2022

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December 2022

1. 31 DecHigh on your own supply
2. 31 DecBenedict XVI
3. 31 DecThe Waste Land
4. 31 DecPapal demographics
5. 31 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,269
6. 31 DecBarbara Walters
7. 31 DecMountain Stage 1000!
8. 30 DecThe Dobbs mission continues to be accomplished
9. 30 DecThe local media had the Santos story in September. Why didn’t anyone else?
10. 30 DecKari Lake’s Trump II: Electric Boogaloo
11. 30 DecRussia’s War On Ukraine In 2023
12. 30 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,268
13. 30 DecWorld’s worst boss take away luxuries like “toilet paper” away from pampered employees
14. 30 DecTaking the courts seriously
15. 29 DecDon’t mess with Greta
16. 29 DecPele
17. 29 DecYou were in a car crash and you lost your hair
18. 29 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,267
19. 28 DecLock Her Up
20. 28 DecImages from American History, Part 8
21. 28 DecYou cannot be serious
22. 28 DecFrom Russia with love
23. 28 DecSouthwest and corporate self-dealing
24. 28 DecFuriously Writing Deterrence Theory
25. 28 DecYour daily Elon schadenfreude
26. 28 DecTrump’s mobbed up lawyers
27. 28 DecThis Day in Labor History: December 28, 1921
28. 28 DecSupreme Court: the Biden administration cannot enforce COVID orders to protect public health, and must enforce “COVID” orders that have nothing to do with public health
29. 27 DecImages from American History, Part 7
30. 27 DecNot as bad as a trip on Southwest Airlines, but still pretty bad
31. 27 DecThe Volga-Don Canal Connects the Caspian Sea And The Sea Of Azov
32. 27 DecMore casualties in the Republican war on vaccines
33. 27 DecMr. Bannon, I’m ready for my close-up
34. 27 DecSeoul’s Export Ambitions
35. 27 DecOnly the good half
36. 26 DecImages from American History, Part 6
37. 26 DecIs stealing billions of dollars really all that bad? Views differ
38. 26 DecFree Speech On The Pandemic
39. 26 DecNepo Babies
40. 26 DecQuantity of work cannot make up for bad quality
41. 26 DecThoughts on a Glass Onion
42. 26 DecThe 1/6 Committee report
43. 26 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,266
44. 25 DecImages from American History, Part 5
45. 25 DecThe dirty boulevard
46. 25 DecNFL Open Thread: LOL Jets edition
47. 25 DecWhat is best in holiday life?
48. 25 DecA Merry Mets Christmas
49. 25 DecMerry Christmas!
50. 25 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,265
51. 25 DecMusic Notes
52. 24 DecImages from American History, Part 4
53. 24 DecNFL Open Thread: Nothing beside remains edition
54. 24 DecFor MAGA plutocrats, self-“censorship” is the worst kind
55. 24 DecLists of Genuine Nonsense
56. 24 DecStudy finds Holocaust-related deaths much higher in Nazi-controlled countries
57. 24 DecCool Archaeological Discoveries
58. 24 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,264
59. 24 DecCharlene Mitchell, RIP
60. 24 DecThe committee
61. 23 DecImages from American History, Part 3
62. 23 DecA Crow Post
63. 23 DecSeditionist in good standing
64. 23 DecProsecution!
65. 23 DecBest TV of 2022
66. 23 DecThey doubt our ancestry, but they don’t say the story isn’t accurate
67. 23 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,263
68. 23 DecNice
69. 22 DecImages from American History, Part 2
70. 22 DecWhat’s the matter with New York? (Bad identity politics edition)
71. 22 DecA real IRS scandal
72. 22 DecWho is this guy really?
73. 22 DecEllison and Wang turn states’s
74. 22 DecThis is my shocked face
75. 22 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,262
76. 22 DecYour Republican mainstream
77. 22 DecZelenskyy Speech Open Thread
78. 21 DecAlso my grandparents were Jewish, and, uh, Holocaust survivors from . . . wait for it . . . Ukraine!
79. 21 DecImages from American History, Part 1
80. 21 DecCan we learn anything?
81. 21 DecMurderous Alabama Prisons
82. 21 DecSingle college-educated white women are destroying America
83. 21 DecNLRB and Private College Sports
84. 21 DecYour proposal is acceptable
85. 21 DecDead Horses in American History, Part 21
86. 21 DecTrump’s tax fraud
87. 21 DecZelenskyy is Coming to Town
88. 21 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,261
89. 21 DecCancel culture, the reality
90. 21 DecPay No Attention to the Man Who Keeps Yelling From Behind the Curtain
91. 21 DecAnd it’s a long day livin’ up your own ass
92. 20 DecDrugs and moral panics
93. 20 DecThe JCPOA Is Dead
94. 20 DecDark Brandon gives the corpse of David Broder a sad
95. 20 DecWays and Means committee likely to release Trump’s midterms
96. 20 DecTax Prison Labor
97. 20 DecDeadly Politics
98. 20 DecThe imperial Supreme Court
99. 20 DecMy Religion Says No Unions–I Believe That’s in Reagan, Chapter 1, Verse 21
100. 20 DecConspiracy to defraud the United States
101. 20 DecThe Failed Future of the USSR
102. 20 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,260
103. 20 DecIt’s time to shut down the New York Democratic Party until we can figure out what the hell is going on
104. 20 DecLGM Film Club, Part 326: Betty Friedan
105. 20 DecRoberts temporarily prevents ending of Title 42
106. 19 DecEnablers of fascism
107. 19 DecThe Coney Barrett Effect
108. 19 DecSilicon Valley’s Government Contracts
109. 19 DecNeoliberalism’s Impact on Social Movements
110. 19 DecOh time thy pyramids
111. 19 DecWhere Should Democrats Go Now?
112. 19 DecThe trillion year Reich
113. 19 DecDeSantis: Vaccine McCarthyism
114. 19 DecInformation Theory
115. 19 DecMaking Sense Of Elon Musk
116. 19 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,259
117. 19 DecAn asshole with an broadly attractive vision is one thing, an asshole for the sake of being an asshole is another
118. 19 DecThis wins the Internet today
119. 19 DecMusic Notes
120. 18 DecAbsolutely sweet free speech
121. 18 DecNFL open thread: elaborate hand signals edition
122. 18 DecCool Discoveries
123. 18 DecNationalizing Death Threat Culture
124. 18 DecThe chaos of tipping culture in America
125. 18 DecWorld Cup open thread
126. 18 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,258
127. 18 DecWikipedia and the existential status of divorce
128. 18 DecLGM Film Club, Part 325: A Man Escaped
129. 17 DecThe American Way of Death
130. 17 DecToday in the Sixth Extinction
131. 17 DecBut the Cadmium is What Makes It So Tasty!
132. 17 DecLawless Law Enforcement
133. 17 DecThe overall vote in the 2022 midterms
134. 17 DecThe Mistakes that Made the War
135. 17 DecThis Day in Labor History: December 17, 1953
136. 17 DecRon DeSantis will sign any abortion regulation that a Republican supermajority puts on his desk
137. 17 DecOppenheimer Clearance Removal Vacated
138. 16 DecPeak BothSides
139. 16 DecA cure for Barnum-Mencken Syndrome
140. 16 DecThe Financial War V: That’s a Wrap
141. 16 DecBarnum-Mencken Syndrome
142. 16 DecTriggered snowflake shuts down space because his ego isn’t safe there
143. 16 DecPoliticizing Vaccines
144. 16 DecDid COP27 Accomplish Anything?
145. 16 DecHoist on an orange petard
146. 16 DecBowl Mania
147. 16 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,257
148. 16 DecVox populi, Vox dei
149. 16 DecThe Twitter Files: the Night they Drove Old Elon Down
150. 16 DecLGM Film Club, Part 324: The Rockford Files
151. 15 DecCan Kevin McCarthy become Speaker?
152. 15 DecMusk tanking his real business to become the world’s richest Glenn Greenwald reply guy
153. 15 DecWhat Unions Do
154. 15 DecElection Data Points
155. 15 DecDonald Trump’s major announcement
156. 15 DecBritish Climate Action
157. 15 DecDivorce: Another target on the GOP post-Dobbs agenda
158. 15 DecUkraine’s Financial Dilemmas
159. 15 DecErik Visits an (Non) American Grave, Part 1,256
160. 15 DecAs complicated as he is funny
161. 15 DecLGM Film Club, Part 323: The Black Cat
162. 15 DecEmptying Oregon’s death row
163. 14 DecHow do I get on this blacklist?
164. 14 DecWhat to Do with Land Acknowledgements?
165. 14 DecShould We Repeal the Railway Labor Act?
166. 14 DecWith you forever I’ll stay
167. 14 DecUnionizing EV Facilities
168. 14 DecThe Financial War Part III
169. 14 DecJames Burnham: Prophet of Anti-wokeness
170. 14 DecYour proposal is acceptable
171. 14 DecFuture of the US Navy
172. 14 DecEpstein and the Dersh
173. 14 DecLGM Film Club, Part 322: Mirror
174. 14 DecCould the Chestnut Come Back?
175. 14 Dec2022: The Year of Unnecessary Burrata
176. 13 DecAre We Making Progress Against the NRA?
177. 13 DecBills no honest man can pay
178. 13 DecOld-fashioned embezzlement
179. 13 DecRon DeSantis: The reasonable conservative’s choice
180. 13 DecHappy Ba’al-idays! [Update]
181. 13 DecLaser Fusion Milestone
182. 13 DecRemember the diner scene in When Harry Met Sally?
183. 13 DecThe Financial War Part II
184. 13 DecYour liberal media, part infinity
185. 13 DecThe treason files
186. 13 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,255
187. 13 DecHongneung Defense Forum
188. 13 DecCome get some Scottmentum! Or should it be Timentum?
189. 13 DecI’m hiding in Bahamas, I’m a desperate man
190. 12 DecThe core argument of the TWITTER FILES is that 1/6 was fine and there is no legitimate reason to find it objectionable
191. 12 DecHigh on their own supply
192. 12 DecChanging Times
193. 12 Dec“please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad”
194. 12 DecWhy do all these conservatives keep demanding pictures of some guy’s cock?
195. 12 DecNuclear fusion breakthrough
196. 12 DecThe Financial War, Part I
197. 12 DecThe ethics and pragmatics of boycotts
198. 12 DecWhat needed to be done
199. 12 DecA man in Jeremy Peters’s position can afford to be made to look ridiculous
200. 11 DecUnions hurt my fee-fees
201. 11 DecNFL Open Thread: Class of 2020 Edition
202. 11 DecHe’s a complicated man, but no one understands him but his woman
203. 11 DecUncomplicated
204. 10 DecMusic Notes
205. 10 DecThe Twitter Files exemplify what they’re allegedly revealing
206. 10 DecCancel culture could use more cancellations
207. 10 DecAmerican soccer journalist dies under mysterious circumstances in Qatar
208. 10 DecCall Sinema’s bluff
209. 9 DecThe imaginary right to post
210. 9 DecThe Games of 2022
211. 9 DecThe Letter and The Resignation
212. 9 DecCowboy Ben and the Douchetastic Ropers
213. 9 DecCan You Out-Organize Voter Suppression?
214. 9 DecSinema leaves the Democratic party
215. 9 DecSinema Does… Something?
216. 9 DecDOJ asks judge to hold Trump in contempt
217. 9 DecThe Exchange
218. 9 DecThe Republican War Against Plumbing
219. 8 DecStalinist Tourism
220. 8 DecCOVID yesterday, today, and tomorrow
221. 8 DecFeds To Investigate Neuralink
222. 8 DecHouse votes to rescind military vaccine mandate
223. 8 DecA crackpot departs
224. 8 DecAmerica’s most ridiculous organization is also a horrible place to work
225. 8 DecThe Russian-American prisoner swap
226. 8 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,254
227. 8 DecWhy do all these racist kooks keep showing up at my tacky golf resort?
228. 8 DecDemocracy Comes to the United Auto Workers
229. 7 DecA whole lot of wrong
230. 7 DecShould House Democrats release Trump’s taxes?
231. 7 DecBy Alito’s Logic, Can We Deny Christians Service?
232. 7 DecFortune Favors the Brave
233. 7 DecInside the Ph.D. scam
234. 7 DecNew National Monuments
235. 7 DecCool Discoveries
236. 7 DecHow much does candidate quality matter?
237. 7 DecWe could be heroes, for more than one day
238. 7 DecLast of Its Kind
239. 7 DecThe Rev Wins Again
240. 7 DecProfiles in keeping your options open
241. 7 DecTuesday NBA Open Thread
242. 6 DecGeorgia Senate runoff thread
243. 6 DecTrump Organization found guilty on all 17 criminal counts of tax fraud and other crimes
244. 6 DecFamily of police officer killed at the 1/6 insurrection refuse to shake hands with Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy at ceremony honoring him
245. 6 DecNo standing, no problem
246. 6 DecArtificial, Not Intelligent
247. 6 DecThe Jersey tomato don’t fall far from the vine
248. 6 DecRings of Power Roundtable at Strange Horizons
249. 6 DecHunter Biden’s laptop: The stupidest story of all time
250. 6 DecThis Day in Labor History: December 6, 1977
251. 6 DecRandom Seoul Thoughts
252. 6 DecLGM Film Club, Part 321: Bob McGrath and Sesame Street
253. 6 DecMcGriff
254. 6 DecSam Alito Komedy Klassics
255. 5 DecIowa Identity
256. 5 DecThe War at Sea
257. 5 DecIs profound climate change pessimism desirable?
258. 5 DecThe License Plate War
259. 5 DecClimate Change and Childbirth
260. 5 DecThe UC Strike
261. 5 DecParty owned by Donald Trump fine with Donald Trump’s call to end American democracy
262. 5 DecGypsies, tramps and thieves
263. 5 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,253
264. 4 DecJulia Reichert, RIP
265. 4 DecLeader of the Republican Party calls for the suspension of the Constitution so he can be installed as dictator
266. 4 DecNFL Open Thread: Prime Time Edition
267. 4 DecLiminal open thread
268. 4 DecHousing Issues
269. 4 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,252
270. 4 DecStay in your lane
271. 4 DecLGM Film Club, Part 320: The General
272. 4 DecMusic Notes
273. 3 DecMore on the BFI Greatest Films
274. 3 DecBiden and the Railroads
275. 3 DecPolitical Aesthetics and Twitter Fascism
276. 3 DecElon leaves World Cup money on the table to promote Nazi content
277. 3 DecWorld Cup open thread
278. 3 DecAestheticized barbarity
279. 3 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,251
280. 3 DecBlockbuster thread reveals that Twitter had content moderation policies that applied to trivial pseudo-scandal
281. 3 DecThe Sight and Sound 100
282. 2 DecAlan Dershowitz gets sanctioned by federal court for filing frivolous lawsuit on behalf of Kari Lake
283. 2 DecIndiana AG: save a 10-year-old rape victim from being forced to carry a pregnancy to term and we will punish you however we can
284. 2 Dec“[He] sent up the batsignal to every kind of racist, misogynist and homophobe that Twitter was open for business”
285. 2 DecMAGA Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
286. 2 DecElon Musk doesn’t believe in Free Speech
287. 2 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,250
288. 2 DecThe end of Iowa
289. 1 Dec11th Circuit runs through hack Trump judge’s orders like Donovan Edwards through the Ohio State defense
290. 1 DecThe end of an error
291. 1 DecEntertain me!*
292. 1 DecThe Air War
293. 1 DecI hate when that happens
294. 1 DecGeorge Herring
295. 1 DecWalker’s Dr. Oz problem
296. 1 DecLGM Podcast: Arise!
297. 1 DecTermination shock
298. 1 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,249
299. 1 DecPillow Fight
300. 1 DecGalrahn RIP

