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December 2023

1. 31 DecHappy Stay at Home Night!
2. 31 DecNFL Open Thread: No cookin’ like home cookin’ edition
3. 31 DecCould a third party candidate have a serious effect on the 2024 presidential vote?
4. 31 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,519
5. 31 DecLooting a dysfunctional market
6. 30 DecTom Wilkinson, RIP
7. 30 DecThe larger purpose of book bans
8. 30 DecThe year in Covid
9. 30 DecOpposing “welfare” by advocating that fat kids go hungry
10. 30 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,518
11. 30 DecBasic Human Decency? From an Ohio Republican?
12. 29 DecStatistical estimates of the future of the 2023-24 Detroit Pistons redux
13. 29 DecYou were serious about that?
14. 29 DecPop-Tarts Bowl
15. 29 DecFabulist grifters are everywhere
16. 29 DecMaine Secretary of State removes Trump from ballot
17. 28 DecNYT Pitchbot > NYT Trained Chatbot
18. 28 DecOn the Electronic Lynch Mob
19. 28 Dec“They Had Enough. How Much Were They Gonna Take?”
20. 28 DecThe awkwardness of neoconfederacy
21. 28 DecThe Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
22. 28 DecSex and Work among Contemporary Higher Education Administrators
23. 28 DecSlaves of Trumplandia
24. 28 DecConfederate
25. 27 DecGaza: What happens after the fighting stops?
26. 27 DecThe Year in Unions
27. 27 DecBenching Russell Wilson
28. 27 DecHealth care and private equity
29. 27 DecLGM Podcast: Only the Clothes on Her Back
30. 27 DecHow bad are the Detroit Pistons? Adventures in statistical prediction
31. 27 DecGeorgia Medicaid “expansion” working as intended
32. 27 DecTom Smothers, RIP
33. 27 DecLiberal constitutionalism as historical whitewash
34. 27 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,517
35. 27 DecSee if you can guess which cohort produces almost all the current media commentary on the state of the economy
36. 27 DecWhat The News Stories On The Polls Aren’t Telling You
37. 26 DecWhite man is ‘duty bound’ to prosecute a Black woman who got pregnant
38. 26 DecLeaving (the presidential campaign) on a jet plane
39. 26 DecThe plain meaning rule of interpretation
40. 26 DecClarence Thomas is going to decide whether to get Ginni off the hook. For old time’s sake
41. 26 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,516
42. 26 DecWar on Christmas is over (if you want it)
43. 25 DecThe siege of Gaza will accelerate the generational opinion shift on Israel
44. 25 DecMerry Christmas, unless you wear a mask
45. 25 Dec“Nuts!”
46. 25 Dec1968/2024
47. 25 DecErik Visits an American Grave Part 1,515
48. 25 DecMerry Christmas!
49. 24 DecNFL Open Thread: doing your own research edition
50. 24 DecYou know what I want (or maybe you don’t)
51. 24 DecDeck Us All With Boston Charlie
52. 24 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,514
53. 24 DecMusic Notes
54. 23 DecCan a man feed his family on $285,000 a year?
55. 23 DecHow to be a hack, horse paste and rhino steroid shill edition
56. 23 DecDoes Putin Want A Ceasefire?
57. 23 DecWargaming Wildfires
58. 23 DecTrump and the paranoid style
59. 23 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,513
60. 23 DecMemory, turn your face to the moonlight
61. 23 DecA very Silicon Valley scam
62. 23 DecDemocracy is coming to the state of Wisconsin
63. 22 DecTelsa sells defective crap, sticks customers with the bill
64. 22 DecSome heroes use apps
65. 22 DecPardon Me?
66. 22 DecA Short Note About Immigrants
67. 22 DecNo way out
68. 22 DecTrump’s insurrection
69. 21 DecWho are the liberals who think that the Colorado Supreme Court will end Donald Trump’s political life?
70. 21 DecNo labels, no clue
71. 21 DecCollege Football and the Housing Crisis
72. 21 DecWho Cares about the Goddamn Ivy League?
73. 21 DecA noun, a verb and Chapter 11 (Update – You’ll never guess who is one of his creditors)
74. 21 DecMuseums by Teens
75. 21 DecThe contagion
76. 21 Dec21/12 (an open thread)
77. 21 DecGodwin lays down law
78. 21 DecSomebody loan me a dime
79. 21 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,512
80. 21 DecCreep of the House
81. 21 DecThe salary of the humble supreme court justice – How much is enough? (Update)
82. 21 DecSome people say your super PAC is to blame, but it’s probably your own damn fault
83. 20 DecNon-mastermind reveals non-elaborate plan to manipulate media
84. 20 DecDemocrats Going Full Trump on Immigration
85. 20 DecElection of the Day: The Democratic Republic of the Congo
86. 20 DecStudents And Historical Time
87. 20 DecThe Minnesota State Flag
88. 20 DecVladimir’s meat grinder
89. 20 DecThe Epstein Client List
90. 20 DecThe Colorado Case
91. 20 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,511
92. 20 DecNot cool (an open thread)
93. 20 DecGame recognize game
94. 19 DecColorado Says No Insurrectionists On The Ballot
95. 19 DecA nation where there is no refuge to seek
96. 19 DecUAW Foreign Policy
97. 19 DecEvery Day is Murder a Pedestrian Day!
98. 19 DecUndergraduate Organizing
99. 19 DecBut muh vibes
100. 19 DecLGM Podcast: Batteries: Past, Present, Future
101. 19 DecFatalism and despair are objectively pro-fascist
102. 19 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,510
103. 19 DecWhere it hurts
104. 19 DecThoughts for Kareem
105. 19 DecDefund Likud
106. 18 DecLook — it’s Halley’s comet!
107. 18 DecRacism at Navy Federal
108. 18 DecBlessings
109. 18 DecThe Canadian Child Care Experiment
110. 18 DecNice little right wing takeover of the SCOTUS you’ve got there
111. 18 DecThe pragmatic moderate who plays a nascent dictator on TV
112. 18 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,509
113. 18 DecAchieving the near-impossible
114. 17 DecNostalgia is a Weird Drug
115. 17 DecConfederates Coming Down
116. 17 DecA Binder Is Missing
117. 17 DecNFL Open Thread: this is getting Staley edition
118. 17 DecHow Many White Flag Waving Innocents Have Died?
119. 17 DecUpcoming Anheuser-Busch Strike
120. 17 DecGaming Notes
121. 17 DecBad blood
122. 17 DecDiet culture and harm reduction
123. 17 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,508
124. 17 DecThe wingnut double play
125. 17 DecPonzi wine and open Saturday night thread
126. 16 DecHappy 80th birthday Keith Richards
127. 16 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,507
128. 16 DecUpdate on the failsons who somehow made Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Summers look sympathetic
129. 15 DecRudy can fail, and so can his lawyers
130. 15 DecElection of the weekend: Serbia
131. 15 DecInside the destruction of reproductive freedom in America
132. 15 DecStaley
133. 15 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,506
134. 15 DecVibenomics and the end of the venture capital lifestyle subsidy
135. 15 DecKill the Children
136. 14 DecIncels are getting better at imagining slave sex robots and it’s making Western women nervous
137. 14 DecThings Don’t Change Much in the South
138. 14 DecCracking Down on Starbucks Unionbusting
139. 14 DecPeople’s History of the Marvel Universe, Week 22: Anti-Mutant Prejudice and Mutant Rights In the Longue Durée
140. 14 DecFear of governing
141. 14 DecHow do you handle the Trump supporters in your life?
142. 14 DecThe Best Christmas Gift
143. 14 DecTwo Americas
144. 14 DecMoney don’t have owners
145. 14 DecA Racist, Sexist Health Care System
146. 14 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,505
147. 14 DecArea man unable to feed family by ordering several metric tons of takeout food from national restaurant for less than $125
148. 14 DecTotal recall
149. 14 DecCynical Attacks on DEI
150. 13 DecHouse Republicans vote to formalize impeachment inquiry
151. 13 DecDiagonalism
152. 13 DecMifepristone and the Supreme Court
153. 13 DecWhat We Watched?
154. 13 Dec“No, he was a great guy”
155. 13 DecAnother Trump presidency would be a foreign policy catastrophe
156. 13 DecRepublicans Want To Stiff Ukraine
157. 13 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,504
158. 13 DecAndre Braugher
159. 12 DecBiden administration shift on Gaza?
160. 12 DecNow he worships at an altar of a stagnant pool and when he sees his reflection, he’s fulfilled
161. 12 DecElection of the Day: Egypt
162. 12 DecAI and Organized Labor
163. 12 DecExceptions to abortion bans are a fraud
164. 12 DecPharmacy Collaborators
165. 12 DecGay Stays
166. 12 DecBill Ackman’s double standard
167. 12 DecProsecute the patients
168. 12 DecThe Failure
169. 12 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,503
170. 12 DecThe Globes
171. 12 DecSupreme Court refuses challenge to conversion therapy bans
172. 12 DecGiles tries guile (also an open thread)
173. 11 DecTexas Supreme Court: doctors must work under sword of Damocles
174. 11 DecElon left on the curb again
175. 11 DecKate Cox Leaves Texas
176. 11 DecThe Republican Lie Exchange
177. 11 DecTripartite Arms Control
178. 11 DecSupreme Court considers case based on anti-tax crank’s Penthouse Forum letter
179. 11 DecA Few Thoughts on Israel/Palestine, Etc.
180. 11 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,502
181. 11 DecThe DeSantis indignity
182. 11 DecMusic Notes
183. 10 DecOn Norman Lear
184. 10 DecThe Cybertruck
185. 10 DecJane Doe v. Daniel Cameron
186. 10 DecThe alarming case of the woman who considered her options, made a decision and … acted on it!!!
187. 10 DecNFL Open Thread: AFC over and underachievers edition
188. 10 DecWill I have a job in 2030? An LGM guide for law professors
189. 10 DecThis Day in Labor History: December 10, 1976
190. 10 DecKen, in the pejorative sense
191. 9 DecLiz Magill resigns
192. 9 DecOhtani contract: 10 years, $700 million
193. 9 DecTexas Supreme Court abets Ken Paxton’s fascist crusade
194. 9 DecArena Group? More like AIrena Group. Am I right?
195. 9 DecThe mobbing of the presidents
196. 9 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,501
197. 9 DecWe watched our friends grow up together and we saw them as they fell
198. 9 DecA loving tribute to Rick Scott
199. 8 DecPaxton takes his misogynist crusade to Texas Supreme Court
200. 8 DecRight on the merits, right on the politics
201. 8 DecHey Stephen, you need to calm down
202. 8 DecThe free speech myth
203. 8 DecDoomerism Can Be Framing
204. 8 DecLGM Holiday Shopping!
205. 8 DecBad news is good news for fascists
206. 8 DecKilling reporters
207. 8 DecFirst Amendment Elegy
208. 7 DecTexas Republicans leap into action to force woman to carry non-viable, life-threatening pregnancy
209. 7 DecLife during the war on women
210. 7 DecAttorney General Stephen Miller
211. 7 DecCollege! Bowl! Mania!
212. 7 DecThe UNLV shooter
213. 7 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,500
214. 7 DecThe kiddie table
215. 7 DecThat green lantern won’t raise itself
216. 6 DecThe barbarism of the American anti-abortion movement, a perpetual series
217. 6 DecFree speech and harassment
218. 6 DecWhat if you think Ariana Grande is the president of France?
219. 6 DecMister Donald says we will bury you
220. 6 DecPropaganda works
221. 6 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,499
222. 6 Dec“Almost to a one, the real greats always build a universe that’s bigger than their personal concerns.” A Discussion About Story Songs with Singer-Songwriter, Drive-By Trucker and All-Around Stalwart Patterson Hood
223. 6 DecHunter Biden must be impeached
224. 5 DecThe last 4-team playoff
225. 5 DecWhen after all, it was you and me
226. 5 DecHavana’s Man in Washington
227. 5 DecWhat’s a little obstruction of justice among friends of ours?
228. 5 DecThe ghoulish part loud
229. 5 DecThe Rosenbergs and Ted Hall
230. 5 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,498
231. 5 DecRecognizing the Trump threat part deux
232. 4 DecThe moral majority
233. 4 DecRecognizing the Trump Threat
234. 4 DecWorking Conditions for Air Traffic Controllers
235. 4 DecLGM Podcast: Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain
236. 4 DecA Man of Wealth and Taste
237. 4 DecKissinger
238. 4 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,497
239. 4 DecNo Longer A Virgin
240. 3 DecCan the UAW Organize the Entire Auto Industry?
241. 3 DecTexas GOP: we will continue to associate with our critical friends and allies
242. 3 DecFoamy Beers
243. 3 DecNFL Open Thread: Anything could be finer edition
244. 3 DecDoes Biden Have a Second Term Agenda?
245. 3 DecI have become Shiva, destroyer of budgets
246. 3 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,496
247. 3 DecMusic Notes
248. 2 DecSandra Day O’Connor’s complicity
249. 2 DecThis sublime and funky and expensive love that I crave
250. 2 DecFeynman
251. 2 Dec“Let’s Try to Be More Insipid”
252. 2 DecWhat is it like to be a billionaire?
253. 2 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,495
254. 2 DecElection of the weekend: Venezuela/Essequibo
255. 2 DecWith a bang
256. 2 DecHere We Go Again…
257. 1 DecOne morning, when Skon Mule woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a corn cob
258. 1 DecKissinger, ur-MAGA
259. 1 DecNotes on MAGA Camp
260. 1 DecGone Baby Gone
261. 1 DecO’Connor
262. 1 DecYou covered your ass
263. 1 DecInside the Trump cult
264. 1 DecErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,494
265. 1 DecThe ghosts are rattling at the door and the devil’s in the chair

