNFL Open Thread: The Great White Hype Edition
72. 21 NovIs the Kremlin Ready to Move Against Ukraine?
73. 21 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 958
74. 21 NovThe party left me. Well, I never actually arrived at the party because they refused to let Andrew Sullivan host it
75. 21 NovMusic Notes
76. 20 NovThe irrelevance of the Steele dossier
77. 20 NovThe Silencing of Peng Shuai
78. 20 NovWhy the Rittenhouse verdict matters
79. 20 NovIcing Down their Fears
80. 20 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 957
81. 20 NovElections are made of people
82. 20 NovMeanwhile, in Washington
83. 20 NovHungary on Lake Superior
84. 19 NovThe instant canonization of Kyle Rittenhouse and American gun culture
85. 19 NovMurder most foul
86. 19 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 956
87. 19 NovWhomp-whomp
88. 19 NovJews for Republican Jesus
89. 19 NovKill or be killed
90. 19 NovLGM Film Club, Part 227: Poverty in the Valley of Plenty
91. 19 NovAmerica’s most ridiculous senator announces search for the real killers of Biden’s agenda
92. 18 NovLook who bought the myth, by jingo, buy America
93. 18 NovWhy do people vaccinated for COVID have such radically lower mortality rates than the unvaccinated, even AFTER you exclude all COVID-related deaths?
94. 18 NovRethinking the Supply Chains
95. 18 NovLabor Victories
96. 18 NovThe double disaster in British Columbia
97. 18 NovLGM Podcast: The Bengals in Winter
98. 18 NovAbout 10% more Americans are going to die from COVID in 2021 than in 2020
99. 18 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 955
100. 18 NovPaul Gosar censured by House, strongly supported by Republican Party
101. 18 NovLGM Film Club, Part 226: Pickup on South Street
102. 17 NovHot Air
103. 17 NovDude Process
104. 17 NovThe Elite Strike Force
105. 17 NovWars and Rumors of Wars
106. 17 NovShaman to continue his investigation of Comet Ping Pong from behind bars
107. 17 NovI love legitimate cul-choor
108. 17 NovLawyer who helped Trump try to overturn the presidential election appointed by U.S. Commission On Civil Rights to Federal Election Assistance Commission
109. 17 NovTuning out the news
110. 17 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 954
111. 17 NovF is for fascism
112. 17 NovLGM Film Club, Part 225: The Bad and the Beautiful
113. 17 NovThe polarization problem
114. 16 NovJohn Roberts took live-saving insurance away from people based on an argument he didn’t believe to inflict political damage on Barack Obama
115. 16 NovNorth Dakota bans something not being taught in its schools because parents are concerned that political bias may intrude on the education of their children
116. 16 NovSeapower Twofer
117. 16 NovA totally new paradigm
118. 16 NovThe Mistake in Montlake
119. 16 NovThe politics of Dobbs
120. 16 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 953
121. 16 NovThe revolution devours its children
122. 16 NovLGM Film Club, Part 224: The Valachi Papers
123. 15 NovThe defamatory style of American wingnuttery
124. 15 NovBetter late than never, but also better on time than late
125. 15 NovWin Some, Lose Some
126. 15 NovHoffa
127. 15 NovIf a Never-Trump isn’t coming to save the Republican Party, we will have to invent one
128. 15 NovBad religion
129. 15 NovThis Day in Labor History: November 15, 1975
130. 14 NovTask Force 9
131. 14 NovWe Outnumber Them
132. 14 NovNFL Open Thread: What’s wrong with the Chiefs?
133. 14 NovHow many tenured humanities professors want to quit?
134. 14 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 952
135. 14 NovThe American Intelligentsia
136. 14 NovMusic Notes
137. 13 NovThe Peace President gave Syria his non-interventionist mindset good and hard
138. 13 Nov5CA again declares that the Constitution enacted Mr. Tucker Carlson’s monologue transcripts
139. 13 NovFree Britney, Jail Bannon
140. 13 NovClimate change: rhetoric v. reality
141. 13 NovThis Day in Labor History: November 13, 1887
142. 12 NovThe other jackboot drops
143. 12 NovBannon Indicted
144. 12 NovIs that your epistemology, or are you just happy to see me?
145. 12 NovThe Death Cult Kills
146. 12 NovWhat does COVID-19 transmission have in common with sexism and harassment? As it turns out, quite a bit.
147. 12 NovWhite Appeasement
148. 12 NovKyrsten Sinema stands up for America’s most embattled class, the single-digit million-dollar earners
149. 12 NovTree DNA
150. 12 NovLook at all the white men on the street
151. 12 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 951
152. 12 NovThe Donald Youth
153. 11 NovI expect a judgment. Shortly. On the Day of Judgment.
154. 11 NovForbidden mangoes
155. 11 NovStockwell
156. 11 NovThe August 29 Drone Strike In Kabul
157. 11 NovLaw firms giving money to Trump
158. 11 NovAaron Rodgers gets brutally dunked on
159. 11 NovThis Day in Labor History: November 11, 1942
160. 11 NovInside the Online Master’s Degree Scam
161. 11 NovLGM Film Club, Part 223: 5 Card Stud
162. 10 NovDemocracy is going from the USA
163. 10 NovBecause of course it is
164. 10 NovCancel Culture!
165. 10 NovWhat is the Anthropocene?
166. 10 NovEnvironmental Injustice and COVID Deaths
167. 10 NovWednesday NatSec Roundup
168. 10 NovRecipe Review: Eggplant, Tomato and Chickpea Tagine
169. 10 NovIn MAGAland, extremism in defense of extremism is no vice
170. 10 NovThe last K-Mart in Michigan
171. 10 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 950
172. 10 NovIf Bari U ever exists, it will be a grim indoctrination mill
173. 10 NovLGM Film Club, Part 222: Logging in Idaho
174. 9 NovLeave Amy Coney Barrett Aloooooooooone
175. 9 NovThe incredibly successful Republican campaign to kill their own voters
176. 9 Nov“Slaves had a patriotic duty to support the southern economy by accepting slavery.”
177. 9 NovWell, Duh
178. 9 NovThe critical race theory of Mayor Pete
179. 9 NovRacist Historical Markers
180. 9 NovBacklash
181. 9 NovThe truth is these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand
182. 9 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 949
183. 9 NovI taunt in John Mara’s general direction
184. 9 NovLGM Film Club, Part 221: The Land Beyond the Sunset
185. 8 NovWell it wasn’t supposed to go down that way
186. 8 NovMr Linsdale says we will Bari you
187. 8 NovAmerica’s going fascist because our universities are totalitarian hellholes
188. 8 NovThe Fight for Paid Family Leave
189. 8 NovThe Rise of China’s Navy
190. 8 NovMedia Paying Attention to Workers
191. 8 NovFinally
192. 8 NovThe academic market for telling rich people what they want to hear is always going to be strong
193. 8 Nov“this was a fight for survival”
194. 7 NovNFL Open Thread: Fuck Aaron Rodgers edition
195. 7 NovIt sure would be sad if Ted Cruz died of COVID
196. 7 NovManaging COVID in the Neo-Confederacy
197. 7 Nov“It goes from the Ring Road, all the way out to global circulation, planetary circuits, and then it comes back to the very smallest circle of the record on the turntable:” A Discussion With Poet, Critic and Literature Professor Joshua Clover About “Roadrunner” And The End Of The World
198. 6 NovThis Is A Big Win For Democrats
199. 6 NovCounterfactual history: the Art of the Deal Edition
200. 6 NovCounterfactual history: If not for the 22nd amendment, how many modern presidents would have been elected to a third term?
201. 6 NovInfrastructure week
202. 5 NovPretending the war on Critical Race Theory (sic) isn’t a cynical moral panic
203. 5 NovFirst they came for the man with the $33.5 million salary and I said nothing because I did not have a $33.5 million salary
204. 5 NovThe Military Spending of the PLA
205. 5 NovWest coast national socialists
206. 5 NovHell exists on Earth? Yes.
207. 5 NovInnumeracy 101
208. 5 NovWhat Stopped Trump from Pulling out of NATO?
209. 5 NovLGM Film Club, Part 220: Thunder Road
210. 5 NovMilitary Voting Behavior
211. 4 NovAdventures in Punditry
212. 4 NovThe Biggest Bomb
213. 4 NovUniversity Architecture of the New Gilded Age
214. 4 NovThe GOP Vision of Child Labor
215. 4 NovPessimism of the intellect, and…what was the other part of that saying again?
216. 4 NovWhat Do Climate Scientists Have to Say about Nations Fighting Climate Change
217. 4 NovThe intense legacy media longing for a slightly less openly authoritarian ethno-nationalist Republican party
218. 4 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 948
219. 4 NovUniversity of Florida administrators see themselves as Ron DeSantis’s servants
220. 3 NovSam Alito: “There are not enough guns on subways and in schools today. Please add many more. I am not a crackpot.”
221. 3 NovReconstruction and Redemption
222. 3 NovOK Karen!
223. 3 NovAaron Rodgers lied about being vaxxed then violated COVID protocols
224. 3 NovNew Yorkers Aren’t More Pro-Democracy than Texans
225. 3 NovWu
226. 3 NovWednesday NatSec Roundup
227. 3 NovA grift too far
228. 3 NovHot Takes Abound Today
229. 3 NovSleepwalking toward authoritarianism
230. 3 NovThe Vaccines are safe and effective
231. 3 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 947
232. 3 NovThe thermostat is a harsh mistress
233. 3 NovLGM Film Club, Part 219: Japanese Relocation
234. 2 NovVirginia governor’s race open thread
235. 2 NovDefenses of the filibuster require “forgetting” how all other legislatures work
236. 2 NovQAnon followers gather in Dealey Plaza to hear JFK and JFK Jr. announce that Trump has been reinstated as POTUS
237. 2 NovHow Not to Solve the Supply Chain Crisis
238. 2 NovHow the World’s Richest Institution of Higher Education Treats Its Workers
239. 2 NovOld Man Grassley Likes His Dope
240. 2 NovWashington Post’s January 6 Article
241. 2 NovThe Texas way of death
242. 2 NovWho goes Nazi, University of Florida edition
243. 2 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 946
244. 2 Nov“Did I say Alpha? I Meant Alfalfa”
245. 2 NovLGM Film Club, Part 218: Halloween, 1932
246. 1 NovReviving The War of Jenkins’ Ear
247. 1 NovSome More of that Cancel Culture
248. 1 NovUnions and the Buffalo Mayoral Race
249. 1 NovI needed money cause I had none
250. 1 NovThe Fugitive Uterus Act at the Supreme Court
251. 1 NovToday’s Zito Safari
252. 1 NovMonday NatSec Roundup
253. 1 NovStrangers in a strange land
254. 1 NovThis Day in Labor History: November 1, 1879
255. 1 NovCampus cancel culture is suppressing dissent