November 2022

1. 30 NovIs DeSantis the new Trump or the new Scott Walker?
2. 30 NovChristine McVie
3. 30 NovJiang
4. 30 NovRussia-Ukraine Update
5. 30 NovThe American Way of Death
6. 30 NovDid hysterical and misleading CRIME coverage deliver the House to Republicans?
7. 30 NovWe Are Finished in 2024
8. 30 NovThe Rhodes to sedition
9. 30 NovLiz Harris, Republican trailblazer
10. 30 NovTuesday NBA Open Thread
11. 29 NovQAnon as projection, an endless series
12. 29 NovMoore Maryland
13. 29 NovLast Open Thread of Group B
14. 29 NovTicketmaster and Greed
15. 29 NovSlip Through Your Fingers: Thoughts on Andor
16. 29 Novphony stark’s phony guns
17. 29 NovA ghost to most
18. 29 NovOur Broken Immigration System
19. 29 NovI guess it’s the last thing to go
20. 29 NovBiden Asks Congress to Implement the Railway Labor Act
21. 29 NovThe death cult eats its own
22. 29 NovNightclub owner claims business is up since he set the nightclub on fire
23. 29 NovHey, Free Speech Ain’t Free
24. 28 NovIf you don’t want to associate with Nazis you hate free speech, say abject morons
25. 28 NovWhy do Western news agencies quote PRC government statistics as if they aren’t completely made up?
26. 28 NovYou can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way
27. 28 NovIs Xi Jinping Willing to Destroy Chinese Prosperity for Personal Power?
28. 28 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,248
29. 28 NovRepublican politicians can’t criticize Trump for being what he also was when they supported him in the first place
30. 28 NovLong Covid and the Labor Market
31. 27 NovThe American tolerance for vehicular homicide
32. 27 NovNFL Open Thread: the worst tradition
33. 27 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,247
34. 27 NovMusic Notes
35. 26 NovAdvertisers continue to flee Elon’s fascist midlife crisis Twitter
36. 26 NovMAGA continues to normalize Nazis
37. 26 NovThe legalistic response to the rejection of law
38. 26 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,246
39. 26 NovThe tragic killing of the child tax credit
40. 26 NovLGM Film Club, Part 319: The Fog of War
41. 25 NovI’m neither left or right, I’m just staying home tonight, high-fiving all my fascist buddies on my new website
42. 25 NovIt All Started on the Border and That’s Still Where It is Today
43. 25 NovAvenge bladensburg!
44. 25 NovDemocrats Taking Over Southern California
45. 25 NovDid the Roman Empire ever really exist?
46. 25 NovTalkin’ Railroads
47. 25 NovMore life lessons from football
48. 25 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,245
49. 25 NovRequiem for a lightweight
50. 24 NovAndor
51. 24 NovAnother gift from the world’s greatest dealmaker
52. 24 NovDavid Brooks, hip-hop historian
53. 24 NovThanksgiving NFL etc. open thread
54. 24 NovBiograph
55. 24 NovWhy Turkey?
56. 24 NovThe Far Right War on Education
57. 24 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,244
58. 24 NovPlanes and Trains and Also Automobiles
59. 23 NovBedbug on AMLO
60. 23 NovLooks like we have a DeSantis primary voter!
61. 23 NovThey will cancel rich white people for anything these days
62. 23 NovTo what extent is the Big Lie an example of the Mandela effect?
63. 23 NovBiden extends student loan payment moratorium
64. 23 NovThe Future of SDI as Political Issue
65. 23 NovAll-Republican 11CA panel skeptical of Trump argument that executing search warrants obtained by a showing of probable cause is illegal
66. 23 NovThe wrong path
67. 23 NovThis Day in Labor History: November 23, 1891
68. 23 NovCapitalists against the free market, an endless series
69. 23 NovBiden must be impeached
70. 22 NovTuesday NBA Open Thread
71. 22 NovPlease post your 48-hour multi-stage recipe to make roast turkey meat vaguely palatable
72. 22 NovNow I’ve got to turn my back on you
73. 22 NovThe Klamath Dams
74. 22 NovMcCarthyism
75. 22 NovHistory’s Greatest Monster
76. 22 NovYet more regarding going for it on 4th down
77. 22 NovTransportation Strikes
78. 22 NovAuthoritarians know their American allies when they see them
79. 22 NovReally effective altruism and the human fund
80. 22 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,243
81. 22 NovSome heroes wear heels
82. 22 NovLGM Film Club, Part 318: Rhode Island, 1947
83. 22 Nov“Everybody’s at war these days, let’s have a mini-surrender:” Warren Zevon’s Sentimental Hygiene Turns 35
84. 21 NovThielBank runs out of suckers
85. 21 NovThe family business
86. 21 NovUS MNT Open Thread
87. 21 NovPost-Colonial Trolling
88. 21 NovThe Cruelty is the Point, Part the Etc
89. 21 NovThe Gambling Universities
90. 21 NovThe Principles of Paul Ryan, Principled Man of Principle
91. 21 NovThe Chotiner Question
92. 21 NovWhy did it take so long for “analytics” to have an impact on the multi-billion dollar world of professional sports?
93. 21 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,242
94. 21 NovDoes Trump even care about being back on Twitter?
95. 21 NovLGM Film Club, Part 317: Madden on Turducken
96. 20 NovThey got what they wanted
97. 20 NovNFL Open Thread: GROUND AND POUND edition
98. 20 NovMass shooting at Colorado Springs bar leaves five dead and 18 wounded
99. 20 NovErik Visits an (Non) American Grave, Part 1,241
100. 20 NovBack in Orange
101. 20 NovLGM Film Club, Part 316: Grateful Dawg
102. 19 NovDobbs apparently wasn’t Alito’s first leak
103. 19 NovRepublicans hopes hack judges will block access to mifepristone
104. 19 NovTalking about pop music
105. 19 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,240
106. 19 NovBari Weiss’s working class whisperer
107. 19 NovLGM Film Club, Part 315: Batman for U.S. Savings Bonds
108. 19 NovThe Machinery of Death vs. the Due Process of Law
109. 18 NovElizabeth Holmes sentenced to more than 11 years in prison
110. 18 NovThe anti-abortion movement’s Big Lie
111. 18 NovGarland appoints special counsel to take over DOJ criminal probes of Trump
112. 18 NovOur biannual national nightmare is over!
113. 18 NovWhy do all these countries keep getting invaded by my troops?
114. 18 NovShould Joe Biden run for re-election? A LGM discussion
115. 18 NovThe Dobbs 5 (+1) permits execution of man a jury voted 11-1 not to give the death penalty
116. 18 NovLGM Film Club, Part 314: Rising Tones Cross
117. 18 NovAre my methods unsound?
118. 17 NovYou’re not helping Mike. Why is that?
119. 17 NovMichael Tracey says that calling Herschel Walker dumb is just racism
120. 17 NovDobbs is one major event in the long Republican battle to control female sexuality
121. 17 NovCan Socialism Be Sustained Without Fossil Fuels?
122. 17 NovNancy Pelosi will not run for House Democratic leadership
123. 17 NovSandwiches of the 1920s
124. 17 NovGerson
125. 17 NovA good word for the Yale Law School
126. 17 NovThe future of the US News Rankings
127. 17 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,239
128. 17 NovToday among our SUPERGENIUS tech overlords
129. 17 NovLGM Film Club, Part 313: Those Awful Hats
130. 17 NovBe careful about traveling to Republican states if you can get pregnant
131. 16 NovNever again is what you swore the time before
132. 16 NovAttempt to filibuster bill protecting same-sex marriage rights fails
133. 16 NovCan the Florida Democratic Party Be Fixed?
134. 16 NovWishing All These Old Things Were New
135. 16 NovClimate Backsliding
136. 16 NovYou are witnesses at the birth of Twitter Mark 2.0
137. 16 NovCancel Culture has never been more real
138. 16 NovHostage video
139. 16 NovSigh of Relief
140. 16 NovThe Mormon Church Supports the Right of Gay Marriage If It Can Furrow Its Brow?
141. 16 NovThey’re running
142. 16 NovLGM Film Club, Part 312: The Breaking Point
143. 16 NovRick Scott: Republicans lost because they were not sufficiently committed to my horribly unpopular ideas
144. 15 NovTuesday NBA Open Thread
145. 15 NovHas the Shit Hit the Fan?
146. 15 NovWell 3
147. 15 NovRepublican elites cannot fail, they can only be treated unfairly (by having the other party running campaigns against them)
148. 15 NovA good woman is crucial to find
149. 15 NovTrump 2.0
150. 15 NovThe Legendary Leadership of Elon Musk
151. 15 NovThe Republican Candidate for the Senate from the Great State of Georgia
152. 15 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,238
153. 15 NovTulsi is just Tucker without the bow tie phase
154. 15 NovWould You Let This Man Coach Your Daughter?
155. 15 NovLGM Film Club, Part 311: The Prisoner of Zenda
156. 15 NovThe Liberation of Kherson
157. 15 NovTo the University Press
158. 14 NovHow seriously should we be taking Ron DeSantis as a 2024 presidential candidate?
159. 14 Nov2/3rds of Supreme Court Republicans not quite ready to eliminate Congress’s oversight powers when they are applied to Republicans
160. 14 NovRight wing propaganda machine says Republicans can’t win if you make it too easy to vote
161. 14 NovAdministration Policy On Negotiations In Russia’s War On Ukraine
162. 14 NovThe Massively Overrated Value of Money in Politics
163. 14 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,237
164. 14 NovAll projection all the time
165. 14 NovLGM Film Club, Part 310: Rashomon
166. 13 NovOffensive Takes From Last Month
167. 13 NovAccidents will happen, they only hit and run
168. 13 NovThe Child Labor Epidemic
169. 13 NovI was gambling in Havana
170. 13 NovNFL Open Thread: Deutschland Edition
171. 13 NovEnd the Debt Ceiling
172. 13 NovThe Women Men Don’t See
173. 13 NovIs this bad? It seems bad
174. 13 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,236
175. 13 NovIt’s Official!
176. 13 NovLGM Film Club, Part 309: Our Job in Japan
177. 13 NovMusic Notes
178. 12 NovAnother Republican recruiting triumph
179. 12 NovLet’s hope Republicans keep outsourcing candidate recruitment to Peter Thiel
180. 12 NovCop27
181. 12 NovShould Democrats Want Donald Trump To Be The Republican Nominee in 2024?
182. 12 NovYoung Latino Voters
183. 12 NovThe Trump disease
184. 12 NovThe Smartest Guys in the Room II: Bankruptcy Boogaloo
185. 12 NovLGM Film Club, Part 308: Diary of a Lost Girl
186. 12 NovThe Smartest Guys in the Room
187. 12 NovTurn out the lights
188. 11 NovSam Alito and the Law of Competitive Balance
189. 11 NovI don’t think it’s the libs being owned here
190. 11 NovPro-Choice Coalitions
191. 11 NovGovernment by judiciary
192. 11 NovGallagher
193. 11 NovStarbucks Organizing Continues to Move Ahead
194. 11 NovA Few Election Thoughts
195. 11 NovNew rules for a new game
196. 11 Nov49 2
197. 11 Nov“It is a Mathematical Certainty”
198. 11 NovThis is going great
199. 11 NovThe Wave That Failed
200. 11 NovTrump says he used federal law enforcement to rig 2018 election for Ron DeSantis
201. 11 NovToday amongst our tech supergeniuses
202. 10 NovToday’s Twitter Chaos
203. 10 NovBoebert Mania!
204. 10 NovYou don’t want to guarantee a republican form of government, you want to guarantee a *Republican* form of government
205. 10 NovFox News Gender Analysis
206. 10 NovLGM Podcast: NFL Midseason
207. 10 NovOvershooting is better than undershooting
208. 10 NovGreat news out of Nevada
209. 10 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,235
210. 10 NovWhy did Democratic donors spend so much money on hopeless candidates in Florida?
211. 10 NovBillionaires fail to purchase blue-state governorships
212. 10 NovNBA Open Thread
213. 9 NovOften wrong, never in doubt
214. 9 NovInteresting breakdown of the vote by age and race
215. 9 Nov4 9
216. 9 NovKherson Liberated?
217. 9 NovThe Supreme Court used pure hackery to help mitigate the damage of Dobbs
218. 9 NovAbout last night
219. 9 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,234
220. 9 NovAftermath
221. 9 NovYou ain’t in Jersey anymore
222. 9 NovAnother Election Thread
223. 9 NovElection Night Open Thread, Part the Whatever
224. 8 NovVote counts will not finish tonight in several swing states because Republicans want to foment election misinformation
225. 8 NovNIL and the Sexualization of White Female College Athletes
226. 8 NovHeroes Are Made, Not Born
227. 8 NovAn election coverage prediction
228. 8 NovWhat’s at stake
229. 8 NovIs it bad for democracy when people oppose the peaceful transfer of power to the winning candidate win elections?
230. 8 NovNot-Election Open Thread
231. 8 NovLarge stakes can lead to the maximum blues
232. 8 NovThe future is unwritten
233. 8 NovLGM Podcast: Electoral Apocalypse
234. 8 NovVote. Then Turn Off the Television and Internet All Day
235. 8 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,233
236. 8 NovEither authoritarianism or democracy will win tonight
237. 8 NovToday in the American meritocracy
238. 7 NovOn the theory that murder rates are increasing because of reforms that were never implemented
239. 7 NovBitch was asking for it
240. 7 NovIt’s All Diplomacy
241. 7 NovMan accepts reality
242. 7 NovMidterm prediction thread
243. 7 NovWill South Dakota Expand Medicare?
244. 7 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,232
245. 7 NovElon Musk and MAGA populism
246. 6 NovBan Political Text Messages
247. 6 NovHe meant to do that! (Update – I don’t want to do another Musk post, but I have 2 questions.)
248. 6 NovNFL Open Thread: Fall of the House of Snyder? Edition
249. 6 NovReasonable moderate Republican Brian Kemp signals willingness to ban contraception in Georgia
250. 6 NovGoodbye Daylight Savings Time: The Failure of Democracy
251. 6 NovDeterring the PRC
252. 6 NovErik Visits an (Non) American Grave, Part 1,231
253. 6 NovAt least he can be a sore loser for once
254. 6 NovMusic Notes
255. 5 NovHe was what he is
256. 5 NovFantasy fussbowl
257. 5 NovHomophobic conspiracies won’t theorize themselves
258. 5 NovI’m a businessman Mike. Blood and soil is a big expense
259. 5 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,230
260. 5 NovLGM Film Club, Part 307: The Lady Vanishes
261. 4 NovElon Musk bet $44 billion on the dumbest free speech theories on the Intellectual Dark Web
262. 4 NovJust when you thought the Twitter story couldn’t get any dumber
263. 4 NovThe Haberman Thesis of Authoritarianism
264. 4 NovAnd on the 8th day, God said how can I get a piece of this action?
265. 4 NovWhere’s the Museum for the Victims of Capitalism?
266. 4 NovLet us dispel with the fiction that Elon Musk knows what he’s doing
267. 4 NovHow a Non-Insane Covid Response Probably Will Hurt Democrats Next Week
268. 4 NovTrump likely to announce presidential candidacy next week
269. 4 NovEarly voting results very encouraging for Dems
270. 4 NovFascism Takes Another Step Forward
271. 4 NovThe Spiral of Silence will be tonight’s topic on Fox News
272. 4 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,229
273. 4 NovFirst Ballot Florida Man Hall of Fame Entry
274. 4 NovThe Kancellation of Kyrie
275. 3 NovCentrists and fascism
276. 3 NovWhy can’t the Democrat Party replicate the smashing success of Péter Márki-Zay?
277. 3 NovPretending the rich are like you and me
278. 3 NovThe case for federal PR
279. 3 NovAmerica Is Waiting
280. 3 NovThe False Promise of Diversity
281. 3 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,228
282. 3 NovA plutocrat’s palpable desperation can be a very funny thing
283. 3 NovLGM Film Club, Part 306: Like a Mighty Wave
284. 3 NovThe Multiple Lives of Multiverses
285. 2 NovThe persistence of racism in the housing market
286. 2 NovAbortion: An American Tradition
287. 2 NovGovernance and Politics when Democracy is at Risk
288. 2 NovHas the Fake Meat Boom Ended Already?
289. 2 NovWhen stochastic political violence spirals out of control
290. 2 NovThe gods of consumption
291. 2 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,227
292. 2 NovToday in motivated non-reasoning
293. 2 NovLGM Film Club, Part 305: Panic in the Streets
294. 2 NovDrone raid on Sevastopol this is no drill
295. 1 NovNBA Open Thread
296. 1 NovThe Modal elite Republican is much less committed to democratic values than Jair Bolsonaro
297. 1 NovThe inverse Veblen
298. 1 NovWhat to Expect When You’re Expecting a New Congress
299. 1 NovAnd Now For Something Different
300. 1 NovAmerican Child Labor
301. 1 NovIs Our Media Learning? Spoiler: LOL
302. 1 NovThe Broken System of Recycling
303. 1 NovThe conversion of the Jews
304. 1 NovWhen you can not only afford but can profit from being made to look ridiculous
305. 1 Nov…let their teeny minds think…

