The Curious Engineer

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December 2025

  1. Greetings from the Future
  2. Trump vetoes bipartisan clean water law to punish state for enforcing its laws, politician for wanting to see the Epstein files
  3. The War Against Venezuela
  4. The vagaries of literary fame
  5. Performative tantrums for Trump (Update)
  6. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,049
  7. Alone in the dark
  8. Well, sheeeeeeeeeit
  9. Trump take Social Security
  10. Melania, The Movie!
  11. Dogs/vomit. Fools/folly. White supremacists/
  12. Donald Trump is very concerned about fraud, so you should be too
  13. The Great Tolkien Reread: A Long-Expected Party
  14. Somehow, the Iranian Nuclear Program Came Back
  15. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,048
  16. Peace president bombed land target in Venezuela
  17. Homage to Catalonia and the decline of leftist aspirations
  18. A Change of Mind
  19. Realism! Restraint!
  20. Donald Trump and remote diagnosis
  21. Why is Donald Trump getting frequent IV injections in both hands?
  22. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,047
  23. This will hurt him more than it hurts you
  24. Drugs, Oil, and Immigrants
  25. NFL Open Thread
  26. Best TV of 2025
  27. Look on my works, ye mighty
  28. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,046
  29. Election of the weekend V: Kosovo
  30. Election of the weekend IV: Myanmar
  31. Election of the Weekend III: Guinea
  32. Election of the Weekend II: Central African Republic
  33. Election of the weekend I: Cote D’Ivoire
  34. Week 49
  35. More on the Peace President’s Christmas bombings
  36. LGM’s Southeast Asia Correspondent
  37. Somebody Else’s Battleships
  38. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,045
  39. Man mistakes himself for white; hilarity/fascism ensue
  40. Extremely online president has very tired message
  41. What Do We Expect From the Epstein Files?
  42. More from the Peace President!
  43. Columbia and the iron law of institutions
  44. This Day in Labor History: December 26, 1996
  45. Merry Christmas From The Peace President
  46. All I want for Christmas is …
  47. Christmas NFL/NBA Open Thread
  48. Christmas morning
  49. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,044
  50. Christmas Eve Thread
  51. Revisiting the 2023-24 Detroit Pistons in light of subsequent developments
  52. All Sugar Cookies All the Time
  53. The argument behind yesterday’s ruling
  54. Pain without gain
  55. Merry Christmas v. Happy Holidays
  56. The Golden Fleet?
  57. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,043
  58. Trump’s business is corruption and business is booming
  59. Supreme Court does not permit Trump to send troops into Chicago
  60. Bari was exercising “free speech” as she has always understood it when she killed a story on behalf of the administration she was hired to support
  61. Turning Points
  62. Life is Unfair: A love story
  63. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,042
  64. The MAGA field is littered with failed kiss-asses
  65. LGM Film Club, Part 524: Pioneer Axe
  66. Canadian network aired too-hot-for-Bari report
  67. The Celebrity Steakhouse
  68. Trump class battleships
  69. Trump take energy
  70. Gaming Notes
  71. A Nice Quiet Story
  72. LGM Podcast: If You Love It, Let It Kill You
  73. Trump Take Greenland
  74. Advancing the ball
  75. James Ransone, RIP
  76. Affordability
  77. This Day in Labor History: December 22, 1945
  78. Bari Weiss spiked a story for being “incompletely reported” because the Trump administration refused to respond to any questions about it
  79. LGM Film Club, Part 523: Drug War
  80. Josh Gruenbaum to Negotiating Team
  81. Bari Weiss misplaces story that would be unfavorable to the Trump administration
  82. Tucker’s Takes: Racism against white men is as bad as antisemitism. Only much worse.
  83. JD Vance: our coalition accepts everyone who thinks the Democrat Party is controlled by Jewish financiers
  84. NFL Open Thread: Game of the Year edition
  85. The CNN Paywall
  86. Fashion and Historical Memory
  87. Some further thoughts on affordability
  88. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,041
  89. $100 gets you 5 minutes in the car
  90. Warning: Some links in this post feature Andrew Tate getting punched in the face
  91. Republicans who expect a normal presidential primary report to me for wallet inspection
  92. Music Notes
  93. Groyper Nation
  94. The affordability crisis
  95. Week 48
  96. College Football Playoff Saturday Thread
  97. Director of Health and Human Services: not enough kids are dying
  98. The political/financial crisis of the American university in the Trump era
  99. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,040
  100. This is Fine
  101. Trump administration fails to release Epstein Files
  102. Another pilgrim on the Chris Christie path to political oblivion
  103. Need Some LoomCoin Love this Christmas?
  104. Horatio Alger’s Darkest Tale
  105. Lies, damned lies, and Trumpism
  106. Gil Gerard RIP
  107. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,039
  108. Release the report!
  109. LGM Film Club, Part 522: Heart of Glass
  110. Thursday Open Thread: DVOA Bowl Edition
  111. All Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends
  112. RFK responds to doctors pointing out that he is getting children killed by creating more avoidable child death
  113. Brothers in misogyny
  114. What Will Our Brilliant Media Savant Think of Next???
  115. Thank You For Your Service
  116. Can Democrats Win in Texas?
  117. Epstein’s Wealth
  118. Building Without A Foundation
  119. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,038
  120. Former Harvard Law professor: Constitution ambiguous on the question of whether a 4-year-old born in Italy can be president
  121. LGM Film Club, Part 521: Augusta
  122. Arnett
  123. Verbal Incontinence Open Thread
  124. Reiner
  125. Podhoretz
  126. It’s just that her appeal is becoming more selective
  127. Bongino is bongoing
  128. Sinema of the absurd
  129. A garbage president for garbage people
  130. John Roberts’s lie about democratic accountability
  131. Not Made for TV
  132. Kushner’s Trump Belgrade plans crushed, Paramount deal ditched
  133. If You Just Refuse to Study Climate Change, It Will All Go Away
  134. Russell Vought moves to destroy government’s leading climate change research institution
  135. Trump’s War on the Forests
  136. War and Peace
  137. War for oil? Yes
  138. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,037
  139. Republicans take health care
  140. LGM Film Club, Part 520: Itam Hakim, Hopiit
  141. Living in an abusive political culture
  142. Deranged Trump Syndrome
  143. Trump take jobs
  144. Director of Poasting
  145. The Great Tolkien Reread: Introduction
  146. Trump’s Unionbusting
  147. Taking notes on a criminal conspiracy and then publishing them in major media outlets
  148. Trump Unemployment
  149. The Broken Recycling System
  150. The Last Second MAGA Desperation to Stop Citizenship
  151. Burn 3
  152. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,036
  153. LGM Film Club, Part 519: California Split
  154. Joe Ely, RIP
  155. The Hilarity of Dead Africans
  156. Anything for a Reichstag Fire
  157. Tne broligarchs
  158. Raised a Cain
  159. LGM Podcast: The Trump NSS
  160. Another day, another shooting, same FBI director fucking up the investigation (updated for context)
  161. The new normal
  162. Eliminationist rhetoric and the GOP
  163. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,035
  164. Rob Reiner and his wife apparently murdered
  165. The collateral benefits of Trump’s wars
  166. Extremely online at the Tiffany Network
  167. No, There Is Not A Nuclear Weapon On Nanda Devi
  168. NFL Open Thread: Old Man Rivers edition
  169. Thinking About Jefferson and the American Contradiction
  170. Another holiday massacre
  171. Scumbag Don’s Fake War on Drugs
  172. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,034
  173. LGM Film Club, Part 518: Rushmore
  174. The American Way of Death
  175. What’s America’s Worst Democratic Governor Up To?
  176. Kavanaugh Katch-22s
  177. Week 47
  178. Los Alamos During The Cold War
  179. “Maybe I’m Naive, or an Incurable Socialist”
  180. Junk numbers, general innumeracy, and the death of shame
  181. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,033
  182. The Hoosier rebellion
  183. The Capture of SCOTUSBlog
  184. The Sherrone Moore debacle
  185. Not even on his best day (updated)
  186. The plot against the king
  187. The Warners
  188. Trump issues “pardon” for seditionist convicted under state law
  189. The Republican plan for healthcare is that you’re not rich you should not be able to get healthcare
  190. I can take a hint
  191. A major Beltway scandal
  192. Looks Like It’s “Or Bust”
  193. South Carolina with an outbreak of the Bobby Kennedys
  194. A Legacy of Spies
  195. A quid needs a quo
  196. A Couple of Thoughts on the National Security Strategy
  197. A Pirate’s Life for Me!
  198. Trump seizes Venezuelan oil tanker
  199. Trump, dementia, and the 25th amendment
  200. Heckuva job
  201. Elon Musk’s final solution to the immigration question
  202. The Fall of Mark Welsh
  203. This Day in Labor History: December 10, 1906
  204. Deep down in Florida
  205. Libertarianism under the false cover of formalism
  206. Should the field goal rules be changed in the NFL?
  207. The “M” in “MAGA” stands for “misogyny”
  208. Ramble on
  209. Trump raise prices
  210. Welcome to my nightmare
  211. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,032
  212. How much are they going to take?
  213. Let’s Go Bowling!
  214. Trump to offer bailout to a small minority of the people damaged by his tariffs
  215. The Unitary Executive is just the first punch
  216. Progress and its discontents
  217. Transnational Kleptocracy and American Authoritarian Consolidation
  218. White supremacist America
  219. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,031
  220. Trump to search for the real price inflator
  221. Tom Cotton succinctly explains MAGA foreign policy
  222. Drone Damage to Chernobyl Confinement Structure
  223. NFL Open Thread: Stay in School Edition
  224. On Mamdani’s Foreign Policy
  225. Grading college papers in Jesusland
  226. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,030
  227. Did you ever meet a woman with a death wish?
  228. Obergruppenfuehrer Miller orders cancellation of naturalization ceremonies
  229. The fact that there’s barely a president is in fact a major national crisis
  230. Week 46
  231. College Football Week 15 Thread
  232. Trump replaces MLK Day with his own birthday
  233. The Data Center Backlash
  234. Secretary Pete Fights Congress
  235. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,029
  236. Play it, Steve
  237. Does He Get a Preemptive Pardon?
  238. Committing War Crimes on Behalf of Suriname
  239. Supreme Court grants cert to sub-frivolous appeal
  240. Make Hepatitis B Great Again
  241. Breaking: Donald Trump awarded peace prize that a lot of people are saying is MORE prestigious than the Nobel Peace Prize
  242. The non-fog of non-war
  243. Republican voters and conspiracism
  244. This Day in Labor History: December 5, 1997
  245. It’s not fascism unless… nah, fuck it. It’s fascism
  246. Roberts Court Republicans use shadow docket to refuse to allow its precedents to be applied because it would be an electoral disadvantage for the Republican Party
  247. Drug Use Is A Civil Problem
  248. Played them all the old songs, thought that’s why they came
  249. Head of Military Ops forced out by Hegseth for opposing his unauthorized murders of civilians
  250. John Roberts et al, accessories to murder
  251. On Legal Justifications
  252. Today’s Hearing On War Crimes
  253. Making murder respectable
  254. Trump pardons grifter indicted by his administration earlier this year
  255. The new conservatives
  256. Who Does the Trumpist War on the Public Lands Serve?
  257. The loud parts through a bullhorn
  258. I Can’t Believe This Extremist Right-Wing Christian Doesn’t Treat His Female Colleagues with Respect
  259. Continuing Vandalism
  260. Sustain the President & You Protect the White Man
  261. You can apparently be stripped of the status of economist
  262. The scandal of American political journalism
  263. Sleep will be difficult the night before the announcement of the winner of the first FIFA World Peace Prize
  264. The “game recognize game” pardon cycle crosses party lines again
  265. War criminal without war
  266. Sparkling War Crimes
  267. Tn 7 2
  268. To Fight Or Not
  269. Death by Lightning
  270. The way we live now
  271. Jersey Gonna Jersey
  272. Sleepy Don: people being targeted for crackdowns based on their race
  273. My honor is called loyalty
  274. A media wired for RFK Jr.
  275. This is the reason
  276. The machinery of the world
  277. LGM Giving Tuesday: Oaxacan Dog Rescue
  278. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,028
  279. Former Today Show host goes full fash
  280. Sometimes In Life, You Get What You Ask For
  281. Toward a unified theory of the Trump cabinet
  282. Sacking the US Treasury
  283. Gridiron Chaos in the Bluegrass
  284. The American right and the “Jewish question”
  285. November Reading List
  286. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,027
  287. The amorality of the pundit class

November 2025

  1. I’ve got a question for you
  2. Radiation Yum Yum
  3. NFL Open Thread: Checkout Time in Vegas Edition
  4. Former JAGs Say It’s Murder
  5. The Corruption of American Foreign Policy
  6. The secret life of Trumpist intellectuals
  7. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,026
  8. The game recognize game pardon cycle
  9. Old man look at my life
  10. Music Notes
  11. The Peace President orders unilateral no-fly zone over Venezuela
  12. Access and solidarity
  13. Week 45
  14. The Slave Labor Scam Complex
  15. College Football Week 14 Thread
  16. Precursors of Trumpism
  17. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,025
  18. “Securing Our Homeland From the Drugs that Are Killing Our people”
  19. “The order was to kill everybody”
  20. POW/MIA hysteria and the 1992 presidential campaign
  21. Life during the free speech administration
  22. Is MAGA Falling Apart? No.
  23. Farewell, Connies
  24. An imperial message
  25. Frohes Erntedankfest!
  26. LGM Film Club, Part 517: Liz and the Blue Bird
  27. Mamdani and the Public Sector Unions
  28. The Trumpist Perversion of Christianity
  29. Thanksgiving NFL Open Thread
  30. Terrible Food Day
  31. Happy Thanksgiving!
  32. Paranoia runs deep
  33. Election of the Day: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  34. Inoculating the fascist body against contamination
  35. Kennedy Katch and Kill Kontinued
  36. Grassley
  37. Let’s Make Sure No One Wants to Visit America
  38. The end of the accountability
  39. Making whooping cough great again
  40. A Thanksgiving Reckoning
  41. A Better Peace
  42. Hope from the Kids
  43. Taking Donald Trump’s evident cognitive deterioration seriously
  44. Sleepy Don
  45. Everything You Ever Wanted
  46. I’ve Said It Before – The Realtor Who Sold My House Could Do Better Than This
  47. Trump administration telling demonstrable lies to the Supreme Court to justify domestic military mobilizations
  48. RFK Jr. names anti-vaxx fanatic #2 at CDC
  49. Little Marco’s Army are on their way
  50. The Misogynist Idiocy of 2024
  51. LGM Podcast: Twenty-Eight Points
  52. The canons of Eileen
  53. America, November 2025
  54. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,024
  55. A world of ratfuckers
  56. We regret to inform you of a minor editing error
  57. Is using public office to encourage the spread of deadly viral infections bad? Views differ
  58. Couple of NFL football stats things
  59. Indictments against Comey and James dismissed because 3rd place runner up in Miss Colorado USA pageant invalidly appointed
  60. DOGE moves on to the next boiler room
  61. Degrees of separation
  62. New International Student Enrollment Craters
  63. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,023
  64. H. Rap Brown
  65. Udo Kier RIP
  66. Putin’s man in DC continues to push Ukraine to surrender
  67. A battle with her blood
  68. Will Democrats Govern by Democratic Principles?
  69. Rule by Project 2025
  70. Southern Prisoner Profit
  71. NFL Open Thread
  72. Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 2,022
  73. Trump peace plan literally drafted by Russia; nobody in the administration realized this
  74. Kennedy Katch and Kill
  75. Alamo Lies
  76. Schadenfreude is not just a village in Germany
  77. Right Wing Populists Hate Workers: Indian Edition
  78. The Party of Billionaires
  79. Week 44
  80. The Folly of Center-Left Parties Chasing after Nativist Voters
  81. College Football Week 13 Thread
  82. The medium is the mob
  83. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,021
  84. Trump briefly forgets that he’s supposed to hate Mamdani
  85. The Culture Wars Claim Another Victim
  86. Bill Cassidy beginning to wonder if the wallet inspector is ever going to return
  87. LGM Podcast: NFL Midseason Report
  88. Listen To Patti Smith
  89. Tehran Runs Out Of Water
  90. Steve Witkoff Rolled Again
  91. Epstein’s financial collaborators
  92. What Ought to Be Ought Not to Be So Hard
  93. They make a desolation and call it peace
  94. This Day in Labor History: November 21, 1896
  95. Prosecutors drop charges brought to cover-up unprovoked shooting
  96. EAIAC: seditious treason edition
  97. The fragility of American constitutionalism
  98. An Epstein Honeymoon
  99. RFK Jr.’s CDC: Vaccines may cause autism even though there’s no evidence to support this belief
  100. The Tariff!
  101. We Have an Enemy and His Name is John Roberts
  102. Trump administration: not enough pedestrians are being killed
  103. Consequences for elite misbehavior
  104. Commander ate the jobs report
  105. Don’t Give Up The Ship
  106. Bullshitting is a better campaign strategy than governing strategy
  107. Visualize World Peace Prize, Ukraine Edition
  108. Voting to Reject Trump’s Attacks on Federal Unions
  109. Outsourcing Our Toxic Recycling
  110. Lawyer hired by Donald Trump for deeply mysterious reasons has no idea what she’s doing
  111. When You’re Too Toxic for Other Republicans
  112. An Oral History of Destroying the Justice Department
  113. Was MAHA Decisive?
  114. Confirmation Bias is a Hell of a Drug, Part I
  115. Ponzi schemer given clemency by Trump does another Ponzi scheme
  116. LGM Film Club, Part 516: Juno
  117. An Intimate Dinner
  118. Rapid unscheduled disassembly
  119. Trump-nominated judge strikes down Texas electoral maps because Trump’s DOJ took notes on its criminal fuckin’ conspiracy
  120. The enemy
  121. Will the White House press corps ever show some solidarity?
  122. The WaPo Way
  123. Middle-aged man surprisingly conversant with details of age of consent laws in multiple jurisdictions
  124. Another Stellar Day for Our Techbro Overlords
  125. I’m feeling thankful for the small things today
  126. Vote Out Your Pro-Ethnic Cleansing Politicians
  127. Dispatches from the Appalachian Trail
  128. The Worst People
  129. Generational Conflict?
  130. Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 2,020
  131. Another mission accomplished for RFK Jr.
  132. The grift bubble
  133. The prosecution of James Comey may not be legally sound
  134. The Summers Peril
  135. More on the End of the Penny
  136. Mamdani Wants a Starbucks Boycott
  137. Tn 7
  138. The documents in the case
  139. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,019
  140. To the Revolution!
  141. There Are About A Thousand Of Us
  142. Three more summary executions from the Peace President
  143. NFL Open Thread: The Battle of Los Angeles Edition
  144. Revolution blues
  145. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,018
  146. Music Notes
  147. You didn’t want to throw your fishing line in that old main stream
  148. Pam Bondi immediately opens nakedly partisan Epstein investigation after Trump demands it
  149. Week 43
  150. College Football Week 12 Thread
  151. Strung out nation
  152. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,017
  153. The inevitable rehabilitation of Livvy
  154. How UVA surrendered to Trump
  155. Larry Summers, who is still on the Harvard faculty, tries to strongarm Harvard’s administration into punishing the student newspaper for printing the truth about him
  156. TV Eye
  157. Imagine if Biden Obama Bush II Clinton Bush I Reagan Carter Ford Nixon LBJ JFK Eisenhower Truman FDR Hoover Coolidge Harding Wilson Taft TR McKinley A Bunch of Gilded Age Guys I Can’t Remember Grant Johnson Lincoln Buchanan
  158. DBTs on Colbert
  159. The “take my word for it” theory of unlimited Article II powers to order summary executions
  160. Trump vows to fix something he broke
  161. Left-wing populist mysteriously morphs into actual fascist, a continuing series
  162. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,016
  163. Management Furious That Workers Speak Out, News at 11
  164. Elite impunity as its own reward
  165. Fake quotations
  166. Some day this war will be over
  167. A temple of white male grievance
  168. Collapse of the MAGA cinematic universe
  169. Bombs… Away?
  170. Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 2,015
  171. Stopped clock at midnight
  172. EMAILS!
  173. Discharge petition succeeds
  174. DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
  175. Epstein’s most important collaborator being given the Epstein special treatment
  176. Leaked Epstein file emails reveal Trump was well aware Epstein was raping children and chose to cover it up
  177. Prison Labor Cars
  178. Follow the rules or do the right thing?
  179. Zevon 3
  180. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,014
  181. Mike Johnson finally ends anti-democratic blockade of AZ-7
  182. The fall of the House of Nico
  183. An envoi from the worst Democratic senator
  184. The new Republican ecomomic populism
  185. Reliving the Good Old Days of American Energy
  186. Greatest real estate tycoon of the age unaware of length of standard residential mortgage
  187. In Memoriam
  188. Republicans and Black History Museums
  189. In a little hilltop village, they gambled for my clothes
  190. Nukes? Nukes!
  191. This Day in Labor History: November 11, 1952
  192. Senate hopes to provide large cash payments to senators to award their participation in seditious activity and punish the government for legitimate investigations
  193. MLB’s betting partners to limit some prop bets
  194. The Trump administration’s greatest atrocity
  195. Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and Kevin Roberts
  196. Court keeps its powder dry on same-sex marriage
  197. LGM Podcast: Ditching Mitch in ’26
  198. Maha 2
  199. Maybe a Decentralized Energy Grid Has Value
  200. Trump pardons all top insurrectionists for trying to overthrow government (except himself)
  201. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,013
  202. Bottom up, top down
  203. Fear of a less undemocratic senate
  204. Democrats: Caving Like The Losers That They Are
  205. I could not foresee this thing happening to you
  206. I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky
  207. Maybe then I can fade away and not have to face the facts
  208. James Watson, 1928-2025
  209. Boats, but from Space!
  210. NFL Open Thread
  211. Federal Judge Resigns
  212. Dems in Disarray!
  213. More from Donald Trump, Friend of the American Working Class
  214. On a cult of personality and its consequences
  215. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,012
  216. President presiding over economic and governmental trainwreck laser-focused on gratifying his own ego
  217. Week 42
  218. The Radical Duke
  219. College Football Week 11 Thread
  220. Stephen Miller turns an even whiter shade of pale
  221. Billionaire fights desperately to ensure the poor starve
  222. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,011
  223. Will the Supreme Court allow Trump to illegally stop SNAP payments?
  224. Tough Guys
  225. The futile pursuit of realignment elections
  226. This Venezuela Nonsense…
  227. Moderation, polarization, and the age of unhappiness
  228. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,010
  229. Moderate persuaders
  230. The immediate return of “Trump wins” as the dominant desideratum of the Roberts Court’s Republicans
  231. Minus 1000 words
  232. A chance to create the appearance of independence
  233. Ukraine Update: The Looming Fall of Pokrovsk?
  234. The Republican party is doing neo-Nazism the right way
  235. Pelosi Retiring
  236. Trump the Populist
  237. Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 2,009
  238. Trump ground planes
  239. Terrible Human Too Terrible for South Carolina Republicans
  240. Gaming out 2028 and the SCOTUS
  241. This is excellent news for JD Vance
  242. Trump is just a very unpopular president, not the representative of the American volk
  243. Court Pretty Skeptical About King Trump’s Tariffs
  244. FIFA announces creation of new highly prestigious peace prize
  245. Trump: voters furious at Trump shutdown
  246. Keep the shutdown going
  247. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,008
  248. Confirmation Bias Affirmed
  249. Blue wave
  250. Polls closing thread II
  251. Polls Closing Thread Number One
  252. How much shit are the Supreme Court’s Republicans willing to eat for Trump?
  253. Liminal whiteness and equality v. hierarchy
  254. A Former Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Speaks Out
  255. Sandwich Assault
  256. Breaking, must credit LGM: Trump neo-Nazi base may harbor anti-Semites
  257. Winning the Shutdown
  258. Labor Unions and Working Class Health
  259. Diane Ladd RIP
  260. Cheney
  261. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,007
  262. Cuomo proudly accepts endorsement of his political ally and personal role model
  263. Panic in DC
  264. Attention Conservation
  265. Bari Weiss’s security detail is costing CBS $10K per day amid layoffs at the network
  266. Bari Weiss already providing a solid ROI to the regime-aligned ownership
  267. The Party of the Working Class
  268. Bringing a memo about how knives are dangerous to a gunfight
  269. The New Jersey Problem
  270. Jefferson’s Revolution
  271. Good Germans
  272. Organized Labor’s Support for Democrats in the Shutdown
  273. A House of Dynamite
  274. Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 2,006
  275. LGM Film Club, Part 515: A Camel
  276. Republicans refuse to recognize any opposition as legitimate, an ongoing series
  277. Holding Things Together
  278. NFL/World Series Aftermath Open Thread
  279. A stupid murderous nation
  280. The White Left’s Blind Spot on Race
  281. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,005
  282. LGM Film Club, Part 514: Promises: Through Congress
  283. World Series Game 7 Open Thread
  284. Music Notes
  285. Stage 4 capitalism
  286. The optimal long-term outcome of the shutdown
  287. Let them eat Statuary marble
  288. Week 41
  289. College Football Week 10 Thread
  290. See something say something
  291. What Did Democrats Do Wrong with Latinos?
  292. October Reading List
  293. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,004
  294. LGM Film Club, Part 513: Europe Endless I: The Spectre of Eurocommunism