October 2021

1. 31 OctChecking in on the only Democrat Glenn Greenwald likes
2. 31 Oct1/6 was a highly organized coup attempt, carried out by the Trump administration
3. 31 OctNFL/World Series Open Thread: Break Up the Bengals Edition
4. 31 OctHappy Halloween!
5. 31 OctEl dia de los muertos
6. 31 OctTalking to a folksy neoliberal brick wall
7. 31 OctFor mature audiences only
8. 31 OctDeath and the Polarization
9. 30 OctAs long as you’re not dumb enough to actually try it
10. 30 OctJohn Eastman urged Pence to steal the election to appease the mob he helped incite
11. 30 OctGive me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life
12. 30 OctFriday Night Raw: Academic historian edition
13. 30 OctCampus PC has never been more out of control
14. 29 OctAnne Gorsuch will have her revenge on the EPA
15. 29 OctFDA authorizes EUA for COVID vaccine for children ages 5 through 11
16. 29 OctCruel and Unusual
17. 29 OctPlay the Cold War Hits!
18. 29 OctDune
19. 29 OctGlenn Youngkin and Ben Shapiro’s big lie
20. 29 OctTo keep it respectable
21. 29 OctSo it wasn’t all bad
22. 28 OctThe incredibly successful Republican anti-vaxx propaganda campaign
23. 28 OctThe 1776 reactionaries
24. 28 OctDo we have a deal?
25. 28 OctLearning not to flinch
26. 28 OctCracking down on COVID spreaders
27. 28 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 945
28. 28 OctRupert Murdoch is one of the worst people ever to walk the Earth
29. 27 OctThere’s something happening here
30. 27 OctWhat if we just took the politics out of politics
31. 27 OctGlorified gym teacher who won $31.5 million lottery apparently plans to burn ticket in ultimate meathead protest
32. 27 OctTrolling and the reactionary mind
33. 27 OctWilliam Edilzer Cabrera Lozano
34. 27 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 944
35. 27 OctSpeaking of covering up sexual assault
36. 26 OctThe Devil and Rocky Wirtz
37. 26 OctTrump Republicans remain laser-focused on the material needs of working class voters
38. 26 OctWisconsin judge wants to be fair to Kyle Rittenhouse
39. 26 OctOK now I’m mad
40. 26 OctPatriot Pete gets his wings
41. 26 OctThe outright anti-vaxx Ron DeSantis
42. 26 OctCan the market fix what the market has destroyed?
43. 26 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 943
44. 26 OctLets go Brandon
45. 25 OctThe Rehnquist Memo and the art of bullshit
46. 25 OctWorking the refs works, especially when the refs would really like you to work them
47. 25 OctLGM Podcast: The Children’s Illustrated Clausewitz
48. 25 OctI was gambling in Havana
49. 25 OctHouse Republicans worked to encourage the 1/6 riots before the fact
50. 25 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 942
51. 24 OctNot actually remotely like a martyr
52. 24 OctMelt It Down!
53. 24 OctContemporary Politics of the Rural West
54. 24 OctSaturday Night Live’s Terrible Political Humor
55. 24 OctUpdate on “Havana Syndrome”
56. 24 OctNFL Open Thread: the Microsoft Surface Awards Edition
57. 24 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 941
58. 24 OctThe Committee to Re-Appoint the President
59. 23 OctMusic Notes
60. 23 Oct“Fuck you, that’s why” is a *kind* of jurisprudential theory, I guess
61. 23 OctUnionizing Amazon, Part II
62. 23 OctYour Right-Wing Dream State
63. 23 OctHow Unpaid Labor is Central to Supply Chains
64. 23 OctFacebook is a Nazi firehose
65. 23 OctSaturday NatSec Roundup
66. 23 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 940
67. 23 OctWhat Happens When You Hire Scabs
68. 23 OctNever take police narratives at face value
69. 22 OctThe John Eastman rehabilitation tour
70. 22 OctIt’s Nature’s Way
71. 22 OctWargaming the Arctic
72. 22 OctIlliberal “Soft Power”
73. 22 OctSupreme Court to leave Fugitive Uterus Act in place until Roe is safely dead
74. 22 OctWill the SCOTUS allow “religious” objections to government vaccine mandates?
75. 22 OctGreg Abbott appoints proponent of making Donald Trump dictator to supervise elections
76. 22 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 939
77. 22 OctTexas assures court that people seeking abortions are merely being rained on
78. 22 OctTechnology bleg (unlimited badges available for helpful answers)
79. 21 OctTrumpian never-Trumpers
80. 21 OctAmerica’s COVID Governor goes to bat for the virus again
81. 21 OctShe turned me into a newt!
82. 21 OctOf chumps and pig dumps
83. 21 OctThe Burning of the Bonhomme Richard
84. 21 OctRecipe Review: Cod with potatoes, peppers and saffron
85. 21 OctGetting away with it
86. 21 OctHypersonics!
87. 21 OctIs Civilization Worth It?
88. 21 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 938
89. 21 OctJoe Manchin’s imaginary 10 Republicans fail to materialize
90. 20 OctNature Thought Of It First
91. 20 OctWill Kyrsten Sinema tank the Biden administration because she now loves the Trump upper-class tax cuts she once voted against?
92. 20 OctFarcically like a martyr
93. 20 OctMichigan State administrators ask faculty, staff, and grad students (!) to work for no pay in the university’s dining halls because of “severe staffing shortages”
94. 20 OctToday in Other Painless Boycotts
95. 20 OctTure on Powell
96. 20 OctToday in painless boycotts
97. 20 OctLittle Triggers
98. 20 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 937
99. 20 OctBut will we be able to tell?
100. 19 OctUnionizing Faculty
101. 19 OctMore Fun with SCOTUS
102. 19 OctMemorializing Jefferson?
103. 19 OctThe Complexity of Colin Powell
104. 19 OctAuthoritarian anarchic libertarianism
105. 19 OctChina’s New Missile System
106. 19 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 936
107. 19 OctThe logic of the squishy anti-vaxxer
108. 19 OctWhat Amy Coney Barrett’s America will look like
109. 19 OctIdiot gives up $3 million salary for unspecified “principle”
110. 19 OctLGM Film Club, Part 217: Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island
111. 19 OctIn shocking revelation, Joe Lieberman reveals that Republicans wanted him to win
112. 18 OctDennis Prager successfully acquires COVID in order to protect himself from COVID
113. 18 OctPowell
114. 18 OctStriking in the Tight Labor Market
115. 18 OctLots of boo hooing from the Blob today about what a great guy Colin Powell was
116. 18 OctTrump and Asian-Americans
117. 18 OctLGM Podcast: The Cold War RAF
118. 18 OctThe Double Fun of the American Stasi State
119. 18 OctThe man who would drown his state
120. 18 OctColin Powell dies of COVID
121. 18 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 935
122. 17 OctThree National Security Threats
123. 17 OctThe Paris Massacre of 17 October 1961
124. 17 OctNFL Open Thread: the end of Jon Gruden edition
125. 17 OctReactionary Populism Retains its Transnational Edge
126. 17 OctThe Mediocre Democrats
127. 17 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 934
128. 17 OctThe Thin Blue Line
129. 16 OctA Hack by Any Other Name Would Still be a Hack
130. 16 OctTime for a judicial ethics commission
131. 16 OctSpeaking of the power elite, check out this rogues’ gallery
132. 16 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 933
133. 15 OctTales of the New Gilded Age, University Endowments Edition
134. 15 OctThe Cult of the Court
135. 15 OctFear of a Black Protest
136. 15 OctA party of callow assholes
137. 15 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 932
138. 14 OctRay Fosse, Pete Rose, and Denny McLain
139. 14 OctBobby Lee: traitor, slaver, pompous windbag
140. 14 OctThe Two Sixties
141. 14 OctDo generations exist?
142. 14 OctEnforce the subpoenas
143. 14 OctThe Broken Nation of Mexico
144. 14 OctGlobal Tax Loopholes
145. 14 OctThe only thing more dangerous than an opportunistic Republican is a principled Republican
146. 13 OctKatie Couric suppressed RBG’s comments attacking players for kneeling during the national anthem
147. 13 OctBeing 10 years old in 1900 was like being 50 years old today in terms of mortality risk
148. 13 OctInside the quasi-elite private university scam
149. 13 OctTrevor Bedford’s Covid Endgame
150. 13 OctThe Young Lords Changed America
151. 13 OctDocumenting Selma
152. 13 OctThe Do-Nothing Attitude on Climate Change
153. 13 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 931
154. 13 OctGiving piles of money to Big Pharma will really show them who’s boss
155. 12 OctThe Apolitical General Strike
156. 12 OctThe drug overdose epidemic
157. 12 OctMy “The Supreme Court is Not a Dangerous Cabal” t-shirt has many people asking questions already answered by my shirt
158. 12 OctThe Authority to Defend Taiwan
159. 12 OctProgressives Control the Democratic Party
160. 12 OctNo One Wants Your Crappy Job
161. 12 OctLGM Podcast: Reaganland
162. 12 OctGreg Abbott prefers people getting COVID to freedom of association
163. 12 OctThe war on terror, school shooting edition
164. 12 OctTuesday NatSec Roundup
165. 12 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 930
166. 12 OctI don’t recall saying good luck
167. 12 OctMusic Notes
168. 11 OctIterative Wars in Great Power Competition
169. 11 OctClaremont Institute dishonestly presents John Eastman as a different kind of fascist than he is
170. 11 OctHow the Decline of Unions Radicalized the White Working Class in the Wrong Way
171. 11 OctWhich one of you did this?
172. 11 OctThe Banking Community’s Extremism
173. 11 OctThe Origins of Columbus Day
174. 11 OctNuclear Engineer Sells Sub Secrets To The FBI
175. 11 OctVaccine mandates work, and refusal is rare because it is not based on any actual principle
176. 11 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 929
177. 11 OctIt was bad for the country that Al Gore wasn’t taken seriously as a candidate, says Maureen Dowd
178. 10 OctDemocracy is coming to the Democratic Primary Process
179. 10 OctNFL Open Thread: the Last Days of Pope Urban Petrino Spurrier Holtz Meyer Edition
180. 10 OctAnd the shame, was on the other side
181. 10 OctLGM Film Club, Part 216: Ride Lonesome
182. 9 OctSometimes In Life, You Get What You Ask For
183. 9 OctOn the So-Called Compromise of 1877
184. 9 OctThe CBP Fascists
185. 9 OctThe Great Reassessment
186. 9 OctWhy did excess mortality in the USA in 2020 rise more among young adults than among the cohorts that accounted for almost all COVID deaths?
187. 9 OctStasi back in charge in Texas
188. 9 OctThis Day in Labor History: October 9, 1961
189. 9 OctVaccine mandates work
190. 9 OctLGM Film Club, Part 215: James Brown on Soul Train
191. 8 OctJon Gruden is as dumb as a pair of Michellin tires
192. 8 OctLosing a game rigged in your favor: the Donald Trump story
193. 8 OctThe U.S. Constitution has become a radically dysfunctional document that needs to be replaced by something completely different
194. 8 OctVictims of the DeSantis/Roberts Poll Tax
195. 8 OctWitch Doctors Promote Witch Doctory
196. 8 OctBreaking up is hard to do
197. 8 OctThe Coward of Rutherford County
198. 8 OctRestoring the National Monuments
199. 8 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 928
200. 8 OctLegislators help police retain legal immunity
201. 8 OctLGM Film Club, Part 214: Comanche Station
202. 7 OctJimmy Carter Was a Horrible President
203. 7 OctNot wartime consiglieres
204. 7 OctCOVID booster shots: a personal saga
205. 7 OctGreed at the Museum
206. 7 OctRemembering the Boarding Schools
207. 7 OctHistorical Memory Priorities
208. 7 OctThe GOP cult rallies round
209. 7 OctThe City Hall Riot
210. 7 OctCOVID stats update
211. 7 OctThe Four Day School Week
212. 7 OctWill No One Rid Us of This Troublesome Warthog?
213. 7 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 927
214. 7 OctLGM Film Club, Part 213: Greenwich Village, Sunday 1960
215. 6 OctYangd
216. 6 OctVictims of love
217. 6 OctEvangelicals Love of Cultural Theft
218. 6 OctKellogg Strike
219. 6 OctMalaria Vaccine
220. 6 OctPolice and thieves
221. 6 OctThe unaccountable Kyrsten Sinema
222. 6 OctRacism as an affirmative job credential
223. 6 OctWildcard open thread
224. 5 OctThe internet was a horrible mistake
225. 5 OctAmerica’s most influential fascist interviews America’s dumbest man to try to kill as many of his viewers as possible
226. 5 OctWhere did all the white Hispanics go?
227. 5 OctNow she worships at an altar of a stagnant pool and when she sees her reflection, she’s fulfilled
228. 5 OctDeath of a Clown
229. 5 OctBiden reverses Title X gag order
230. 4 OctFacebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Down
231. 4 OctMichael Flynn And The 40 Russian Reactors In The Middle East
232. 4 OctHow to think about what will be a historically bad 2021 Supreme Court term
233. 4 OctIt’s like 10,000 spoons when all you need is for people to take a safe and effective vaccine
234. 4 OctLost And Gone Forever
235. 4 OctThe student loan debacle
236. 4 OctLGM Podcast: Bacon Saves the Day
237. 4 OctMonday NatSec Roundup
238. 4 OctThis Day in Labor History: October 4, 1971
239. 4 OctThe lone and level sands stretch far away
240. 4 OctWishing you many more decades of beautiful vistas. Happy 40th birthday Tim!
241. 4 OctThe Pandora Papers
242. 3 OctThe World’s Worst Deliberative Body, Part the Zillion
243. 3 OctSomebody loan me a dime
244. 3 OctNFL/MLB Open Thread: Fun Differential Edition
245. 3 OctThe Terrible Treatment of Female Athletes
246. 3 OctThe Many Saints of Newark
247. 3 OctMexicans included
248. 3 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 926
249. 3 Oct“You’ll be waitin’ on a phone call at the wrong end of a broom:” John Prine’s Fair and Square gets a vinyl re-issue
250. 2 OctThe eternal pivot to video
251. 2 OctWhy are universities with huge endowments such cheap dates?
252. 2 OctMore On January 6
253. 2 OctSnipe hunting with Joe Manchin
254. 2 OctThe Whiteness of South Texas
255. 2 OctThe right wing lie that actual tax rates on the rich weren’t higher during the 1950s
256. 2 OctThe Long History of Anti-Asian Discrimination
257. 2 OctThis Day in Labor History: October 2, 1968
258. 1 OctWhen you awoke
259. 1 OctThe politics of bad faith, Afghanistan edition
260. 1 OctBrexittastic
261. 1 OctMandating COVID Vaccines for Children
262. 1 OctThis is kind of like what happened to Emmett Till, except for the top five law school part
263. 1 OctArms Control in the Western Pacific
264. 1 OctSquid Game
265. 1 OctHey Porter
266. 1 OctThe corporatized university and COVID
267. 1 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 925
268. 1 Oct“A Sean Hannity monologue wrapped around a parking ticket”

September 2021

1. 30 SepSam Alito and Sarah Palin’s First Amendment
2. 30 SepMy “we are not nullifying Roe v. Wade” t-shirt has many people asking questions already answered by by shirt
3. 30 SepCampus Cancel Culture is out of Control
4. 30 SepA fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place
5. 30 SepDonald Trump attempted to overthrow the government of the United States
6. 30 SepThe Insurance Industry’s Failure on Climate Change
7. 30 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 924
8. 30 SepTeenager who hit six cyclists while rolling coal still walking free
9. 29 SepTV Review: Once Upon a Time in Queens
10. 29 Sep“Renewable Natural Gas” is about as Real as “Clean Coal”
11. 29 SepWhat should be done about Social Security, and what will?
12. 29 SepKyrsten Sinema says hello
13. 29 SepA technical note on life expectancy and Social Security (more exciting than it sounds)
14. 29 SepBoth, or nothing
15. 29 SepIt’s my birthday. Let’s talk about food.
16. 29 SepAbout time for a blogger ethics panel
17. 29 SepYouTube to block all anti-vaccine content and ban prominent anti-vax activists
18. 29 SepClimate Grief
19. 29 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 923
20. 29 SepXi is a pimp. He never could have outfought the Donald. But I didn’t know until this day that it was Australia all along.
21. 29 SepPottery-shard beets and eggplant canoes
22. 28 SepThe white evangelical attack on voting rights
23. 28 SepAnimals Trying to Adapt to Climate Change
24. 28 SepVaccine mandates are good and highly effective
25. 28 SepGive me liberty or give me my nice little government sinecure; your choice really
26. 28 SepThe Future of the US-France Relationship
27. 28 SepScandal fatigue, wealth redistribution, and the media
28. 28 SepPostmature justice
29. 28 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 922
30. 28 SepCan I return this Constitution? It’s broken
31. 27 SepAssholes (threaten to) resign from well-compensated union job, proving they never should have had their jobs in the first place
32. 27 SepNo true MAGA
33. 27 SepYou can take the girl out of the Green Party but…
34. 27 SepThe Circle of Sports Life, Detroit Lions Edition
35. 27 SepMidnight Mass
36. 27 SepThe Post-Roe world begins
37. 27 SepThe sexual preferences of straight white men do not actually provide a good basis for classifying bodies as diseased
38. 27 SepThe 10 best “love, death and robots” episodes, ranked: a definitive list
39. 27 SepThis Day in Labor History: September 27, 1922
40. 27 SepIdaho Republicans achieve their goal of overwhelming the morgues
41. 26 SepNFL Open Thread: You’ve been Gase’d!
42. 26 SepVarieties of anti-vaxxer
43. 26 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 921
44. 26 SepWhomp-whomp
45. 26 SepMusic Notes
46. 25 SepCharles De Gaulle, Traitor?
47. 25 SepLive at the Improv, featuring Amy Coney Barrett
48. 25 SepFourteen words, with Tucker Carlson
49. 25 SepInternational One-Hit Wonder Day
50. 25 SepMore victims of the anti-anti-COVID movement
51. 25 SepThe future of remote work
52. 25 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 920
53. 25 SepIntellectual Horse Paste Web counsels self-triage
54. 25 SepLGM Film Club, Part 212: Subaru Hires Susan Ford
55. 25 SepThe plot against America
56. 24 SepApart from that, Mr. DeSantis
57. 24 SepGet Out the Fainting Couch!
58. 24 SepThings fall apart
59. 24 SepFootprints
60. 24 SepReaganism with a feral face
61. 24 SepHow inconvenient
62. 24 SepHearst
63. 24 SepWe Need To Talk About This
64. 24 SepFriday NatSec Roundup
65. 24 SepGee, I Wonder if the Nation Needs an Industrial Policy
66. 24 SepOverrated
67. 24 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 919
68. 24 SepArizona cyberninjas use semi-magical powers to make millions of dollars disappear
69. 24 SepThe frustration of the socially responsible
70. 24 SepLGM Film Club, Part 211: Long Train Running
71. 23 SepIf a coup nearly succeeds in a forest does anybody hear?
72. 23 SepGuardrails on the drunk man’s autobahn
73. 23 SepThe countermajoritarian difficulties
74. 23 SepBiden’s Disgraceful Immigration Policy
75. 23 SepElite lawyer brain: An apparently incurable condition
76. 23 SepNewsom Serving Agribusiness
77. 23 SepBullying is the Point
78. 23 SepJust end the debt ceiling for good
79. 23 SepSSN Proliferation
80. 23 SepEstablishment Institutions, Reputation Laundering, and Reactionary Authoritarianism
81. 23 SepLGM Podcast: Outriders
82. 23 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 918
83. 23 SepSusan Collins is “pro-choice” how, exactly?
84. 23 SepLGM Film Club, Part 210: The Voice of the Violin
85. 23 SepCollateral damage
86. 22 SepMelvin Van Peebles, RIP
87. 22 SepThe MGM has heart!
88. 22 SepThe boldest experiment in advertising history
89. 22 SepFatphobia as standard right wing racism; or, there may be some gambling in Casablanca
90. 22 SepWhat Went Wrong
91. 22 SepSaadi Yacef, RIP
92. 22 SepComplicating Redlining
93. 22 SepWednesday NatSec Roundup
94. 22 SepA man must have a code
95. 22 SepThe Stasi State and Education
96. 22 SepA Study in Bad Survey Design
97. 22 SepCOVID before and after vaccines
98. 22 SepThis Day in Labor History: September 22, 1919
99. 22 SepSpygate was always a hoax
100. 22 SepLGM Film Club, Part 209: A Journey to the Beginning of Time
101. 21 SepThe post-Roe ticking time bombs
102. 21 SepAbolish the Border Patrol
103. 21 SepThe DeSantis variant
104. 21 SepComparing the COVID and Spanish flu pandemics
105. 21 SepThe Missing Indigenous Women
106. 21 SepMapping the KKK
107. 21 SepDispatches from Yamhill County
108. 21 SepRadio Rwanda: anti-vax edition
109. 21 SepWorthless Canadian initiative
110. 21 SepThe treason next time
111. 20 SepOut-of-state crook contacts Stasi to enforce Fugitive Uterus Act
112. 20 SepAdventures in corporate COVID policy
113. 20 SepThe Thiel tendency in American politics
114. 20 SepWanker caucus in world’s worst deliberative body announces intention to try to make Biden a one-term president
115. 20 SepA most Republican pandemic
116. 20 SepHouston we have a problem
117. 20 SepSweaty infomercial con artist to run for president again
118. 20 SepLGM Film Club, Part 208: Old Man Chaplin
119. 19 SepHow Depoliticized White Rural Communities Allow Themselves to Be Taken Advantage of By Corporations
120. 19 SepToday in Tech Bro Right Wing Word Salad
121. 19 SepThe Heroes We Need
122. 19 SepNFL Open Thread: Pope Urban Petrino Spurrier Holtz Meyer Edition
123. 19 SepModeling The Pandemic: How Many Will Die?
124. 19 SepNewsflash: The COVID pandemic has been the worst public health catastrophe in American history, and it’s not close
125. 19 SepThe Tucker and the Hare
126. 19 Sep3-layer Murc’s Law
127. 18 SepThere is no reflexively pro-war Blob, says Blob
128. 18 SepFrench government extremely mad about…something
129. 18 SepAlabama ass whuppin’
130. 18 SepTrump writes letter to Georgia Secretary of State demanding that election be decertified, or “whatever the correct legal remedy is”
131. 18 SepDeath panels is real!
132. 18 SepLGM Film Club, Part 207: Tongues Untied
133. 17 SepVenal “moderate” House Dems torpedoing Biden’s agenda
134. 17 SepMore on the moral panic regarding “overweight” and “obesity”
135. 17 SepDebt 4
136. 17 SepNeoliberalism’s Lies about the Developing World
137. 17 SepI Sold My Soul to the Crypto Store
138. 17 SepMac and Me
139. 17 SepWhere you Sit is Where You Stand
140. 17 SepNew housing construction go brrrrrr
141. 17 SepThis Day in Labor History: September 17, 2011
142. 17 SepHe is what he’s always been
143. 16 SepCOVID and the moral panic over obesity
144. 16 SepIt’s like 10,000 tubes of horse paste when all you need is a vaccine
145. 16 SepBut enough about me…
146. 16 SepOn Treason
147. 16 SepCovid today, covid tomorrow, covid forever
148. 16 SepThe Republican concept of the upper middle class
149. 16 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 917
150. 16 SepGoblin, ghoul, a zombie with no conscience
151. 15 SepThere is no “right” to engage with a captive audience while unvaccinated
152. 15 SepAustralia Getting SSNs
153. 15 SepManufacturing complexity
154. 15 Sep“Is that all?”
155. 15 SepI’ll show you what’s malignant
156. 15 SepParty of Death gets massive ass-kicking
157. 15 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 916
158. 15 SepCalifornia voters overwhelmingly reject effort to recall Newsom
159. 15 Sep“Rock stars today ain’t half as real/ Speaking their minds on how they feel:” Celebrating 20 years of The Drive By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera
160. 14 SepOn gerrymandering, unilateral disarmament is the worst option
161. 14 SepLarry Elder alleges fraudulent outcome of election that hasn’t happened yet
162. 14 SepWill Republicans and their fellow travelers make whooping cough great again?
163. 14 SepNorm
164. 14 SepGuardrails everybody!
165. 14 SepThe murder of Daniel and Davy Macias by the cowards Rupert Murdoch and Tucker Carlson
166. 14 SepNow look at what you just saw, this is what you live for
167. 14 SepAmerica’s beloved COVID governor acts coercively to prevent vaccinations, implicitly endorses anti-vaxx misinformation
168. 13 SepEmma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez
169. 13 SepLGM Podcast: the NFL Part II
170. 13 SepDeath From The Sky
171. 13 SepMitch McConnell’s proudest political accomplishment says politics plays no role in Supreme Court decision-making
172. 13 SepThe Beltway is hardwired for tax and (non-military) spending cuts
173. 13 SepRemembering 9/11 With Those Who Don’t Remember 9/11
174. 13 SepMaternity ward shuts down because health care workers refuse to get vaccinated
175. 13 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 915
176. 13 SepInspirational, gritty activist wins fight rigged in his favor to help Texas eliminate reproductive freedom
177. 12 SepVarieties of Historical Leftist Violence
178. 12 SepNFL Open Thread
179. 12 SepLeader of authoritarian Christofascist cult addresses rally of another authoritarian Christofascist cult
180. 12 SepToo Much Virus
181. 12 SepCrappy Jobs Are Bad for Workers and for Everyone Else Too
182. 12 SepCondors!
183. 12 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 914
184. 12 SepRepublicans have pulled off an incredibly successful mass murder PR effort
185. 12 SepNow for Wrath, Now for Ruin, and the Red Dawn
186. 12 SepMusic Notes
187. 11 SepWhat goes around and goes around and goes around and…I’ll come in again
188. 11 Sep20 years after
189. 11 SepThe function of criticism at the present time
190. 11 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 913
191. 11 Sep“I came in at the end. The best is over”
192. 10 SepA disastrous war ended far too late
193. 10 SepThe Next Step in Controlling Amazon
194. 10 SepThe sociopathic style in American politics
195. 10 SepThe Next 9/11
196. 10 SepTorpedoing Biden’s presidency for profit and profit
197. 10 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 912
198. 10 SepLGM Opening Night Open Thread
199. 9 SepEasy answers to silly concern trolling
200. 9 SepAll praise to Generalissimo Biden, Destroyer of Freedom ™
201. 9 SepCome back rapping librarian, all is forgiven
202. 9 SepThe anti anti-anti vax left (or “left”)
203. 9 SepAuthoritarians, not hypocrites
204. 9 SepLGM Podcast: Football!
205. 9 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 911
206. 9 SepRepublican defunding of the IRS has been a huge win for Republican donors
207. 9 SepLGM Film Club, Part 206: The Royal Road
208. 9 SepDonald Trump Can Suck My Whole Ass
209. 8 SepClimate Careers
210. 8 SepCOVID craziness September 8, 2021 edition
211. 8 SepSure, Let’s Give the Coup Leader a New Platform
212. 8 SepAcab
213. 8 SepAnarchy in the US
214. 8 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 910
215. 8 SepMurc’s law, pandemic edition
216. 8 SepWeaponizing Savvy
217. 8 SepLGM Film Club, Part 205: The Immortal Story
218. 8 SepMexico provides lesson in human rights to atavistic reactionaries in bordering country
219. 7 SepOn Biden’s Foreign Policy Legacy
220. 7 SepMoar Weapons For Moar Arms Control
221. 7 SepThe Fugitive Uterus Act is bad faith all the way down
222. 7 SepCurbing my enthusiasm
223. 7 SepLiberals may not like it, but this what winning looks like
224. 7 SepLGM Podcast: Michael K. Williams, RIP
225. 7 SepThe Herman Cain Freedom Award
226. 7 SepNazi fops fuck off
227. 7 SepAlways be grifting
228. 7 SepMississippi Goddamn
229. 6 SepLabor Day/Labor Issues
230. 6 SepMichael K. Williams, RIP
231. 6 SepSwiftboating grief
232. 6 Sep“Just asking questions, never learning a single thing”
233. 6 Sepwe must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex
234. 6 SepLGM Film Club, Part 204: Born to Win
235. 5 SepForgotten but not gone
236. 5 SepI want to control it as a business, to keep it respectable
237. 5 SepI don’t want it near schools — I don’t want it sold to children
238. 5 SepPatricia Maginnis, RIP
239. 5 SepSuppressing Gay History in Missouri
240. 5 SepThe Assholes Are ascendant
241. 5 SepThe Limited Efficacy of Unplanned Boycotts
242. 5 SepCults, ancient and contemporary
243. 5 SepWhat to do about Texas?
244. 5 SepThe Texas GOP’s loving tribute to Nicolae Ceauşescu
245. 4 SepMusic Notes
246. 4 SepWill the Fugitive Uterus Act hurt the Republican Party?
247. 4 SepI did Nazi this coming
248. 4 SepY’all got played
249. 4 SepAnother triumph for the intellectual dark web
250. 3 SepMisogyny is a hell of a drug
251. 3 SepLGM Podcast: Ikenberry II: The ReIkening
252. 3 SepRemember when JD Vance Was the Conservative Liberals Had to Take Seriously?
253. 3 SepWho Are The Blob?
254. 3 SepWelcome to America. Your call is very important to us.
255. 3 SepThe new normal non-normal
256. 3 SepThe cowardice of their convictions
257. 2 SepIt’s only a flesh wound
258. 2 SepFancy liberal lawyer brain
259. 2 SepPower and precedent
260. 2 SepLGM Podcast: I Like Ike(nberry)
261. 2 SepCourts without law
262. 2 SepAnd the wind began to howl
263. 2 SepThe Fugitive Uterus Act
264. 1 SepPlease take my advice
265. 1 SepA modest request from the management
266. 1 SepSam Alito’s “minimalism” reaches its ideal form
267. 1 SepA defiant Joe Biden plunged ahead with an overwhelmingly popular withdrawal, even though it was overwhelmingly popular
268. 1 SepWhy Training Fails
269. 1 SepAlso in Texas
270. 1 SepWednesday NatSec Roundup
271. 1 SepThe center cannot hold
272. 1 SepThe Post-Roe World
273. 1 SepWar is an extraordinarily inefficient vehicle for humanitarianism