November 2023

1. 30 NovIn defense of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign
2. 30 NovRealpolitik was Kissinger’s excuse, not his motivation
3. 30 NovDid U NaNoWriMo? An open thread.
4. 30 NovCrisis actors! The Washington Post’s looming “marriage crisis” is more conservative fabulation.
5. 30 NovGame recognize game
6. 30 NovPeople’s History of the Marvel Universe, Week 21: X-Men Blue Origins and the Power of the Additive Retcon
7. 30 NovThe Dictator-in-Waiting Is Oranged, Rested, and Ready
8. 30 NovThe Wages of Your Avocados
9. 30 NovJohnny Unbeatable is tanned, rested, and ready
10. 30 NovUtah’s Impending Disaster
11. 30 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,493
12. 30 NovThe End of a Horrid Era
13. 30 NovKissinger is Dead, Finally Something Good Has Happened in 2023
14. 30 NovToday in Republican Governance
15. 30 NovThis fascist comes as a fascist
16. 29 Nov40 years of the Black … Vegetable!
17. 29 NovLife expectancy in 2022
18. 29 NovThey consider it leakage
19. 29 NovNo Labels is a crypto-Trumpist operation
20. 29 NovIs anti-Zionism now inherently anti-Semitism?
21. 29 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,492
22. 29 NovHouse Republicans don’t want Hunter Biden to testify in public
23. 29 NovElon endorses Pizzagate
24. 28 NovNapoleon!
25. 28 NovShould Sotomayor and Kagan resign next summer?
26. 28 NovTrump tells one truth on Truth Social
27. 28 NovSomebody is wrong on the Internet
28. 28 NovNominations
29. 28 NovOur Broken Medical System
30. 28 NovA Quarter Century of School Shootings
31. 28 NovThe cost of income inequality
32. 28 NovYou Can’t Have the “Free Market” and Fight Climate Change Effectively
33. 28 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,491
34. 28 NovThe Walker du jour for (some) Republican donors
35. 28 NovMeatball Ron’s Education System
36. 28 NovThe Ever So Serious Global Effort to Fight Climate Change
37. 27 NovTrump’s Weimarnomics
38. 27 NovRepublican history
39. 27 NovReadings on Large Language Models
40. 27 NovMonday Potpourri
41. 27 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,490
42. 27 NovHunter Biden laptop update
43. 26 NovWashington Post Editorial Board to liberal women: Close your eyes and MAGA
44. 26 NovNFL Open Thread: Fail Mary II Edition
45. 26 NovFeynman, pedagogy, and the two cultures
46. 26 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,489
47. 26 NovMass casualty events
48. 25 NovAdvertisers continue to flee Elon
49. 25 NovA note on polls
50. 25 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,488
51. 25 NovThe art of the con
52. 25 NovAnd History Hides the Lies of Our Civil Wars
53. 24 NovBlack Friday Open Thread: Aaron’s cronies edition
54. 24 NovHostage Release
55. 24 NovBiden’s Israel-Hamas war stance seems to be really hurting him with Democratic voters
56. 24 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,487
57. 24 NovNo labels, no guru, no method, no play without pay
58. 23 NovWho knows it when none can call our power to account?
59. 23 NovBacking down
60. 23 NovThanksgiving NFL etc. open thread
61. 23 NovDo mass protests work?
62. 23 NovHappy Inferior Meat Day
63. 23 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,486
64. 23 NovFox Ain’t News
65. 23 NovJust a spoonful of right wing resentment makes the health sharing scam go down
66. 23 NovNBA Open Thread
67. 22 NovAbortion bans reduce access to all maternal healthcare
68. 22 NovWhen misogynists feign empathy
69. 22 NovRacism in North Dakota
70. 22 NovElection of the Day: The Netherlands
71. 22 NovNissan Raises Wages
72. 22 NovNovember 22, 2023
73. 22 NovOpen AI Board caves to Altman
74. 22 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,485
75. 22 NovSpeaker of the House: the right of privacy doctrine should be entirely overruled
76. 22 NovWhat a Drag It is Getting Old
77. 21 NovIs democracy coming to the state of Wisconsin?
78. 21 NovHas free speech absolutism ever gotten more absolute?
79. 21 NovFederal jury convicts man who planned to torture Pelosi, broke her husband’s skull
80. 21 NovStarbucks Unionists Continue Their Work
81. 21 NovAppHarvest
82. 21 NovFree speech fetishism is inimical to the university
83. 21 NovThe Joint Employer Standard
84. 21 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,484
85. 21 NovSuing over the Truth
86. 21 NovOur Brilliant Health Care System
87. 21 NovAbsolutely sweet free speech
88. 20 NovThe T in WATB stands for Thiel
89. 20 NovCourts without law
90. 20 NovWomen and the Writers Strike
91. 20 NovWhat’s Happening At OpenAI
92. 20 NovThe strange career of period life expectancy
93. 20 NovRising Wage Rates in Auto
94. 20 NovWhen Incompetence Becomes Obscene
95. 20 NovThis Day in Labor History: November 20, 1536
96. 20 NovNight of the Living BasedMikeLees
97. 19 NovRosalynn Carter, RIP
98. 19 Nov“And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
99. 19 NovNFL Open Thread: Too Belichick to Fail II
100. 19 NovElection of the Day: Argentina, Part II
101. 19 NovThe wealth baseline never shifts
102. 19 NovPeaking Into the Dark Recesses of the Labor Market
103. 19 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,483
104. 19 NovCeasefire
105. 19 NovThe Free Speech Absolutism of Elon Musk, Free Speech Absolutist
106. 18 NovCan the Sunflower Sea Star Be Saved?
107. 18 NovWhy Elon Musk’s Antisemitism Is A National Security Risk
108. 18 NovSaving a sport
109. 18 NovOff to Bluesky
110. 18 NovSome good news on climate change
111. 18 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,482
112. 18 NovHead of ADL: rabid anti-Semitism is acceptable as long as you are also anti-Palestinian
113. 18 NovColorado judge finds Trump led insurrection in January 2021
114. 17 NovWingnut welfare is an abundant resource
115. 17 NovI wouldn’t worry about it though, it’s not a big corporate advertiser
116. 17 NovNo Labels, no guru, no teacher, no money left on the table
117. 17 NovComments
118. 17 NovSmall sacrifices
119. 17 NovPouring poison into your own cesspool
120. 17 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,481
121. 17 NovSupreme Court will not allow DeSantis’s unconstitutional anti-drag law to be enforced
122. 16 NovLGM Podcast: NFL Midseason Pod
123. 16 NovFool me 375 times, shame on Harvard Law School
124. 16 Nov“Voters see person responsible for overruling Roe v. Wade as a moderate on abortion” says press that falsely portrays him as a moderate on abortion
125. 16 NovWill Santos walk before they make him run?
126. 16 NovLifestyles of the rich and infamous
127. 16 NovBreak Up the Raiders!
128. 16 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,480
129. 16 NovRepublicans in disarray
130. 15 NovLibertarianism for me. Feudalism for thee.
131. 15 NovWhat level of chickenshit is “My side’s failed coup was really FBI agents in ghost buses”?
132. 15 NovLike a loaded weapon
133. 15 NovThe Russia Connection – Continued
134. 15 NovProfiles in something or the other
135. 15 NovChecking in on the new populist Republican Party
136. 15 NovIt’s your job to be less confused than Nigel
137. 15 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,479
138. 15 NovSame as the old boss
139. 14 NovSpeaker of the House of Representatives: it’s not election theft if you really believe the election was stolen
140. 14 NovThis is not fine
141. 14 NovIt’s just a shot away
142. 14 NovIs inflation falling too fast? (featuring DJ Khaled)
143. 14 NovThe Federal Budget
144. 14 NovA miscellany of Tuesday morning infamy
145. 14 NovMan who counted on billionaire tech bro gets what he deserves
146. 14 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,478
147. 14 NovFascist words, fascist deeds
148. 13 NovNormalizing Trump is a choice
149. 13 NovNate Silver would like a pony
150. 13 NovSupreme Court: Ok, we’re putting on the fig leaf now
151. 13 NovThere’s a hole in daddy’s arm where all the money goes
152. 13 NovThis Day in Labor History: November 13, 1986
153. 13 NovPlease clap
154. 12 NovSpaceX Doesn’t Do Safety
155. 12 NovNFL Open Thread: Let’s remember Air Coryell edition
156. 12 NovElection of the week (maybe): Madagascar
157. 12 NovPandora’s child
158. 12 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,477
159. 12 NovIsraeli Fascism
160. 12 NovMore fascist Trump plans
161. 11 NovThis Day in Labor History: November 11, 1978
162. 11 NovThe age pretext
163. 11 NovNullification
164. 11 NovThe choice
165. 11 NovAnother thread
166. 10 NovMob justice comes to Ann Arbor
167. 10 NovThe allure of authoritarianism
168. 10 NovAgainst Trump normalization
169. 10 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,476
170. 10 NovYou could actually make movies with this talent
171. 10 NovWorld’s most inept private equity goon destroys another website
172. 9 NovYou Won’t Have Joe Manchin to Kick Around Anymore
173. 9 NovThe post-Dobbs public is getting it
174. 9 Nov“I’m speaking with you from Israeli intelligence”
175. 9 NovMan who couldn’t lease the room also can’t read the room
176. 9 NovWest Bank Story
177. 9 NovSAG-AFTRA reaches settlement
178. 9 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,475
179. 9 NovAnother Republican culture war L
180. 9 NovRepublican Debate Part the Third – Open thread
181. 8 NovHe who smelt it, dealt it
182. 8 NovRepublicans will simply not accept states where women as treated as equal citizens
183. 8 NovEmpty fleece
184. 8 NovThe Aftermath
185. 8 NovBeyond an unreasonable doubt
186. 8 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,474
187. 8 NovOhio voters to Republicans who want to end their reproductive rights: eat shit
188. 8 NovLucky in Kentucky?
189. 8 NovI would do anything for the NRA, but I won’t do that
190. 7 NovOne thing you can never say: that you haven’t been told
191. 7 NovElection of the Day
192. 7 NovIt’s Not Really Peonage Ball Anymore…
193. 7 NovFascism’s mobilizing passions, and the apocalyptic fantasies of Trumpism
194. 7 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,473
195. 7 NovMonday night open thread: exit of the Mac edition
196. 6 NovRussia After The War
197. 6 NovTrump on trial
198. 6 NovElk O. Nums announces a xitter-driven xitbot that is totally not him pretending to be a chatbot
199. 6 NovUkraine Travel Talk
200. 6 NovThe failure of democracy
201. 6 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,472
202. 6 NovMusic Notes
203. 5 NovTrumpism and Ur-fascism
204. 5 NovNFL Open Thread: The Kurt Cousins Paradox edition
205. 5 NovNormalizing fascism
206. 5 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,471
207. 5 NovLate nite open thread
208. 4 NovMen in our position cannot be made to look ridiculous
209. 4 NovInside then outside law school scam
210. 4 NovRepublicans discover new pretext for racist immigration restrictions
211. 3 NovJudge gags Trump’s lawyers
212. 3 NovSpeaking of sedition
213. 3 NovKentucky Election Update
214. 3 NovEastman and down: a seditionist and the California bar edition
215. 3 NovArms Control Talks To Start With China
216. 3 NovHow Uncle Joe Brandon Bailed Out SBF
217. 3 NovThere’s bad news creeping up, and you feel a sudden chill (Bae-yesian update)
218. 2 NovRepublicans: if there’s anything better than imprisoning a guilty person, it’s keeping an innocent person in prison
219. 2 NovAttorney General James disrupts the disruptors
220. 2 NovWhy is someone using our “permission to be an obstructionist asshole” rule to be an obstructionist asshole?”
221. 2 NovToday’s Worst Idea
222. 2 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,470
223. 2 NovHouse majority supports crook
224. 2 NovMore completely inoffensive behavior by Milquetoast Mike, the mildest man in the GOP
225. 1 NovNew Frontiers in BothSiding
226. 1 NovJudging toward the Fuhrer
227. 1 NovThe Josh McDaniels Experience
228. 1 NovI look medium height but my heels are high
229. 1 NovFederalist Society not nearly fascist enough for Stephen Miller
230. 1 NovErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,469
231. 1 NovAbsolutely not

October 2023

1. 31 OctIDF strikes refugee camp
2. 31 OctAn Unholy Stew
3. 31 OctUAW Runs the Table
4. 31 OctChecking in on the new economically populist Republican Party
5. 31 OctOctober 31st Open Thread
6. 31 OctAnother morning in America
7. 31 OctShould people with serious mental illnesses threatening to conduct mass killings have access to military-grade weaponry? Views differ
8. 31 OctThis Day in Labor History: October 31, 1990
9. 31 OctFatal complacency
10. 30 OctHow to create a $19 billion company on the Internet
11. 30 OctThe union keeps us strong
12. 30 OctMurc’s law is a harsh mistress
13. 30 OctRevising The History Of The 1990s
14. 30 OctCancellation for fun and profit, especially profit
15. 30 OctThe Intelligence Failures
16. 30 OctThis Day in Labor History: October 30, 1962
17. 30 OctUpdate on Ol’ Joe Biden’s old-age crisis, a crisis affecting only one candidate in the upcoming presidential election
18. 29 OctMusic Notes
19. 29 OctNFL Open Thread: Going down with DeShaun edition
20. 29 OctThe mystery of Donald Trump
21. 29 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,468
22. 29 OctMust See TV Takes a Couple of Hits
23. 28 OctRunaway fast as you can
24. 28 OctWhomp Whomp
25. 28 OctChecking in on the intellectual giants of Silicon Valley
26. 28 OctThe mainstream Republicans
27. 28 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,467
28. 28 OctThe siege intensifies
29. 28 OctSometimes the war on culture comes from the inside
30. 27 OctThe Cajun authoritarian
31. 27 OctSpeaking of our Silicon Valley supergeniuses
32. 27 OctThe Weirdo TechBro Elite
33. 27 OctReligion and Forced Labor
34. 27 OctSam, fried
35. 27 OctMelt It Down
36. 27 OctMass shootings as symbolic issue
37. 27 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,466
38. 27 OctMike Johnson’s magic formula for reducing mass shootings
39. 26 OctLewiston did not have the highest homicide rate in the USA yesterday
40. 26 OctRucho v. Common Cause: how long must we keep a straight face?
41. 26 OctLGM Podcast: Citizens of a Stolen Land
42. 26 OctUAW/Ford Deal
43. 26 OctJohnson is the old Alito
44. 26 OctRadio Rwanda
45. 26 OctThis Day in Labor History: October 26, 2005
46. 26 OctLewiston
47. 25 OctUkraine Talk
48. 25 OctSenate committee finds Clarence Thomas committed six-figure tax fraud
49. 25 OctThe Biscuit
50. 25 OctHow’s this for creep factor?
51. 25 OctI liked The Handmaid’s Tale better when it was a dystopian satire
52. 25 OctA new Johnson
53. 25 OctThis Day in Labor History: October 25, 1940
54. 25 OctRon DeSantis’s latest blatant violation of the First Amendment
55. 24 OctThe Tom Emmer era ends suddenly
56. 24 OctMark Meadows has flipped
57. 24 OctPSA: Uranium Glass
58. 24 OctThis stupid country
59. 24 OctEmmer the evanescent
60. 24 OctDobbs has not reduced total legal abortions in the USA
61. 24 OctJ3nna 3llis flips
62. 24 OctKentucky Election Update
63. 24 OctFungus among us open thread
64. 24 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,465
65. 24 OctIt’s time for some electoral theory
66. 23 OctAnd a little child shall lead them
67. 23 OctWhere Have All The Vaccines Gone?
68. 23 OctOur American meritocracy
69. 23 OctNightmare at 20000ish Feet
70. 23 OctBrief Comments on Rules of War
71. 23 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,464
72. 23 OctStop sending death threats to yourself
73. 22 OctIf you have nine candidates for Speaker you have no candidates for speaker
74. 22 OctNFL Open Thread: Break up the Lions edition
75. 22 OctElection of the Day 2: Switzerland
76. 22 OctElection of the Day 1: Argentina
77. 22 OctThe Seditionist Ballad of Sidney and the Cheese
78. 22 OctSpringtime for Sparty
79. 22 OctMatt the Knife
80. 22 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,463
81. 22 OctMusic Notes
82. 21 OctThe Squad, real and imagined
83. 21 OctIt is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his capital gains depend on his not understanding it
84. 21 OctWhy is there such a big gap between the objective state of the economy and public perception?
85. 21 OctUAW Strike Continues
86. 21 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,462
87. 21 OctCarla Bley, RIP
88. 20 OctWorst Climate Change News Ever
89. 20 OctThe Decline of Bandcamp
90. 20 Oct“Or will they turn their backs on you?”
91. 20 OctDismantling the Gym
92. 20 OctJudge threatens to jail Trump for violating gag order
93. 20 OctIt’s only a flesh wound
94. 20 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,461
95. 20 OctJonesing for bankruptcy protection
96. 19 OctThy ratfucker’s brother
97. 19 OctAre my methods unsound?
98. 19 OctPowell pleads out, turns state’s
99. 19 OctAnother cunning plan by the House GOP in response to Democratic treachery
100. 19 OctThe Thiel Saga…
101. 19 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,460
102. 19 OctMarlins live by the DeSantis ethos
103. 18 OctHe Knew. He didn’t care
104. 18 OctCan you use presidential campaign donations to pay off delinquent child support obligations and unpaid back taxes?
105. 18 OctPoor Gym
106. 18 OctThe failing Constitution
107. 18 OctThis Day in Labor History: October 18, 1861
108. 18 OctOpposed with grim determination, Gym?
109. 17 OctThe all-vibes politics of crime
110. 17 OctCasualties of war
111. 17 OctGym fails first vote
112. 17 OctMore On Governor Empty Suit’s Vetoes
113. 17 OctRight-Wing Assault on Professor
114. 17 OctUnbearable facts
115. 17 OctDoctor Unions
116. 17 OctThis Day in Labor History: October 17, 1945
117. 17 OctTusk’s and Poland’s accomplishment
118. 17 Oct“Bounce the rubble”
119. 16 OctThe next Republican Speaker
120. 16 OctKeeping them happy and in line
121. 16 OctToday in the real, authentic new Republican economic populism
122. 16 OctNot helping
123. 16 OctI See We’re “Restoring Deterrence” Again
124. 16 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,459
125. 16 OctElections: domestic edition
126. 15 OctElections of the weekend
127. 15 OctNFL Open Thread: Exhuming McCarthy edition
128. 15 Oct15-year-old ejected from GOP forum for asking Ron DeSantis tough questions
129. 15 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,458
130. 15 OctPiper Laurie
131. 15 Oct56-year-old pundit begins to question whether the Easter Bunny is real
132. 14 OctThe distrubingly plausible case that Jim Jordan can get the votes
133. 14 OctOregon-Washington
134. 14 OctThe Latest…
135. 14 OctGround rules
136. 14 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,457
137. 14 OctLouise Glück
138. 13 OctDisproportionate response
139. 13 OctPutting the vain in vanity campaign
140. 13 OctBiden Channeling Stephen Miller
141. 13 OctYep, Totally Getting a Handle on Climate Change Here
142. 13 OctThere are no children here
143. 13 OctRacism in AI
144. 13 OctLet’s Hear More from Governor Empty Suit
145. 13 OctThe age of cults
146. 13 OctWolves Back in SoCal
147. 13 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,456
148. 13 OctSBF apparently has the quality of legal representation he deserves
149. 13 OctSomething farcial happened to a clown
150. 12 OctVos retreats
151. 12 OctAmerica’s newest reality show
152. 12 OctSupreme Court Republicans to rule that states can do racial gerrymanders as long as they are also anti-democratic
153. 12 OctWill Democrats Tolerate Racism in Their Caucus?
154. 12 OctJoe Biden age update
155. 12 OctThe myth of the American “left”
156. 12 OctToday among the anti-abortion sickos
157. 12 OctBiden is done
158. 11 OctSocial Media Update
159. 11 OctScalise wins internal straw poll
160. 11 OctPro-actively Probing the Persian Puzzle
161. 11 OctAnd when you ask them, ‘How much should we give?’ Oo they only answer ‘Don’t worry, we’ll help ourselves.’
162. 11 OctWar and Peace
163. 11 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,455
164. 11 OctFingering B-F
165. 10 OctA man who understands how to MAGA
166. 10 OctKaiser Permanente Strike
167. 10 OctA Bad Person Who Was Bad
168. 10 OctUAW Wins on the EV Question
169. 10 OctA formula for murder
170. 10 OctRobin Vos too much of an authoritarian hack for his hand-picked authoritarian hack
171. 10 OctLGM Research Showcase
172. 10 OctHit me baby one more time
173. 10 OctThe full crank package
174. 10 OctThis Day in Labor History: October 10, 1947
175. 10 OctBurning down the house
176. 9 OctLegislative terrorists
177. 9 OctPutin’s Six Principles of the Russian World
178. 9 OctFrankenstein frantically deleting tweets and podcast episodes
179. 9 OctNetanyahu’s disaster
180. 9 OctThe War Thus Far
181. 9 OctThe Siege
182. 9 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,454
183. 8 OctThe killing has intensified along the road to peace
184. 8 OctOpen thread II: a fumble and a bottle of Cristobal edition
185. 8 OctNFL Open Thread: Too Belichick to Fail edition
186. 8 OctLaw and politics, legal legitimation division
187. 8 OctIsrael-Palestine Update
188. 7 OctThe man who knew too nothing
189. 7 OctThe Assault
190. 7 OctThe day the laughter and music died in a murder-suicide pact
191. 7 OctQuestions About This Particular Report On The Information Security Administratio
192. 7 OctChecking in on the information security president
193. 7 OctThe information security administration: An infinite series
194. 7 OctWar 3
195. 7 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,453
196. 7 OctThe own-ratfuck
197. 6 OctElections of the weekend: Bavaria, Hesse
198. 6 OctThe Awesome Power of FOIA
199. 6 OctUkraine Diary 5: Leaving Odesa, Leaving Ukraine
200. 6 OctThinking about the government
201. 6 OctSave A Cyclist!
202. 6 OctHistory on Drugs
203. 6 Oct$25, same as in town
204. 6 OctThe violence inherent in the system
205. 5 OctRIP Butkus and Open Thread
206. 5 OctWar Against Iran
207. 5 OctSpeaking of farces
208. 5 OctMurc’s law as farce
209. 5 OctTucker Carlson: “I have never been fired by a major news network”
210. 5 OctGun deaths among children nearly doubled over the last decade
211. 5 OctThe Bakersfield Manbaby
212. 4 OctRichard Posner
213. 4 OctA Ticking Bomb
214. 4 OctA proud Republican tradition
215. 4 OctThe Neutrality Option
216. 4 OctVoting Republican is deadly, Ohio exceptionalism, and other lessons learned the hard way
217. 4 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,452
218. 4 OctCould a pile of orange smegma be the next Speaker of the House?
219. 4 OctElection of the day: Juneau school board
220. 3 OctIt’s time for some game theory
221. 3 OctThe Annual Internal Scraping of the Constitution Begins
222. 3 OctThe on was brought
223. 3 OctFixing Recycling
224. 3 OctJudge A. Engoron to T.F. Guy: STFU about my staff.
225. 3 OctStrike Wave Likely Spreading to Health Care
226. 3 OctMcCarthy loses speakership
227. 3 OctThe Crack-Up
228. 3 OctPresidential Campaigning
229. 3 OctWill the Court nullify even mild sentencing reform?
230. 3 OctThe Two Americas: Class and Life Expectancy
231. 3 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,451
232. 3 OctObserving the Sixth Amendment in the breach
233. 2 OctThomas takes easy layup
234. 2 OctIsaac Asimov Thinks About the Roman Empire
235. 2 OctA perfect vessel
236. 2 OctBad faith and worse medicine
237. 2 OctCalifornia’s next senator
238. 2 OctZelensky’s Future
239. 2 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,450
240. 2 OctI am most definitely a crackpot
241. 1 OctWakefield and Snow
242. 1 OctGovernor Empty Suit Acts Against Organized Labor
243. 1 OctNFL Open Thread: The dog with the seventh least fleas edition
244. 1 OctRhode Island’s Nuclear Fatality
245. 1 OctA Male-Dominated Scientific Establishment Creates Misogynist Science
246. 1 OctSuch a Waste…
247. 1 OctErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,449
248. 1 OctHastert rule still dead