October 2022

1. 31 OctThe Global Neighborhood Celebrates Halloween!
2. 31 OctThe inevitable end of affirmative action in public higher education [except for connected rich people] has arrived
3. 31 OctIf you’re upset about the effects of Dobbs, you should pull my finger
4. 31 OctHow’s Twitter’s new owner handling his latest toy?
5. 31 OctWorking class heroes
6. 31 OctThe Quincy Institute is not a Progressive Foreign Policy Think Tank
7. 31 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,226
8. 31 OctA lulu of a victory
9. 31 OctSunday Night Beer Blogging
10. 30 OctNFL Open Thread: It’s 2012 again edition
11. 30 OctA Closer Look At Vladimir Putin’s Nuclear Threats
12. 30 OctThe shock of the old
13. 30 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,225
14. 29 OctMusic Notes
15. 29 OctThe reasonable moderation of reasonable moderate Glenn Youngkin
16. 29 OctTragedy in Seoul
17. 29 OctSomewhere in hell, Bill Rehnquist is smiling
18. 29 OctRight wing attempt to assassinate America’s second-most important politician not considered that big a deal by American mainstream media
19. 29 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,224
20. 29 OctAnti-vaxx crackpots rarely stop there
21. 28 OctElon Musk is His Own Asset
22. 28 OctThe Letter
23. 28 OctAttack on Speaker of the House’s husband carried out by MAGA terrorist
24. 28 OctHow DHS was weaponized by the Trump administration
25. 28 OctThe purge begins
26. 28 OctViolent Attack at Pelosi’s Home
27. 28 OctThe Idiot Vote: A Theory
28. 28 OctGlue Yourself to Whatever
29. 28 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,223
30. 28 OctLucianne Goldberg
31. 28 OctThe war for democracy in Pennsylvania
32. 27 OctTechBro Blows Up His Entire Evil Company in Most TechBro Way Possible
33. 27 OctJohn Durham exposed Washington corruption: his own
34. 27 OctThe Decline of Baseball Among Black Americans
35. 27 OctThe Pro-Putin Party Likely to Control the House
36. 27 OctClimate: We Ain’t Doing Nothin’
37. 27 OctMike Davis, RIP
38. 27 OctParty running on one-note “anti-crime” [wink wink] campaign seeks to maximize firearm crimes
39. 27 OctWhen the woke mob came for Hitler
40. 27 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,222
41. 27 OctFox News, America’s assignment editor
42. 26 OctHow many women did Herschel Walker try to pressure into getting abortions?
43. 26 OctPutin’s Continuing Accusations of Ukrainian WMD
44. 26 OctPotemkin Plundered
45. 26 OctSam Alito, America’s sorest winner
46. 26 OctMarco Rubio putting the “boy” in Proud Boy
47. 26 OctWill Republicans capture the Senate because the political press doesn’t like to see people with disabilities in public?
48. 26 OctThe Second End of American Democracy
49. 26 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,221
50. 26 OctA state small enough to fit in your uterus
51. 26 OctWhen schools should have opened during COVID remains an open question
52. 25 OctNBA Open Thread
53. 25 OctMass shootings as social contagion
54. 25 OctWe Need More Immigrants
55. 25 OctLGM Podcast: How the American Government Crushed the IWW
56. 25 OctChild Labor in American Supply Chains
57. 25 OctWelcome to the Shit Show
58. 25 OctThe staff ate my homework
59. 25 OctThe authoritarian guru
60. 25 OctThe Anatomy of Fascism
61. 25 OctThis Day in Labor History: October 25, 1949
62. 25 OctThe meritocrats!
63. 24 OctSam Alito’s word has the same value as Donald Trump’s
64. 24 OctPutin’s Nuclear Threats In His Own Words
65. 24 OctThe Both Sides Do It Hall of Fame gets new first-ballot entry
66. 24 OctShould the US directly negotiate with Russia regarding a ceasefire in Ukraine?
67. 24 OctClarence Thomas invokes little-known it’s OK to conspire to rig an election if you’re a US Senator clause of Constitution
68. 24 OctThe crisis is real
69. 24 OctAnd the government shall be upon his shoulder
70. 24 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,220
71. 23 OctInside the Republican cult
72. 23 OctThank you for not managing
73. 23 OctNFL/MLB Postseason Open Thread: When stars turn edition
74. 23 OctOn Expectations Management
75. 23 OctDon’t take right wing legal ideology seriously
76. 23 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,219
77. 23 OctMusic Notes
78. 22 OctChaos as intimidation
79. 22 OctGovernor QAnon
80. 22 OctMore reports from the information security administration
81. 22 OctAttention junkies
82. 22 OctThis Day in Labor History: October 22, 1945
83. 21 OctWhat is going on at WaPo opinion?
84. 21 OctWitches, warlocks, and Doug Mastriano
85. 21 OctDemocracy in America: a hypothetical alternate history
86. 21 OctAre you in a bad mood yet?
87. 21 OctMarjorie Taylor Greene as Trump’s 2024 running mate?
88. 21 OctThe radical right and the coming of fascism to America
89. 21 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,218
90. 21 OctMarauding plutocrat wants many people fired
91. 20 OctKevin Spacey verdict
92. 20 OctTo Keep it Respectable
93. 20 OctAnother Podcast!
94. 20 OctExceptionable exceptionalism
95. 20 OctWho’s Next?
96. 20 OctHow the Bubonic Plague Changed Human Beings
97. 20 OctThe “classical” stands for “fascist”
98. 20 OctLiz Truss resigns
99. 20 OctThis Day in Labor History: October 20, 1969
100. 20 OctAll projection, all the time
101. 20 Oct“You’re the Reason for My Life/You’re the Inspiration”
102. 19 OctSurprise! It’s Not A Tiny Homunculus!
103. 19 OctIf you want people to take the vaccine tell them to take the vaccine because the vaccine is safe and effective for everyone
104. 19 OctOn the one hand, fascism. On the other, hey a new Pottery Barn!
105. 19 OctIt’s a TRAP
106. 19 OctIs Jimmy Carter A Mass Murderer?
107. 19 OctRon DeSantis: living proof that Trumpism is more symptom than cause
108. 19 OctTexas adopts democratic socialism after woman nearly tortured to death by GOP
109. 19 OctWill Liz Truss Outlast a Lettuce?
110. 19 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,217
111. 19 OctIf you want the choice between global economic meltdown and a decimated Social Security and Medicare, vote Republican
112. 19 OctNBA Opening Night Open Thread
113. 18 OctAmazon Labor Union Crushed in Albany
114. 18 OctOn Democrats Funding Fascists in GOP Primaries
115. 18 OctBull, Durham
116. 18 OctThings to do in Denver when your season’s dead
117. 18 OctSomebody Get These Folks an NDA
118. 18 OctGraft never sleeps
119. 18 OctTerrible strategic calculations in Denver
120. 18 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,216
121. 18 OctTulsi
122. 17 OctPutting the Supreme Court in its place
123. 17 OctIf you look around the table at a business meeting, and have spotted Donald Trump at the table, you are the sucker
124. 17 OctThe Human Rights Violations Cup
125. 17 OctRead This – Not The Techbros
126. 17 OctA Cry for Help?
127. 17 OctThe Big Lie 1.0
128. 17 OctCharles Sherrod, RIP
129. 17 OctClose to understanding Donald
130. 16 OctI bet you did Nazi this coming
131. 16 OctNFL/Potential Yankee Elimination Day Open Thread: Fire this college supergenius edition
132. 16 OctUngrateful Jews will be sorry during second Trump presidency
133. 16 OctThe Republican default to racism
134. 15 OctMLB Playoff/Peonage Ball/NHL Open Thread
135. 15 OctDeSantis changes rules to make it easier to vote in Republican-majority counties
136. 15 OctOn The Possibility Of A Ceasefire
137. 15 OctSome COVID notes
138. 15 OctAlmost nobody is taking the bivalent booster
139. 15 OctYou can all just kiss off into to the air
140. 14 OctHo boy
141. 14 OctHistorical Levis and White Supremacist America
142. 14 OctThe Ronchetti Memes
143. 14 OctAnd Nigel has run himself over
144. 14 OctThe Worst Person in the Senate
145. 14 OctStill collating
146. 14 OctWhen your fans are the Glengarry leads, might as well take advantage
147. 14 OctWhat we’re all thinking
148. 14 OctLGM Podcast: All Eyes on Kherson
149. 13 OctWhat does the Torah say about drag queen story hour?
150. 13 OctBoth Sides Abelism
151. 13 OctNo 4
152. 13 OctRepublicans will try to use extortion to cut Medicare and Social Security if they take over the House
153. 13 OctJanuary 6th hearing open thread
154. 13 OctCore inflation rises again; Americans consider whether voting for the fascist party may be right for them
155. 13 OctJustice won’t obstruct itself
156. 13 OctLGM Film Club, Part 304: Martin Eden
157. 12 OctLosing the Infowars
158. 12 OctLibertarians against freedom
159. 12 OctDid Covid-19 Have Any Large Scale Impact on American Culture?
160. 12 OctA CIO Moment?
161. 12 OctHeadlights
162. 12 OctLet’s have a toast for the jerk offs
163. 12 OctThis Day in Labor History: October 12, 1933
164. 12 OctThe true spirit of MAGA
165. 12 OctLansbury
166. 11 OctThe Institutionalist
167. 11 OctAngela Lansbury
168. 11 OctBREAKING: Republican leaves Democratic Party
169. 11 OctSomebody said dignity was the first to leave
170. 11 OctAmerican Segregation: As Strong As Ever
171. 11 OctPeople of faith, Fox News grifter edition
172. 11 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,215
173. 11 OctAnti-woke bank going broke
174. 10 OctMAGA antisemitism becoming more explicit
175. 10 OctWhen bad ideas in theory turn out worse in practice
176. 10 OctInnovations in nepotism, university edition
177. 10 OctToday in California Democrats
178. 10 OctCruise Missiles Against Parks
179. 10 OctPaging Merrick Garland
180. 10 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,214
181. 10 OctMy “I’m With The In-Group The Law Protects But Does Not Bind” T-Shirt is raising many questions already answered by my shirt
182. 9 OctThe Future Is White Dudes
183. 9 OctNFL/MLB Playoff Open Thread: Fun Differential Edition
184. 9 OctRight out in the open
185. 9 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,213
186. 8 OctMusic Notes
187. 8 OctNuclear Protection Racket
188. 8 OctMLB/NCAA Football Open Thread
189. 8 OctConvicted felon Dinesh D’Souza has thoughts
190. 8 OctAbortion bans are delaying cancer treatments
191. 8 OctThe Global Commonwealth
192. 8 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,212
193. 8 OctBridge to Nowhere
194. 8 OctReckless indifference
195. 8 OctWow, it’s fuhrerriffic!
196. 7 OctHerschel Walker dumped his partner when she refused to get a second abortion
197. 7 OctDo weed-out courses for pre-meds produce too many false negatives?
198. 7 OctMLB Playoffs Open Thread
199. 7 OctAnd where did he get those fantastic boots?
200. 7 OctProudly seditious
201. 7 OctAcademic shenanigans
202. 7 OctThe raw and the cooked
203. 6 OctTom Cotton: the federal government must keep people in jail to prevent marijuana overdoses
204. 6 OctHey Joe
205. 6 OctIf I Did It, by Herschel Walker
206. 6 OctThe Tyranny of Online Fundraising
207. 6 OctAn army of authortarians
208. 6 OctEyes on the prize
209. 6 OctIf students complain that a class is too hard, maybe it actually is
210. 6 OctPerspectives on Loretta
211. 6 OctCan a man really be expected to remember every woman he’s impregnated multiple times?
212. 6 OctDefund MBS
213. 5 OctNow this here’s the story of a man named Vance
214. 5 OctFear
215. 5 OctSo you’d better go back to your bars Your temples, your massage parlours
216. 5 OctThe mundane incendiary
217. 5 OctThe politics of aesthetic pleasure
218. 5 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,211
219. 5 OctMr. Bolsonaro, Who I Do Not Support
220. 5 OctBehind the wall
221. 5 OctLGM Film Club, Part 303: Loretta on the Muppets
222. 4 OctFederalist Society hacks urge boycott of communist indoctrination school that produced Sam Alito
223. 4 OctAuthoritarian Growth Models
224. 4 OctNAFO FTW!
225. 4 OctThe idea that the protecting civil rights never allows the state to consider race is ahistorical and illogical
226. 4 OctFlorida Just Doesn’t Care
227. 4 OctU.S. Ships Act
228. 4 OctInitial Loretta Thoughts
229. 4 OctLoretta Lynn
230. 4 OctLight-hearted headline, depressing story
231. 4 Oct329 Dalmatians
232. 4 OctThe crazification factor in Michigan and Georgia
233. 4 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,210
234. 4 OctBased on his stated public positions, Herschel Walker paid for a contract killing
235. 3 OctThe Supreme Court is the Hyper-Partisan Executive Committee of a Minority Faction Party
236. 3 OctThe Killers
237. 3 OctThe Death of Earl Warren (1891-2018)
238. 3 OctWho was the go-between in Ron DeSantis’s racist con job?
239. 3 OctLosing their faith but keeping their jobs
240. 3 OctRussia Getting Squeezed
241. 3 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,209
242. 3 OctThe Wrath of Ian
243. 2 OctOn The Watermelon Front
244. 2 OctNFL Open Thread: the buck should not stop here
245. 2 OctDavid Brooks Gets Something Right
246. 2 OctRadio Rwanda
247. 2 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,208
248. 1 OctMusic Notes
249. 1 OctWaPo deprioritizing reporting on police misconduct
250. 1 OctOasis
251. 1 OctStatistical abuse 101: College football edition
252. 1 OctThis Day in Labor History: October 1, 1945
253. 1 OctWhy do all these Nazis keep supporting my campaign?

September 2022

1. 30 SepRussia-Ukraine Update
2. 30 SepWhy Would Putin Sabotage Nord Stream? How Much Does it Even Matter?
3. 30 SepExceptions to draconian abortion bans are mostly useless
4. 30 SepThe ERA and the empty idea of equality
5. 30 SepRepublicans count on their enemies not to reciprocate their callous nihilism
6. 30 SepA Podcast And More
7. 30 SepThis Day in Labor History: September 30, 1919
8. 30 SepNow and then
9. 29 SepLGM Film Club, Part 302: Me!
10. 29 SepJudges without law
11. 29 SepDeep down in Florida
12. 29 SepThe worst man in America
13. 29 SepDemocratic legitimacy is not a presumptive right
14. 29 SepOn the other hand, that autobahn looks pretty sweet
15. 29 SepA Maggie Haberman Counterfactual
16. 29 SepWars Waged With Gold
17. 29 SepAlabama Prison Strike
18. 29 SepI like my daughters to have a good time and I don’t care who gets hurt
19. 29 SepLGM Film Club, Part 301: Somebody Up There Likes Me
20. 28 SepBut they won’t do that
21. 28 SepHaberman’s l33t d-fence squad is exactly as bad as you’d expect (now with update from a zombie)
22. 28 SepChamber of Commerce: it is illegal for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to protect consumers
23. 28 SepYou know who else assumes people of color are waiters?*
24. 28 SepOhio Republicans getting exactly what they wanted
25. 28 SepHurricanes and the demographics of climate change
26. 28 SepThe loud parts louder
27. 28 SepLGM Film Club, Part 300: The Wilderness River
28. 28 SepThe Dragon Show
29. 27 SepCampus PC is actually out of control
30. 27 SepVictim of DeSantis’s racist fraud speaks
31. 27 SepWhat To Do About the Northern Spotted Owl?
32. 27 SepBaltic Sea Breaches In Nordstream 1 and 2 Pipelines
33. 27 SepShot #4
34. 27 SepJim Florio and the Fickleness of Liberal Voters
35. 27 SepThe money’s out there. You pick it up, it’s yours. You don’t, I got no sympathy for you.
36. 27 SepThe book of chess
37. 27 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,207
38. 27 SepThe construction of cancellation
39. 26 SepCoaches make bad decisions in part because dum dum fans can’t understand simple stats
40. 26 SepHe had the makings of a leader of a certain kind of men
41. 26 SepWell, that’s one way to flush the tankies
42. 26 SepTONIGHT LIVE – Spacecraft Smashes Into Asteroid
43. 26 SepOld day rising
44. 26 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,206
45. 26 SepTrump knows who his useful idiots are
46. 26 SepLGM Film Club, Part 299: Pleasure
47. 25 SepNon-profit for profit II
48. 25 SepNFL Open Thread: Fail Mary Day
49. 25 SepAnnoyed At Google
50. 25 SepCult of personality
51. 25 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,205
52. 25 SepToday is the day that I finally earned my LGM wings
53. 25 SepLGM Film Club, Part 298: Pumping Iron
54. 24 SepMusic Notes
55. 24 SepNonprofit for profit
56. 24 SepCFB Open Thread
57. 24 SepHas Donald Trump personally walked on the moon, views differ
58. 24 SepPujols 3
59. 24 SepThe Incredible Shrinking Trump Rallies
60. 24 SepHilary Mantel
61. 24 SepQuiet quitting
62. 24 SepErik Visits an (Non)-American Grave, Part 1,204
63. 24 SepIt may be 2022 over there, but in this state, it’s 1864
64. 24 SepLGM Film Club, Part 297: Walker
65. 23 SepThanks to Dobbs, majority of the public now supports Article III reform of the Court
66. 23 SepM*A*S*H
67. 23 SepHe stole from the poor, and gave to the rich. Stupid bitch!
68. 23 SepOur complacent insiders
69. 23 SepHow do you cheat in world class level chess?
70. 23 SepMental Declassification
71. 23 SepMore Repubican Christofascism
72. 23 SepThe Republican Party is a Christo-Fascist Party, Part the Million
73. 23 SepThe Long Arms of Trumpism
74. 23 SepRepublicans cut more expendable Trumpian liar loose
75. 22 SepTNF Open Thread: Is 0-2 doomed? edition
76. 22 SepI think therefore I am
77. 22 SepBe Careful What You Wish For
78. 22 SepKewpie dolls and urine stalls will be laughed at the way you’re laughed at now
79. 22 Sep“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit”
80. 22 SepRings of Power
81. 22 SepOral History of the Blogosphere Part 9: Jesse Taylor
82. 22 SepThe Failson exception
83. 22 SepAn Even Dumber Far Right than the United States
84. 22 SepLGM Film Club, Part 296: David Byrne’s American Utopia
85. 22 SepMobilization!
86. 22 SepCome on Aileen
87. 21 SepRepublican elites could have prevented another Trump presidency and chose to do nothing instead
88. 21 SepThe Grifters, part infinity
89. 21 SepTeacher Strikes, 2022
90. 21 SepNearly Half of Americans Support Human Trafficking Schemes
91. 21 SepTextbooks and White Supremacy
92. 21 SepThe future of Aaron Judge
93. 21 SepBrainwashed pride
94. 21 SepThis Day in Labor History: September 21, 1982
95. 21 SepLindsay Graham’s national sexual assault law
96. 21 SepLGM Film Club, Part 295: Neptune Frost
97. 20 SepDearie Donald, we’ve sent your saddle home
98. 20 SepBiden and Unions Revisited
99. 20 SepOrganizing the Starbucks South
100. 20 SepRon DeSantis’s racist illegalities
101. 20 SepIs the Pandemic Over?
102. 20 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,203
103. 20 SepA most influential podcast
104. 20 SepLGM Film Club, Part 294: Max and the Junkmen
105. 19 SepMonday Doubleheader Open Thread
106. 19 SepThe right not to be pregnant
107. 19 SepMAGA in full
108. 19 SepNo Malarkey On China
109. 19 SepThe Flooded Colony
110. 19 SepMaxine Waters has a lot to answer for
111. 19 SepHow Electric Vehicles Undermine Dirty Resource Investments
112. 19 SepOther peoples’ money
113. 19 SepStarbucks Anti-Unionism
114. 19 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,202
115. 19 SepThe Offensive
116. 18 SepThe loud parts even louder
117. 18 SepThis is what you’ll get when you mess with us
118. 18 SepThe Cat’s in the Cupboard
119. 18 SepNFL Open Thread: working the refs edition
120. 18 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,201
121. 18 Sep5CA: the First Amendment does not permit freedom of association
122. 17 SepMusic Notes
123. 17 Sep“It’s as if the justices wanted to script an ending for a Christian redemption movie. But real life isn’t cooperating.”- The Seattle Times, Sept. 17, 2022
124. 17 SepThe New York Times wants to be the GOP’s private 4th Estate
125. 17 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,200
126. 17 SepDistraction Reaction (update)
127. 16 SepSince the dawn of time, amoral racists have projected their own pathologies onto others
128. 16 SepSend Guns, Money, and Maybe Lawyers
129. 16 SepThe Rail Deal Now
130. 16 SepThe Fascist Police of Portland
131. 16 SepStrange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government
132. 16 SepTomato and Egg with Rice Recipe Review
133. 16 SepBiden and Unions
134. 16 SepLawless Trump stooge does what she was put on the bench to do
135. 16 SepLGM Film Club, Part 293: The Valley Is Ours
136. 16 SepThursday Night NFL Open Thread
137. 15 SepThe Same-Sex Marriage Bill
138. 15 SepTrump also offered to give the West Bank to Jordan
139. 15 SepGreenland
140. 15 SepThe Rail Deal
141. 15 SepRussian Objectives At Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
142. 15 Sep“And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions.” – Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
143. 15 SepBut WHY are there no workhouses??
144. 15 SepHuman traffickers Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott
145. 15 SepSubtweeting John
146. 15 SepA lifetime of grifting
147. 15 SepI call immediately for more volleyball stadia
148. 15 SepLGM Film Club, Part 292: San Francisco, 1902
149. 15 SepNew Eagles and Raiders
150. 14 SepInvestigation fails to find water in dry well
151. 14 SepHenry Kissinger
152. 14 SepDon’t Forget Ken Starr!
153. 14 SepLGM Podcast: The War on Drugs and Latin America
154. 14 SepCillizza’s Needle & the Myth of the Savvy Republican
155. 14 SepWhich led me to a cash box labelled “Children’s Fund.” I’d leave the change and tuck the bills inside my cummerbund
156. 14 SepTennis news
157. 14 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,199
158. 14 SepLGM Film Club, Part 291: Breathless
159. 14 SepChew up on the bumper, baby
160. 13 SepAnd this was scarcely odd, because they’d eaten every one
161. 13 SepA Starr is unborn
162. 13 SepKen Starr is dead
163. 13 SepDeath of an MAGA prototype
164. 13 SepThe Upcoming National Abortion Ban
165. 13 SepAutobahn
166. 13 SepMinnesota Nurses Strike
167. 13 SepThe presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee is now posing as a full-on QAnon Truther
168. 13 SepOpportunity!
169. 13 SepThe QAnoners of Oakland County
170. 13 SepDon’t go changing to try and please me
171. 13 SepThis Day in Labor History: September 13, 1932
172. 13 SepThank you for not coaching, let Russell sit on the sidelines after throwing some dinks and dunks edition
173. 13 SepLGM Film Club, Part 290: Battery Film
174. 13 SepMNF Open Thread: Twilight of the gods edition
175. 12 SepIt’s subpoenas all the way down (Content warning – oral sex)
176. 12 SepHow the intellectual dark web invented lectures
177. 12 SepEthics in political journamalism panel
178. 12 SepInflation Fears and Poor Nations
179. 12 SepThe Self-Destructive Supreme Court
180. 12 SepThis is the future Sam Alito wants
181. 12 SepLGM Podcast: Forging Global Fordism
182. 12 SepBlack History and “Presentism”
183. 12 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,198
184. 12 SepKilling a journalist
185. 12 SepLGM Film Club, Part 289: Desert Fury
186. 11 SepVehicles of Death
187. 11 SepPublic Health and Sin Taxes
188. 11 SepNFL Open Thread: Be first, be smarter, or cheat, or all of the above edition
189. 11 SepMaybe that “shiny object” is a lit fuse
190. 11 SepWould Vladimir Putin Use Nuclear Weapons?
191. 11 SepTwo wars
192. 11 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,197
193. 10 SepMusic Notes
194. 10 SepThe cynical gullibility of Greenwaldism
195. 10 SepA path frequently taken leading nowhere
196. 10 SepWhat is the most important thing in the world?
197. 10 SepSetbacks For Russia
198. 10 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,196
199. 10 SepLate night East Coast fantasy hot take
200. 10 SepLGM Film Club, Part 288: Exxon Valdez
201. 9 SepIs Our Media Learning?
202. 9 SepWhen culture war means war
203. 9 SepI Knew Him Before I Didn’t Know Him
204. 9 SepThe futile search for alternatives to actually thinking about free speech
205. 9 SepThe Biden Administration’s Goals on Labor
206. 9 SepLGM Podcast: Projecting the AFC!
207. 9 SepThe Counter-Offensive
208. 9 SepAgricultural Labor Shortages
209. 9 SepStates and Monopoly
210. 9 SepDoes it make sense for an institution to appease those who are dedicated to destroying it?
211. 9 SepSearching for the real leakers
212. 9 SepLGM Film Club, Part 287: Queen Victoria
213. 9 SepThursday Night Football Open Thread
214. 8 SepMichigan Supreme Court slaps GOP around a bit
215. 8 SepNot the perp walk we want, but the perp walk we got
216. 8 SepKings and queens
217. 8 SepOpen thread, featuring a King Charles I vs. Oliver Cromwell Dance Off!
218. 8 SepViva La Revolucion!
219. 8 SepLong Live the King
220. 8 SepLGM Podcast: Projecting the AFC!
221. 8 SepQueen is dead
222. 8 SepThe Disaster of Biomass
223. 8 SepWhy Do Republicans Hate the Welfare State?
224. 8 SepProtect our veterans, defend abortion
225. 8 SepBut there’s no England now
226. 8 SepWhen semi-fascism works
227. 8 SepThe Big Speech
228. 8 SepCOVID nihilism
229. 8 SepLGM Film Club, Part 286: Discontinuity
230. 7 SepMAGA Millions
231. 7 SepThe fancy law firm version of January 6
232. 7 SepHas Russia suffered 50,000+ combat deaths in Ukraine so far?
233. 7 SepWhy So Many Russians Hate Mikhail Gorbachev
234. 7 SepThe Endless Cycle of Environmental Racism
235. 7 SepObama’s Attack on the Humanities
236. 7 SepBedbug’s Historical Analogies
237. 7 SepLuck
238. 7 Sep7-shirt day at the arraignment
239. 7 SepPeter Thiel makes further investments in creepy misogyny
240. 7 SepLGM Film Club, Part 285: He Ran All the Way
241. 7 SepNuclear Information at Mar-a-Lago
242. 6 SepYour liberal media
243. 6 SepSedevacantism
244. 6 SepGambling Statergery
245. 6 SepIs Joe Biden damaging American democracy by trying to win elections?
246. 6 SepIsrael Turns The Screws for Its Apartheid Regime One More Time
247. 6 SepPost-Labor Day Roundup
248. 6 SepLGM Podcast: Football
249. 6 SepLife expectancy in the USA by ethnicity, pre-and-post-COVID
250. 6 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,195
251. 5 SepLike every other kind of political legitimacy, judicial legitimacy is earned (or not)
252. 5 SepTories (Another Generic One)
253. 5 Sep“Does Your Mother Know About Iceberg Lettuce?” Labor Day Food Open Thread
254. 5 SepLame duck confirmation of Republican “judge” provides immediate payoff for Trump
255. 5 SepThe Deep History of Peoples – Women as well as Men
256. 5 SepBreaking: Amy Wax Now A Charity
257. 5 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,194
258. 5 SepTrump picks another winner
259. 4 SepWapo joins the war on reproductive freedom
260. 4 SepHiring John Dillinger as our bank’s security guard did not work out as well as I had hoped
261. 4 SepThat’s entertainment
262. 4 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,193
263. 4 SepInner Circle Both Sides Do It Hall of Fame Member Adds Another Credential
264. 4 SepMusic Notes
265. 3 SepReasons For Mild Optimism About Organized Labor
266. 3 SepMore people hate bans on abortion than ever:
267. 3 SepLabor Day Talk
268. 3 SepManchin’s Revenge
269. 3 SepThe intellectual Pat Boone web
270. 3 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,192
271. 3 SepDr. Abbott’s Plan B
272. 3 SepLGM Film Club, Part 284: Licorice Pizza
273. 2 SepThe full QAnon
274. 2 SepBarbara Ehrenreich, RIP
275. 2 SepChecking in on the theory that anti-abortion states will be the vanguard of the Republican transition to social democracy
276. 2 SepBlack City, No Water
277. 2 SepNLRB Rules Against Amazon
278. 2 SepMore Gorby
279. 2 SepTryin’ to stop the waves behind your eyeballs
280. 2 SepWhat are historians trying to do?
281. 2 SepStuffed Ham and Cheese Croissant Casserole Recipe Review
282. 2 Sep“Democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election — either they win, or they were cheated”
283. 1 SepTrump pledges to grant blanket pardons to 1/6 insurrectionists
284. 1 SepCompulsory v. Organic Fandom
285. 1 SepRepublicans do not want the question of abortion rights to be decided democratically
286. 1 SepLiberal Arts Colleges Too
287. 1 SepLabor Day Lessons
288. 1 SepWhere Do Academics Come From?
289. 1 SepForward to Nothing!
290. 1 SepLGM Podcast: Gorby’s Legacy
291. 1 SepAuthoritarian bait-and-switch
292. 1 SepFun with statistics, Scott Frost edition
293. 1 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,191
294. 1 SepYou get the legal advice you might not pay for
295. 1 SepQuestion: How many elections has Sarah Palin lost since 2006?
296. 1 SepNo starbursts tonight
297. 1 SepIf I Did It, by Donald J. Trump