August 2021

1. 31 AugPigs fly and snowball retains quiescence in Hell
2. 31 Aug“The real choice was between leaving and escalating”
3. 31 AugUnvaxxed and unemployed
4. 31 AugIt turns out the reality TV series “Reality” is more predictable than anything that could spew from the MacBook of the laziest Hollywood hack
5. 31 AugSurrealistic MyPillow
6. 31 AugEd Asner
7. 31 AugConfederacy is an ethos
8. 31 AugShadowy docket
9. 30 AugAutumn begins in Bristol, Connecticut
10. 30 AugBiden’s Continued Move Against Forced Labor
11. 30 AugThe Cruelty is the Point
12. 30 AugRacialized Labor Forces in the 19th Century
13. 30 AugThe right thing
14. 30 AugCOVID craziness, August 30, 2021 edition
15. 30 AugSupply Chain Problems
16. 30 AugMonday NatSec Roundup
17. 30 AugCOVID, Mississippi, and the Medicaid expansion
18. 30 AugNo, fuck *you*
19. 29 AugOn the one hand this anti-COVID vaccine activist died because he refused a safe and free prevention measure
20. 29 AugMy ship’s been split to splinters and it’s sinking fast
21. 29 AugThe farcical grift that is contemporary college football
22. 29 AugWhat has happened down here is the winds have changed
23. 29 AugIda may be Category 5 hurricane at landfall
24. 29 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 909
25. 29 AugOnto the next grift!
26. 29 AugMusic Notes
27. 28 AugAmerica’s beloved COVID governor bears no responsibility for COVID disaster unfolding in his state
28. 28 AugThe assassination of your uncle by the coward Tucker Carlson
29. 28 AugCancel culture is out of control
30. 28 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 908
31. 28 AugIf it weren’t for bad faith there would be no defenses of the Afghanistan occupation at all
32. 27 AugCalifornia parole board recommends release of Sirhan Sirhan
33. 27 AugThey would do anything for DeSantisism, but they won’t do that
34. 27 AugTexas runs out of horse deworming medicine because a lot of people would rather poison themselves than admit they were wrong
35. 27 AugLook out Louisiana
36. 27 AugJohn Roberts’s mission accomplished
37. 27 AugNot making a decision is a decision
38. 27 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 907
39. 27 AugWho’s Owning Who?
40. 26 AugTrump would have stayed in Afghanistan
41. 26 AugSpeaking of deaths that matter, let us remember that right wing media and the Republican party have conspired to effectively murder 30,000 Americans in just the past two months
42. 26 AugWhen casualties do and no not matter to the Blob
43. 26 AugTerror attacks in Kabul
44. 26 AugExplosion at HKIA
45. 26 AugDead tired of all the winning
46. 26 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 906
47. 26 AugWhy are mask mandates so triggering for right wingers?
48. 26 AugWith your crinkly hair and your glassy stare And your machiavellian schemes
49. 26 AugFucking around can be fun until you find out
50. 25 AugManufacturing a crisis to defend perpetual war
51. 25 AugHistorical Monuments To See
52. 25 AugIUPAT Leads the Way on Union Vaccine Mandates
53. 25 AugThe Vaccine Reaches the SEC
54. 25 AugThe paranoid style: A Spike Lee joint
55. 25 AugFlorida voters and the DeSantis variant
56. 25 AugThis Day in Labor History: August 25, 1935
57. 25 AugMy employer has a very special set of vaccination requirements
58. 25 AugSupreme Court: 44-year-old Trump Stooge on Federal District Court is president now
59. 24 AugJerry Jones and socialism
60. 24 AugIf you aren’t running for office to do stuff, why bother?
61. 24 AugCharlie Watts
62. 24 AugThe Seditionist
63. 24 AugOn Disliking Thai Food
64. 24 AugSpicy hot takes
65. 24 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 905
66. 24 Aug57th time is a charm
67. 24 AugThere is no cure for elite liberal lawyer brain
68. 24 AugLGM Film Club, Part 203: The Legend of Rip Van Winkle
69. 23 Aug10,900 people evacuated from Kabul in the last 12 hours; 48,000 in the last nine days
70. 23 AugToday in the Pandemic
71. 23 AugThe Rona Ate My Election Audit
72. 23 AugHurting the Poor Doesn’t Lead Them to Take Your Bad Jobs
73. 23 AugMaking Things Happen
74. 23 AugOn a White Supremacist Society Creating White Supremacist Technology That Has White Supremacist Results
75. 23 AugThe Afghanistan airlift has been surprisingly successful
76. 23 AugReorganizing the Department of Defense
77. 23 AugIs there any situation consultants can’t grift?
78. 23 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 904
79. 23 AugWhen did mercenaries become contractors?
80. 23 AugPunishing Biden for his Afghanistan heresy
81. 23 AugLGM Film Club, Part 202: Hoop Dreams
82. 22 AugImperialist gasps from the provinces
83. 22 AugSuperweeds
84. 22 AugProp 22 Ruled Unconstitutional
85. 22 AugAnti-vax as identity politics
86. 22 AugFailing the Future
87. 22 AugHurricane Party
88. 22 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 903
89. 22 AugLike the moon and the morning star you’re gone
90. 21 AugMusic Notes
91. 21 AugFox’s Book of Martyrs
92. 21 AugThe Immaculate Exit dodge
93. 21 AugI come to you and see all this ruin
94. 21 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 902
95. 21 AugTom T. Hall, 1936-2021
96. 21 AugLGM Film Club, Part 201: The Onion Field
97. 20 AugJames Loewen, RIP
98. 20 AugFull Approval of Pfizer vaccine imminent
99. 20 AugThe seductions of war
100. 20 AugPetraeus: we should keep doing what has massively failed forever
101. 20 AugFloridians getting tired of winning the pandemic
102. 20 AugCOVID update
103. 20 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 901
104. 20 AugMark Levin’s Dialectic of Enlightenment
105. 19 AugThe media rallies around the hawks
106. 19 AugLooks like another mentally ill white man
107. 19 AugI lost on Jeopardy!
108. 19 AugThursday NatSec Roundup
109. 19 AugActually taking COVID seriously
110. 19 AugThe week another massive delusion was exposed
111. 19 AugThis Day in Labor History: August 19, 1987
112. 19 AugCould Newsom lose the recall vote?
113. 19 AugCancel culture is out of control
114. 18 AugBoondoggle!
115. 18 AugThe Wages of Fear
116. 18 AugThe emptying of MAGA America
117. 18 AugCOVID booster shots to be offered beginning Sept. 20
118. 18 AugThe vaccines work
119. 18 AugThis Day in Labor History: August 18, 1823
120. 18 AugPelosi to Donor Service Wanker Caucus: Eat Shit
121. 17 AugA Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds
122. 17 AugGreg Abbott gets vaccinated for COVID, tests positive anyway
123. 17 AugDEI as bureaucratic grift
124. 17 AugCYA Time
125. 17 AugThe Military Collapse
126. 17 AugAnti-vaxx authoritarianism
127. 17 AugThe other victims of the anti-vaxx movement
128. 17 AugVaccine hesitancy in the USA between January and May 2021
129. 17 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 900
130. 17 AugThe Afghanistan Papers
131. 16 AugBeginning of the End for Large-Scale Agriculture in the Southwest
132. 16 AugLauren Boebert is a big fan of the Taliban
133. 16 AugThe Party of Death
134. 16 AugThe Speech
135. 16 AugBoth sides now
136. 16 AugNew Frontiers in DNA Evidence
137. 16 AugSometimes, It’s Who You Most Expect
138. 16 AugPeak Modern Republicanism
139. 16 AugAfghanistan in Brief
140. 16 AugCasualties of War
141. 16 AugEvery battle is won or lost before it’s ever fought
142. 16 AugA comic interlude
143. 15 AugThe laughably unjustified hubris of the foreign policy/military blob
144. 15 AugIt never rains around here It just comes pouring down
145. 15 AugQuick Book Rec: Tower by Bae Myung-hoon
146. 15 AugThoughts on the Situation in Afghanistan
147. 15 AugMembers of Congress should not be able to trade individual equities
148. 15 AugLGM Film Club, Part 200: Days of Being Wild
149. 15 AugAndrew Cuomo: the central message of The Power Broker is that Robert Moses was a wonderful role model
150. 14 AugMusic Notes
151. 14 AugPolitical intercourse began In two thousand-eight (which was rather late for me), between the end of the Edwards campaign and the first episode of Glee
152. 14 AugThe NFL offers a model for how to get the “hesitant” vaccinated
153. 14 AugHow to set $83 billion on fire
154. 14 AugHow many Afghans are going to be massacred by the Taliban because it’s very important for government paperwork to be completed correctly?
155. 14 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 899
156. 14 AugThe Well-Regulated Militia
157. 14 AugNanci Griffith
158. 14 AugLGM Film Club, Part 199: Hee-Haw
159. 13 AugToday is the day Donald Trump becomes president
160. 13 AugImagine Rupert Murdoch owning no major media companies in your country, it’s easy if you try
161. 13 AugConservative hacks threaten murder-suicide pact for Biden administration
162. 13 AugI don’t throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things
163. 13 AugEverything is Bad
164. 13 AugA few more people murdered by right wing media
165. 13 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 898
166. 13 AugThe shadow docket knows
167. 13 AugLGM Film Club, Part 198: Mission Accomplished
168. 12 AugThe world’s oldest profession remains highly profitable for disruptive social media innovators
169. 12 AugCensus stuff
170. 12 AugThe anti-anti COVID style in American politics
171. 12 AugKeep Dick Tasting
172. 12 AugMurderously Bad Takes from the Past
173. 12 AugFreedom: A Republican pilgrim’s progress in four acts
174. 12 AugPlease just stay home and die
175. 12 AugThe Politics of Bad Faith
176. 11 AugThe American right wing’s COVID insanity
177. 11 AugTaking COVID seriously, and not
178. 11 AugInterrogating Ethnography again
179. 11 AugPenguin Random House to take king-sized bath on “book” “written” by disgraced governor
180. 11 AugThe Foreign Policy of Local Politics
181. 11 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 897
182. 11 AugTexas governor Greg Abbott requests emergency medical help from other states while continuing to block measures to slow COVID pandemic
183. 11 AugChecking in on America’s most Economically Populist senator
184. 10 AugThe rational maximizers
185. 10 AugThis is the day Donald Trump finally became the infrastructure president
186. 10 AugTrouble At The Pit Factory
187. 10 AugTrumka’s Legacy
188. 10 AugCuomo Gone?
189. 10 AugLessons from the death of a Dick
190. 10 AugWorking in the Heat
191. 10 AugFuck You Pay Me
192. 10 AugClimate denial and COVID denial
193. 10 AugThe AFL-CIO’s Future
194. 10 AugThis Day in Labor History: August 10, 1680
195. 10 AugAny Reasonable Viewer
196. 10 AugThe World’s Greatest Deliberative Body
197. 9 AugA Texas-size pandemic
198. 9 AugBiden to mandate vaccine for all members of military
199. 9 AugModeling The Pandemic: Efficacy
200. 9 AugThe long COVID
201. 9 AugLGM Podcast: Where the Devil Don’t Stay II
202. 9 AugIt makes no difference
203. 9 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 896
204. 8 AugThe past isn’t even past
205. 8 AugAnother Vaccination Post
206. 8 AugMarkie Post RIP
207. 8 AugDominance!
208. 8 AugThe Kavanaugh Kult
209. 8 AugBowden
210. 8 AugVaccines work, trooferism kills
211. 8 AugThe Perils of Disentanglement
212. 8 AugReaching the reachable unvaccinated
213. 8 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 895
214. 7 AugMusic Notes
215. 7 AugJosh Mandel
216. 7 AugFascism for fun *and* profit
217. 7 AugJust crazy enough to work
218. 7 AugThe radicalization of establishment Republican lawyers
219. 7 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 894
220. 7 AugThe Ups and Downs of Innovation
221. 6 AugDeSantis strangling Florida’s COVID response
222. 6 AugHow many people will the anti-vaxxers kill between now and the end of the COVID pandemic?
223. 6 AugGeneralissimo Francisco Franco is still alive, in the hearts of the Republican Party
224. 6 AugTrumka 2
225. 6 AugThe power of the purse
226. 6 AugHistorians and the Truman myth
227. 6 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 893
228. 6 AugTrying to steal elections for fun and profit
229. 5 AugRepublican newspaper really wants everyone to know that refusing to let millions of Americans get kicked out of their homes makes Republicans very angry >:-(
230. 5 AugBonhomme Richard Investigation
231. 5 AugMichael Simkovic’s amazing dishonesty
232. 5 AugThe open and passive-aggressive styles in soft fascist politics
233. 5 AugTrumka
234. 5 AugAmerican Sports Imperialism
235. 5 AugQuickie Pop Culture Notes
236. 5 AugClimate Change and Cultural Heritage
237. 5 AugThe Fight Against Forced Labor in the Fishing Industry
238. 5 AugIs modern medicine good? Views differ
239. 5 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 892
240. 5 AugNew Republican line: COVID-19 is a minor non-event that will be used by disease-carrying foreign vermin to destroy the United States
241. 4 AugHeadline of the year
242. 4 AugIf NATO Hadn’t Expanded
243. 4 AugInside the Law School Scam Redux
244. 4 AugNLRB Moves Toward Throwing Out Amazon Union Vote
245. 4 AugNo Evil
246. 4 AugTough Day Out There For Trumpian Grifting Lawyers
247. 4 AugWednesday NatSec Roundup
248. 4 AugIn Praise of Anachronism
249. 4 AugRecipe Review: Roasted Salmon Tacos
250. 4 AugBelated Urgency
251. 4 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 891
252. 4 AugCompetitive authoritarianism in the Trump administration
253. 3 AugLoving America while hating Americans
254. 3 AugCompetitive Authoritarianism in Central Europe
255. 3 AugTucker Carlson visits (the other) model for 21st century Republican leadership
256. 3 AugWar and Commerce
257. 3 AugReport finds Cuomo guilty of repeated sexual harassment, retaliation
258. 3 AugFreedom has nothing to do with it
259. 3 AugBobo in Paradise
260. 3 AugBobos in Trumpland
261. 3 AugAnniversaries
262. 3 AugThis Day in Labor History: August 3, 1959
263. 3 AugDark money and the attack on American democracy
264. 2 AugAndre Agassi, Fox News, and John Roberts
265. 2 Aug7th Circuit laughs argument that vaccine mandate is unconstitutional out of court
266. 2 AugLGM Podcast: Where the Devil Don’t Stay
267. 2 AugHello, Lawyers, Guns & Money!
268. 2 AugSchool Segregation in the North
269. 2 AugThe Horror of Nursing Homes
270. 2 AugWelcome!
271. 2 AugWhite paranoia, white rage, and Fox News
272. 2 AugTechBro Domination
273. 2 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 890
274. 2 AugLGM Film Club, Part 197: Pick of the Pod
275. 1 AugAmerica’s most useless senator: “there needed to be Al Qaeda supporters on the 9/11 committee”
276. 1 AugDeep thoughts, by J.D. Vance
277. 1 AugWhen Psychopaths Speak
278. 1 AugHow the Banking System Reinforces Climate Change
279. 1 AugCancel Culture!
280. 1 AugVideo killed the radio star
281. 1 AugThis Day in Labor History: August 1, 1864
282. 1 AugAmerica’s greatest governor just can’t stop winning
283. 1 AugLGM Film Club, Part 196: The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings

July 2021

1. 31 JulFrito-Lay Strike Settled
2. 31 JulUndermining confidence in the vaccine
3. 31 JulAmtrak Costs
4. 31 JulSpecial WAPO section: What did the aspiring autocrat who did his best to destroy liberal democracy in America get right?
5. 31 JulCuba News
6. 31 JulThe Hard Seltzer Fad Has Peaked
7. 31 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 889
8. 30 JulMusic Notes
9. 30 Jul“This neighborhood was built on certain principles, and it’s extremely important to maintain those principles and also not say them out loud where they could be used in court”
10. 30 Jul“Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen.” Donald Trump to the Attorney General of the United States
11. 30 JulUnion Divisions on Vaccines
12. 30 JulThe vaccinated anti-vaxxers
13. 30 JulSome Weekend Reading
14. 30 JulCOVID-19 showing the show-me state
15. 30 JulExpanding the Vote to Non-Citizens
16. 30 JulThe Metropole of America’s Ungovernable Tribal Regions
17. 30 JulCarl Levin, RIP
18. 30 JulWelp
19. 30 JulMore vaccine mandates, which are good, because vaccine mandates are good
20. 29 JulToday in Scumbags
21. 29 JulThe EU has now pulled ahead of the US in vaccinations
22. 29 JulApocalypse fairly shortly
23. 29 JulCongressional Republicans urge Supreme Court to overrule Roe v. Wade
24. 29 Jul“Listen to Scientists” Is Not A Smart Policy Slogan
25. 29 JulDamage Caps
26. 29 JulNew Frontiers in NIMBYism
27. 29 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 888
28. 29 JulOn Simone Biles
29. 29 JulLGM Film Club, Part 195: Chico & Rita
30. 29 JulTrump pressured the Attorney General to help overthrow the election on a daily basis
31. 28 JulThe Truman Show, Director’s Cut
32. 28 JulIf Donald Trump is dead or in a coma Ron DeSantis will probaby be the GOP nominee
33. 28 JulThe Rhetorical Trap of Great-Power Competition
34. 28 JulAlabama Coal Strike
35. 28 JulThe Loss of Collective Solidarity
36. 28 JulNCAA Conference Realignment
37. 28 JulThe power of mandates
38. 28 JulThe politics of COVID mandates, Delta variant edition
39. 28 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 887
40. 27 JulThe NFL option
41. 27 JulAmusing Tidbits
42. 27 Jul#3 House Republican blames Nancy Pelosi for the 1/6 insurrection, which she also supports
43. 27 JulJust a few patriotic hijinks from Capitol tourists
44. 27 JulWhy Toyota supported seditionists
45. 27 JulThe perverse economics of college in America
46. 27 JulLGM Podcast: Globalization and Its Discontents
47. 27 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 886
48. 27 JulOne sidesism
49. 26 JulFascist Demands Fascist History
50. 26 JulAmerica’s Pathetic Economic Safety Net
51. 26 JulA Few Words on Bob Moses
52. 26 JulParkland shooting survivor’s own father thinks it was a hoax, thanks to QANON and Marjorie Taylor Greene
53. 26 JulReproduction, reproduction! Is that all Vance thinks about?
54. 26 JulVaccine mandates are good and there should be more of them
55. 26 JulThe Future of China’s Economy
56. 26 JulManchin 2024?
57. 26 JulMurder Inc.
58. 26 JulBob Moses
59. 25 JulToday in Sarah Palin’s First Amendment
60. 25 JulWe could be heroes, just for one day
61. 25 JulOn Cooling the Right Wing Marks Out
62. 25 JulAn elegy for Google Reader
63. 24 JulMusic Notes
64. 24 JulThe King of anti-vaxx bullshit
65. 24 JulPigs in spaaaaace
66. 24 JulMy patience is at an end
67. 24 JulThe Truman Show
68. 24 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 885
69. 24 JulThe Power and the Glory
70. 23 JulBothsideism as genre confusion
71. 23 JulAmerica’s greatest governor just can’t stop winning
72. 23 JulI will work harder
73. 23 JulFriday NatSec Roundup
74. 23 Jul100 of 613 members of U.S. Olympic team are not vaccinated against COVID
75. 23 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 884
76. 23 JulWhy were there no Al-Qaeda supporters on the 9/11 commission?
77. 23 Jul“He Is Utterly Obsessed With Winning:” Delving Into What Is Really Going On With Ted Lasso
78. 23 JulLGM Film Club, Part 194: Pixote
79. 22 JulKultist Krypto Kurrency
80. 22 JulI am beginning to suspect that the FBI’s investigation of Brett Kavanaugh was not comprehensive or impartial
81. 22 JulLiberal international order, yet again
82. 22 JulNFL threatens teams with forfeits if COVID causes cancellations
83. 22 JulWhy All Americans Need to Know Mexican History
84. 22 JulWhen Facts Are Controversial: A Modern Story
85. 22 JulKathy Andrade, RIP
86. 22 JulWhy would we end the filibuster when we could get a unicorn farm instead?
87. 22 JulAnother Thing We’ll Do to Avoid the Problem
88. 22 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 883
89. 22 JulAmerica’s least essential pundit hopes Jim Jordan will restore bipartisan comity in America
90. 22 JulLGM Film Club, Part 193: The Big Sleep (1978)
91. 22 JulThe devil fools with the best laid plan
92. 21 JulWhy are the COVID vaccines still being distributed under an emergency use authorization?
93. 21 JulMcCarthy pulls all Republicans from the 1/6 panel because Pelosi rejected seditionist members
94. 21 JulThe year of the plague
95. 21 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 882
96. 21 JulGiannis Sina Ugo Antetokounmpo
97. 21 JulThe Tucker/Berenson Corridor, and the blue state holdouts
98. 21 JulLGM Film Club, Part 192: Italianamerican
99. 20 JulBring the CCC Back In
100. 20 JulToday Was a Good Day
101. 20 JulHe stopped loving him today
102. 20 JulThe Child Tax Credit if a big fucking deal (TM)
103. 20 JulThe Most Shameless Plug
104. 20 JulThe evangelical grift in Donald Trump’s America
105. 20 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 881
106. 20 JulLooks like Rupert Murdoch has decided that too much COVID is bad for business
107. 19 JulIt’s better to be good than to hope to be lucky
108. 19 JulVaccine mandates are constitutional and good policy
109. 19 JulBullshit artistry
110. 19 JulI have been glancing into some of the rooms
111. 19 JulMonday NatSec Roundup
112. 19 JulClimate change in wine country
113. 19 JulFreedom’s just another word for I’m pretty much an idiot
114. 19 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 880
115. 18 JulHow many Americans have Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump, Alex Berenson et. al. murdered this month?
116. 18 JulJeffrey Epstein and local journalism
117. 18 JulRepublicans: doing things that help people is dirty pool
118. 18 JulSmidgens of Justice for the Tribes
119. 18 JulThe terrorists have won
120. 18 JulAnti-Urbanism and the Pandemic
121. 18 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 879
122. 18 JulNone of this would be happening if Ron DeSantis was governor
123. 18 JulLGM Film Club, Part 191: Belladonna of Sadness
124. 17 JulGloria Richardson, RIP
125. 17 JulThe anti-vaxx style in Republican politics
126. 17 JulLegalize the DREAMers
127. 17 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 878
128. 17 JulInside the Masters Degree Scam
129. 17 JulAttacks on democracy recur throughout American history
130. 17 JulLGM Film Club, Part 190: Commandos Strike at Dawn
131. 16 JulMurc’s law is a harsh mistress
132. 16 JulGaming out the Breyer situation
133. 16 JulPersonnel is Policy
134. 16 JulGetting counterinsurgency wrong
135. 16 JulRepresenting the Farmworker Struggle Through Painting
136. 16 Jul2/6 and 1/6
137. 16 JulNative American Vaccination Rates
138. 16 JulDon’t talk to me like I’m another square
139. 16 JulThe Florida “Dream”
140. 16 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 877
141. 16 JulSacrifices to Lord Tucker
142. 16 JulLGM Film Club, Part 189: A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China
143. 15 JulThe graveyards of indispensable men
144. 15 JulDeSantis seeks to raise money off his own sociopathy
145. 15 JulThis man was president of the United States and could be again
146. 15 JulWe All Wish Him the Very, Very Worst
147. 15 JulBear With Me While I Provide A Bit More of that Evil Critical Race Theory
148. 15 JulThe ExxonMobil Networks
149. 15 JulKremlin leak appears to confirm active interference in election in favor of and potential blackmail of Trump
150. 15 JulScenes from the Toasty New Gilded Age
151. 15 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 876
152. 15 JulJoint Chiefs anticipated Trump attempting post-election coup
153. 15 JulGiving Nassar a pass
154. 15 JulLGM Film Club, Part 188: Kansas Saloon Smashers
155. 14 Jul“Please don’t shoot is what I’m asking”
156. 14 JulEverything old is old again
157. 14 JulThe lying is the point
158. 14 JulBiomass is Not Renewable Energy
159. 14 Jul“We Now Have an Opportunity to Change Education:” A Follow-Up Discussion with MDRC’s K-12 Education Policy Director William Corrin Regarding American Public Education After the Pandemic
160. 14 JulIt All Started at the Northern Border
161. 14 JulRebels who win for losing
162. 14 JulToday in the Sixth Extinction
163. 14 JulThe Work Week
164. 14 JulThe election truthers and the future of American fascism
165. 14 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 875
166. 14 JulLGM Film Club, Part 187: Edwards v. Duke
167. 13 JulTennessee officially goes anti-vax
168. 13 JulPerversity, Projection, and Power: the Ballad of Ken Starr
169. 13 JulLGM Podcast: When Political Science Theories Go Viral
170. 13 JulChop that wood, carry water, what’s the sound of one career being wasted?
171. 13 JulHow many people is Alex Berenson going to end up murdering?
172. 13 JulWhen not being anti-vaxx is a fireable offense
173. 13 JulLatin American Conflicts
174. 13 JulChina’s Lending
175. 13 JulTaze Those Kids!
176. 13 JulLife in Prison
177. 13 JulProvost Draper wants to put you in a new major today
178. 13 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 874
179. 13 JulThe Iraq War Happened Because Bush was a Terrible President
180. 12 JulCanada and Climate Change
181. 12 JulTaking the Republican war on democracy seriously
182. 12 JulCults Birth Other Cults
183. 12 JulThat schaden isn’t going to freude itself
184. 12 JulVaccination status as a civil rights issue
185. 12 JulCancel Culture!
186. 12 JulThe Grand Expedition to the Outermost West Reaches Its Western Terminus
187. 12 JulThe Automation Crisis
188. 12 JulWhat Will Biden Do on Natural Gas?
189. 12 JulMan Texas Republicans made line up for hours to vote gets arrested
190. 12 JulWelcome to the family
191. 12 JulFind someone who loves you as much as Donald Trump loves violent white nationalists and seditionists
192. 11 JulIs it coming home?
193. 11 JulCountering anti-worker practices
194. 11 JulRana Plaza 2: Worker Death Boogaloo
195. 11 JulThe Infrastructure Battle
196. 11 JulDevelopment Destroying Communities of Color
197. 11 JulThe grifter and the death cult
198. 11 JulA working-class hero is something to be, but what the fuck does that have to do with Peter Thiel’s Fake-Appalachian Errand Boy J.D. Vance?
199. 10 JulMusic Notes
200. 10 JulReport: Earl Warren still dead
201. 10 JulCurrency War!
202. 10 JulRacism and Medicine
203. 10 JulThere goes Robert E. Lee
204. 10 JulDown Goes Lee!
205. 10 JulAmerican public polled on issue it knows nothing about; journalist dutifully transcribes ridiculous responses
206. 10 JulThe Mt. Rushmore Problem
207. 10 JulElsewhere in the Ivy Leagues
208. 9 JulAcademic gangs of New York
209. 9 JulThe Oklahoma History Center: A Museum Completely Captured by Capital and Its Bought Politicians
210. 9 JulNullifying the Voting Rights Act
211. 9 JulJehovah Jehovah Jehovah!
212. 9 JulDeported Veterans
213. 9 JulAlways Important to Exploit Those Farmworkers!
214. 9 JulTrump’s Big Tech suits
215. 9 JulCOVID Conspiracy Theories
216. 9 Jul“Rooseveltian” International Liberalism
217. 8 JulAn Industry Built on Exploitation
218. 8 JulChaos and climate change
219. 8 JulI just read the daily news and swear by every word
220. 8 JulIdiotically like a martyr
221. 8 JulJuris Doctorate Vance – the candidate no one but the weirdos at Axios have been waiting for
222. 8 JulSlave Graves
223. 8 JulRight-Wing Rage in Oregon
224. 8 JulYour Cheery Climate News of the Morning
225. 8 JulAmateur fireworks are the worst
226. 7 JulBen Shapiro is the dumbest person in the world
227. 7 JulThe cult of the Court
228. 7 JulTo an athlete getting old
229. 7 JulFarmworker Deaths and Climate Change
230. 7 JulLow Wage Workers Having Power Is a Good Thing
231. 7 JulClimate Change and Birds
232. 7 JulFox News: It’s emblematic of where we are as a nation that people believe our lies
233. 7 JulThe vaccines work. So do cynical death cults
234. 7 JulChecking in on America’s Dumbest Senator
235. 6 JulFirst for love, then for a few select friends, and finally for money
236. 6 JulReefer madness
237. 6 JulNikole Hannah-Jones gives UNC the answer it deserved
238. 6 JulNobody has more contempt for the lives of ordinary Republican voters than Republican elites
239. 6 JulManspreading athwart history yelling “STOP and date me you filthy freedom hating harlot!!”
240. 6 JulHow to build a mass political movement to empower the poor and working class
241. 6 JulTen Years of This Day in Labor History
242. 6 JulDignity elegy
243. 6 JulLGM Film Club, Part 186: The Goodnight-Loving Trail
244. 5 JulClimate change and the media
245. 5 JulWinner of the pandemic just can’t stop the winning
246. 5 JulLicense the damned vaccines
247. 5 JulWhere is everybody?
248. 5 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 873
249. 5 JulWhy does Hobby Lobby hate the American way of life?
250. 5 JulWorld War I Museum
251. 5 JulLGM Film Club, Part 185: Dust Bowl
252. 4 JulCan you buy nothing but IPAs these days? An empirical investigation
253. 4 JulAmerica’s Love of Idiot Grifters
254. 4 JulBasic Sanitation on the Reservations
255. 4 JulHow Racism Influenced the American Revolution
256. 4 JulClimate change and infrastructure
257. 4 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 872
258. 4 JulCollective action problems
259. 4 JulLGM Film Club, Part 184: Samurai Rebellion
260. 3 JulIs the Supreme Court nullifying the Voting Rights Act bad?
261. 3 JulThe Villainous Economist Problem
262. 3 JulThe Resurgence of Child Labor
263. 3 JulMaking Pork Labor Less Horrible
264. 3 JulHeckuva job, Stevie
265. 3 JulThe return of COVID-19
266. 3 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 871
267. 2 JulThe Lord can’t make you burn
268. 2 JulThe Roberts Court’s Nullification of the Voting Rights Act
269. 2 JulAnother Victim of the War on Drugs
270. 2 JulNews Cycles and the Media
271. 2 JulLock Em Up!
272. 2 JulPlease Clap
273. 2 JulKiller Trucks
274. 2 JulThe Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
275. 2 JulFriday NatSec Roundup
276. 2 JulThe tale of Comrade Ogilvy
277. 2 JulThis Day in Labor History: July 2, 1888
278. 2 JulPutting a crowbar in the machinery of death
279. 2 JulLGM Film Club, Part 183: America’s Distribution of Wealth
280. 1 JulThe Cuban Vaccine
281. 1 JulSonia Sotomayor and the perverse world of legal liberalism
282. 1 JulNon-partisan institution continues to vote along strictly partisan lines in any case that counts
283. 1 JulMinority voters and the legitimacy presumption for Republican candidates
284. 1 JulKamala Harris guilty of doing politics while female
285. 1 JulThe New Structuralism
286. 1 JulBiden’s Cuba Failure
287. 1 JulClimate Change and the Tribes
288. 1 Jul1 6 2
289. 1 JulAdding Trump to the rankings of US presidents
290. 1 JulThis Day in Labor History: July 1, 1962
291. 1 JulOrganization Crime
292. 1 JulLGM Film Club, Part 182: Horse Feathers

