2025
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December 2025
- Greetings from the Future
- Trump vetoes bipartisan clean water law to punish state for enforcing its laws, politician for wanting to see the Epstein files
- The War Against Venezuela
- The vagaries of literary fame
- Performative tantrums for Trump (Update)
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,049
- Alone in the dark
- Well, sheeeeeeeeeit
- Trump take Social Security
- Melania, The Movie!
- Dogs/vomit. Fools/folly. White supremacists/
- Donald Trump is very concerned about fraud, so you should be too
- The Great Tolkien Reread: A Long-Expected Party
- Somehow, the Iranian Nuclear Program Came Back
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,048
- Peace president bombed land target in Venezuela
- Homage to Catalonia and the decline of leftist aspirations
- A Change of Mind
- Realism! Restraint!
- Donald Trump and remote diagnosis
- Why is Donald Trump getting frequent IV injections in both hands?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,047
- This will hurt him more than it hurts you
- Drugs, Oil, and Immigrants
- NFL Open Thread
- Best TV of 2025
- Look on my works, ye mighty
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,046
- Election of the weekend V: Kosovo
- Election of the weekend IV: Myanmar
- Election of the Weekend III: Guinea
- Election of the Weekend II: Central African Republic
- Election of the weekend I: Cote D’Ivoire
- Week 49
- More on the Peace President’s Christmas bombings
- LGM’s Southeast Asia Correspondent
- Somebody Else’s Battleships
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,045
- Man mistakes himself for white; hilarity/fascism ensue
- Extremely online president has very tired message
- What Do We Expect From the Epstein Files?
- More from the Peace President!
- Columbia and the iron law of institutions
- This Day in Labor History: December 26, 1996
- Merry Christmas From The Peace President
- All I want for Christmas is …
- Christmas NFL/NBA Open Thread
- Christmas morning
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,044
- Christmas Eve Thread
- Revisiting the 2023-24 Detroit Pistons in light of subsequent developments
- All Sugar Cookies All the Time
- The argument behind yesterday’s ruling
- Pain without gain
- Merry Christmas v. Happy Holidays
- The Golden Fleet?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,043
- Trump’s business is corruption and business is booming
- Supreme Court does not permit Trump to send troops into Chicago
- 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
- Turning Points
- Life is Unfair: A love story
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,042
- The MAGA field is littered with failed kiss-asses
- LGM Film Club, Part 524: Pioneer Axe
- Canadian network aired too-hot-for-Bari report
- The Celebrity Steakhouse
- Trump class battleships
- Trump take energy
- Gaming Notes
- A Nice Quiet Story
- LGM Podcast: If You Love It, Let It Kill You
- Trump Take Greenland
- Advancing the ball
- James Ransone, RIP
- Affordability
- This Day in Labor History: December 22, 1945
- Bari Weiss spiked a story for being “incompletely reported” because the Trump administration refused to respond to any questions about it
- LGM Film Club, Part 523: Drug War
- Josh Gruenbaum to Negotiating Team
- Bari Weiss misplaces story that would be unfavorable to the Trump administration
- Tucker’s Takes: Racism against white men is as bad as antisemitism. Only much worse.
- JD Vance: our coalition accepts everyone who thinks the Democrat Party is controlled by Jewish financiers
- NFL Open Thread: Game of the Year edition
- The CNN Paywall
- Fashion and Historical Memory
- Some further thoughts on affordability
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,041
- $100 gets you 5 minutes in the car
- Warning: Some links in this post feature Andrew Tate getting punched in the face
- Republicans who expect a normal presidential primary report to me for wallet inspection
- Music Notes
- Groyper Nation
- The affordability crisis
- Week 48
- College Football Playoff Saturday Thread
- Director of Health and Human Services: not enough kids are dying
- The political/financial crisis of the American university in the Trump era
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,040
- This is Fine
- Trump administration fails to release Epstein Files
- Another pilgrim on the Chris Christie path to political oblivion
- Need Some LoomCoin Love this Christmas?
- Horatio Alger’s Darkest Tale
- Lies, damned lies, and Trumpism
- Gil Gerard RIP
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,039
- Release the report!
- LGM Film Club, Part 522: Heart of Glass
- Thursday Open Thread: DVOA Bowl Edition
- All Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends
- RFK responds to doctors pointing out that he is getting children killed by creating more avoidable child death
- Brothers in misogyny
- What Will Our Brilliant Media Savant Think of Next???
- Thank You For Your Service
- Can Democrats Win in Texas?
- Epstein’s Wealth
- Building Without A Foundation
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,038
- Former Harvard Law professor: Constitution ambiguous on the question of whether a 4-year-old born in Italy can be president
- LGM Film Club, Part 521: Augusta
- Arnett
- Verbal Incontinence Open Thread
- Reiner
- Podhoretz
- It’s just that her appeal is becoming more selective
- Bongino is bongoing
- Sinema of the absurd
- A garbage president for garbage people
- John Roberts’s lie about democratic accountability
- Not Made for TV
- Kushner’s Trump Belgrade plans crushed, Paramount deal ditched
- If You Just Refuse to Study Climate Change, It Will All Go Away
- Russell Vought moves to destroy government’s leading climate change research institution
- Trump’s War on the Forests
- War and Peace
- War for oil? Yes
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,037
- Republicans take health care
- LGM Film Club, Part 520: Itam Hakim, Hopiit
- Living in an abusive political culture
- Deranged Trump Syndrome
- Trump take jobs
- Director of Poasting
- The Great Tolkien Reread: Introduction
- Trump’s Unionbusting
- Taking notes on a criminal conspiracy and then publishing them in major media outlets
- Trump Unemployment
- The Broken Recycling System
- The Last Second MAGA Desperation to Stop Citizenship
- Burn 3
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,036
- LGM Film Club, Part 519: California Split
- Joe Ely, RIP
- The Hilarity of Dead Africans
- Anything for a Reichstag Fire
- Tne broligarchs
- Raised a Cain
- LGM Podcast: The Trump NSS
- Another day, another shooting, same FBI director fucking up the investigation (updated for context)
- The new normal
- Eliminationist rhetoric and the GOP
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,035
- Rob Reiner and his wife apparently murdered
- The collateral benefits of Trump’s wars
- Extremely online at the Tiffany Network
- No, There Is Not A Nuclear Weapon On Nanda Devi
- NFL Open Thread: Old Man Rivers edition
- Thinking About Jefferson and the American Contradiction
- Another holiday massacre
- Scumbag Don’s Fake War on Drugs
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,034
- LGM Film Club, Part 518: Rushmore
- The American Way of Death
- What’s America’s Worst Democratic Governor Up To?
- Kavanaugh Katch-22s
- Week 47
- Los Alamos During The Cold War
- “Maybe I’m Naive, or an Incurable Socialist”
- Junk numbers, general innumeracy, and the death of shame
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,033
- The Hoosier rebellion
- The Capture of SCOTUSBlog
- The Sherrone Moore debacle
- Not even on his best day (updated)
- The plot against the king
- The Warners
- Trump issues “pardon” for seditionist convicted under state law
- The Republican plan for healthcare is that you’re not rich you should not be able to get healthcare
- I can take a hint
- A major Beltway scandal
- Looks Like It’s “Or Bust”
- South Carolina with an outbreak of the Bobby Kennedys
- A Legacy of Spies
- A quid needs a quo
- A Couple of Thoughts on the National Security Strategy
- A Pirate’s Life for Me!
- Trump seizes Venezuelan oil tanker
- Trump, dementia, and the 25th amendment
- Heckuva job
- Elon Musk’s final solution to the immigration question
- The Fall of Mark Welsh
- This Day in Labor History: December 10, 1906
- Deep down in Florida
- Libertarianism under the false cover of formalism
- Should the field goal rules be changed in the NFL?
- The “M” in “MAGA” stands for “misogyny”
- Ramble on
- Trump raise prices
- Welcome to my nightmare
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,032
- How much are they going to take?
- Let’s Go Bowling!
- Trump to offer bailout to a small minority of the people damaged by his tariffs
- The Unitary Executive is just the first punch
- Progress and its discontents
- Transnational Kleptocracy and American Authoritarian Consolidation
- White supremacist America
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,031
- Trump to search for the real price inflator
- Tom Cotton succinctly explains MAGA foreign policy
- Drone Damage to Chernobyl Confinement Structure
- NFL Open Thread: Stay in School Edition
- On Mamdani’s Foreign Policy
- Grading college papers in Jesusland
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,030
- Did you ever meet a woman with a death wish?
- Obergruppenfuehrer Miller orders cancellation of naturalization ceremonies
- The fact that there’s barely a president is in fact a major national crisis
- Week 46
- College Football Week 15 Thread
- Trump replaces MLK Day with his own birthday
- The Data Center Backlash
- Secretary Pete Fights Congress
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,029
- Play it, Steve
- Does He Get a Preemptive Pardon?
- Committing War Crimes on Behalf of Suriname
- Supreme Court grants cert to sub-frivolous appeal
- Make Hepatitis B Great Again
- Breaking: Donald Trump awarded peace prize that a lot of people are saying is MORE prestigious than the Nobel Peace Prize
- The non-fog of non-war
- Republican voters and conspiracism
- This Day in Labor History: December 5, 1997
- It’s not fascism unless… nah, fuck it. It’s fascism
- 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
- Drug Use Is A Civil Problem
- Played them all the old songs, thought that’s why they came
- Head of Military Ops forced out by Hegseth for opposing his unauthorized murders of civilians
- John Roberts et al, accessories to murder
- On Legal Justifications
- Today’s Hearing On War Crimes
- Making murder respectable
- Trump pardons grifter indicted by his administration earlier this year
- The new conservatives
- Who Does the Trumpist War on the Public Lands Serve?
- The loud parts through a bullhorn
- I Can’t Believe This Extremist Right-Wing Christian Doesn’t Treat His Female Colleagues with Respect
- Continuing Vandalism
- Sustain the President & You Protect the White Man
- You can apparently be stripped of the status of economist
- The scandal of American political journalism
- Sleep will be difficult the night before the announcement of the winner of the first FIFA World Peace Prize
- The “game recognize game” pardon cycle crosses party lines again
- War criminal without war
- Sparkling War Crimes
- Tn 7 2
- To Fight Or Not
- Death by Lightning
- The way we live now
- Jersey Gonna Jersey
- Sleepy Don: people being targeted for crackdowns based on their race
- My honor is called loyalty
- A media wired for RFK Jr.
- This is the reason
- The machinery of the world
- LGM Giving Tuesday: Oaxacan Dog Rescue
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,028
- Former Today Show host goes full fash
- Sometimes In Life, You Get What You Ask For
- Toward a unified theory of the Trump cabinet
- Sacking the US Treasury
- Gridiron Chaos in the Bluegrass
- The American right and the “Jewish question”
- November Reading List
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,027
- The amorality of the pundit class
November 2025
- I’ve got a question for you
- Radiation Yum Yum
- NFL Open Thread: Checkout Time in Vegas Edition
- Former JAGs Say It’s Murder
- The Corruption of American Foreign Policy
- The secret life of Trumpist intellectuals
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,026
- The game recognize game pardon cycle
- Old man look at my life
- Music Notes
- The Peace President orders unilateral no-fly zone over Venezuela
- Access and solidarity
- Week 45
- The Slave Labor Scam Complex
- College Football Week 14 Thread
- Precursors of Trumpism
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,025
- “Securing Our Homeland From the Drugs that Are Killing Our people”
- “The order was to kill everybody”
- POW/MIA hysteria and the 1992 presidential campaign
- Life during the free speech administration
- Is MAGA Falling Apart? No.
- Farewell, Connies
- An imperial message
- Frohes Erntedankfest!
- LGM Film Club, Part 517: Liz and the Blue Bird
- Mamdani and the Public Sector Unions
- The Trumpist Perversion of Christianity
- Thanksgiving NFL Open Thread
- Terrible Food Day
- Happy Thanksgiving!
- Paranoia runs deep
- Election of the Day: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Inoculating the fascist body against contamination
- Kennedy Katch and Kill Kontinued
- Grassley
- Let’s Make Sure No One Wants to Visit America
- The end of the accountability
- Making whooping cough great again
- A Thanksgiving Reckoning
- A Better Peace
- Hope from the Kids
- Taking Donald Trump’s evident cognitive deterioration seriously
- Sleepy Don
- Everything You Ever Wanted
- I’ve Said It Before – The Realtor Who Sold My House Could Do Better Than This
- Trump administration telling demonstrable lies to the Supreme Court to justify domestic military mobilizations
- RFK Jr. names anti-vaxx fanatic #2 at CDC
- Little Marco’s Army are on their way
- The Misogynist Idiocy of 2024
- LGM Podcast: Twenty-Eight Points
- The canons of Eileen
- America, November 2025
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,024
- A world of ratfuckers
- We regret to inform you of a minor editing error
- Is using public office to encourage the spread of deadly viral infections bad? Views differ
- Couple of NFL football stats things
- Indictments against Comey and James dismissed because 3rd place runner up in Miss Colorado USA pageant invalidly appointed
- DOGE moves on to the next boiler room
- Degrees of separation
- New International Student Enrollment Craters
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,023
- H. Rap Brown
- Udo Kier RIP
- Putin’s man in DC continues to push Ukraine to surrender
- A battle with her blood
- Will Democrats Govern by Democratic Principles?