September 2023

1. 30 SepMusic Notes
2. 30 SepChild Labor in America
3. 30 SepA Major Progressive Leader Dies
4. 30 SepTalkin’ Labor
5. 30 SepDonald Trump’s economic populism doesn’t exist, so it must be invented
6. 30 SepElection of the day: Slovakia
7. 30 SepElon sends memo from Turner’s diary
8. 30 SepThe first domino falls
9. 29 SepBaseline rates and statistical analysis
10. 29 SepVanity never sleeps
11. 29 SepMan arrested for the murder of Tupac Shakur
12. 29 SepThe Nuclear Testing Standoff
13. 29 SepYou wanna learn the first rule you’d know if you ever spent a day in your life…You never open your mouth till you know what the shot is
14. 29 SepUkraine Diary 4: Odesa, War, Society, and Perfume
15. 29 SepFeinstein
16. 29 SepFeinstein Passes
17. 29 SepI am beginning to think that the “populist” turn of the Republican Party may be lacking in substance
18. 29 SepElection of the Day: Eswatini
19. 28 SepRatfucking grifter gets Chotinered
20. 28 SepGOP elites have new idea to fleece voters
21. 28 SepCancelling the horse race
22. 28 SepThe Limiting Language of Nuclear Strategists
23. 28 SepWe don’t have any evidence but we might be able to manufacture some eventually
24. 28 SepSome people have to play their little games
25. 28 SepUAW to Trump: eat shit
26. 28 SepRepublican kiddie table open thread
27. 27 SepThe loud parts even louder
28. 27 SepRadical thesis: abortion rights is a good issue for Democrats
29. 27 SepTrump: I’m not lying about the value of my properties because I will accept large bribes
30. 27 SepEAIAC dementia division
31. 27 SepTerry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins
32. 27 SepUkraine Diary 3: Officialdom, Off to Odesa, and General Observations of the Ukrainian Condition…
33. 27 SepWalking the line
34. 27 SepIsn’t it pretty to think so?
35. 27 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,448
36. 27 SepIt’s no Jackson or Montgomery, but we like it
37. 26 SepBrooks Robinson
38. 26 SepNew York judge finds Trump committed real estate fraud as a matter of indisputable fact
39. 26 SepMcCarthy agrees to massive cuts in already-shredded social safety net as price for not shutting down government
40. 26 SepAnything you’ve been dreaming of, but I just won’t do that
41. 26 SepMissouri judge throws out Junior trAshcroft’s deceptive ballot summary
42. 26 SepOverwhelming frontrunner for Republican nomination calls for massive censorship of media organizations
43. 26 SepLiterally and seriously
44. 26 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,447
45. 26 SepIn so many words, yes
46. 26 SepRepublicans and the UAW strike
47. 25 SepFor some reason, the party that unilaterally shuts down the government gets blamed for shutting down the government
48. 25 SepBuying Clarence
49. 25 SepSaudi Arabia’s Nuclear Dreams
50. 25 SepUkraine Diary 2: Georgian Legion, Higher Education, and the Ukrainian Left
51. 25 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,446
52. 25 SepWriters have tentative deal
53. 25 SepDeath cults find it much easier to fleece their marks and undermine public health
54. 24 SepPlease stop they’re already dead
55. 24 SepNFL Open Thread: Da Bears edition
56. 24 SepLabor and Social Security
57. 24 SepElection of the Day: Madeira
58. 24 SepWGA Strike Update
59. 24 SepAutomatic Voter Registration
60. 24 SepCollective trauma response
61. 24 SepCanadian Foreign Policy Blogging: Assassination Edition
62. 24 SepLooking for a COVID Booster in Santa Fe? Haha No
63. 24 SepThis is the present Republicans want
64. 23 SepAre any prominent Democrats other than Bob Menendez defending Bob Menendez?
65. 23 SepThe Beginning of the End in Nagorno-Karabakh
66. 23 SepIncome effect v. substitution effect, New York Jets edition
67. 23 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,445
68. 23 SepWhich side are you on?
69. 23 SepMore musings on the TIDOTs
70. 22 SepRupert Murdoch would do anything to stop Trump except anything
71. 22 SepAn update on the week’s most important story
72. 22 SepPartisan Witch-Hunt!!11!
73. 22 SepUkraine Diary 1: Getting There Is Half the Fun
74. 22 SepThat’s what friends are for
75. 22 SepThis Day in Labor History: September 22, 1910
76. 22 SepToday amongst our Silicon Valley betters
77. 22 SepRule and ruin
78. 21 Sep“All I Know Is I’m Sick of Everything That My Money Can Buy / A Fool Who Wastes His Life, God Rest His Guts:” A Consideration of the Replacements’ “Tim” on the Occasion of Its Reissue
79. 21 SepNNSA Underground
80. 21 SepFace-eating leopards eating face-eating leopards eating …
81. 21 Sep“So who killed truth now anyway?”
82. 21 SepThere’s something about Donald
83. 21 SepThe Ponzi Professors
84. 21 SepCampaigning while Democratic in a red state
85. 21 SepTales from the gerontocracy
86. 21 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,444
87. 21 SepBobo reaches a new level of self-parody
88. 20 SepPlease clap
89. 20 SepWhile I’ve Been Away…
90. 20 SepRepublicans in the shadow of Dobbs
91. 20 SepMystery solved by Occam’s Razor
92. 20 SepTed Williams’s last game
93. 20 SepDead money
94. 20 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,443
95. 20 SepCrude, feckless, drinking a pint of JW Black for breakfast
96. 20 SepHow much do Democratic voters actually care about Biden’s age?
97. 19 SepThere is no non-political constitutionalism
98. 19 SepIn Labor Grave News
99. 19 SepThe only problems with “supply scepticism” are that it makes no sense in theory and is demonstrably wrong in practice
100. 19 SepOn the Auto Strike
101. 19 SepLGM Podcast: Waging War with Gold
102. 19 SepElon makes existential threat to his own site
103. 19 SepCan Cooley Law School survive?
104. 19 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,442
105. 19 SepBelieve how he governed, not what he says
106. 18 SepWeathervanes
107. 18 SepDark money, nullification, and vote suppression
108. 18 SepWhen legal argument doesn’t help
109. 18 SepHave You Seen This F-35?
110. 18 SepLooking for the magic words
111. 18 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,441
112. 18 SepThe children of Bill Maher and Camille Paglia
113. 18 SepMusic Notes
114. 17 SepNFL Open Thread: Panic Button edition
115. 17 SepNext Target: Industrial Pollution
116. 17 SepWhy Autoworkers Don’t Trust Democrats
117. 17 SepNext Frontier in Anti-Abortion Misogyny
118. 17 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,440
119. 17 SepThis is excellent news for Warren Zevon
120. 16 SepIt’s time to shut down the BBC until we can figure out what the hell is going on
121. 16 SepRepublicans stick up for their own crook again
122. 16 SepLabor and value
123. 16 SepThis Day in Labor History: September 16, 1920
124. 16 SepLordy, there is video
125. 15 SepRepublican candidate for governor supports criminalizing birth control
126. 15 SepEnding a great rip-off
127. 15 SepThe Party of Family Values
128. 15 SepJann Wenner Interviews White Guys Because They’re More Articulate
129. 15 SepToday in Wisconsin authoritarianism
130. 15 SepUnilateral rights nullifier to pay where it counts
131. 15 SepThe budget has been slashed by 53%
132. 15 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,439
133. 15 SepSecond-least-bad Republican senator commits repeated crimes against humanity
134. 15 SepFailed presidential candidate wants more of his constituents to die
135. 14 SepMedia Carrying Water for Employers
136. 14 SepDesperate Times Call for Desperate Measures
137. 14 SepIt Revisited
138. 14 SepMake Employers Train Employees
139. 14 SepWill the Supreme Court allow Fugitive Uterus Acts to be enforced?
140. 14 SepMitt Romney
141. 14 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,438
142. 14 SepJudge suspends Lujan Grisham’s gun order
143. 13 SepNLRB Has Corporate Lawbreakers Arrested
144. 13 SepHow Much Time?
145. 13 SepThe psychology of the gerontocracy
146. 13 SepShoutout To Heather Cox Richardson
147. 13 SepEnd of the Pro-Life Movement
148. 13 SepCrypto’s emptiness is paradoxically its strength
149. 13 SepA Political History of the Future: The Tech Billionaire
150. 13 SepThis Day in Labor History: September 13, 1990
151. 13 SepAlabama asks Supreme Court to approve its nullification of the Court’s own ruling
152. 13 SepPonzi as vocation
153. 12 SepWhen your parents go the full 1/6
154. 12 SepConservative senators choose large increase in child poverty
155. 12 SepUnions: Good for Everyone, Including Employers
156. 12 SepHow Meaningful are the Medicare Price Negotiations?
157. 12 SepWashington Post publishes revenge porn on behalf of Republican operative
158. 12 SepMusk as Grand Strategist
159. 12 SepThe Fight for $20
160. 12 SepBut his birth certificate
161. 12 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,437
162. 12 SepIt’s like, how much more Jets can this be, and the answer is none. None more Jets
163. 11 SepExperiments with Non-Alcoholic Beer
164. 11 SepHow Authorities Use RICO Laws to Attack Leftists
165. 11 SepGet That Shot!
166. 11 SepLeo, Ginni, Harlan, and Anthony
167. 11 SepToo Hot for West Point
168. 11 SepA small piece of paper, it carries a lot of weight
169. 11 SepStruggles, Not Sanctuaries
170. 11 SepThis Day in Labor History: September 11, 2001
171. 11 SepDeSantis Making the Dunning School Great Again
172. 10 SepHow Many Words is a Picture Worth?
173. 10 SepNFL West Coast Open Thread, the fragility of the internet division
174. 10 SepFor the JFK assassination buffs
175. 10 SepNFL Week 1 Open Thread
176. 10 SepOdd Collective Bargaining Demands
177. 10 SepMel Tucker
178. 10 SepLGM Podcast: NFC Preview
179. 10 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,436
180. 10 SepOpen And Concealed Carry Suspended In Albuquerque and Bernalillo County
181. 9 SepMusic Notes
182. 9 SepLaboratories of autocracy
183. 9 SepElon’s Excellent Adventure
184. 9 SepElection of the Day: Maldives
185. 9 SepCollege Football Saturday Open Thread
186. 9 SepDeSantis: Miami cannot become uninhabitable quickly enough for me
187. 9 SepA note on faculty salaries
188. 9 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,435
189. 9 SepIn Shocking Development, Local Antisemite is also a Russian Dupe
190. 9 Sep6.8 earthquake in Morocco
191. 8 Sep“Coach” Kennedy’s highly profitable con
192. 8 SepRepublicans can’t message their way out of their Dobbs problem
193. 8 SepUnions Are Not Adjuncts of the Democratic Party
194. 8 SepHigher ed revenue has exploded, but guess where that money’s not going?
195. 8 SepGAMBLING!!!
196. 8 SepFriday freebies
197. 8 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,434
198. 8 SepBen Sasse finds his perfect gig
199. 7 SepLGM Podcast: AFC Preview
200. 7 SepMake Advisers Guilty Again
201. 7 SepCoach in phony case takes the ball and goes to his actual home
202. 7 SepThe Anthropocene and your vacation plans
203. 7 SepSenate Republicans Getting Real Sick of House Republicans
204. 7 SepRon DeSantis Has Discovered the True Victim of the Jacksonville Shooting
205. 7 SepNew Warfighting Strategy Needed
206. 7 SepRole Reversal
207. 7 SepMexico decriminalizes abortion
208. 7 SepAmerica 2023
209. 7 SepThis Day in Labor History: September 7, 1933
210. 7 SepGNR and Metallica
211. 6 SepNIMBY judge holds that environmentalism requires more global warming (and homelessness)
212. 6 SepAbortion bans stop maternity healthcare providers from practicing
213. 6 SepSenator Blue Slip
214. 6 SepBy some strange coincidence my “I’m not antisemitic, I just enjoy a non-stop circle jerk with antisemites” t-shirt also has a big ink stain on the back that looks just like a swastika
215. 6 SepDJ Fascist Asshole in the House!
216. 6 SepUAW Strike Likely
217. 6 SepMr. Xi, Tear Down that Wall!
218. 6 SepThe disappearing college wealth premium
219. 6 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,433
220. 6 SepBuilding more housing reduces prices, rents, and homelessness
221. 6 SepTucker Carlson, the semi-employed years
222. 5 SepAnother violent seditionist off the board
223. 5 SepLGM Classical – We Shall Overcome
224. 5 SepRight wing crookwatch, otherwise known as a day ending in Y (update: ET go prison)
225. 5 SepJudges strike down Alabama’s latest nullification of federal law
226. 5 SepDisqualification? Plus Some Random Thoughts on the Freelance Market…
227. 5 SepThe Confederate Cult
228. 5 SepProfiles in Courage
229. 5 SepHollywood Strikes Not Going Anywhere
230. 5 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,432
231. 4 SepAssume a universe
232. 4 SepLabor Day – open thread, with music
233. 4 SepCatching on
234. 4 SepMost authoritarian Republican Party in America considers nullifying another election
235. 4 SepLGM Podcast: Pennant Races Wind Down
236. 4 SepErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,431
237. 4 SepThere are men high up there fishing haven’t seen quite enough of the world
238. 4 SepPassiflora incarnata – open thread
239. 3 SepAyotzinapa
240. 3 SepCanceling Kit Carson
241. 3 SepA Note on Bill Richardson
242. 3 SepReal and imaginary populisms
243. 3 SepThe American Nations and Life Expectancy
244. 3 SepGaming Notes
245. 3 SepPost-Dobbs politics in Wisconsin
246. 2 SepPutting the “petty” in petty tyrant
247. 2 SepWhen abortion is “sent back to the states ;) ;) :)”
248. 2 SepJimmy Buffett
249. 2 SepMeatball Ron terrified of Trump, bullies earnest 15-year-old
250. 1 SepYou said it, I didn’t
251. 1 SepAlmost surgical precision
252. 1 SepThe tombstone of American democracy
253. 1 SepThe Allure of Long Range Strike
254. 1 SepSome Senate Republicans wonder if it’s a problem that their leader keeps stroking out