June 2021

1. 30 JunThree Cheers and Three Cheladas: The Great Thomas Boswell Retires from The Washington Post
2. 30 JunRummy
3. 30 JunA Dead Statesman
4. 30 JunCan powerful men be held accountable in America?
5. 30 JunTechBro Military
6. 30 JunDaniel Ortega: Breaking Bad in Managua
7. 30 JunWhy is Biden All-In on the Line 3 Pipeline?
8. 30 JunOccam’s Razor and lab leak contrarianism
9. 30 JunFood News You Can Use–Recipe Reviews
10. 30 JunThe past, present, and future of air conditioning
11. 30 JunLGM Podcast: Howard Thurman
12. 30 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 870
13. 30 JunWhy is NY elections administration such a disaster?
14. 30 JunLGM Film Club, Part 181: Dos Monjes
15. 30 JunAlmost literally people who are mad they can’t talk to VP Harris when the mood strikes: Wah. My access.
16. 29 JunSome rich guy just bribed Kristi Noem to send some National Guard troops to the Texas-Mexico border, per Greg Abbott’s request
17. 29 JunOur Political Elites
18. 29 JunAnd the wind began to howl
19. 29 JunRepublicans want Nazis in the tent pissing on the others
20. 29 JunLeftist Unionbusting
21. 29 JunTR Statues
22. 29 JunThe vaccines are miraculously effective
23. 29 JunBiden’s Commitment to Labor
24. 29 JunWhite rage white heat
25. 29 JunThe Grand Expedition to the Outermost West
26. 28 JunThe cult of the fetus
27. 28 JunIf a man who lurked below 8% in the polls doesn’t win the Democratic primary for mayor of NYC it is further proof The INSTITUTIONAL LEFT is inherently unjust, tyrannical and rotted and some other bad things.
28. 28 JunAs of two years ago, metaphorical and aspiring literal vampire Peter Thiel had $5 billion in a Roth IRA
29. 28 JunMonday NatSec Roundup
30. 28 JunThe Toyota Sedition
31. 28 JunFlyover women, they don’t mess around
32. 28 JunI nominate this as the greatest tweet in the history of Twitter
33. 28 JunPlayer Piano was too optimistic
34. 28 JunReports from a blast furnace
35. 28 JunAmerican democracy is in great shape
36. 27 JunJ.D. Vance appeals to his only constituency
37. 27 JunThe Intellectual Derp Web goes anti-vaxx (and anti-vaxx curious)
38. 27 JunD’ohregard!
39. 27 JunTime to rehabilitate Bill Barr again
40. 27 JunHeat wave
41. 27 JunWhat caused the Surfside collapse?
42. 26 JunTrump as cause and, more importantly, symptom
43. 26 JunThe mind of a vain sociopath
44. 26 JunTeetering on the edge of fascism
45. 26 JunAncient Liquidity
46. 26 JunDispatches from Real America (TM)
47. 25 JunWho counts as a white nationalist?
48. 25 JunEating in the Southern Great Plains (or Whatever)
49. 25 Jun22 years
50. 25 JunCampaign elegy
51. 25 JunCorporate Bankruptcy: A Tool for Capitalists to Escape Accountability
52. 25 JunGuns: The Device to Control People of Color
53. 25 JunThe wingnut media industrial complex is killing hundreds of people a day
54. 25 JunThe Long Tentacles of American Colonialism
55. 25 Jun“Shut the Fuck Up, Stephen”
56. 25 JunFalling down
57. 25 JunWhen a “warning” is a hope
58. 25 JunLGM Film Club, Part 180: El Condor
59. 24 JunQueer in the Rural Midwest
60. 24 JunThis seems not so good
61. 24 Jun(Conditional) support for a bipartisan infrastructure deal
62. 24 JunCorporate Funded Research’s Inherent Biases
63. 24 JunACT-UP: A Model for Contemporary Activists
64. 24 JunNo angels in America
65. 24 JunThe Conservative White Takeover of Juneteenth
66. 24 JunLGM Podcast: Cruelty is the Point
67. 24 JunThursday NatSec Roundup
68. 24 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 869
69. 24 JunLGM Film Club, Part 179: Secret Honor
70. 24 JunDealing with Open Liars
71. 23 JunAmerica’s most ridiculous senator takes us on an historical acid trip
72. 23 JunRoberts Court embraces radical anti-labor interpretation of the takings clause
73. 23 JunThe Line 3 Pipeline
74. 23 JunAfter Dollar Hegemony
75. 23 JunSilver’s gold
76. 23 JunThe Cost of Your Cheap Services
77. 23 JunOverwhelmed Public Lands
78. 23 JunThe Idaho Problem
79. 23 JunObscenely self-centered people lose their jobs
80. 23 JunThe rottenness of our elites
81. 23 JunDarkness at midnight
82. 22 JunWorld’s worst not actually deliberative body preempts debate of voting rights bill
83. 22 JunUnderestimating the intelligence of the American public finally stops paying off
84. 22 JunShort people
85. 22 JunTuesday NatSec Roundup
86. 22 JunOpinion: Kyrsten Sinema: I Think You Are a Total Dumbshit
87. 22 JunWhen it was possible to actually tax rich people: A Journey Through the Past
88. 22 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 868
89. 22 JunAn election in New York
90. 21 JunComing out
91. 21 JunIt didn’t have to be this bad
92. 21 JunShould board members of the National Endowment for Democracy be in favor of democracy?
93. 21 JunSo long to the NCAA
94. 21 JunThe Emptiness of the Patent Waiver
95. 21 JunLGM Podcast: The Ideas That Made America
96. 21 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 867
97. 20 JunThe rhetoric of fascism
98. 20 JunThe ratfuck next time
99. 20 JunThe 1979 Lab Leak
100. 20 JunDeath of a fashion icon
101. 20 JunVaccines and “freedom”
102. 20 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 866
103. 19 JunThis grifter comes as a grifter
104. 19 JunTell the truth, it’s the easiest thing to remember
105. 19 JunCafeteria Catholics act against Joe Biden
106. 19 JunAmerica’s Worst Columnist Leaves With a Bang
107. 19 JunToxic masculinity and racism
108. 19 JunThis Day in Labor History: June 19, 1982
109. 19 JunThe Joys of a Crowd
110. 19 JunWingnut affirmative action as reductio ad absurdum
111. 18 JunThe Need for Community Spaces
112. 18 JunAnother Great Day for White Conservative Platitudes
113. 18 JunHas $400 billion been stolen by street gangs to buy Cadillacs, T-bone steaks, and Obamaphones?
114. 18 JunThe absurdity of a Trump presidential “memoir”
115. 18 JunRestricting reproductive freedom abroad
116. 18 JunThe Underground Railroad
117. 18 JunInflation, relative wealth, and historical memory
118. 18 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 865
119. 18 JunIf you want bipartisan compromises, end the filibuster
120. 17 JunWhat happened in Fulton
121. 17 JunHappy Juneteenth
122. 17 JunThe right wing freakout over the discovery that American history has some problematic chapters
123. 17 JunBut we won’t do that
124. 17 JunCome over here Joe, the Redcoats are coming!
125. 17 JunThursday NatSec Roundup
126. 17 JunIntellectual license
127. 17 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 864
128. 17 Jun“A Symphony of Malice:” The stereo-pure joy of two golfers who hate each other
129. 17 JunOld age and poverty in mid-20th century America
130. 16 JunFucking vaccines, how do they work?
131. 16 JunNew Industrial Policy
132. 16 JunHow many Democratic senators don’t want Democrats to be able to govern?
133. 16 Jun600,000
134. 16 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 863
135. 16 JunBiden administration fails its first test on the death penalty
136. 15 JunA camouflaged dictatorship
137. 15 JunWhat’s the harm in letting Trump blow off a little steam?
138. 15 JunThe War on progressive prosecutors
139. 15 JunThe face of MAGA
140. 15 JunAmericans are poor because we want it that way
141. 15 JunTuesday NatSec Roundup
142. 15 JunLGM Podcast: Women and the American Way of War
143. 15 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 862
144. 15 JunThe Greeneing of America
145. 14 JunReality Winner and the Espionage Act
146. 14 JunIt’s like a fly in your Chardonnay (Republican Freedom Edition)
147. 14 JunMitch McConnell hasn’t gotten the news about the Supreme Court not being political
148. 14 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 861
149. 14 JunNed Beatty
150. 14 JunLGM Film Club, Part 178: Day of Freedom
151. 13 JunDonald Trump’s death cult still successfully convincing many of its supporters not to take the vaccine
152. 13 JunFighting to Teach Real American History
153. 13 JunThe Compressor Stops
154. 13 JunRethinking Historical Monuments
155. 13 JunTexas: The Only State to Commit Treason in Defense of Slavery Twice
156. 13 JunPrivate equity as a massive tax evasion scam
157. 13 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 860
158. 13 Jun“Now, notice how in the count room nobody ever seems to see anything. Somehow, somebody’s always lookin’ the other way”
159. 13 JunLGM Film Club, Part 177: Making an American Citizen
160. 12 JunThe IG report does not prove that the Trump administration had nothing to do with the violent attack on protestors at Lafayette Park
161. 12 JunThe Strike Threat Gets the Goods
162. 12 JunCome on join the party dressed to kill
163. 12 JunThe Trump Coast
164. 12 JunRepublican History of Their Treason
165. 12 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 859
166. 12 JunChecking in with America’s Dumbest Senator
167. 12 JunLGM Film Club, Part 176: Brutalism: A Hope Dashed
168. 12 JunThe American Way of Medicine
169. 11 JunWhy have job prospects for law graduates improved over the past five years?
170. 11 JunKeystone officially dead
171. 11 JunFriday NatSec Review
172. 11 JunWhat Really Happens in the College Classroom
173. 11 JunFederal Subsidies for School Segregation
174. 11 JunI Wonder How We Could Solve That Worker Shortage?
175. 11 JunToo crazy for the party of Eastern Oregon
176. 11 JunTo Russia with love
177. 11 JunTrump administration spied on Democratic legislators
178. 10 JunToday in the Intellectual Dork Web
179. 10 JunTaxes and the plutocracy
180. 10 JunProsecute the Murderers
181. 10 JunChina’s Solution to the Military Problem of Space
182. 10 JunWhite Fears
183. 10 JunEverything is Fine!
184. 10 JunThe House of Schembechler
185. 10 JunDisappearing the non-white working class
186. 10 JunThis Day in Labor History: June 10, 1963
187. 9 JunThe Harris Visit to Guatemala
188. 9 JunWill allowing Mitch McConnell to save a Supreme Court vacancy for the next Republican president depoliticize the Supreme Court?
189. 9 JunWednesday NatSec Roundup
190. 9 JunInfiLaw bust out lights its last match
191. 9 JunHuh, I Wonder if Turning Every Species on the Planet into an Industrialized Product Has Any Downside?
192. 9 JunA Tale of Two Nations
193. 9 JunBut Maddie and Connor Just Deserve the Best Schools!
194. 9 JunWhere the Rubber Meets the Road
195. 9 JunCritical Color Theory
196. 9 JunThe cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems
197. 9 JunThey just like talking to salesmen
198. 9 JunLGM Film Club, Part 175: Crossfire
199. 8 JunRedlined America
200. 8 JunA Quick Anthropological Tour of Design/Decor/DIY YouTube
201. 8 JunPretending that what’s happening isn’t happening
202. 8 JunFighting Low Vaccination Rates
203. 8 JunWho Has Joe Manchin’s Ear?
204. 8 JunSpending taxpayer money in defense of authoritarianism is no virtue
205. 8 JunIt’s Just So Hard Out There for the White Man
206. 8 JunThe Problem of the Stennis
207. 8 JunFederer and Osaka
208. 8 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 858
209. 7 JunI say we take off and nuke it from orbit
210. 7 JunAndrew Sullivan and the English Language
211. 7 JunA wingnut for all seasons
212. 7 JunFixing the West’s Water Wars
213. 7 JunCould NAFTA 2 Have Some Bite?
214. 7 JunLife Under Apartheid
215. 7 JunMonday NatSec Roundup
216. 7 JunThe Powell Show
217. 7 JunLGM Podcast: Protecting Social Security
218. 7 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 857
219. 6 JunShared Delusions
220. 6 JunSpecial Elections
221. 6 JunRacism and Campus Cops
222. 6 JunBan Alcohol on Airplanes
223. 6 JunThe end
224. 6 JunThe moral panic over critical race theory
225. 6 JunThe autogolpe last time
226. 6 JunMusic Notes
227. 6 JunIf only you believe like I believe we’d get by
228. 5 JunImagine there’s no Republican Party
229. 5 JunThe end of gun control in America
230. 5 JunLife, liberty, and the pursuit of influence
231. 5 JunNihilistic Bipartisanship
232. 4 JunHow to end your corporate law career with just one filing
233. 4 JunElegy for a faux hillbilly
234. 4 JunOn the (non)politics of Nomadland
235. 4 JunThe Dejoy of committing felonies
236. 4 JunPublic assistance works
237. 3 JunThe clock is ticking
238. 3 JunThe Employer Mentality
239. 3 JunStill Surprised When the Leopard Eats Your Face?
240. 3 JunAre the Republican “audits” [sic] of the 2020 vote works or shoots?
241. 3 JunThe actual threats to free speech
242. 3 JunThe real cancel culture: An endless cavalcade of white fragility
243. 3 JunThe Challenge of Commuter Rail
244. 3 JunThis Day in Labor History: June 3, 1900
245. 2 JunSpecial snowflakes at Stanford Federalist Society demand student be sanctioned for brutally owning them
246. 2 JunBye bye Bibi?
247. 2 JunThe trans beaver sports mastectomy scars
248. 2 JunWords Next to Each Other, by Kyrsten Sinema
249. 2 JunBlogging is not for the weak or faint of heart
250. 2 JunThe end of another error
251. 2 JunBiden and student loan debt
252. 2 JunFighting for Racial Justice Through Polluting Communities of Color
253. 2 JunDisliking “Friends” is not a substitute for a personality
254. 2 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 856
255. 1 JunJohn Roberts’ war on voting rights continues
256. 1 JunYour BLM Sign Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore
257. 1 JunAmerica’s broken healthcare system and the COVID vaccine
258. 1 JunTrump telling people he expects to be reinstated as president in August
259. 1 JunTales from the Trump +26 Counties
260. 1 JunWhat’s Next for Bangladeshi Workers?
261. 1 JunWhites Will Probably Never Support Black Rights
262. 1 JunHello, I wish to register a complaint
263. 1 JunBeer Bros
264. 1 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 855
265. 1 JunWho will be the 400th?
266. 1 JunWe’re 17! (And You Know What I Mean)
267. 1 JunLGM Film Club, Part 174: Rififi
268. 1 JunBlasts from the Past