- Rule by Project 2025
- Southern Prisoner Profit
- NFL Open Thread
- Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 2,022
- Trump peace plan literally drafted by Russia; nobody in the administration realized this
- Kennedy Katch and Kill
- Alamo Lies
- Schadenfreude is not just a village in Germany
- Right Wing Populists Hate Workers: Indian Edition
- The Party of Billionaires
- Week 44
- The Folly of Center-Left Parties Chasing after Nativist Voters
- College Football Week 13 Thread
- The medium is the mob
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,021
- Trump briefly forgets that he’s supposed to hate Mamdani
- The Culture Wars Claim Another Victim
- Bill Cassidy beginning to wonder if the wallet inspector is ever going to return
- LGM Podcast: NFL Midseason Report
- Listen To Patti Smith
- Tehran Runs Out Of Water
- Steve Witkoff Rolled Again
- Epstein’s financial collaborators
- What Ought to Be Ought Not to Be So Hard
- They make a desolation and call it peace
- This Day in Labor History: November 21, 1896
- Prosecutors drop charges brought to cover-up unprovoked shooting
- EAIAC: seditious treason edition
- The fragility of American constitutionalism
- An Epstein Honeymoon
- RFK Jr.’s CDC: Vaccines may cause autism even though there’s no evidence to support this belief
- The Tariff!
- We Have an Enemy and His Name is John Roberts
- Trump administration: not enough pedestrians are being killed
- Consequences for elite misbehavior
- Commander ate the jobs report
- Don’t Give Up The Ship
- Bullshitting is a better campaign strategy than governing strategy
- Visualize World Peace Prize, Ukraine Edition
- Voting to Reject Trump’s Attacks on Federal Unions
- Outsourcing Our Toxic Recycling
- Lawyer hired by Donald Trump for deeply mysterious reasons has no idea what she’s doing
- When You’re Too Toxic for Other Republicans
- An Oral History of Destroying the Justice Department
- Was MAHA Decisive?
- Confirmation Bias is a Hell of a Drug, Part I
- Ponzi schemer given clemency by Trump does another Ponzi scheme
- LGM Film Club, Part 516: Juno
- An Intimate Dinner
- Rapid unscheduled disassembly
- Trump-nominated judge strikes down Texas electoral maps because Trump’s DOJ took notes on its criminal fuckin’ conspiracy
- The enemy
- Will the White House press corps ever show some solidarity?
- The WaPo Way
- Middle-aged man surprisingly conversant with details of age of consent laws in multiple jurisdictions
- Another Stellar Day for Our Techbro Overlords
- I’m feeling thankful for the small things today
- Vote Out Your Pro-Ethnic Cleansing Politicians
- Dispatches from the Appalachian Trail
- The Worst People
- Generational Conflict?
- Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 2,020
- Another mission accomplished for RFK Jr.
- The grift bubble
- The prosecution of James Comey may not be legally sound
- The Summers Peril
- More on the End of the Penny
- Mamdani Wants a Starbucks Boycott
- Tn 7
- The documents in the case
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,019
- To the Revolution!
- There Are About A Thousand Of Us
- Three more summary executions from the Peace President
- NFL Open Thread: The Battle of Los Angeles Edition
- Revolution blues
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,018
- Music Notes
- You didn’t want to throw your fishing line in that old main stream
- Pam Bondi immediately opens nakedly partisan Epstein investigation after Trump demands it
- Week 43
- College Football Week 12 Thread
- Strung out nation
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,017
- The inevitable rehabilitation of Livvy
- How UVA surrendered to Trump
- 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
- TV Eye
- 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
- DBTs on Colbert
- The “take my word for it” theory of unlimited Article II powers to order summary executions
- Trump vows to fix something he broke
- Left-wing populist mysteriously morphs into actual fascist, a continuing series
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,016
- Management Furious That Workers Speak Out, News at 11
- Elite impunity as its own reward
- Fake quotations
- Some day this war will be over
- A temple of white male grievance
- Collapse of the MAGA cinematic universe
- Bombs… Away?
- Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 2,015
- Stopped clock at midnight
- EMAILS!
- Discharge petition succeeds
- DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
- Epstein’s most important collaborator being given the Epstein special treatment
- Leaked Epstein file emails reveal Trump was well aware Epstein was raping children and chose to cover it up
- Prison Labor Cars
- Follow the rules or do the right thing?
- Zevon 3
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,014
- Mike Johnson finally ends anti-democratic blockade of AZ-7
- The fall of the House of Nico
- An envoi from the worst Democratic senator
- The new Republican ecomomic populism
- Reliving the Good Old Days of American Energy
- Greatest real estate tycoon of the age unaware of length of standard residential mortgage
- In Memoriam
- Republicans and Black History Museums
- In a little hilltop village, they gambled for my clothes
- Nukes? Nukes!
- This Day in Labor History: November 11, 1952
- Senate hopes to provide large cash payments to senators to award their participation in seditious activity and punish the government for legitimate investigations
- MLB’s betting partners to limit some prop bets
- The Trump administration’s greatest atrocity
- Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and Kevin Roberts
- Court keeps its powder dry on same-sex marriage
- LGM Podcast: Ditching Mitch in ’26
- Maha 2
- Maybe a Decentralized Energy Grid Has Value
- Trump pardons all top insurrectionists for trying to overthrow government (except himself)
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,013
- Bottom up, top down
- Fear of a less undemocratic senate
- Democrats: Caving Like The Losers That They Are
- I could not foresee this thing happening to you
- I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky
- Maybe then I can fade away and not have to face the facts
- James Watson, 1928-2025
- Boats, but from Space!
- NFL Open Thread
- Federal Judge Resigns
- Dems in Disarray!
- More from Donald Trump, Friend of the American Working Class
- On a cult of personality and its consequences
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,012
- President presiding over economic and governmental trainwreck laser-focused on gratifying his own ego
- Week 42
- The Radical Duke
- College Football Week 11 Thread
- Stephen Miller turns an even whiter shade of pale
- Billionaire fights desperately to ensure the poor starve
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,011
- Will the Supreme Court allow Trump to illegally stop SNAP payments?
- Tough Guys
- The futile pursuit of realignment elections
- This Venezuela Nonsense…
- Moderation, polarization, and the age of unhappiness
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,010
- Moderate persuaders
- The immediate return of “Trump wins” as the dominant desideratum of the Roberts Court’s Republicans
- Minus 1000 words
- A chance to create the appearance of independence
- Ukraine Update: The Looming Fall of Pokrovsk?
- The Republican party is doing neo-Nazism the right way
- Pelosi Retiring
- Trump the Populist
- Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 2,009
- Trump ground planes
- Terrible Human Too Terrible for South Carolina Republicans
- Gaming out 2028 and the SCOTUS
- This is excellent news for JD Vance
- Trump is just a very unpopular president, not the representative of the American volk
- Court Pretty Skeptical About King Trump’s Tariffs
- FIFA announces creation of new highly prestigious peace prize
- Trump: voters furious at Trump shutdown
- Keep the shutdown going
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,008
- Confirmation Bias Affirmed
- Blue wave
- Polls closing thread II
- Polls Closing Thread Number One
- How much shit are the Supreme Court’s Republicans willing to eat for Trump?
- Liminal whiteness and equality v. hierarchy
- A Former Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Speaks Out
- Sandwich Assault
- Breaking, must credit LGM: Trump neo-Nazi base may harbor anti-Semites
- Winning the Shutdown
- Labor Unions and Working Class Health
- Diane Ladd RIP
- Cheney
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,007
- Cuomo proudly accepts endorsement of his political ally and personal role model
- Panic in DC
- Attention Conservation
- Bari Weiss’s security detail is costing CBS $10K per day amid layoffs at the network
- Bari Weiss already providing a solid ROI to the regime-aligned ownership
- The Party of the Working Class
- Bringing a memo about how knives are dangerous to a gunfight
- The New Jersey Problem
- Jefferson’s Revolution
- Good Germans
- Organized Labor’s Support for Democrats in the Shutdown
- A House of Dynamite
- Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 2,006
- LGM Film Club, Part 515: A Camel
- Republicans refuse to recognize any opposition as legitimate, an ongoing series
- Holding Things Together
- NFL/World Series Aftermath Open Thread
- A stupid murderous nation
- The White Left’s Blind Spot on Race
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,005
- LGM Film Club, Part 514: Promises: Through Congress
- World Series Game 7 Open Thread
- Music Notes
- Stage 4 capitalism
- The optimal long-term outcome of the shutdown
- Let them eat Statuary marble
- Week 41
- College Football Week 10 Thread
- See something say something
- What Did Democrats Do Wrong with Latinos?
- October Reading List
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,004
- LGM Film Club, Part 513: Europe Endless I: The Spectre of Eurocommunism
October 2025
- Game 6 etc. Open Thread
- Heritage Foundation sans frontières
- Happy Halloween!
- The Sopranos Presidency
- The non-interventions of Donald the Dove, an ongoing saga
- The cultural contradictions of liberal democracy
- Things That Go Bump In The Night
- Hillbilly grifter going to dump “dark white” heathen wife for Mourning Barbie?
- Get a Grip(en)
- Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 2,003
- Public disapproves of the Trump shutdown
- Vignettes from the Age of Trump
- Pivoting to video, and other fresh ideas from newspaper publisher Jeff Bezos
- Hermeneutics of bumper stickers
- How Trump Screws Over Workers
- Turning the Classroom into a Political Propaganda Zone
- JD Vance Wants Racial Purity (Minus His Own Family)
- Make America Healthy Again and Fascist Psychology
- MAGA-fied Christianity
- Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 2,002
- World Series etc. open thread
- The Worst Democratic Appointment of My Life
- This is not OK
- Burning down the House
- Charisma and the failure of fascist regimes to survive the death of The Leader
- Trump take healthcare
- Garfield-Guiteau
- Erik Visits an Non-American Grave, Part 2,001
- The lightweight division
- World Series Game 4 Open Thread
- Ken Paxton joins RFK Jr.’s crackpot war on Tylenol
- J’ai toujours faim à cause de Trump
- Perhaps we should not start celebrating Trump’s “Middle East Breakthrough” quite yet
- Jeff Landry’s To-Do List
- Wait, Gambling Can Be Scandalous?
- Aukus 2
- Person, baseball, Japan, homer, walk
- The Grave Series at 2,000
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,000
- The Garland Justice Department never knew what the shot was
- LGM Film Club, Part 512: This is the Bowery
- Trump “jokes” about violating 22nd Amendment to yadda-yadda mystery MRI
- 50 Days of Kavanaugh Stops
- Putin Announces Burevestnik Success
- Not simply good, but also hard
- Religious lunatics interfere with seaside time share condo development plans
- LGM Podcast: KY-6
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,999
- Trump ground planes
- LGM Film Club, Part 511: Poland Prepared
- We’re not crying for you, we’re giving the money to Argentina
- Election of the Day
- A House of Dynamite – Review
- NFL Open Thread: Break up the Colts edition
- The Failure of Big Law
- The Irish Sprint Left
- The Bolton Case
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,998
- Trump to impose tariffs as punitive measure against accurate commercial
- LGM Film Club, Part 510: A Voyage to Cebu
- Music Notes
- It’s time to shut down Yale Law School until etc.
- The Laboratories of Fascism
- For the 8th Amendment, the shadow docket sleeps
- Week 40
- Insane racist heir to multi-billion-dollar fortune really really likes Donald Trump
- College Football Week 9 Thread
- I’d Stay Away Too
- Unions and the No Kings Protests
- Tin soldiers
- Stellan Skarsgard
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,997
- World Series etc. open thread
- LGM Film Club, Part 509: Norwegian Forestry, 1920s
- Rolling Coal
- A new kind of politics
- Peace president sending aircraft carrier to Latin America
- Why personalized government doesn’t work
- Murder is murder and lies are lies
- AI Nuclear Weapons
- What are we even doing here?
- On Evals
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,996
- A declaration
- LGM Film Club, Part 508: 60 Minutes on Chiang Kai-Shek, 1971
- Murder Inc.
- Morally Wrong
- Hunter Biden laptop update
- Chess thread
- How much do you think this pardon cost?
- Scandal!
- Even Richard Nixon
- Ask a Naval Professional!
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,995
- You can’t spell “tacky ballroom” without “money laundering.”