August 2023

1. 31 AugThe highly selective formalism of Clarence Thomas
2. 31 AugAlabama Attorney General to pursue legal action against fugitive uteruses
3. 31 AugGordon Gee’s reckless spending spree will ruin many careers
4. 31 AugAttempt to keep Terrible Tangelo in the White House earns Joseph Biggs 17 years in the big house
5. 31 AugU-Be Spherules? Think Nuclear Weapons
6. 31 AugLGM Podcast: Talking Football with Rich Brooks
7. 31 AugWoke insurance companies reject Rupert Murdoch’s climate science
8. 31 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,430
9. 31 AugToday in Scumbags
10. 31 AugNo Labels, an Orange Guru, a Time-Tested Method
11. 30 AugThe NLRB’s Weakness
12. 30 AugNIMBYism is anti-labor
13. 30 AugDrone Strikes In Russia
14. 30 AugHow to Build an Economy
15. 30 AugVideos from a gerontocracy
16. 30 AugHurricane Idalia
17. 30 AugWas Rudy rhymin’ and stealin’ elections in a drunken state? (Now with a defamation suit update)
18. 30 AugNegotiating Drug Prices Down
19. 30 AugCoup in Gabon?
20. 30 AugCNA Gaming Lab
21. 30 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,429
22. 30 AugIndicted seditionists and torture enthusiasts agree: Clarence Thomas’s behavior is beyond reproach
23. 29 AugFlorida GOP: College Board Marxists don’t want students to learn about the many good things about chattel slavery
24. 29 AugMike Pence: we need more executions to provide a deterrence to mass murder-suicides
25. 29 AugRepublicans in Michigan
26. 29 AugToday in 1949: Nuclear War Becomes Possible
27. 29 AugLGM Podcast: Remembering Robbie Robertson
28. 29 AugThe terror state
29. 29 AugResetting the Game in Northeast Asia
30. 29 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,428
31. 29 AugPaved down the middle, by a government that had no pride
32. 28 AugCitizens of Jacksonville show fine taste and judgment
33. 28 AugJoe the Plumber
34. 28 AugWhat the NLRB Decision Means
35. 28 AugBrilliant Ideas from Our TechBro Betters
36. 28 AugBeing for the benefit of Mr. Perp
37. 28 AugThe ides of March
38. 28 AugIn the paranoid style to which we have become accustomed
39. 28 AugThis Day in Labor History: August 28, 1833
40. 27 AugGoing broke for the Donald
41. 27 AugNanny state, bad. Nanny head of state, good. David Brooks, the worst.
42. 27 AugWhy does Trump tell obviously false lies?
43. 27 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,427
44. 27 AugThe Civil War’s most recent battle
45. 26 AugMusic Notes
46. 26 AugFear is the Mind Killer… of Liberalism
47. 26 AugEastman and Down: Charges in Atlanta, Disbarment in Sacramenta
48. 26 AugDeclassifying the Pinochet Coup
49. 26 AugUAW Strike Approval
50. 26 AugElection of the Day: Gabon
51. 26 AugWhat a Biden Appointed NLRB Will Do For You
52. 26 AugTokmak?
53. 26 AugPeak Murc’s law?
54. 26 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,426
55. 26 AugBreaking! Bob Menendez may not be on the level
56. 25 AugSo it’s illegal to ask for a recount now?
57. 25 AugElections of the last few days: Guatemala, Zimbabwe
58. 25 AugOhio Republicans are anti-democracy addicts
59. 25 AugHalf measures
60. 25 AugThe Loss of RFS Moskva
61. 25 AugIn a Clown Car Driven by Donald Trump
62. 25 AugPresumed guilty
63. 25 AugFulton County Day Open Thread, Part Deux
64. 25 AugBoss turns himself in
65. 24 AugThat’s what the money’s for
66. 24 AugWhen MAGA attacks
67. 24 AugThe Thing on Xitter
68. 24 AugACAB, Including Campus Cops
69. 24 AugVivek’s History Lessons
70. 24 AugUnemployment Benefits for Strikers
71. 24 AugGOP Debates 2024 – Round 1 round up
72. 24 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,425
73. 24 AugRussia-Ukraine Update
74. 24 AugClimate denialism is the consensus of Republican elites
75. 23 AugDIY GOP debate live thread (update)
76. 23 AugThe Federalist Society Constitution has no room for an Establishment Clause
77. 23 AugThe Rudy went down to Georgia
78. 23 AugWagner chief’s plane shot down by Russians?
79. 23 AugWeird Nationalism Leads to Pointless Scientific Missions
80. 23 AugAfter The War
81. 23 AugA Cranky UAW
82. 23 AugBiden impeachment inquiry
83. 23 AugTeamsters Ratify Contract
84. 23 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,424
85. 23 AugThe PAC-12 turned down a generous rights offer from ESPN
86. 23 AugLGM Film Club, Part 407: Under the Silver Lake
87. 23 AugEastman and Down: Arraignment edition
88. 22 AugImages from American History, Part 96
89. 22 AugThe upside of wrong
90. 22 AugLes abeilles! – Open thread. (With bees. And trees.)
91. 22 AugA Nation Donald Trump and Stephen Miller Can Love
92. 22 AugAntitrust and the Hollywood Strikes
93. 22 AugHot Take: Affirmative Action Programs for the Rich Are Actually Good!
94. 22 AugCreating killers
95. 22 AugRich men north of Richmond
96. 22 AugFraud as the Lubricant of American Life
97. 22 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,423
98. 22 AugFarrow on Elon
99. 22 AugLGM Film Club, Part 406: Ron Cephas Jones
100. 21 AugImages from American History, Part 95
101. 21 AugHow many bullets are Trump’s lackeys willing to take for him?
102. 21 AugRatfucker also a deadbeat
103. 21 AugThe parade of the pathetic pick me politicians
104. 21 AugThe Only Solution to Even The Most Limited Gun Control is to Elect Democrats
105. 21 AugHow the Blob Learns to Love a Foreign Politician
106. 21 AugUnions and YIMBYism
107. 21 AugA Fourteenth Amendment Solution?
108. 21 AugThe fantasy that there’s going to be a race for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination
109. 21 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,422
110. 21 AugChoking on your own red meat
111. 21 AugGrand Old Perpetrators
112. 20 AugLike the mystics and statistics say it will
113. 20 AugElection of the Day: Ecuador
114. 20 AugLGM Classical – Water Sprites At The Santa Fe Opera
115. 20 AugThe professional administrative class’s role in the dismantling of the humanities
116. 20 AugThe Desperation of Republican Elites
117. 20 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,421
118. 20 AugDeplorable listless vessel gaffes again
119. 19 AugThe Blind Side
120. 19 Aug“Empowerment or Slavery”: Tortillas and Mexican Women’s Labor
121. 19 AugDynamic, proactive new logistical synergies from Chairman Rufo
122. 19 AugHack judge shits in her pants over prospect of Wisconsin holding democratic legislative elections
123. 19 AugYou gotta know that a guy who helps you steal, even if you take care of him real well, I mean, he’s gonna steal a little bit extra for himself.
124. 19 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,420
125. 19 Aug“On Friday, Hedlund celebrated as teenage boys held his penis sign for selfies.”
126. 18 AugThe store brand Orban in Iowa
127. 18 Aug“Free speech” as the right to force other people to listen to you whether they want to or not
128. 18 AugWhat happened to Rudy?
129. 18 AugTruman Establishes Sole Presidential Authority
130. 18 AugManufactured insecurity
131. 18 AugAn Israeli Civil War: From Public Secret to Shared Illusion
132. 18 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,419
133. 18 AugI’m going to sit down with Coach and President Brandon and tell them to cut the bullshit
134. 17 AugNever Trump: Never Stop Never Trumping, Sad fanfic edition
135. 17 AugThe fire this time
136. 17 AugBarbarians inside the gate
137. 17 AugThe End of Twitter
138. 17 AugWhat binds our time, drives you to crime?
139. 17 AugNon-LGM Podcast: Innovation, Technology, and the Taiwan Straits
140. 17 AugToday in the robust Republican commitment to free speech
141. 17 AugAn early Hanukkah for Jon Ossoff?
142. 17 AugBook Sales
143. 16 AugFifth Circuit inflicting aesthetic damage, on me
144. 16 AugChairman Rufo’s gender politics
145. 16 AugYankees ask Orioles to just start the season over from scratch
146. 16 AugThe strange career of the Electoral College
147. 16 AugLindsey Graham: The best way to punish Donald Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election is to re-elect him
148. 16 AugIt’s immoral to fulfill the terms of a contract you made with a sucker
149. 15 AugWhat if, Knowing What They Know Now, Republicans Don’t Vote for Donald Trump?
150. 15 AugAre you ready Boots?
151. 15 AugIs there any argument for a university massively subsidizing its law school?
152. 15 AugWhat’s a little autogolpe racket between friends?
153. 15 AugDerp from the Dersh
154. 15 AugTechne Tuesday – Open thread
155. 15 AugEastman and Down: RICO predicates edition
156. 15 AugThe view from on the road to nowhere
157. 15 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,418
158. 15 AugWelcome to the “find out” portion of our programming
159. 15 AugPerfect indictments
160. 14 AugThe cruelty of Dobbs is the entire point
161. 14 AugDonald’s razor
162. 14 AugGee whiz, what a bloodbath
163. 14 AugThe Kids Win One!
164. 14 AugThe war on free speech in Florida
165. 14 AugGiving Up A Myth
166. 14 AugLet’s check in on the post-Dobbs Republican pivot to healthcare
167. 14 AugFacts are important: Listen to ACOG, not misogynist politicians on viability
168. 14 AugImpacts of College Football Realignment…
169. 14 AugWhite supremacy and plutocracy
170. 14 AugRatfucking failson supports national abortion ban
171. 14 Aug“That I don’t know. I just don’t know. I really just don’t know.”
172. 13 AugGeorgia prosecutors have extensive evidence that Trump’s lawyers hacked voting systems
173. 13 AugFake-populist lies, coming and going
174. 13 AugThe psychology of the Trump cult
175. 13 AugLahaina before and after
176. 12 AugA riddle for the ages
177. 12 AugToday in the American “pro-life” movement
178. 12 AugDonald Trump and the forgotten 14th Amendment
179. 12 AugThe scandal election
180. 12 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,417
181. 12 AugAnd the Taibbi/Weiss Award For Very Serious Commitment to the Principles of Free Speech goes to…
182. 11 AugDobbs will further intensify Republican attacks on democracy
183. 11 AugWhen bad things happen to (formerly) rich people
184. 11 AugAcademic freedom no, patronage yes
185. 11 AugMetaphorical Florida Man also literal Florida Man
186. 11 AugOut of control college spending
187. 11 AugAI, as in Ay Caramba!
188. 11 AugJoe Manchin threatens to leave Democratic Party for the last 18 months of his political career
189. 11 AugThe destruction of Lahaina
190. 10 AugLGM Podcast: On a Road Called Oppenheimer
191. 10 Aug1, 2, fuck you
192. 10 AugRebuilding Ukraine’s Defense Industrial Base
193. 10 AugFeel the DeSantimania
194. 10 AugThe style to which he has become entitled
195. 10 AugToday amongst our Silicon Valley betters
196. 10 AugThe “Law and Order” Backlash to BLM
197. 10 AugWhy Capitalism Cannot Solve Climate Change
198. 10 AugFor Employers, Sex Might Be Hot, But Never Unions
199. 10 AugUnions Recruiting Workers
200. 10 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,416
201. 10 AugNice party you have here
202. 10 AugPlaying 5-dimensional Chesebro
203. 10 AugBaaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument
204. 9 AugThe Rise of Modelo
205. 9 AugRobbie Robertson
206. 9 AugGeorgia grand jury about to indict Trump; fascist ex-POTUS goes on smear campaign
207. 9 AugPost-Dobbs politics in the midwest
208. 9 AugThe apotheosis of the long con
209. 9 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,415
210. 9 AugOhio Republican attempt to trick voters into giving their authority back to a gerrymandered legislature so they can keep their horrible abortion law a massive fail
211. 8 AugSupreme Court restores Biden administration rule regulating firearms as firearms
212. 8 AugUniversal Child Care Should Be at the Top of the Progressive Agenda
213. 8 AugHappy Belated Birthday to War on the Rocks!
214. 8 AugThe Powerbroker
215. 8 AugWilliam Friedkin
216. 8 AugTechno-Tuesday: Open thread (Update)
217. 8 AugA Rock of Stability in Our Troubled Era
218. 8 AugGuess who is responsible for Donald Trump being the GOP presidential candidate in 2024?
219. 8 AugThe Northwest’s Long History of Right-Wing Extremism
220. 8 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,414
221. 8 AugElection of the Day: Ohio Issue 1
222. 8 AugQAnon accusation once again becomes confession
223. 7 AugSome Facts And Figures
224. 7 AugWSJ wonders why Hunter Biden lacks the scrupulous integrity of Jared Kushner
225. 7 AugCo-conspirator 2 asks for his disbarment to be put off because of his pending indictments
226. 7 AugCarbon Capture Ahead!
227. 7 Aug“Superluxury, really bougie”: The corrupt entitlement of Clarence Thomas
228. 7 AugAnti-trans tall tales
229. 7 AugLife is hard and filled with dread. Here’s your stinkin’ open thread.
230. 7 AugDoctor pay
231. 7 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,413
232. 7 AugWhen you awoke
233. 6 AugA man aspired to overthrow the government, and they called it a crime
234. 6 AugEastman and Down: Damn right it was a coup edition
235. 6 AugAll that Trump Stuff…
236. 6 AugWellness culture and fascism
237. 6 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,412
238. 5 AugThe cross-burning next time
239. 5 AugListen to some bullet-head and the madness that he’s saying
240. 5 AugTV or not TV: Should the federal trials of M. Tiny Fingers be televised?
241. 5 AugThe Long Arm of Family Separation Horrors
242. 5 AugWelcome to the Big Ten!
243. 5 AugGrave Updates
244. 5 AugDonald Trump may go to prison after all
245. 5 AugChicano Heritage Month
246. 5 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,411
247. 5 AugWhen higher education is Rufoed
248. 5 AugLGM Film Club, Part 405: Vikings-Seahawks, 1978
249. 4 AugIntellectual Dark Web media star wrote white supremacist things under a pseudonym, just like he does under his own name
250. 4 AugDemocracy is (yet again) on the ballot in 2024
251. 4 AugWar on the Euxine Sea
252. 4 AugMoron with large platform endorses Kari Lake’s insane anti-democratic conspiracy theories
253. 4 AugClimate change and conference realignment
254. 4 AugThis Day in Labor History: August 4, 1997
255. 4 AugJim Jordan assures public the snipe will turn up any minute now
256. 3 AugHow Vincent Bugliosi destroyed the First Amendment, by Rich Lowry
257. 3 AugJudge Chutkan understands an ounce of prison protects a pound of democracy
258. 3 AugTrump supporter has Trumpian attitude toward paying taxes
259. 3 AugPolicy-Blogging: A History of Progressive Inflation Control – The Macunian Tradition, Keynes’ Plan to Pay for the War, and John H.G Pierson
260. 3 AugWhich side are you on?
261. 3 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,410
262. 3 AugConspirator 6
263. 3 AugCardinals mascot accused by Tucker of being a federal provocateur charged for 1/6 crimes
264. 3 AugAmerica’s mayor
265. 2 AugIf you want a vision of the future, imagine a tRump attorney spouting quasi-legalistic arguments, forever
266. 2 AugA Court without context
267. 2 AugMedia Elite Myopia
268. 2 AugThe Bankruptcy of Carbon Offsets
269. 2 AugExtremely Reasonable and Normal Republicans
270. 2 AugOppenheimer – Other Reactions
271. 2 AugPSA Wednesday – Open thread
272. 2 AugThe real problem
273. 2 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,409
274. 2 AugDeSantis History
275. 1 AugThe Co-Conspirators
276. 1 AugTrump indicted by federal grand jury for illegally interfering in the 2020 presidential election
277. 1 AugA Mendacious Fool
278. 1 AugFoes of reproductive health care can’t be satisfied
279. 1 AugPuhshaw’s fash army
280. 1 AugGood and bad weather
281. 1 AugLOL nothing matters
282. 1 AugTechno Tuesday – an open thread
283. 1 AugErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,408
284. 1 AugThe Future of the US-Ukraine Relationship
285. 1 AugLGM Film Club, Part 404: The Killing