October 2025

  1. Game 6 etc. Open Thread
  2. Heritage Foundation sans frontières
  3. Happy Halloween!
  4. The Sopranos Presidency
  5. The non-interventions of Donald the Dove, an ongoing saga
  6. The cultural contradictions of liberal democracy
  7. Things That Go Bump In The Night
  8. Hillbilly grifter going to dump “dark white” heathen wife for Mourning Barbie?
  9. Get a Grip(en)
  10. Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 2,003
  11. Public disapproves of the Trump shutdown
  12. Vignettes from the Age of Trump
  13. Pivoting to video, and other fresh ideas from newspaper publisher Jeff Bezos
  14. Hermeneutics of bumper stickers
  15. How Trump Screws Over Workers
  16. Turning the Classroom into a Political Propaganda Zone
  17. JD Vance Wants Racial Purity (Minus His Own Family)
  18. Make America Healthy Again and Fascist Psychology
  19. MAGA-fied Christianity
  20. Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 2,002
  21. World Series etc. open thread
  22. The Worst Democratic Appointment of My Life
  23. This is not OK
  24. Burning down the House
  25. Charisma and the failure of fascist regimes to survive the death of The Leader
  26. Trump take healthcare
  27. Garfield-Guiteau
  28. Erik Visits an Non-American Grave, Part 2,001
  29. The lightweight division
  30. World Series Game 4 Open Thread
  31. Ken Paxton joins RFK Jr.’s crackpot war on Tylenol
  32. J’ai toujours faim à cause de Trump
  33. Perhaps we should not start celebrating Trump’s “Middle East Breakthrough” quite yet
  34. Jeff Landry’s To-Do List
  35. Wait, Gambling Can Be Scandalous?
  36. Aukus 2
  37. Person, baseball, Japan, homer, walk
  38. The Grave Series at 2,000
  39. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,000
  40. The Garland Justice Department never knew what the shot was
  41. LGM Film Club, Part 512: This is the Bowery
  42. Trump “jokes” about violating 22nd Amendment to yadda-yadda mystery MRI
  43. 50 Days of Kavanaugh Stops
  44. Putin Announces Burevestnik Success
  45. Not simply good, but also hard
  46. Religious lunatics interfere with seaside time share condo development plans
  47. LGM Podcast: KY-6
  48. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,999
  49. Trump ground planes
  50. LGM Film Club, Part 511: Poland Prepared
  51. We’re not crying for you, we’re giving the money to Argentina
  52. Election of the Day
  53. A House of Dynamite – Review
  54. NFL Open Thread: Break up the Colts edition
  55. The Failure of Big Law
  56. The Irish Sprint Left
  57. The Bolton Case
  58. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,998
  59. Trump to impose tariffs as punitive measure against accurate commercial
  60. LGM Film Club, Part 510: A Voyage to Cebu
  61. Music Notes
  62. It’s time to shut down Yale Law School until etc.
  63. The Laboratories of Fascism
  64. For the 8th Amendment, the shadow docket sleeps
  65. Week 40
  66. Insane racist heir to multi-billion-dollar fortune really really likes Donald Trump
  67. College Football Week 9 Thread
  68. I’d Stay Away Too
  69. Unions and the No Kings Protests
  70. Tin soldiers
  71. Stellan Skarsgard
  72. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,997
  73. World Series etc. open thread
  74. LGM Film Club, Part 509: Norwegian Forestry, 1920s
  75. Rolling Coal
  76. A new kind of politics
  77. Peace president sending aircraft carrier to Latin America
  78. Why personalized government doesn’t work
  79. Murder is murder and lies are lies
  80. AI Nuclear Weapons
  81. What are we even doing here?
  82. On Evals
  83. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,996
  84. A declaration
  85. LGM Film Club, Part 508: 60 Minutes on Chiang Kai-Shek, 1971
  86. Murder Inc.
  87. Morally Wrong
  88. Hunter Biden laptop update
  89. Chess thread
  90. How much do you think this pardon cost?
  91. Scandal!
  92. Even Richard Nixon
  93. Ask a Naval Professional!
  94. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,995
  95. You can’t spell “tacky ballroom” without “money laundering.”
  96. And when to run
  97. LGM Film Club, Part 507: Thailand, 1953
  98. What life in the post-Voting Rights Act world will be like
  99. Tear down the Trump Taj Mahal wing of the White House
  100. Trump demolishes entire East Wing of the White House to put up his vanity project
  101. Ecuadorian prosecutors have no evidence to detain target of summary execution
  102. Glamour profession
  103. Reagan on Tariffs
  104. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,994
  105. Know when to fold ’em
  106. On Trump running for a third term
  107. The astonishing return of the advice and consent power
  108. “Off the Record”
  109. Trump announces plan to steal $230 million from US taxpayers
  110. 1/6 rioter pardoned by Trump arrested for threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries
  111. Dead set on destruction
  112. Texas Farming
  113. And it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy
  114. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,993
  115. And the Grady Little Award for world-historic pitching blunders goes to…
  116. ALCS Game 7 Open Thread
  117. Trumpified 9CA panel stays injunction against Trump’s use of troops in Portland
  118. When Our Techlords Screw Up
  119. Elon’s takeover of Twitter was a huge success
  120. Dementia and the baby boomers
  121. Making Recruiting Ends Meet
  122. The TikTok disaster and Democratic elite blindness
  123. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,992
  124. Restraint!
  125. The Maestro says it’s Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum
  126. No Kings!
  127. NFL Open Thread: the MAGA style in American sports
  128. The kids are alright
  129. The American NKVD
  130. The Party of the Working Class
  131. Hey Ezra Klein, here’s Charlie Kirk doing politics “the right way”
  132. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,991
  133. Trump accurately sums up his presidenting
  134. All you protest kids
  135. Music Notes
  136. Sweethearts together
  137. Week 39 – No Kings!
  138. College Football Week 8 Thread
  139. Ohtani
  140. The non-interventionist mindset
  141. President commutes sentence of career criminal as a reward for voting Republican
  142. Is Trump’s attempted shakedown of universities about restoring legislative supremacy? Views differ
  143. The Theiling of the Techbro Mind
  144. Wealth and precarity
  145. Trump administration doing great, says Trump administration
  146. Top military personnel “retiring” all over the place
  147. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,990
  148. SOUTHCOM Commander Steps Down
  149. Bolton indicted
  150. Dozens of Kavanaugh stops
  151. Barn door secured 11 months after cow reaches Washington, D.C.
  152. Social dissatisfaction and right wing revanchism
  153. One piece of the puzzle
  154. What happens when the president gives illegal orders to the military?
  155. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,989
  156. Trump signs memo claiming power to do things he has no constitutional authority to do
  157. JD Vance thinks participating in Nazi group chats is no big deal, for reasons that surely have no component of self-interest
  158. When open murder becomes official government policy
  159. John Roberts to fulfill lifelong dream of fully nullifying the Voting Rights Act
  160. Oh Yeah, Climate Change
  161. Union Guidelines on AI
  162. Cryptotastic!
  163. Trump administration murders six more people on a fishing boat
  164. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,988
  165. D’Angelo
  166. Great Moments in AI
  167. You still do not have to hand it to Donald Trump
  168. Miller’s army are on their way
  169. The best and worst thing in the world
  170. This Day in Labor History: October 14, 1948
  171. Refusing to violate the Hatch Act
  172. The function of criticism at the present time
  173. Law office “history” and John Roberts’s will to power
  174. The Republican war on the lives of their constituents
  175. LGM Podcast: Trump vs. Portlandia
  176. Who was president on January 6, 2021? Views differ
  177. Scenes from the classroom struggle
  178. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,987
  179. Anti-anti-Trump failson walks into the online abattoir
  180. Damaged men and broken government
  181. NFL Open Thread: A generation of generational prospects edition
  182. A catastrophic legal, political, and institutional failure
  183. I Want Boats that Turn into Robots!
  184. This Day in Labor History: October 12, 1962
  185. Trump take retirement
  186. Music Notes
  187. Diane Keaton, RIP
  188. Are the editors of the New York Times engaged in a violent coup against the government of New York? It depends on the narrator
  189. Keaton
  190. Week 38
  191. College Football Week 7 Thread
  192. The Army’s Recruiting Solutions
  193. They expect you to die
  194. The shadow docket and the judicial legitimacy crisis
  195. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,986
  196. Game 5 etc. open thread
  197. Roberts Court to open the vote suppression floodgates
  198. A Guy Walks Into A Reactor Shop With 34 Tons of Plutonium…
  199. Major victory over the NIMBY/MAGA coalition
  200. The Qatar Thing
  201. The Deal?
  202. The little boy who never grew up
  203. We’re just saying things now
  204. This Day in Labor History: October 10, 1842
  205. Scary monsters, super creeps
  206. MAGA profit-taking
  207. Malicious revenge prosecution du jour
  208. The information security, youth, mental acuity, and anti-lawfare administration
  209. A Time For Writing
  210. The first cut is the deepest
  211. They Hate You Because They Know You Know They Are Losers
  212. Foreign Policy in the Bluegrass
  213. The return of the grand jury
  214. Peace deal in Gaza?
  215. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,985
  216. Happy Yankee Elimination Day!
  217. Belichick in MAGAland
  218. Roberts Court to invent inalienable right to impose disabilities on LGBTQ people
  219. Hey Chuck!
  220. Kavanaugh searches and seizures
  221. Erik Visits an Non-American Grave, Part 1,984
  222. How to play dumb
  223. John Roberts, maximalist
  224. Trump to attempt to deny furloughed workers back pay in violation of law he signed
  225. The Miller presidency’s goal is to make fair elections in 2026 and 2028 impossible
  226. From Cronkite to Cringe
  227. An Alternate History
  228. Spreading Twitter/X To Europe
  229. Sundowning demented elderly man continues to confuse five-year-old deceptively edited clips on Fox News for the nightly news
  230. And Now Everything is Worse
  231. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,983
  232. The Supreme Court’s next MAGA fan fiction
  233. Now This is How You Summarize a Moment in History
  234. What are super rich men who pretend, perhaps even to themselves, to be good at things doing, and why?
  235. Stochastic terrorism
  236. And I Bet He Was Drinking Vodka…
  237. The Sewer and the Clear Blue Sky
  238. Judge Immergut issues another TRO in light of Trump’s administration’s attempted nullifiction
  239. Bush v. Gore 25 years later and Trump’s trashing of the DOJ
  240. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,982
  241. Eliminationist rhetoric de jour
  242. A Historian of War: LGM Poetry Corner
  243. The Oregon Operation
  244. NFL Open Thread: the Sanchize and a knife edition
  245. Notes for next time
  246. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,981
  247. Is Our Constitution Learning?
  248. The information security administration
  249. Week 37
  250. “Authoritarian Capacity” and the Trump Regime
  251. Week 6 College Football Thread
  252. Play stupid games, don’t win stupid prizes
  253. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,980
  254. First Circuit insists on its novel claim that the 2024 election did not dissolve the United States Constitution
  255. War-ravaged Portland to be liberated by US troops
  256. RFK Jr. fires whistleblower for being insufficiently supportive of viral infections
  257. When the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments are replaced with Kavanaugh stops
  258. The Republican Shutdown
  259. The critique of pure idiocy
  260. The media’s Project 2025 bailout
  261. The State of the Republic is Grim
  262. Manchester terror
  263. The most profitable non-cancellation ever
  264. Jane Fonda And Others Revive The Committee For The First Amendment
  265. Russ is a bad seed. What am I supposed to do, shoot him?
  266. Fascism in theory and practice
  267. Restraint!
  268. Anthony Kennedy to announce search for the real partisans
  269. And what is the interest for the Tataglia family?
  270. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,979
  271. Hydroxychloroquine and medbeds
  272. Resentiment
  273. Today’s garbage people: Indiana attorney general Todd Rokita, and Trump Youth Gruppenleiter Charlie Mandizara
  274. Unitary executive theory (unless it will unduly affect our stock portfolios)
  275. How Government Shutdowns Work, Part The Millionth
  276. Murc’s law, government shutdown edition
  277. September Reading List
  278. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,978
  279. Out of Thune
  280. “I’d Trade All Four Limbs for a Parade in New Orleans”—A Review of Jeff Tweedy’s ‘Twilight Override.’ Also, I have a New Podcast.