- And when to run
- LGM Film Club, Part 507: Thailand, 1953
- What life in the post-Voting Rights Act world will be like
- Tear down the Trump Taj Mahal wing of the White House
- Trump demolishes entire East Wing of the White House to put up his vanity project
- Ecuadorian prosecutors have no evidence to detain target of summary execution
- Glamour profession
- Reagan on Tariffs
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,994
- Know when to fold ’em
- On Trump running for a third term
- The astonishing return of the advice and consent power
- “Off the Record”
- Trump announces plan to steal $230 million from US taxpayers
- 1/6 rioter pardoned by Trump arrested for threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries
- Dead set on destruction
- Texas Farming
- And it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,993
- And the Grady Little Award for world-historic pitching blunders goes to…
- ALCS Game 7 Open Thread
- Trumpified 9CA panel stays injunction against Trump’s use of troops in Portland
- When Our Techlords Screw Up
- Elon’s takeover of Twitter was a huge success
- Dementia and the baby boomers
- Making Recruiting Ends Meet
- The TikTok disaster and Democratic elite blindness
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,992
- Restraint!
- The Maestro says it’s Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum
- No Kings!
- NFL Open Thread: the MAGA style in American sports
- The kids are alright
- The American NKVD
- The Party of the Working Class
- Hey Ezra Klein, here’s Charlie Kirk doing politics “the right way”
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,991
- Trump accurately sums up his presidenting
- All you protest kids
- Music Notes
- Sweethearts together
- Week 39 – No Kings!
- College Football Week 8 Thread
- Ohtani
- The non-interventionist mindset
- President commutes sentence of career criminal as a reward for voting Republican
- Is Trump’s attempted shakedown of universities about restoring legislative supremacy? Views differ
- The Theiling of the Techbro Mind
- Wealth and precarity
- Trump administration doing great, says Trump administration
- Top military personnel “retiring” all over the place
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,990
- SOUTHCOM Commander Steps Down
- Bolton indicted
- Dozens of Kavanaugh stops
- Barn door secured 11 months after cow reaches Washington, D.C.
- Social dissatisfaction and right wing revanchism
- One piece of the puzzle
- What happens when the president gives illegal orders to the military?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,989
- Trump signs memo claiming power to do things he has no constitutional authority to do
- JD Vance thinks participating in Nazi group chats is no big deal, for reasons that surely have no component of self-interest
- When open murder becomes official government policy
- John Roberts to fulfill lifelong dream of fully nullifying the Voting Rights Act
- Oh Yeah, Climate Change
- Union Guidelines on AI
- Cryptotastic!
- Trump administration murders six more people on a fishing boat
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,988
- D’Angelo
- Great Moments in AI
- You still do not have to hand it to Donald Trump
- Miller’s army are on their way
- The best and worst thing in the world
- This Day in Labor History: October 14, 1948
- Refusing to violate the Hatch Act
- The function of criticism at the present time
- Law office “history” and John Roberts’s will to power
- The Republican war on the lives of their constituents
- LGM Podcast: Trump vs. Portlandia
- Who was president on January 6, 2021? Views differ
- Scenes from the classroom struggle
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,987
- Anti-anti-Trump failson walks into the online abattoir
- Damaged men and broken government
- NFL Open Thread: A generation of generational prospects edition
- A catastrophic legal, political, and institutional failure
- I Want Boats that Turn into Robots!
- This Day in Labor History: October 12, 1962
- Trump take retirement
- Music Notes
- Diane Keaton, RIP
- Are the editors of the New York Times engaged in a violent coup against the government of New York? It depends on the narrator
- Keaton
- Week 38
- College Football Week 7 Thread
- The Army’s Recruiting Solutions
- They expect you to die
- The shadow docket and the judicial legitimacy crisis
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,986
- Game 5 etc. open thread
- Roberts Court to open the vote suppression floodgates
- A Guy Walks Into A Reactor Shop With 34 Tons of Plutonium…
- Major victory over the NIMBY/MAGA coalition
- The Qatar Thing
- The Deal?
- The little boy who never grew up
- We’re just saying things now
- This Day in Labor History: October 10, 1842
- Scary monsters, super creeps
- MAGA profit-taking
- Malicious revenge prosecution du jour
- The information security, youth, mental acuity, and anti-lawfare administration
- A Time For Writing
- The first cut is the deepest
- They Hate You Because They Know You Know They Are Losers
- Foreign Policy in the Bluegrass
- The return of the grand jury
- Peace deal in Gaza?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,985
- Happy Yankee Elimination Day!
- Belichick in MAGAland
- Roberts Court to invent inalienable right to impose disabilities on LGBTQ people
- Hey Chuck!
- Kavanaugh searches and seizures
- Erik Visits an Non-American Grave, Part 1,984
- How to play dumb
- John Roberts, maximalist
- Trump to attempt to deny furloughed workers back pay in violation of law he signed
- The Miller presidency’s goal is to make fair elections in 2026 and 2028 impossible
- From Cronkite to Cringe
- An Alternate History
- Spreading Twitter/X To Europe
- Sundowning demented elderly man continues to confuse five-year-old deceptively edited clips on Fox News for the nightly news
- And Now Everything is Worse
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,983
- The Supreme Court’s next MAGA fan fiction
- Now This is How You Summarize a Moment in History
- What are super rich men who pretend, perhaps even to themselves, to be good at things doing, and why?
- Stochastic terrorism
- And I Bet He Was Drinking Vodka…
- The Sewer and the Clear Blue Sky
- Judge Immergut issues another TRO in light of Trump’s administration’s attempted nullifiction
- Bush v. Gore 25 years later and Trump’s trashing of the DOJ
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,982
- Eliminationist rhetoric de jour
- A Historian of War: LGM Poetry Corner
- The Oregon Operation
- NFL Open Thread: the Sanchize and a knife edition
- Notes for next time
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,981
- Is Our Constitution Learning?
- The information security administration
- Week 37
- “Authoritarian Capacity” and the Trump Regime
- Week 6 College Football Thread
- Play stupid games, don’t win stupid prizes
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,980
- First Circuit insists on its novel claim that the 2024 election did not dissolve the United States Constitution
- War-ravaged Portland to be liberated by US troops
- RFK Jr. fires whistleblower for being insufficiently supportive of viral infections
- When the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments are replaced with Kavanaugh stops
- The Republican Shutdown
- The critique of pure idiocy
- The media’s Project 2025 bailout
- The State of the Republic is Grim
- Manchester terror
- The most profitable non-cancellation ever
- Jane Fonda And Others Revive The Committee For The First Amendment
- Russ is a bad seed. What am I supposed to do, shoot him?
- Fascism in theory and practice
- Restraint!
- Anthony Kennedy to announce search for the real partisans
- And what is the interest for the Tataglia family?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,979
- Hydroxychloroquine and medbeds
- Resentiment
- Today’s garbage people: Indiana attorney general Todd Rokita, and Trump Youth Gruppenleiter Charlie Mandizara
- Unitary executive theory (unless it will unduly affect our stock portfolios)
- How Government Shutdowns Work, Part The Millionth
- Murc’s law, government shutdown edition
- September Reading List
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,978
- Out of Thune
- “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
- This looks like men with nothing to hide
- The censorious right never went away
- The spitting image
- Rallying The Troops
- Return of the Battleship!
- Trump show amps up the cringe comedy
- The end(s) of books
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,977
- JD Vance: it is illegitimate for Democrats to ask for things in exchange for their votes
- Washington Post promises to publish a broad array of reactionary propaganda
- Frau Goebbels takes her kids to the public library
- Kavanaugh stops
- Leo Gerard, RIP
- Scumbag Don Finally Solves the Greatest Problem Facing the United States
- The Roberts Court: Repealing Reconstruction
- LGM Podcast: Twilight of the Battleship
- The Dream of the Techbro Fascist
- Yesterday’s right wing terrorist attacks
- Good news from Moldova
- Erik Visits a (Non-)American Grave, Part 1,976
- Why Republicans claim they were radicalized
- Ain’t that America
- Adams is Done
- NFL Open Thread: Astros Elimination Day Edition
- Prepping for a Court Mandated End of Equality
- The End of Self-Checkout
- The Economic Populism of Scumbag Don
- The Jump to Conclusions
- Racism: The Official Policy of the FBI
- “Project 2025 has its eyes on a prize and it won’t involve celebrating any of Erik Loomis’ invaluable unsung heroes.”
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,975
- Election of the Week IV: Autonomous Region of Aosta Valley
- Music Notes
- Election of the Weekend III: Moldova
- Election of the Weekend II: Seychelles
- Scumbag Don Wants to Kill Portlanders
- Last Dance of the Fishbed
- The war on Tylenol is applied misogyny
- Week 5 College Football Thread
- Week 36
- The Quarter-Assed Comey Prosecution
- 2025: A Blog Odyssey
- Unionbusting and the War on History
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,974
- Sinclair and Nexstar back down
- The Idiocracy
- Republicans on Supreme Court continue their Article I nullification campaign
- Republicans threaten to do what they’ve already done if Democrats refuse to vote for terrible bill
- Rubber glue fascism
- Netanyahu’s UN speech
- Stephen Miller’s fascist vision and America’s feckless elites
- Make this now: and all year ’round
- Whiskey Apocalypse
- Tankin’ Tesla
- Maybe They’re Meeting to Discuss the National Security Implications of Bathroom Vanities
- James Comey indicted
- Election of the weekend I: Gabon
- “We have to figure out a way to capture these kids”
- Cowardice and chickenshit
- Administration that is starving children all over the world for trivial savings to bail out Trump’s inept friend
- The Hilarious Comedy Stylings of the Trump Administration
- 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
- The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand
- Internet brain rot and irony poisoning
- Bobby Kennedy to “do his own research” on medication abortions
- The Turn…
- Comey and James about to be indicted?
- Trumpflation
- Trump vs. the First Amendment
- Apparent terrorist attack at ICE facility in Dallas
- World’s lamest insult comic appears at UN
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,973
- Claudia Cardinale, RIP
- We Are Not the Same
- Stop sanewashing Trump/RFK Jr. challenge challenge [absolutely impossible]
- When it is OK to wish some people were dead, and who are those people exactly?
- ABS 2026
- Ball seven
- What a cozy little club
- Trump’s address to the UN
- Living underwater
- Law school and the class divide
- Felbo the Emelbadonk
- Erik Visits an American (Abroad) Grave, Part 1,972
- Trump v. U.S. as sword as well as shield
- H-1B and the Universities
- The county won’t give me no more methadone
- Go Away Bad Democrats
- ABC restores Kimmel
- Why Would Liberals Watch the Charlie Kirk Reichstag Fire Event?
- SCOTUS rules Article I doesn’t apply to Donald Trump
- RFK Jr.’s promise to discover what causes autism within six months is fulfilled
- Mileinomics
- LGM Podcast: Analog Superpowers
- I’m pretty sure the central message of Buddhism is not “Rock and Roll all night, and party every day”
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,971
- What actual lawfare looks like
- Charlie Kirk Service Open Thread
- NFL Open Thread
- Questions on those Caribbean Strikes
- Look at the Lies We’ve Swallowed…
- Erik Visits an Non-American Grave, Part 1,970
- Tom Homan accepted literal bag of cash in bribery sting operation
- Music Notes
- Sean O’Brien is a Class Traitor
- 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?
- Trump’s war on the war on poverty
- Conspiratorial Thinking and Cope
- Week 35
- Week 4 College Football Thread
- H-1B visas will now cost $100K per year, although bribes will be accepted
- The Nuclear Taboo
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,969
- I Never Do This
- RFK Jr.’s ad hoc death panel shoots more bricks
- Rewarding his people
- Trump is not popular, and Trump’s agenda is less popular than Trump
- Updates on the law in its majestic equality
- The Race Begins to Take Shape
- The Failure of 21st Century Liberalism
- What are we doing here?
- This Day in Labor History: September 19, 1935
- Welsh Resigns
- RFK Jr.: not enough kids are dying of preventable diseases
- In politics, obedience and support are the same
- Conservatives can say what they want, and everyone else can say what conservatives want
- Shamelessness, hypocrisy, cruelty, stupidity: not just the MAGA position on free speech
- Ilya Shapiro everybody
- Doing Something About It: An Opportunity for Readers in Southern New England
- On Cancel Culture and Heads and Spikes
- Remember when JD Vance went to Europe and lectured all those Frankfurter School people about free speech?
- Disney’s collaboration with the Trump censorship regime
- It’s just sparkling authoritarianism
- Empirical evidence confirms non-existence of Santa Claus
- I could tell by his bloodstained hands
- We have always been at war with South Korea
- The Transgender War
- Laura Rosenbury, free speech warrior
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,968
- Move it on over little Mick, ’cause the Big Dumper’s movin’ in
- The way we live now
- Corruption on an unprecedented scale
- Trump administration bombs another Venezuelan boat without legal authority
- Instant Destruction
- The Intellectual Dishonesty of Every Libertarian
- Robert Redford
- Comparative Authoritarianism
- Redford
- Politics as vacation
- Robert Redford, RIP
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,967
- Election of the Day: Malawi
- Peter Thiel’s fake-Appalachian messenger boy delivers chilling lies to justify state repression
- The Second Jim Crow’s History Lessons
- Facts
- Authoritarianism as negative-sum game
- It Was the Black Guy
- LGM Podcast: After the Spike
- Life in a Consolidating Authoritarian Regime
- Sometimes in Life, You Can Get What You Want
- Democracy dies in darkness was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement
- Texas tenured professor fired for “inciting violence”
- Erik Visits an Non-American Grave, Part 1,966
- They will back down
- Gutting the Government
- NFL Open Thread: Come on Feel the Illinoise edition
- The Meaning of Charlie Kirk
- TikTok is worth a mass
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,965
- Election of the day: Macau
- Trump’s tariffs won’t revive the rust belt
- Music Notes
- California NIMBYs handed historic L
- Week 34
- Profiles in Academic Courage II
- Week 3 Football Thread
- Convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza thinks college radicalized Tyler Robinson
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,964
- And give up my reservation?