July 2023

1. 31 JulImages from American History, Part 94
2. 31 JulCars and cyclists
3. 31 JulTexas Education: None of the Reading, All of the Beating
4. 31 JulLeinie Strike
5. 31 JulBarry’s inferno
6. 31 JulWatching the Whales Die
7. 31 JulFox News – a hive of woke scum and villainous satanists??
8. 31 JulWill the Strike Wave of 2023 Continue?
9. 31 JulWhen the Resources Disappear
10. 31 JulFixing the Glitch
11. 31 JulThe Producers, criminal litigation edition
12. 31 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,407
13. 31 JulTrump lawsuit too frivolous for Trump judge
14. 30 JulNolan’s Narrative
15. 30 JulBiden to sharply reduce student loan payments for millions of borrowers
16. 30 JulInside job
17. 30 JulWho is Black in America?
18. 30 JulThe demographics of 2050
19. 30 JulThe conservative diaper fetish is getting out of control
20. 30 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,406
21. 30 JulCongressional democrats challenge Alito and his imperial Court
22. 29 JulFlorida man & friends won’t tolerate Those People criticizing his slavery’s silver lining history curriculum
23. 29 JulWhy do right wing critics never argue for the existence of crypto-right wing politicians?
24. 29 JulToday in fash fanfiction
25. 29 JulThe Upsurge in Child Labor
26. 29 JulEmmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument
27. 29 JulNational Park Workers Save Their Union
28. 29 JulI voted to fuck around, not to find out
29. 29 JulHeat wave
30. 29 JulThis Day in Labor History: July 29, 1987
31. 29 JulRFK issues anti-Semitic air siren
32. 28 JulSam Alito, principled textualist (with notably rare exceptions and regulations)
33. 28 JulThe continued adventures of Len Mukos, free speech champeen
34. 28 JulNo labels, no guru, no method, no teacher, no shame
35. 28 JulOppenheimer – First Reactions
36. 28 JulBeto: Step It Up Biden
37. 28 JulTimber Industry Loses Again
38. 28 JulTrump says this is all a conspiracy on the part of the Biden administration to divert attention away from Hunter’s laptop
39. 28 JulErik Visits an American (Abroad) Grave, Part 1,405
40. 28 JulJack Smith isn’t finished yet
41. 28 JulLGM Film Club, Part 403: Bob Le Flambeur
42. 28 Jul“Got to scam to get me through every day”
43. 27 JulImages from American History, Part 93
44. 27 JulConservatives and Campus Free Speech II: Deep in the Black Heart of Texas Edition
45. 27 JulUPS-Teamsters Deal
46. 27 JulElon lied to customers about the range of Teslas and then cancelled their service appointments
47. 27 JulMan of the People!
48. 27 JulConservatives and campus free speech I
49. 27 JulHistory-Blogging: Ranking NY Governors
50. 27 JulWretched headline de l’heure
51. 27 JulTommy’s Lies
52. 27 JulOn Oppenheimer and the Value of Political Criticism
53. 27 JulA media ecosystem wired for Republicans
54. 27 JulSuing Companies in California
55. 27 JulThe War on Women: Nebraska Style
56. 27 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,404
57. 27 JulThe desperate fascist
58. 27 JulCrackpot history & the right to lie
59. 26 JulThe Liz Bruenig Express Arrives in Atlanta
60. 26 JulThe Next Steps
61. 26 JulDeSantis says he would pick RFK Jr. to head the CDC or FDA
62. 26 JulToday in the American gerontocracy
63. 26 JulFirst as pathetic farce, then as even more pathetic force
64. 26 JulSinead
65. 26 JulHistory-Blogging: Rating NYC Mayors
66. 26 JulWhither Fish and Chips?
67. 26 JulAmerican Industrial Policy?
68. 26 JulGifts for Your Favorite Historians
69. 26 JulPotential collapse of the Gulf Stream
70. 26 JulPSA Wednesday – open thread
71. 26 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,403
72. 26 JulTrump supporters are the Glengarry leads
73. 26 JulThe Grift that Keeps on Grifting
74. 26 JulValley of the Dulls
75. 26 JulDeSantis campaign fires Edgelord-in-chief
76. 25 JulShe probably didn’t come from Planet Clare
77. 25 JulA political landscape where it is always 1993 and preferring liberalism to fascism is always cringe
78. 25 JulRFK jr. continues to be the most inept ratfucker ever
79. 25 JulVehicular NIMBYism
80. 25 JulTechno Tuesday – an open thread
81. 25 JulThis Day in Labor History: July 25, 1973
82. 25 JulX marks the trademark
83. 24 JulBy the time I get to Phoenix the asphalt will be 180 degrees
84. 24 JulNotes from the floundering campaign of Jeb Walker Rubio
85. 24 JulX-rated banking
86. 24 JulPolicy-Blogging: The History of Price Controls
87. 24 JulWealthy career criminal partners with religious fanatics in desperate attempt to cling to political power and stay out of jail
88. 24 JulThis is an X bluebird – open thread
89. 24 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,402
90. 24 JulTony Bennett
91. 24 JulLGM Film Club, Part 402: When the Giant Cruise Ships Came to Town
92. 23 JulImages from American History, Part 92
93. 23 JulSpanish election results
94. 23 JulThe Greatest Last Paragraph in Literature
95. 23 JulRon DeSantis go one day without threatening to use arbitrary state power against your political enemies challenge
96. 23 JulNo Labels Clownshow
97. 23 JulYamato 2
98. 23 JulTalkin’ Strikes
99. 23 JulBan the Cruise Ships!
100. 23 JulOppenheimer
101. 23 JulWalking is getting a lot more dangerous
102. 23 Jul“Who Else Reads Books About Submarines?”
103. 23 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,401
104. 23 JulThe dumbest con
105. 22 JulMusic Notes
106. 22 JulRon DeSantis killed tens of thousand of Floridians because he thought opposing vaccines would help make him president
107. 22 JulMenhaden, Osprey, Human
108. 22 JulGender Fascism
109. 22 JulLaboratories of Democratic backsliding: Ohio edition
110. 22 JulMore Heroes for These Desperate Times
111. 22 JulElection of the weekend 2: Spain
112. 22 JulTipping points
113. 22 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,400
114. 22 JulSupreme Court’s degenerate majority permits Alabama torture killing
115. 22 JulElection of the weekend 1: Cambodia
116. 22 JulLGM Film Club, Part 401: The Burmese Harp
117. 21 JulImages from American History, Part 91
118. 21 JulAlabama continues its tradition of nullifying judicial rulings with the temerity to suggest that African-Americans are equal citizens
119. 21 JulDecertifying Starbucks Unions
120. 21 JulMarjorie Taylor Greene’s revenge porn tour
121. 21 JulCVS, Walgreens and the panty-sniffing pervs in the pharmacy dept.
122. 21 Jul15 years of blogging
123. 21 JulSolidarity with the Teamsters
124. 21 JulLibertarian Douchebros Gonna Libertarian Douchebro
125. 21 JulThe New Student Debt Plan
126. 21 JulMay 2024
127. 21 JulThe Offensive…
128. 21 JulHistory is a battle that never ends
129. 21 JulTime to set the meter on “hack pop-country artist releases shitty pro-lynching song” back to zero days
130. 21 Jul“Will Tom and Shiv Make It?” and Other Succession Related Questions
131. 21 JulLGM Film Club, Part 400: The Searchers
132. 20 JulImages from American History, Part 90
133. 20 JulTwo men say they’re Jesus, one of them must be wrong
134. 20 JulThe era of big government being over is over
135. 20 JulFlorida man destroying Florida education
136. 20 JulBiden Angry Oh My God
137. 20 JulTime for Prison
138. 20 JulKilling the Kids on the Job
139. 20 JulManchin Torpedoing Great Secretary of Labor Nominee
140. 20 JulNot even past
141. 20 JulCon man whose sentence was commuted by Trump pays tribute to Trump by doing more cons
142. 20 JulLGM Film Club, Part 399: Wheat: From Field to Flour
143. 20 Jul“Hush money paid to an adult film star is not related to a President’s official acts.”
144. 19 JulImages from American History, Part 89
145. 19 JulThe State of Labor
146. 19 JulThe end(s) of the Covid pandemic
147. 19 JulUnion Popularity Does Not Equal Good Labor Law
148. 19 JulThe gang that couldn’t ratfuck straight
149. 19 JulGreat Moments in Incompetent Campaigns
150. 19 JulTwo Mavericks
151. 19 JulWhy Have Biden’s Economic Plans Not Made Him More Popular?
152. 19 JulRemember Your Freedom Riders
153. 19 JulAnti-anti racism
154. 19 JulA North Korean Vacation
155. 19 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,399
156. 19 JulYou never count your money while you’re sittin’ at the table
157. 19 JulLove the way you lie
158. 19 JulLGM Film Club, Part 398: Training Camp
159. 18 JulImages from American History, Part 88
160. 18 JulWe are now entering the find out portion of our programming
161. 18 JulMhoaga
162. 18 JulNew economically populist, working-class Republican Party wants to completely decimate American infrastructure
163. 18 JulSick Leave for Rail Workers
164. 18 JulHappy Birthday to Crooked Timber!
165. 18 JulDisinformation
166. 18 JulPeople Won’t Believe What They Don’t Want to Believe
167. 18 JulTrump about to be indicted for leading January 6th insurrection?
168. 18 JulOn the border
169. 18 JulThis Day in Labor History: July 18, 1899
170. 17 JulI dunno, seems plausible
171. 17 JulRFK Jr.’s vanity ratfuck is being mostly funded by Republicans
172. 17 JulSubsidized bribery
173. 17 JulRasmussen
174. 17 JulGretchen Whitmer and the future of the Democratic party
175. 17 JulEnd of the Grain Deal?
176. 17 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,398
177. 17 JulThe angels forgot to pray for us
178. 16 JulImages from American History, Part 87
179. 16 JulNo labels, no guru, no method, no teacher
180. 16 JulThe decline and decline of Pudding Ron
181. 16 JulIdle speculation Sunday – Vice President edition (with idle open thread add-on)
182. 16 JulThe Huy Fong Supply Chain Disaster
183. 16 JulThe Minnesota Trifecta
184. 16 JulAdvances in Medicine
185. 16 JulDirect action and the climate crisis
186. 16 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,397
187. 16 JulBut it’s a wet heat
188. 15 JulSoS Raffensperger has had it with all these motherfucking election deniers in his motherfucking state
189. 15 JulPudding Ron’s army are on their way
190. 15 JulRFK Jr. just asking questions
191. 15 Jul19th Century Patronage Politics
192. 15 JulThings Are Going Very Well!
193. 15 JulRight wing choads and school dress codes
194. 15 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,396
195. 15 JulLGM Film Club, Part 397: Pride Parade, 1978
196. 15 JulThe Dersh loses an MAGA bet
197. 14 JulImages from American History, Part 86
198. 14 JulWow indeed
199. 14 JulUncle Joe Brandon announces larger student debt relief program
200. 14 JulCulture War Violence in Liberal Cities
201. 14 JulA state small enough to fit in your underwear drawer
202. 14 JulImprovised weapon sullied by the blood of a convicted pedophile
203. 14 JulIn Praise of Peter Gammons
204. 14 JulStarbucks–More Cracking Down
205. 14 JulCan Donald Trump lie?
206. 14 JulSAG-AFTRA Strike Thoughts
207. 14 JulNailing Down the Anthropocene
208. 14 JulThe Putin lickspittle caucus
209. 14 JulNever Forget
210. 13 JulThe poor man’s Ted Cruz
211. 13 JulThe Second Arrangement
212. 13 JulCornel West’s vanity ratfucking campaign should not receive any votes from anyone anywhere on the left in any jurisdiction
213. 13 JulIf you live in this world you’re feelin’ the change of the guard
214. 13 JulOTD – FDA OK 4 OTC OC
215. 13 JulIowa joins the 19th century
216. 13 JulBefore the flood
217. 13 Jul♫Place your bid on MyPillow♫
218. 13 JulHollywood talks collapse
219. 13 JulOn the less honorable spectrum of the American elite
220. 12 JulA point of honor
221. 12 JulAnother Tucker defamation victim sues
222. 12 JulThe appearance of impropriety
223. 12 JulPeople’s History of the Marvel Universe, Summer Special: Anti-Mutant Prejudice in the Superhero Community
224. 12 JulInflation down to 3% year over year
225. 12 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,395
226. 12 JulKey Republican witness in Dickpickghazi may not be totally on the level
227. 12 JulGetting home insurance in Florida
228. 11 JulThe anti-vax legal network
229. 11 JulBofA deeze nutz
230. 11 JulLGM Podcast: Chile’s Constitutional Ping Pong
231. 11 JulSupreme Court likely to embrace the Republican war on trans people
232. 11 JulTrump lawyers seek to postpone criminal trial until he can pardon himself
233. 11 JulPushing Back Native Habitation of the Americas
234. 11 JulLine Item Trolling
235. 11 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,394
236. 11 Jul“Donald Trump was an awesome president, now maybe kinda vote for someone else maybe”
237. 11 JulLGM Film Club, Part 396: Africa Cup, 1968
238. 10 JulImages from American History, Part 85
239. 10 JulEx-Republicans and Trump
240. 10 JulJournalists against journalism
241. 10 JulSweden Joins the Party?
242. 10 JulThe bullshit-originalist case against affirmative action
243. 10 JulNIMBYISM: Providence Style
244. 10 JulHow Many “White” Inventions Came from Black People?
245. 10 JulGovernment at Its Most Dumb
246. 10 Jul“Transitional”costs and the automatic view
247. 10 JulThe Quad?
248. 10 JulThis Day in Labor History: July 10, 1902
249. 10 JulLGM Film Club, Part 395: Early Women’s Hoops
250. 9 JulMusic Notes
251. 9 JulThe Northwestern hazing scandal
252. 9 JulThe perpetual Klan cycle
253. 9 JulWhy Oppenheimer?
254. 9 JulAlt-right plutocrat drowning in flopsweat as other billionaires take his rapidly depreciating $44 billion vanity purchase to Kinko’s
255. 9 JulOn Answering Questions
256. 9 JulThe lavish rewards for reactionary orthodoxy
257. 9 JulLeopards, Faces, Etc
258. 9 JulChestnuts
259. 9 JulThe Bear is the Best Television Series of 2023
260. 9 JulWho Are the Homeless?
261. 9 JulThe Three-Headed Presidency of UNITE-HERE Local 11
262. 9 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,393
263. 9 JulPivot to AI
264. 9 JulThings TFG made worse
265. 8 JulRecent Oklahoma Secretary of Education says the Tulsa Race Massacre should be taught in race-neutral terms
266. 8 JulAndrew Cuomo’s heartfelt tribute to Scott Walker
267. 8 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,392
268. 8 JulSelf-dealing GQ editor kills article at behest of widely-loathed CEO
269. 7 JulAbbott the Killer
270. 7 JulTipping culture and tipping fatigue
271. 7 JulIconic foods open thread
272. 7 JulAaaaaannd – They’re Gone!
273. 7 JulZaporizhzhia Followup
274. 7 JulThe Unreflective Nature of Union Democracy Activists
275. 7 JulSilicon Valley plutocrats are different than you and me
276. 7 JulLGM Film Club, Part 395: Early Providence Footage
277. 7 JulMarjorie Taylor Green – Republican of Distinction
278. 7 Jul“What are you going to do, work for my well-financed competitors?”
279. 6 JulImages from American History, Part 84
280. 6 JulWe’re getting used to it now
281. 6 JulChecking in with the Minivan Taliban
282. 6 JulThinking About 2024
283. 6 JulA Drive-By Review of Threads
284. 6 JulThe State Courts
285. 6 JulHotel Workers Strike
286. 6 JulThe hottest day ever
287. 6 JulFrench Myths of Racial Democracy
288. 6 JulLGM Film Club, Part 394: D-Day Footage
289. 5 JulImages from American History, Part 83
290. 5 JulJosh Hawley uses fake quote from ideologically congenial source
291. 5 JulPrivacy, standing, and 303 Creative
292. 5 JulThe Republican War on Teachers
293. 5 JulAI & Job Loss
294. 5 JulPittsburgh Moving Left
295. 5 JulRewilding Ireland
296. 5 JulThe F-35B Beat…
297. 5 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,391
298. 5 JulLGM Film Club, Part 393: Miller’s Crossing
299. 4 JulImages from American History, Part 82
300. 4 JulWas Kissinger Not Available?
301. 4 JulTrump judge issues ruling approximately as long as Gravity’s Rainbow, barring the Biden administration from expressing opinions that contradict right wing ideology
302. 4 JulThe Danger at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
303. 4 JulThe End of the Globalization Ideologues
304. 4 JulThe Union-Busting University
305. 4 JulKillin’: The American Way
306. 4 JulHappy Independence Day
307. 4 JulLog Cabin Republicans willfully shocked to discover what “anti-woke” means
308. 4 JulWhen the levees break
309. 4 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,390
310. 4 Jul“Nothing Frightens Me More / Than Religion At My Door:” John Cale’s Paris 1919 Turns 50
311. 4 JulLGM Film Club, Part 392: Willard Scott as Ronald McDonald
312. 3 JulThe most reactionary Court ever, and the limits of statistical models of Supreme Court votes
313. 3 JulThe Political Economy of the College Right
314. 3 JulA Unique Museum Experience
315. 3 JulWhat Stolen Wages Really Mean in Construction
316. 3 JulCyberbullying at the University of Chicago
317. 3 JulWhy Barbie?
318. 3 JulSick Days for the Rail Unions
319. 3 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,389
320. 3 JulLGM Film Club, Part 391: Arkin Endorses Moosehead
321. 2 JulImages from American History, Part 81
322. 2 JulAmerica’s Worst Democratic Party
323. 2 JulMoms For Liberty
324. 2 JulAn Abortion Doctor in Alabama
325. 2 JulAcademic Snobbery in the Times
326. 2 JulTwitter in the ICU
327. 2 JulAlan Arkin
328. 2 JulThe affirmative action myth
329. 2 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,388
330. 1 JulMusic Notes
331. 1 JulThe most boring state in America
332. 1 JulWhen the Court acts unconstitutionally
333. 1 JulTwitter Is Imploding
334. 1 JulCampaign Ads Of The Republican Also-Ran
335. 1 JulWell of course he did
336. 1 JulErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,387
337. 1 JulAn institutional commitment to Republican values
338. 1 JulRFK’s laser focus on DeSantis supporters surprisingly not helping him with Democratic primary voters