September 2025

  1. This looks like men with nothing to hide
  2. The censorious right never went away
  3. The spitting image
  4. Rallying The Troops
  5. Return of the Battleship!
  6. Trump show amps up the cringe comedy
  7. The end(s) of books
  8. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,977
  9. JD Vance: it is illegitimate for Democrats to ask for things in exchange for their votes
  10. Washington Post promises to publish a broad array of reactionary propaganda
  11. Frau Goebbels takes her kids to the public library
  12. Kavanaugh stops
  13. Leo Gerard, RIP
  14. Scumbag Don Finally Solves the Greatest Problem Facing the United States
  15. The Roberts Court: Repealing Reconstruction
  16. LGM Podcast: Twilight of the Battleship
  17. The Dream of the Techbro Fascist
  18. Yesterday’s right wing terrorist attacks
  19. Good news from Moldova
  20. Erik Visits a (Non-)American Grave, Part 1,976
  21. Why Republicans claim they were radicalized
  22. Ain’t that America
  23. Adams is Done
  24. NFL Open Thread: Astros Elimination Day Edition
  25. Prepping for a Court Mandated End of Equality
  26. The End of Self-Checkout
  27. The Economic Populism of Scumbag Don
  28. The Jump to Conclusions
  29. Racism: The Official Policy of the FBI
  30. “Project 2025 has its eyes on a prize and it won’t involve celebrating any of Erik Loomis’ invaluable unsung heroes.”
  31. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,975
  32. Election of the Week IV: Autonomous Region of Aosta Valley
  33. Music Notes
  34. Election of the Weekend III: Moldova
  35. Election of the Weekend II: Seychelles
  36. Scumbag Don Wants to Kill Portlanders
  37. Last Dance of the Fishbed
  38. The war on Tylenol is applied misogyny
  39. Week 5 College Football Thread
  40. Week 36
  41. The Quarter-Assed Comey Prosecution
  42. 2025: A Blog Odyssey
  43. Unionbusting and the War on History
  44. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,974
  45. Sinclair and Nexstar back down
  46. The Idiocracy
  47. Republicans on Supreme Court continue their Article I nullification campaign
  48. Republicans threaten to do what they’ve already done if Democrats refuse to vote for terrible bill
  49. Rubber glue fascism
  50. Netanyahu’s UN speech
  51. Stephen Miller’s fascist vision and America’s feckless elites
  52. Make this now: and all year ’round
  53. Whiskey Apocalypse
  54. Tankin’ Tesla
  55. Maybe They’re Meeting to Discuss the National Security Implications of Bathroom Vanities
  56. James Comey indicted
  57. Election of the weekend I: Gabon
  58. “We have to figure out a way to capture these kids”
  59. Cowardice and chickenshit
  60. Administration that is starving children all over the world for trivial savings to bail out Trump’s inept friend
  61. The Hilarious Comedy Stylings of the Trump Administration
  62. Fox News chat show host is assembling the entire upper echelon of the United States Armed Forces officer class in one room for undisclosed reasons
  63. The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand
  64. Internet brain rot and irony poisoning
  65. Bobby Kennedy to “do his own research” on medication abortions
  66. The Turn…
  67. Comey and James about to be indicted?
  68. Trumpflation
  69. Trump vs. the First Amendment
  70. Apparent terrorist attack at ICE facility in Dallas
  71. World’s lamest insult comic appears at UN
  72. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,973
  73. Claudia Cardinale, RIP
  74. We Are Not the Same
  75. Stop sanewashing Trump/RFK Jr. challenge challenge [absolutely impossible]
  76. When it is OK to wish some people were dead, and who are those people exactly?
  77. ABS 2026
  78. Ball seven
  79. What a cozy little club
  80. Trump’s address to the UN
  81. Living underwater
  82. Law school and the class divide
  83. Felbo the Emelbadonk
  84. Erik Visits an American (Abroad) Grave, Part 1,972
  85. Trump v. U.S. as sword as well as shield
  86. H-1B and the Universities
  87. The county won’t give me no more methadone
  88. Go Away Bad Democrats
  89. ABC restores Kimmel
  90. Why Would Liberals Watch the Charlie Kirk Reichstag Fire Event?
  91. SCOTUS rules Article I doesn’t apply to Donald Trump
  92. RFK Jr.’s promise to discover what causes autism within six months is fulfilled
  93. Mileinomics
  94. LGM Podcast: Analog Superpowers
  95. I’m pretty sure the central message of Buddhism is not “Rock and Roll all night, and party every day”
  96. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,971
  97. What actual lawfare looks like
  98. Charlie Kirk Service Open Thread
  99. NFL Open Thread
  100. Questions on those Caribbean Strikes
  101. Look at the Lies We’ve Swallowed…
  102. Erik Visits an Non-American Grave, Part 1,970
  103. Tom Homan accepted literal bag of cash in bribery sting operation
  104. Music Notes
  105. Sean O’Brien is a Class Traitor
  106. Will the Destruction of Everything In My Life Thanks to Donald Trump Make Me Question My Faith in Donald Trump as My Personal Lord and Savior?
  107. Trump’s war on the war on poverty
  108. Conspiratorial Thinking and Cope
  109. Week 35
  110. Week 4 College Football Thread
  111. H-1B visas will now cost $100K per year, although bribes will be accepted
  112. The Nuclear Taboo
  113. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,969
  114. I Never Do This
  115. RFK Jr.’s ad hoc death panel shoots more bricks
  116. Rewarding his people
  117. Trump is not popular, and Trump’s agenda is less popular than Trump
  118. Updates on the law in its majestic equality
  119. The Race Begins to Take Shape
  120. The Failure of 21st Century Liberalism
  121. What are we doing here?
  122. This Day in Labor History: September 19, 1935
  123. Welsh Resigns
  124. RFK Jr.: not enough kids are dying of preventable diseases
  125. In politics, obedience and support are the same
  126. Conservatives can say what they want, and everyone else can say what conservatives want
  127. Shamelessness, hypocrisy, cruelty, stupidity: not just the MAGA position on free speech
  128. Ilya Shapiro everybody
  129. Doing Something About It: An Opportunity for Readers in Southern New England
  130. On Cancel Culture and Heads and Spikes
  131. Remember when JD Vance went to Europe and lectured all those Frankfurter School people about free speech?
  132. Disney’s collaboration with the Trump censorship regime
  133. It’s just sparkling authoritarianism
  134. Empirical evidence confirms non-existence of Santa Claus
  135. I could tell by his bloodstained hands
  136. We have always been at war with South Korea
  137. The Transgender War
  138. Laura Rosenbury, free speech warrior
  139. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,968
  140. Move it on over little Mick, ’cause the Big Dumper’s movin’ in
  141. The way we live now
  142. Corruption on an unprecedented scale
  143. Trump administration bombs another Venezuelan boat without legal authority
  144. Instant Destruction
  145. The Intellectual Dishonesty of Every Libertarian
  146. Robert Redford
  147. Comparative Authoritarianism
  148. Redford
  149. Politics as vacation
  150. Robert Redford, RIP
  151. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,967
  152. Election of the Day: Malawi
  153. Peter Thiel’s fake-Appalachian messenger boy delivers chilling lies to justify state repression
  154. The Second Jim Crow’s History Lessons
  155. Facts
  156. Authoritarianism as negative-sum game
  157. It Was the Black Guy
  158. LGM Podcast: After the Spike
  159. Life in a Consolidating Authoritarian Regime
  160. Sometimes in Life, You Can Get What You Want
  161. Democracy dies in darkness was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement
  162. Texas tenured professor fired for “inciting violence”
  163. Erik Visits an Non-American Grave, Part 1,966
  164. They will back down
  165. Gutting the Government
  166. NFL Open Thread: Come on Feel the Illinoise edition
  167. The Meaning of Charlie Kirk
  168. TikTok is worth a mass
  169. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,965
  170. Election of the day: Macau
  171. Trump’s tariffs won’t revive the rust belt
  172. Music Notes
  173. California NIMBYs handed historic L
  174. Week 34
  175. Profiles in Academic Courage II
  176. Week 3 Football Thread
  177. Convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza thinks college radicalized Tyler Robinson
  178. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,964
  179. And give up my reservation?
  180. The pretextual case against Cook collapses
  181. Don’t print dangerous speculation in the newspaper
  182. 19th Century Schizoid Man
  183. Internet brain rot
  184. Apparent shooter confesses to crime apparently
  185. Washed in the blood of the lamb
  186. This Day in Labor History: September 12, 1934
  187. Heckuva job, Kashie
  188. The Most Worthless Commenter in Liberal Land
  189. Trump’s plan to massively increase your grocery bill is working
  190. Life in a non-banana republic
  191. Just lie about everything all the time
  192. The boat had turned around
  193. A man who tells the truth is chased out of 12 villages
  194. Another Kind of Response
  195. After All the Good is Gone
  196. In memoriam
  197. Nvm
  198. America unhinged
  199. Kamala unfettered
  200. On Globalization, Gentrification, and Food
  201. Fill in the blank
  202. Trump Threatens to Sue Times for Epstein Signature
  203. Hosea 8:7
  204. Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah
  205. Profiles in Academic Courage
  206. Do Democrats Have a Shutdown Strategy?
  207. “Reporting” toward the Bezos
  208. There will be blood
  209. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,963
  210. Putin sends drones into Poland
  211. Burn 2
  212. The Working Class Party
  213. More from Donald Trump’s privy council
  214. NYCBOE does the right thing
  215. A Sweet Story of Late Life Love
  216. Our president made a law that there are only two genders, so it’s illegal to teach a class that disagrees with that
  217. The Quisling Court
  218. Ky 6
  219. People In The Book
  220. A no vote on the early primary idea
  221. The Next Logical Step?
  222. They all knew, they didn’t care
  223. Thank you for your attention to this matter
  224. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,962
  225. Sic transit gloria mundi
  226. Why Is This Lethal Strike Not Like the Others?
  227. When you can afford to be made to look ridiculous
  228. Another Budget Crisis
  229. Icymi
  230. The Fourth Amendment will bend and break in those uncomplicated shadows
  231. System Updates
  232. People most responsible for destruction of American public health lament destruction of American public health
  233. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,961
  234. Election of the Day: Norway
  235. When The Center No Longer Holds
  236. NFL Open Thread: And when you lose control, you reap the harvest you have sown
  237. Failed strategies should be abandoned
  238. Alternatives to ordinary politics
  239. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,960
  240. More about the Planes that Go on Boats
  241. Week 33
  242. College Football Week 2 Thread
  243. The Great Unravelling: American Decline and the Crisis of Liberal Order
  244. Ken Dryden
  245. Trump administration trying to destroy two satellites gathering critical climate change data
  246. Joseph McNeil, RIP
  247. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,959
  248. NYT liveblog: the cast of My American Cousin gave strong performances
  249. SEALs In North Korea
  250. More on Labor’s Ineptitude in the Face of Trump
  251. Senate Democrats should not provide a political bailout to Republicans
  252. Trump take jobs
  253. Justice of a sort
  254. North Korea Raid
  255. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,958
  256. NFL Opening Night Open Thread
  257. No method
  258. Why are there so many more terrible than great MLB teams?
  259. The Goddess of Grift
  260. The bottomless corruption is the point
  261. Is this the real life?
  262. J.D. Vance: our legal authority is deez nuts
  263. LGM Podcast: 2025 NFC Preview
  264. This Day in Labor History: September 4, 1907
  265. If We Were Vampires
  266. District court judge identifies flagrant illegality of Trump administration’s shakedown of Harvard
  267. Election of the Day: Autonomous Region of Bougainville
  268. Eleven Killed In US Strike On Boat
  269. The bottomless pit of corruption is the point
  270. Will the rabies vaccine make Snoopy autistic?
  271. America’s worst governor: make polio great again
  272. Silver Threads and Golden Needles
  273. Fear, ignorance, and stupidity
  274. The States Must Take the Lead
  275. Election of the Day #2: Jamaica
  276. Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 1,957
  277. Election of the Day #1: St Helena
  278. The Peace President takes the war on drugs literally
  279. Collaborators in usurpation
  280. Common Ground
  281. Be loud for America
  282. The Ways of Unionbusters
  283. I am beginning to think that Trump’s war on higher education is not about fighting anti-semitism
  284. Second Reconstruction Update
  285. Puttin’ People on the Moon
  286. LGM Podcast: 2025 AFC Preview
  287. He Is Risen
  288. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,956
  289. Knowing when to quit
  290. Donald Trump: America’s Greatest Unionbuster
  291. The Atlantic Monthly sanewashes HHS director about to issue a fraudulent report to justify ending childhood vaccinations
  292. The sudden disappearance of presidential age and fitness as an issue
  293. Sanity is not statistical
  294. 30 years of Internet
  295. August Reading List
  296. Organized Labor’s Failure to Meet the Moment
  297. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,955
  298. “Tragic mishap” follow-up

August 2025

  1. Trump engages in negative-sum warfare because leader won’t share in his fantasy world
  2. Trump’s high tech ethnic cleansing program for Gaza
  3. Election of the day: Guyana
  4. Why I Block
  5. You Can’t Walk Your Way Out of Disability
  6. The Concierge Culture
  7. Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 1,954
  8. The Guys with the Phones
  9. Music Notes
  10. Letting America Burn to Fulfill Ethnic Cleansing Goals
  11. Trump take electricity
  12. Jim Crow State Remains Committed to Jim Crow
  13. Week 32
  14. We’re gonna take you up to McNairy County, Tennessee/Back in the days when Sheriff Buford Pusser ran things around there
  15. College Football Week 1 Thread
  16. Thanks to John Roberts & Co., it’s quite literally the case that JD Vance has the legal power to make himself president, and nobody could do anything about it
  17. What happens if Trump is too addled to president even putatively?
  18. Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 1,953
  19. Grandpa needs a long weekend nap
  20. Federal Circuit en banc holds that Trump’s tariffs are not authorized by Congress
  21. Trump raise prices
  22. A blue state public health alliance
  23. Joni Ernst involuntarily euthanizes 2026 re-election campaign
  24. Some Teamsters Are Doing Brave Work
  25. The Autobiography of Donald Trump
  26. Prominent right wing influencer’s wife is dying faster because of policies he voted for: Blames “the left”
  27. The Media’s Worthlessness
  28. Who Joins ICE?
  29. Witless Witkoff
  30. CDC staff walks out in protest of Trump administration’s opposition to controlling disease
  31. The fall of the house of Jerrah
  32. OK what’s the story here?
  33. How about some more stories about how this lunatic does have some good ideas if you ignore all the cray cray conspiracy mongering?
  34. Neil Gorsuch gives away the game
  35. Election of the day: Samoa
  36. Gaming Notes
  37. Leveraging the Machinery of Government
  38. The law school tuition collapse
  39. Getting (throwing) a sandwich indicted
  40. Breaking The CDC
  41. Trump’s Little Green Men
  42. Some good questions from JV Last
  43. If you’re a NIMBY, you ride with MAGA
  44. Regal, not Republican
  45. Gunman shoots many 6 to 9 year old children at Catholic school mass
  46. Women and voting
  47. Dems break Republican supermajority in Iowa
  48. Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 1,952
  49. The death of dignity
  50. A democracy, if you can bother
  51. What happens next
  52. The cultural contradictions of fascism
  53. Ukraine’s Energy Strategy
  54. Working With People We Disagree With on Core Issues
  55. Giving Workers a Reason to Vote for Democrats
  56. Is Democracy Dead in the United States?
  57. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,951
  58. Trump attempting to illegally fire Federal Reserve governor
  59. The Trump Terrorist Regime in One Case
  60. “If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me”
  61. You can criticize bad things because they are bad
  62. The “Tragic Mishap” of Genocide
  63. Chris Armitage?
  64. Trump orders federal funds to be cut off from Illinois because it has cashless bail
  65. Trump’s War on Federal Workers Continues
  66. The CCP in Manhattan
  67. Creating a Generation of Illiterates
  68. Negotiations in the Hobbesian sense
  69. The crisis of the American legal system
  70. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,950
  71. Trumpian Political Development
  72. Game recognize game
  73. Elite media cannot stop handing it to RFK Jr.
  74. Distracted From Distraction By Distraction
  75. The End of Drinking
  76. The Decline of Reading
  77. How the Labor Movement Can Save Itself
  78. From Colony to Superpower
  79. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,949
  80. The Cannon canons
  81. If Democrats are going to win they need to stop saying things Republicans say they say
  82. Week 31
  83. College Football Week 0 Open Thread
  84. One story
  85. Fighter Funday!
  86. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,948
  87. Department of government efficiency
  88. In the Trump administration, telling the truth is a fireable offense
  89. The shadow docket knows (that Trump must win)
  90. Fox News Grandpa very flattered by thoughtful gift from dictator
  91. Trumpism and Farmworkers
  92. Second Reconstruction
  93. The running of the rubes
  94. Women in Hegseth’s Military
  95. Kash Patel orders FBI to raid home of president’s political enemy
  96. Return of the Big ‘Uns
  97. Bezos Post: legislators arrogating themselves power contrary to the will of the voters is not a threat to democracy
  98. Performing fascism
  99. James Dobson, Burn in Hell
  100. Biggest financial corruption scandal in presidential history does not generate much news coverage
  101. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,947
  102. One More Warning Sound
  103. The potato chip bandit
  104. I am beginning to think that RFK Jr. is not, in fact, trying to make America healthy again
  105. I Like My Art Like I Like My Men: Cheap and Easy
  106. NLRB Will Likely Be Ruled Unconstitutional in 2026
  107. How bad was slavery, or, was slavery bad?
  108. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,946
  109. Woo-woo kills
  110. LGM Film Club, Part 506: Clinton’s Sister Souljah Moment
  111. Check Your Shrimp
  112. The million dollar law degree (not that one)
  113. Suburbanite convinced path to winning New York City is the support of Donald Trump
  114. Great moments in gerontocracy
  115. Vance take local economy
  116. The Roots of the Hack Gap
  117. What are Maine Democrats Doing?
  118. Air Canada Strike
  119. The Summits
  120. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,945
  121. Putin’s sock puppet issues unconstitutional order to change state voting laws
  122. RFK Jr. and the Vaccine Court
  123. Through a horseshoe, darkly
  124. The State of Things
  125. The Hamas Red Herring
  126. Donald Trump: Unionbuster
  127. Diversity statements for wingnuts
  128. Trump: Ukraine can end war by surrendering
  129. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,944
  130. Music Notes
  131. Mock Them!
  132. Crime has nothing to do with it
  133. “Tell Em I’m Fucking Coming!!!!!”
  134. Art of the Moment
  135. Oceans Are Now Battlefields?
  136. Trump take take-home pay
  137. Law School For Rich Kids
  138. Erik Visits an Non-American Grave, Part 1,943
  139. You think they’re so dumb, you think they’re so funny, wait until they’ve got you running
  140. An ongoing state of exception
  141. Love is always scarpering or cowering or fawning, you eat three big Macs and hate yourself in the morning
  142. Week 30
  143. The Craven College Administrators
  144. Elon Musk, Marketing Genius
  145. Mail-in voting makes honest elections impossible, as proved by Donald Trump’s landslide 2020 victory being stolen from him by mail-in voter fraud
  146. This Day in Labor History: August 16, 2012
  147. Professional election-loser gives advice on how to lose elections
  148. The Revival of Chili’s
  149. The Putin-Trump Presser
  150. Why Have the Teamsters Gone Far Right?
  151. Who’s a good boy?
  152. Obama and Mamdani
  153. Parental Consent and the Internet
  154. Getting it
  155. Good News?
  156. Trump calls Norwegian finance minister to demand Nobel Peace Prize
  157. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,942
  158. Bulwarks of liberty
  159. Doing many unpopular things makes president less popular
  160. College basketball point shaving scandal
  161. The Alaska Summit
  162. Accountability removal machine
  163. Trump raise prices
  164. The Negotiations
  165. Science or witchcraft?
  166. Arts and/or Sciences?
  167. The lawlessness is the point
  168. I Just Can’t
  169. The Kennedy Center Honors
  170. Laura Loomer deposition
  171. Supreme Court Republicans rush to destroy last vestiges of Voting Rights Act to help party in next midterms
  172. Sherrod!
  173. The End of Federal Unionism
  174. Reactionary frames about public health are no better than reactionary frames about politics
  175. Wilhoit’s law, Dobbs edition
  176. It’s about the Battleships You Don’t Choose
  177. Russia Advancing
  178. “Nothing has been added but sentences”
  179. The CDC attack could have been much worse
  180. Completely unqualified hack named by Trump to head BLS, immediately recommends no more monthly job reports
  181. On the Destruction of VOA
  182. On top of everything else, the cancer ward was Number 13
  183. Organizing America Publication Day!
  184. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,941
  185. If Trump’s popularity does not exist it must be manufactured
  186. The hollow cynics and the true believers
  187. Update on the peace president
  188. Surreal incompetence: the story of Republican economic policy
  189. The India Gambit
  190. The only good bug is a dead bug
  191. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,940
  192. A libertarian’s murder-suicide pact
  193. Breaking: white people allowed to work in Hollywood again
  194. Trumpism and power worship
  195. D.C. Circuit holds that the legislative power is vested in Congress
  196. Adulterous alcoholic wife beater keeps getting forgiven, because Jesus
  197. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,939
  198. Music Notes
  199. Rogan’s army is on their way
  200. Trump’s arrest of the entire House of Representatives raises questions about his commitment to democracy
  201. Complying with the law is a fireable offense in the Trump administration
  202. Week 29
  203. Nixon Victorious
  204. Comrade Lutnick threatens to liquidate the Charles River Kulaks
  205. The sorcerer’s apprentice
  206. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,938
  207. LGM Film Club, Part 505: Ranch Album
  208. Trump fires his own IRS chief after two months
  209. Followup on factors driving declining birth rates
  210. Existential threats
  211. Putin Is Laughing In Donald Trump’s Face
  212. Trump’s affirmative support for insurrection
  213. Fertility rates and smartphones
  214. Restraint!
  215. LoomCoin Endorsement Opportunity
  216. Irish Artists Stand Against Fascism
  217. What Crypto is For
  218. Jim Acosta Should Never Work in Journalism Again
  219. The re-occupation of Gaza
  220. Bart concludes that Sideshow Bob’s Bart-killing policy overwhelms positive aspects of his platform
  221. Trump isn’t for you either
  222. American Unions Not the Only Unions with Bad Leadership
  223. Expending Cybertrucks
  224. Joe Biden age update
  225. Truman Wasn’t The Decider
  226. Trump massively raise prices
  227. Bad history v. fake history
  228. Exciting Times to Buy a Car!
  229. Who is Pushing Trump to Support Andrew Cuomo?
  230. Code Switching?
  231. Manufacturing scandals to detract from actual scandals
  232. One Bomb or Two Bombs
  233. A touch of wokeness, nuclear apocalypse edition
  234. Nuclear Weapons and AI
  235. The Assassination of the Fourth Republic of the United States by the Coward John Roberts
  236. Downfall
  237. Uhhhhh
  238. The Democratic Consultant Industrial Complex
  239. King of the Hill
  240. Will Trump run again in 2028 and will the SCOTUS sign off on this?
  241. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,937
  242. The Ballad of Big Balls
  243. Republican Party literally rejects cure for cancer
  244. Every confession is a confession
  245. The eternal vacuity of reactionary centrism
  246. The Fascist Taskforce
  247. Over everything
  248. OK time for some good news
  249. Goodbye America
  250. On the Nose!
  251. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,936
  252. Little Marco to tourists: drop dead
  253. What if the US government were in the hands of a bunch of dull-normal eight-year-old boys?
  254. CEO receives $24 billion dollar gift to incentivize him doing the job of Chief Executive Officer going forward
  255. He wants eleven dollar bills, you’ve only got ten
  256. Total war on higher ed
  257. Trump Take House of Representatives
  258. On the Limits of Airpower
  259. Is there an elite university administator who understands how a shakedown works?
  260. Collaboration and resistance
  261. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,935
  262. Obvious lie turns out to be obvious lie
  263. A Quick Thought On Something That Could Happen In The Future
  264. An upgrade you can use
  265. Opposition to gerrymandering requires retaliatory Democratic gerrymanders
  266. Toward a heremeneutics of breakfast
  267. Taking the Temperature of the Bluegrass
  268. This Day in Labor History: August 3, 1931
  269. This joke isn’t funny anymore
  270. Trump inflate prices
  271. Murder is the sport of the elected, and you don’t need to lift a finger of your hand
  272. Week 28
  273. Last Remnants of an Imperial Machine
  274. The customer is always wrong
  275. Erik Visits an Non-American Grave, Part 1,934
  276. Banana Republicans
  277. John Roberts signals intention to finish the job
  278. Cool Public History Projects Can Still Happen
  279. We Can Play Too
  280. Trump thinks that his supporters are idiots
  281. Friday on my mind
  282. Trump take jobs
  283. Flaco Jimenez, RIP
  284. Trump openly selling pardons; nothing to be done, says Chief Justice Balls & Strikes
  285. The End of the World’s Saddest Aircraft Carrier?
  286. Total Depravity
  287. July Reading List
  288. Will Lewis does not cast off talent lightly. He heaves it away with great force