- The pretextual case against Cook collapses
- Don’t print dangerous speculation in the newspaper
- 19th Century Schizoid Man
- Internet brain rot
- Apparent shooter confesses to crime apparently
- Washed in the blood of the lamb
- This Day in Labor History: September 12, 1934
- Heckuva job, Kashie
- The Most Worthless Commenter in Liberal Land
- Trump’s plan to massively increase your grocery bill is working
- Life in a non-banana republic
- Just lie about everything all the time
- The boat had turned around
- A man who tells the truth is chased out of 12 villages
- Another Kind of Response
- After All the Good is Gone
- In memoriam
- Nvm
- America unhinged
- Kamala unfettered
- On Globalization, Gentrification, and Food
- Fill in the blank
- Trump Threatens to Sue Times for Epstein Signature
- Hosea 8:7
- Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah
- Profiles in Academic Courage
- Do Democrats Have a Shutdown Strategy?
- “Reporting” toward the Bezos
- There will be blood
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,963
- Putin sends drones into Poland
- Burn 2
- The Working Class Party
- More from Donald Trump’s privy council
- NYCBOE does the right thing
- A Sweet Story of Late Life Love
- Our president made a law that there are only two genders, so it’s illegal to teach a class that disagrees with that
- The Quisling Court
- Ky 6
- People In The Book
- A no vote on the early primary idea
- The Next Logical Step?
- They all knew, they didn’t care
- Thank you for your attention to this matter
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,962
- Sic transit gloria mundi
- Why Is This Lethal Strike Not Like the Others?
- When you can afford to be made to look ridiculous
- Another Budget Crisis
- Icymi
- The Fourth Amendment will bend and break in those uncomplicated shadows
- System Updates
- People most responsible for destruction of American public health lament destruction of American public health
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,961
- Election of the Day: Norway
- When The Center No Longer Holds
- NFL Open Thread: And when you lose control, you reap the harvest you have sown
- Failed strategies should be abandoned
- Alternatives to ordinary politics
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,960
- More about the Planes that Go on Boats
- Week 33
- College Football Week 2 Thread
- The Great Unravelling: American Decline and the Crisis of Liberal Order
- Ken Dryden
- Trump administration trying to destroy two satellites gathering critical climate change data
- Joseph McNeil, RIP
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,959
- NYT liveblog: the cast of My American Cousin gave strong performances
- SEALs In North Korea
- More on Labor’s Ineptitude in the Face of Trump
- Senate Democrats should not provide a political bailout to Republicans
- Trump take jobs
- Justice of a sort
- North Korea Raid
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,958
- NFL Opening Night Open Thread
- No method
- Why are there so many more terrible than great MLB teams?
- The Goddess of Grift
- The bottomless corruption is the point
- Is this the real life?
- J.D. Vance: our legal authority is deez nuts
- LGM Podcast: 2025 NFC Preview
- This Day in Labor History: September 4, 1907
- If We Were Vampires
- District court judge identifies flagrant illegality of Trump administration’s shakedown of Harvard
- Election of the Day: Autonomous Region of Bougainville
- Eleven Killed In US Strike On Boat
- The bottomless pit of corruption is the point
- Will the rabies vaccine make Snoopy autistic?
- America’s worst governor: make polio great again
- Silver Threads and Golden Needles
- Fear, ignorance, and stupidity
- The States Must Take the Lead
- Election of the Day #2: Jamaica
- Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 1,957
- Election of the Day #1: St Helena
- The Peace President takes the war on drugs literally
- Collaborators in usurpation
- Common Ground
- Be loud for America
- The Ways of Unionbusters
- I am beginning to think that Trump’s war on higher education is not about fighting anti-semitism
- Second Reconstruction Update
- Puttin’ People on the Moon
- LGM Podcast: 2025 AFC Preview
- He Is Risen
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,956
- Knowing when to quit
- Donald Trump: America’s Greatest Unionbuster
- The Atlantic Monthly sanewashes HHS director about to issue a fraudulent report to justify ending childhood vaccinations
- The sudden disappearance of presidential age and fitness as an issue
- Sanity is not statistical
- 30 years of Internet
- August Reading List
- Organized Labor’s Failure to Meet the Moment
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,955
- “Tragic mishap” follow-up
August 2025
- Trump engages in negative-sum warfare because leader won’t share in his fantasy world
- Trump’s high tech ethnic cleansing program for Gaza
- Election of the day: Guyana
- Why I Block
- You Can’t Walk Your Way Out of Disability
- The Concierge Culture
- Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 1,954
- The Guys with the Phones
- Music Notes
- Letting America Burn to Fulfill Ethnic Cleansing Goals
- Trump take electricity
- Jim Crow State Remains Committed to Jim Crow
- Week 32
- We’re gonna take you up to McNairy County, Tennessee/Back in the days when Sheriff Buford Pusser ran things around there
- College Football Week 1 Thread
- 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
- What happens if Trump is too addled to president even putatively?
- Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 1,953
- Grandpa needs a long weekend nap
- Federal Circuit en banc holds that Trump’s tariffs are not authorized by Congress
- Trump raise prices
- A blue state public health alliance
- Joni Ernst involuntarily euthanizes 2026 re-election campaign
- Some Teamsters Are Doing Brave Work
- The Autobiography of Donald Trump
- Prominent right wing influencer’s wife is dying faster because of policies he voted for: Blames “the left”
- The Media’s Worthlessness
- Who Joins ICE?
- Witless Witkoff
- CDC staff walks out in protest of Trump administration’s opposition to controlling disease
- The fall of the house of Jerrah
- OK what’s the story here?
- How about some more stories about how this lunatic does have some good ideas if you ignore all the cray cray conspiracy mongering?
- Neil Gorsuch gives away the game
- Election of the day: Samoa
- Gaming Notes
- Leveraging the Machinery of Government
- The law school tuition collapse
- Getting (throwing) a sandwich indicted
- Breaking The CDC
- Trump’s Little Green Men
- Some good questions from JV Last
- If you’re a NIMBY, you ride with MAGA
- Regal, not Republican
- Gunman shoots many 6 to 9 year old children at Catholic school mass
- Women and voting
- Dems break Republican supermajority in Iowa
- Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 1,952
- The death of dignity
- A democracy, if you can bother
- What happens next
- The cultural contradictions of fascism
- Ukraine’s Energy Strategy
- Working With People We Disagree With on Core Issues
- Giving Workers a Reason to Vote for Democrats
- Is Democracy Dead in the United States?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,951
- Trump attempting to illegally fire Federal Reserve governor
- The Trump Terrorist Regime in One Case
- “If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me”
- You can criticize bad things because they are bad
- The “Tragic Mishap” of Genocide
- Chris Armitage?
- Trump orders federal funds to be cut off from Illinois because it has cashless bail
- Trump’s War on Federal Workers Continues
- The CCP in Manhattan
- Creating a Generation of Illiterates
- Negotiations in the Hobbesian sense
- The crisis of the American legal system
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,950
- Trumpian Political Development
- Game recognize game
- Elite media cannot stop handing it to RFK Jr.
- Distracted From Distraction By Distraction
- The End of Drinking
- The Decline of Reading
- How the Labor Movement Can Save Itself
- From Colony to Superpower
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,949
- The Cannon canons
- If Democrats are going to win they need to stop saying things Republicans say they say
- Week 31
- College Football Week 0 Open Thread
- One story
- Fighter Funday!
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,948
- Department of government efficiency
- In the Trump administration, telling the truth is a fireable offense
- The shadow docket knows (that Trump must win)
- Fox News Grandpa very flattered by thoughtful gift from dictator
- Trumpism and Farmworkers
- Second Reconstruction
- The running of the rubes
- Women in Hegseth’s Military
- Kash Patel orders FBI to raid home of president’s political enemy
- Return of the Big ‘Uns
- Bezos Post: legislators arrogating themselves power contrary to the will of the voters is not a threat to democracy
- Performing fascism
- James Dobson, Burn in Hell
- Biggest financial corruption scandal in presidential history does not generate much news coverage
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,947
- One More Warning Sound
- The potato chip bandit
- I am beginning to think that RFK Jr. is not, in fact, trying to make America healthy again
- I Like My Art Like I Like My Men: Cheap and Easy
- NLRB Will Likely Be Ruled Unconstitutional in 2026
- How bad was slavery, or, was slavery bad?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,946
- Woo-woo kills
- LGM Film Club, Part 506: Clinton’s Sister Souljah Moment
- Check Your Shrimp
- The million dollar law degree (not that one)
- Suburbanite convinced path to winning New York City is the support of Donald Trump
- Great moments in gerontocracy
- Vance take local economy
- The Roots of the Hack Gap
- What are Maine Democrats Doing?
- Air Canada Strike
- The Summits
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,945
- Putin’s sock puppet issues unconstitutional order to change state voting laws
- RFK Jr. and the Vaccine Court
- Through a horseshoe, darkly
- The State of Things
- The Hamas Red Herring
- Donald Trump: Unionbuster
- Diversity statements for wingnuts
- Trump: Ukraine can end war by surrendering
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,944
- Music Notes
- Mock Them!
- Crime has nothing to do with it
- “Tell Em I’m Fucking Coming!!!!!”
- Art of the Moment
- Oceans Are Now Battlefields?
- Trump take take-home pay
- Law School For Rich Kids
- Erik Visits an Non-American Grave, Part 1,943
- You think they’re so dumb, you think they’re so funny, wait until they’ve got you running
- An ongoing state of exception
- Love is always scarpering or cowering or fawning, you eat three big Macs and hate yourself in the morning
- Week 30
- The Craven College Administrators
- Elon Musk, Marketing Genius
- 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
- This Day in Labor History: August 16, 2012
- Professional election-loser gives advice on how to lose elections
- The Revival of Chili’s
- The Putin-Trump Presser
- Why Have the Teamsters Gone Far Right?
- Who’s a good boy?
- Obama and Mamdani
- Parental Consent and the Internet
- Getting it
- Good News?
- Trump calls Norwegian finance minister to demand Nobel Peace Prize
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,942
- Bulwarks of liberty
- Doing many unpopular things makes president less popular
- College basketball point shaving scandal
- The Alaska Summit
- Accountability removal machine
- Trump raise prices
- The Negotiations
- Science or witchcraft?
- Arts and/or Sciences?
- The lawlessness is the point
- I Just Can’t
- The Kennedy Center Honors
- Laura Loomer deposition
- Supreme Court Republicans rush to destroy last vestiges of Voting Rights Act to help party in next midterms
- Sherrod!
- The End of Federal Unionism
- Reactionary frames about public health are no better than reactionary frames about politics
- Wilhoit’s law, Dobbs edition
- It’s about the Battleships You Don’t Choose
- Russia Advancing
- “Nothing has been added but sentences”
- The CDC attack could have been much worse
- Completely unqualified hack named by Trump to head BLS, immediately recommends no more monthly job reports
- On the Destruction of VOA
- On top of everything else, the cancer ward was Number 13
- Organizing America Publication Day!
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,941
- If Trump’s popularity does not exist it must be manufactured
- The hollow cynics and the true believers
- Update on the peace president
- Surreal incompetence: the story of Republican economic policy
- The India Gambit
- The only good bug is a dead bug
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,940
- A libertarian’s murder-suicide pact
- Breaking: white people allowed to work in Hollywood again
- Trumpism and power worship
- D.C. Circuit holds that the legislative power is vested in Congress
- Adulterous alcoholic wife beater keeps getting forgiven, because Jesus
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,939
- Music Notes
- Rogan’s army is on their way
- Trump’s arrest of the entire House of Representatives raises questions about his commitment to democracy
- Complying with the law is a fireable offense in the Trump administration
- Week 29
- Nixon Victorious
- Comrade Lutnick threatens to liquidate the Charles River Kulaks
- The sorcerer’s apprentice
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,938
- LGM Film Club, Part 505: Ranch Album
- Trump fires his own IRS chief after two months
- Followup on factors driving declining birth rates
- Existential threats
- Putin Is Laughing In Donald Trump’s Face
- Trump’s affirmative support for insurrection
- Fertility rates and smartphones
- Restraint!
- LoomCoin Endorsement Opportunity
- Irish Artists Stand Against Fascism
- What Crypto is For
- Jim Acosta Should Never Work in Journalism Again
- The re-occupation of Gaza
- Bart concludes that Sideshow Bob’s Bart-killing policy overwhelms positive aspects of his platform
- Trump isn’t for you either
- American Unions Not the Only Unions with Bad Leadership
- Expending Cybertrucks
- Joe Biden age update
- Truman Wasn’t The Decider
- Trump massively raise prices
- Bad history v. fake history
- Exciting Times to Buy a Car!