May 2021

1. 31 MayThe Pod
2. 31 MayLGM isn’t Made of Cats
3. 31 MayVenmo? You go!
4. 31 MayI want to bite that hand so badly
5. 31 MayWe’re Only Seventeen
6. 31 MayTen Years After
7. 31 MayHand Over the Cash
8. 31 MayI learned the truth at 17
9. 31 MayBehind the Blogging
10. 31 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 854
11. 31 MayHappy Birthday to Us!
12. 31 MayThis is fine
13. 31 May215
14. 31 MayLGM Film Club: Part 173: The Killing Floor
15. 30 MayThe Trump administration tear-gassed peaceful protestors for a photo-op and lied about it
16. 30 MayEcofascism
17. 30 MayJournal of a plague year
18. 30 MayDroughtastic
19. 30 MayWhat Could the Alphabet Workers Union Accomplish?
20. 30 MayWe need a Marshall Plan for the COVID-19 vaccine
21. 30 MayWhy does college cost so much?
22. 30 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 853
23. 30 MayWe can be thankful Al Gore invented the internet
24. 29 MayCancel Culture!
25. 29 MayLone Star Fascism
26. 29 MayInstitutional legitimacy must be earned
27. 29 MayImagined Communities
28. 29 MayWoke Michael Gerson
29. 29 MayIndigenous Cinema
30. 29 MayBurn in Hell
31. 29 MayThe next Little Trump
32. 28 MayFucking cost-benefit analysis, how does it work?
33. 28 MayEpistemic closure and 1/6
34. 28 MayInsurrection commission blocked by 35 of 100 senators
35. 28 MayNobody is more contemptuous of Trump supporters than Donald Trump and his lickspittles
36. 28 MayEl Mago
37. 27 MayRepublicans in Array II
38. 27 MayRepublicans in array
39. 27 MayThe Ransomware Problem as a Bitcoin Problem
40. 27 MayThe lab leak hypothesis
41. 27 MayThe crack up
42. 27 MayToday in carrots and sticks
43. 27 MayNow the flames they followed Joan of Arc
44. 26 MayLee Harvey Oswald and Barack Obama: The Unexplored Connection
45. 26 MayRed China stole Tom Cotton’s car keys
46. 26 MayMueller enabled Barr
47. 26 MayWhat follows from the fact that the unchallenged leader of one of the USA’s two major political parties is a criminal sociopath?
48. 26 MayMost of the vaccinated can have something like a normal Memorial Day
49. 26 MayWednesday NatSec Roundup
50. 26 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 852
51. 26 MayThe only winning move is not to play
52. 25 MayThe Year of Racial Reckoning That Wasn’t
53. 25 MayAfter democracy dies
54. 25 MayDemocratic elections as iterated prisoners dilemmas
55. 25 MayMajority of Republicans believe Donald Trump is the true president of the United States right now
56. 25 MayIf only there was some mechanism that would allow “demand” to be met with “supply”
57. 25 MayI am beginning to think that Senate Republicans are not bargaining in good faith
58. 24 MayCancel Culture Telephone
59. 24 MayWho will speak for the white man?
60. 24 MayWhat was destroyed in the white supremacist Tulsa massacre
61. 24 MayMeasuring Climate Change’s Storm Enhancement
62. 24 MayClean Beef: The New Clean Coal
63. 24 MayLGM Podcast: Sinking the Bismarck
64. 24 MayRemember the Alamo, Or Whatever You Think Belongs There
65. 24 MayAn non-erotic diverted journey from Athens to Minsk
66. 24 MayHappy Birthday Bob Dylan
67. 24 MayElite Dems who don’t know when to quit could be the death of American democracy
68. 23 MayPolarization and vaccination
69. 23 MayHuman Lifespan
70. 23 MayThe Belarus Hijack
71. 23 MayDaniel Ellsberg and the Espionage Act
72. 23 MayThis Day in Labor History: May 23, 1977
73. 23 MayComplain, complain, that’s all you’ve done ever since we lost
74. 22 MayMusic Notes
75. 22 MayPower v. journalistic ethics
76. 22 MayFixing a Gutted Government
77. 22 MayThe Real Cancel Culture on Campus
78. 22 MayIt’s not light yet, but it’s gettin’ there
79. 22 MayPurity of Essence
80. 22 MayGod won’t save the Queen
81. 22 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 851
82. 22 MayChecking in on the party of life and family values
83. 21 MayDemocracy is trampled to death by an elephant
84. 21 MayBust-out artists to destroy more local newspapers
85. 21 MayRepublicans threaten to enact only item on their legislative agenda again
86. 21 MayThe Honest Broker
87. 21 MayWhiteness and White Liberal Identity
88. 21 MayThe Young Activists We Need
89. 21 MayFederally Funded Child Care: A Necessity Now Especially
90. 21 MayMore news from the information security administration
91. 21 MayThis Day in Labor History: May 21, 1945
92. 21 MayIt’s All About Profit
93. 20 MayCampus PC gets more out of control all the time
94. 20 MayDigital Currency!
95. 20 MayThe politics of vaccination
96. 20 MayAlice Waters and Reductive Views of Food Cultures
97. 20 MayBroken Supply Chains
98. 20 MayStolen Wages
99. 20 MayCampus Cancel Culture is out of control
100. 20 MayThe Party of Death, Texas Edition
101. 20 MayLGM Film Club, Part 172: Sinatra on King
102. 19 MayRepublicans are deadly serious about criminalizing abortion
103. 19 MayTruth, Commissions, and Republican Brokeness
104. 19 MaySectoral Bargaining and Gig Workers
105. 19 MayWhat are cryptocurrencies and why should we care?
106. 19 MayLots of Talk, Little Action
107. 19 MayLGM Podcast: Paper and Capitalism in America
108. 19 MayLock Him Up
109. 19 MayWednesday NatSec Roundup
110. 19 MayThree-point shooting in the NBA and the meritocracy
111. 19 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 850
112. 19 MayCharles Grodin
113. 18 MayAll you got to be is white in America
114. 18 MayThe Big Lie in the Grand Canyon State
115. 18 MayLet’s make a book deal
116. 18 MayThey Sacrificed for Hydroelectricity
117. 18 MayFixing Higher Ed
118. 18 MayDISRUPTING Rentals
119. 18 MayHating Your Workers: Employer Orthodoxy in the New Gilded Age
120. 18 MayAbe said “man, you must be putting me on”
121. 18 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 849
122. 18 MayDon’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
123. 17 MayHey look kids, yet MORE totally non-political and non-partisan rule of law lawyering from totally NOT a right wing Catholic dominionist William Barr
124. 17 MayOn the forthcoming end of reproductive freedom in much of America
125. 17 MayLaw and Politics for dummies and SCOTUS justices
126. 17 MayThe Broken Game of Baseball
127. 17 MaySanctuary States!
128. 17 MayMississippi Goddamn
129. 17 MayWho are “Some Democrats?” An extensive investigation
130. 17 MayMonday NatSec Roundup
131. 17 MayThis Day in Labor History: May 17, 1986
132. 17 MayThe foundation of the Gates divorce
133. 16 MayRepublicans try to systematically remove impediments to their election theft efforts
134. 16 MayThe perils of presidentialism in the 2020s
135. 16 MayThe Quiet, Little Known Food Worker Dead
136. 16 MayCampus PC is completely out of control
137. 16 MayIdeas for the Twenty-First Century
138. 16 MayThis Day in Labor History: May 16, 1910
139. 16 MayArizona and the Big Lie
140. 15 MayMusic Notes
141. 15 MayBlaming police murders on genetics
142. 15 MayWarehouse Pollution
143. 15 MayAsshole denied golden parachute
144. 15 MayYou’ve Been Living Hell To Me
145. 15 MayThe insurrectionists and the Great Replacement
146. 15 MayWhat Should Biden Do About Trump’s Many Crimes?
147. 15 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 848
148. 15 May“Have you been kissing ass so long you’re beginning to like it?”
149. 14 MayCan a Campaign Based Around Liberal Economics Win?
150. 14 MayA Republican Congress will not certify a Democratic presidential victory in 2024
151. 14 MayThe present and future of the Republican Party
152. 14 MayRethinking Work, Revisited
153. 14 MayIncentivizing Integrated Schools
154. 14 MayThe Birthrate “Issue”
155. 14 MayClimate Change and American Foreign Policy
156. 14 MayVaccine slowdown slows down
157. 14 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 847
158. 14 MayFreedom of speech is just another phrase for uncritically adopting the Likud party line
159. 13 MayCDC says vaccinated people don’t have to wear masks
160. 13 MayGuest Post: Judis Priest
161. 13 MayScabby
162. 13 MayEconomic Dislocation and the Trumpian Appeal
163. 13 MayThursday NatSec Roundup
164. 13 MayUnionbusting 101
165. 13 MayWill NAFTA 2.0 Have Any Teeth?
166. 13 MayRemember the classics
167. 13 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 846
168. 13 MayGrievance merchants
169. 13 MayLGM Film Club, Part 171: The New York Thruway
170. 12 MayOhio governor bucks Republican orthodoxy by trying to save the lives of his constituents
171. 12 MayWarner
172. 12 MayDeportations Down
173. 12 MayVote suppression at the margins can easily swing competitive elections
174. 12 MayThe patriots of 1/6
175. 12 MayRethinking Work
176. 12 MayDentistry and American Healthcare
177. 12 MayCourtroom Access and the Pandemic
178. 12 MayThe function of criticism at the present time
179. 12 MayWhy we can’t have nice things
180. 12 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 845
181. 12 MayConflict in Israel & Palestine
182. 12 MayLGM Film Club, Part 170: Cats and Rats
183. 11 MayOrganizing for Power
184. 11 MayThe vaccines are miraculously effective
185. 11 MayThere is essentially no outdoor transmission of COVID-19
186. 11 MayLGM Podcast: Biden’s 100 Days
187. 11 MayA tower room at Eden Roc
188. 11 MayAttempt to Hold America Accountable for Agent Orange Fails
189. 11 MayMurderous Agricultural Pollution
190. 11 MayThe Charcoal Supply Chain
191. 11 MayTuesday NatSec Roundup
192. 11 MayThe significance of the Liz Cheney auto-da-fe
193. 11 MayThe origins of the big lie
194. 11 MayLGM Film Club, Part 169: Princess Nicotine
195. 11 MaySame as it ever was
196. 10 MayWhite supremacists, theocrats, and other supporters of patriarchal reaction oppose democracy on principle
197. 10 MayThe Atwater Papers
198. 10 MayJoe Biden is Not a Radical. Neither Were FDR or LBJ
199. 10 MayMcConnellism
200. 10 MayThis Day in Labor History: May 10, 1913
201. 10 MayLGM Film Club, Part 168: Pete DuPont
202. 9 MayThe hops and barley and the stick
203. 9 MayYou can always come back but you can’t come back all the way
204. 9 MayA little part of it in everyone
205. 9 MayThe Party of True Economic Populism
206. 9 MayChildren of men
207. 9 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 844
208. 9 MayLGM Film Club, Part 167: Kabul
209. 8 MayWhy did it take so long for public health authorities to concede that COVID-19 is primarily spread through aerosols?
210. 8 MayThe Need for Universal Daycare
211. 8 MayThe Eyes of Texas
212. 8 MayHow to Pronounce Oregon
213. 8 MayComrade Hawley
214. 8 MayNearly one million Americans may have already died due to COVID-19
215. 8 MayMusic Notes
216. 8 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 843
217. 8 MayRepublicans are the party of the working class now
218. 8 MayLGM Film Club, Part 166: LBJ’s Last Interview
219. 7 MayIt’s time to shut down Yale Law School until we can figure out what the hell is going on
220. 7 MayThe Great Circle Jerk of Life
221. 7 MayLooking back at the Goffman affair
222. 7 MayThe Lumber Boom
223. 7 MayBlack Women and Police Violence
224. 7 MayFriday NatSec Roundup
225. 7 MayDesperate Attempts to Turn the Tide of Bidenism
226. 7 MayLGM Film Club, Part 165: Swords
227. 6 MayIncoming Republican conference chair kisses King Trump’s whole ass
228. 6 MayPujols 2
229. 6 MayThe present and future of the Republican Party
230. 6 MayGive a man a fish and he will eat for a day
231. 6 MayVouchertastic
232. 6 MayBiden and Gig Workers
233. 6 MayGreen Jobs and Rural Economies
234. 6 MayNative Voices in the Mainstream Media
235. 6 MayLabor, work, and leisure
236. 6 MayAnd it feels so bittersweet
237. 6 MayFederal judge calls out Barr for lying about the Mueller Report and the decision not to charge Trump
238. 5 May150 years of major league baseball but this is a new one
239. 5 MayAllowing vaccinated people to do more things is a major net increase in freedom
240. 5 MayThe Wages of Trump Judges
241. 5 MayRetweets are not endorsements, but positive comments about the isolated actions of otherwise bad conservative politicians are proposals of marriage
242. 5 MayOrganizing for Power
243. 5 MayAre There Good Cops? Part 10
244. 5 MaySerious People Doing Serious Things
245. 5 MayDonald Trump is going to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024, which means there’s a good chance he’ll be president again
246. 5 MayAmerica’s Most Important Labor Leader
247. 5 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 842
248. 5 MayRudy Giuliani’s entourage wants man who doesn’t even pay his own bills to pay Rudy’s
249. 5 MayLGM Film Club, Part 164: Hoover in Color
250. 4 MayIf only there was a mechanism available that would allow demand to meet supply
251. 4 MayYour periodic reminder that Stephen Breyer is being incredibly selfish and irresponsible by not retiring immediately
252. 4 MayRepublicans to officially make opposing sedition disqualifying for party leadership
253. 4 MayRacial Polarization and American Politics
254. 4 MayHappy 90th birthday Willie Mays
255. 4 MaySpace! Comparatively…
256. 4 MayTrustee slams the NRA’s sham bankruptcy filing
257. 4 MayWeird Science
258. 3 MayI am beginning to think that Trump and Biden have quite dissimilar policies
259. 3 MayA seditionist wrote a “book”
260. 3 MayWill you be forced to pay $335 per person just to dine out at a gay transgender restaurant?
261. 3 MayThe Orban of McMinnville
262. 3 MayThere has been a bloodbath in higher ed jobs
263. 3 MayNo herd immunity for you
264. 3 MayMonday NatSec Roundup
265. 3 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 841
266. 3 MayFirst responders put other people at risk by refusing to take the vaccine
267. 3 MayLGM Film Club, Part 164: Oil City Confidential
268. 2 MayNot wearing masks outside (in most circumstances) is fine. Wearing masks outside is also fine if you want to.
269. 2 MayThe surprisingly good American economic response to the pandemic
270. 2 MayBan Tear Gas
271. 2 MayThe Klamath
272. 2 MayMake Polling Booth Goons Great Again
273. 2 MayLabor Action Tracker
274. 2 MayShooting an elephant
275. 2 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 840
276. 2 MayWhat’s the matter with Kansas Republicans?
277. 2 MayLGM Film Club, Part 163: Who the Hell is Mel Kiper Anyway?
278. 1 MayOutflankened Again
279. 1 MayDerby 4
280. 1 MayTitle 42
281. 1 MayThe Iron Heel
282. 1 MayChicken Shortage
283. 1 MayJim Crow, Florida Man
284. 1 MayThe Anglo-Saxons
285. 1 MayAll of our daughters
286. 1 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 839
287. 1 MayRural vaccine reluctance
288. 1 MayLGM Film Club, Part 162: Strip Mining Tennessee