August 2022

1. 31 AugThe Mar-a-Lago search and Donald Trump’s abuse of the Former Presidents Act
2. 31 AugScumbag Infighting
3. 31 AugDon’t worry, Tucker will come up with something even dumber
4. 31 AugLGM Podcast: Slavery, Confederacy, the American West
5. 31 AugOh boy, two flavors of sexism!
6. 31 AugRepublicans fucking around: LIFE IS SACRED ABORTION IS MURDER PROTECT THE INNOCENT BAN IT NOW!!! Republicans finding out: J/k, vote 4 me lol ;-)
7. 31 AugLock Him Up!
8. 31 AugA petulant child
9. 31 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,190
10. 31 AugClowntime is over
11. 31 AugGorbachev
12. 31 AugLGM Film Club, Part 283: Chushingura
13. 30 AugTalking Labor History
14. 30 AugWhat To Do About Strikebreakers?
15. 30 AugGorbachev
16. 30 AugPeak Gen X Culture Representatives
17. 30 AugUnions and Polling
18. 30 AugDoesn’t seem very semi when you look at it
19. 30 AugMasters Thiels more damning text from his website
20. 30 AugStudent debt and moral luck
21. 30 AugThe orange Hoover
22. 30 AugWho Biden’s debt relief plan helps
23. 29 AugHow the 2012 Obama campaign forced George H.W. Bush to hire Lee Atwater
24. 29 AugBarn door finally closes after horse gets three counties over
25. 29 AugLindsey Graham reports regretfully that enforcing the law against Donald Trump will cause riots; Donald Trump announces that constitutional backsies are required by the Constitution
26. 29 AugClimate change and revealed preference
27. 29 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,189
28. 29 AugRick Reed
29. 29 AugDestroying local media
30. 28 AugYou’ll never guess which political party – Hey, how’d you know?
31. 28 AugAn Offensive?
32. 28 AugMaster of lying his ass off
33. 28 AugTop secret documents for sale at semi-bargain prices: Will come to you
34. 28 AugTorturing logic
35. 28 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,188
36. 27 AugMeanwhile, In The Secret Service
37. 27 AugDubya’s nutcracker has a nutty idea
38. 27 AugAll Gains Are Incremental
39. 27 AugAffidavit, annotated
40. 27 AugTurdle
41. 27 AugAlienation and watching college football on TV
42. 27 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,187
43. 27 AugLGM Film Club, Part 282: Girls Taking Time Checks
44. 26 AugContinued Worker Power in the Labor Market
45. 26 AugHighly principled opponent of defaulting on government loan guarantees attacks student loan forgiveness program
46. 26 AugLGM Podcast: Toxic Debt
47. 26 AugRepublican mistreatment of labor finally produces blowback
48. 26 AugCertain affedavids
49. 26 AugWhere have you gone, Andre Dawson?
50. 26 AugCarriers!
51. 26 AugStarbucks Taking Unionbusting to New Heights
52. 26 AugBiden White House demonstrates its clapback skills
53. 26 AugDobbs will mean endless litigation
54. 26 AugThe Powell Memo
55. 26 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,186
56. 26 AugThe modern GOP, in a nutshell?
57. 25 AugSilence peasants! Grand Duchess Megan McArdlebucks is explaining how to poor.
58. 25 AugAmerica’s higher ed funding mess
59. 25 AugRussia Tries To Steal A Nuclear Power Plant
60. 25 Aug2035
61. 25 AugAll this and no farts?: Cheesy Chicken and Cabbage Casserole Recipe Review
62. 25 AugThis Day in Labor History: August 25, 1734
63. 24 AugFree college, misty water-color memory edition
64. 24 AugJaimie Branch, RIP
65. 24 AugTrying to reclaim the authority to regulate carbon emissions
66. 24 AugThe parties are the same! Student loan relief edition (Update: White House Fact Sheet & the 5% DI cut off)
67. 24 AugPeople really, really hate Dobbs
68. 24 AugAutogolpe in Brazil?
69. 24 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,185
70. 24 AugMusic Notes (Farley Edition)
71. 24 AugPrimary Open Thread
72. 24 AugIs a jail sentence the one weird trick that will stop tRump from running?
73. 23 AugWill allowing reactionaries to kill multiparty democracy in order to save it work this time?
74. 23 AugDemocrats use magic mind-control to force tEam tRump own goal
75. 23 AugThe graying of America
76. 23 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,184
77. 23 AugHundreds and hundreds of documents
78. 23 AugLGM Film Club, Part 281: Annie Oakley
79. 22 AugTrump to court: Pwease don’t let investigators look at my loot (Update – About that pro se filing)
80. 22 Aug“There are too many trees nowadays. Please see to it that many of them are burned down. I am not a crackpot.”
81. 22 AugWill Congress upgrade Telehealth? Magic 8-Ball says “Ask again later.”
82. 22 AugAre Democrats responsible for the actions of Republican elites and primary electorates? (SPOILER: No)
83. 22 AugThe Billionaire Attacks on The Rest of Us
84. 22 AugThe Labor Market
85. 22 AugNew Frontiers in Republican Voter Intimidation
86. 22 AugCreating the woke mob
87. 22 AugTemporary seditionist
88. 22 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,183
89. 22 AugBourbon!
90. 22 AugLGM Film Club, Part 280: China Doll
91. 22 Aug“Sit by my window and look outside/ wonder why the sun don’t shine on me:” Revisiting Graham Parker’s Squeezing Out Sparks
92. 21 AugAnd the next martyr-hero of men who think they have a God-given right to women’s bodies is …
93. 21 AugThis grift goes on. And on. And on. And on.
94. 21 AugTech Companies Are Not Our Friends, Even the Seemingly Anodyne Ones
95. 21 AugLabor is Not a Monolithic Movement, Part the Million
96. 21 AugSunday open thread: A purely coincidental resemblance
97. 21 AugMan of the People
98. 21 AugI feel I owed it to them
99. 21 AugWe can remember it for you wholesale
100. 21 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,182
101. 21 AugDaughter of Putin’s “spiritual guide” killed in explosion
102. 20 AugMusic Notes
103. 20 AugJapan: Looking Out for the National Interest
104. 20 AugDisenfranchise them, then arrest them: the Ron DeSantis story
105. 20 AugEating shit for Donald Trump
106. 20 AugHe could have had class
107. 20 AugThe Bouncers Are Getting Aggressive
108. 20 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,181
109. 20 AugWe must burn down the rule of law in order to save us. I mean it
110. 19 AugCruel, if less unusual than you would hope
111. 19 AugAI Is Racist
112. 19 AugTrumpCo CFO demonstrates the art of the deal
113. 19 AugJetsetter to briefly experience less luxurious accomodations
114. 19 AugUnsealed warrant application in Mar-a-Lago search
115. 19 AugAmerican Caregivers
116. 19 AugWhat is political charisma?
117. 19 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,180
118. 19 AugSore loser parents try to mobilize Republican genital inspection commissions
119. 19 AugLGM Film Club, Part 279: Kenmare Fair, 1967
120. 18 AugRepublicans perform triage on their shitty Senate candidates
121. 18 AugInventing libs to be mad at
122. 18 AugPeople really hate Dobbs
123. 18 AugRepublican signal. Republican noise.
124. 18 Aug“Towards the rotating knives”
125. 18 AugZaporizhzhia Again
126. 18 AugA fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place
127. 18 AugChina’s stumbles won’t revive U.S. global hegemony
128. 18 AugWolfgang Petersen, RIP
129. 18 AugForward to Nothing!
130. 18 AugRussian oligarch and Putin critic who sold his DC mansion to Jared and Ivanka at friend prices somehow falls out of window to his death
131. 18 AugRacists Pick on the Wrong Historian
132. 18 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,179
133. 18 AugWho could have predicted that my bill banning abortions would put the health of women at risk?
134. 17 AugLet the boys play
135. 17 AugWhere are the Dersh and Turley in their hero’s hour of greatest need?
136. 17 AugDon’t do what James Comey did
137. 17 Aug“Reading this book reminded me of watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo.”
138. 17 AugUS Diplomacy In The Lead-Up To Russia’s War On Ukraine
139. 17 AugThe Many Endings of Saul Goodman
140. 17 AugYou Can Have My Warthog When You Pry it out of my cold, dead hands
141. 17 AugLawyers reluctant to make farcical arguments on behalf of client who avoids paying his bills
142. 17 AugCheney 2024: All Mimsey were the Borogroves
143. 17 AugRun on Your Beliefs
144. 17 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,178
145. 17 AugA tale of two Republicans
146. 17 AugCarrying it (at gunpoint) to bury it
147. 16 AugHydroxychloroquine hawking hack a natural fit for the GOP
148. 16 AugYou’re not in North Jersey anymore
149. 16 AugNRSC Funding Cuts
150. 16 AugOral History of the Blogosphere Part 8: Mickey Kaus
151. 16 AugThe short life and sudden death of American democracy
152. 16 AugThe Road to War
153. 16 AugThis Day in Labor History: August 16, 1928
154. 16 AugStarbucks: we expect the NLRB to help us bust unions
155. 16 AugBetter Call Saul Finale Open Thread
156. 15 AugForward to vacuity
157. 15 AugTrump reaches out to Garland to explore what could be done to keep his supporters from murdering a few federal officials here and there
158. 15 AugThere is no right to a captive audience
159. 15 AugThe night of the short knives
160. 15 AugThe curious case of COVID mortality rates among young adults after vaccines became available
161. 15 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,177
162. 15 AugWhat whistle is Trump blowing?
163. 14 AugThe potential reverse thermostatic effects of Dobbs
164. 14 AugWhat a dick
165. 14 AugPreparing For The Civil War
166. 14 AugGOP members of Congress lobby oil companies to do more to fight efforts to battle climate change
167. 14 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,176
168. 14 AugLife with the Boeberts
169. 14 AugThe Army Protection Racket skit, but 80% less subtle, 100% more stupid
170. 14 AugLordy, there are tapes
171. 13 AugDeliberative democracy in action
172. 13 AugTrump’s lawyer lied to the FBI
173. 13 AugDid the Dobbs decision save Joe Biden’s presidency?
174. 13 AugThe attempted assassination of Salman Rushdie
175. 13 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,175
176. 13 AugMen without dignity
177. 12 AugHouse passes IRA with unanimous Democratic support
178. 12 AugWhoop (Updated)
179. 12 AugJonathan Turley: You can’t expect a man who is busy trying to overthrow the government to fill out the necessary paperwork to make selling top secret documents to foreign powers legal
180. 12 AugA Little Halloween craft “for kids”
181. 12 AugWhat they seized
182. 12 AugTrump Had Classified Nuclear Documents
183. 12 AugAre we paying the rent on the offices the FBI raided at Mar-a-Lago?
184. 12 AugSome stupid with a nail gun
185. 12 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,174
186. 12 AugIf the FBI can investigate a former president for stealing and possibly selling nuclear secrets, they can do it to anyone
187. 12 AugRussia Update
188. 11 AugDrama in the Bluegrass!
189. 11 AugGetting the message
190. 11 AugKnow when to walk away, and know when to run
191. 11 AugLamont Dozier
192. 11 AugThe post-Hobbs political landscape
193. 11 AugProbably not someone who has been listening to Republicans shriek TREASON! for the past few days
194. 11 Aug“Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.”
195. 11 AugBiden meets with historians to discuss perils to democracy
196. 11 AugThere’s no room to work with these people
197. 11 AugEggplant Marinara Sandwiches Recipe Review
198. 11 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,173
199. 11 AugMasters, puppet
200. 11 AugFull horseshoe
201. 10 AugWhaddaya gonna do?
202. 10 AugHoist by their own pseudo-scandal
203. 10 AugDemocracy dies in triflin’ editorial and layout decisions
204. 10 AugTrue Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee by Abraham Riesman
205. 10 AugThe 12 stations of the grift
206. 10 AugCould Taco Bell Fail in Mexico?
207. 10 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,172
208. 10 AugQuestions and Answers
209. 9 AugThe surveillance techniques that will be used to prosecute women and girls for medically-induced abortions
210. 9 AugAlso too, if the FBI says they found anything they’re making it up, and if they then produce it they planted it
211. 9 AugWhat does the disgusting orange hobbit have in its pocketses?
212. 9 AugWhy a search warrant was needed
213. 9 AugWhat Was The FBI Searching For?
214. 9 AugThe brazen double standard applied to Donald Trump’s crimes
215. 9 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,171
216. 9 AugRaiding Mar-a-Lago II
217. 8 AugRaiding Mar-a-Lago
218. 8 AugOlivia Newton-John
219. 8 AugThe Liz Bruenig Express Reaches GOP Senators
220. 8 AugMore News From Years Ago By New York Times Book Writers
221. 8 AugThe lavatories of democracy
222. 8 AugA piece of Julio Rodriguez
223. 8 AugSam Alito Rubs His Chin in Anticipation
224. 8 AugSometimes they are all of them at once
225. 8 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,170
226. 7 AugAcross 110th Street
227. 7 AugIRA passes Senate
228. 7 AugOutflanked: the Insulin Outflankening
229. 7 AugRepublican Attacks on Teachers Decimate Schools
230. 7 AugRussia Continues To Put The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant At Risk
231. 7 AugAustin Restaurant Workers Unionizing
232. 7 AugConsequences of the new gilded age: Law school edition
233. 7 AugSunday morning fun n’ games: Time to play Politico LedeGenerator
234. 7 AugRight-Wing Fire Analysis
235. 7 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,169
236. 7 AugHow will companies react to draconian abortion bans?
237. 6 AugMusic Notes
238. 6 AugThe bait and the switch
239. 6 AugThe burdens of pregnancy and the barbarism of abortion bans
240. 6 AugGuadalcanal!
241. 6 AugHow effective are the COVID vaccines at present?
242. 6 AugOrganic Union Busting
243. 6 AugThis Day in Labor History: August 6, 1944
244. 6 AugBack to the coverture
245. 5 Aug$45.2 million
246. 5 AugTreason never sleeps
247. 5 AugFascist performance art goes pomo
248. 5 AugCracker Barrel and White Identity Politics
249. 5 AugThe Liz Bruenig Express Comes to Georgia
250. 5 AugThe sham Kavanaugh investigation
251. 5 AugLearning About Attica No Longer Banned in New York Prisons
252. 5 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,168
253. 5 AugSchumer gets his R rating
254. 5 AugLGM Podcast: That Depends On What You Mean by Crisis
255. 4 AugBreonna Taylor’s murderers to face federal charges
256. 4 AugUsing our tactics against us
257. 4 AugThe Visit
258. 4 AugRon Johnson: put Medicare and Social Security on the path to extinction
259. 4 AugI found somebody who thinks that Jackie Walorski was a moderate
260. 4 AugJosh Hawley votes to block Finland and Sweden from crossing the NATO finish line
261. 4 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,167
262. 4 AugWho is Not a Moderate Republican in the MSM?
263. 4 AugAnd you don’t know what it is
264. 4 AugGov. Hogan blames everyone but his party for his party’s Cox fixation
265. 4 AugWilling to die on Hedge Fund Hill
266. 3 AugAlex Jones’s lawyers send all of his texts to plaintiffs’ attorneys “by mistake”
267. 3 AugFlyover Alt-Centrism
268. 3 AugThe Republican Pro-Prostate Cancer Caucus
269. 3 AugDebt, Colonialism, and Climate
270. 3 AugGo ask Alice, if you can find her
271. 3 AugThe Liz Bruenig Express, Coming to A State Near You
272. 3 AugWhat’s not the matter with Kansas
273. 3 AugHow Organized Is This Crime?
274. 3 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,166
275. 3 AugThe Master
276. 3 AugElection Night Open Thread
277. 2 AugTexas continues to vindicate Critical Legal Studies
278. 2 AugWill Russia Break Up?
279. 2 AugPregnancy centers are a crisis
280. 2 AugVice presidential follies: 1944 and 2024
281. 2 AugConsumer Choices in the Age of Climate Change
282. 2 AugRussia-Ukraine Update
283. 2 AugIt can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever.
284. 2 AugDoes Anyone Want Biden for Another Term?
285. 2 AugThis Day in Labor History: August 2, 1917
286. 2 AugEric for Senate
287. 1 AugAn alternative history of Tom Brady
288. 1 AugEl-Zawahiri Reported Killed
289. 1 AugCan We Develop Andean Lithium Reserves in an Ethical Way?
290. 1 AugLGM Podcast: Quarantines and Race in Modern America
291. 1 AugPanels of Death
292. 1 AugSandy hook parents v. Jones
293. 1 AugDynamic intoxication and the GOP
294. 1 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,165
295. 1 AugAnd by we, I mean you