July 2025

  1. Trump’s tariffs are not authorized by Congress
  2. Censoring Our History
  3. Homelessness, drugs, mental illness, and social policy, or the lack thereof
  4. This Is What Trump Plans To Do To The White House
  5. Pete about to Get a Promotion?
  6. Brown’s total surrender
  7. The Fantasies Of A Man Who Can Bring Down The World Economy
  8. The Loomer administration
  9. The Pierogi Vendors on Martha’s Vineyard Are the Real Fascists
  10. LGM Podcast: The Past and Future of Tesla
  11. Not the Worst Thing to Come Out of South Carolina
  12. Trump’s 14th Amendment nullification plan
  13. Trump crush domestic automobile production
  14. Today on the Intellectual Right
  15. Fox News Grandpa calls for prosecution of Beyonce for imaginary crimes
  16. Trump take groceries
  17. The limits of growth without density
  18. A World of Lies
  19. Through the looking glass
  20. Lawyer who urged administration to ignore court orders given lifetime appointment to federal judiciary
  21. LGM Film Club, Part 504: Miami Vice
  22. Why do people not like policies that have never been popular?
  23. Luke Farritor, DOGE Boy
  24. Trump’s latest explanation for his falling out with Epstein is the most incriminating
  25. Enironmental Protection Agency getting out of the practice of environmental protection
  26. The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
  27. Standing Up to the Boss
  28. Trump’s Cuts–Now It’s Personal
  29. Barstool Sports and the Current MAGA Moment
  30. More on the Literal Whitewashing of Our History
  31. A note on the economic sociology of law faculties
  32. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,933
  33. Ryno
  34. The Ivy League shakedowns
  35. Understanding The Crazy
  36. Melt Down!
  37. A strategic, diplomatic and humanitarian failure
  38. Run, Doug, Run
  39. Private ethics and public capitalism
  40. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,932
  41. Anti-deliverism
  42. Ichiro!
  43. The ripple effects
  44. Tom Lehrer, 1928 – 2025
  45. How Low Could We Go?
  46. Starvation in Gaza
  47. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,931
  48. Uvalde, Minnesota
  49. Music Notes
  50. What kind of deal is the Trump administration trying to make with Ghislaine Maxwell?
  51. “Bad hombres”
  52. Week 27
  53. General Matter
  54. Trump’s horrible bill also creates an extra $250 charge just to visit the US at all
  55. Walking Away
  56. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,930
  57. Nice game
  58. Seditionist considered too racist to serve in the first Trump administration to head Institute of Peace
  59. Some people can’t be told, you know, they have to learn the hard way
  60. Decarceration
  61. Decadence
  62. The Epstein flailings
  63. The “jurisprudence” of bad faith
  64. Technically, it’s ephebo . . . actually, fascism
  65. The State of the World?
  66. Done Dirt Cheap
  67. Further corroboration for Donald Trump’s loving tribute to Jeffrey Epstein
  68. Creeping fascism
  69. Our Useless Democrats
  70. Laundering white nationalists
  71. The Columbia Capitulation
  72. The Stone Has Rolled Away…
  73. Hulk Hogan
  74. Swastikars continue sales decline
  75. The ultimate October surprise (ET crash market)
  76. Ukraine Update
  77. I would indict a ham sandwich, but I won’t indict that
  78. Shakedown street
  79. “Layering nothing on nothing”: how the Roberts Court has arrogated legislative power to the executive without legal reasoning
  80. Wall Street Journal: Bondi told Trump he was in the Epstein Files
  81. It’s A QAnon Problem
  82. University reappoints dean who violated civil rights of senior faculty member despite overwhelming vote of no confidence from faculty and students
  83. Profitably like a martyr
  84. Living with a delusional cult
  85. No New Navy Fighter…
  86. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,929
  87. Whitewashing American History
  88. Republicans shut down the House to protect Trump from the Epstein Files
  89. Trump demands Kennedy Center Opera House be named after his current wife, or lose all federal funding
  90. One heckuva job
  91. Ozzy
  92. This is excellent news for John McCain
  93. Art For Everybody
  94. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,928
  95. The free speech administration
  96. Tulsi dumps COINTELPRO files on MLK
  97. Some that you recognize, some that you’ve hardly even heard of
  98. Malcolm-Jamal Warner RIP
  99. The erstwhile symbol of “respectable conservatism” showed how Republican elites would capitulate to Trump
  100. Trump posts AI video of Obama being arrested in Oval Office in front of Trump
  101. Scottie’s Run of Success
  102. The varieties of stupid experience
  103. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,927
  104. LGM Film Club, Part 503: Romantic Argentina
  105. Fox News Grandpa forwards another racist nostalgia email chain
  106. Pig Butchering
  107. A vanished world and the question of democracy
  108. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
  109. 6 Months
  110. What are we even doing here?
  111. This Day in Labor History: July 20, 1885
  112. Pervos in arms
  113. Music Notes
  114. 4-term United States Senator feigns disappointment with results of deal to purchase oceanfront property in North Dakota
  115. The Wars of October 7 Are Not Over
  116. Week 26
  117. Trump’s suit against Bob Woodward thrown out
  118. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,926
  119. CEO suspended for attending Coldplay concert
  120. The traditional Russian values experience
  121. If the story was an exclusive, why did you make it available for people to read?
  122. Why Trump will checkmate the Court when he fires Powell
  123. Circumstantial evidence is actually evidence
  124. Censoring toward the Donald
  125. Superman
  126. Correct Diagnosis of Higher Ed Problems
  127. What you got is nothing new. You can’t stop what’s coming. That’s called vanity.
  128. The Thom Tillis Bravery Chronicles
  129. The murder of the slaying of the homicide of parody
  130. LGM Film Club, Part 502: Siskel & Ebert Review Spinal Tap
  131. The Late Late Show
  132. Trump threatens to sue WSJ after paper reveals pervy letter he wrote to Jeffrey Epstein
  133. Physician, Heal Thyself
  134. I guess they didn’t teach “make sure that your anecdotal evidence is at least consistent with your anecdote” at Columbia
  135. Trump and Rubio decimate the human trafficking police
  136. ICE and American Citizens
  137. Looking back on the golden age of skyjacking
  138. Did the Teamsters Hire a Charlottesville White Nationalist?
  139. Democrats: Bringing a Spork to a Nuclear War Fight
  140. A man who definitely has nothing to hide
  141. LGM Film Club: Part 501: Special Report on Commonwealth Immigration into Britain
  142. The Supreme Court has been captured by a dangerous cabal that resorts to sneaky and improper methods to get its ways
  143. Reporters finally figure out that Bernie Madoff isn’t on the level
  144. Going meta on the discourse
  145. Review: The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
  146. Trump apparently about to fire Jerome Powell
  147. Trump urges Texas Republicans to make House elections even less democratic to mitigate his enormously unpopular agenda
  148. The Last Playboy of the Western World
  149. It’s the crime, and the cover-up
  150. Vicksburg
  151. A Court without law
  152. The new Republican populism
  153. Trump raise prices
  154. The Dreyfus affair, the lynching of Leo Frank, and precursors to fascism
  155. Maybe start a rattlesnake ranch. Have some Mormons over to dinner. Eat tomatoes that have no taste
  156. Trump Gets Frustrated
  157. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,925
  158. Grifting All the Way
  159. Big Dumper Wins Derby
  160. Nothing good comes from this
  161. Not Quite a “Mass” Shooting…
  162. Guy don’t walk on the lot unless he wants to buy
  163. Supreme Court uses shadow docket to allow Trump to proceed with the de facto abolition of the Department of Education
  164. DOGE Guts NRC
  165. You have the right to free speech, as long as you’re not dumb enough to actually try it
  166. Podcast: Talking About Excession by Iain M. Banks, on A Meal of Thorns
  167. Bill Ackman gives tournament ten million dollars to prove to the world that he did not bribe tournament to get in
  168. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,924
  169. The heighten-the-contradictions counterfactual
  170. Trump injustice
  171. The Republican Party wants the United States to be much less prepared for weather-related disasters
  172. More on election fraud claims in Pennsylvania
  173. Why is driving so much more deadly in the US than in England & Wales?
  174. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,923
  175. A Split In MAGA
  176. Is this serious but not literal or that other thing?
  177. The fantasy world of libertarian plutocrats
  178. China Marches Forward
  179. Declining Life Expectancy
  180. Week 25
  181. Texas’ Goal of Killing Women Moves Forward
  182. Well I Guess We’re Gonna Just Hope that Climate Change Isn’t Real…
  183. Air India and pilot murder-suicides
  184. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,922
  185. The Beltway Cries Tonight
  186. Kristi Noem personally intervened to stop disaster response that was working too effectively
  187. The Donald Trump Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Grifting
  188. Epstein files remain mysteriously mysterious
  189. Public opinion shifts on immigration again
  190. Trump’s blatantly illegal tariffs
  191. Solar’s Rise
  192. Could the Carpenters Organize Housing Construction Workers?
  193. Industrializing Nature Won’t Work
  194. Gutting State
  195. The corruption of everything
  196. Don’t see any method at all
  197. Making the 14th Amendment law again (for now)
  198. When power is not currently an option, you might as well tell the truth
  199. Expert on voter fraud finds evidence of serious fraud in Pennsylvania presidential election in 2024
  200. Airpower!
  201. The enstupidization continues
  202. First as farce, then as whatever the hell this is
  203. The billionaire’s choice
  204. Let’s Get Porked
  205. Would you like to know more?
  206. This Day in Labor History: July 10, 1989
  207. “Incredible things are happening”
  208. Finally, a third party for people who think Republicans do not offer enough authoritarianism or racism
  209. Evangelical Authoritarianism
  210. Sheldon Whitehouse has some questions
  211. JD Vance’s Neo-Confederate vision of American citizenship
  212. Democrats Must Vote for Democrats
  213. In charge of everything, responsible for nothing
  214. NEA Cuts Ties with ADL
  215. Talking to Fascists
  216. The Great Switcheroo?
  217. Cindy Steinberg and the Dead Internet Theory
  218. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,921
  219. The EMAILS Man
  220. It turns out that Elon Musk’s anti-woke AI is a literal Nazi
  221. So Very Small
  222. Only the shadow docket knows
  223. A Guide to the Madness of King Donald
  224. The Mamdani Puzzle
  225. Elon sells cartoon balloons in town
  226. Una buena vista de Lamine Yamal
  227. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,920
  228. RFK’s mass murder event
  229. You will get tired of all the liberating
  230. The Times rushed to run its silly Mamdani hit job because it was worried about being “scooped” by its de facto assignment editor
  231. JD Vance May Not Be the Only Disturbing Organism Oozing From Ohio
  232. Apes do Read Banks, Elon, they Just Don’t Understand Him
  233. Does Ezra Klein Understand Power?
  234. Maha
  235. Assuming the can opener of free fair elections and a subsequent Democratic victory in 2026 and 2028
  236. What America needs is a moderate political option that hands all political power to a drug-addled foreign plutocrat
  237. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,919
  238. Dying for austerity
  239. New York Stories
  240. Theremin
  241. Dead Set on Destruction
  242. The Implausible is now the Possible
  243. Fighting Socialism with a Socialist
  244. Rare Agreement with Young Republicans
  245. Should America bring back slavery? Views differ
  246. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,918
  247. The NWS apparently did its job
  248. Music Notes
  249. Texas Floods
  250. After the stove is touched
  251. Week 24
  252. Madsen
  253. The case for (some sort of) optimism about the end of Trumpism
  254. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,917
  255. Say goodbye, it’s Independence Day
  256. The Times revises its policy about whether to publish stories based on hacked materials provided by ratfuckers again
  257. Servicing the Fascists
  258. Pivoting to racial slurs
  259. No Hugo Boss uniform for you
  260. Definitely not close to the last
  261. LGM Film Club, Part 500: Scarecrow
  262. Supreme Court allows Trump to proceed with deportations to extremely dangerous third countries
  263. The Vicious Review
  264. There are no Republican moderates: the Ballad of Don Bacon
  265. Trump’s monstrous bill will pass today
  266. The cognitive ability and policy details candidate
  267. Checking in on the “going all-in on alienating your core consumers” strategy
  268. The Defund Red America Act
  269. The Third American Republic
  270. Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down state’s anachronistic abortion law
  271. Close Trump advisor advocates physical genocide of USA’s 65 million Latinos
  272. The Sean Combs verdict
  273. The racism, misogyny, and corruption are also the points
  274. This Is Going to Be Entertaining…
  275. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,916
  276. Paramount pays tribute
  277. The dead-eyed ghoul who consigned 17 million people to a fate without health insurance
  278. 7 out of 10 Americans who could have voted failed to take the most minimal possible step to stop Donald Trump from becoming president
  279. The Decline of the Federal Mediation Service
  280. This Guy
  281. Let Them Eat Brownshirts: the New Republican “Populism”
  282. How to Teach College in the Age of ChatGPT
  283. Will Democrats Be Able to Rally Against the Spending Bill?
  284. Grotesque legislative avatar of Trumpism passes Senate
  285. Swaggart
  286. And Now for Something Completely Different
  287. America the terrible
  288. June Reading List
  289. This Day in Labor History: July 1, 1847
  290. California Dems finally beat back the NIMBYS
  291. LGM Film Club, Part 499: The Beaning