April 2021

1. 30 AprNFL Draft Thread: Rounds 2-3
2. 30 AprAngst was finally old enough it ought to have a proper home
3. 30 AprTed Cruz has been a corporate stooge his as long as he’s been a senator, says Ted Cruz
4. 30 AprThe Student Loan Crisis
5. 30 AprFamily Separation
6. 30 AprThe Post-Brown America Looks An Awful Lot Like the Pre-Brown America
7. 30 AprAmerican Racism, Part the Zillion
8. 30 AprThe COVID disaster in South America
9. 30 AprMatt Gaetz sold out by his con man wingman
10. 30 AprLGM Film Club, Part 161: White Elephant
11. 29 AprNFL Draft Round 1 Open Thread
12. 29 AprThe counter-majoritarian atrocity
13. 29 AprRepublican is just short for sociopath
14. 29 AprRepublicans about to get their wish of more gun violence in America fulfilled
15. 29 AprFederal Action on Gig Workers
16. 29 AprWolves and the Culture War
17. 29 AprMen: Do Some Damn Housework
18. 29 AprThe Falcon and the Winter Soldier, in Tweets
19. 29 AprLGM Podcast: Mary Church Terrell
20. 29 AprThe feds planned to arrest Chauvin immediately had he not been convicted
21. 29 AprBiden’s First Address to Congress
22. 29 AprLGM Film Club, Part 160: Billy James Hargis
23. 28 AprNot so promising not so young men
24. 28 AprThe Need for a Reinvigorated Workplace Safety Regime
25. 28 AprWhy do all these associates of Donald Trump keep getting indicted?
26. 28 AprThe MLK troll
27. 28 AprSing Michael sing
28. 28 AprLittle Marco positions himself as Josh Hawley with 10% less smarm
29. 28 AprAre There Good Cops? Part 9
30. 28 AprAnti-Asian Racism Through Time
31. 28 AprWednesday NatSec Roundup
32. 28 AprBeef! It’s What’s Not for Dinner
33. 28 AprLetters of Recommendation
34. 28 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 838
35. 28 AprLike rain on Thomas Hofeller’s wedding day
36. 28 AprLGM Film Club, Part 159: Morocco
37. 28 AprRupert Murdoch v. Journalism
38. 27 AprSaving Superfund
39. 27 AprDark money is the best infectant
40. 27 AprCampaigners
41. 27 AprAre There Good Cops? Part 8
42. 27 AprBiden: The Pro-Union President
43. 27 AprPeople’s History of the Marvel Universe, Wandavision Special: the Difficult Question of Jewish and Romani Representation
44. 27 AprThe Sanger Problem
45. 27 AprCarlson’s army is on the way
46. 27 AprThe Anti-Vaxx style in American politics
47. 27 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 27, 1939
48. 27 AprArea man gets santorum all over himself
49. 27 AprAre There Good Cops? Part 7
50. 26 AprSarah Palin’s living constitution
51. 26 AprElectoral College shifts, 1960-2020
52. 26 Apr2nd Amendment law likely to get much worse
53. 26 AprConflicted Landscapes
54. 26 AprSt. Louis: American Capitol
55. 26 AprLGM Podcast: Ian Toll on the Pacific Trilogy
56. 26 AprThe Vaccination Cards
57. 26 AprRepublicans rise up in opposition to imaginary Biden plan to ban beef
58. 26 AprBarack Obama and American exceptionalism
59. 26 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 837
60. 26 AprLGM Film Club, Part 158: White Rock
61. 26 AprOscar Open Thread
62. 25 AprMusic Notes
63. 25 AprCEOs require astronomical compensation to incentivize great performance. And mediocre performance. And bad performance.
64. 25 AprClass as Part of Diversity
65. 25 AprWhy Haaland Matters
66. 25 AprAre There Good Cops? Part 6
67. 25 AprOscars 2021
68. 25 AprDon’t Be Evil
69. 25 AprHelp India vaccinate
70. 25 AprWhen does it make sense to start bribing people to get the COVID vaccines?
71. 25 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 836
72. 25 AprTexas to make Jim Crow Great Again
73. 25 AprLGM Film Club, Part 157: The Iran Hostage Crisis
74. 25 AprThe Long Life of a Photograph
75. 24 AprRecognizing the Armenian genocide
76. 24 AprThe silly outdoor mask controversy
77. 24 AprThe Journalist Union Movement
78. 24 AprMiasma
79. 24 AprMaking Free College Tuition a Real Thing
80. 24 Apr2020 had the highest number of above-normal deaths in recorded American history
81. 24 AprYou probably think this post is about you
82. 24 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 835
83. 24 AprThe myth of “low skill” labor
84. 24 AprLGM Film Club, Part 156: The Humpty Dance
85. 23 AprBiden’s Immigration Failures
86. 23 AprAmerica’s dumbest senator doesn’t understand how vaccines work or why anyone would prefer that fewer people die from COVID
87. 23 AprTwo libertarians named Glenn walk into a Zoom
88. 23 AprThe Battle for Environmental Justice
89. 23 AprAnnals of a Fourth Rate Historian
90. 23 AprFreedom’s Just Another Word for Killing Libs
91. 23 AprA working class hero is something to be
92. 23 AprWe need more vaccination mandates
93. 23 AprLGM Film Club, Part 155: Uecker
94. 23 AprFinally! Something that offers hope for police reform.
95. 22 AprHow many Americans are going to die in the last six months of 2021 from a completely preventable disease?
96. 22 AprBrett Kavanaugh writes opinion holding that crimes committed by teenagers should allow them to be confined for life irrespective of their ability to be rehabilitated
97. 22 AprThe financial delusions of the lower upper class
98. 22 AprRIP Lance Mannion
99. 22 AprLGM Podcast: Oscar Night!
100. 22 AprWhere I Find Hope, and Where I Don’t
101. 22 AprHomelessness and the West Coast
102. 22 AprCarrots and sticks
103. 22 AprExcellent Selection to Head CBP
104. 22 AprClimate Change as Cultural Destruction
105. 22 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 834
106. 22 AprThe Eighth Blunder of the World
107. 22 AprLGM Film Club, Part 154: Two Lane Blacktop
108. 21 AprTucker Carlson celebrated the murderer of Harvey Milk and George Moscone
109. 21 AprSpecial snowflakes triggered by protest urge cancelling it with vehicular homicide
110. 21 AprThe GOP Vision of America
111. 21 Apr#cancelled
112. 21 AprIndonesian Submarine Missing
113. 21 AprWhite Power Hour goes anti-anti Chauvin
114. 21 AprAre There Good Cops? Part 5
115. 21 AprThe vaccine enthusiasm tipping point
116. 21 AprAre There Good Cops? Part 4
117. 21 AprAre There Good Cops? Part 3
118. 21 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 833
119. 21 AprSupreme Court justice gets 7 figure advance to tell intelligence-insulting lies to her readers
120. 21 AprLGM Film Club, Part 153: Winged Migration
121. 20 AprBehold one of the leading intellectuals of the American right wing
122. 20 AprThe Chauvin verdict
123. 20 AprThe Super League fiasco
124. 20 AprNo method, no teacher, no labels, no shame
125. 20 AprGreater Idaho
126. 20 AprImagine a female Andrew Yang being a frontrunner for mayor of NYC
127. 20 AprFifty Years Since Swann
128. 20 AprAre There Good Cops? Part 2
129. 20 AprA 70-year history of single family home prices in the US, macro and micro editions
130. 20 AprTuesday NatSec Roundup
131. 20 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 20, 1946
132. 20 AprWalter Mondale, RIP
133. 19 AprPolarization and American Geography
134. 19 AprLessons from Narwhals
135. 19 AprThe Chauvin verdict
136. 19 AprIncome Inequality Kills…Americans
137. 19 AprThe Fossil Fuel Scam
138. 19 AprMythical devil of the ever-present laws
139. 19 AprLGM Podcast: Election Law
140. 19 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 832
141. 19 AprHow not to do pandemic response
142. 19 AprLGM Film Club, Part 152: Modern Times
143. 19 AprPopular Opinion of the Domestic Slave Trade
144. 18 AprThe cynical bargain of robber baron philanthropy
145. 18 AprVaccine Update
146. 18 AprThe COVID Silver Lining
147. 18 AprRigging the Rankings
148. 18 AprThe Story of Ben Fletcher
149. 18 AprPeople with semiautomatic weapons kill more people
150. 18 AprThe 3/5ths Doctrine
151. 18 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 831
152. 18 AprBrearley Dad denies existence of, and frequently commits, systemic racial discrimination
153. 17 AprMusic Notes
154. 17 AprAndrew Yang: Joker
155. 17 AprDear Bari: I never thought this would happen to me, but if Jesse Helms had been president we never would have had any of these problems
156. 17 AprAre There Good Cops? Part 1
157. 17 AprInfrastructure Also Means Local Journalism
158. 17 AprWhere a Non-Functional OSHA Leads
159. 17 AprAmerica First
160. 17 AprThe Kash Patel saga
161. 17 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 830
162. 17 AprLGM Film Club, Part 151: Madoff
163. 17 AprThe “culture war” double standard
164. 16 AprBe vigilant!
165. 16 AprBiden breaks promise on refugee admissions
166. 16 AprMore on the Amazon Loss
167. 16 AprIt All Started With the Border and That’s Still Where It is Today
168. 16 AprThe Humanities and Medicine in the Age of COVID
169. 16 AprThe American way of death
170. 16 AprShould people be thrown in jail for being good parents?
171. 16 AprLGM Film Club, Part 150: A Bundle of Blues
172. 16 AprThe Chauvin Trial
173. 15 AprChicago police murder 13-year-old boy
174. 15 AprIncels, ideology, and violence
175. 15 AprSaving everybody takes a man on a mission with a swagger that can set the world at ease
176. 15 AprJoe Biden and the Weird Politics of Afghanistan
177. 15 AprThe Muppets in the 21st Century
178. 15 AprIn Which the Elite Journalist Class of the 1990s Continues to Repeatedly Smash Their Own Faces into Cream Pies
179. 15 AprVaccine trooferism among state legislators
180. 15 AprLabor Law Reform
181. 15 AprThursday NatSec Roundup
182. 15 AprJD Vance is very concerned about the oligarchy
183. 15 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 829
184. 15 AprOriginal AP report of Lincoln’s assassination
185. 15 AprThe Shameful Sixteen
186. 14 AprBernie Madoff
187. 14 AprComplacency in Defense of Freedom is no Virtue
188. 14 AprNormalizing election theft
189. 14 AprWill the Filibuster Kill the Minimum Wage?
190. 14 AprBig Oil and the Public Schools
191. 14 AprLGM Podcast: Ride Sharing and Transport Infrastructure
192. 14 AprPreserving the Great Dismal Swamp
193. 14 AprRight-Wing Domestic Terrorism
194. 14 AprThere must always be a Republican hate object
195. 14 AprBut what about the Safewayites?
196. 13 AprThe Pause
197. 13 AprKicking Down as Political Creed
198. 13 AprCA6 refuses to apply controlling precedent, upholds Ohio abortion ban
199. 13 AprGerman Nostalgia for the Antebellum South
200. 13 AprUS out of Afghanistan
201. 13 AprTeutoburg Forest Truthers
202. 13 AprShould We Return National Parks to the Tribes
203. 13 AprThe New FDR?
204. 13 AprOperation Warp Speed
205. 13 AprCDC and FDA are recommending “pause” in J&J vaccine distribution
206. 13 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 828
207. 13 AprDeSantis: the free market does too much to protect public health
208. 12 AprNRO editors: the problem with Jim Crow is that it was too democratic
209. 12 AprSupreme Court Term Limits
210. 12 AprPolice violence beyond race
211. 12 AprThat’s why pencils have erasers
212. 12 AprShould Misogyny Be a Hate Crime?
213. 12 AprChild Labor Laws and Hollywood
214. 12 AprThe Racist History of Highways, Revisited
215. 12 AprGentle Reader…
216. 12 AprWe were never partners
217. 12 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 827
218. 12 AprAnnals of both sides
219. 12 AprLGM Film Club, Part 149: The Las Vegas Story
220. 11 AprThe ultimate Republican official
221. 11 AprWhat does it mean to say that international order is becoming more “illiberal”‘
222. 11 AprThe Amazon Defeat
223. 11 AprRace and the Tribes
224. 11 AprThe Future of Masking
225. 11 AprWe actually need to think of the children
226. 11 AprHigher Ed, Covid-19, and the austerity shock doctrine
227. 11 AprCovering up the summary execution of Michael Reinoehl
228. 10 AprMusic Notes
229. 10 AprRamsey Clark, RIP
230. 10 AprThe Court of Death
231. 10 AprMore on Breyer’s impending (?) retirement
232. 10 AprSaturday NatSec Roundup
233. 10 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 826
234. 10 AprSetback
235. 9 AprYou’re not a populist and you have no integrity
236. 9 AprTucker explicitly endorses Nazi anti-immigration theory
237. 9 AprThe Interstate System: A Monument to White Supremacy
238. 9 AprOSHA’s Failures
239. 9 AprHIV Vaccine
240. 9 AprMurder
241. 9 AprWar and the Finance Domain
242. 9 AprHey 17
243. 9 AprSupporting vote suppression to kiss Donald Trump’s ass
244. 8 AprJoe Manchin pretends to be brain-dead rube to defend Jim Crow anachronism
245. 8 AprThe Jefferson Davis Memorial Toilet Seat
246. 8 AprElite insouciance at Yale Law School
247. 8 AprThe Continued Terribleness of Agricultural Labor
248. 8 AprEnergy Production as Culture War
249. 8 AprCaregiving as Infrastructure
250. 8 AprEnchanted
251. 8 AprInformation Sharing and Information Hoarding
252. 8 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 825
253. 8 AprFox News Komedy Klassics
254. 7 AprTime to set the “Days Since National Review Published Article Explicitly Calling For the Intentional Disenfranchisement of Voters” meter back to zero
255. 7 AprIf you’re 10% as bad a sexual predator as Donald Trump you should be tossed out of office
256. 7 AprCOVID: Worse than the great pandemic of 1918-19?
257. 7 AprThe longest con
258. 7 AprSuez
259. 7 Apr“Veritas”
260. 7 AprWednesday NatSec Roundup
261. 7 AprThe California Klan
262. 7 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 824
263. 7 AprMatt Gaetz thought he was getting a blanket preemptive pardon from Daddy Trump
264. 6 AprArkansas legislature overrides veto to pass hate law
265. 6 AprThe Populist Anti-Corporate Crusade of Mitch McConnell, American Populist
266. 6 AprWest German Witchcraft Allegations
267. 6 AprSo now trying to keep people from voting against you is “racist” if those voters happen not to be white
268. 6 AprLife for the Working Poor
269. 6 AprKing and the Modern Left
270. 6 AprNCAA Tournament Results
271. 6 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 823
272. 6 AprCrime pays
273. 6 AprReconciliations for everybody!
274. 5 AprAmerica needs you Harry Truman
275. 5 AprCulture wankers
276. 5 AprWhite evangelical resistance to COVID vaccination
277. 5 AprRepublicans are bad for democracy
278. 5 AprPop Up?
279. 5 AprWhy Haven’t We Seen More Bankruptcies in the COVID Era?
280. 5 AprThe Financial Struggles of College Students
281. 5 AprRepeal Work Requirements in Social Programs
282. 5 AprMonday NatSec Roundup
283. 5 AprThe horrible toll of anti-Asian violence
284. 5 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 822
285. 5 AprLavender Country
286. 5 AprHow property taxes exacerbate inequality
287. 4 AprMusic Notes
288. 4 Apr“Transportation Infrastructure” is a type of “Infrastructure”
289. 4 AprThe Social Construction of Political Reality (on Social Media)
290. 4 AprWater Wars?
291. 4 AprBlack Incarceration in Michigan: A Centuries Long History
292. 4 AprSupply Chain Fragility and Globalization’s Future
293. 4 AprThe Cuban Vaccine
294. 4 AprThe Wages of the vote fraud fraud
295. 3 AprDisenfranchisement for our foes, empty bank accounts for our friends
296. 3 AprThe problem with complacency over the Georgia vote suppression statute
297. 3 AprRemediation and Infrastructure
298. 3 AprForcing the Government to Implement Its Own Laws
299. 3 AprAnimal Rights and Incremental Change
300. 3 AprTotally unnecessary
301. 3 Apr100,000,000
302. 2 AprGeorgia legislator who tried to witness Brian Kemp signing Jim Crow law still facing two felony charges
303. 2 AprCancel culture murders midsummer classic
304. 2 AprThe Georgia vote suppression law is very bad
305. 2 AprEveryone hates Ted
306. 2 AprWhat Student Loan Debt Really Means
307. 2 AprAlabama, you’ve got the rest of the Union to help you along
308. 2 AprLabor History Demonstrates the Need to Raise Wages
309. 2 AprSelf-Medication and the Pandemic: 1918-19 Flu Edition
310. 2 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 2, 1984
311. 2 AprThe Chauvin Trial
312. 2 AprLGM Film Club, Part 148: The Skin
313. 2 AprMatt Gaetz and his enablers
314. 1 AprIt did get weird enough for me
315. 1 AprThe 2020-1 Sociopathic Dipshit of the year
316. 1 AprBiden and Antitrust
317. 1 AprStop Those Products Made From Forced Labor From Entering the Country!
318. 1 AprNothing to See Here!
319. 1 AprInfrastructure and green energy
320. 1 AprI hate when that happens
321. 1 AprTime for More Eeyoreing!
322. 1 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 821
323. 1 AprAndrew Cuomo was paid $4 million for the “book” he “wrote” after botching the pandemic response and while covering it up
324. 1 AprMore news about vaccines