July 2022

1. 31 JulNichelle Nichols
2. 31 JulBill Russell
3. 31 JulWhen did book banning get all political?
4. 31 JulGreasy ratfuckers and their boss
5. 31 JulThe breakdown of the American system of government as illustrated by Social Security legislation
6. 31 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,164
7. 31 JulHappy 80th, Barney Bubbles
8. 30 JulMusic Notes
9. 30 Jul“Hungary” is the “Denmark” of the American Right. What does that mean?
10. 30 JulWho will watch the watchdog?
11. 30 JulClimate Change and Kentucky
12. 30 JulYour 2022 Republican platform: force 10-year-olds to give birth and fuck the troops
13. 30 JulIs editing bad?
14. 30 JulRSS Feed
15. 30 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,163
16. 30 JulTrump buries ex-wife on his golf course in order to get a series of huge tax breaks
17. 30 JulJust rewards
18. 29 JulWang dang yang gang
19. 29 JulReporter’s skirt too short for an execution
20. 29 JulThe Liz Bruneig Express Reaches Jackson
21. 29 JulLeave no billionaire behind
22. 29 JulIntimidating doctors for providing health care
23. 29 JulThe Million Dollar Law Degree: NYU Law School Edition
24. 29 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,162
25. 29 JulIf it weren’t for abuser logic, Republicans would have no logic at all
26. 28 JulSupreme Court justice definitely not partisan, definitely not mad
27. 28 JulConfidence in the face of risk, eh?
28. 28 JulSpeaking of madness and ideology
29. 28 Jul“We hate it when our [temporary black] friends become successful”
30. 28 JulMadness as metaphor
31. 28 JulCampus PC continues to spiral out of control
32. 28 JulCompassion Deficit
33. 28 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,161
34. 28 JulTech bro proposes to disrupt political parties with totally proactive new paradigm
35. 27 JulThere may be…a deal?
36. 27 JulHarvard expert on cognition don’t think too good
37. 27 JulAbortion bans continue to terrorize women
38. 27 JulCancel Culture Consistency
39. 27 JulConservative (competitive) authoritarianism v. fascism
40. 27 JulAfter the Establishment Clause
41. 27 JulPressuring Merrick Garland to do his job
42. 27 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,160
43. 27 JulHe’s fleeing in abject terror from his constituents, but will he even bother to run?
44. 27 JulTuesday Evening Open Thread: Maupassant Call Out Edition
45. 26 JulTakin’ emails on a criminal fuckin’ conspiracy
46. 26 JulThe ghost of Casey and the end of the Court’s strategic operator
47. 26 JulOral History of the Blogosphere, Part 7: Joe Sonka
48. 26 JulIs Our Media Learning? Ha Ha Ha, What a Ridiculous Question
49. 26 JulSauces that Nod to East Asia
50. 26 JulFake currency, real victims
51. 26 JulTake this test
52. 26 JulSam Alito leaked his own Dobbs draft
53. 26 JulRepublican Family Values
54. 26 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,159
55. 26 JulDeath traps
56. 26 JulOn Sudden Unexpected Diminution
57. 25 JulMore product from the Both Sides Do It anti-woke assembly line
58. 25 JulEvery 42-year-old Federalist Society careerist a king
59. 25 JulFarewell to another Goodfella
60. 25 JulThe White Guy’s Playbook For Discounting Women
61. 25 JulRight wing Christianity isn’t compatible with liberal democracy
62. 25 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,158
63. 25 JulSedition pays
64. 25 JulPublic Health And CDC Guidance
65. 24 JulBunker mentality
66. 24 JulHollywood for ugly people devoid of charisma, a sense of humor, or the gift of vocal modulation
67. 24 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,157
68. 24 JulIs Rupert Murdoch dumping Donald Trump?
69. 24 JulThe quiet parts at 120 decibels
70. 23 JulThe “independent state legislature” theory is both transparently idiotic and a major threat to American democracy
71. 23 JulThe Road to Neopatrimonialism
72. 23 JulYou have the absolute right to say anything on any platform of your choice, unless I also strongly disagree with it
73. 23 JulFixing Social Security
74. 23 JulFloating Abortion Clinics
75. 23 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,156
76. 23 JulBo knows compassion
77. 22 JulThere is no right to the platform of your choice at the time of your choosing
78. 22 JulBannon guilty
79. 22 JulFascism in waiting
80. 22 JulFood Restrictions of the Welfare State
81. 22 JulUnions and Global Democracy
82. 22 JulThe first annual Josh Hawley Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Fascist Chickenshittery
83. 22 JulEmbracing the Absurd
84. 22 JulChoosing Sterilization
85. 22 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,155
86. 22 JulRun Josh, Run!
87. 22 Jul1/6 Committee prime time open thread
88. 21 JulWho Wants to Work?
89. 21 JulThe Liz Bruenig Express Stops in Idaho
90. 21 JulThe shifting distribution of the USA’s population over the past century
91. 21 JulRepublicans Rejecting the Right to Contraception? That’s Unposible!
92. 21 JulRepublicans: state laws banning contraception are uncommonly sensible
93. 21 JulThe Western Roots of Contemporary American Fascism
94. 21 Jul“Nothing Short of Tragic”
95. 21 JulFrom the Fugitive Slave Act to Dobbs
96. 21 JulTime For Some Debunking
97. 21 JulToday in the Sixth Extinction
98. 21 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,154
99. 21 JulNever heard this one before
100. 21 JulWednesday Evening Open Thread: Fox News Food Criticism Edition
101. 20 JulIf you win, you win. If you lose, you still win
102. 20 JulSecond tour without Keith, He can’t play the fills, but he keeps the beat
103. 20 JulElection year sensitivities
104. 20 JulCan freedom win again in Kansas?
105. 20 JulYour occasional reminder of the abomination before the Lord that is the filibuster
106. 20 JulMore Fun in HawleyLand
107. 20 JulMaryland governor’s race and the future of the GOP
108. 20 JulNeoliberalism’s 90s Triumph
109. 20 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,153
110. 20 JulReliable and unreliable sources
111. 19 JulTuesday Evening Open Thread: Perry Como Statue Edition
112. 19 JulFirst they shunned Alan Dershowitz on Martha’s Vineyard and I said nothing because I could not afford to vacation on Martha’s Vineyard
113. 19 JulHave you ever considered the possibility that they actually believe this shit?
114. 19 JulSecret service can’t find any of those totally innocuous texts from the day of Donald Trump’s attempted coup that got deleted after government investigators asked for them
115. 19 JulJaan Kross
116. 19 JulAmerican public asked opinion on subject regarding which it knows nothing
117. 19 JulGET YOUR TICKETS FOR THIS CRITICAL EVENT IN HUMAN HISTORY HERE
118. 19 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,152
119. 19 JulWhich 17th Century Democrat Will Win This Critical Primary Race?
120. 19 JulLatest in the Great Kentucky Crossfire
121. 18 JulThe violence inherent in the new system
122. 18 JulBiden will never be forgiven for taking away their beloved war
123. 18 JulBans on abortion are a comprehensive war on women’s medical care
124. 18 JulClimate change and air conditioning in Europe
125. 18 JulSociobiology, GOP Style
126. 18 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,151
127. 18 JulBarbarism inside, bad faith outside
128. 17 JulSunday Open Thread: 19th Century Beer Cave Edition
129. 17 JulIt Takes At Least 377 Good Men With Guns…
130. 17 JulDersh Forum
131. 17 JulThe Executive Order On Women’s Health
132. 17 JulCOVID update: USA July 2022
133. 17 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,150
134. 17 JulThe Case of Cody Bellinger
135. 16 JulMusic Notes
136. 16 JulGag orders
137. 16 JulMore Kroger Brand Carl Schmitts
138. 16 JulBut he never trusted Mitch McConnell — or his Kentuckian errand boy Rand Paul
139. 16 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,149
140. 16 JulThose sides won’t both themselves
141. 15 JulAlways reading the same script
142. 15 JulPower without justification
143. 15 Jul2024
144. 15 JulArt Ask Me Anything
145. 15 JulWho moved my box with the mauve parachute?
146. 15 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,148
147. 15 JulInside job
148. 15 JulThursday Evening Open Thread: Musk Family Values Edition
149. 14 JulBringing Business Sense to Washington
150. 14 JulTargeting doctors
151. 14 JulCan States Lead the Way on Anti-Monopoly Reform?
152. 14 JulDeep thoughts, from your moral betters
153. 14 JulPay and Remote Work
154. 14 JulIvana Trump has died
155. 14 JulWhen Do the Assassinations Start?
156. 14 JulKeep chuckin’ those facts
157. 14 JulThey’re getting what they want
158. 14 JulTime for LGM’s Merrick Garland fan club to step on up
159. 14 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,147
160. 14 JulPivot to racism
161. 14 JulWednesday Night Open Thread: You Dirty Coyote Killing Son of a Gun Edition
162. 13 JulThe problem creation caucus
163. 13 JulFeeling Old Yet?
164. 13 JulAnother day in the reactionary media cycle
165. 13 JulAnd I should know!
166. 13 JulClarence Thomas and Thurgood Marshall
167. 13 JulSong Review: The Paranoid Style, “I’d Bet My Land and Titles” with Patterson Hood
168. 13 JulMore on 2022: A Bipartisan Space Fantasy
169. 13 JulExpanding Amazon Union Efforts
170. 13 JulBipartisantastic
171. 13 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,146
172. 13 JulProfiles in unfathomable cowardice
173. 12 JulTuesday Night Open Thread: George Wallace Is Coming Edition
174. 12 JulThose witnesses won’t tamper themselves
175. 12 JulFreedom’s just another word for where exactly is Milwaukee again?
176. 12 JulWhen Good Decision-Making is Bad Decision-Making
177. 12 Jul1/6 hearing thread
178. 12 JulThe Occasional Pleasure of a Harsh Takedown
179. 12 JulGerald McEntee, RIP
180. 12 JulAn old man in a dry month
181. 12 JulTerrible Times Coverage of Mexico
182. 12 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,145
183. 12 JulLogical Conclusions
184. 12 JulFuture of the Russian Navy
185. 11 JulAmazon’s Anti-Unionism Costs It Again
186. 11 JulHow Ron DeSantis won liberal democracy
187. 11 JulImages From the JWST
188. 11 JulNuclear Weapons and Russia’s War On Ukraine
189. 11 JulWaPo commissions random hack to talk to you like you’re an idiot
190. 11 JulEcheverría
191. 11 JulSorry we published that op-ed defending the neo-Nazi group
192. 11 JulThe Cancel Culture Force Awakens
193. 11 JulCajun barbarism
194. 11 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,144
195. 10 JulCringe anti-abortion fan fiction
196. 10 JulWho am I supposed to me mad at here
197. 10 JulStructure v. Character
198. 10 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,143
199. 10 JulGun culture, gun terror, gun fantasies
200. 9 JulThe chain steakhouse buffer zone doctrine
201. 9 JulThe Hollow Men
202. 9 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,142
203. 8 JulTony Sirico
204. 8 JulTaking Fascism Seriously, Teil 2
205. 8 JulTaking fascism seriously
206. 8 JulAbe Assassinated
207. 8 JulThis Day in Labor History: July 8, 1966
208. 8 JulAbe Shinzo
209. 8 JulQuestions from the 70s, Right to You
210. 7 JulThe most outrageous example of Campus PC being out of control since the Oberlin student said a pulled pork sandwich shouldn’t be called “banh mi”
211. 7 JulSignificant cultural monument destroyed by fundamentalist Christian lunatics egged on by fascist politicians and it’s not even a story
212. 7 JulWho did Nazi this coming
213. 7 JulResistance To The Dobbs Decision
214. 7 JulCaan
215. 7 JulLGM Podcast: Emergency BoJo Edition
216. 7 JulYou’ve Got to Pray Just to Make It Today
217. 7 JulHow Democrats Can Win Elections
218. 7 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,141
219. 7 JulA lack of confidence
220. 7 JulNot *all* children
221. 7 JulLGM Film Club 278: Daguerreotypes
222. 6 JulRepublicans finally rediscover use for the IRS
223. 6 JulChilling and deadly effects
224. 6 JulSpecial snowflakes demand safe spaces
225. 6 JulMeltdown in the Mother Country
226. 6 JulToday in Third Party Fetishism
227. 6 JulEl Salvador Should Have Invested in LoomCoin
228. 6 JulWas the GOP fated to be radicalized?
229. 6 JulShoot out the lights
230. 6 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,140
231. 6 JulA legal military-grade semi-automatic weapon for every violent teenager
232. 6 JulLGM Film Club, Part 277: The Longest Day
233. 5 JulRunning on empty
234. 5 JulOral History of the Blogosphere, Part 6: Lauren Bruce
235. 5 JulMasking in Japan
236. 5 JulTales from the New Gilded Age
237. 5 JulLochnertastic
238. 5 JulThe negative of impact of overruling Roe will not be limited to poor women
239. 5 JulIs our institutionalists learning?
240. 5 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,139
241. 4 JulThe libertarians!
242. 4 JulUSA! USA! USA!
243. 4 JulThe imaginary martyrdoms of the right wing: an infinite series
244. 4 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,138
245. 4 Jul“If ‘freedom’ coerces you into living a particular way that others have determined ‘correct,’ well that is a highly conditional freedom indeed:” A Discussion With Music Critic and Author David Cantwell about Manly Footwear, Fightin’ Sides and Listening to Merle Haggard
246. 3 JulCan’t let go
247. 3 JulThe Pandemic Is Not Over
248. 3 JulAmerican “pro-lifers” refuse to defend what they actually support
249. 3 JulA Question For Our Attorneys
250. 3 JulAbuser logic to defend child abuse
251. 3 JulThe lottery in Babylon
252. 3 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,137
253. 2 JulNot even the fee for the gambling license
254. 2 JulMusic Notes
255. 2 JulThe cancel culture lifestyle
256. 2 JulThe Battle of Snake Island
257. 2 JulThe pervo dream team
258. 2 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,136
259. 2 JulSam Alito’s America: where a 10-year-old girl can be forced to carry her rapist’s baby to term
260. 1 JulI was proved fucking right
261. 1 JulExtraordinary innovations in law and politics
262. 1 JulOther Rights About to Go
263. 1 JulWhen the myth becomes history
264. 1 JulThe Destruction of the Pac-12
265. 1 JulThis Day in Labor History: July 1, 1922
266. 1 JulThe Cost of the Gerontocracy
267. 1 JulCould We See a Black Panthers National Park?