June 2023

1. 30 JunJohn Roberts demonstrates a justified lack of confidence in his arrogation of congressional and presidential authority
2. 30 JunReconstruction
3. 30 JunThe Narrow Way ;), Parts 4-6
4. 30 JunAsteroid City
5. 30 JunFrench Protests and Global Anti-Racism
6. 30 JunStudent Debt Cancellation Cancelled
7. 30 JunConspiracy theorism and wellness culture
8. 30 JunAn epochal day in American history
9. 30 JunLGM Film Club, Part 390: 12 Angry Men
10. 29 JunImages from American History, Part 80
11. 29 JunRepublicans want a fucking around abortion ban binge without the finding out abortion ban hangover
12. 29 JunWe wonder who the real men are
13. 29 JunNew Mexico: Haven of Reproductive Justice
14. 29 JunJohn Roberts finally bags his white elephant
15. 29 JunSaving the Chiles
16. 29 JunI am gaining some respect for Chris Christie
17. 29 JunThe District Courts
18. 29 JunEnd of the Line
19. 29 JunThe real scandal is what is routine practice
20. 29 JunLGM Film Club, Part 389: Texaco, 1969
21. 29 JunExtremely creepy misogynist prohibitive frontrunner to be Republican presidential nominee for third consecutive cycle
22. 28 JunImages from American History, Part 79
23. 28 JunSacrificing your intellectual dignity for a powerful life-tenured public official
24. 28 JunA year without Roe
25. 28 Jun“Green Colonialism”
26. 28 JunCop Theft
27. 28 JunThe Single Most Revolting Union Busting Tactic I Have Ever Heard
28. 28 JunThe Stories We Like to Tell…
29. 28 JunRuthian questions
30. 28 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,386
31. 28 JunToo. Much. Fun.
32. 28 JunLGM Film Club, Part 388: Julian Sands Loves Turtles
33. 28 JunPlease don’t put in the newspaper that i got mad
34. 27 JunThe fake-populist argument against providing arms to resist Putin’s imperialist invasion
35. 27 JunA fascism too far
36. 27 JunThe Different Methods of New Union Leaders
37. 27 JunThe armed citizen: A continuing series
38. 27 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,385
39. 27 JunIf I Did It, by Donald Trump
40. 27 JunLGM Film Club, Part 387: Hee Haw
41. 26 JunImages from American History, Part 78
42. 26 Jun“I sit and tell him about my weekend, but he never betrays what he thinks” Open Thread
43. 26 JunMoral non-dilemmas
44. 26 JunThe Military as Industrial Policy
45. 26 JunDeSantis pledges to nullify Fourteenth Amendment
46. 26 JunOn the Lack of Academic Solidarity
47. 26 JunAbortion’s Growing Acceptance
48. 26 JunThe way fans live now
49. 26 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,384
50. 26 JunAmerica’s sorest winners
51. 25 JunThe Thing that Happened
52. 25 JunWhen talent sees the next generation and flees in horror
53. 25 JunElections this weekend
54. 25 JunWhy I’m suing the University of Colorado
55. 25 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,383
56. 25 JunWhat Prigozhin means for Putin
57. 24 JunMusic Notes
58. 24 JunNautical disaster, non-plutocrat iteration
59. 24 JunImagine a Justice Department, but Staffed Entirely by John Durhams
60. 24 JunHistorical Notes
61. 24 JunThe Impact
62. 24 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,382
63. 24 JunThe Wagner Action
64. 24 JunBillionaire pressured reluctant son to join him 2 miles under the sea in libertarian bro’s janky death trap
65. 24 JunLGM Film Club, Part 386: A Tale of Summer
66. 24 JunLosing Pitcher Paxton
67. 23 JunImages from American History, Part 77
68. 23 JunJustifying Child Labor
69. 23 JunThe Bud Light Drinker
70. 23 JunPrigozhin Says He’ll March On Moscow
71. 23 JunChecking in on the American pro-life movement
72. 23 JunAgreement With Iran From 30,000 Feet
73. 23 JunMoms For Lebensraum
74. 23 JunFake data in paper about fake data turns out to be fake
75. 23 JunInequality in the San Joaquin Valley
76. 23 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,381
77. 23 JunWorst. AI. Ever.
78. 23 JunLGM Film Club, Part 385: The Titanic
79. 23 JunBelated NBA Draft Thread
80. 22 JunYour own personal billionaire
81. 22 JunImages from American History, Part 76
82. 22 JunA cindered planet
83. 22 JunWill Warner Brothers Kill TCM?
84. 22 JunThe Mid Writ
85. 22 JunDebris
86. 22 JunEverything you never wanted to know about Melon Suk’s sex-life but are going to find out anyway
87. 22 JunNatural (black) athletes v. smart hardworking (white) ones
88. 22 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,380
89. 22 JunSweatily desperate Republicans still trying to make John Durham a thing
90. 21 JunRoot for assault rifles at dawn
91. 21 JunDobbs has been a disaster for women’s health
92. 21 JunRare Earth Production In The US?
93. 21 JunRubber-stamping the disordered and unpopular: the Leonard Leo story
94. 21 JunYour Cotton Tote Bag Shouldn’t Make You Feel Good Either
95. 21 JunFalling Support for Same-Sex Relationships
96. 21 JunTechbros disrupt five people into what is overwhelmingly likely a horrifying death
97. 21 JunJustice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court
98. 21 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,379
99. 21 JunFighting back
100. 21 JunImages from American History, Part 75
101. 20 JunNIMBYism is inherently reactionary
102. 20 JunCancel culture is so out of control that they will call you a Nazi just for supporting the National Socialist German Workers’ Party
103. 20 JunClarence Thomas’s drunk uncle email forward history
104. 20 JunIfrit (2011-2023)
105. 20 JunMerrick Garland’s failure
106. 20 JunThe Reality of Donating Old Clothes
107. 20 JunOn American Decline
108. 20 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,378
109. 20 JunHawley history
110. 20 JunLGM Film Club, Part 384: Ciudad Mexico, 1951
111. 19 JunImages from American History, Part 74
112. 19 JunWellerstein Series on Ellsberg
113. 19 JunDebate-me bros intensify anti-vaxx propaganda
114. 19 JunThe Lies of Globalization
115. 19 JunA Broken NLRB
116. 19 JunRoundtable on Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi at Strange Horizons
117. 19 JunThe undead Kennedy
118. 19 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,377
119. 19 JunJuneteenth in America
120. 19 JunLGM Film Club, Part 383: Deep End
121. 18 JunImages from American History, Part 73
122. 18 JunSupport for abortion rights continues to increase
123. 18 JunClown Show Season
124. 18 JunRoss Douthat’s Continuing Crisis of Manhood
125. 18 JunHow Poorly Maintained Electrical Infrastructure Has Contributed to Catastrophic Forest Fires
126. 18 JunEmployer-Government Alliance Asserting Control
127. 18 JunPutin did it
128. 18 JunDecisions while drunk v. deciding to get drunk
129. 18 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,376
130. 18 JunCollege Board finally tells DeSantis to eat shit
131. 17 JunMusic Notes
132. 17 JunCollege faculty salaries: A half century of severe decline
133. 17 JunThe 31 Classified Documents
134. 17 Jun“Won’t someone please think of the future labor units??”
135. 17 JunAI and what it means for Adobe (and Me)
136. 17 JunArizona Begins to Understand Water
137. 17 JunThe slow motion crisis
138. 17 JunWhat If…?
139. 17 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,375
140. 17 JunBehind the fascist scenes
141. 17 JunLGM Film Club, Part 382: Chomsky on Ellsberg
142. 16 JunImages from American History, Part 72
143. 16 JunGetting Worse…
144. 16 JunThe Minneapolis Police Department (or Baltimore or New Orleans or New York or Basically Any City in the Nation)
145. 16 JunDaniel Ellsberg
146. 16 JunPartying with Kissinger
147. 16 JunIf you want a picture of the future of campaign reporting, imagine a hand typing ‘Democratic Candidate Callously Refuses to Appease Republicans,’ forever.
148. 16 JunRussia increases Sevastopol defenses
149. 16 JunL’etat, c’est Trump
150. 16 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,374
151. 16 JunThe full Donald Trump Experience
152. 15 JunThe dangers of pregnancy and childbirth in America
153. 15 JunSupreme Court protects tribal sovereignty
154. 15 JunThe “If he can keep interview tapes with his socks, you can keep classified docs” theory of document retention
155. 15 JunThe disappearing pandemic
156. 15 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,373
157. 14 JunModelo
158. 14 Jun“96% peaceful”
159. 14 JunThe truth is out there
160. 14 JunCults
161. 14 JunAsk yourself this question: do you want to be rich?
162. 14 JunProgress with the Offensive?
163. 14 JunThe uselessness of exceptions to draconian abortion bans
164. 14 JunCorporations Will Never Lead in Social Change
165. 14 JunStamping Out Union Corruption
166. 14 JunDoes Xi Jinping Want to Bring Back the Cultural Revolution?
167. 14 JunRon DeSantis, open fascist
168. 14 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,372
169. 14 JunCormac
170. 14 JunImages from American History, Part 71
171. 14 JunThe DOJ treated Trump differently
172. 14 JunTecho Tuesday (open thread)
173. 13 JunSelfish, lazy, greedy garbage beings can’t believe how selfish, lazy and greedy one of their guys is
174. 13 JunCormac McCarthy
175. 13 JunHidden silent secret majority decides to go to work
176. 13 JunInflation falls to 4% year over year
177. 13 JunLGM Podcast: The Republican Party and the War on Poverty
178. 13 JunErik Visits a (Non)-American Grave, Part 1,371
179. 13 JunWill there be blood?
180. 13 JunLGM Film Club, Part 381: Kidnap Syndicate
181. 13 JunNBA Finals Game 5 Open Thread
182. 12 JunImages from American History, Part 70
183. 12 Jun“I sit and tell him about my weekend, but he never betrays what he thinks.” (Fil ouvert.)
184. 12 JunEastman and down
185. 12 JunBluesky Has Problems
186. 12 JunI know you’re a real cuckoo
187. 12 JunBunga Bunga from Hell
188. 12 JunRenaming Fort Bragg: A major issue facing America in 2023
189. 12 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,370
190. 12 JunThe Clinton Rules never die
191. 12 JunImages from American History, Part 69
192. 11 JunWhen words lose their meaning
193. 11 JunModal Republican too much of a Trump lickspittle for Bill Barr
194. 11 JunWater at War
195. 11 JunRobertson v. Kaczynski
196. 11 JunRepublican Leaders Attack Academics
197. 11 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,369
198. 11 JunBob Hope’s Social Liberalism?
199. 11 JunThe reality of the situation
200. 10 JunIt’s like rain on the top secret documents you show to random guests at your tacky golf club
201. 10 JunGym Jordan’s War
202. 10 JunHell Ain’t Half Full
203. 10 Jun“We must not become a hotbed of global scammers” (Election of the weekend: Montenegro)
204. 10 JunMy Favorite “I Think You Should Leave” Sketches of All Time (Uh, you can watch it on Netflix)
205. 10 JunInterior Design & Document Storage. Some thoughts.
206. 10 JunThe Big Thing
207. 10 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,368
208. 10 JunHow are our Trump dead-enders doing?
209. 9 JunYou know who *else* copied lyrics from the White Album into a notebook?
210. 9 JunThe revealed priorities of “post-liberal” reactionaries
211. 9 JunOther people’s money is the best kind
212. 9 JunCannonical
213. 9 JunUnsealed indictment v tRump just dropped (Update – statement from J. Smith)
214. 9 JunI still can’t believe the guy’s last name is Trusty
215. 9 JunYou cannot be serious
216. 9 JunPaxton Pal Paul Pinched (Update)
217. 9 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,367
218. 9 JunIt’s the crime and the cover-up
219. 8 JunWatt Blows Dead Bears
220. 8 JunINDICTMENTS!
221. 8 JunNeoliberalism and its discontents
222. 8 JunSo Watt? (Update)
223. 8 JunGreat achievements in Alabama neoconfederacy
224. 8 JunThe Offensive and the Fog
225. 8 JunRobertson
226. 8 JunAnti-McCarthyism
227. 8 JunPat Robertson
228. 8 JunFederal indictments of Trump seem imminent
229. 8 JunFox: If Tucker isn’t being antisemitic filth for us, he can’t be antisemitic filth for anyone
230. 8 JunNBA Finals Game 3 Open Thread
231. 7 JunTucker: tanned, rested, even more racist
232. 7 JunAgainst aesthetic popularism
233. 7 JunThe only winning move in the “pandering to MAGA” game is not to play
234. 7 JunWhen the music’s over turn out the …
235. 7 JunThe counterintuitive nature of statistical reasoning
236. 7 JunAsking The Experts
237. 7 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,366
238. 7 JunTrump’s McDonald’s delivery boy to mount particularly pointless vanity campaign
239. 6 JunDo I have come right flat out and tell you everything?
240. 6 JunOur opposition to a murderous reactionary regime that tortures its opponents to death is not for sale
241. 6 JunWhen extreme prosecutorial abuse collaborates with extreme police abuse
242. 6 JunSpace Force!
243. 6 JunWho was that unmasked man?
244. 6 JunSEC sues Binance
245. 6 JunThis Day in Labor History: June 6, 1835
246. 6 JunNova Kakhovka Dam Breached
247. 6 JunWhen you speak Tucker Carlson Monologue rather than English
248. 5 JunAcross the Spider-Verse and Artistic Ambition
249. 5 JunCornel West pleased with how 2000 election turned out, hoping for a replay
250. 5 JunJohn Roberts’s dream of school re-segregation is fulfilled
251. 5 JunUkraine Heating Up
252. 5 JunRematches
253. 5 JunCalvinball with footnotes
254. 5 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,365
255. 5 JunIs our billionaires OK?
256. 4 JunBoth sidesism without even the second side
257. 4 JunTennessee Republicans go too far for Trump judge
258. 4 JunThe Great Rivalry?
259. 4 JunExtreme gerrymandering and the purpose of elections
260. 4 JunOn the one hand, the carpet in the living room should probably be replaced
261. 4 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,364
262. 4 JunWoo-woo New Age girlboss less spiritual with staffers
263. 3 JunMusic Notes
264. 3 JunWhen you need a *criminal* lawyer
265. 3 JunAuto dealers and the future of EVs
266. 3 JunElection of the weekend: Guinea-Bissau
267. 3 JunA visit to Narva
268. 3 JunUtah school district bans book that contains incest, genital mutilation, sex and drug use (update)
269. 3 JunWorst contracts in baseball history?
270. 3 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,363
271. 3 JunElon’s promotion of anti-trans hate video causes another exodus
272. 3 JunFresh ideas from the party of family values
273. 2 JunThe imperial Court
274. 2 JunWhy is art?
275. 2 JunLock ’em up!
276. 2 JunTwitter’s attorneys call B.S. on … the Twitter Files
277. 2 JunSolidarity in Hollywood
278. 2 JunKILLER ROBOTS ON THE MARCH!!!
279. 2 JunChatGPT and the Classroom
280. 2 JunIf $1,000 gets you a job with Rep. Santos, what would you get for $10,000?
281. 2 JunGains for Lower-Income Americans
282. 2 JunDifferent flavors of disappointment
283. 2 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,362
284. 2 JunHeel Turn
285. 2 JunNBA Finals Game 1 Open Thread
286. 2 JunFinal Days of Epstein
287. 1 JunIt’s a Bill Rehnquist world
288. 1 JunChecking in on the information security administration
289. 1 JunI haven’t deleted the photo yet, so here’s some “pot pie”
290. 1 JunPence, Christie, and some guy from the Dakotas
291. 1 JunErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,361
292. 1 JunThe End
293. 1 JunAre you aware of all internet traditions?
294. 1 JunLoomCoin in Crisis?
295. 1 JunThanks for reading and thanks for the support
296. 1 JunMood music
297. 1 JunThe Hardcastle
298. 1 JunFrankly, the margins on this thing are just so creamy that I honestly would feel like a terrible shit if I didn’t give you a chance to come to the party

May 2023

1. 31 MayHey Nineteen
2. 31 MayA Didactic Debasement
3. 31 MayCan we post photos of cats?
4. 31 MayStatus Update!
5. 31 MayThe Menu(s)
6. 31 MayWe need to do better
7. 31 MayDo I have to come right flat out and tell you everything?
8. 31 MayThe Past and Future of the Podcast
9. 31 MayThe LGM Way of Death
10. 31 MayWhat the Hell is Wrong With You?
11. 31 MayGive Money to LGM in Exchange for Pop Culture Links
12. 31 MayThese thieves make me so damn mad!
13. 31 MayBuild a Legacy, Leave Your Assets to LGM
14. 31 MayBehind the Blogging: 2023 Edition
15. 31 MayThe Future of LGM is Yours
16. 31 MayCan You Refuse This Offer?
17. 31 MayKick Off!
18. 31 MayMassive scandal to shake American politics to its core
19. 30 MayTrump pledges unilateral repeal of the Fourteenth Amendment (again)
20. 30 MayStop Me Before I Kill Again
21. 30 MayWarren Zevon and the mystery of art
22. 30 MayJoe Biden, closet political scientist
23. 30 MayLatino white supremacists and aspirational whiteness
24. 30 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,360
25. 30 MayGame 7 It Was 3-0 Open Thread
26. 30 MayLGM Film Club, Part 380: Route 66
27. 29 MayImages from American History, Part 68
28. 29 MayThree quotes about war
29. 29 MayBut look over here, CARAVANS!
30. 29 MayFalse Economic Narratives
31. 29 MayDebt Ceiling Deal Thoughts
32. 29 MayDecoration Day
33. 29 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,359
34. 29 MaySuccession (and Barry) Finale Open Thread
35. 28 MayErdogan on track to win again
36. 28 MayWhy is the shit still hitting the fan?
37. 28 MayMaking Art About Atrocity: Ongoing Thoughts
38. 28 MayWe won’t crater the world economy if you let us make a few million poor people slightly poorer
39. 28 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,358
40. 28 MayBiden and McCarthy reach deal
41. 27 MayTexas House votes 121-23 to impeach Ken Paxton
42. 27 MayMeanwhile, Deep in the Heart of Texas (Update: Threat Response)
43. 27 May“Business, numbers, money, people”
44. 27 MayScientific American Condemns Ron DeSantis
45. 27 MayRepublicans sanction doctor for crime of debunking their misogynist lies
46. 27 MayWill the Trump Rebate Banking System accept LoomCoin?
47. 27 MayNew Frontiers in NIMBY
48. 27 MayGive us this day our open thread
49. 27 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,357
50. 27 MayYou get what you don’t pay for
51. 26 MayHappy 100th birthday Henry Kissinger!
52. 26 MaySlime finds its way to the bottom of the ocean
53. 26 MayTen great (relatively) obscure Rolling Stones songs
54. 26 MaySoftware Safety
55. 26 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,356
56. 26 MayThe jobless employed
57. 26 MayFetterman’s Mental Health Activism
58. 26 MayGive us this day our open thread
59. 26 MayHow big of a crook does a Republican Attorney General have to be to be impeached by Texas Republicans?
60. 26 MayThe partisan hackery of John Roberts, partisan hack
61. 25 MayWoke judicial mob sentences a man to 18 years in prison, even though he committed no crime except attempting to overthrow the lawful government of the United States
62. 25 MayLGM Podcast: Succession
63. 25 MayAlito: the Clean Water Act did not authorize the EPA to protect the bodies of water its text was specifically amended to protect
64. 25 MayThe Sources and Consequences of Urban Homelessness
65. 25 MayThe worst person you know just made…
66. 25 MayGive us this day our open thread
67. 25 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,355
68. 25 MayLGM Film Club, Part 379: Tina and Mick
69. 25 MayDeSantis & Twitter Spaces: 2 ships colliding in a fiery wreck in the night (update)
70. 24 MayImages from American History, Part 67
71. 24 MayFind someone you love as much as elite political reporters love Republicans holding a gun to the head of the world’s economy
72. 24 MayBig Win for Times Workers
73. 24 MayTina Turner
74. 24 MayTina Turner, RIP
75. 24 MayWas it brain or brawn, or the month you were born?We just couldn’t understand
76. 24 MayNegotiating with terrorists
77. 24 MayGive us this day our open thread
78. 24 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,354
79. 24 MayThe originalists!
80. 23 MayReasonable moderate centrist Elon Musk to host Ron DeSantis’s presidential bid announcement
81. 23 MaySen. Tim Scott: Serious Conversations + ??? = Federal Abortion Ban!
82. 23 MayHow Dobbs is restricting access to healthcare more broadly
83. 23 MayRupert’s latest fraud
84. 23 MayVery serious Republicans being serious: Extra fiscal sponsitility edition
85. 23 MayI guess it depends on who “we” are
86. 23 MayGive us this day our open thread
87. 23 MayThis Day in Labor History: May 23, 1861
88. 23 MayOh, fuck off
89. 22 MayTotal Destruction
90. 22 MayOver the hills and far away: The Lord of the Rings reconsidered
91. 22 MayThe Supreme Court and fake pregnancy clinics
92. 22 MaySomething happening in Belgorod Oblast
93. 22 MayGive us this day our open thread
94. 22 MayThe Disney Wars Have Begun?
95. 22 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,353
96. 22 MayWell, not all that forbidden
97. 21 MayThe lavatories of democracy
98. 21 MayBluesky is for techies!
99. 21 MayLongtime supporter of Republican ratfucking operation shocked to discover Republicans fucking rats
100. 21 MayDeSantis goes to war
101. 21 MayGive us this day our open thread
102. 21 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,352
103. 21 MayOne of the nation’s elders speaks
104. 20 MayMusic Notes
105. 20 MayThe attack on no-fault divorce
106. 20 MayMartin Amis
107. 20 MayThe monstrous impact of abortion bans
108. 20 MayHeavily-armed man hanging out near school bus stop totally not trying to scare anyone ;-)
109. 20 MayElection of the weekend #2: Greece
110. 20 MayGive us this day our open thread
111. 20 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,351
112. 20 MayElection of the weekend #1: Timor-Leste
113. 20 MayNLRB v. NCAA
114. 20 MayLGM Film Club, Part 378: Jim Brown and Lester Maddox
115. 20 MaySo this was a thing that was a thing
116. 19 MayImages from American History, Part 67
117. 19 MayVipers!
118. 19 MayBlue States and Migrants
119. 19 MayTen Years Since Rana Plaza
120. 19 MayJim Brown, RIP
121. 19 MayMaintenance!
122. 19 MayCancel culture is real
123. 19 MayStop Trying to Make Fetch and Trump/DeSantis Happen
124. 19 MayThe Four Republican Freedoms
125. 19 MayThe Surface Fleet?
126. 19 MayWhat are these people talking about?
127. 19 MayLGM Podcast: Seattle from the Margins
128. 19 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,350
129. 19 MayDeSantis spares Disney employees horrible choice
130. 19 MayLGM Film Club, Part 377: The Gold Rush
131. 19 MayHe’s Scared Shitless of What’s Coming Next
132. 18 MayImages from American History, Part 66
133. 18 MayThe next pandemic will be so much worse
134. 18 MayThe Rebel Girl: Still Causing Problems
135. 18 MayWarhol Foundation v. Goldsmith
136. 18 MayWinning through losing
137. 18 MayThe Woo-Woo Idiocy of Our Tech Overlords
138. 18 MayBullshit Durham
139. 18 MayBluegrass Outcomes
140. 18 May“Don’t Fight Me, Al”
141. 18 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,349
142. 18 May5CA demands to be reinstated as head of the FDA
143. 17 MayImages from American History, Part 65
144. 17 MayThe cruelty is the entire point
145. 17 MaySuing To Tell White History
146. 17 MayGet this man to a run-down duplex on Wilshire Blvd.
147. 17 MayA i
148. 17 MayWork requirements aren’t about work
149. 17 MayRon DeSantis to announce presidential bid in the next two weeks
150. 17 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,348
151. 17 MayElection Thread
152. 17 MayLegislator who campaigned on codifying Roe votes to ban abortion by overriding gubernatorial veto
153. 17 MayNBA Conference Finals Open Thread
154. 17 MayCan another major attack on American democracy be withstood?
155. 16 MayHow Goes It Dianne?
156. 16 MayRepublicans threatening to destroy world economy if they can’t destroy American government
157. 16 MayLet the nukes die
158. 16 MayThe Reconstruction Congress preempted qualified immunity
159. 16 MayWhy are Americans so negative about the economy?
160. 16 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,347
161. 16 MayElections of the Day
162. 16 MayElection Time in the Bluegrass
163. 15 MayI would not have supported this generic Federalist Society hack put on the Court for the primary purpose of overruling Roe v. Wade if I knew she was going to vote to overrule Roe v. Wade
164. 15 MayRudy can fail, cheap 70s porn edition
165. 15 MayAmerica’s greatest inadvertent defense attorney issues blockbuster report conspicuously lacking blocks or busting
166. 15 MayOakland Teachers Strike Update
167. 15 MayLGM Podcast: Justice at Work
168. 15 MayLife Gets Worse for Rail Workers
169. 15 MayOne variety of scam phonecall uncovered
170. 15 MayTurkish presidential election goes to a runoff
171. 15 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,346
172. 14 MayRepublicans Have Never Really Cared About Free Markets
173. 14 MayStarbucks Just Doesn’t Care About Labor Law
174. 14 MayI’ve been falling so long, it’s like gravity’s gone And I’m just floating
175. 14 MayTurkey Open Thread
176. 14 MayAmerican College of Pediatricians Exposes Itself in Public
177. 14 MayThe Villain of the DiFi Saga
178. 14 MayMy name is my name
179. 14 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,345
180. 13 MayMusic Notes
181. 13 MayElection(s) of the weekend
182. 13 MayWhy fact checking Trump’s fire hose of lies during CNN’s absurd “Town Hall” was worse than useless
183. 13 MayHow are those Twitter files investigations coming along?
184. 13 MayTexas man murders woman after she goes to Colorado to get an abortion
185. 13 MayRon DeSantis goes full Jim Crow
186. 13 MayRussia to Build ‘Migrant Village’ for Conservative American Expats
187. 13 MayBig Victory in Southern Unionism
188. 13 MayDonald Trump as symptom
189. 13 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,344
190. 13 MayCall 1-800-LAW-NAZI
191. 13 MayDo the most over-represented people in America need more representation?
192. 12 MayThe Supreme Court, legitimacy, and post-regime politics
193. 12 MayNeoconfederate goober keeps saying what used to be the quiet parts even louder
194. 12 MayTwitter Takes a Turn for the Disturbed…
195. 12 MayThey know and they don’t care
196. 12 May1,201 Days Later
197. 12 MayEverything alters, and one by one we drop away
198. 12 MayThis Day in Labor History: May 12, 1933
199. 12 MayThou shalt not express negative feelings toward our Lord
200. 12 MayLGM Film Club, Part 376: Life of Brian
201. 11 MayImages from American History, Part 64
202. 11 MayService Guarantees Citizenship!
203. 11 MayFighting Oregon Republicans
204. 11 MayCan you say “sustainability?”
205. 11 MayNational Pork Producers Council v. Ross
206. 11 MayCNN Continues Covering Itself in Glory
207. 11 May“Trump supporters like Donald Trump” is not actually newsworthy
208. 11 MayAin’t that pretty at all
209. 11 MayThe Hollow Men
210. 11 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,343
211. 11 MayAlex Haley manufactured MLK’s most famous criticism of Malcolm X
212. 11 MayTriumph of the Will open thread
213. 11 MayDon’t be a menace to company culture while you’re drinking your juice in your home
214. 10 MayTrump amnesty day?
215. 10 MayUkraine Before The Offensive
216. 10 MayCNN allows Trump to televise campaign event lightly disguised as “objective journalism”
217. 10 MayIdeologues citing ideologues as proof of their ideology
218. 10 MayGeorge Santos is a Cheap Crook
219. 10 MayGaming Notes
220. 10 MayUkraine Update
221. 10 MayTucker goes public access
222. 10 MayE. Jean Carroll’s Victory
223. 10 MayGreatest volleyball player in CUNY history facing federal charges
224. 9 MayTrump’s response to verdict
225. 9 MayJury finds Trump sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll and awards her five million dollars in damages for battery and defamation
226. 9 MayOK groomer
227. 9 MayFighting China from Frankfort
228. 9 MayThe Great Institutionalist
229. 9 MayThe Official Timothy McVeigh fan club
230. 9 MayWhat Will Unions Do With the Debt Limit?
231. 9 MayHere they are again, perfect timing
232. 9 MayLGM Film Club, Part 375: Chaplin at Cannes
233. 9 MayOakland Teachers Strike
234. 8 MayIncel nation
235. 8 MayTrump’s deposition in the E. Jean Carroll trial
236. 8 MayIt’s his own damn fault
237. 8 MayMass shootings, homicide, and suicide in the USA
238. 8 MayGrowing pains for Bluesky
239. 8 MayYou *are* the sucker, Dick Durbin edition
240. 8 MayDeath of a talking point
241. 8 MayThe twisted logic of the assault weapon party
242. 7 MayCelebrate diversity: Guy named Mauricio Garcia was apparently a white supremacist
243. 7 May“It’s not how white men fight” wasn’t too racist for the racists thanks to the magical mobile goalposts of racism
244. 7 MayIt’s the Republican Party, not the “Second Amendment,”that is responsible for the huge number of firearm deaths in the US
245. 7 MayAmy Chozick Whitewashes Elizabeth Holmes (with the help of the NYT photography staff)
246. 7 MayToday in the “an armed America is a safe America” experiment
247. 7 MayWhat they mean when they say “merit”
248. 6 MayThe pure scumminess of Clarence Thomas: Classic Rock edition
249. 6 MayRejecting my article violates my right to free speech
250. 6 MayThe Ethanol Scam
251. 6 MayBut there’s no England now
252. 6 MayRemembering the Lavender Scare
253. 6 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,342
254. 6 MayStay of execution for Richard Glossip
255. 6 MayLGM Film Club, Part 374: The Congo, 1940s
256. 5 MayFraudulent Trump electors turn state’s
257. 5 MayImages from American History, Part 63
258. 5 MayOn Independent Unions
259. 5 MayWe all agree we want to get back to earning
260. 5 MayWorking for the man every night and day
261. 5 MayAn old argument returns
262. 5 MayVoter fraud is real!
263. 5 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,341
264. 5 MayDeSantis legalizes kidnapping in Florida
265. 5 MayImplausible deniability and the “just an act” defense
266. 4 MayThe sweaty desperation of the Supreme Court’s apologists
267. 4 MayThe Feinstein situation
268. 4 MayPerformative schlock
269. 4 MaySheer Vindication
270. 4 MayDroning Over the Kremlin
271. 4 MayLegislator who ran on codifying Roe v. Wade votes to ban abortion in North Carolina
272. 4 MayProud Boys found guilty of seditious conspiracy
273. 4 MayThe petty crookedness of Clarence Thomas
274. 4 MayThis Day in Labor History: May 4, 1926
275. 4 MayConsequences
276. 4 MayWoman forced to risk life and health for Alito pregnancy
277. 3 MayThe real deep state conspiracy
278. 3 MayEverything I read on AI is garbage
279. 3 MayThe Patron Saint, Snubbed
280. 3 MayThe greatest threat to the Supreme Court’s legitimacy is the naked partisanship of the Republican justices
281. 3 MayLGM Podcast: Examining US-China-Russia Foreign Relations
282. 3 MayHis business IS the Court
283. 3 MayDrone Strike In The Kremlin
284. 3 MayThe nominal cause
285. 3 MayErik Visits an (Non) American Grave, Part 1,340
286. 3 May“We’re all sensitive people with so much to give:” Why this Ed Sheeran case could be catastrophic to creativity.
287. 3 MayAuthoritarian and proud
288. 2 MayAs life went on it was easier to not think about it
289. 2 MayReally captured the spirit of the thing
290. 2 MayThe Mexico Contingency
291. 2 MayREPORT: Matthew Kacsmaryk committed a different type of misconduct than he was initially accused of
292. 2 MayGordon Lightfoot
293. 2 MayFighting for Points
294. 2 MayErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,339
295. 2 MayAmerica’s governor demonstrates virtue of knowing when to quit
296. 1 MayMurc’s Law, absolute authority or nothing edition
297. 1 MayLook at meeeeeee
298. 1 MaySupreme Court to officially take control of the executive branch
299. 1 MayThe Big Discord Picture
300. 1 MayThe total depravity of the Republican world view
301. 1 MayThis Day in Labor History: May 1, 2006
302. 1 MayToday in racist sociopathy