- Who is Pushing Trump to Support Andrew Cuomo?
- Code Switching?
- Manufacturing scandals to detract from actual scandals
- One Bomb or Two Bombs
- A touch of wokeness, nuclear apocalypse edition
- Nuclear Weapons and AI
- The Assassination of the Fourth Republic of the United States by the Coward John Roberts
- Downfall
- Uhhhhh
- The Democratic Consultant Industrial Complex
- King of the Hill
- Will Trump run again in 2028 and will the SCOTUS sign off on this?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,937
- The Ballad of Big Balls
- Republican Party literally rejects cure for cancer
- Every confession is a confession
- The eternal vacuity of reactionary centrism
- The Fascist Taskforce
- Over everything
- OK time for some good news
- Goodbye America
- On the Nose!
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,936
- Little Marco to tourists: drop dead
- What if the US government were in the hands of a bunch of dull-normal eight-year-old boys?
- CEO receives $24 billion dollar gift to incentivize him doing the job of Chief Executive Officer going forward
- He wants eleven dollar bills, you’ve only got ten
- Total war on higher ed
- Trump Take House of Representatives
- On the Limits of Airpower
- Is there an elite university administator who understands how a shakedown works?
- Collaboration and resistance
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,935
- Obvious lie turns out to be obvious lie
- A Quick Thought On Something That Could Happen In The Future
- An upgrade you can use
- Opposition to gerrymandering requires retaliatory Democratic gerrymanders
- Toward a heremeneutics of breakfast
- Taking the Temperature of the Bluegrass
- This Day in Labor History: August 3, 1931
- This joke isn’t funny anymore
- Trump inflate prices
- Murder is the sport of the elected, and you don’t need to lift a finger of your hand
- Week 28
- Last Remnants of an Imperial Machine
- The customer is always wrong
- Erik Visits an Non-American Grave, Part 1,934
- Banana Republicans
- John Roberts signals intention to finish the job
- Cool Public History Projects Can Still Happen
- We Can Play Too
- Trump thinks that his supporters are idiots
- Friday on my mind
- Trump take jobs
- Flaco Jimenez, RIP
- Trump openly selling pardons; nothing to be done, says Chief Justice Balls & Strikes
- The End of the World’s Saddest Aircraft Carrier?
- Total Depravity
- July Reading List
- Will Lewis does not cast off talent lightly. He heaves it away with great force
July 2025
- Trump’s tariffs are not authorized by Congress
- Censoring Our History
- Homelessness, drugs, mental illness, and social policy, or the lack thereof
- This Is What Trump Plans To Do To The White House
- Pete about to Get a Promotion?
- Brown’s total surrender
- The Fantasies Of A Man Who Can Bring Down The World Economy
- The Loomer administration
- The Pierogi Vendors on Martha’s Vineyard Are the Real Fascists
- LGM Podcast: The Past and Future of Tesla
- Not the Worst Thing to Come Out of South Carolina
- Trump’s 14th Amendment nullification plan
- Trump crush domestic automobile production
- Today on the Intellectual Right
- Fox News Grandpa calls for prosecution of Beyonce for imaginary crimes
- Trump take groceries
- The limits of growth without density
- A World of Lies
- Through the looking glass
- Lawyer who urged administration to ignore court orders given lifetime appointment to federal judiciary
- LGM Film Club, Part 504: Miami Vice
- Why do people not like policies that have never been popular?
- Luke Farritor, DOGE Boy
- Trump’s latest explanation for his falling out with Epstein is the most incriminating
- Enironmental Protection Agency getting out of the practice of environmental protection
- The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
- Standing Up to the Boss
- Trump’s Cuts–Now It’s Personal
- Barstool Sports and the Current MAGA Moment
- More on the Literal Whitewashing of Our History
- A note on the economic sociology of law faculties
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,933
- Ryno
- The Ivy League shakedowns
- Understanding The Crazy
- Melt Down!
- A strategic, diplomatic and humanitarian failure
- Run, Doug, Run
- Private ethics and public capitalism
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,932
- Anti-deliverism
- Ichiro!
- The ripple effects
- Tom Lehrer, 1928 – 2025
- How Low Could We Go?
- Starvation in Gaza
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,931
- Uvalde, Minnesota
- Music Notes
- What kind of deal is the Trump administration trying to make with Ghislaine Maxwell?
- “Bad hombres”
- Week 27
- General Matter
- Trump’s horrible bill also creates an extra $250 charge just to visit the US at all
- Walking Away
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,930
- Nice game
- Seditionist considered too racist to serve in the first Trump administration to head Institute of Peace
- Some people can’t be told, you know, they have to learn the hard way
- Decarceration
- Decadence
- The Epstein flailings
- The “jurisprudence” of bad faith
- Technically, it’s ephebo . . . actually, fascism
- The State of the World?
- Done Dirt Cheap
- Further corroboration for Donald Trump’s loving tribute to Jeffrey Epstein
- Creeping fascism
- Our Useless Democrats
- Laundering white nationalists
- The Columbia Capitulation
- The Stone Has Rolled Away…
- Hulk Hogan
- Swastikars continue sales decline
- The ultimate October surprise (ET crash market)
- Ukraine Update
- I would indict a ham sandwich, but I won’t indict that
- Shakedown street
- “Layering nothing on nothing”: how the Roberts Court has arrogated legislative power to the executive without legal reasoning
- Wall Street Journal: Bondi told Trump he was in the Epstein Files
- It’s A QAnon Problem
- University reappoints dean who violated civil rights of senior faculty member despite overwhelming vote of no confidence from faculty and students
- Profitably like a martyr
- Living with a delusional cult
- No New Navy Fighter…
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,929
- Whitewashing American History
- Republicans shut down the House to protect Trump from the Epstein Files
- Trump demands Kennedy Center Opera House be named after his current wife, or lose all federal funding
- One heckuva job
- Ozzy
- This is excellent news for John McCain
- Art For Everybody
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,928
- The free speech administration
- Tulsi dumps COINTELPRO files on MLK
- Some that you recognize, some that you’ve hardly even heard of
- Malcolm-Jamal Warner RIP
- The erstwhile symbol of “respectable conservatism” showed how Republican elites would capitulate to Trump
- Trump posts AI video of Obama being arrested in Oval Office in front of Trump
- Scottie’s Run of Success
- The varieties of stupid experience
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,927
- LGM Film Club, Part 503: Romantic Argentina
- Fox News Grandpa forwards another racist nostalgia email chain
- Pig Butchering
- A vanished world and the question of democracy
- Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
- 6 Months
- What are we even doing here?
- This Day in Labor History: July 20, 1885
- Pervos in arms
- Music Notes
- 4-term United States Senator feigns disappointment with results of deal to purchase oceanfront property in North Dakota
- The Wars of October 7 Are Not Over
- Week 26
- Trump’s suit against Bob Woodward thrown out
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,926
- CEO suspended for attending Coldplay concert
- The traditional Russian values experience
- If the story was an exclusive, why did you make it available for people to read?
- Why Trump will checkmate the Court when he fires Powell
- Circumstantial evidence is actually evidence
- Censoring toward the Donald
- Superman
- Correct Diagnosis of Higher Ed Problems
- What you got is nothing new. You can’t stop what’s coming. That’s called vanity.
- The Thom Tillis Bravery Chronicles
- The murder of the slaying of the homicide of parody
- LGM Film Club, Part 502: Siskel & Ebert Review Spinal Tap
- The Late Late Show
- Trump threatens to sue WSJ after paper reveals pervy letter he wrote to Jeffrey Epstein
- Physician, Heal Thyself
- I guess they didn’t teach “make sure that your anecdotal evidence is at least consistent with your anecdote” at Columbia
- Trump and Rubio decimate the human trafficking police
- ICE and American Citizens
- Looking back on the golden age of skyjacking
- Did the Teamsters Hire a Charlottesville White Nationalist?
- Democrats: Bringing a Spork to a Nuclear War Fight
- A man who definitely has nothing to hide
- LGM Film Club: Part 501: Special Report on Commonwealth Immigration into Britain
- The Supreme Court has been captured by a dangerous cabal that resorts to sneaky and improper methods to get its ways
- Reporters finally figure out that Bernie Madoff isn’t on the level
- Going meta on the discourse
- Review: The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
- Trump apparently about to fire Jerome Powell
- Trump urges Texas Republicans to make House elections even less democratic to mitigate his enormously unpopular agenda
- The Last Playboy of the Western World
- It’s the crime, and the cover-up
- Vicksburg
- A Court without law
- The new Republican populism
- Trump raise prices
- The Dreyfus affair, the lynching of Leo Frank, and precursors to fascism
- Maybe start a rattlesnake ranch. Have some Mormons over to dinner. Eat tomatoes that have no taste
- Trump Gets Frustrated
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,925
- Grifting All the Way
- Big Dumper Wins Derby
- Nothing good comes from this
- Not Quite a “Mass” Shooting…
- Guy don’t walk on the lot unless he wants to buy
- Supreme Court uses shadow docket to allow Trump to proceed with the de facto abolition of the Department of Education
- DOGE Guts NRC
- You have the right to free speech, as long as you’re not dumb enough to actually try it
- Podcast: Talking About Excession by Iain M. Banks, on A Meal of Thorns
- Bill Ackman gives tournament ten million dollars to prove to the world that he did not bribe tournament to get in
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,924
- The heighten-the-contradictions counterfactual
- Trump injustice
- The Republican Party wants the United States to be much less prepared for weather-related disasters
- More on election fraud claims in Pennsylvania
- Why is driving so much more deadly in the US than in England & Wales?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,923
- A Split In MAGA
- Is this serious but not literal or that other thing?
- The fantasy world of libertarian plutocrats
- China Marches Forward
- Declining Life Expectancy
- Week 25
- Texas’ Goal of Killing Women Moves Forward
- Well I Guess We’re Gonna Just Hope that Climate Change Isn’t Real…
- Air India and pilot murder-suicides
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,922
- The Beltway Cries Tonight
- Kristi Noem personally intervened to stop disaster response that was working too effectively
- The Donald Trump Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Grifting
- Epstein files remain mysteriously mysterious
- Public opinion shifts on immigration again
- Trump’s blatantly illegal tariffs
- Solar’s Rise
- Could the Carpenters Organize Housing Construction Workers?
- Industrializing Nature Won’t Work
- Gutting State
- The corruption of everything
- Don’t see any method at all
- Making the 14th Amendment law again (for now)
- When power is not currently an option, you might as well tell the truth
- Expert on voter fraud finds evidence of serious fraud in Pennsylvania presidential election in 2024
- Airpower!
- The enstupidization continues
- First as farce, then as whatever the hell this is
- The billionaire’s choice
- Let’s Get Porked
- Would you like to know more?
- This Day in Labor History: July 10, 1989
- “Incredible things are happening”
- Finally, a third party for people who think Republicans do not offer enough authoritarianism or racism
- Evangelical Authoritarianism
- Sheldon Whitehouse has some questions
- JD Vance’s Neo-Confederate vision of American citizenship
- Democrats Must Vote for Democrats
- In charge of everything, responsible for nothing
- NEA Cuts Ties with ADL
- Talking to Fascists
- The Great Switcheroo?
- Cindy Steinberg and the Dead Internet Theory
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,921
- The EMAILS Man
- It turns out that Elon Musk’s anti-woke AI is a literal Nazi
- So Very Small
- Only the shadow docket knows
- A Guide to the Madness of King Donald
- The Mamdani Puzzle
- Elon sells cartoon balloons in town
- Una buena vista de Lamine Yamal
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,920
- RFK’s mass murder event
- You will get tired of all the liberating
- The Times rushed to run its silly Mamdani hit job because it was worried about being “scooped” by its de facto assignment editor
- JD Vance May Not Be the Only Disturbing Organism Oozing From Ohio
- Apes do Read Banks, Elon, they Just Don’t Understand Him
- Does Ezra Klein Understand Power?
- Maha
- Assuming the can opener of free fair elections and a subsequent Democratic victory in 2026 and 2028
- What America needs is a moderate political option that hands all political power to a drug-addled foreign plutocrat
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,919
- Dying for austerity
- New York Stories
- Theremin
- Dead Set on Destruction
- The Implausible is now the Possible
- Fighting Socialism with a Socialist
- Rare Agreement with Young Republicans
- Should America bring back slavery? Views differ
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,918
- The NWS apparently did its job
- Music Notes
- Texas Floods
- After the stove is touched
- Week 24
- Madsen
- The case for (some sort of) optimism about the end of Trumpism
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,917
- Say goodbye, it’s Independence Day
- The Times revises its policy about whether to publish stories based on hacked materials provided by ratfuckers again
- Servicing the Fascists
- Pivoting to racial slurs
- No Hugo Boss uniform for you
- Definitely not close to the last
- LGM Film Club, Part 500: Scarecrow
- Supreme Court allows Trump to proceed with deportations to extremely dangerous third countries
- The Vicious Review
- There are no Republican moderates: the Ballad of Don Bacon
- Trump’s monstrous bill will pass today
- The cognitive ability and policy details candidate
- Checking in on the “going all-in on alienating your core consumers” strategy
- The Defund Red America Act
- The Third American Republic
- Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down state’s anachronistic abortion law
- Close Trump advisor advocates physical genocide of USA’s 65 million Latinos
- The Sean Combs verdict
- The racism, misogyny, and corruption are also the points
- This Is Going to Be Entertaining…
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,916
- Paramount pays tribute
- The dead-eyed ghoul who consigned 17 million people to a fate without health insurance
- 7 out of 10 Americans who could have voted failed to take the most minimal possible step to stop Donald Trump from becoming president
- The Decline of the Federal Mediation Service
- This Guy
- Let Them Eat Brownshirts: the New Republican “Populism”
- How to Teach College in the Age of ChatGPT
- Will Democrats Be Able to Rally Against the Spending Bill?