June 2022

1. 30 JunClarence’s army is on their way
2. 30 JunThe major question is, what to do about the courts?
3. 30 JunCan ruthlessly gerrymandered state legislatures simply toss out presidential elections in their states if they don’t like the results and just appoint more congenial representatives to the Electoral College?
4. 30 JunSupreme Court makes up rule to enforce reactionary political preferences, part infinity
5. 30 JunFake Money in History
6. 30 JunRussia-Ukraine Update
7. 30 JunA Small Disinformation Bomb
8. 30 JunWhat counts as evidence?
9. 30 JunPeople We Should Remember
10. 30 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,135
11. 30 JunThis Time, Mitch is Totally Bargaining in Good Faith
12. 30 JunRetire Now!
13. 30 JunThe fine line between wishful thinking and trolling
14. 29 JunEverything antebellum is new again
15. 29 JunLGM Podcast: Welcome to the Post-Post-Roe
16. 29 JunThe show-me state
17. 29 JunExplaining the concept of hearsay to Gym Jordan
18. 29 JunThis is not a scandal
19. 29 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,134
20. 29 JunIt’s the crime
21. 28 JunThe convergence of the twain
22. 28 Jun“Every crime imaginable”: ketchup with today’s 1/6 hearings
23. 28 Jun“They’re not here to hurt me”
24. 28 JunHow International Trade Agreements Could Decimate Carbon Emission Targets
25. 28 JunThere are too many lawyers on the Supreme Court
26. 28 JunSam Alito’s woman problem
27. 28 JunCredit Where Credit is Due
28. 28 JunReviving Old Strategies
29. 28 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,133
30. 28 JunIt all started at the border
31. 28 JunYou look good for it
32. 27 JunHave you seen how they were lobbying? How can you delude yourself
33. 27 JunThe judicial politics of bad faith
34. 27 JunDisgusted by Disqus Disorder?
35. 27 JunFree Speech at Work
36. 27 JunThe countermajoritarian difficulties
37. 27 JunSpecial snowflake law student suffers possibly fatal injuries in group chat
38. 27 JunEuropean Activists Putting It Together
39. 27 JunBen Franklin’s Abortion Recipe
40. 27 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,132
41. 27 JunNow we see the violence inherent in the system
42. 27 JunGround zero
43. 27 JunLGM Film Club, Part 276: The Oeuvre of Morris the Cat
44. 26 JunDoes France have more restrictive abortion policy than Mississippi? (SPOILER: no and please stop pretending you know anything about abortion policy)
45. 26 JunThe corporatization of the university, faculty salaries edition
46. 26 JunVictory for White Life
47. 26 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,131
48. 25 JunUndead constitutionalism
49. 25 JunThe Ballad of Mark Uterus
50. 25 JunThe Cultural Heritage Cost of Climate Change
51. 25 JunGustavo Petro
52. 25 JunSome Early Thoughts
53. 25 JunHawley: Roe will help Republicans by compelling people to leave theocratic hellhole states like this one
54. 25 JunAlito’s disingenuous assurances about other precedents
55. 25 JunElite Law Brain: June 24, 2022
56. 25 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,130
57. 25 JunSending abortion up to the state
58. 24 JunI guess they had some time to line this one up
59. 24 JunIt happened here
60. 24 JunElite complacency and Roe
61. 24 JunSupreme Court Dissents Are Worthless
62. 24 JunAn Incorrect Prediction
63. 24 JunA day that will live in infamy
64. 24 JunA Scene from Japan
65. 24 JunYesterday’s other Roberts Court atrocity
66. 24 JunThe 7/11 Battle in Japan
67. 24 JunThis Day in Labor History: June 24, 1867
68. 24 JunSenate passes gun control bill on Gun Nut Appreciation Day at the Supreme Court
69. 24 JunLGM Film Club, Part 275: Band of Outsiders
70. 24 JunThe Sorest Winner
71. 23 JunI don’t want to rush to any conclusions but it’s *just* possible that some of this stuff might be against the law
72. 23 JunThe “Second Amendment” isn’t the reason most gun control legislation is now unconstitutional, and law office history isn’t history
73. 23 JunIt was nice while it lasted
74. 23 JunThe Attempted Coup
75. 23 JunI would do anything to oppose Trump except to vote against him
76. 23 JunWas the past better or worse than the present?
77. 23 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,129
78. 23 JunLGM Film Club, Part 274: My Night at Maud’s
79. 23 JunSo nothing’s changed?
80. 22 JunOn the “free exercise for religions whose views are consistent with the policy preferences of the Republican Party” argument
81. 22 JunThink Tankers Gone Bad
82. 22 JunOral History of the Blogosphere, Episode 5: Brad DeLong
83. 22 JunAin’t that America
84. 22 JunPour encourager les autres
85. 22 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,128
86. 22 JunThe downside
87. 21 Jun“Cancel Culture” and patriarchal entitlement
88. 21 JunHow much should gas cost?
89. 21 JunRon Johnson: I am happy to deliver Mister Trump our electoral votes
90. 21 JunRepublican justices: the Establishment Clause violates the First Amendment
91. 21 JunWhat’s that grease stain under the bus?
92. 21 JunMike Pence: American weirdo
93. 21 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,127/Dead Horses in American History, Part 20
94. 21 JunEric Greitens threatens violence again
95. 21 JunLGM Film Club, Part 273: Five Graves to Cairo
96. 20 JunHow the Republican war on the administrative state will cook the planet
97. 20 JunThe Origins of the Bubonic Plague
98. 20 JunEvaluating Zelensky
99. 20 JunJanuary 6 Prosecutions – A Timeline
100. 20 JunRemind Me Again Which Part of the Bible Says Black Lives Don’t Matter
101. 20 JunApple Organizing
102. 20 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,126
103. 20 JunAds for Climate Change
104. 20 JunWhen Your Favorite Face-Biting Leopard Eats Your Face
105. 20 JunLGM Film Club, Part 272: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
106. 19 JunThe Republican war on contraception is already here
107. 19 JunThe Revolution Eats its Own
108. 19 JunThe Texas Republican Party Platform
109. 19 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,125
110. 19 JunThe Balance in the Straits
111. 18 JunMusic Notes
112. 18 JunRufo’s army are on their way
113. 18 JunWe will train our blue-eyed men
114. 18 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,124
115. 18 JunUvalde police oppose the disclosure of public records on the grounds that they would make them look bad
116. 17 JunThe least subtle con man in a party led by Donald Trump
117. 17 JunIt’s all a dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago
118. 17 JunThe “critical race theory” moral panic and the real cancel culture
119. 17 JunThe anti-vaxxer
120. 17 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,123
121. 17 JunHeckuva job
122. 16 JunI beg your pardon
123. 16 JunA party of seditionists
124. 16 JunRussian Sanctions And Civilian Nuclear Power
125. 16 JunThe plot against America
126. 16 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,122
127. 16 JunThe small world of American fascism
128. 16 JunThe Port Chicago Mutiny
129. 15 JunDefined Contribution Plans and U.S. Political Economy
130. 15 JunWhat happens if or rather when the stock market melts down for a whole generation again?
131. 15 JunSometimes it’s who you most suspect
132. 15 JunOne Hundred Thousand Eagle Eyed GOP Poll Watchers
133. 15 JunLGM Podcast: The Bright Ages
134. 15 JunStarbucks Going Extra Classy With Its Unionbusting
135. 15 JunUpdates on Northwest Fascists
136. 15 JunA True Member of the Family
137. 15 JunThis Day in Labor History: June 15, 1942
138. 14 JunThe dark triad
139. 14 JunThat watch cost more than your car
140. 14 JunMore Bangladeshi Workplace Deaths
141. 14 JunThe Gerontocrats
142. 14 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,121
143. 14 JunThe IDF almost certainly murdered Shireen Abu Akleh
144. 13 JunPhilip Baker Hall, RIP
145. 13 JunProfiles in something
146. 13 JunMr. McClure, I have a crazy friend who says crypto is just a big scam
147. 13 JunIt won’t hurt when I fall down from this barstool
148. 13 JunCan Democrats Make a Comeback in Factory Towns?
149. 13 JunThe decline and fall of U.S. men’s tennis
150. 13 JunFlanders in the Donbas
151. 13 JunWhy is Organized Labor Doing So Little to Help the Current Union Surge?
152. 13 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,120
153. 13 JunSince I’m on the road and apparently nobody else wants to write anything open thread
154. 12 JunLove, Death and Robots Season 3 Review
155. 12 JunPutin’s Associates At The Long Table
156. 12 JunCome and join the party dressed to kill
157. 12 JunProfit without honor
158. 12 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,119
159. 12 JunSaturday night/Sunday morning open thread
160. 12 JunAfter the Supreme Court pulls the trigger
161. 11 JunThe purely vibe-based case for lock-’em-up politics
162. 11 JunThere will never be a progressive federalism
163. 11 JunIs ignorance of reality an excuse?
164. 11 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,118
165. 11 JunLGM Film Club, Part 271: France
166. 11 Jun“All the Usual Suspects Are Acting Weird:” A Song-By-Song Consideration of the Drive-By Truckers’ new record ‘Welcome 2 Club XIII’
167. 10 Jun1/6 and the Electoral College
168. 10 JunWill (should) Biden run for a second term?
169. 10 JunUnhappy warriors
170. 10 JunOverburdened Communities
171. 10 JunThe two-front war on democracy
172. 10 JunHow a Photograph Changes the World and Changes a Life
173. 10 JunBullies want you to be grateful for being bullied
174. 10 JunMurder in the Amazon
175. 10 JunThe United States v. Donald J. Trump
176. 10 JunCharles Kernaghan, RIP
177. 10 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,117
178. 10 JunPictures from a fascist attempted coup
179. 10 JunLGM Film Club, Part 270: 3 Bad Men
180. 9 Jun1/6 hearings opening night thread
181. 9 JunRights without remedies
182. 9 JunPulverized
183. 9 JunIs authoritarianism bad for journalism? Views differ
184. 9 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,116
185. 9 JunThe big lie and the big grift
186. 8 JunWould-be assassin of Brett Kavanaugh arrested
187. 8 JunYou Can’t Follow The Action Without A Score Card
188. 8 JunAnother disclosure order for Carl Schmitt for Dummies
189. 8 JunThe specious return of “Tough on Crime” politics
190. 8 JunWhat “freedom” means to Republicans
191. 8 JunDrunken Shrimp with Tequila: Recipe Review
192. 8 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,115
193. 8 JunLGM Film Club, Part 269: The Parallax View
194. 8 JunThe sex pest and the team that helped cover it up
195. 7 JunThe trans panic and sports
196. 7 JunThe post-Roe world will be one of authoritarian chaos
197. 7 JunSeven Days In May
198. 7 JunQuick Film Rec: Fire Island
199. 7 JunObscure Languages
200. 7 JunNormalization and denial
201. 7 JunWhat Does Growing Union Support Mean?
202. 7 JunGringo Hunters
203. 7 JunWould Republicans Act Against Extremism if Right-Wingers Assassinated Republican Leadership?
204. 7 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,114
205. 7 JunThe Dem Elites Who Didn’t Know When to Quit
206. 7 JunWar Update
207. 6 JunWhen the apogee of the hangovers in the writers’ room meets the perigee of a deadline
208. 6 JunWhat Roe said was irrelevant
209. 6 JunBoJo wins no confidence vote, sort of
210. 6 JunI can see by what you carry that you come from Bari-town
211. 6 JunWill Iran Build A Bomb If The JCPOA Talks Fail?
212. 6 JunPeople’s History of the Marvel Universe, Week 20: The (Mutant) Registration Act(s) Analyzed
213. 6 JunThe future Republicans have achieved
214. 6 JunCOVID and the right wing epistemic bubble
215. 6 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,113
216. 6 JunNo Confidence Man
217. 6 JunMasters of white supremacy
218. 5 JunMusic Notes
219. 5 JunVladimir Putin’s Red Mercury Scam
220. 5 JunEnjoy every sandwich
221. 5 JunThe same old war it’s always been
222. 5 JunThree days of gun violence in America
223. 5 JunRussia’s Goals In Its War On Ukraine
224. 5 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,112
225. 4 JunJust a touch of economic anxiety
226. 4 JunLawyer up and don’t cooperate
227. 4 JunI am safe hidden here
228. 4 JunWar Pigs
229. 4 JunBut it’s the other way
230. 4 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,111
231. 4 JunEqual sovereign dignitude in the shadows
232. 3 JunRon DeSantis’s thuggish war on the First Amendment continues
233. 3 JunQAnon is projection, an endless series
234. 3 Jun“Contained”
235. 3 JunWhat The Russians Did At Chernobyl
236. 3 JunWe’re all part of the same hypocrisy
237. 3 Jun“Growth of homosexuality in city provokes wide concern”
238. 3 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,110
239. 3 JunWe need to get back to the good old days of bipartisan comity
240. 2 JunDo women materially benefit from making allegations of abuse against powerful men? (SPOILER: absolutely not.)
241. 2 JunBiden Lays Out War Goals
242. 2 JunWhen it’s easier to buy a military-grade rifle than to buy Sudafed
243. 2 JunThe politics of cheese etc.
244. 2 JunTotal victory for Corinthian’s victims
245. 2 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,109
246. 2 JunHinckley freed
247. 1 JunCancel culture is real
248. 1 JunCritics, contrarians, and trolls
249. 1 JunJohn Durham and Bill Barr’s last snipe hunt
250. 1 JunContinuing the “blame everyone else for our cowardice” tour
251. 1 JunCrypto is a scam from top to bottom
252. 1 JunForest Service Suspends Prescribed Burns – Too Late For The Sangres
253. 1 JunThe End
254. 1 JunThis Day in Labor History: June 1, 1981
255. 1 JunClowntime is (Almost) Over
256. 1 JunLines Form on the Left and Right