April 2023

1. 30 AprInterracial marriage and right wing jurisprudence
2. 30 AprAnti-vaxx nut polling around 20%, and so is RFK. Jr.
3. 30 AprElection of the day: Paraguay
4. 30 AprRare LGM Fitness Blogging
5. 30 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,338
6. 30 AprRufo’s Army are on their way
7. 29 AprToday in the glories of the Second Amendment
8. 29 AprHeading toward a surreal event horizon
9. 29 AprShow me autocracy
10. 29 AprReactionary efforts to Christianize public schools
11. 29 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 29, 1996
12. 29 AprRoberts to Congress: Drop Dead
13. 29 AprLGM Film Club, Part 373: Stop Making Sense
14. 28 AprImages from American History, Part 62
15. 28 AprWill no one rid us of the inquisitions of this woke mob?
16. 28 AprI am beginning to think that the “investigation” of Brett Kavanaugh was a sham
17. 28 AprUnionize the Non-Profits
18. 28 AprFrench Historical Memory
19. 28 AprThe Mental Gymnastics of Our University Elites
20. 28 AprCriticism and accusations of bias
21. 28 AprBluesky has entered the chat
22. 28 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,337
23. 28 AprNational Review finds impeccably impartial source to vouch for the unassailable integritude of Clarence Thomas
24. 28 AprNFL Draft Open Thread
25. 27 AprNFL draft thread
26. 27 AprBari’s favorite “whistleblower” takes another massive L
27. 27 AprIs it sexist?
28. 27 AprLet’s check in on the anti-abortion movement’s post-Dobbs support for improved maternal care
29. 27 AprThe forces of law and order
30. 27 AprLGM Podcast: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
31. 27 AprPodcast: Talking About Negative Reviews with Critical Friends
32. 27 AprSpringer
33. 27 AprYou know who ELSE had some good ideas?
34. 27 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,336
35. 27 AprLGM Film Club, Part 372: Belafonte on The Muppets
36. 26 AprImages from American History, Part 61
37. 26 AprMontana Republicans expel trans legislator from floor
38. 26 AprNobody is indispensable to Rupert Murdoch
39. 26 AprThere once was a man named DeSantis
40. 26 AprWhen Democratic Politicians Commit Unforced Errors
41. 26 AprAI can’t write poetry
42. 26 AprSu
43. 26 AprThe Emperor Must Stay Pleased
44. 26 AprThe preponderance of the evidence
45. 26 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,335
46. 26 AprSpeaking of Tucker…….
47. 26 AprRegarding the white supremacist Tucker Carlson. you do not, under any circumstances, “gotta hand it to them”
48. 26 AprOklahoma not OK
49. 25 AprMaking gag orders great again
50. 25 AprGoin’ back to Harlan
51. 25 AprTucker!
52. 25 AprHarry Belafonte, RIP
53. 25 AprRocky Mountain High
54. 25 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,334
55. 25 AprWhen manchildren blow up their toys
56. 25 AprLGM Film Club, Part 371: Man of Marble
57. 25 AprRon DeSantis’s anti-vaxx Surgeon General intentionally falsified COVID data
58. 24 AprImages from American History, Part 60
59. 24 AprOnly those who have been here will understand
60. 24 AprThe Decline of the Hit
61. 24 AprRupe, can you cut me a break? For old time’s sake
62. 24 AprProblems in the National Park Service
63. 24 AprHow the Paper of Employers Wants To Make You Think Workers Want Bosses
64. 24 AprTucker?
65. 24 AprThe business knowers have logged on
66. 24 AprUkraine and the 2024 Election
67. 24 AprMy Ballot for the 2023 Hugo Awards
68. 24 AprCovid vaccine update
69. 24 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 24, 1903
70. 24 AprFucking markets, how do they work?
71. 24 AprLGM Film Club, Part 370: Joe Niekro Ejected
72. 23 AprImages from American History, Part 59
73. 23 AprThe strange presidential career of Ronald Reagan: An ongoing study in historical amnesia
74. 23 AprJust Building More Won’t Solve All Our Housing Woes
75. 23 AprThe Republican Love of Child Labor
76. 23 AprWorkers Always Getting Screwed
77. 23 AprIf DeSantis challenges Trump, it will be a two-authoritarian race
78. 23 AprThe American way of death
79. 23 AprAn Ongoing Series
80. 23 AprJust an earthbound misfit
81. 22 AprThe Twitter Blues
82. 22 AprAdvise and what now
83. 22 AprStalin, Mao, and the nice lady who runs the county health department
84. 22 AprSamuel Alito is not mad. Do not write that he was mad
85. 21 AprSCOTUS stays abortion pill injunction
86. 21 AprFox News grandpas upset that paying $8 a month cannot make their grandchildren talk to them again
87. 21 AprEverybody hates Ron
88. 21 AprThe default to vote suppression
89. 21 AprGun fetishism, airport edition
90. 21 AprLast train to pity city
91. 21 AprThe war on trans people intensifies in Big Sky Country
92. 21 AprRepublican who voted to expel Tennessee Three and to ban drag shows resigns for being a sex pest
93. 20 AprTears on my pillow
94. 20 AprA murder of ratfuckers
95. 20 AprSometimes it’s who you most suspect
96. 20 AprWorld-class asshole announces vanity campaign for president
97. 20 AprAn embarrassing confession
98. 19 AprImages from American History, Part 58
99. 19 AprElsewhere in Uncle Rupert’s racist empire
100. 19 AprExceptions to abortion bans are generally unusable
101. 19 AprBiden budget boosts direct CO2 capture
102. 19 AprWhen the politics match the aesthetics
103. 19 AprThe success of the anti-cigarette campaign
104. 19 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,333
105. 19 AprSending the issue back to the [gerrymandered] states, and Congress, and 28-year-old Federalist Society hacks
106. 18 AprTwo sides to every story
107. 18 AprA Settlement!
108. 18 AprStanley Foundation collects nuclear adventure stories
109. 18 AprThe unaccountable Clarence Thomas
110. 18 AprWhen Republicans Get Recorded
111. 18 AprBad cellphone service and poorly marked addresses lead to another needless death
112. 18 AprComstockery
113. 18 AprI’m sorry Elon, but I can’t do that
114. 18 AprThe Next National Monument?
115. 18 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,332
116. 18 AprOK Groomer
117. 18 AprLGM Film Club, Part 369: Ahmad Jamal
118. 17 AprImages from American History, Part 57
119. 17 AprSo good night little school boy, you’d better learn some self control
120. 17 AprAmerican Policy Makers Just Don’t Care about Immigrant Child Labor
121. 17 AprPower without accountability
122. 17 AprThe cruelty is the entire point
123. 17 AprToday in Republican Leadership
124. 17 AprSocial Media Update
125. 17 AprThe armed citizen
126. 17 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,331
127. 17 AprDeath on the Installment Plan
128. 17 AprLGM Film Club, Part 368: Army of Shadows
129. 16 AprImages from American History, Part 56
130. 16 AprDestroyer of Worlds
131. 16 AprOk Groomer
132. 16 AprGreat Directors and Genre Themes
133. 16 AprThe Rutgers Strike
134. 16 AprDeSantis Swirling Down the Toilet
135. 16 AprA hypothetical question that’s rapidly becoming irrelevant
136. 16 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 16, 1836
137. 16 AprLetter from a Birmingham Jail
138. 15 AprMusic Notes
139. 15 AprThe death of the author
140. 15 AprQuid Pro Crow
141. 15 AprNBA Playoffs Open Thread
142. 15 AprParody is Dead but We Can At Least Have Some Dark Fun
143. 15 AprBlue hairs and blue slips
144. 15 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,330
145. 15 AprLate Night Open Thread: Please Ignore What I Just Did Edition
146. 15 AprThis is excellent news for Ron DeSantis
147. 14 AprImages from American History, Part 55
148. 14 AprCourt temporarily suspends Republican Party’s political death march
149. 14 AprHoward Schultz’s Bullshit
150. 14 AprI needed money ’cause I had none
151. 14 AprMissouri’s Finest
152. 14 AprWe’ll make great pets
153. 14 AprIdaho Schools
154. 14 AprThe 103rd Woke Bureaucrats Airborne Brigade
155. 14 AprOn Tucker and Greg’s favorite racist murderer
156. 14 AprAgainst the lawlessness
157. 14 AprLGM Film Club, Part 367: Casino
158. 13 AprImages from American History, Part 54
159. 13 AprFlorida passes near-total ban on abortion
160. 13 AprHow Republicans Speak to Each Other
161. 13 Apr“Money laundering” is such an ugly term
162. 13 AprTucker dons the white sheet again
163. 13 AprThis is What Happens When You Ignore Africa
164. 13 AprGood times bad times
165. 13 AprConey Barrett Boxes
166. 13 AprThe Return of Home Work
167. 13 AprKolbert Conversation
168. 13 Apr5th circuit issues bizarro world order in re Judge K’s very special opinion
169. 13 AprSad Lonely Man
170. 13 AprWorst pundit fan fiction ever
171. 13 AprFeinstein still refusing to resign from job she admittedly is unable to do
172. 13 AprImages from American History, Part 53
173. 12 AprThat’s what friends are for
174. 12 AprJustin Pearson returned to Tennessee House of Representatives
175. 12 AprRon DeSantis, elite vote suppressor
176. 12 AprFeinstein’s Flag
177. 12 AprGarbage in garbage out, anti-vax edition
178. 12 AprBreach
179. 12 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,329
180. 12 AprRepublicans know the abortion positions of the judges they robotically confirmed are a political loser
181. 12 AprLGM Film Club, Part 366: The Sounds of Science
182. 11 AprDealing with drought
183. 11 AprBut has an erroneous belief in one’s own indispensability ever had bad consequences for the country before?
184. 11 AprLGM Classical – Conducting
185. 11 AprThe Republican war on reproductive freedom includes contraception
186. 11 AprStanding up against wealthist micro-aggressions
187. 11 Apr“Our Appeal Has Become More Selective”
188. 11 AprWho will speak for the “affluent?”
189. 11 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,328
190. 11 AprThe free speech absolutism of free speech absolutist Elon Musk, cont’d
191. 11 AprJudging without law: the Matthew J. Kacsmaryk story
192. 10 AprImages from American History, Part 52
193. 10 AprNashville council tells fascists to eat shit
194. 10 AprStatistical intuitions
195. 10 AprWait, this affects profits
196. 10 AprOn the “we cannot solve any problems if we cannot solve all the problems”argument
197. 10 Apr“We Don’t Always Share Our Stories”
198. 10 AprAsia’s Nuclear Future
199. 10 Apr‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
200. 10 AprMontana GOP passing law to make it illegal for Jon Tester to win re-election
201. 10 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,327
202. 10 AprMore and more rich assholes
203. 10 AprLGM Film Club, Part 365: New York Subway, 1905
204. 9 AprImages from American History, Part 51
205. 9 AprOn the sheer misogynist idiocy of Matthew Kacsmaryk’s Führer Directive
206. 9 AprDon’t Compromise on Trans Issues
207. 9 AprGreg Abbott is going to pardon somebody who was convicted of murder 24 hours ago because it was a good kind of murder
208. 9 AprSquirrel Migration
209. 9 AprEl Norte
210. 9 AprComstocktastic
211. 9 AprReproductive Policy in 20th Century China
212. 9 AprHe is risen
213. 9 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,326
214. 9 AprWho amongst us did Nazi this coming
215. 8 AprMusic Notes
216. 8 AprThe latest classified document leak
217. 8 AprDoes Ukraine Exist? Views Differ.
218. 8 AprWas the Sturmabteilung merely an impartial protector of local citizens? Views differ
219. 8 AprSmug and assured, ignorant and shameless
220. 8 AprAn Alliance on Criminal Justice Reform?
221. 8 AprThe circus animals’ desertion
222. 8 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,325
223. 8 AprThe pushback begins
224. 7 AprLawless federal judge announces nationwide ban on mifepristone at 6:30 on Friday night
225. 7 AprThe Republican “messaging” cope
226. 7 AprThe Twitter Files: What comes after farce?
227. 7 AprRed-brown alliances are just brown, an ongoing series
228. 7 AprTHE STATE OF LGM REMAINS STRONG
229. 7 AprWhy doesn’t more democracy force the GOP to moderate?
230. 7 AprThe day may be coming
231. 7 AprHow to do it
232. 7 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,324
233. 7 AprNeoconfederacy and the Tennessee Two
234. 7 AprLGM Film Club, Part 364: Tetris Ad, 1990
235. 6 AprImages from American History, Part 50
236. 6 AprIf Ukraine had kept Soviet nuclear missiles
237. 6 AprChild care panic
238. 6 AprTennessee fascism
239. 6 AprAbe and Clarence
240. 6 AprReviving the War on Drugs
241. 6 AprThe cruelty is the entire point
242. 6 AprClarence Thomas: Justice of the New Gilded Age
243. 6 AprTalkin’ Tofu
244. 6 AprYou don’t need to worry about this — it’s all covered
245. 6 AprWill Donald Trump face a verdict in a criminal trial prior to the 2024 presidential election?
246. 6 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,323
247. 6 AprIdaho passes Fugitive Uterus Act
248. 6 AprLGM Film Club, Part 363: 1987 Stock Market Crash
249. 6 AprWhen vote suppression is all you know
250. 5 AprImages from American History, Part 49
251. 5 AprQAnon, but real
252. 5 AprThe Trump exception to libel law
253. 5 Apr“Class Not Race” Analysis is Inherently Racist
254. 5 AprThe Brighton Bombing
255. 5 AprQueer Nude Neocolonialism
256. 5 AprTalking with Elizabeth Kolbert
257. 5 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 5, 1956
258. 5 AprThe two week engagement
259. 5 AprDemocracy coming to Wisconsin?
260. 4 AprTraitor to allow Republicans to pass abortion ban
261. 4 AprTrump indictment open thread
262. 4 AprThe Trump indictment and the limits of the calcification of politics
263. 4 AprLGM Podcast: Baseball Preview II
264. 4 AprYou’re goddamned right I did
265. 4 AprErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,322
266. 4 AprNCAA Tournament Outcomes
267. 3 AprDeSantis: Florida needs more violent death
268. 3 AprNeither Donald Trump nor his lawyers know what he’s being charged with tomorrow
269. 3 AprThis joke isn’t funny anymore
270. 3 AprThey’re selling postcards of the hanging
271. 3 Apr…or cheat
272. 3 AprEverybody’s in showbiz
273. 3 AprBrilliant plan of business supergenius still going great
274. 2 AprLong Read: A Friend Looks At John Eastman
275. 2 AprThe view from the bottom of the “slippery slope” looks fine
276. 2 AprWill democratic elections return to Wisconsin?
277. 2 AprThe Far Left-Far Right Pro-Russia Alliance
278. 2 AprOdds and Ends
279. 2 AprScenes from the “Weaponization” of the Department of Justice
280. 2 AprParty that supports views that are both wrong and unpopular decides democracy is the problem
281. 2 AprNot bloody DeLikely
282. 1 AprRepublican prosecutors don’t need a “precedent” to indict political enemies
283. 1 AprThe US v. the developed world Part II
284. 1 AprRussia’s Economic Crisis
285. 1 AprThe US v. the developed world
286. 1 AprNukeporn!
287. 1 AprThis Day in Labor History: April 1, 1913
288. 1 AprPost-Dobbs Politics