June 2025

  1. That train’s never late
  2. $250 million worth of buyer’s remorse
  3. Senate voting on the biggest cut to social programs and largest upward redistribution of wealth in modern history
  4. Two nations divisible?
  5. The Post-Racial Society
  6. The New Gilded Age, Indeed
  7. Pat Williams, RIP
  8. LGM Podcast: In the Wake of the Iran Strikes
  9. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,915
  10. Khaos in Coeur D’Alene
  11. The Republican Billionaire’s bill is also a massive and gratuitous attack on clean energy
  12. Tillis won’t seek re-election after refusing to destroy the lives of enough of his own constituents
  13. Metaphor for Working in the Trump Years
  14. Trump bill raises budget of Stephen Miller’s Gestapo many times over
  15. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,914
  16. The Economic Populism of Josh Hawley, Economic Populist
  17. Conservative judges will still be able to issue universal injunctions despite Trump v. CASA
  18. Week 23
  19. The Strains on the Kentucky GOP
  20. The culture war is a metaphorical war (for now), but the metaphor is valid
  21. The Lies Some Liberals Tell About Unions
  22. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,913
  23. Republicans prepare to crush their core constituents
  24. Zones of lawlessness
  25. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills
  26. The Supreme Court’s ongoing war on civic equality under the false flag of the First Amendment
  27. Trump administration forces president of UVA to resign
  28. A quick note on the 14th amendment decision
  29. The Birthright Citizenship Decision
  30. Cult of Personality
  31. The farcical quality of generative AI
  32. More Anti-Union Democrats
  33. The Republican Party’s war on vaccination proceeds
  34. Bill Moyers
  35. Supreme Court joins the Republican War on Planned Parenthood by continuing its war on the Civil Rights Act of 1871
  36. Senate Parliamentarian makes Republican Medicaid cuts slightly less brutal
  37. And why ain’t there a funeral if you’re going to act that way
  38. Republican Sexual Fetishes
  39. Living in the Empire of Lies
  40. Meatheads a-beefing
  41. RFK Jr. is not a “vaccine skeptic”
  42. Guess who still isn’t taking “No. Go away.” for an answer?
  43. The Roberts Court is Trump’s personal Star Chamber
  44. Republican blames liberals for effects of law she voted for and they oppose
  45. Thinking is a form of emasculation
  46. Questions on the Fordo Strike (Wonky)
  47. Against the politics of exhaustion and retribution
  48. Iran Strikes andWaging War with Gold…
  49. Mission not accomplished
  50. NYC Primary Open Thread
  51. Emil Bove told subordinates to systematically break the law to try to make Stephen Miller’s quotas
  52. Distant social media early warning
  53. “I’m just trying to breathe at the moment”: Bill Cassidy makes futile effort to close barn door as horse reaches the Arkansas border
  54. After the Parties Collapse
  55. All the Stupid Ways Trump Destroys America
  56. Florida’s Immigration Torture Prisons
  57. The child may not be the father of the man, but he is actually president of the United States
  58. The Democrats’ Out of Touch 90s Tactics
  59. Cease-Fire?!?
  60. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,912
  61. Cease Fire?
  62. Supreme Court uses shadow docket to allow Trump to deport people to dangerous third countries without due process
  63. Hundreds of thousands of children will die because a thin-skinned manbaby briefly turned the presidency over to an even bigger one
  64. Mission Accomplished
  65. Enchanted America
  66. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,911
  67. Game 7 Open Thread: give the trophy to the damn players edition
  68. We used to have vice presidents who presidents really enjoyed hanging out to dry, and come to think of it we still do
  69. We used to have dumb presidents, but luckily we now have a smart one
  70. Andrew Cuomo isn’t an asshole who gets things done, he’s just an asshole
  71. Week 22
  72. The Strikes
  73. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,910
  74. The template for how to respond to Trump’s illegal bombing
  75. Donald the Dove’s bombing of Iran lacks any legal authority
  76. Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter
  77. Music Notes
  78. B-2 or not B-2?
  79. British Academic Leadership, with Even More Leaderocity than in the U.S.
  80. JD Vance intentionally misnames former colleague his administration had tackled and handcuffed for asking a question
  81. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,909
  82. Hunter Biden laptop update
  83. MAGA has never been anti-war
  84. It’s true, and you should say it
  85. Trump units
  86. Circular Motion by Alex Foster
  87. DNC in Disarray
  88. More updates from the new Republican populism
  89. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,908
  90. ICE announces unilateral amendment of legislative enactment to evade oversight by elected representatives
  91. NBA Game 6 Thread
  92. President Miller overrules Trump
  93. The road to emancipation
  94. Getting the war criminals back together
  95. The German word for “blank sheet of paper” is lebensraum
  96. Ten Years of Trump: A Panel Discussion
  97. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,907
  98. The Latest
  99. Wedges
  100. The trolling style in American jurisprudence
  101. The Karen Read case
  102. SCOTUS upholds Tennessee law banning gender affirming care for minors
  103. The Peace President ponders bombing Iran
  104. The fantasy economics of American higher education
  105. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,906
  106. Head of world’s largest bureaucracy literally cannot manage a military parade
  107. LGM Film Club, Part 498: Le Deuxieme Souffle
  108. Land of the Brave, Home of the Free
  109. Most people hate the Kick People Off Medicaid so Elon Musk Can Buy Another Yacht bill when they hear about it
  110. I burglarized the house you failed to protect with a better alarm system
  111. Brad Lander arrested for asking some questions
  112. Countdown to eschatological ecstasy
  113. The Terrible Human Beings of the Republican Senate Caucus
  114. AI: Not a Requirement to Live
  115. A Reminder
  116. Fridgescape from LA
  117. Questionable Trades
  118. ICE: America’s Brownshirts
  119. The number is 40%
  120. Mutual Defense
  121. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,905
  122. Everything Everywhere at Once Update
  123. It’s a sin to let a sucker keep his money
  124. “The mother no longer has any interests”: the ballad of the American anti-abortion movement
  125. Is it undemocratic for the candidate with the most support from the majority of voters to win?
  126. Donald Trump as one weird trick for national salvation
  127. The Starmer Problem for Democrats
  128. Ten years gone
  129. What Will Happen after the 2030 Census?
  130. This Day in Labor History: June 16, 1958
  131. Josh Hawley: the massive Medcaid cuts I support don’t count as Medicaid cuts
  132. Fight and Fight Hard
  133. Destroying the Economy for White Supremacy
  134. The deranged fantasy world of BasedMikeLee
  135. Shredding the Iranian National Security State
  136. Triumph of the Will directed by Homer Simpson
  137. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,904
  138. Chamorro
  139. “I told them once, I told them a hundred times: put ‘Military Parade’ first and ‘Puppet Show’ last”
  140. Birthday Parade Open Thread
  141. Minnesota political violence update
  142. Week 21 – No Kings Edition
  143. “These aren’t people who know what to do”
  144. Week 21 Post Will Be Delayed
  145. Minnesota Legislator Assassinations
  146. To a friend whose work has come to nothing
  147. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,903
  148. Confusion at the Top
  149. So long Mel, have a good trip
  150. Raiding the day cares and preschools
  151. Totalitarian kitsch
  152. Fulbright
  153. Who’s up for flirting with a Mideast apocalypse to save Bibi?
  154. Playing Your Role in History
  155. More from the Worst Democratic Governor
  156. The Anakin Skywalker Theory of History
  157. Update on the cognitive fitness candidate
  158. Update on the Peace President
  159. Strike Update
  160. Los Angeles, Tehran, and DC
  161. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,902
  162. The Strike, It Goes
  163. Judge rules that Trump’s usurpation of the California national guard is illegal
  164. Welcome to Flavor Country
  165. The biggest upward distribution of wealth in American history
  166. Hey boys and girls, there’s a big picnic on the White House lawn this evening, and every Democratic member of Congress is invited!
  167. The Equal Sovereign Dignitude of the states
  168. Remember, unless it’s from the Po valley region of Italy, it’s just sparkling authoritarianism
  169. Unions and the Immigration Protests
  170. Eliminate the Debt Ceiling
  171. How Can Democrats Build Support in Red States When No One Know What Democrats Did?
  172. Live from the post-apocalyptic nightmare
  173. Contemporary fascism and improving standards of living
  174. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,901
  175. Sometimes it’s who you most expect
  176. NBA Finals Game Three
  177. RFK Jr. to pack vaccine advisory committee with the intellectual horse paste web
  178. Middle East Alert
  179. Trump’s use of the military to suppress protest is, like Trump himself, not popular
  180. If data mattered; if wishes were horses
  181. Brian Wilson
  182. Cybertank
  183. Joining The Discourse
  184. Placebos
  185. What Have Democrats Done Wrong? Anything at All?
  186. AI on the Battlefield and at the Peace Table
  187. Communication Breakdown
  188. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,900
  189. This rerun is terrible
  190. Donald Trump orders national network to fire journalist for criticizing him; network complies
  191. Miller’s crossing
  192. The free speech administration
  193. Fiona Hill On Trump And Nuclear Weapons
  194. Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  195. Listen, if you didn’t know you’re bein’ scammed, you’re too fuckin’ dumb to keep this job. If you did know, you were in on it
  196. The fragility of authoritarianism
  197. Goodbye to Salt Lake
  198. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,899
  199. Escalating in LA
  200. Crushing American exports
  201. RFK Jr. fires all 17 CDC vaccine board advisors
  202. The only point of Medicaid “work requirements” is to take people’s health insurance away while blaming them for your actions
  203. Sly Stone, RIP
  204. A Very Bad Preprint With A Very Bad Idea
  205. The Usurpation Proclamation
  206. Archbishop of Santa Fe: “passing this budget would be a moral failure”
  207. The information security administration
  208. Stolen pride
  209. Bourbon Update
  210. This Day in Labor History: June 9, 1941
  211. Playoffs open thread
  212. ABC suspends reporter for telling the truth
  213. The military response to protest and the law
  214. Trump sans frontières
  215. Presidenting Is Hard
  216. Latinas for Trump
  217. This Day in Labor History: June 8, 1909
  218. Trump threatens to send troops into LA
  219. Stephen Miller claims ICE protest is an insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the USA
  220. Supreme Court Republicans: it is an emergency if white nationalist incels do not have immediate unfettered access to your sensitive personal data
  221. Constitutional Amendments
  222. Week 20
  223. Cool Archaeological Finds
  224. A shattered world: Revisiting “1984”
  225. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,898
  226. Abrego Garcia update
  227. What America voted for
  228. Another lawyer joins the resistance
  229. Tomorrow is the Last Day to Submit a Public Comment on the L’etat c’est Moi Rule Formerly Known a Schedule F
  230. Jake Tapper is killing America
  231. This Day in Labor History: June 6, 1844
  232. At least one Trump supporter will still be getting paid
  233. That escalated quickly
  234. Elon: I expected Trump to stay bought
  235. Revisiting Rock Springs
  236. Buckley’s America
  237. How Are We Doing with the Greatest Crisis in Human History?
  238. Trump appoints 22-year-old with zero relevant experience to head top anti-terrorist group at DHS
  239. Operation Spider’s Web
  240. Travel announces another, even more wide-ranging arbitrary travel ban
  241. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,897
  242. Protection racket turns out not to be selling protection
  243. Taking LGM’s temperature
  244. The B,BB is effectively ACA repeal
  245. The End is also a Beginning
  246. Whatever gets you thru the night
  247. Do Democrats Have the Proper Leadership?
  248. Condoms: A History
  249. Republicans Hate Native Americans
  250. Restoring Norms Fixes Nothing
  251. More From America’s Worst Democratic Governor
  252. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,896
  253. MAGA’s idea of an intellectual
  254. Here come those Santa Ono winds again
  255. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
  256. The crack up
  257. Trouble in paradise
  258. Good and hard
  259. A Few Thoughts on Mexican Politics from a Non-Specialist Married to a Mexicanist
  260. Gaming Notes
  261. What is the Purpose of the Labor Movement?
  262. Class and Identity Politics
  263. The dis-United States of America
  264. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,895
  265. Extend the map
  266. New head of FEMA unaware there is a hurricane season
  267. Inside the destruction of American scientific research by Elon’s incel army
  268. Extreme HYPS syndrome NYT edition
  269. The conservative legal movement and Trump’s tariffs
  270. Don’t do unpaid crisis management for Elon Musk
  271. Hudson’s Bay Company
  272. Improving Health Care and Joining Unions
  273. Thank You!
  274. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,894
  275. Don’t do business with Trump collaborationalists
  276. Anti-semitic attack in Boulder
  277. Music Notes
  278. Happy Anniversary Blegging: World Gone Bonkers Edition
  279. More Thoughts On Russia’s Bomber Losses
  280. Orginalism as Esotericism
  281. The Attack
  282. Donations In Kind
  283. Election of the Weekend II: Mexico
  284. The Silence of the FBI
  285. Kristol Derivatives Revisited
  286. Coconut Curry for Everyone
  287. Pod Save America
  288. Major Ukrainian Drone Attack In Russia
  289. May Reading List
  290. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,893
  291. Merch
  292. Contextualize This Image: LGM Fundraiser Edition
  293. What’s the matter with “soft power”?

May 2025

  1. Republican health care plan is now explicitly “die”
  2. Working with a functionally illiterate president
  3. Survey says: 89% of LGM readers enjoy ketchup blogging, 72% prefer love letters to billionaires
  4. The importance of good information
  5. Week 19
  6. More LGM according to LLM
  7. The Warriors are Back in Town
  8. RIP Loretta Swit
  9. Certain aspects of show business, and our thing
  10. So Ya Didn’t Love the Silent Auction…
  11. Election of the Weekend I: Poland
  12. “There’s a Bag Over in the Corner. Let Us Know You Love Us.”—Spiro Agnew (Not Sourced)
  13. LGM as Social Media
  14. This scowly deity that really needs a nap wants you to help LGM
  15. Am I going to blog about Gl*nn Gr**nwald’s S*x Tap*(s) or ar* you going to donat* some mon*y?
  16. Support MultiMedia LGM
  17. LGM Goals 2025
  18. God Has Donated to LGM Today. Why Haven’t You?
  19. Please give or my clumsy brother might “accidentally” push this sweet cat into the toilet
  20. Paying for Services
  21. What LGM Has Done For Me and For You (I Hope)
  22. Behind the Blogging 2025
  23. What Should We Call Trump’s Space Folly?
  24. Some Random Opinions
  25. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a ChatGPT version of an LGM post — forever
  26. “Why should I write for scoundrels and hogs like you?” Let the LGM/Martin Luther Spinoff Begin!
  27. LGM Silent Auction
  28. Please give
  29. 10 Reasons to Donate to LGM
  30. Erik Visits an American Grave: Part LGM Died Because Readers Didn’t Support the Site
  31. Kickoff!
  32. DOGE is already catastrophic and will continue to be
  33. Scientific Rigor (Mortis), part deux
  34. Scientific Rigor (Mortis)
  35. Visions of Gasquet
  36. Another survey
  37. Another judge holds that Trump’s tariffs are illegal
  38. Nike in Cambodia
  39. AI in the Beltway Media
  40. Tools at Democrats’ Disposal
  41. Court of International Trade rules Trump’s unilateral tariffs unconstitutional
  42. Don’t let me hear you say life’s taking you nowhere
  43. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,892
  44. Oh, the humanity! (TW: extreme ultraviolence)
  45. I’m not just the president of the club for low-information voters, I’m also a member
  46. Caption Time
  47. Sanewashing the anti-vaxxer destroying American scientific research and nostalgia by proxy
  48. On Class and Average American Values (Whatever They May Be)
  49. Trump to disaster victims, past and future: eat shit
  50. The Basic Cultural Indifference to the Endless Corruption
  51. Rethink, Revisit, Reaffirm
  52. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,891
  53. Stop or I shall be forced to do nothing again
  54. Pardons for sale
  55. Republican judge holds that Trump’s executive order targeting law firm violates First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments
  56. Tesla sales tanking in Europe, Elon will try to conceal his far-right political actions
  57. Building the Pyramids
  58. Trump administration moves to illegally cancel all contracts with Harvard
  59. Does Empathy Matter?
  60. Lunatic had a good idea once supposedly
  61. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,890
  62. Requiem
  63. FDA did not inform public about E. coli outbreak that made dozens of people sick
  64. Maybe RFK Jr. Has A Point, Episode Too Many
  65. Rule by ipse dixit
  66. When you finally figure out that you’re the bottom
  67. White man’s burden
  68. This Day in Labor History: May 26, 1913
  69. I owed it to them
  70. New tariff policy unable to survive long weekend
  71. Election of the Day II: Venezuela
  72. Election of the Day I: Suriname
  73. Imagine if the mental state of a very elderly president became a big news story, part deux
  74. Imagine if the mental state of a very elderly president became a big news story
  75. This Day in Labor History: May 25, 1943
  76. Environmental Protection Agency to propose not protecting the environment
  77. Music Notes
  78. Certainly: I can rewrite it for you wholesale
  79. Joe Biden winning the 2020 nomination was probably suboptimal, but it was not an elite conspiracy
  80. Week 18
  81. New Baby Destroyer Suffers Birth Accident
  82. The arbitrariness of fame
  83. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,889
  84. Leaving Vichy Biglaw
  85. Trump crash stonks again
  86. How to Buy Your Way to Medicaid Cuts
  87. Republican judge strikes down Trump’s attack on Jenner & Block
  88. Judge blocks Trump administration’s foreign student ban at Harvard
  89. The Boys from Brazil
  90. New head of Social Security Administration had to google “what is the Social Security Administration?”
  91. Speaking of historically unprecedented catastrophes
  92. Joe Biden age update
  93. Overruling 90 years of precedent (except for the Fed ;)) in an unreasoned four-paragraph opinion for Daddy Trump
  94. State of the Wolf
  95. This is really bad
  96. Republicans vote to take healthcare away from upwards of 10 million people to pay for a fraction of upper-class and corporate tax cuts
  97. Ledeen
  98. Trump administration blocks Harvard from enrolling new foreign students, and will expel from the country those who don’t transfer
  99. You Don’t Say…
  100. Dead simple Weeknight Wings
  101. Evil, corruption, stupidity
  102. It Can Always Get Worse, and It’s About to Get Worse
  103. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,888
  104. Vote on monstrous Republican bill to happen later this morning
  105. American non-thinker
  106. House Democrats Bottle Up Billionaires’ Budget In Rules Committee
  107. Gabbard and Kent: make up fake intelligence to protect Trump’s arbitrary detentions
  108. Data from the Democratic Politburo
  109. Democratic pandermonium is a pander trap
  110. Let’s Hear It For the Gerontocracy!
  111. Republican reconciliation bill would force major cuts to Medicare
  112. “A strain of boredom that’s uniquely crushing”
  113. Jennifer and I
  114. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,887
  115. Checking in on the Intellectual Dark Web
  116. The Mainstreaming of the Spy Genre…
  117. The transparent illegality of Trump’s AEA deportations and foreign imprisonments
  118. George Wendt, RIP
  119. Kristi Noem thinks habeas corpus is the power to detain people arbitrarily
  120. Trump Burger
  121. More on Democrats’ Unionbuster
  122. Bobby Brainworms says no Covid vaccine for you
  123. Very confused old man given test ride by dealership, thinks car is actually a gift
  124. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,886
  125. Whatever happened to JD Vance?
  126. Bill Cassidy to pretend to be shocked that fox cannot be trusted in henhouse unsupervised
  127. Trump’s revenge tour on America includes his own voters
  128. It is still Paul Ryan’s Congress
  129. Waging War with Gold 6+1
  130. Musk’s Boys Are Attacking the GAO
  131. Twilight of the gerontocracy
  132. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,885
  133. Romania Holds Serve
  134. Joe Biden has prostate cancer
  135. Voters who don’t know anything about Donald Trump kind of like Donald Trump
  136. As the thermostat turns
  137. American terror
  138. Infrastructure Week Comes Early!
  139. This Day in Labor History: May 18, 1900
  140. Music Notes
  141. How was I to know Bari was with the MAGA too?
  142. Trump warns Walmart not to raise prices just because tariffs make their inventory a lot more expensive
  143. Election of the Weekend III: Portugal
  144. Election of the Weekend II: Romania
  145. Week 17
  146. Election of the Weekend I: Poland
  147. Alito supports his opposition to Anglo-American constitutionalism by claiming source says the opposite of what it says
  148. Paying the Price for DOGE
  149. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,884
  150. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place
  151. Court rules 7-2 against Trump administration’s efforts to disappear people without due process
  152. Speaking in Trumpese
  153. Most lunatic faction of GOP opposes reconciliation for not denying enouugh poor people healthcare quickly enough
  154. “They Don’t Build ‘Em Like They Used To”
  155. The Beautiful New Planes!
  156. Tommy
  157. “Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is a one-way ticket to El Salvador with free room and board”
  158. Rob Manfred’s Donald Trump fan service
  159. The Dude Carbon Problem
  160. The Oppression of the Algorithm
  161. Birthright citizenship and nationwide injunctions
  162. JCPOA Revisited?
  163. Andor in the Rear View Mirror
  164. Fuck everything, we’re doing two engines
  165. Tulsi: it is a fireable offense to present facts that are inconvenient for Dear Leader
  166. Contextualize This Image
  167. Make America Unhealthy (to pay for yet another upper-class tax cut) Again
  168. How do you say “My offer is this: nothing” in Mandarin?
  169. Here’s a Truly Horrible Democrat
  170. Death to AI
  171. Dems In Disarray
  172. Rose/Jackson
  173. Poor Democratic Governance
  174. What they do, not what they say
  175. LGM Podcast: Faustian Bargain
  176. Make me like one of your French dishes
  177. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,883
  178. Victory in Omaha
  179. Can Donald Trump help it if so many people feel like giving him gifts, expecting nothing in return?
  180. Andor Finale Open Thread
  181. José Mujica, RIP
  182. The MSNBC Problem
  183. Never get out of the boat
  184. Nostalgia and Masculine Work
  185. GOP to destroy the IRA, largely at the expense of their own constituents
  186. Joe Biden age update
  187. The Disability Follies, Part the Thousandth
  188. John Roberts criticizes jurisprudential catastrophe created by (checks notes) John Roberts
  189. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,882
  190. Trump tries to appoint completely unqualified crony as Librarian of Congress
  191. Playoffs etc. open thread: (draft) ball lie edition
  192. A $400 million bribe that includes the notation “bribe for the president of the United States” is not a scandal
  193. Congestion pricing is incredibly effective public policy
  194. Republicans propose taking away healthcare from millions of people to partially pay for upper-class tax cuts
  195. Blame Canada!
  196. Sleepwalking into disaster
  197. A guy don’t walk on the lot unless he wants to buy
  198. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,881
  199. Election of the day: The Phillipines
  200. Update on the race neutrality administration
  201. Music Notes
  202. Steven Joel Gitomer, 1943 -2025
  203. Air travel under DOGE
  204. Trump Repaying Michigan
  205. Here’s a Worthless Democrat
  206. Can Federal Worker Unions Survive?
  207. Oh Michael how much could a banana cost, ten dollars?
  208. EAIAC and BSDI as psychological defense mechanisms
  209. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,880
  210. Election of the Day: Albania
  211. What Republicans mean by “Anti-DEI”
  212. The Great Writ
  213. They would do anything for Trump, but they won’t do that
  214. Week 16
  215. The Future of PME
  216. Point of order
  217. This Day in Labor History: May 10, 1972
  218. At some point, you’re not being tricked, you’re just in on it
  219. White House “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus
  220. The New Pope
  221. David Souter’s alternate path on poltical corruption
  222. Archetypal goobers on fyre
  223. David Souter
  224. Barbarism and Ineptitude
  225. Speaking of Collaborationalists
  226. Take a look at this collaborationist piece of shit
  227. Stockholm syndrome
  228. Red Wine Supernova
  229. Life at Rufo U
  230. Walking the GOP track
  231. NEW POPE!
  232. As Andor Nears the End…
  233. This Day in Labor History: May 8, 1935
  234. The day in incompetence, continued
  235. MAGA lunatic Laura Loomer is dictating US health care policy
  236. Why does MAGA want more people to die of preventible or treatable diseases?
  237. North Carolina Republicans finally concede election they lost last year
  238. A New Boat…
  239. Odesa Dreams…
  240. AWTTDWTG
  241. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,879
  242. Election of the Day: Vatican City
  243. Hacking into an app used by tRump goons takes 15 to 20 times longer than falling in love
  244. Trump lose planes
  245. Donald Trump’s economic policy is based on the principle that suffering is caused by desire
  246. Supreme Court to allow Trump’s ban on trans servicemembers to remain in place
  247. War on the Subcontinent?
  248. Deal or no deal? (Answer: No deal.)
  249. Trump’s wanton destruction of the economy damaging his standing among his critical constituency of low-information voters
  250. Why Do They Do It?
  251. Eyeless in Gaza
  252. Was it a Tank?
  253. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,878
  254. Newsom begs to be shaken down
  255. A wise and important steward
  256. Anthony Weiner laptop update
  257. I never thought the leopard would eat my seed corn
  258. Carney’s F-35 Dilemma
  259. LGM Podcast: Leah Litman
  260. The cognitive fitness and in touch with the working American candidate
  261. This Day in Labor History: May 5, 1913
  262. Onion announces immediate closure because of impossible working conditions
  263. The information security administration
  264. Very Stable, Much Genius
  265. Contextualize This Image
  266. Is the president bound by the Constitution? Views differ
  267. The Enemy of My Enemy Is My…Oh, Never Mind
  268. Thelma and Louise economics
  269. Triangle Can Happen Again at Any Time
  270. When Donald Trump Told the Truth
  271. The Republican Fantasy of Child Labor
  272. Imagine if Obama (an infinite series)
  273. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,877
  274. A government of cranks for cranks
  275. Music Notes
  276. Election of the Weekend III: Romania
  277. Derby 5
  278. Anti-Yahoo Serious
  279. Week 15
  280. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,876
  281. Fetterman
  282. Judge rules that Trump’s shakedown of law firms is unconstitutional, based on its transparent unconstitutionality
  283. Like a loaded weapon
  284. The Horst Wessel song
  285. There really isn’t any need for bloodshed, you just do it with a little more finesse
  286. Election of the Weekend II: Australia
  287. Can’t stop, won’t stop, trying to grope Canada
  288. Election of the weekend I: Singapore
  289. Don’t know much about history
  290. Just Plain Evil
  291. Tunnel of Bove
  292. What “anti-DEI” actually means to conservatives
  293. I never thought the Elon would eat my face
  294. Judge holds that Trump’s AEA deportations are illegal
  295. Knows the prospects
  296. On the other hand, he’s against potato chips in kids’ school lunches
  297. Waltzing Out the Door…
  298. Horowitz Redux
  299. A couple stops in Normal Town
  300. April Reading List
  301. tRump campaign manager Chris LaCivita accuses Chris LaCivita of advising Australia’s Temu tRump
  302. The youth and mental acuity president confuses “Harvard” and “Harlem”
  303. The party of death
  304. Republicans love Trump’s economy-destroying regressive taxes