May 2022

1. 31 MayAll that’s left is our friendship
2. 31 MayWHERE’S THE FUCKING MONEY LEBOWSKI?!?!?!
3. 31 MayLGM at 18: the unicorn community
4. 31 MayThe Pod
5. 31 MayWhat You’ll Be Missing – The Nuclear War and Peace of 2040
6. 31 MayTechnology is the Future that we must embrace now in order to have a technological future
7. 31 MaySupport LGM, Get Some LoomCoin in Return
8. 31 MayLove, Death, Robots, but no Women
9. 31 MayBehind the Blogging: 2022 Edition
10. 31 MayDon’t free ride on the yellow brick road to wherever we’re going
11. 31 MaySupport the LGM Cat Cafe Empire!
12. 31 MayHappy 18th Birthday!
13. 31 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,108
14. 30 MayChecking in on the Party of Life
15. 30 MayDeath on the installment plan
16. 30 MayOld times there are not forgotten
17. 30 MayPete Mitchell and Luke Skywalker
18. 30 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,107
19. 30 MayWisdom is thrown into jail
20. 30 MayLGM Film Club, Part 268: Queen in Japan
21. 29 MayRussia After The War
22. 29 May78 minutes
23. 29 MayJustice delayed
24. 29 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,106
25. 29 MayCareful about legislating
26. 29 MayMusic Notes
27. 28 MayMisogyny and mass killing
28. 28 MayCruise Revisited
29. 28 MayLet us remember the real victims
30. 28 MayCorporations Will Never Lead the Movement for Justice
31. 28 MayLies
32. 28 MayReproductive Rights in Latin America
33. 28 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,105
34. 28 MayWhen you’re too ignorant to know how insane orthodox Republican policy on guns is
35. 28 MayLGM Film Club, Part 267: You in Japan
36. 28 MayStarbucks Union: Chilean Lessons
37. 28 MayCowardly accessories to murder demand the protection they refused to provide
38. 27 MayUvalde police didn’t want *anyone else* doing their job, either
39. 27 May19 dead kids and 19 live cops
40. 27 MayMonsters
41. 27 MayMetal Masculinity
42. 27 MayCoward cops and America’s WMD gun fetish
43. 27 MayThe Glemming
44. 27 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,104
45. 27 MayRay Liotta’s greatest role
46. 26 MayUvalde and the transparent absurdity of American gun laws
47. 26 MayCasualties of war
48. 26 MayDoor control
49. 26 MayLiotta
50. 26 May40 minutes
51. 26 MayRussia-Ukraine War Update
52. 26 MayThe cowardly blue line: To protect and serve (ourselves)
53. 26 MayBig in Japan
54. 26 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,103
55. 26 MayWe will have so much winning that you might get bored with winning: HBO’s “Winning Time,” Phil Mickelson and the Nauseating Prospect of Success at Any Cost
56. 26 MayLGM Film Club, Part 266: From Spikes to Spindles
57. 26 MayThey’ve never believed their own bullshit
58. 25 MayA little light assassination
59. 25 MayCarter: Continuing the Fight
60. 25 MayBeto O’Rourke gets in Greg Abbott’s smarmy face
61. 25 MayMurderous Scumbag Supports Imperialist War
62. 25 MayProtest Method History
63. 25 MayGood men with guns
64. 25 MayMy little town
65. 25 MayThe State of Labor
66. 25 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,102
67. 25 MayPeople who matter and people who don’t
68. 25 MayAsshole of the Year
69. 24 MayToleration today, toleration tomorrow, toleration forever
70. 24 MayYour Deadly Massacre of the Day
71. 24 MayWhy do extremely rich people do things they themselves realize are disgusting for yet more money?
72. 24 MayD day
73. 24 MayLGM Podcast: From Ukraine to Taiwan
74. 24 MayOne reason procedural Catch-22s are inconsistent with the rule of law is that they can get innocent people killed
75. 24 MayMan jailed for mocking the police; 6th circuit says no harm no foul
76. 24 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,101
77. 24 MayIt takes a tough man to make a tender racism
78. 23 MayWhich side are you on?
79. 23 MayThe Clarence Thomas Catch-22
80. 23 MayMore Hunter Biden laptop news
81. 23 MayHarry all we get is lies
82. 23 MayThe End of Ambiguity
83. 23 MayThis Day in Labor History: May 23, 1973
84. 23 MayThe Moral Majority
85. 22 MayMusic Notes
86. 22 MayCriminalizing pregnancy
87. 22 MayStar Wars and the culture of nostalgia
88. 22 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,100
89. 22 MayThe many economic populisms of Donald Trump, an ongoing series
90. 21 MayIlya Shapro’s Cancel Culture
91. 21 MayThe reparations white supremacists supported
92. 21 MayFor whatever reason
93. 21 MayMy legal theories which are mine, by John Eastman, Esq.
94. 21 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,099
95. 20 MayRepublican judges: it is illegal for Democratic presidents to govern
96. 20 MayAngell 2
97. 20 MayWhat do you mean “we”?
98. 20 MayRussia’s Get Rich Quick Nuclear Scheme – Oh Wait
99. 20 MayOklahoma, Oh No
100. 20 MayAnti-fandom as identity
101. 20 MayThis Day in Labor History: May 20, 1926
102. 20 MayThe Party of Life: Starving babies are good if it’s politically damaging for Joe Biden
103. 20 MayLGM Film Club, Part 265: The Last Waltz
104. 19 MayHorse trading
105. 19 MayCancel Culture Run Ever So Amok
106. 19 MayMore from the populist Tucker Carlson’s war on American elites
107. 19 MaySlave Labor and Solar Energy
108. 19 MayEvangelicals and Abortion
109. 19 MayRural Gentrification
110. 19 MayLeading Republican candidate for governor calls for abolishing democracy in Colorado
111. 19 MaySanitizing right wing paranoia about “white genocide”
112. 19 MayLGM Podcast: The Public Lands
113. 19 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,098
114. 19 MayGreat Freudian slips in history
115. 18 May5CA panel: administrative law is unconstitutional
116. 18 MayThe Biden Information Offensive
117. 18 MayKeep Calm and Carry On?
118. 18 MayWar Update
119. 18 MayShilling for crypto
120. 18 MayInclusive Beauty Standards Panic
121. 18 MayIf Republicans win the gubernatorial election in PA, there will not be a democratic election for president in 2024
122. 18 MayThe loneliness of the long distance tennis player
123. 18 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,097
124. 18 MayFascist asshole loses for the wrong reasons, and that’s alright with me
125. 18 MayMore updates on Hunter Biden’s laptop
126. 17 May3-Ingredient Nutella Brownies Recipe Review
127. 17 MayJohn Roberts: the federal government is not authorized to address problems that don’t exist, like “racism” or “corruption”
128. 17 MayWill Democrats deliver more affordable insurance or a massive premium hike before the next midterms?
129. 17 MayFox determined not to find the guy who did this
130. 17 MayThe philosophers and the mob
131. 17 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,096
132. 17 MayWorse Before It Gets Better
133. 16 MayLet’s get complacent!
134. 16 MayWhat the GOP has become
135. 16 MayToday at our neoconfederate executive council
136. 16 MayThe passing of the white race
137. 16 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,095
138. 16 May#3 House Republican endorses every winger conspiracy theory to come down the thruway
139. 15 MayNew Mexico Fires
140. 15 MayFrom the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Bilbo
141. 15 MayThe Misogyny Tell
142. 15 MayWill the next GOP trifecta ban abortion?
143. 15 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,094
144. 15 May400 episodes
145. 14 MayMusic Notes
146. 14 MayThe Great Replacement
147. 14 MaySore Winners
148. 14 MayShe would know
149. 14 MayA tortured reading of the evidence
150. 14 MayThis Day in Labor History: May 14, 1889
151. 14 MayThe War on Culture, Archival Edition
152. 13 MayThe most faithful originalist
153. 13 MayThe ethic of life
154. 13 MayOFFICIAL LGM NOTICE: CRYPTO CRASH DOES NOT AFFECT VALUE OF LOOMCOIN
155. 13 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,093
156. 13 MayThe lavatories of democracy
157. 13 MayMAGA in PA
158. 12 MayThe end(s) of writing
159. 12 MayOther people’s problems they overwhelm my mind
160. 12 MayStarbucks Anti-Unionism
161. 12 MayNews from Less Terrible Countries
162. 12 MayAlex Berenson sues Twitter for defamation in Irish court
163. 12 MayThis Day in Labor History: May 12, 1959
164. 12 MayThese are not very bright Nazis and things got out of hand
165. 11 MayJohn Leo
166. 11 MayConservatives continue to lie to the public about the implications of Alito’s opinion
167. 11 MayAnother tricky day for you
168. 11 MayI was with him when he said the election was rigged, but then he went too far
169. 11 MayTrumpism and liberal denial
170. 11 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,092
171. 11 May“Attempted murder,” now honestly, did they ever give anyone a Nobel prize for “attempted chemistry?”
172. 11 MayBeginning to see the light
173. 10 MayRepublican chambers leaking as Republicans pretend to think that leaks from the Supreme Court are a constitutional crisis
174. 10 MayWomen being refused treatment for miscarriages in Texas
175. 10 MayRussia-Ukraine Update
176. 10 MayThe misogynist anachronisms of Sam Alito
177. 10 MaySusan Collins calls the cops because someone said something mean
178. 10 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,091
179. 10 MayDelusional Democrats
180. 10 MayIn the United States of Alito, every miscarriage in a red state a potential felony
181. 10 MayLGM Film Club, Part 264: First Cow
182. 9 MayWinning Time
183. 9 MayThe Crashing Wave of Conservative Repression of America
184. 9 MayLGM Podcast: Injury Impoverished
185. 9 MayThe anti-majoritarian difficulty
186. 9 MaySonia Sotomayor should retire from the SCOTUS
187. 9 MayThe no-knock problem
188. 9 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,090
189. 9 MayRepublican pundits can afford to be made to look ridiculous
190. 8 MayRussia Tries To Buy The Catalonian Independence Movement
191. 8 MayYou can protest the otherwise unaccountable Supreme Court anywhere you like as long as there’s no chance a justice will have to see it
192. 8 MayNever Gonna Change
193. 8 MayThe delusions of Andrew Sullivan
194. 8 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,089
195. 8 MayLife in the closet
196. 7 MayMusic Notes
197. 7 MayThe post-Roe world will be worse than the pre-Roe world
198. 7 MayMan actively working to murder Supreme Court’s legitimacy furious that Court is about to have only one parent
199. 7 MayHis Kinda Guy
200. 7 MayCumulative radicalization and the GOP
201. 7 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,088
202. 7 MayBiden meets with union organizers at the White House
203. 6 MayThe Ballad of Kathleen Parker
204. 6 MayOnly Fools Fall in Love
205. 6 MayThe official GOP line on abortion is the same as the Confederacy’s on slavery but even more incoherent
206. 6 MayCocaine addict can’t understand why Dad can’t just blow up the coke labs by firing missiles into another country, secretly.
207. 6 MayHow the libertarian vampire and the racist bingo caller bought a pet senator
208. 6 MayWhere Is The Computer War?
209. 6 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,087
210. 6 MayThe coming assault on abortion rights is also an assault on equal citizenship
211. 5 MayWHO estimates global death toll from COVID to be two and a half times higher than official COVID deaths
212. 5 MayYou thought God was an architect, now you know
213. 5 MayNever again is what you swore the time before
214. 5 MayRussia-Ukraine Update
215. 5 MayRemember May 3, 2022: the first time the Supreme Court of the United States was involved in politics
216. 5 MayThe 25th amendment road not taken
217. 5 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,086
218. 5 MayUpon Petard Hoist
219. 4 MayJ.D. Vance (R-Thiel)
220. 4 MayThe public evaluates Supreme Court opinions based on results
221. 4 MayTrump: Kill Em All!
222. 4 MayThe History Samuel Alito Left Out
223. 4 MayAin’t Climate Change Great!
224. 4 MayThe real scandal is the opinion
225. 4 MayStarbucks Anti-Union Lies
226. 4 MayLeaking SCOTUS opinions
227. 4 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,085
228. 4 MayPundit Accountability Moment, Peter Thiel Sockpuppet edition
229. 4 MayLGM Film Club, Part 263: Million Dollar Legs
230. 4 MayFascists of the World, Unite
231. 3 MayNo rights Sam Alito was bound to respect
232. 3 MayLGM Podcast: The End of Roe
233. 3 MayGuys around here will tell ya, you apologize for neoconfederate reactionaries for a living, it’s like any other job. You don’t gamble, you grind it out.
234. 3 MayThe absurdity of life tenure for SCOTUS justices
235. 3 MayThe 32BJ Model
236. 3 MayCheap Nature/Cheap Labor
237. 3 MayThose pearls won’t clutch themselves
238. 3 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,084
239. 3 MayDraft opinion overruling Roe leaked
240. 3 MayDept. of corrections
241. 2 MayGlenn Greenwald is extremely concerned that women journalists may not be earning their money
242. 2 MayThe next federal Republican trifecta will pass a “Heartbeat” [sic] bill
243. 2 MayThe ballad of J.D. Mandel
244. 2 MayWhere Is the Organizing Energy?
245. 2 MayLGM Podcast: Way Too Early
246. 2 MayThose Russian Fires and Explosions
247. 2 MayThoughts on Activism and the Russia-Ukraine War
248. 2 MayTalking Orrin
249. 2 MayThe narcissistic fragility of white rural America
250. 2 MayThe Pandemic and the Starbucks Union Drive
251. 2 MayHow Union Drives Improve Lives for Workers
252. 2 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,083
253. 2 MayTrump endorses JD Mandel in Ohio Senate primary
254. 2 MayAll projection, all the time
255. 1 MayMusic Notes
256. 1 MayDie a hero or live long enough to become a stooge for fascist imperialism [UPDATED]
257. 1 May2,000 Epstein coefficients
258. 1 MayProfit and fear
259. 1 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,082
260. 1 MayWhat a lovely way of saying what you’re thinking of me

April 2022

1. 30 AprMAGA and the White Power Hour
2. 30 AprRepublicans use imaginary Democratic scandals to rationalize real GOP ones
3. 30 AprI am beginning to think that Republicans do not have a principled commitment to federalism
4. 30 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,081
5. 29 AprMaster and servant
6. 29 AprHaving fewer Nazis on Twitter is good, actually
7. 29 AprLGM Podcast: Maximal Aims and Minimal Capabilities
8. 29 AprI used to be a liberal but then
9. 29 AprThere’s a lot of opportunities if you know how to coerce them
10. 29 AprThe moral panics of the right and left in contemporary American politics
11. 29 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 29, 1899
12. 29 AprThe coke orgies, like the pee tape, are real
13. 29 AprNFL Draft/Sixers choke?/etc. open thread
14. 28 AprDid you see how they were living? How can you delude yourself?
15. 28 AprIf only there was some way to stop me from hitting myself
16. 28 AprOrban and DeSantis
17. 28 AprWhat you need you have to borrow
18. 28 AprBeing Working Class in Texas Can Be a Death Sentence
19. 28 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 28, 1941
20. 28 AprA mind like a sewer and a heart like a fridge
21. 28 AprLGM Film Club, Part 262: Malaysia, 1970
22. 28 AprA bad deal, or a worse deal?
23. 27 AprMore Fun with Supply Chains
24. 27 AprMore War Means More Bad Environmental Decisions
25. 27 AprWhat free speech is and is not
26. 27 AprOnly Three More Years
27. 27 AprJanuary was a test run, not a one-off
28. 27 AprAmazon and the NLRB
29. 27 AprLatest from Russia-Ukraine
30. 27 AprThuggish LA Sheriff Told 1st Amendment Still Applicable in America in 2022
31. 27 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,080
32. 27 AprLGM Film Club, Part 261: The Confederate Ironclad
33. 26 AprNow the devil’s got an Ivey sticker on the back of his Cadillac
34. 26 AprThe COVID pandemic and worsening health of American young adults
35. 26 AprThe seditionists are calling from inside the House
36. 26 AprVoter fraud is real!
37. 26 AprSandy Hook and the Big Lie
38. 26 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,079
39. 26 AprYeah, surrrrrrrrrrrre
40. 26 AprLGM Film Club, Part 260: Show Me a Hero
41. 25 AprThe Florida Fascist Strike Force
42. 25 AprThe Wages of Dipshit Made Up Money
43. 25 AprBad Day For Tweets
44. 25 AprThis is fine
45. 25 AprHow the fake grievance machine works
46. 25 AprThese are not very bright guys
47. 25 AprTiny Dollops of Half-Justice
48. 25 AprElon Musk buys Twitter
49. 25 AprMeet the New Boss, Same As the Old Boss
50. 25 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 25, 1947
51. 25 Apr“Try To Be Less Uptight:” Ranking Yo La Tengo’s Studio Albums from Worst to Best
52. 25 AprLGM Film Club, Part 259: This Day and Age
53. 24 AprT. Thomas Fortune
54. 24 AprFascist candidate humiliated again
55. 24 AprHatch
56. 24 AprPlacing the Unionization Wave in Historical Context
57. 24 AprLittle Trumps
58. 24 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,078
59. 23 AprHow Does this War End?
60. 23 AprMusic Notes
61. 23 AprIncredibly Evil Corporation Remains Evil
62. 23 AprOur Killer Cops
63. 23 AprThe cost of political theater
64. 23 AprStuff Happens
65. 23 AprThe new McCarthyism, like the original, is about destroying public institutions
66. 23 AprCOVID update
67. 23 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,077
68. 23 AprTwo giants
69. 23 AprThe real scandals
70. 22 AprFlorida Republicans punishing Disney with a huge tax cut
71. 22 AprWhen they openly and explicitly say what they’re doing, believe them
72. 22 AprWhen authoritarian dipshits hire authoritarian dipshits
73. 22 AprNeo-reactionary cool kids for fascism
74. 22 AprThe War at Sea
75. 22 AprLGM Podcast: Flight Attendants in the Vanguard
76. 22 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,076
77. 22 AprThey know. They don’t care.
78. 22 AprLGM Film Club, Part 258: A Corner in Wheat
79. 21 AprWhat does it mean for there to be a housing shortage?
80. 21 AprFetterman
81. 21 AprDetroit Standing Up For Itself
82. 21 AprA cultural history of the 3000 hit club
83. 21 AprStarbucks Union Busting In Real Time
84. 21 AprThe end of tenure in red states
85. 21 AprDan Markel’s former brother in law arrested for his murder
86. 21 AprHappy Birthday Queen Elizabeth II
87. 21 AprThe Party of Death, Beehive State Edition
88. 21 AprA Political History of the Future: Severance
89. 21 AprMasks on a plane
90. 21 AprRight wing attempt to express concern about Black people goes as expected (Update – TODAY IN PARLIAMENT HAS NOW BECOME THE CLASSIC SERIAL)
91. 21 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 21, 1894
92. 21 AprCampus PC is more out of control than it’s ever been
93. 20 AprDeterrence Works Only If One Deters
94. 20 AprCry From the Cross
95. 20 AprBy special request, a Rod Dreher divorce thread
96. 20 AprThe Dimmest Man in a Very Dim Profession
97. 20 AprThe Meritocracy in Action
98. 20 Apr“They want someone to knock on your door, too. Not to put you in the newspaper, though”
99. 20 AprLeft-MAGA campaign gets crushed in San Francisco
100. 20 AprDeconstructing Deterrence
101. 20 AprPeter Thiel buys new McMansion for his sock puppet
102. 20 AprWhy “Guy’s Ranch Kitchen” is the best cooking “competition” show on television
103. 20 AprWhy do all these seditionists keep texting me their coup plans?
104. 20 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,075
105. 20 AprWas NATO Expansion a Mistake?
106. 20 AprSocial media and anti-LGBTQ+ McCarthyism
107. 19 AprCan an intelligent person believe the Big Lie?
108. 19 AprTrump judges ignoring black letter law is in fact extremely bad
109. 19 AprAnother War Crime
110. 19 AprThe Offensives in the Donbas
111. 19 AprMore news about Hunter Biden’s laptop
112. 19 AprA woman ahead of her time
113. 19 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,074
114. 19 AprWelcome back my friends to the coup that never ends
115. 18 AprThe takeover of the federal judiciary by radical reactionaries
116. 18 AprWhat Is Going On at Montpelier?
117. 18 AprToday in Fascist Judicial Activism
118. 18 AprIdeas from the Past for the Present
119. 18 AprThe forever prisoner
120. 18 AprShame if something happened to it
121. 18 AprAre the galaxy brains up to their old tricks?
122. 18 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,073
123. 18 AprDo Alaska MAGAs still want to hear golden oldies?
124. 17 AprRepublican justices likely to put the Establishment Clause in the same dustbin of history as Section 2 of the Fifteenth Amendment
125. 17 AprStopping Le Pen
126. 17 AprFor unto you a text is given
127. 17 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 17, 1937
128. 17 AprFrontiers in lib-owning
129. 17 AprLGM Film Club, Part 257: The Natural
130. 16 AprPolitical questions
131. 16 AprTucker Carlson’s compelling new season of Tucker Carlson’s Originals will explore spunk & junk
132. 16 AprThe Republican Party remains as opposed to economic populism as ever
133. 16 AprWho pays taxes?
134. 16 AprThe Loss of the Moskva
135. 16 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,072
136. 15 AprMike Lee: Trump’s autogolpe was great in the beginning, but maybe it went a tiny bit too far
137. 15 AprSomething rotten in the state of Texas (updates)
138. 15 AprIs it safe?
139. 15 AprThe Koney and Kavanaugh Kourt
140. 15 AprPerlsteins before swine
141. 15 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,071
142. 15 AprThe End of Presidential Debates?
143. 14 AprTrump to endorse LGM favorite son JD Vance
144. 14 AprBaby Gifts from Horrible Parents
145. 14 AprFollowing orders
146. 14 AprPolice shootings and the logic of authoritarianism
147. 14 AprCalifornia Voters Get What They Asked For
148. 14 AprMission accomplished
149. 14 AprDepoliticized authoritarianism
150. 14 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 14, 1816
151. 14 AprKentucky enacts abortion ban in anticipation of Supreme Court’s overruling of Roe
152. 14 AprLGM Film Club, Part 256: The Gay Shoe Clerk
153. 14 AprMoskva Down?
154. 13 AprThe Fate Idiots Deserve
155. 13 AprToday in Moderate Republican Governance
156. 13 AprAsymmetrical warfare
157. 13 AprDon’t mention the coup
158. 13 AprRufo’s army are on their way
159. 13 AprComplete Campaign Incompetence
160. 13 Apr“Biden will never be in that White House”
161. 13 AprThe politics of a post-Roe America
162. 13 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,070
163. 13 AprToday from the Party of Calhoun
164. 12 AprThe Supreme Court couldn’t slow-walk the overruling of Roe even if it wanted to, which it probably doesn’t
165. 12 AprNo way Jose
166. 12 AprAnti-vaxx identity politics
167. 12 AprWhat Is Vladimir Putin Thinking?
168. 12 AprRussia-Ukraine Update
169. 12 AprThe world’s greatest deliberative body
170. 12 AprThe moral panic over cancel culture, conservative man edition
171. 12 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,069
172. 12 AprWaxing racist
173. 11 AprGlengarry Glenn Beck
174. 11 AprIt’s a problem, sir, but it can’t be bent
175. 11 AprMy heart is broke but I have some glue help me inhale and mend it with you
176. 11 AprI hate this planet
177. 11 AprClapping Back at Howard Schultz
178. 11 AprThat’s what friends are for
179. 11 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,068
180. 11 AprLGM Film Club, Part 255: Truck Turner
181. 11 AprContre Le Fascisme
182. 10 AprCapsule Tower
183. 10 AprLet’s Not Put Too Much Pressure on Amazon Workers to Lead the Labor Movement
184. 10 AprGo Ahead And Bluff, They Said. They Won’t Shoot Back, They Said
185. 10 AprMovement conservatives in America have always wanted reactionary indoctrination, not academic freedom
186. 10 AprExtreme aging and statistical outliers revisited
187. 10 AprLabor Militancy in the Libraries
188. 10 AprTugboat
189. 10 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,067
190. 10 AprRepublicans: Party of Sex Pests
191. 9 AprMusic Notes
192. 9 AprRecords of “gifts” from foreign governments to Trump, Pence, and White House staffers mysteriously missing
193. 9 AprWhich Corporations Are All-In For Putin’s Imperialist War?
194. 9 AprFrench Fascism
195. 9 AprDwayne Haskins
196. 9 AprAmerican buffet
197. 9 AprA Coup in Search of a Legal Theory
198. 9 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,066
199. 9 AprThe post-Roe world is now
200. 8 AprGrift never sleeps
201. 8 AprLatest Russia Update
202. 8 AprYou constantly defend right-wing public officials and attack left-wing ones, and for some reason people think of you as a right-winger
203. 8 AprAnd We Have a Winner…
204. 8 AprChanges in life expectancy in the USA and other peer countries during the pandemic
205. 8 AprDeSantis exorts Disney for its tepid opposition to his homophobic attacks on speech
206. 8 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,065
207. 8 AprThe Assassination of the Seditionist Josh Hawley by the Honorable Brian Schatz
208. 8 AprTanking is a con
209. 7 AprThe university administrator racket
210. 7 AprAnd Muzak filled the air from Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls
211. 7 AprThere’s a new Associate Justice in town
212. 7 AprTaking Public Service Seriously
213. 7 AprBreaking: Earl Warren is still dead
214. 7 AprLOL nothing matters
215. 7 AprExtremist definitions of gender
216. 7 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,064
217. 7 AprThere goes their hero
218. 6 AprScore 1 for Covid
219. 6 AprWorking for Free, or, Modern Life in Higher Education
220. 6 AprExtending Student Debt Moratorium
221. 6 AprEric Boehlert
222. 6 AprWhat is it like to be a fascist?
223. 6 AprThe shadow docket knows
224. 6 AprReading Material On Putin’s War
225. 6 AprGroomers’ old party
226. 6 AprGermany 1932
227. 6 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,063
228. 6 AprThe Eastman Emails
229. 5 AprAnthony Kennedy and how Republican elites learned to love Donald Trump
230. 5 AprOklahoma legislature passes ban on abortion at any stage of pregnancy
231. 5 AprRepublican Putinism
232. 5 Apr“Offensive” Weapons
233. 5 AprThe astonishing return of Mary Rosh
234. 5 AprQANON, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and the sex obsessions of the American right
235. 5 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,062
236. 4 AprCompact and the anti-Dreyfusards
237. 4 AprSenator QAnon and the power of projection
238. 4 AprLatest Trump grift revealed to be a grift
239. 4 AprIvermectin don’t work and the Intellectual Horse Paste Web don’t care
240. 4 AprCOVID fatigue and budget priorities
241. 4 AprBucha
242. 4 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,061
243. 4 AprThis is the future Republicans want
244. 3 AprIntellectual debauchery
245. 3 AprChildren of Palin
246. 3 AprTales from the Russian American Bund
247. 3 AprThe emptiest threats
248. 3 AprThe conundrums of post-COVID work schedules
249. 3 AprKyiv Goes on the Offensive
250. 3 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,060
251. 3 AprBeating the unionbusters
252. 2 AprHell or Duke Elimination Day, or whatever open thread
253. 2 AprThe cult of stupidity
254. 2 Apr“Environmentalists” for climate change
255. 2 AprThe soul of MAGA
256. 2 AprThe COVID pandemic in historical memory
257. 2 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 2, 1964
258. 2 AprOh, your nostalgia file
259. 1 AprIs the Supreme Court coming for the Amazon union?
260. 1 AprThe “Red” and the Brown
261. 1 AprJack Kerouac And Me
262. 1 AprOutflanked XXXV: a most deadly outflankening
263. 1 AprDisney and Sportsball: The continuing radicalization of the American right
264. 1 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,059
265. 1 Apr“They’re handing out hopes and dreams and schemes at the entrance to your gym:” A discussion with singer/songwriter Jennifer O’Connor
266. 1 AprThe sociopathic parts loud