- Grotesque legislative avatar of Trumpism passes Senate
- Swaggart
- And Now for Something Completely Different
- America the terrible
- June Reading List
- This Day in Labor History: July 1, 1847
- California Dems finally beat back the NIMBYS
- LGM Film Club, Part 499: The Beaning
June 2025
- That train’s never late
- $250 million worth of buyer’s remorse
- Senate voting on the biggest cut to social programs and largest upward redistribution of wealth in modern history
- Two nations divisible?
- The Post-Racial Society
- The New Gilded Age, Indeed
- Pat Williams, RIP
- LGM Podcast: In the Wake of the Iran Strikes
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,915
- Khaos in Coeur D’Alene
- The Republican Billionaire’s bill is also a massive and gratuitous attack on clean energy
- Tillis won’t seek re-election after refusing to destroy the lives of enough of his own constituents
- Metaphor for Working in the Trump Years
- Trump bill raises budget of Stephen Miller’s Gestapo many times over
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,914
- The Economic Populism of Josh Hawley, Economic Populist
- Conservative judges will still be able to issue universal injunctions despite Trump v. CASA
- Week 23
- The Strains on the Kentucky GOP
- The culture war is a metaphorical war (for now), but the metaphor is valid
- The Lies Some Liberals Tell About Unions
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,913
- Republicans prepare to crush their core constituents
- Zones of lawlessness
- I feel like I’m taking crazy pills
- The Supreme Court’s ongoing war on civic equality under the false flag of the First Amendment
- Trump administration forces president of UVA to resign
- A quick note on the 14th amendment decision
- The Birthright Citizenship Decision
- Cult of Personality
- The farcical quality of generative AI
- More Anti-Union Democrats
- The Republican Party’s war on vaccination proceeds
- Bill Moyers
- Supreme Court joins the Republican War on Planned Parenthood by continuing its war on the Civil Rights Act of 1871
- Senate Parliamentarian makes Republican Medicaid cuts slightly less brutal
- And why ain’t there a funeral if you’re going to act that way
- Republican Sexual Fetishes
- Living in the Empire of Lies
- Meatheads a-beefing
- RFK Jr. is not a “vaccine skeptic”
- Guess who still isn’t taking “No. Go away.” for an answer?
- The Roberts Court is Trump’s personal Star Chamber
- Republican blames liberals for effects of law she voted for and they oppose
- Thinking is a form of emasculation
- Questions on the Fordo Strike (Wonky)
- Against the politics of exhaustion and retribution
- Iran Strikes andWaging War with Gold…
- Mission not accomplished
- NYC Primary Open Thread
- Emil Bove told subordinates to systematically break the law to try to make Stephen Miller’s quotas
- Distant social media early warning
- “I’m just trying to breathe at the moment”: Bill Cassidy makes futile effort to close barn door as horse reaches the Arkansas border
- After the Parties Collapse
- All the Stupid Ways Trump Destroys America
- Florida’s Immigration Torture Prisons
- The child may not be the father of the man, but he is actually president of the United States
- The Democrats’ Out of Touch 90s Tactics
- Cease-Fire?!?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,912
- Cease Fire?
- Supreme Court uses shadow docket to allow Trump to deport people to dangerous third countries without due process
- Hundreds of thousands of children will die because a thin-skinned manbaby briefly turned the presidency over to an even bigger one
- Mission Accomplished
- Enchanted America
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,911
- Game 7 Open Thread: give the trophy to the damn players edition
- We used to have vice presidents who presidents really enjoyed hanging out to dry, and come to think of it we still do
- We used to have dumb presidents, but luckily we now have a smart one
- Andrew Cuomo isn’t an asshole who gets things done, he’s just an asshole
- Week 22
- The Strikes
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,910
- The template for how to respond to Trump’s illegal bombing
- Donald the Dove’s bombing of Iran lacks any legal authority
- Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter
- Music Notes
- B-2 or not B-2?
- British Academic Leadership, with Even More Leaderocity than in the U.S.
- JD Vance intentionally misnames former colleague his administration had tackled and handcuffed for asking a question
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,909
- Hunter Biden laptop update
- MAGA has never been anti-war
- It’s true, and you should say it
- Trump units
- Circular Motion by Alex Foster
- DNC in Disarray
- More updates from the new Republican populism
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,908
- ICE announces unilateral amendment of legislative enactment to evade oversight by elected representatives
- NBA Game 6 Thread
- President Miller overrules Trump
- The road to emancipation
- Getting the war criminals back together
- The German word for “blank sheet of paper” is lebensraum
- Ten Years of Trump: A Panel Discussion
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,907
- The Latest
- Wedges
- The trolling style in American jurisprudence
- The Karen Read case
- SCOTUS upholds Tennessee law banning gender affirming care for minors
- The Peace President ponders bombing Iran
- The fantasy economics of American higher education
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,906
- Head of world’s largest bureaucracy literally cannot manage a military parade
- LGM Film Club, Part 498: Le Deuxieme Souffle
- Land of the Brave, Home of the Free
- Most people hate the Kick People Off Medicaid so Elon Musk Can Buy Another Yacht bill when they hear about it
- I burglarized the house you failed to protect with a better alarm system
- Brad Lander arrested for asking some questions
- Countdown to eschatological ecstasy
- The Terrible Human Beings of the Republican Senate Caucus
- AI: Not a Requirement to Live
- A Reminder
- Fridgescape from LA
- Questionable Trades
- ICE: America’s Brownshirts
- The number is 40%
- Mutual Defense
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,905
- Everything Everywhere at Once Update
- It’s a sin to let a sucker keep his money
- “The mother no longer has any interests”: the ballad of the American anti-abortion movement
- Is it undemocratic for the candidate with the most support from the majority of voters to win?
- Donald Trump as one weird trick for national salvation
- The Starmer Problem for Democrats
- Ten years gone
- What Will Happen after the 2030 Census?
- This Day in Labor History: June 16, 1958
- Josh Hawley: the massive Medcaid cuts I support don’t count as Medicaid cuts
- Fight and Fight Hard
- Destroying the Economy for White Supremacy
- The deranged fantasy world of BasedMikeLee
- Shredding the Iranian National Security State
- Triumph of the Will directed by Homer Simpson
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,904
- Chamorro
- “I told them once, I told them a hundred times: put ‘Military Parade’ first and ‘Puppet Show’ last”
- Birthday Parade Open Thread
- Minnesota political violence update
- Week 21 – No Kings Edition
- “These aren’t people who know what to do”
- Week 21 Post Will Be Delayed
- Minnesota Legislator Assassinations
- To a friend whose work has come to nothing
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,903
- Confusion at the Top
- So long Mel, have a good trip
- Raiding the day cares and preschools
- Totalitarian kitsch
- Fulbright
- Who’s up for flirting with a Mideast apocalypse to save Bibi?
- Playing Your Role in History
- More from the Worst Democratic Governor
- The Anakin Skywalker Theory of History
- Update on the cognitive fitness candidate
- Update on the Peace President
- Strike Update
- Los Angeles, Tehran, and DC
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,902
- The Strike, It Goes
- Judge rules that Trump’s usurpation of the California national guard is illegal
- Welcome to Flavor Country
- The biggest upward distribution of wealth in American history
- Hey boys and girls, there’s a big picnic on the White House lawn this evening, and every Democratic member of Congress is invited!
- The Equal Sovereign Dignitude of the states
- Remember, unless it’s from the Po valley region of Italy, it’s just sparkling authoritarianism
- Unions and the Immigration Protests
- Eliminate the Debt Ceiling
- How Can Democrats Build Support in Red States When No One Know What Democrats Did?
- Live from the post-apocalyptic nightmare
- Contemporary fascism and improving standards of living
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,901
- Sometimes it’s who you most expect
- NBA Finals Game Three
- RFK Jr. to pack vaccine advisory committee with the intellectual horse paste web
- Middle East Alert
- Trump’s use of the military to suppress protest is, like Trump himself, not popular
- If data mattered; if wishes were horses
- Brian Wilson
- Cybertank
- Joining The Discourse
- Placebos
- What Have Democrats Done Wrong? Anything at All?
- AI on the Battlefield and at the Peace Table
- Communication Breakdown
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,900
- This rerun is terrible
- Donald Trump orders national network to fire journalist for criticizing him; network complies
- Miller’s crossing
- The free speech administration
- Fiona Hill On Trump And Nuclear Weapons
- Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- 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
- The fragility of authoritarianism
- Goodbye to Salt Lake
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,899
- Escalating in LA
- Crushing American exports
- RFK Jr. fires all 17 CDC vaccine board advisors
- The only point of Medicaid “work requirements” is to take people’s health insurance away while blaming them for your actions
- Sly Stone, RIP
- A Very Bad Preprint With A Very Bad Idea
- The Usurpation Proclamation
- Archbishop of Santa Fe: “passing this budget would be a moral failure”
- The information security administration
- Stolen pride
- Bourbon Update
- This Day in Labor History: June 9, 1941
- Playoffs open thread
- ABC suspends reporter for telling the truth
- The military response to protest and the law
- Trump sans frontières
- Presidenting Is Hard
- Latinas for Trump
- This Day in Labor History: June 8, 1909
- Trump threatens to send troops into LA
- Stephen Miller claims ICE protest is an insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the USA
- Supreme Court Republicans: it is an emergency if white nationalist incels do not have immediate unfettered access to your sensitive personal data
- Constitutional Amendments
- Week 20
- Cool Archaeological Finds
- A shattered world: Revisiting “1984”
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,898
- Abrego Garcia update
- What America voted for
- Another lawyer joins the resistance
- Tomorrow is the Last Day to Submit a Public Comment on the L’etat c’est Moi Rule Formerly Known a Schedule F
- Jake Tapper is killing America
- This Day in Labor History: June 6, 1844
- At least one Trump supporter will still be getting paid
- That escalated quickly
- Elon: I expected Trump to stay bought
- Revisiting Rock Springs
- Buckley’s America
- How Are We Doing with the Greatest Crisis in Human History?
- Trump appoints 22-year-old with zero relevant experience to head top anti-terrorist group at DHS
- Operation Spider’s Web
- Travel announces another, even more wide-ranging arbitrary travel ban
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,897
- Protection racket turns out not to be selling protection
- Taking LGM’s temperature
- The B,BB is effectively ACA repeal
- The End is also a Beginning
- Whatever gets you thru the night
- Do Democrats Have the Proper Leadership?
- Condoms: A History
- Republicans Hate Native Americans
- Restoring Norms Fixes Nothing
- More From America’s Worst Democratic Governor
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,896
- MAGA’s idea of an intellectual
- Here come those Santa Ono winds again
- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
- The crack up
- Trouble in paradise
- Good and hard
- A Few Thoughts on Mexican Politics from a Non-Specialist Married to a Mexicanist
- Gaming Notes
- What is the Purpose of the Labor Movement?
- Class and Identity Politics
- The dis-United States of America
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,895
- Extend the map
- New head of FEMA unaware there is a hurricane season
- Inside the destruction of American scientific research by Elon’s incel army
- Extreme HYPS syndrome NYT edition
- The conservative legal movement and Trump’s tariffs
- Don’t do unpaid crisis management for Elon Musk
- Hudson’s Bay Company
- Improving Health Care and Joining Unions
- Thank You!
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,894
- Don’t do business with Trump collaborationalists
- Anti-semitic attack in Boulder
- Music Notes
- Happy Anniversary Blegging: World Gone Bonkers Edition
- More Thoughts On Russia’s Bomber Losses
- Orginalism as Esotericism
- The Attack
- Donations In Kind
- Election of the Weekend II: Mexico
- The Silence of the FBI
- Kristol Derivatives Revisited
- Coconut Curry for Everyone
- Pod Save America
- Major Ukrainian Drone Attack In Russia
- May Reading List
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,893
- Merch
- Contextualize This Image: LGM Fundraiser Edition
- What’s the matter with “soft power”?