April 2025

  1. And it’s worse when I try to remember
  2. Good News
  3. “I am not afraid of you!”
  4. Crushed by the wheels of industry
  5. Trump: you will get nothing and like it
  6. Trump Weakens
  7. Group non-think
  8. Breaking bad
  9. As the Carthaginians Did
  10. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,875
  11. The lavratory of democracy
  12. Notes on fascist camp
  13. 100 days of disaster
  14. Tainted love
  15. An offer you can’t accept
  16. Dems need to unite as a broad anti-Trump coalition
  17. Photography in the Vietnam War
  18. De facto repeal of the Civil Rights Act
  19. Gigantic loser Pierre Poilievre loses his own riding after blowing 25 point lead
  20. Erik Visits an (Non) American Grave, Part 1,874
  21. Worthwhile Canadian election thread
  22. The Counter-Offer
  23. Musk’s Boys In Restricted Data?
  24. Without bad faith MAGA academics can have to faith at all
  25. The opposition is mobilizing
  26. More sad tales from the gerontocracy
  27. Centrist Dems in Swing Districts
  28. Destroying Democracy, an American Tradition
  29. Election of the Day II: Canada
  30. As the thermostat turns
  31. Simpering Timidity
  32. We are not a serious country
  33. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,873
  34. Election of the Day I: Trinidad and Tobago
  35. BREAKING! MUST CREDIT LGM! (And Jann Wenner immolating his influence)
  36. Tragedy in Vancouver
  37. Music Notes
  38. How to Alienate Western Republicans
  39. Contemporary Canadian Political Art
  40. Alexis Herman, RIP
  41. Marginal Trump voters wanted 2019 again, but they voted for 2020
  42. Is there any breaking point?
  43. The ongoing attack on the American university, Indiana division
  44. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,872
  45. Justice Accused
  46. Neil Gorsuch’s homophobic alternate fiction
  47. Election of the Weekend: Vienna
  48. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money
  49. Week 14
  50. The tyranny of evil men
  51. Shedeur’s Slide
  52. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,871
  53. 100 Daze
  54. Make diarrhea great again
  55. James Carville should take his own advice
  56. As the thermostat turns
  57. Some good news
  58. 7 for Santos
  59. FBI arrests judge for allegedly helping immigrant
  60. The Pitt
  61. There will be growth in the spring
  62. Anthony Weiner laptop update
  63. NFL Draft/Playoffs open thread
  64. Alito too homophobic to understand book written for 5-year-olds
  65. Twisted truth and half the news, can’t hide it in your eyes
  66. Daddy Putin’s generous concessions
  67. Kidding on the square all the way to tyranny
  68. LGM Podcast: Canada’s Upcoming Election
  69. New blood
  70. Conspiracy theory roundup: “Ron Johnson’s priorities are backwards, and he’s a silly man.” Plus: Bioweapon deployed in Texas.
  71. Stupidity uber alles
  72. Against defeatism
  73. It’s not really a scandal if it’s right out in the open
  74. Never Would Have Made It Through the Arkansas Mud If I Hadn’t Been Riding the Tennessee Stud
  75. The Offer
  76. Approval of Trump’s immigration policies declining
  77. Open Thread
  78. Trump blames the press for all those times he said he’s going to fire Federal Reserve Chair Powell
  79. “Transferring” The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
  80. MAGA natalism is a dead end
  81. Anecdote of a Nazi
  82. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,870
  83. Free minds and free markets: an update
  84. Andor 3
  85. Art of the squeal
  86. Tesla profits fall 71%
  87. Republicans are coming for the Medicaid expansion
  88. Destroying Public Education
  89. That Tasty New Gilded Age Milk
  90. Kashmir Attack
  91. What’s the Court Up To?
  92. Anarchy in the US
  93. Kristi Noem, International Woman of Mystery
  94. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,869
  95. Curb your enthusiasm (for Donald Trump)
  96. Trump crash stonks
  97. White House admits Hegseth chaos is even more serious than even we had at first been imagining
  98. Stephen in Wonderland
  99. Hegseth gone?
  100. But you did!
  101. The State of the War
  102. LGM Podcast: Spy Movies
  103. On Intentional Homelessness
  104. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,868
  105. Francis Dead
  106. The art of not making a deal
  107. Contextualize This Image
  108. Hegseth Hegsething Again…
  109. DOGE At NLRB
  110. Lawlessness is blind
  111. The Left Gerontocracy
  112. Cancer Alley
  113. Canadian Tories heading for historic collapse
  114. On Judas
  115. Sarah Palin’s amazingly frivolous libel suit
  116. The Life and Work of Karen Wynn Fonstad
  117. Erik Visits an (Non) American Grave, Part 1,867
  118. Contextualize This Image
  119. Music Notes
  120. The Nixon Head Rock
  121. NBA/NHL playoffs open thread
  122. Week 13
  123. Did Alito refuse to refer A.A.R.P. v. Trump to the full Court to facilitate Trump’s illegal detainments?
  124. Gorka Diagrams, Redux
  125. Supreme Court temporarily blocks deportations to El Salvador
  126. Marco Rubio read 1984 and thought “Hold my banana daiquiri”
  127. On Obeying in Advance
  128. Viewpoint Diversity
  129. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,866
  130. Disorganized crime
  131. Is tRump 2.0 so out of touch that it accidentally sent threatening letters to Harvard University?
  132. Who’s out, who’s in … front of the bus?
  133. Trump kill ports and transportation
  134. RFK Jr says his response to measles outbreak should be ‘model for the world’
  135. The wolf was always there
  136. Trump tank economy
  137. Autism Stigma Disorder
  138. Trump unilaterally destroys CFPB
  139. Latest on the Norks
  140. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,865
  141. Chris Van Hollen Meets Kilmar Abrego Garcia
  142. The midterms are 19 months away, you can oppose authoritarianism now
  143. Make food poisoning great again
  144. Trump rendition policies shock the conscience of prominent right wing judge
  145. Murder by numbers
  146. Unraveling the traveling (Update: 51st state BS)
  147. Power Plays in New York
  148. Broken Immigration Law
  149. Big Balls Made a Boo Boo
  150. Trump may try to fire Jerome Powell, even though that would be illegal
  151. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,864
  152. Little Marco: the unemployment rate is currently too low, please make it higher
  153. Should your extremely expensive lawyer understand how a shakedown works?
  154. The Worst Place on the Planet
  155. Trump v. Justice
  156. “You cannot have despotism for some and freedom for others”
  157. Thomas Is a Very Useful Engine…
  158. Flagrantly insane Bond villain minus the charm is de facto president of the United States
  159. Trump/Vance/Elon ’24: Fuck Them Kids
  160. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,863
  161. Take my freedom fries, please
  162. Labor Historians at Work
  163. Imaginary Donald Trump betrayed by real Donald Trump again
  164. Trump take manufacturing jobs
  165. Real gangster tactics
  166. As the Romans Did
  167. Find the cost of freedom
  168. We have taken too little care of this
  169. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,862
  170. Living and dying with the choices they’ll make
  171. Lucky duckies
  172. What Could’ve Been
  173. I don’t like Mondays
  174. Binational Scumbaggery
  175. Make America White Again
  176. An elite institution finally understands the shot
  177. Mario Vargas Llosa, RIP
  178. Why Trump’s tarrifs should be opposed clearly and unambiguously
  179. The Tariff Lesson of the 19th Century
  180. Bourbon Update
  181. DOJ argues for paying reparations to 1/6 seditionists
  182. Josh Shapiro’s house firebombed
  183. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,861
  184. Trump tariff du jour
  185. The moron premium
  186. Jameson Quinn
  187. The Grift Economy is Coming for your Cats
  188. Cutting Through The Crap
  189. I’ll be a diode, cathode, electrode, overload, generator, oscillator…
  190. Is doing everything you can to alienate your core customer base good business?
  191. A and B, not A or B
  192. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,860
  193. Tim Cook’s ass-kissing pays off
  194. Music Notes
  195. Week 12
  196. Election of the Weekend II: Ecuador
  197. 1/6 in robes
  198. The Winners
  199. If you don’t study something it doesn’t happen
  200. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,859
  201. What anti-“DEI” means
  202. 1 hour 40 minutes and 32 seconds of Lemon Usk being trolled by gamers
  203. Fantasy Donald Trump, protector of the working class, is harder to kill than Rasputin
  204. Election of the weekend: Gabon
  205. Does anyone remember “major questions doctrine”?
  206. The Iran Negotiation
  207. John Roberts has given us his loophole, now let us exploit it
  208. It’s On
  209. Giving some people what they want
  210. 125%
  211. Liberation (from your disposable income) Day
  212. Defending the indefensible: not just for the political press!
  213. Activism Survey Says … Part I
  214. Supreme Court holds that the District Court can order the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, to a point
  215. Does anyone know how to play this game?
  216. The tariff madness of King Donald
  217. Corporatism, faculty governance, and workplace democracy
  218. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,858
  219. Civil exposure to the max
  220. A servile kiss-ass with fuck-you money is something not to be
  221. Another one bites the dust
  222. The cult abdicates to its leader
  223. Robert McChesney, RIP
  224. I’m not yippy, you’re yippy!
  225. Resist the temptation to sanewash the Trump tax increase du jour
  226. The Port Fee Disruption
  227. Thank you for your attention to this matter
  228. Tariffs gon’ make you sick
  229. 84%
  230. Breaking through the denial
  231. Trump’s Speech At The Republican National Congressional Committee Was Bonkers
  232. Investors flee from U.S. Treasury bonds
  233. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,857
  234. Trump-appointed IRS head resigns over egregious privacy violations
  235. It’s one iPhone, Michael. What could it cost, 3,500 dollars?
  236. Hooked on a feeling
  237. The Next Destroyer
  238. DOGE to effectively end federal tax enforcement
  239. Form without substance, the John Roberts story
  240. This dead cat won’t bounce
  241. Foreign Policy Doesn’t Elect You
  242. Former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice has law license suspended for three years for fraudulently advancing Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 election
  243. Obama to University Administrators: Stop Sucking
  244. The Last Days of Biden
  245. The Little Things
  246. Collaborators
  247. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,856
  248. Today on the shadow docket: assisting Trump’s arbitrary deportations to slave prisons
  249. Trump’s Manly Tariffs
  250. RFK Jr. visits family of child who died because they followed his bullshit conspiracy theories
  251. An endless firehose of lies abetted by a compliant media
  252. Fired cancer researchers will labor in the new factories that rise from the soil near Des Moines as 100 manufacturing flowers bloom
  253. Mistaking a Victor’s Peace for a Cold War
  254. MAGA influencer furious that the Donald Trump that existed solely in his own imagination has been betrayed by Donald Trump
  255. Porno for Pyros
  256. Things To Look For This Week
  257. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,855
  258. A basic category error
  259. Trump take 401(k)
  260. Track Changes Nominated for a Hugo Award
  261. The DOGE war on Social Security
  262. 895
  263. The DEI Books
  264. Paying one Trump tax
  265. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,854
  266. The Three Pillars of Trumpian Wisdom
  267. Trump, the (even more) nihilist years
  268. Music Notes
  269. HANDS OFF!
  270. Supreme Court uses shadow docket to help Trump again
  271. Trump didn’t even apply his own AI-incel formula correctly
  272. Week 11
  273. The Biggest NCAA Football Programs
  274. Was it a good idea to put a lazy ignorant arrogant idiot in control of the world’s economy?
  275. This Day in Labor History: April 5, 2010
  276. Into the blue again, after the money’s gone
  277. How the Supreme Court helped Trump wreck the economy
  278. It Can Happen Here
  279. Friday Cat Blogging
  280. A history of (domestic) violence
  281. North Carolina Republicans win major battle to steal election
  282. My date with Ted Bundy is not going as well as I had every reason to expect it would
  283. The end of an empire, messy at best
  284. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,853
  285. There is no plan
  286. Geopolitical Suicide and Economic Self-Immolation: Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together
  287. Yoon Gone
  288. NSA leadership ousted
  289. You’ll never guess who preemptively capitulated to Trump
  290. New Haven/Cambridge galaxy brain syndrome
  291. I feel my worlds converging
  292. Trump tank stonks
  293. “Not Great, Bob!”
  294. I would like to return this country it is scratched
  295. It Ain’t No Good
  296. The boy who would never do his homework
  297. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,852
  298. However dumb you think the Trump taxes are, they’re dumber
  299. AI will doom us all
  300. The real Donald Trump betrays the imaginary Donald Trump again
  301. Bobby Jr. doesn’t want people he’s lied to about vaccines to be confronted by facts
  302. The Sad Silence Around Trump’s Deportations
  303. Liberation Day
  304. Israel: In Trump’s Pocket
  305. Federal Worker Militancy–Can It Return?
  306. Rapid unscheduled disassembly
  307. RFK Jr Guts The Department of Health and Human Services
  308. Dishonesty and delusion
  309. This Day in Labor History: April 2, 1992
  310. Val Kilmer
  311. Elon v. democracy
  312. Women’s Tournament Challenge Update
  313. Beating the Record
  314. Triangle
  315. Elections of the Day: United States of America
  316. Checking in on the information security administration
  317. The eternal mystery at the heart of American politics
  318. It’s the Little Things…
  319. Kristi Noem’s Prison Porn
  320. Deserving Things Happen to Deserving People
  321. Donald Trump and the Interests of Capital
  322. Mr. Booker goes to Washington
  323. Trump in the wilderness
  324. Welcome to Alabama!
  325. March Reading List
  326. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,851