March 2022

1. 31 MarWow Wow Wow
2. 31 MarAmazon Election
3. 31 MarThe Care Work Crisis
4. 31 MarIt’s Ginni Thomas’s party now
5. 31 MarIf you’re not inside, you’re outside, OK?
6. 31 MarAndrew Gelman on Murc’s Law
7. 31 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,058
8. 31 MarSoak the motherfucker
9. 30 MarCOVID update
10. 30 MarHow do you say “cope” in Russian?
11. 30 MarRick Scott to defy Mitch McConnell and promote his heinous and unpopular policy ideas
12. 30 MarLet’s ask this scientician
13. 30 Mar21st Century USA
14. 30 MarDoes academic freedom require being respectful to theocratic fascists?
15. 30 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,057
16. 30 MarReal Emotional Tucker
17. 29 MarThe core unifying belief of Republican elites is that democracy is bad because it threatens upward wealth distribution
18. 29 MarORGY REMARKS
19. 29 MarSouth Carolina’s Expensive Pit Plant
20. 29 MarRemembering the classics
21. 29 MarWe can remember it for you wholesale
22. 29 MarThis Year’s Supreme Court Attack on Workers
23. 29 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,056
24. 29 MarHonkin’ loud and sayin’ and accomplishin’ nothing
25. 28 MarEmployer LaborWashing/Worker Reality
26. 28 MarElite impunity
27. 28 MarRussians suspected of poisoning Roman Abramovich and Ukranian negotiations
28. 28 MarTailgunner Ted told Trump he would argue his seditionist lawsuit
29. 28 MarRussia Update
30. 28 MarHow few actual rules bind the behavior of our national leaders
31. 28 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,055
32. 28 MarThat was weird
33. 28 MarOscars open thread
34. 27 MarThe absurdity of marijuana law in the USA
35. 27 MarOscars 2022
36. 27 MarFiring up the air siren
37. 27 MarGinni Thomas’s lunatic delusions are shared by the vast majority of Republicans
38. 27 MarFood for Fun
39. 27 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,054
40. 27 MarOverruling Roe is the beginning of the Republican war on reproductive freedom, not the end
41. 26 MarMusic Notes
42. 26 MarReporter: Deterrence Didn’t Work. Biden: Do You Know What You’re Talking About
43. 26 MarA grand unified theory of culture war rube-running
44. 26 MarCourt splits 6-3 on the question of whether the President is Commander in Chief
45. 26 MarUkraine and Iraq
46. 26 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,053
47. 26 Mar“It Takes A Thief:” Brief Reflections on Destroyer’s Extraordinary New LP Labrynthitis
48. 25 MarUtah legislature overrides governor to create child genital inspection committees
49. 25 MarMore Amazon Union Coverage
50. 25 MarWhen you’ve already stolen one election…
51. 25 MarFor Your Reconsideration
52. 25 MarIf you haven’t spotted the sucker the first time you fetch laundry for an anti-vaxx crackpot…
53. 25 MarThe Amazon Union Election
54. 25 MarIf you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs
55. 25 MarPutin’s sockpuppet squawks again
56. 25 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,052
57. 25 MarPossible Duke Elimination Day Open Thread
58. 24 MarThe greatest [attempted] Heist of our History
59. 24 MarAfter Roe, Obergefell
60. 24 MarPolitical questions
61. 24 MarThe perils of Marbury presidentialism
62. 24 MarAdams rolls over
63. 24 MarThe Costs of the War
64. 24 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,051
65. 24 MarYou always do
66. 23 MarRoberts Court: the 14th Amendment and Voting Rights Act require the representation of Black voters to be reduced
67. 23 MarElection fraud just means the wrong people are winning elections
68. 23 MarRed-brown alliances are just brown
69. 23 MarCovid and the Prison System
70. 23 MarChina’s Gamble
71. 23 MarNew Teamsters Leadership
72. 23 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,050
73. 23 MarWhen Does the Supreme Court Come for Loving?
74. 22 MarI want you to hurt like I do: the mindset of anti-anti COVID politics
75. 22 MarWebb Telescope exceeds expectations
76. 22 MarNukeporn
77. 22 MarLeft a good job in the city
78. 22 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,049
79. 21 MarDo Not Watch Politainment
80. 21 MarEnablers of fascism
81. 21 MarSurvived Hitler, murdered by Putin
82. 21 MarSenator QAnon just won’t stop
83. 21 MarRussia’s Mistake
84. 21 MarThe absurdity of everything
85. 21 MarPork and Cabbage in Spicy Tomato Sauce
86. 21 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,048
87. 20 MarClarence Thomas has spent the weekend in the hospital
88. 20 MarIt’s a hard-knock life for us
89. 20 MarWhat are the odds that Donald Trump is the Republican candidate for president in 2024?
90. 20 MarThe coming Republican flip on Ukraine
91. 20 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 20, 1956
92. 19 MarNLRB and Amazon
93. 19 MarThe Work Day
94. 19 MarSenate Republicans: believing that criminal defendants have rights is disqualifying
95. 19 MarThose Ukrainian Public Health Laboratories
96. 19 MarIn preemptive anticipation of Duke Elimination Day
97. 19 MarThe saddest thing about this is the lack of JD Vance content
98. 19 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,047
99. 19 MarVladimir Putin, military SUPERGENIUS
100. 19 MarAmache
101. 18 MarRace to the bottom
102. 18 Mar“Free speech” and “cancel culture”
103. 18 MarThe anti-anti Putin “left”
104. 18 MarAnother deadly anti-vaxx campaign
105. 18 MarColumbia cooks the books for a mess of pottage
106. 18 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,046
107. 18 MarThe Wages of Trumpism
108. 18 MarThe Arctic Ocean is lovely this time of year
109. 17 MarTurn Black Wall Street Into a National Monument
110. 17 MarHawley goes QAnon
111. 17 MarCasting Questions and Raising Shadows
112. 17 MarHere comes the next COVID wave
113. 17 MarRacist Cops, Part the Infinity
114. 17 MarLGM Podcast: The Purposes of Russian Intervention
115. 17 MarIs our wingnuts OK?
116. 17 MarTourney Time!
117. 17 MarThe War is Claiming the Next Generation in Ukraine and Beyond
118. 17 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,045
119. 17 MarDeSantis’s anti-LGBTQ citizen army
120. 16 MarThe voice of fascism
121. 16 MarLife begins at conception and ends at birth
122. 16 MarNLRB Getting Involved in Starbucks Campaign
123. 16 MarUkraine update
124. 16 MarTerrorists Roaming Idaho
125. 16 MarAmy’s Kitchen Boycott
126. 16 MarThe Recent Unionization Wave
127. 16 MarThe death of Warren Harding
128. 16 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,044
129. 16 MarAnti-abortion kooks walked so that anti-vaxx kooks could run
130. 15 MarThe Republican anti-vaxx campaign has been incredibly successful [at getting Republican voters killed]
131. 15 MarLGM bully pulpit achieves total victory against the forces of darkness
132. 15 MarThe dumbest person on the Internet
133. 15 MarThe Korea Analogy
134. 15 MarIm Ukraine Nicht Neues
135. 15 MarFresh
136. 15 MarLaboratories of misogyny
137. 15 MarNo one talks to the despot
138. 15 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,043
139. 15 MarCA government to Berkeley NIMBYs: Eat Shit
140. 15 MarAnti-Asian hate crimes
141. 14 MarThe passing of the white race
142. 14 MarEvery old pretext is new again
143. 14 MarGinni Thomas attended the Stop the Steal Rally
144. 14 MarPeople’s History of the Marvel Universe, Week 19: The Racial Problematics of “Snap Wilson”
145. 14 MarInformation Warfare – March 14, 2022
146. 14 MarThe seductions of catastrophe
147. 14 MarMinneapolis Teachers Strike, Week Two
148. 14 MarAs the World Burns we Find solace…
149. 14 MarSetting Standards for Gig Workers
150. 14 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,042
151. 14 MarWilliam Hurt, RIP
152. 14 MarBiden’s Immigration Atrocities
153. 13 MarWhoops 8
154. 13 MarIs putting the life of pregnant women as severe risk for no benefits whatsoever a good thing? Views differ
155. 13 MarWeapons of mass delusion
156. 13 MarClarence Thomas concerned that the Supreme Court might be viewed as an out-of-control body of lawless partisan hacks
157. 13 MarDaylight Savings Time: The Controversy Grows
158. 13 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,041
159. 13 MarFlorida Republicans too busy with identity politics to stop buildings from falling down
160. 13 MarMusic Notes
161. 12 MarCOVID-is-over-period politics
162. 12 MarTom Nichols Calls Out Masculinist Identitarian Politics
163. 12 MarWhere’s the Organizing Energy At?
164. 12 MarPuzzling Omicron wave stats
165. 12 MarThe Long Arm of Housing Segregation
166. 12 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,040
167. 12 MarIsraeli “Mediation”
168. 11 MarTexas vote suppression law working as intended
169. 11 MarMaking Iowa irrelevant
170. 11 MarShow me the party of life
171. 11 MarLGM Podcast: Stalemate or Consolidation in Ukraine
172. 11 MarTax audits of rich and poor Americans
173. 11 MarConfronting the Sacklers
174. 11 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,039
175. 11 Mar“History repeats the old conceits:” Elvis Costello’s Imperial Bedroom Turns 40
176. 10 MarLord Haw-Haw says only a fool or Frenchman would deny that Nazi-dominated Ukrainian government has deadly bioweapons
177. 10 MarMusician Unions
178. 10 MarMLB owners and MLBPA reach deal
179. 10 MarHow You Doing Idaho?
180. 10 MarA Semi-Fair Congressional Map In Spite Of Ourselves
181. 10 MarCensus massively undercounts Blacks and Hispanics; seriously overcounts non-Hispanic whites
182. 10 MarMidterm Time!
183. 10 MarGetting Drunk While Discussing Ukraine, Propaganda, and Public Facing Scholarship
184. 10 MarTo what extent is it your fault if you die from COVID in the USA in 2022?
185. 10 MarThe anti-anti COVID party
186. 10 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,038
187. 10 MarMichigan Republicans are, alas, probably sending us their best
188. 9 MarHow the puke gets into the funnel
189. 9 MarLatest on Russia-Ukraine…
190. 9 MarIf I were president, I would end the war by assuming Vladimir Putin just wants to be given a new can opener
191. 9 MarAsk your Twitter if no-fly zones are right for you
192. 9 MarMore Amazon Union-Busting
193. 9 MarThe (not so?) mysterious failure of the US population to get COVID booster vaccines
194. 9 MarBREAKING: THE SENATE PASSES A GOOD BILL
195. 9 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 9, 1892
196. 9 MarMinneapolis Teachers Strike
197. 8 MarYou feel the devil’s riding crop
198. 8 MarLatest on Russia-Ukraine
199. 8 MarSeattle trades Russell Wilson to Denver
200. 8 MarThis Nation Will Never Have a Serious Conversation about Race, Part the Zillion
201. 8 MarCOVID two years in
202. 8 MarToday in Trump Judges
203. 8 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,037
204. 8 MarThe Long Arm of Torture
205. 8 MarWar Without Violence
206. 7 MarThere are at least four Supreme Court votes for a constitutional theory so partisan and stupid two justices who joined Bush v. Gore refused to sign off on it
207. 7 MarNATO, Putin, and Ukraine
208. 7 MarEqual citizenship is a game of inches
209. 7 MarBill Barr will do a lot of things but he won’t do that
210. 7 MarWhy Republicans will pass major national anti-abortion legislation at their first opportunity
211. 7 MarRussia-Ukraine Update
212. 7 MarIs making authoritarian ethno-nationalists uncomfortable wrong?
213. 7 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,036
214. 7 MarWhen the owners make it impossible to Both Sides it
215. 7 MarThe Biden International Labor Agenda
216. 6 MarDon’t mention the war
217. 6 MarZaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Attack
218. 6 MarDrive By Truckers
219. 6 MarEntrusting a new business to Donald Trump and Devin Nunes going as well as you’d expect
220. 6 Mar“They’re trying to hide history from us.”
221. 6 MarWhat if we had a very stable genius as CIC during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
222. 6 MarBlame Larry Summers
223. 6 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 6, 1984
224. 6 MarMusic Notes
225. 5 MarBetter Ban MLK and His Critical Race Theory
226. 5 MarRussia Updates
227. 5 MarGOP senators violate protocols and endanger Zelenskyy
228. 5 MarRick Scott: Damn right Republicans want to raise taxes on the working class and demolish Medicare and Social Security
229. 5 MarCommander in Chief Steven Douglas Merryday forbids reassignment of insubordinate officer
230. 5 MarRight wing judge decides the freedom to disobey the military chain of command is more important than national security
231. 5 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,035
232. 5 MarFlorida to create new state agency to intimidate voters and election officials
233. 5 MarToday in America’s worst companies
234. 4 MarVladimir Putin should be burned alive
235. 4 MarNIMBYS deny thousands of students an educational opportunity to protect their petty financial and aesthetic interests
236. 4 MarModified Limited Hangout
237. 4 MarCrime pays if you can buy the law
238. 4 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,034
239. 4 MarSmirking toward Gilead
240. 4 MarYou Just Lost a Customer
241. 3 Mar“We should not let shame obscure our vision.”
242. 3 MarJan 6 committee seeking John Eastman notes on a criminal fuckin’ conspiracy
243. 3 MarCertain neighborhoods
244. 3 MarVladimir Putin’s Words
245. 3 MarHow Democratic Presidencies Succeed
246. 3 MarCredentialism gone wild
247. 3 MarClark the Colonizer
248. 3 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 3, 1865
249. 3 MarThe Ultimate in Texas Republicans
250. 3 MarLGM Film Club, Part 254: Hot Pepper
251. 3 MarBrewery Bros
252. 3 MarVladimir Putin, Strategic SUPERGENIUS
253. 2 MarLGM Podcast: The Latest from Ukraine
254. 2 MarKeeping up appearances
255. 2 MarCOVID update
256. 2 MarPaul Gosar no longer ordering his conspiracy theories a la carte
257. 2 MarThrow your cellphone in the river, change your name, and move to Montana
258. 2 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 2, 1893
259. 2 MarMLB Owners realize their ultimate goal of not playing baseball games
260. 1 MarCan we de-Nazify Texas?
261. 1 MarConvicted felon Dinesh D’Souza has thoughts
262. 1 MarJosh Gottheimer trying to find the guy who did this
263. 1 MarDenazification
264. 1 MarSupreme Court Republicans to ignore the text of another statute because it allows executive branch to issue regulations Republicans disagree with
265. 1 MarOld Wyoming Reactionaries Outraged by Women’s Existence
266. 1 MarUkraine Update
267. 1 MarThe cost of freedom
268. 1 MarWomen’s Rights in Latin America
269. 1 MarOther Attacks on Eastern Europe
270. 1 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,033
271. 1 MarPersonalism
272. 1 MarLGM Film Club, Part 253: The French Dispatch
273. 1 MarNotes from Gollum
274. 1 MarThe Billionaires Destroying Baseball