March 2021

1. 31 MarDemocrats consider making primary calendar more representative
2. 31 MarThe Supreme Court v. the NCAA cartel
3. 31 MarLGM Podcast: Brazil’s Civil-Military Crisis
4. 31 MarRepublican judges (and legislators) want you to die
5. 31 MarHappy Bernie
6. 31 MarWho Really Hates Election Reform?
7. 31 MarRacism in the History of Medicine and the Pandemic: Native Edition
8. 31 MarThe politics of hate
9. 31 MarWas Donald Trump the Antichrist?
10. 31 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 820
11. 31 MarThe future of the Republican Party
12. 31 MarLGM Film Club, Part 147: The Other America
13. 31 MarBurn in Hell
14. 30 MarSometimes it’s who you most suspect
15. 30 MarHanging workers out to dry
16. 30 MarUniversity administrator and faculty pay in the new Gilded Age
17. 30 MarBrazilian Military Commanders Resign in Protest
18. 30 MarForced Labor in the Supply Chains
19. 30 MarYou Don’t Say…
20. 30 MarMexico’s COVID Disaster
21. 30 MarThe Cruelty is the whole point
22. 30 MarThe Senator With No Fucks to Give
23. 30 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 819
24. 30 MarWhat the hell is wrong with people?
25. 30 MarYou Think It’s Over Now, But We’ve Only Just Begun: Joe Strummer and Elvis Costello For Your Monday
26. 29 MarJohn Roberts Attacks the Antiquities Act
27. 29 MarWhat’s the Matter with Thomas Frank?
28. 29 MarPunching down, for fascism
29. 29 MarThe ethics of vaccine line jumping
30. 29 MarThe COVID Shock Doctrine on Higher Education
31. 29 MarCriminalizing Water to Support Jim Crow Voting Restrictions
32. 29 MarTransgender Girls and High School Sports
33. 29 MarA riot of their own
34. 29 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 818
35. 29 MarHow many people have to die because some old men have impoverished family lives?
36. 29 MarLGM Film Club, Part 146: Not My Kid
37. 28 MarThe National Review, standing athwart the enfranchisement of Black voters yelling “stop!” since 1957
38. 28 MarIt’s WandaVision!
39. 28 MarA Trump for South America
40. 28 MarTrump still loves his seditious rioters
41. 28 MarMusic Notes
42. 27 MarStephen Miller, America’s assignment editor
43. 27 MarGiving direct benefits to voters is popular
44. 27 MarSaturday NatSec Roundup
45. 27 MarBrian Kemp signed New Jim Crow law under a portrait of a slave plantation
46. 27 MarLGM Film Club, Part 145: Treasures of Thailand
47. 27 MarBuy American
48. 27 MarSupporting or opposing white supremacy
49. 26 MarThe Friedman Unit is not a viable basis for foreign policy
50. 26 MarThe Lies of Amazon
51. 26 MarRacism and Science, Revisited
52. 26 MarJohn Roberts Jim Crow
53. 26 MarEat Your Greens
54. 26 MarThe Well-Regulated Militia
55. 26 MarThe Definition of Insanity
56. 26 MarYou can’t Jim Crow without some arbitrary arrests
57. 26 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 817
58. 26 MarMissouri Republicans horrified by the prospect that poor people might get medical care
59. 26 MarAre vote suppression and expanded access to the ballot the same thing, views differ
60. 26 MarLGM Film Club, Part 144: Same Mud Same Blood
61. 25 MarThe Amazon Struggle
62. 25 Mar“Why won’t Biden do more press conferences,” the question that answers itself
63. 25 MarIs democratic representation worth making Republicans mad? An inquiry of the greatest seriousity
64. 25 MarGeorgia Republicans Pass Donald Trump Memorial Election Theft Act
65. 25 Mar“I Have No Idea”
66. 25 MarCancel culture has never been more out of control
67. 25 MarWill the Biden Administration Take Environmental Justice Seriously?
68. 25 MarSoak the Rich
69. 25 MarWhy do you think they call it a veil of ignorance anyway?
70. 25 MarThursday NatSec Roundup
71. 25 MarThe puke funnel
72. 25 MarYet more impeachable offenses from Andrew Cuomo
73. 24 MarThe COVID Eeyorism of American media
74. 24 MarThe inexorably racist history of the filibuster
75. 24 MarThe Financial Costs of Miscarriage
76. 24 MarEnvironmental ethics in a post-pandemic society, academic talks edition
77. 24 MarThere’s One Big Fight for Justice
78. 24 MarThe Long History of Anti-Asian Racism
79. 24 MarDeJoy to try to continue DeStroying the USPS
80. 24 MarCareful, Not Perfect
81. 24 MarSo You Think You’re Having a Bad Day?
82. 24 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 816
83. 24 MarCampus Cancel Culture is out of control
84. 23 MarFear of a Fair Election
85. 23 MarRacism and the Filibuster
86. 23 MarWhen one major political faction is a death cult
87. 23 MarThe ceremony of innocence
88. 23 MarThe Labor Movement Must Organize the Economy of 2050, Not 1950
89. 23 MarSometimes in Life, You Get What You Ask For
90. 23 MarAsian-Americans Buying Guns
91. 23 MarLGM Podcast: The King of Adobe
92. 23 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 23, 1903
93. 23 MarAmerican carnage
94. 22 MarSidney Powell: no reasonable person could believe anything I was saying
95. 22 MarHair Club for Growth declares support for democratic elections a deal-breaker
96. 22 MarThe Extinction of a People
97. 22 MarThe rich are different than you or me; they do a lot more tax evasion
98. 22 MarIs the Global Right in Retreat?
99. 22 MarThoughts on the Falcon and Winter Soldier, Episode 1
100. 22 MarMonday NatSec Roundup
101. 22 MarThe Return of Jim Crow: The Last Strategy of a Scoundrel Party
102. 22 MarData from U.S., Chile and Peru indicates that AstraZeneca/Oxford is safe and 100% effective against severe COVID
103. 22 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 815
104. 22 MarAmerica’s dumbest senator is a walking disinformation machine
105. 21 MarIt all started at the border, and that’s still where it is today
106. 21 MarFascists Respond to Fascism through More Fascism, News at 11
107. 21 MarGeoengineering Climate Change
108. 21 MarUS foreign policy as a perpetual sunk cost fallacy
109. 21 MarThe Long Tentacles of Racism in Science and Technology
110. 21 MarFederalist Society’s favorite judge pens hysterical diatribe attacking purported media bias
111. 21 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 814
112. 21 MarHow neoliberalism and austerity crippled the EU’s COVID response
113. 20 MarMusic Notes
114. 20 MarNondelegation doctrine is abject nonsense
115. 20 MarRacial Justice v. Tribal Sovereignty
116. 20 MarWatching Europe Deal With Colonialism
117. 20 MarTennessee Republicans move heaven and Earth to defend the legacy of their favorite Klan leader
118. 20 MarWill We Do Enough to Stop Climate Change?
119. 20 MarWarning: 2 minutes and 30 seconds of conservative cinematography
120. 20 MarLabor and Green Jobs
121. 20 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 20, 1882
122. 20 MarMeet the guy who will crush J.D. Vance in the Ohio Republican Senate Primary
123. 19 MarPfizer slays the Eeyores again
124. 19 MarQANON nut case Lauren Boebert says mass arrests are going to give the GOP back the House and Senate before 2022
125. 19 MarHow COVID Ripped Off the Neoliberal Band-Aid
126. 19 MarDo the Outer Banks Have a Future
127. 19 MarThe Importance of the PRO Act
128. 19 MarConsumerism and identity
129. 19 MarI see no lies here
130. 19 MarVaccination already having a major impact
131. 19 MarLGM Film Club, Part 143: Black Rodeo
132. 19 MarLast Chance for the Big Dance
133. 18 MarWe do not have to adopt narrow legal definitions of hate or discrimination
134. 18 MarReverse passing
135. 18 MarYalie hedge fund asshole attacks other rich people for insufficient racism
136. 18 MarWage Myths
137. 18 MarRaise Those Taxes!
138. 18 MarCounty Level Election Maps
139. 18 MarLeadership is better than playacting dumb ideas of leadership
140. 18 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 813
141. 18 MarThe New Left
142. 18 MarLGM Film Club, Part 142: Paul Robeson, Tribute to an Artist
143. 17 MarWho could have seen this twist coming?
144. 17 MarWill Trumpism Force Evangelicals To Reckon With Their Values?
145. 17 MarLook at all the white men on the street
146. 17 MarRoscoe Filburn conservatism
147. 17 MarJesus Christ died for nothing I suppose
148. 17 MarDemocracy is coming to the U.S. Senate?
149. 17 MarThe NLRB and Graduate Student Unions
150. 17 MarMusical Workers
151. 17 MarWednesday NatSec Roundup
152. 17 Mar“Clean Coal”
153. 17 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 812
154. 17 MarGuns, God, racism, and misogyny
155. 16 MarForever in debt to Mitch McConnell’s priceless advice
156. 16 MarSpeaking of people who should retire
157. 16 MarCan the PRO Act Ease Green-Labor Tensions?
158. 16 MarVaccines and the Politics of Austerity
159. 16 MarBlame Campos
160. 16 MarNo Privatized Infrastructure
161. 16 MarThe Amazon Struggle
162. 16 MarA Caucus of Vile Murderous Idiots
163. 16 MarTucker Swanson McNear Carlson in review
164. 16 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 811
165. 16 MarPersuading Republican men to take the vaccine
166. 16 MarLGM Film Club: Part 141: Hagler v. Leonard
167. 16 MarVaccine Eeyoreism, European Edition
168. 15 MarTrump administration claimed documents were from the CDC that actually weren’t
169. 15 MarVenture capital asshole receives large donation from even richer venture capital asshole to fake being a populist
170. 15 MarCan Biden Be a Labor President?
171. 15 MarThe Eyes of Texas
172. 15 MarRacism and Water Supplies
173. 15 MarBill Clinton Was Bad
174. 15 MarBrackets!
175. 15 MarI did Nazi this coming
176. 15 MarStephen Breyer needs to retire now
177. 15 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 810
178. 15 MarA little trooferism goes a long way
179. 15 MarLGM Film Club, Part 140; The Price of Peace and Freedom
180. 15 Mar“We Don’t Allow a Lot of Optimism”
181. 14 MarUnqualified crony running NY’s vaccinations leaned on county officials to try to save his boss’s job
182. 14 MarEnding partisan gerrymanders is the most important part of the For the People Act
183. 14 MarAmerica’s Anti-Asian History
184. 14 MarCan Manchin Be Pushed Left?
185. 14 MarMoments from the Black Past
186. 14 MarThink Visual
187. 14 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 809
188. 14 MarPunishing children because of the unemployment of their parents is senseless
189. 14 MarMusic Notes
190. 13 MarThey would never do anything to break the law
191. 13 MarSo this is a thing that’s happening now
192. 13 MarAmazon Strike, Italian Style
193. 13 MarBiden and the Spotted Owl
194. 13 MarTen Years Since Fukushima
195. 13 MarIt takes a certain special kind of something to cash the check it brings and sleep at all
196. 13 MarThe pilot just announced we’re on final approach so why can’t I deplane now?
197. 13 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 808
198. 13 MarToday In America’s Dumbest Senator (TM)
199. 13 MarBiden shouldn’t give Trump any credit for the COVID vaccine because he deserves none
200. 13 MarRich Lowry upholds National Review’s longstanding policy on voting rights
201. 12 MarThe class structure of American legal education
202. 12 Mar“Harassment, cruelty, and deception”: the Andrew Cuomo Story
203. 12 MarThe Agony of the Comments
204. 12 MarConstant Worry Discourse Does Not Help
205. 12 MarPlease share: Once-respected social critic goes completely insane after prolonged exposure to Twitter
206. 12 MarAn army of Donalds
207. 12 MarFriday NatSec Roundup
208. 12 MarLGM Podcast: Political Potpourri
209. 12 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 807
210. 12 MarIt’s Amy Waxes all the way down
211. 12 MarUncle Joe Wants YOU to be vaccinated ASAP
212. 11 MarDonald Trump is completely indifferent to whether his own supporters die from COVID
213. 11 MarIt didn’t have to be this bad
214. 11 MarThe year of living dangerously
215. 11 MarDems in disarray
216. 11 MarAdvancing the ACA
217. 11 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 806
218. 11 MarChuck Schumer no longer interested in playing 3-card monte with Susan Collins
219. 11 MarI hope everyone remembers
220. 10 MarThe American Rescue Plan and coalition-building
221. 10 MarVenality, stupidity, plutocracy
222. 10 MarDon’t Be Evil
223. 10 MarLow Income Housing, Redux
224. 10 MarBiden Needs Labor; Labor Needs Biden
225. 10 MarAffordable Housing Problems
226. 10 MarBiden’s Support of Wind Energy
227. 10 MarFundamental change
228. 10 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 805
229. 10 MarLet us now praise famous yuppies
230. 10 MarPfizer vaccine working well against variants
231. 9 MarThe insanity of lifting pandemic restrictions at this particular moment
232. 9 MarThe American Rescue Plan will be one of the best and most progressive statutes ever enacted by the United States Congress
233. 9 MarWant to Discourage White Racism? Encourage Unionization
234. 9 MarCancel Culture claims another victim
235. 9 MarWhy Democratic Governance Matters So Much for the Public Lands and Native Priorities
236. 9 MarLittle Don never once gave it away…
237. 9 MarYou can see I’m single-minded I know what I could be
238. 9 MarCan the Chestnut Return?
239. 9 MarLGM Tourney Challenge 2021
240. 9 MarHow to Vaccinate Health Care Workers: Unions
241. 9 MarNow this is a good lede
242. 9 MarDo Black Lives Matter Enough for Whites to Support Affordable Housing?
243. 9 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 9, 1911
244. 9 MarToday’s Quintessential Trump Republican
245. 9 MarThe Worst People in the World
246. 9 Mar2021’s ideological Polarization in two charts
247. 8 MarThe two faces of the New Right
248. 8 MarJosh Hawley, soulless reactionary automaton
249. 8 MarMonday NatSec Roundup
250. 8 MarHow much filibuster reform is possible?
251. 8 MarPrince thanks you
252. 8 MarLGM Podcast: The Present and Future of Public Lands
253. 8 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 804
254. 8 MarWho cares if problems addressed by the ARPA were the direct result of the pandemic?
255. 7 MarThe incoherence of Seussghazi
256. 7 MarThe point of getting vaccinated is that you can go back to living a pre-COVID life
257. 7 MarGeorgia’s nakedly racist vote suppression
258. 7 MarCancel Student Loan Debt
259. 7 MarProtest Works, Part the Zillion
260. 7 MarFor Republicans, Cruelty is the Point
261. 7 MarGreg Abbott hanging frontline workers out to dry
262. 7 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 7, 1990
263. 7 MarYet more people confirm that Andrew Cuomo should not be governor
264. 7 MarMusic Notes
265. 6 MarBig Fucking Deal
266. 6 MarThe Workers Movement in Myanmar
267. 6 MarThe Skeletal Remains of Neighborhoods Past
268. 6 MarAmerican Rescue Plan – Passed
269. 6 MarWho steals his name steals trash, but he’ll still want a cut of the take.
270. 6 MarThe Minimum Wage and Red States
271. 6 MarWork Cultures and the Post-Extractive Economy
272. 6 MarPolitics without content
273. 6 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 803
274. 6 MarMandate masks, close bars
275. 6 MarThe Troll from Arizona
276. 6 MarThe bottomless narcissism of Joe Manchin
277. 5 MarThe filibuster has always been a tool for reactionaries
278. 5 MarI can’t quit him
279. 5 MarBiden’s Political Acumen
280. 5 MarVaccine protocols and consumerism
281. 5 Mar“What the hell is Cromwell doing giving a lecture tour when he’s losing 60 million a quarter? Guess he’s giving lectures on how to lose money.”
282. 5 MarFriday NatSec Roundup
283. 5 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 802
284. 5 MarDoes the governor know who killed the Wal-Mart cashier?
285. 4 MarGlenn Greenwald excited by Tucker Carlson’s National Socialism
286. 4 MarPretty pimpin’
287. 4 Mar“Are We Canceling Confucius Today?”
288. 4 MarCan you lend me 50 pounds to mend the shed?
289. 4 MarThe Cold-Blooded Assassination of Little Marco Rubio
290. 4 MarInside Job
291. 4 MarReason to believe
292. 4 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 801
293. 4 MarThe political malpractice of Joe Manchin and Jeanne Shaheen
294. 4 MarLGM Film Club, Part 139: Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut Ad
295. 3 MarThe impossible burden of simple human decency
296. 3 MarThe Public Domain
297. 3 MarThe idiotic logic of welfare “reform”
298. 3 MarGlobal Apparel and Their Supply Chains
299. 3 MarProtecting America’s Wilderness and Public Lands Act
300. 3 MarBlue state Republican daddies are awful,Old Line State Edition
301. 3 MarWhen Thurgood Marshall Was Nearly Lynched
302. 3 MarRepublicans: Legally cast votes should be made illegal if they’re not cast for us
303. 3 MarWednesday NatSec Roundup
304. 3 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 800
305. 3 MarRepublicans claim inalienable right for books to stay in print for perpetuity, or something
306. 3 MarPrincipled bipartisan coalition saves civil discourse in America
307. 2 MarUS to receive enough vaccines by the end of May to vaccinate all adults
308. 2 MarLone Star Death Cult
309. 2 MarThe alternative sufficient reason for Andrew Cuomo to resign
310. 2 MarThe Catholic Church: A Barrier to Ending the Pandemic
311. 2 MarThe Patterson School
312. 2 MarGuerilla Historical Commemoration
313. 2 MarPittsburgh: America’s South Africa
314. 2 MarPolitical Compromises and the Coup Attempt
315. 2 MarNobody is more contemptuous of Donald Trump’s supporters than Donald Trump
316. 2 MarBiden’s Amazon Speech
317. 2 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 799
318. 2 MarAnd then there were three
319. 2 MarThe shadow docket and the party of death
320. 1 MarWhy hasn’t Stephen Breyer retired yet?
321. 1 MarWhat a difference a decade makes
322. 1 MarYet more extremely unhelpful vaccine coverage
323. 1 MarGOP as Catiline Conspiracy
324. 1 MarRoll out the pork barrel
325. 1 MarGOP supporter of serial rapist Donald Trump says Andrew Cuomo has to go
326. 1 MarMonday NatSec Roundup
327. 1 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 798
328. 1 MarBiden comes out in support of the Bessemer unionization drive
329. 1 MarLGM Film Club, Part 138: King of Rock