March 2025

  1. Trump lackeys have no idea why they’re about to impose the largest regressive tax increase in modern American history
  2. Sinema gets the quo
  3. The Future is Unwritten
  4. The right profile
  5. Ukrainian Elections
  6. Trump says he’s serious about running for a third term
  7. When they kick at your front door, how you gonna come?
  8. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,850
  9. Trump is more contemptuous of his own rural voters than any urban liberal will ever be
  10. LGM Tournament Challenge
  11. Wilhoit’s law is a harsh mistress
  12. Review: Luminous by Silvia Park
  13. Alternative medicine murders people
  14. This Day in Labor History: March 30, 1891
  15. Takedown intensifying
  16. “I never thought the Destroy the Administrative State Party would arbitrarily fire me from my job with the administrative state”
  17. The loneliness of the long-distance imperialist
  18. Week 10
  19. First as farce, then as tragedy
  20. Goodbye Brandon
  21. Profiles in something
  22. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,849
  23. FDA’s top vaccine official resigns
  24. Trump kill stonks
  25. Trump sells another pardon
  26. Diversity Actually Is Strength
  27. Big Balls and Groyper 1488 never have to worry
  28. Four Soldiers Missing In Lithuania
  29. Yes, MAGA Fredo does need to be protected from “controversial” opinions
  30. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,848
  31. Trump ends collective bargaining rights for many federal employees
  32. You were serious about that?
  33. The Scourge of Lesbian Penguins
  34. Special Elections
  35. Don’t put in the paper that VP Vance got mad
  36. Make measles and e coli great again
  37. Policies that Work
  38. And for Greenland sailed away
  39. Trump Always Treats His Underlings Right
  40. They’re Not Sending Their Best Farleys
  41. Time to End an Error
  42. Writing a pro-Palestinian op-ed can get you kidnapped by Trump’s Gestapo and then deported
  43. Alien Enemies Act Deportations Were Carefully Orchestrated To Keep Courts In The Dark
  44. Trump make cars more exponsive
  45. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,847
  46. If the Gucci loafer fits
  47. The party of death
  48. Why Elon wants to buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat
  49. Who’s In Charge?
  50. The reappearance of Neil Gorsuch’s sporadic textualism
  51. Republicans put anti-vax fraud who hawked autism cures in charge of proving vaccines cause autism
  52. Kennedy isn’t out of touch, it’s the sick children who are wrong
  53. Drunken rapist posts precise details of military attack plan to journalist by mistake
  54. Dumb as a Box of Rocks
  55. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,846
  56. The cover up is even dumber than the crime
  57. Liberation Day Delay
  58. Another batch of horrible and illegal executive orders
  59. The Cast
  60. Making Russia Great Again, Again
  61. Elon and Trump destroying the Social Security administration
  62. It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your DNA data is?
  63. Take this Waltz, please
  64. The Scandal
  65. What If We Didn’t Suck, or, Taking Out the Gerontocracy
  66. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,845
  67. Turkey’s autocratic slide
  68. What Did the President Know, and When…?
  69. Worst national disaster since Civil War makes eliminating disaster relief a top priority (irony alert)
  70. Standing up for cancer
  71. The Genocide of Palm Oil
  72. The Shipping News
  73. The Information Security Administration!
  74. WSJ editorial page: Sam Alito would never resign if he thought he would be replaced by a results-oriented hack
  75. Shoring up America’s vital white people reserve
  76. The F-47 MAGA?
  77. The autocratic structure of the American university
  78. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,844
  79. It’s a non-interventionist mindset, you wouldn’t understand
  80. Frayed nerves
  81. Snap election in Canada
  82. 50,000 Dead
  83. Why We Can Never Give Up on Trump Voters
  84. Trump Turns Against the DEI Marxist Communist Islamocommunist First Trump Administration
  85. An Elaboration
  86. The rot
  87. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,843
  88. The Department of Government Inefficiency
  89. Music Notes
  90. Why is the historically unpopular president so popular?
  91. “Calipari is a pimp. He never could have outfought Pitino.”
  92. Fascist Aesthetics
  93. People Who Matter, People Who Don’t Matter
  94. The Little Bits of Destruction
  95. Week 9
  96. It did happen here
  97. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,842
  98. The Man, the Legend
  99. This will hurt you more than it hurts me
  100. Shrug
  101. A boom market for wallet inspectors
  102. Howard Lutnick thinks that if you don’t get your Social Security check and complain you are probably a fraudster
  103. Trumpism without Trump
  104. A Note On Strategy
  105. More people making choices
  106. Cease-Fire Negotiations
  107. The “struggling middle class”
  108. Lawyer, up!
  109. As the information security administration turns
  110. Paul, Weiss agrees to pay protection money
  111. Just for you: The birthplace of Facebook & Xitter
  112. DOGE ends Social Security benefits and raids bank account of living recipient
  113. Minn. MAGAt who introduced TDS is a mental disorder bill accused of attempting to pay a minor for sex
  114. Warning and NCAA Tourney Open Thread
  115. Democratic Leaderocity!
  116. Does anyone else smell metaphor? I think there’s a leak.
  117. The Mar-a-Lago Accord
  118. LGM Podcast: The Rise and Fall of Kentucky Bourbon?
  119. College professors are paid less now than they were in 1970, while upper administrator salaries have increased many times over
  120. This Day in Labor History: March 20, 1945
  121. Tourney Challenge: Last Chance Reminder
  122. Where have you gone Jackie Robinson
  123. Advice from your mortal enemies
  124. A man in my position cannot afford to be made to look ridiculous
  125. United States Institute of Peace Resists The Musk Boys
  126. Trump take all the eggs
  127. The state of exception
  128. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,841
  129. Unredacted JFK assassination files released
  130. The Antitrust Revolution president illegally attempts to fire the two remaining Democratic appointees to the FTC
  131. Breaking: The Information Security Administration hands over White House Wi-Fi to totally not any kind of security risk Elon Musk
  132. And you may say to yourself, “My God, What Have I done?”
  133. The Not-Yet-A-Ceasefire
  134. The problem is the idiot vote
  135. Post-Tenure Review
  136. The information security presidency
  137. What happened last November
  138. This Day in Labor History: March 18, 1886
  139. Texas Arrests abortion provider
  140. Eggspansionist bEGGars can’t be choosers
  141. Whither the Panther?
  142. Collaborator’s remorse
  143. They will call them the Unity President (update)
  144. The Donald Trump that exists in my imagination who is the opposite of Donald Trump would be a much more popular president than Donald Trump
  145. I see a little silhouetto of a man
  146. Musk Attacks NNSA
  147. Will Trump order Bondi to prosecute the people Biden pardoned for attempting to prosecute Trump?
  148. DEI Medal
  149. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,840
  150. Tourney Time!
  151. Trump’s trade war will do disproportionate damage to his voters
  152. Out of Touch
  153. Survey Sunday – Activism
  154. The DOGE Deaths
  155. The Democratic Party Disaster
  156. Uneasy but effective collaboration
  157. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,839
  158. What DOGE considers “waste”
  159. The book Zuck doesn’t want you to read
  160. Director of HHS convinces people to expose their children to measles and then not to take them to a doctor
  161. Week 8
  162. Men who will not be president
  163. Politico. Politico Never Changes.
  164. “It’s just a tell when someone is lying all the time”
  165. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,838
  166. I Can Haz Friday Cat Blog
  167. Friday Cat Blogging VI
  168. MuskTrump’s V.A. plots new interim final rule on abortion access.
  169. The immediate surrender caucus
  170. Trump goes to DOJ and declares CNN and MSNBC are breaking the law because they criticize him
  171. Raul Grijalva and the Gerontocracy
  172. Elon brings in Silicon Valley crony to destroy Social Security
  173. On Fridays, Cat Blogs You
  174. Leopards, Faces, Etc
  175. Ce n’est pas mon chat
  176. The Internal Rebellion
  177. I Hope I Die Before I Get Old
  178. The Trump Administration Economic Plan
  179. Friday Cat Blogging III
  180. Friday Cat Blogging – II
  181. Maybe if I’m extra nice he’ll stop hitting me
  182. Friday Cat Blogging I
  183. Alan Simpson
  184. This Day in Labor History: March 14, 1882
  185. Donald Trump doesn’t want you to retire
  186. Shots Fired
  187. Why Covid Won the Youth Vote
  188. Schumer voting for cloture on the CR
  189. Dementia
  190. Paranoia runs deep
  191. The art of the deal
  192. Scenes from American Kleptocracy
  193. Trump administration to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency’s woke “environmental protection” agenda
  194. Unless it comes from the Po valley region of Italy, it’s just sparkling authoritarianism anyway
  195. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,837
  196. Dunces of the Confederacy
  197. LGM Film Club, Part 497: Fantastic Mr. Fox
  198. The politics of the Musk/Trump/Thune/Johnson shutdown
  199. Schumer says Democrats united on not signing off on House funding bill
  200. Trump/Elon: there are not enough drug overdoses in America
  201. Election of the Day: Belize
  202. Russia-Ukraine Cease-Fire Simulation
  203. The Art Looters
  204. Wilcox Returns to the NLRB
  205. Make Way for Tomorrow
  206. Make America Healthy Again!
  207. The decline of Christianity/religion in American life
  208. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,836
  209. Trump take away your 401(k)
  210. Musk’s incel wreckers lay off half of the Department of Education’s work force
  211. Duterte Arrested
  212. Trump is getting increasingly fixated on annexing Canada as “our cherished 51st state”
  213. Legal US resident is “disappeared” EXPLICITLY for engaging in legally protected speech
  214. Cease-fire?
  215. Rapid scheduled disassembly: the economics of Donald Trump
  216. Five years a pandemic
  217. The MAGA exacta
  218. If you get sick it’s your fault, unless you got vaccinated, in which case it’s the vaccine’s fault
  219. Okay (Nork) Boomer?
  220. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,835
  221. There are multi McCarthyisms a day
  222. LGM Film Club, Part 496: Pryor on the Mafia
  223. Remember “Great Power Competition?” Lol.
  224. The Disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil
  225. Election of the Day: Greenland
  226. Tesla and the Trump Tank
  227. The emptiness of MAGA
  228. The best labourer dead
  229. Cybertruck panic
  230. Right Wing Washington’s Cult House
  231. Trump’s War on Public Sector Unionism
  232. Trump’s Rewriting of the Past for Evil
  233. The free speech presidency
  234. Populist science and the destruction of expertise
  235. Collapse of the Kursk Pocket
  236. This Day in Labor History: March 10, 1959
  237. The Sun Also Rises
  238. Mark Carney becomes Canadian Prime Minister
  239. Greenland. Panama Canal. Canada. Gaza.
  240. Elon and Trump’s war against healthcare for vets and cancer research
  241. Elon thinks that anti-Tesla protests are being driven by a dead guy
  242. The appropriate response to RFK Jr. is to destroy him
  243. The Definition of Trumpism
  244. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,834
  245. The party of death
  246. Music Notes
  247. Trump’s assistance to Daddy Putin getting a lot of Ukrainian civilians killed
  248. Syria Remains Unsettled
  249. Trump administration: Article II makes Article I unconstitutional
  250. Week 7
  251. The Empire Strikes Back
  252. Scenes from Broke Dick Mountain
  253. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,833
  254. Little Marco gets into screaming match with president
  255. “Have I Been Banned?”
  256. The “Fighting Antisemitism” Canard
  257. The art of the deal
  258. “DEI” is anything that makes white nationalists uncomfortable, continued
  259. Tanking Tesla
  260. Factions
  261. Heroin: You had ONE job
  262. LGM Podcast: Hackman
  263. Politics and the thought-terminating cliche
  264. The National Interest According to Trumpland
  265. Another Kennedy Killing
  266. How to stand up to unconstitutional bullying
  267. Cult of personality
  268. The Trumpcession
  269. Gavin Newsom acknowledges that rootless cosmopolitans have too much influence on German finance
  270. The Ever Brave Democratic Caucus
  271. The incredible further shrinking of Little Marco
  272. Trump revoking legal status of 240,000 Ukrainian war refugees
  273. Government by chaos, cnt’d
  274. In speech televised across Europe, Macron warns continent to prepare for war with Russia
  275. Locked in the trunk of a Tesla
  276. You didn’t have to love me like you did but you did, but you did. And I thank you
  277. What We Think Works to Protest Trump Might Not Work
  278. The SCOTUS’ muddled USAID ruling
  279. The Department of Defense Deputy Press Secretary is a Leo Frank troofer
  280. Slotkin’s rebuttal
  281. Thoughts on the state of the union
  282. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,832
  283. It’s been a short honeymoon
  284. LGM Film Club, Part 495: Husbands and Wives
  285. Watch Anything But the Trump Speech
  286. Trump crash stonks, Republicans run away
  287. Fire Sale!
  288. Government By Chaos
  289. A blow against NIMBYism and for sane and decent housing policy in….Cambridge?
  290. The chocolate ration has been raised to 20 grams per week
  291. Election of the Day: Federated States of Micronesia
  292. Liberal Urban Leadership!
  293. Negotiations?
  294. Not All Christians Suck
  295. Musk Attacks The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
  296. Enjoy Your Trump Groceries!
  297. UAW Organizing
  298. What is going on at the SCOTUS with the USAID funding freeze?
  299. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,831
  300. A return to the original impeachable sin
  301. Trump crash economy
  302. Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season
  303. Breaking news: Formerly vegan leopards unexpectedly turn carnivorous
  304. And as the planes crashed down [because we gutted the FAA] he thought “well, isn’t that nice”
  305. Nothing the Trump administration does should be supported by anyone who isn’t a fascist
  306. Trump Screws Over His Base, Part the Zillion
  307. The Rich Will Always Be Our Enemy
  308. Little Marco fires people for telling the truth about his administration’s murderous policies
  309. Sanewashing Trump’s mental deterioration
  310. Connectivity and Carrier Life
  311. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,830
  312. Academy Awards Open Thread
  313. Ponzi schemes, real and imagined
  314. Netanyahu announces blockade of food and aid shipments into Gaza with Trump’s support
  315. Oscar Thoughts
  316. Document, Document, Document!
  317. Recipe Review: Smitten Kitchen Carrot Tatin
  318. Trump belongs to Putin
  319. More Working Class Populism
  320. This Day in Labor History: March 2, 1957
  321. Music Notes
  322. Just say absolutely not
  323. Fash Ivy League Debate Club
  324. Election of the Weekend III: Tajikistan
  325. Election of the weekend II: Abkhazia
  326. Week 6
  327. Election of the weekend I: Hamburg
  328. Disgust
  329. February Reading List
  330. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,829
  331. Government inefficiency

February 2025

  1. Hegseth threatens unilateral military action in Mexcio
  2. What Zelenskyy understands about Trump’s smarmy lickspittle that too many American elites did not
  3. Cities of God
  4. A profile in courage, a narcissist, and a fascist bootlicker walk into a bar…
  5. Kayfabe for Hitler
  6. The Meeting
  7. All the Smartest Guys in One Government
  8. What Are Days of Action Supposed to Accomplish?
  9. Governance by Scam
  10. Money and attitude
  11. Does NATO Have a Future?
  12. Citibank collaborating with Trump administration’s attempt to use knowingly baseless criminal charges to illegally claw back already disbursed funds
  13. Brief Thoughts on the Thing
  14. LGM Film Club, Part 495: Exiled
  15. Lil’ Marco illegally condemns countless people to avoidable death and suffering
  16. A Handy Chart For Supporters of Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism
  17. The importance of Trump’s fake moderation
  18. Exit, voice, and loyalty
  19. The Party of Rural America: Life Expectancy in West Virginia is way too high
  20. Preordering Organizing America
  21. TechBro Apocalyptic Fantasy Hour
  22. In The Leopards’ Den
  23. The Cuddled Little Vice
  24. Complete Capitulation
  25. Primary the Terrible Democrats
  26. Donald Trump successfully pressures Romania into releasing human trafficking child rapist so he can return to the US
  27. RFK Jr. is taking your vaccines away
  28. Hackman
  29. Election of the Day: Ontario
  30. Make Ebola great again
  31. Goodbye, Dawn
  32. LGM Film Club, Part 494: In the Mood for Love
  33. Republicans: it’s fraudulent for the non-affluent to have access to healthcare
  34. The post-policy era?
  35. Billionaire Class Interest
  36. RFK Jr. claims first American murder victim this year
  37. Bezos Goes Gilded Age
  38. We Will Never Do Anything About Climate Change
  39. Mr. Government Welfare
  40. Democrats Who Suck
  41. Project Labor Agreements
  42. And that’s the way it is, February 26, 2025
  43. Musk: we must suspend the Constitution because it does not allow me to be the CEO of the United States
  44. LGM Film Club, Part 493: The Organizer
  45. House votes to reduce the deficit by pairing $4.5 trillion in tax cuts with $2 trillion reduction in federal spending
  46. Gangster Imperialism Works
  47. State Media
  48. Checking in on Seattle NIMBYs
  49. Author of “How to Fight Anti-Semitism” publishes defense of public Nazi salutes
  50. The Dunning-Kruger Coup
  51. Private jet decides to ignore DEI instructions from ATC in honor of DOGE initiative
  52. SCOTUS reverses Richard Glossip’s conviction
  53. The spaceship hidden by the comet’s tail
  54. LGM Podcast: The Magic Hours
  55. The new Lavender Scare
  56. Wilhoit’s Law enshrined by DOJ
  57. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,828
  58. I guess the honeymoon is over
  59. LGM Film Club, Part 492: Days of Heaven
  60. Inanity
  61. Andor 2
  62. Unhinged and Hallucinating
  63. “As President Trump’s Lawyers”
  64. Give it up DougJ
  65. Banksy shot
  66. Putin’s man in DC votes against boilerplate condemnation of unprovoked invasion
  67. On the lighter side: Rock stars and death
  68. Banana Republic Foreign Policy
  69. Local News and the Growing Resistance
  70. Roberta Flack, RIP
  71. Everything Changed When the Fire Nation Attacked: ATLA Turns Twenty
  72. No compassion
  73. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,827
  74. Trump nominates the Glenn Greenwald of Joe Rogans to be Deputy Director of the FBI
  75. Musk unilaterally shutters USAID
  76. An appropriate response to the Free Speech administration sending threatening letters in response to criticism of de facto president
  77. Is Agent Krasnov God’s imperfect vessel?
  78. Election of the Day: Germany
  79. DOGE: destroying the administrative state for trivial savings with Enron-caliber bookkeeping
  80. Stories of Quality Engineering
  81. Will John Roberts stand up to Donald Trump?
  82. What *Did* I Do Last Week?
  83. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,826
  84. Update on the post-Dobbs Republican pivot to maternal care
  85. Elon Musk ready to fire any federal worker who didn’t get enough done last week
  86. The Historical Analogy for Trump is the Gilded Age, Not Nazism
  87. Musk trying to buy Wisconsin judicial election to strangle its restoration of democratic elections
  88. Labor’s Moment of Truth
  89. Week 5
  90. Why We Gotta Figure This Out
  91. For the Trump administration, “anti-DEI” means “Jim Crow”
  92. At the dark end of the democratic street
  93. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,825
  94. The One Where They Purged the Senior Military Leadership
  95. Trump crash economy
  96. RFK Jr. acts immediately to ensure as many people get sick from viral infections as possible
  97. Is it good that the de facto president gives every appearance of having a serious substance abuse problem?
  98. Banana Republicans
  99. Working toward the Elon
  100. 10th circuit judge states in published opinion that Trump may be eligible for election to a third term
  101. Trump to attempt to illegally end USPS’s status as an independent agency
  102. Four Nations Etc. Open Thread
  103. Cool cool cool
  104. The conservative legal movement’s undermining of the 14th Amendment is a dry run for their undermining of the 22nd Amendment
  105. Trump’s War on Workers
  106. The Texas War on Women
  107. Hochul isn’t going to remove Adams
  108. Mitch Reaches the End
  109. Some Rumblings
  110. The Bernie Plan
  111. One Month
  112. This Day in Labor History: February 20, 1917
  113. Sean O’Brien: let’s not bicker over who fired who
  114. LGM Film Club, Part 492: The Big Gundown
  115. In the war for constitutional governance, Phil Murphy shoots the pro-democracy side in the back
  116. Have the emperor’s methods become unsound?
  117. You played the salesman who sold you a 20-year extended warranty like a drum
  118. ALL HAIL THE KING!
  119. A Litany of Greats
  120. The DEI Madness
  121. By a remarkable coincidence, Donald Trump’s view of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is now exactly the same as Vladimir Putin’s
  122. Figuring Out the Democratic Party’s Problems
  123. Setting the Terms for the Negotiation
  124. Fascist Solidarity
  125. Editor of most influential Beltway political newsletter: Franklin Delano who now?
  126. To what extent is MAGA a political movement based on sadism?
  127. LGM Podcast: Weaponizing InterdepenDANCE
  128. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,824
  129. Luke 10:25-37
  130. Trump: Ukraine should not have chosen to be invaded by Russia
  131. Head of D.C. Criminal Division resigns rather than pursuing a legally baseless prosecution
  132. Notes on the Bishop of Rome
  133. Make measles great again
  134. Election of the day: Bermuda
  135. Update on the post-Dobbs Republican pivot to maternal care
  136. Reactionary beasts and the politics of law
  137. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,823
  138. Hochul appears open to removing Donald Trump’s sock puppet
  139. Elon’s army of groyper incels coming for your Social Security data
  140. Demonstrations Today
  141. Intellectual death recorded
  142. Bezos spikes Anti-Musk ad
  143. A Note On Strategy
  144. Musk/Trump respond to increase in plane crashes with indiscriminate mass firings of people in an already understaffed agency
  145. It’s Not The Egg Shortage We Should Be Worrying About
  146. Review: The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia
  147. Our misfortune
  148. The Negotiations
  149. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,822
  150. Musk Youth wants full access to your tax returns
  151. Trump to farmers: drop dead
  152. Vice signalling
  153. Boycotting President Elon
  154. The collaborators
  155. New Baby CV!
  156. Week 4
  157. What’s Going on at Planned Parenthood?
  158. In Opposition to Nazi References, in Favor of Gilded Age References
  159. Bad Unionism
  160. The Tech Bros Who Destroyed the World
  161. Ebikes and Bike Lanes
  162. 3 Quick Recipe Reviews
  163. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,821
  164. Government by unaccountable moron
  165. Music Notes
  166. The Leader Principle
  167. Musk and Trump are stopping the distribution of live-saving aid and firing anybody who tells the public about it
  168. Ilya Shapiro and Josh Blackman defend the rule of law
  169. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,820
  170. Red state legislators upset that their constituents’ faces are being eaten
  171. The mainstream press should boycott Trump’s free form fascism explorations until the AP’s access is restored
  172. In Munich
  173. Bove finds his Bork
  174. Authoritarian clown show
  175. Trump and competitive authoritarianism
  176. DOE, NNSA, and the Weapons Complex
  177. Hochul must remove Adams
  178. What Shall We Call Them? Followup
  179. Deputy Attorney General admonished DOJ lawyer for taking notes on his criminal fuckin’ conspiracy
  180. Kathy Hochul fires the first shot
  181. Trump’s deranged press conference
  182. What Shall We Call Them?
  183. CNN Headline: “Vaccine skeptic RFK Jr. confirmed as health secretary”
  184. Kevin Drum Is Very Ill
  185. The 2025 Hugo Awards: My Hugo Ballot
  186. The future Republicans want
  187. I’m not saying they’re not going to get their hair mussed
  188. Elon wets Trump’s beak ten million times
  189. Women in Combat
  190. House Republicans propose devastating cuts to Medicaid and SNAP to (partially) pay for upper-class tax cuts
  191. Trumpflation
  192. Trump Bends The Knee To Putin
  193. Trumpism’s anti-DEI agenda has nothing to do with legitimate criticisms of DEI
  194. The economic populisms of Donald Trump, economic populist
  195. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,819
  196. Conspiracy theory nation
  197. Living the fever dream
  198. More on the Potential Death of USAID
  199. Totally not a cult
  200. Republicans hate it when government works I
  201. How Reactionary Centrism Brought Us To This Moment
  202. Delusion and desire
  203. Shutting down the government
  204. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,818
  205. Why would you buy a Tesla when you could just give money to the Nazi Party directly?
  206. Nominally bipartisan corruption
  207. Trump: ethnic cleansing in Gaza should be total and permanent
  208. What are we doing here?
  209. Judge rules that Trump administration is not in compliance with the law
  210. Musk’s Goals
  211. Nostalgia Comes Fast
  212. A Decent Idea is a Decent Idea
  213. Tom Robbins, 1932-2025
  214. Reciprocal tariffs and Donald Trump’s bottomless stupidity
  215. Jaguars and Faces
  216. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,817
  217. LGM Film Club, Part 491: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
  218. Super Bowl Open Thread II
  219. Super Bowl Open Thread I
  220. Well that’s just Super
  221. Election of the Day II: Kosovo
  222. Election of the day: Ecuador
  223. Hubie
  224. “How Much Can I Hate Myself?”
  225. Leopards, Faces, Etc
  226. If it happened there
  227. All the Best People
  228. Curtis Yarvin’s lunatic fantasies are being used as a blueprint by President Musk
  229. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,816
  230. “You can’t be a senator in private”
  231. Music Notes
  232. The F-Word
  233. Week 3
  234. Project 2025 guy literally put in charge of the CFPB
  235. The excuses for anticipatory obedience
  236. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,815
  237. Trained lawlessness
  238. LGM Film Club, Part 490: Love Film
  239. Hillary Clinton email server update
  240. LGM Podcast: The Big Game
  241. Elon Musk free speech absolutism update
  242. J.D. Vance, who is married to an Indian-American, posted this
  243. Don’t Buy Teslas
  244. New Frontiers in Whole Foods Unionbusting
  245. Naming the calamity
  246. A Trumpian Farm Policy
  247. The End of USAID
  248. NCAA immediately acts to implement total ban on trans athletes
  249. A Worthless Democrat
  250. People stuck with implanted medical devices because President Elon arbitrarily and illegally cut off funding for medical trials
  251. Federal judge blocks the Elon Youth from access to Treasury files
  252. L’Etat C’est Trump
  253. On the X and Meta Questions…
  254. A Beautiful Real Estate Deal
  255. When Will Blue States Embrace Unions?
  256. Forbidden Words
  257. Getting What You Asked For
  258. Manic dope fiend Elon Musk’s satellites are falling out of the sky
  259. We are ruled by <s>effete</s> petty arseholes
  260. The Musk Fiction
  261. DOD getting rid of Holocaust Remembrance Day; Navy pausing Sexual Assault Prevention Response training
  262. The information security presidency
  263. Supine, submissive and subordinate: Congress and the Musk coup
  264. We Don’t Know What Musk’s Script Kiddies Are Doing
  265. Our Weekend with Tariffs
  266. Odds are you won’t live to see tomorrow
  267. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,814
  268. The brazen Mister Trump finally making imperialism great again
  269. Speaking of Special Elections…
  270. Fetterman supports US occupation of Gaza
  271. Genocide Joe Baby!
  272. Rally At Treasury
  273. More of this please
  274. Stories from the front lines
  275. Republican opposition to access to healthcare now entails support for bringing child-killing illnesses back
  276. Some Computer Explanations
  277. Special Elections
  278. RFK and Gabbard will be confirmed
  279. Get to Know Your North American Neighbor Part II: Canada
  280. Housing and Mountaintop Removal
  281. 25-year-old techbro Musk acolyte given complete access to US government payment system
  282. A Government By White Men, For White Men
  283. The Crazy: Wyoming Version
  284. Marco Rubio thinks it’s a great idea to deport US citizens to foreign prisons if the price is right
  285. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,813
  286. Trump/Vance want to do to the US what the Bush administration did to Iraq
  287. LGM Podcast: He Not Busy Being Born Is Busy Dying
  288. Rare Earths For Military Aid To Ukraine?
  289. The new populist Republican Party fires CFPB head, then orders it to stop work entirely
  290. Trump folds again
  291. Schatz to put hold on all nominees until USAID is restored
  292. Unelected South African drug addict takes over the government
  293. The Nonviolence Fetish
  294. How About Democrats Act Like a Political Party?
  295. The Long Roots of Technofascism
  296. Starting To Move
  297. Latest on the Shakedown…
  298. On Failing to Keep Mexico Weird…
  299. Trump thinks a trade deficit is a subsidy
  300. This Day in Labor History: February 3, 1908
  301. Inside the civil service
  302. Music Notes
  303. Trumpflation
  304. Names
  305. Fay Vincent, RIP
  306. More notes on stupidity
  307. It’s now the official policy of the US government to wage a trade war against Canada until it can be annexed
  308. Elon Musk Stops Payments To Lutheran Family Services On The Advice Of Michael Flynn
  309. Notes on stupidity
  310. It’s All about Having New Littorals to Conquer
  311. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,812
  312. The response to Trump’s McKinleynomics
  313. The Low Grocery Prices President imposes huge across-the-board mutually punitive tariff on closest allies
  314. Bessent gives unelected drug-addled fascist full access to the Treasury’s payment system
  315. Trump-fluffing owner of the Los Angeles Times dishonestly edits an op-ed to make it appear pro-RFK Jr.
  316. Week 2
  317. Trump orders military to flood California
  318. January Reading List
  319. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,811
  320. Sanewashing a coup