May 2025
- Republican health care plan is now explicitly “die”
- Working with a functionally illiterate president
- Survey says: 89% of LGM readers enjoy ketchup blogging, 72% prefer love letters to billionaires
- The importance of good information
- Week 19
- More LGM according to LLM
- The Warriors are Back in Town
- RIP Loretta Swit
- Certain aspects of show business, and our thing
- So Ya Didn’t Love the Silent Auction…
- Election of the Weekend I: Poland
- “There’s a Bag Over in the Corner. Let Us Know You Love Us.”—Spiro Agnew (Not Sourced)
- LGM as Social Media
- This scowly deity that really needs a nap wants you to help LGM
- Am I going to blog about Gl*nn Gr**nwald’s S*x Tap*(s) or ar* you going to donat* some mon*y?
- Support MultiMedia LGM
- LGM Goals 2025
- God Has Donated to LGM Today. Why Haven’t You?
- Please give or my clumsy brother might “accidentally” push this sweet cat into the toilet
- Paying for Services
- What LGM Has Done For Me and For You (I Hope)
- Behind the Blogging 2025
- What Should We Call Trump’s Space Folly?
- Some Random Opinions
- If you want a picture of the future, imagine a ChatGPT version of an LGM post — forever
- “Why should I write for scoundrels and hogs like you?” Let the LGM/Martin Luther Spinoff Begin!
- LGM Silent Auction
- Please give
- 10 Reasons to Donate to LGM
- Erik Visits an American Grave: Part LGM Died Because Readers Didn’t Support the Site
- Kickoff!
- DOGE is already catastrophic and will continue to be
- Scientific Rigor (Mortis), part deux
- Scientific Rigor (Mortis)
- Visions of Gasquet
- Another survey
- Another judge holds that Trump’s tariffs are illegal
- Nike in Cambodia
- AI in the Beltway Media
- Tools at Democrats’ Disposal
- Court of International Trade rules Trump’s unilateral tariffs unconstitutional
- Don’t let me hear you say life’s taking you nowhere
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,892
- Oh, the humanity! (TW: extreme ultraviolence)
- I’m not just the president of the club for low-information voters, I’m also a member
- Caption Time
- Sanewashing the anti-vaxxer destroying American scientific research and nostalgia by proxy
- On Class and Average American Values (Whatever They May Be)
- Trump to disaster victims, past and future: eat shit
- The Basic Cultural Indifference to the Endless Corruption
- Rethink, Revisit, Reaffirm
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,891
- Stop or I shall be forced to do nothing again
- Pardons for sale
- Republican judge holds that Trump’s executive order targeting law firm violates First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments
- Tesla sales tanking in Europe, Elon will try to conceal his far-right political actions
- Building the Pyramids
- Trump administration moves to illegally cancel all contracts with Harvard
- Does Empathy Matter?
- Lunatic had a good idea once supposedly
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,890
- Requiem
- FDA did not inform public about E. coli outbreak that made dozens of people sick
- Maybe RFK Jr. Has A Point, Episode Too Many
- Rule by ipse dixit
- When you finally figure out that you’re the bottom
- White man’s burden
- This Day in Labor History: May 26, 1913
- I owed it to them
- New tariff policy unable to survive long weekend
- Election of the Day II: Venezuela
- Election of the Day I: Suriname
- Imagine if the mental state of a very elderly president became a big news story, part deux
- Imagine if the mental state of a very elderly president became a big news story
- This Day in Labor History: May 25, 1943
- Environmental Protection Agency to propose not protecting the environment
- Music Notes
- Certainly: I can rewrite it for you wholesale
- Joe Biden winning the 2020 nomination was probably suboptimal, but it was not an elite conspiracy
- Week 18
- New Baby Destroyer Suffers Birth Accident
- The arbitrariness of fame
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,889
- Leaving Vichy Biglaw
- Trump crash stonks again
- How to Buy Your Way to Medicaid Cuts
- Republican judge strikes down Trump’s attack on Jenner & Block
- Judge blocks Trump administration’s foreign student ban at Harvard
- The Boys from Brazil
- New head of Social Security Administration had to google “what is the Social Security Administration?”
- Speaking of historically unprecedented catastrophes
- Joe Biden age update
- Overruling 90 years of precedent (except for the Fed ;)) in an unreasoned four-paragraph opinion for Daddy Trump
- State of the Wolf
- This is really bad
- Republicans vote to take healthcare away from upwards of 10 million people to pay for a fraction of upper-class and corporate tax cuts
- Ledeen
- Trump administration blocks Harvard from enrolling new foreign students, and will expel from the country those who don’t transfer
- You Don’t Say…
- Dead simple Weeknight Wings
- Evil, corruption, stupidity
- It Can Always Get Worse, and It’s About to Get Worse
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,888
- Vote on monstrous Republican bill to happen later this morning
- American non-thinker
- House Democrats Bottle Up Billionaires’ Budget In Rules Committee
- Gabbard and Kent: make up fake intelligence to protect Trump’s arbitrary detentions
- Data from the Democratic Politburo
- Democratic pandermonium is a pander trap
- Let’s Hear It For the Gerontocracy!
- Republican reconciliation bill would force major cuts to Medicare
- “A strain of boredom that’s uniquely crushing”
- Jennifer and I
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,887
- Checking in on the Intellectual Dark Web
- The Mainstreaming of the Spy Genre…
- The transparent illegality of Trump’s AEA deportations and foreign imprisonments
- George Wendt, RIP
- Kristi Noem thinks habeas corpus is the power to detain people arbitrarily
- Trump Burger
- More on Democrats’ Unionbuster
- Bobby Brainworms says no Covid vaccine for you
- Very confused old man given test ride by dealership, thinks car is actually a gift
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,886
- Whatever happened to JD Vance?
- Bill Cassidy to pretend to be shocked that fox cannot be trusted in henhouse unsupervised
- Trump’s revenge tour on America includes his own voters
- It is still Paul Ryan’s Congress
- Waging War with Gold 6+1
- Musk’s Boys Are Attacking the GAO
- Twilight of the gerontocracy
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,885
- Romania Holds Serve
- Joe Biden has prostate cancer
- Voters who don’t know anything about Donald Trump kind of like Donald Trump
- As the thermostat turns
- American terror
- Infrastructure Week Comes Early!
- This Day in Labor History: May 18, 1900
- Music Notes
- How was I to know Bari was with the MAGA too?
- Trump warns Walmart not to raise prices just because tariffs make their inventory a lot more expensive
- Election of the Weekend III: Portugal
- Election of the Weekend II: Romania
- Week 17
- Election of the Weekend I: Poland
- Alito supports his opposition to Anglo-American constitutionalism by claiming source says the opposite of what it says
- Paying the Price for DOGE
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,884
- A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place
- Court rules 7-2 against Trump administration’s efforts to disappear people without due process
- Speaking in Trumpese
- Most lunatic faction of GOP opposes reconciliation for not denying enouugh poor people healthcare quickly enough
- “They Don’t Build ‘Em Like They Used To”
- The Beautiful New Planes!
- Tommy
- “Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is a one-way ticket to El Salvador with free room and board”
- Rob Manfred’s Donald Trump fan service
- The Dude Carbon Problem
- The Oppression of the Algorithm
- Birthright citizenship and nationwide injunctions
- JCPOA Revisited?
- Andor in the Rear View Mirror
- Fuck everything, we’re doing two engines
- Tulsi: it is a fireable offense to present facts that are inconvenient for Dear Leader
- Contextualize This Image
- Make America Unhealthy (to pay for yet another upper-class tax cut) Again
- How do you say “My offer is this: nothing” in Mandarin?
- Here’s a Truly Horrible Democrat
- Death to AI
- Dems In Disarray
- Rose/Jackson
- Poor Democratic Governance
- What they do, not what they say
- LGM Podcast: Faustian Bargain
- Make me like one of your French dishes
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,883
- Victory in Omaha
- Can Donald Trump help it if so many people feel like giving him gifts, expecting nothing in return?
- Andor Finale Open Thread
- José Mujica, RIP
- The MSNBC Problem
- Never get out of the boat
- Nostalgia and Masculine Work
- GOP to destroy the IRA, largely at the expense of their own constituents
- Joe Biden age update
- The Disability Follies, Part the Thousandth
- John Roberts criticizes jurisprudential catastrophe created by (checks notes) John Roberts
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,882
- Trump tries to appoint completely unqualified crony as Librarian of Congress
- Playoffs etc. open thread: (draft) ball lie edition
- A $400 million bribe that includes the notation “bribe for the president of the United States” is not a scandal
- Congestion pricing is incredibly effective public policy
- Republicans propose taking away healthcare from millions of people to partially pay for upper-class tax cuts
- Blame Canada!
- Sleepwalking into disaster
- A guy don’t walk on the lot unless he wants to buy
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,881
- Election of the day: The Phillipines
- Update on the race neutrality administration
- Music Notes
- Steven Joel Gitomer, 1943 -2025
- Air travel under DOGE
- Trump Repaying Michigan
- Here’s a Worthless Democrat
- Can Federal Worker Unions Survive?
- Oh Michael how much could a banana cost, ten dollars?
- EAIAC and BSDI as psychological defense mechanisms
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,880
- Election of the Day: Albania
- What Republicans mean by “Anti-DEI”
- The Great Writ
- They would do anything for Trump, but they won’t do that
- Week 16
- The Future of PME
- Point of order
- This Day in Labor History: May 10, 1972
- At some point, you’re not being tricked, you’re just in on it
- White House “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus
- The New Pope
- David Souter’s alternate path on poltical corruption
- Archetypal goobers on fyre
- David Souter
- Barbarism and Ineptitude
- Speaking of Collaborationalists
- Take a look at this collaborationist piece of shit
- Stockholm syndrome
- Red Wine Supernova
- Life at Rufo U
- Walking the GOP track
- NEW POPE!
- As Andor Nears the End…
- This Day in Labor History: May 8, 1935
- The day in incompetence, continued
- MAGA lunatic Laura Loomer is dictating US health care policy
- Why does MAGA want more people to die of preventible or treatable diseases?
- North Carolina Republicans finally concede election they lost last year
- A New Boat…
- Odesa Dreams…
- AWTTDWTG
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,879
- Election of the Day: Vatican City
- Hacking into an app used by tRump goons takes 15 to 20 times longer than falling in love
- Trump lose planes
- Donald Trump’s economic policy is based on the principle that suffering is caused by desire
- Supreme Court to allow Trump’s ban on trans servicemembers to remain in place
- War on the Subcontinent?
- Deal or no deal? (Answer: No deal.)
- Trump’s wanton destruction of the economy damaging his standing among his critical constituency of low-information voters
- Why Do They Do It?
- Eyeless in Gaza
- Was it a Tank?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,878
- Newsom begs to be shaken down
- A wise and important steward
- Anthony Weiner laptop update
- I never thought the leopard would eat my seed corn
- Carney’s F-35 Dilemma
- LGM Podcast: Leah Litman
- The cognitive fitness and in touch with the working American candidate
- This Day in Labor History: May 5, 1913
- Onion announces immediate closure because of impossible working conditions
- The information security administration
- Very Stable, Much Genius
- Contextualize This Image
- Is the president bound by the Constitution? Views differ
- The Enemy of My Enemy Is My…Oh, Never Mind
- Thelma and Louise economics
- Triangle Can Happen Again at Any Time
- When Donald Trump Told the Truth
- The Republican Fantasy of Child Labor
- Imagine if Obama (an infinite series)
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,877
- A government of cranks for cranks
- Music Notes
- Election of the Weekend III: Romania
- Derby 5
- Anti-Yahoo Serious
- Week 15
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,876
- Fetterman
- Judge rules that Trump’s shakedown of law firms is unconstitutional, based on its transparent unconstitutionality
- Like a loaded weapon
- The Horst Wessel song
- There really isn’t any need for bloodshed, you just do it with a little more finesse
- Election of the Weekend II: Australia
- Can’t stop, won’t stop, trying to grope Canada
- Election of the weekend I: Singapore
- Don’t know much about history
- Just Plain Evil
- Tunnel of Bove
- What “anti-DEI” actually means to conservatives
- I never thought the Elon would eat my face
- Judge holds that Trump’s AEA deportations are illegal
- Knows the prospects
- On the other hand, he’s against potato chips in kids’ school lunches
- Waltzing Out the Door…
- Horowitz Redux
- A couple stops in Normal Town
- April Reading List
- tRump campaign manager Chris LaCivita accuses Chris LaCivita of advising Australia’s Temu tRump
- The youth and mental acuity president confuses “Harvard” and “Harlem”
- The party of death
- Republicans love Trump’s economy-destroying regressive taxes
April 2025
- And it’s worse when I try to remember
- Good News
- “I am not afraid of you!”
- Crushed by the wheels of industry
- Trump: you will get nothing and like it
- Trump Weakens
- Group non-think
- Breaking bad
- As the Carthaginians Did
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,875
- The lavratory of democracy
- Notes on fascist camp
- 100 days of disaster
- Tainted love
- An offer you can’t accept
- Dems need to unite as a broad anti-Trump coalition
- Photography in the Vietnam War
- De facto repeal of the Civil Rights Act
- Gigantic loser Pierre Poilievre loses his own riding after blowing 25 point lead
- Erik Visits an (Non) American Grave, Part 1,874
- Worthwhile Canadian election thread
- The Counter-Offer
- Musk’s Boys In Restricted Data?