March 2023

1. 31 MarThe MAGATs and the market
2. 31 MarLawsuit against Fox News for its systematic lying about Dominion will go forward
3. 31 MarExactly one proposition
4. 31 MarRemembering Triangle
5. 31 MarIndict!
6. 31 MarMark Russell
7. 31 MarInto the black
8. 31 MarThis Day In Labor History: March 31, 1883
9. 31 MarProvincial strongman opposes rule of law
10. 30 MarGrand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
11. 30 MarDo people have an inalienable right to make commencement speeches?
12. 30 MarHack Republican judge takes critical healthcare away from huge numbers of people
13. 30 MarUpdates!
14. 30 MarLGM Podcast: 2023 Baseball Preview I
15. 30 MarThe sex abuse scandal at Nashville’s Covenant school and church being ignored by the national media
16. 30 MarGetcher MA at GRU U!
17. 30 MarRussia Detains WSJ Reporter
18. 30 MarNFL accountants: “It’s considered leakage”
19. 30 MarIdaho Disgraces Itself
20. 30 MarKentucky Disgraces Itself
21. 30 MarImages from American History, Part 48
22. 29 MarThe 4-Day Work Week
23. 29 MarCraig T. Nelson Libertarians
24. 29 MarIdaho to be first state to pass a Fugitive Uterus Act
25. 29 MarWhat Does Taiwan Need?
26. 29 MarRainbowland
27. 29 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,321
28. 29 MarChris Christie: Never Stop Never Trumping
29. 29 MarImages from American History, Part 47
30. 28 MarNothing we can do to prevent this, says Congressman from only country in the world where things like this happen regularly
31. 28 MarMobilizing anti-trans hate
32. 28 MarAn American Tragedy
33. 28 MarThiel and the Tycoons
34. 28 MarShatner On Going to Space
35. 28 MarThe Jock-Creep Alliance
36. 28 MarOhio bill would require college professors to teach “both sides” of the climate change “controversy”
37. 28 MarLGM Podcast: Glen Canyon Dam and Tribal Dispossession
38. 28 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,320
39. 28 MarMass protests give Netanyahu pause
40. 28 MarFascist think tank recognizes another one of their own
41. 27 MarConsiderably less than 1000 words
42. 27 MarThe AR-15 and America
43. 27 MarSeven killed at Nashville school
44. 27 MarWhat Michigan Overturning Right to Work Means
45. 27 MarOn fools and frenchman
46. 27 MarA Major Break in the Internet
47. 27 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,319
48. 27 MarTeevee open thread: “In a room full of Timothy McVeighs, he kind of looks like Roosevelt” edition
49. 27 MarMusic Notes
50. 26 MarThe Horror… The Horror…
51. 26 MarOn the edge
52. 26 MarEvents Moving Quickly In Israel
53. 26 Mar“I call you an idiot and you shut up”: the Free Speech Ballad of Kyle Duncan and Matt Taibbi
54. 26 MarPutin Threatens To Put Nuclear Weapons In Belarus
55. 26 MarOmnibus Spam Trash Post
56. 26 MarRight wing paranoia and the Covid vaccines
57. 26 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,318
58. 26 MarCastner Range National Monument
59. 25 MarImages from American History, Part 46
60. 25 MarIntensities in ten cities
61. 25 MarChasing Trains Leaving Stations
62. 25 MarPathetic
63. 25 MarLA School Labor Deal
64. 25 MarBiden Wants a Unionized Campaign Staff
65. 25 MarWe can remember it for you wholesale
66. 25 MarWhat a difference a non-reactionary NLRB makes
67. 25 MarMoore’s law and the future of computing
68. 25 MarForeign Fighters
69. 25 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,317
70. 25 MarPoetic justice as fairness
71. 24 MarContempt of Court
72. 24 MarCahiers Du Sinema
73. 24 MarThe Washington Post Becomes The Anti-New York Times
74. 24 MarElon offers to take your money in secret
75. 24 MarThe fantasy life of DEI administrators
76. 24 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,316
77. 24 MarOne of the worst for which a people ever fought
78. 24 MarLabor Policy in the Last Stalinist Utopia
79. 24 MarImages from American History, Part 45
80. 23 MarThe Right Enemies
81. 23 MarFlorida principal fired for not providing trigger warnings and safe spaces before showing Michelangelo
82. 23 MarThose who want respect, give respect
83. 23 MarErik Visits an American Grave: The Archive Part Two
84. 23 MarOverturning Right to Work
85. 23 MarThe fantasy life of conservative intellectuals
86. 23 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,315
87. 23 MarThe lunatic war on drag shows
88. 23 MarLGM Film Club, Part 362: Mother Jones
89. 22 MarWhat Trump Stole
90. 22 MarAre drivers getting worse because Americans are getting worse?
91. 22 MarIraq Revisited Part II
92. 22 MarAn atrocity, not a tragedy
93. 22 MarThe greatest show on Earth
94. 22 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,314
95. 22 MarFlorida Men
96. 22 MarLGM Film Club, Part 361: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
97. 22 MarThe real weapons of mass destruction are the enemies we made among the way
98. 21 MarImages from American History, Part 44
99. 21 MarLA School Workers Strike
100. 21 MarRupert’s would-be fall person
101. 21 MarPumping Gas
102. 21 MarSchultz Out at Starbucks
103. 21 MarMore on the Terror Campaign
104. 21 MarSugar nepo baby: The Bethany Mandel story
105. 21 MarFlorida in the Midwest
106. 21 MarLGM Film Club, Part 360: The Seventh Seal
107. 20 MarImages from American History, Part 43
108. 20 MarThe elite liberal(ish) case for invading Iraq
109. 20 MarSend lawyers guns and money
110. 20 MarWilhoit’s Law is a Harsh Mistress
111. 20 MarUse the Tools You Have for Power
112. 20 MarFrench Retirement Age Protests
113. 20 MarWhich Race Suffered Under Jim Crow? Ehhh….Let’s Not Bother With Such Questions
114. 20 MarIraq Revisited Part I
115. 20 MarOld Men And Their Nukes
116. 20 MarHomeschooling in Michigan
117. 19 MarWaiting for NIMBY
118. 19 MarIf Ron DeSantis did not exist it would be necessary to invent him
119. 19 MarThe GOP’s white supremacist fantasy world
120. 19 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 19, 1917
121. 19 MarThe Iran Deal
122. 18 MarMusic Notes
123. 18 MarImages from American History, Part 42
124. 18 MarThe sports gambling explosion
125. 18 MarThe Mezcal Problem
126. 18 MarAmerica’s Dumbest Political Movement
127. 18 MarWhen he sees his reflection, he’s fulfilled
128. 18 MarAuthoritarianism: feature or bug?
129. 18 MarTrump to be arrested Tuesday by Manhattan DA
130. 18 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,313
131. 17 MarEdifying fables from the Big Book of Alternate History
132. 17 MarLance Reddick
133. 17 MarIs “woke” just a re-labeling of “politically correct?”
134. 17 MarNCAA Tourney Day 2 Open Thread
135. 17 MarThe customer is always right, schoolhouse rock edition
136. 17 MarLGM Film Club, Part 359: Carter and the Solar Panels
137. 17 MarSexuality panics at the New York Times
138. 16 MarImages from American History, Part 41
139. 16 MarNotes on the DeOrban regime
140. 16 MarFood Crimes
141. 16 MarLAST CHANCE FOR TOURNEY TIME/NCAA Tourney Open Thread
142. 16 MarLegislating by Trolling
143. 16 MarClimate Change Disaster Hitting North Carolina
144. 16 MarWhat Can’t Be Taught
145. 16 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,312
146. 16 MarLGM Film Club, Part 358: Que Viva Mexico
147. 16 MarThe view from nowhere is a myth that helps authoritarians
148. 15 MarA thin reed to hang a culture war on
149. 15 MarThe “AI” Challenge – My Response
150. 15 MarPoverty, by America
151. 15 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,311
152. 15 MarMichigan poised to become first state in almost six decades to repeal right-to-free-ride laws
153. 15 MarLGM Film Club, Part 357: Election
154. 15 MarIn Which Briahna Joy Gray Inadvertently Does A Service To Mankind
155. 14 MarImages from American History, Part 40
156. 14 MarTime changes and ranked choice voting
157. 14 MarThe horrors of the post-Roe era, an endless series
158. 14 MarTurn Black Wall Street into a National Monument
159. 14 MarBiden’s confabulation
160. 14 MarHerman Cain Award, Intellectual Dark Web Subdivision
161. 14 MarThe party of Putin
162. 14 MarMadness! With the Marching!
163. 14 MarThis Day in Labor History: March 14, 1895
164. 14 MarPat Schroeder, RIP
165. 14 MarDeSantis was a Ryan lickspittle before he was a Trump lickspittle
166. 14 MarLGM Film Club, Part 356: Down the Colorado River in a Rowboat
167. 14 MarAukus
168. 13 MarImages from American History, Part 39
169. 13 MarThe Trumped-up Stanford Law School free speech scandal
170. 13 MarThe VC problem in SV
171. 13 MarWokeness killed the Silicon star
172. 13 MarWhy Artificial Intelligence?
173. 13 MarOld School Unionbusting
174. 13 MarThe end of history (departments)
175. 13 MarBBC Serving the Desires of the Tories
176. 13 MarBiden Once Again Shows Why We Will Do Nothing to Stop Climate Change
177. 13 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,310
178. 13 MarLGM Film Club, Part 355: Streaker at the Oscars
179. 12 MarOscars open thread: one man’s lonely crusade against wome…I mean wokeness, yes that’s it
180. 12 MarFederal Reserve Statement On Silicon Valley Bank
181. 12 MarTrue lies
182. 12 MarLatest Maintenance Post
183. 12 MarIntentionally like a martyr: the ballad of Kyle Duncan
184. 12 MarMaybe We Should Turn STRATCOM Off And Then On Again
185. 12 MarOscars 2023: Final Thoughts
186. 12 MarExile on Wingnut Avenue
187. 12 MarDrag queens and Nazis: Two threats to the Republic
188. 12 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,309
189. 12 MarSVB paid out bonuses on March 10
190. 11 MarBud Grant
191. 11 MarConsider my priors unchanged
192. 11 MarThe Lone Star War on Women escalates
193. 11 MarThree years of Covid
194. 11 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,308
195. 11 MarThe collapse of SVB and the partial repeal of Dodd-Frank
196. 11 MarBari U. invents the visiting guest lecturer
197. 10 MarSecond-biggest failure of a financial institution in US history
198. 10 MarElon’s well-compensated head of PR immolates what remains of his dignity
199. 10 MarThe Terror Campaign
200. 10 MarReproductive Justice in Honduras
201. 10 MarDecriminalize Sex Work
202. 10 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,307
203. 10 MarGrand Old Police Blotter
204. 10 MarLGM Film Club, Part 354: Wild Girl
205. 10 MarImages from American History, Part 38
206. 10 MarTrump Likely to Be Charged
207. 9 MarChildren of men
208. 9 MarLGM Podcast: A Fan’s Life
209. 9 MarBehind the Republican war on trans people
210. 9 MarSaving Something By Destroying It
211. 9 MarWar Crimes Happen
212. 9 MarThe junkies
213. 9 MarSenior Senator Down?
214. 9 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,306
215. 9 MarMake Child Labor Great Again
216. 9 MarAmerican Colonialism
217. 9 MarChecking in on the imaginary American anti-abortion pro-social-democracy movement
218. 8 MarMission accomplished!
219. 8 MarThe climate impact of the doctrine that Democratic presidents can’t govern
220. 8 MarThe big lie and the limits of journalism
221. 8 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,305
222. 8 MarNHL teams permitting homophobes to have heckler’s veto over Pride jerseys
223. 8 MarGoverning Kentucky
224. 8 MarImages from American History, Part 37
225. 7 MarA fascism too far (for some)
226. 7 MarRepublican depravity, Democratic fecklessness
227. 7 MarNordStream Revisited
228. 7 MarCarter’s Environmental Legacy
229. 7 MarThe Deadly Failure of American Medical Care
230. 7 MarThe book somebody else wrote that lists me as its author turns out to be full of plagiarism
231. 7 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,304
232. 7 MarThe biggest asshole in the world
233. 7 MarBoycott Walgreens
234. 7 MarIs 2020 the last year Fox will allow independence from its election projections unit?
235. 6 MarThe “Assistant Manager” scam
236. 6 MarThe destruction of public higher education in red states
237. 6 MarBest American Band?
238. 6 MarMelon’s Latest Innovation
239. 6 MarThe dazed and confused generation
240. 6 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,303
241. 6 MarFlorida Republicans seek to establish state-run kidnapping
242. 6 MarMusic Notes
243. 5 MarNo Adversary, No Directed Energy Weapon
244. 5 MarThe New Baseball Rules
245. 5 MarThe Republican Child Labor Agenda
246. 5 MarWater in the West
247. 5 MarThe new order requires joy divisions
248. 5 MarGenocidal rhetoric at CPAC gets loud cheers
249. 5 MarDavid Lindley
250. 4 MarThe King of Comedy
251. 4 MarTennessee fascism
252. 4 MarIntelligence Analysis Is Not Scientific Investigation
253. 4 MarThe End of a Very Long Strike
254. 4 MarQuickie Horror Round-up/Open Thread
255. 4 MarOur Worthless Media
256. 4 MarA nation of messianic lunatics
257. 4 MarTom Sizemore RIP
258. 4 MarNorth Carolina Lurches Toward the 21st Century
259. 4 MarTales from the Right Wing Terrorist Present
260. 4 MarWokeness killed my grandmother and stole my car keys
261. 3 MarCapitulating to the Alito Mob
262. 3 MarA little light cancer
263. 3 MarIs Trump or DeSantis worse? Yes
264. 3 MarThe very long con
265. 3 MarStarbucks hit for massive labor violations
266. 3 MarErik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 1,302
267. 3 MarThe Courage to be Fascist
268. 3 MarMurdaugh guilty
269. 2 MarThe drug overdose epidemic
270. 2 MarThose priors won’t confirm themselves!
271. 2 MarWayne Shorter, RIP
272. 2 MarThe FBI is still Trumpland
273. 2 MarRon DeSantis’s final solution to the (((woke))) question
274. 2 MarErik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,301
275. 2 MarLGM Film Club, Part 353: Compañeros
276. 2 MarImages from American History, Part 36
277. 1 MarThe Racial Dynamics of Student Loan Relief
278. 1 MarPresident Alito to deny you student loan relief
279. 1 MarAnother Lab Experiment
280. 1 MarFun Times from the American Past
281. 1 MarThe Endangered Margarita
282. 1 MarThe Laboratories of Democracy
283. 1 MarMaintenance and Upkeep
284. 1 MarCorruption of Blood
285. 1 MarLife in Gilead
286. 1 Mar“The Worst New York Democrat,” a perpetual beer-holding competition
287. 1 MarLGM Film Club, Part 352: Glengarry Glen Ross
288. 1 MarImages from American History, Part 35