January 2025

  1. A coup by any other name
  2. This Is A Coup
  3. Friday afternoon in Trumpland
  4. Trump wants you to pay more
  5. Refusing to comply
  6. Who Goes MAGA?
  7. The birth of an authoritarian nation
  8. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,810
  9. Killing kids for profit
  10. Marianne Faithfull, RIP
  11. Irony found dead after choking on someone else’s vomit
  12. Page Removed
  13. The Dignity Wraith comes for Zuckerberg
  14. Reagan National air traffic control was understaffed on the night of the crash
  15. Russian Refineries Going Up In Flames
  16. The Plane-Helicopter Crash
  17. Elon pushed the head of the FAA out, replaced him with nobody
  18. Musk announces he will be lead engineer on Operation Warp Speed II, aka the new Air Force One
  19. Begun, these Bourbon Wars Have?
  20. The Trump Administration’s War on DEI
  21. Human error
  22. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,809
  23. Plane crash in DC
  24. Nominating RFK Jr. is an attack on the public health of all Americans
  25. Zuck pays Trump $25 million tribute
  26. Donald the Dove, the free speech president, to issue order cancelling the visas of Palestinian rights protestors
  27. Schrodinger’s freeze
  28. Pushback Works!
  29. No longer fit to print
  30. Can Trump End Russia’s War Against Ukraine?
  31. The Sanctions Game
  32. This Day in Labor History: January 29, 2009
  33. Apply to the Patterson School!
  34. LGM Film Club, Part 489: Bonnie & Clyde
  35. Fork You
  36. Who Needs a Laugh Tonight?
  37. Everyone needs to stop pretending to be so savvy
  38. RFK Jr, charismatic psychopath
  39. The Supreme Court and the Impoundment Crisis
  40. The Podcast Election
  41. Not even a story
  42. The President of the Working Class
  43. Every issue is a kitchen table issue
  44. Tulsi Gabbard’s Dicey Sources of Information on Syrian Chemical Weapons
  45. The Best Friend China Ever Had
  46. Just Put Trump on Mt. Rushmore
  47. Trumps illegally orders halt to all federal loan programs
  48. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,808
  49. Thom Tillis hung Danielle Hegseth out to dry
  50. To the Archives—Mitch the No Vote Version
  51. Trump bans trans people from military service
  52. Career DOJ lawyers fired for crime of doing their jobs
  53. Make pandemics great again
  54. Trump’s Gestapo-style ICE raids
  55. Elon: Italy’s famous cultural homogeneity must be upheld at all costs
  56. R-E-S-P-E-C-T
  57. The Fall of the Idols
  58. LGM Podcast: What Happened?
  59. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,807
  60. Trump advocates ethnic cleansing of Gaza Strip
  61. NFL etc. open thread part II
  62. Trade war with Colombia over Trump’s use of US military to transport deportees
  63. NFL Open Thread: the man who had everything but what he wanted edition
  64. Staying alive
  65. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,806
  66. This Is Our Country Now
  67. Musk tells Germans to “move beyond” the Holocaust at neo-Nazi rally
  68. 4Chan history is as bad as law office history
  69. Week 1
  70. Friday night massacre
  71. Five-day catastrophe
  72. Let’s Make Brinner
  73. This Day in Labor History: January 25, 1960
  74. JD Vance casts tiebreaking vote to confirm unqualified, abusive drunk as Secretary of Defense
  75. Kennedy worship in 2025 is an embarrassment that could get children killed
  76. You do not, under any circumstances, “gotta hand it to” pseudo-scholarship supporting the Trump administration’s attempted nullification of the 14th Amendment
  77. Cavalcade of morons/naturalist Emperor update
  78. Panama!
  79. Update on the egg affordability president
  80. The Books I’m Looking Forward to in 2025
  81. Trumpism and the academic left
  82. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,805
  83. Oscar nominations
  84. Abortion moderate Donald Trump expresses his moderation by pardoning anti-abortion activists who illegally blockaded clinics
  85. All the Trumpy FP Stuff So Far…
  86. What the 2024 presidential election looked like in terms of all eligible voters
  87. Reagan-appointed federal judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship EO, wonders how any lawyer could draft such a thing
  88. Trump’s war on the Civil Rights Act
  89. Trump is already trying to assassinate his political foes
  90. The whiteness of the wail
  91. This Day in Labor History: January 23, 1922
  92. Being anti-fascist now a fireable offense
  93. What the attack on birthright citizenship means
  94. Plutot Trump que le Wokisme
  95. Trump stands up for the sacred First Amendment right to solicit murders
  96. Is American democracy dying, and is it worth saving anyway?
  97. Speaking Truth To Power
  98. This Day in Labor History: January 22, 1905
  99. Trump/Vance: fuck the blue
  100. LGM Film Club, Part 488: The Original Kings of Comedy
  101. Ichiro!
  102. More extremely damning reporting about Pete Hegseth for Joni Ernst and Susan Collins to ignore
  103. Worst Day Ever?
  104. Speaking of pathetic, I don’t know anything about gaming but this sounds somewhere beyond pathetic
  105. If Trump continues to legitimize political violence Mitch McConnell might have to furrow his brow a second time
  106. Nazi-adjacent law professor still can’t quit Hunter Biden
  107. Cecile Richards, RIP
  108. What Happened to Separated Families
  109. Politics Today
  110. How Not to Do It
  111. Garth Hudson, RIP
  112. How to do it
  113. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,804
  114. Am I a United States citizen?
  115. Trump pardons virtually all 1/6 seditionists
  116. People, this is supposed to be a HAPPY occasion
  117. Springtime for Elon
  118. Do not treat Trump’s attempts at constitutional nullification as legitimate
  119. The sci-fi fantasy worlds of the broligarchs
  120. More last second pardons/clemency
  121. Those are the rules
  122. “I said that I would see you because I had heard that you were a serious man, to be treated with respect.”
  123. Overrating the Media
  124. Biden issues pre-emptive pardons for Fauci, Milley, and 1/6 committee members
  125. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,803
  126. I’ll go in and rob everyone blind and go to Florida because nobody ever thought of this before
  127. Department of Government Efficiency makes its first major cut
  128. NFL Open Thread, evening edition
  129. Voters Don’t Pay Attention to Policy, Part the Million
  130. NFL Open Thread: this is the good stuff
  131. Turns Out that Announcing Your Ethnic Cleansing in Advance is a Problem
  132. Evaluating the Biden Presidency
  133. Profiting from addiction
  134. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,802
  135. Good and hard
  136. NFL Open Thread: Divisional Round
  137. Supreme Court upholds TikTok divestiture law
  138. Foreign Travel is Part of the Job
  139. A Great Day For Blogging
  140. Trying to get over
  141. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,801
  142. CBS executives consider using frivolous lawsuit as a pretext for giving Donald Trump a massive bribe
  143. RFK Jr. tried to block Covid vaccines that probably saved a couple of million American lives
  144. Trump/Putin sock puppet fires head of House Intel
  145. Some thoughts on the next X years
  146. Joe Biden engages in empty gesture after doing nothing regarding issue for the first 99.79% of his administration
  147. ERA – YES!
  148. Man about to be indicted by IRS for massive tax fraud scheme publishes NYT op-ed advocating letting Donald Trump off the hook
  149. Wingnut venue shopping
  150. Unexpected Disassembly of Seventh Starship Launch
  151. Merrick Garland has one last chance to do something right
  152. The Miller told Zuck his tale
  153. Lynch
  154. David Lynch, RIP
  155. Trump and the 25th amendment
  156. I Must Be Sitting in the Front Row
  157. How will the Biden presidency be remembered?
  158. Is Bourbon Done?
  159. Because it’s wreckable
  160. Congestion pricing is extraordinarily effective public policy
  161. Trump’s Attorney General-Designate is an election denialist and Constitution denialist
  162. Should 7 Year Olds Get Time for Lunch? Opinions Differ
  163. Ceasefire
  164. It Begins
  165. The party of evil
  166. All of the Names
  167. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,800
  168. Events from Seoul
  169. House passes anti-trans bill on party-line vote
  170. Susan Collins and Joni Ernst refuse to meet with woman who accused Pete Hegseth of raping her
  171. Environmental politics, the academy, and air travel
  172. Power to the People
  173. Some More on Gaiman
  174. FBI already in the tank for Trump
  175. This Day in Labor History: January 14, 1977
  176. The Smith Report on 1/6
  177. LGM Film Club, Part 447: On Dangerous Ground
  178. NFL Open Thread: Bye Beav edition
  179. Gaiman
  180. University of Colorado bars students from campus for protesting violence against Palestinians
  181. Do not support making polio great again
  182. The Freedom Rides and Resistance to Trumpism Today
  183. How Much Does SEIU’s Return to the AFL-CIO Matter?
  184. Treason in Defense of Slavery Hegseth
  185. And must ask the questions
  186. Science v. Superstition
  187. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,799
  188. LGM Film Club, Part 446: Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
  189. Charles Person, RIP
  190. Without Immigration, We Are Nothing
  191. Today in NIMBYism
  192. Flooding the swamp, with wealthy libertarian assholes
  193. NFL Open Thread: Super Wildcard Part Deux
  194. Idiot wind
  195. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,798
  196. Republicans will never give up trying to take people’s healthcare away
  197. LGM Film Club, Part 445: It Happens to Us
  198. Music Notes
  199. NFL Open Thread: Super Wilcard Edition
  200. Evading Accountability
  201. Who is Fighting the Fires in California?
  202. SEIU Rejoins AFL-CIO
  203. Soon We Will Know
  204. MAGA Zuckerberg
  205. Climate change blues
  206. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,797
  207. LGM Podcast: The NFC
  208. LGM Film Club, Part 444: The Assassin
  209. LGM Podcast: Black Monday and the AFC
  210. Red-Brown Donald the Dove Dreams Never Die
  211. The perils of presidentialism, convicted felon edition
  212. Southern Poverty Law Center: Unionbusters
  213. The eternal reactionary search for pretext
  214. Opening The DNC’s Black Box
  215. Port Strike Averted
  216. Age-adjusted mortality rates and public health discourse
  217. The Greatest Scam in History
  218. Anita Bryant
  219. SCOTUS declines to delay Trump’s sentencing by 5-4 vote
  220. Stand in the fire
  221. How the sausage gets made
  222. North Carolina Republicans trying to steal another election
  223. A cozy little club
  224. The Greenland Gambit
  225. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,796
  226. RFK Jr, child killer
  227. LGM Film Club, Part 443: Turumba
  228. Films of 2025
  229. The California Fires
  230. Life for the Next 4+ Years
  231. Because Sam enjoyed being a gangster, and he didn’t give a damn who knew it
  232. Why is Trump blaming Newsom for the Los Angeles fires?
  233. The new alignment
  234. The symbolic meaning of Jimmy Carter’s election
  235. Global Apparel: Loving That Forced Labor
  236. The Sclerotic Democratic Leadership
  237. Counting Birds
  238. The Foreign Policy Crises of Trump 47
  239. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,795
  240. Pacific Palisades Fire reaches Getty Villa
  241. LGM Film Club, Part 442: Early Spring
  242. We must destroy democracy in order to save it
  243. Zuckerberg is an enthusiastic Trump collaboator
  244. This is just going to go great
  245. The Evolution of the Air War
  246. Trump wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America
  247. No More Russian Natural Gas Through Ukraine
  248. Amazon paying $40 million to Melania Trump
  249. The World War II Memorial
  250. A Scumbag is Dead
  251. The Snail Darter and Environmental Strategies
  252. Democratic Cluelessness
  253. Democracy uber alles
  254. 1/6 was ultimately a major triumph for Trump and his political allies
  255. Elbow Guy
  256. Pay to play
  257. Congestion pricing in Manhattan
  258. Arkansas Governance
  259. Freelance Mole In The Militias
  260. Remembering January 6
  261. Get Rid of the Performative Land Acknowledgements
  262. Trudeau Done
  263. Forgetting January 6th
  264. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,794
  265. Collaboration, not acquiescence
  266. NFL Open Thread: Baker and Sam Edition
  267. Welcome to the Public Domain
  268. Bending the knee
  269. The VPN Industry is Booming in South Carolina!
  270. Maybe people think the economy is bad because journalists are economically illiterate
  271. State of the Unions
  272. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,793
  273. One small victory against NIMBYs
  274. LGM Film Club, Part 441: Three Wise Girls
  275. Music Notes
  276. Jeff Bezos spikes editorial cartoon, proving cartoon correct
  277. Arnold Rüütel, 1928-2024
  278. Chuckwalla and Sáttítla National Monuments
  279. Amazon: What an Employer
  280. More Bad Public History
  281. The Men Who Withdraw
  282. Further Down the Laurel County Rabbit Hole…
  283. The feminization of college
  284. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,792
  285. Mike Johnson delivers fake prayer
  286. Judge signals he plans to sentence Donald Trump to a good talking to
  287. All RFK Jr. apologia is anti-vaxx
  288. Johnson finally squeaks it out
  289. Reps in Disarray
  290. Well This Sounds Familiar…
  291. Child care and elder care in America as unaffordable luxuries
  292. Click-to-cancel
  293. LGM Film Club, Part 440: Bad Luck Banging, or Loony Porn
  294. The Afghanistan Papers
  295. Trump is still blaming immigration for a mass killing committed by a veteran born in Texas
  296. The risks and benefits of moderate drinking and the journalistic hazards of epidemiology
  297. The Carter FP Legacy
  298. Child Labor and Divided America
  299. Drilling Santa Barbara
  300. Dockworkers Readying for Strike
  301. What exactly is the problem?
  302. He added falsely
  303. “On the production of fresh wingnuts” revisited
  304. America 2025
  305. FBI believes multiple people were involved in New Orleans attacks
  306. New Orleans Updates
  307. College Football Playoff Open Thread
  308. This is who leads us
  309. Red Cabbage and Purple Carrot Gratin
  310. 2024: A Historian’s Reading List
  311. Man uses truck to murder at least ten people in New Orleans
  312. Year in Review
  313. Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,791
  314. Patrimonialism
  315. College Football Playoff Thread: Fiesta Bowl Edition

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