- Without bad faith MAGA academics can have to faith at all
- The opposition is mobilizing
- More sad tales from the gerontocracy
- Centrist Dems in Swing Districts
- Destroying Democracy, an American Tradition
- Election of the Day II: Canada
- As the thermostat turns
- Simpering Timidity
- We are not a serious country
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,873
- Election of the Day I: Trinidad and Tobago
- BREAKING! MUST CREDIT LGM! (And Jann Wenner immolating his influence)
- Tragedy in Vancouver
- Music Notes
- How to Alienate Western Republicans
- Contemporary Canadian Political Art
- Alexis Herman, RIP
- Marginal Trump voters wanted 2019 again, but they voted for 2020
- Is there any breaking point?
- The ongoing attack on the American university, Indiana division
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,872
- Justice Accused
- Neil Gorsuch’s homophobic alternate fiction
- Election of the Weekend: Vienna
- They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money
- Week 14
- The tyranny of evil men
- Shedeur’s Slide
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,871
- 100 Daze
- Make diarrhea great again
- James Carville should take his own advice
- As the thermostat turns
- Some good news
- 7 for Santos
- FBI arrests judge for allegedly helping immigrant
- The Pitt
- There will be growth in the spring
- Anthony Weiner laptop update
- NFL Draft/Playoffs open thread
- Alito too homophobic to understand book written for 5-year-olds
- Twisted truth and half the news, can’t hide it in your eyes
- Daddy Putin’s generous concessions
- Kidding on the square all the way to tyranny
- LGM Podcast: Canada’s Upcoming Election
- New blood
- Conspiracy theory roundup: “Ron Johnson’s priorities are backwards, and he’s a silly man.” Plus: Bioweapon deployed in Texas.
- Stupidity uber alles
- Against defeatism
- It’s not really a scandal if it’s right out in the open
- Never Would Have Made It Through the Arkansas Mud If I Hadn’t Been Riding the Tennessee Stud
- The Offer
- Approval of Trump’s immigration policies declining
- Open Thread
- Trump blames the press for all those times he said he’s going to fire Federal Reserve Chair Powell
- “Transferring” The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
- MAGA natalism is a dead end
- Anecdote of a Nazi
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,870
- Free minds and free markets: an update
- Andor 3
- Art of the squeal
- Tesla profits fall 71%
- Republicans are coming for the Medicaid expansion
- Destroying Public Education
- That Tasty New Gilded Age Milk
- Kashmir Attack
- What’s the Court Up To?
- Anarchy in the US
- Kristi Noem, International Woman of Mystery
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,869
- Curb your enthusiasm (for Donald Trump)
- Trump crash stonks
- White House admits Hegseth chaos is even more serious than even we had at first been imagining
- Stephen in Wonderland
- Hegseth gone?
- But you did!
- The State of the War
- LGM Podcast: Spy Movies
- On Intentional Homelessness
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,868
- Francis Dead
- The art of not making a deal
- Contextualize This Image
- Hegseth Hegsething Again…
- DOGE At NLRB
- Lawlessness is blind
- The Left Gerontocracy
- Cancer Alley
- Canadian Tories heading for historic collapse
- On Judas
- Sarah Palin’s amazingly frivolous libel suit
- The Life and Work of Karen Wynn Fonstad
- Erik Visits an (Non) American Grave, Part 1,867
- Contextualize This Image
- Music Notes
- The Nixon Head Rock
- NBA/NHL playoffs open thread
- Week 13
- Did Alito refuse to refer A.A.R.P. v. Trump to the full Court to facilitate Trump’s illegal detainments?
- Gorka Diagrams, Redux
- Supreme Court temporarily blocks deportations to El Salvador
- Marco Rubio read 1984 and thought “Hold my banana daiquiri”
- On Obeying in Advance
- Viewpoint Diversity
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,866
- Disorganized crime
- Is tRump 2.0 so out of touch that it accidentally sent threatening letters to Harvard University?
- Who’s out, who’s in … front of the bus?
- Trump kill ports and transportation
- RFK Jr says his response to measles outbreak should be ‘model for the world’
- The wolf was always there
- Trump tank economy
- Autism Stigma Disorder
- Trump unilaterally destroys CFPB
- Latest on the Norks
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,865
- Chris Van Hollen Meets Kilmar Abrego Garcia
- The midterms are 19 months away, you can oppose authoritarianism now
- Make food poisoning great again
- Trump rendition policies shock the conscience of prominent right wing judge
- Murder by numbers
- Unraveling the traveling (Update: 51st state BS)
- Power Plays in New York
- Broken Immigration Law
- Big Balls Made a Boo Boo
- Trump may try to fire Jerome Powell, even though that would be illegal
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,864
- Little Marco: the unemployment rate is currently too low, please make it higher
- Should your extremely expensive lawyer understand how a shakedown works?
- The Worst Place on the Planet
- Trump v. Justice
- “You cannot have despotism for some and freedom for others”
- Thomas Is a Very Useful Engine…
- Flagrantly insane Bond villain minus the charm is de facto president of the United States
- Trump/Vance/Elon ’24: Fuck Them Kids
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,863
- Take my freedom fries, please
- Labor Historians at Work
- Imaginary Donald Trump betrayed by real Donald Trump again
- Trump take manufacturing jobs
- Real gangster tactics
- As the Romans Did
- Find the cost of freedom
- We have taken too little care of this
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,862
- Living and dying with the choices they’ll make
- Lucky duckies
- What Could’ve Been
- I don’t like Mondays
- Binational Scumbaggery
- Make America White Again
- An elite institution finally understands the shot
- Mario Vargas Llosa, RIP
- Why Trump’s tarrifs should be opposed clearly and unambiguously
- The Tariff Lesson of the 19th Century
- Bourbon Update
- DOJ argues for paying reparations to 1/6 seditionists
- Josh Shapiro’s house firebombed
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,861
- Trump tariff du jour
- The moron premium
- Jameson Quinn
- The Grift Economy is Coming for your Cats
- Cutting Through The Crap
- I’ll be a diode, cathode, electrode, overload, generator, oscillator…
- Is doing everything you can to alienate your core customer base good business?
- A and B, not A or B
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,860
- Tim Cook’s ass-kissing pays off
- Music Notes
- Week 12
- Election of the Weekend II: Ecuador
- 1/6 in robes
- The Winners
- If you don’t study something it doesn’t happen
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,859
- What anti-“DEI” means
- 1 hour 40 minutes and 32 seconds of Lemon Usk being trolled by gamers
- Fantasy Donald Trump, protector of the working class, is harder to kill than Rasputin
- Election of the weekend: Gabon
- Does anyone remember “major questions doctrine”?
- The Iran Negotiation
- John Roberts has given us his loophole, now let us exploit it
- It’s On
- Giving some people what they want
- 125%
- Liberation (from your disposable income) Day
- Defending the indefensible: not just for the political press!
- Activism Survey Says … Part I
- Supreme Court holds that the District Court can order the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, to a point
- Does anyone know how to play this game?
- The tariff madness of King Donald
- Corporatism, faculty governance, and workplace democracy
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,858
- Civil exposure to the max
- A servile kiss-ass with fuck-you money is something not to be
- Another one bites the dust
- The cult abdicates to its leader
- Robert McChesney, RIP
- I’m not yippy, you’re yippy!
- Resist the temptation to sanewash the Trump tax increase du jour
- The Port Fee Disruption
- Thank you for your attention to this matter
- Tariffs gon’ make you sick
- 84%
- Breaking through the denial
- Trump’s Speech At The Republican National Congressional Committee Was Bonkers
- Investors flee from U.S. Treasury bonds
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,857
- Trump-appointed IRS head resigns over egregious privacy violations
- It’s one iPhone, Michael. What could it cost, 3,500 dollars?
- Hooked on a feeling
- The Next Destroyer
- DOGE to effectively end federal tax enforcement
- Form without substance, the John Roberts story
- This dead cat won’t bounce
- Foreign Policy Doesn’t Elect You
- Former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice has law license suspended for three years for fraudulently advancing Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 election
- Obama to University Administrators: Stop Sucking
- The Last Days of Biden
- The Little Things
- Collaborators
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,856
- Today on the shadow docket: assisting Trump’s arbitrary deportations to slave prisons
- Trump’s Manly Tariffs
- RFK Jr. visits family of child who died because they followed his bullshit conspiracy theories
- An endless firehose of lies abetted by a compliant media
- Fired cancer researchers will labor in the new factories that rise from the soil near Des Moines as 100 manufacturing flowers bloom
- Mistaking a Victor’s Peace for a Cold War
- MAGA influencer furious that the Donald Trump that existed solely in his own imagination has been betrayed by Donald Trump
- Porno for Pyros
- Things To Look For This Week
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,855
- A basic category error
- Trump take 401(k)
- Track Changes Nominated for a Hugo Award
- The DOGE war on Social Security
- 895
- The DEI Books
- Paying one Trump tax
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,854
- The Three Pillars of Trumpian Wisdom
- Trump, the (even more) nihilist years
- Music Notes
- HANDS OFF!
- Supreme Court uses shadow docket to help Trump again
- Trump didn’t even apply his own AI-incel formula correctly
- Week 11
- The Biggest NCAA Football Programs
- Was it a good idea to put a lazy ignorant arrogant idiot in control of the world’s economy?
- This Day in Labor History: April 5, 2010
- Into the blue again, after the money’s gone
- How the Supreme Court helped Trump wreck the economy
- It Can Happen Here
- Friday Cat Blogging
- A history of (domestic) violence
- North Carolina Republicans win major battle to steal election
- My date with Ted Bundy is not going as well as I had every reason to expect it would
- The end of an empire, messy at best
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,853
- There is no plan
- Geopolitical Suicide and Economic Self-Immolation: Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together
- Yoon Gone
- NSA leadership ousted
- You’ll never guess who preemptively capitulated to Trump
- New Haven/Cambridge galaxy brain syndrome
- I feel my worlds converging
- Trump tank stonks
- “Not Great, Bob!”
- I would like to return this country it is scratched
- It Ain’t No Good
- The boy who would never do his homework
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,852
- However dumb you think the Trump taxes are, they’re dumber
- AI will doom us all
- The real Donald Trump betrays the imaginary Donald Trump again
- Bobby Jr. doesn’t want people he’s lied to about vaccines to be confronted by facts
- The Sad Silence Around Trump’s Deportations
- Liberation Day
- Israel: In Trump’s Pocket
- Federal Worker Militancy–Can It Return?
- Rapid unscheduled disassembly
- RFK Jr Guts The Department of Health and Human Services
- Dishonesty and delusion
- This Day in Labor History: April 2, 1992
- Val Kilmer
- Elon v. democracy
- Women’s Tournament Challenge Update
- Beating the Record
- Triangle
- Elections of the Day: United States of America
- Checking in on the information security administration
- The eternal mystery at the heart of American politics
- It’s the Little Things…
- Kristi Noem’s Prison Porn
- Deserving Things Happen to Deserving People
- Donald Trump and the Interests of Capital
- Mr. Booker goes to Washington
- Trump in the wilderness
- Welcome to Alabama!
- March Reading List
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,851
March 2025
- Trump lackeys have no idea why they’re about to impose the largest regressive tax increase in modern American history
- Sinema gets the quo
- The Future is Unwritten
- The right profile
- Ukrainian Elections
- Trump says he’s serious about running for a third term
- When they kick at your front door, how you gonna come?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,850
- Trump is more contemptuous of his own rural voters than any urban liberal will ever be
- LGM Tournament Challenge
- Wilhoit’s law is a harsh mistress
- Review: Luminous by Silvia Park
- Alternative medicine murders people
- This Day in Labor History: March 30, 1891
- Takedown intensifying
- “I never thought the Destroy the Administrative State Party would arbitrarily fire me from my job with the administrative state”
- The loneliness of the long-distance imperialist
- Week 10
- First as farce, then as tragedy
- Goodbye Brandon
- Profiles in something
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,849
- FDA’s top vaccine official resigns
- Trump kill stonks
- Trump sells another pardon
- Diversity Actually Is Strength
- Big Balls and Groyper 1488 never have to worry
- Four Soldiers Missing In Lithuania
- Yes, MAGA Fredo does need to be protected from “controversial” opinions
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,848
- Trump ends collective bargaining rights for many federal employees
- You were serious about that?
- The Scourge of Lesbian Penguins
- Special Elections
- Don’t put in the paper that VP Vance got mad
- Make measles and e coli great again
- Policies that Work
- And for Greenland sailed away
- Trump Always Treats His Underlings Right
- They’re Not Sending Their Best Farleys
- Time to End an Error
- Writing a pro-Palestinian op-ed can get you kidnapped by Trump’s Gestapo and then deported
- Alien Enemies Act Deportations Were Carefully Orchestrated To Keep Courts In The Dark
- Trump make cars more exponsive
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,847
- If the Gucci loafer fits
- The party of death
- Why Elon wants to buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat
- Who’s In Charge?
- The reappearance of Neil Gorsuch’s sporadic textualism
- Republicans put anti-vax fraud who hawked autism cures in charge of proving vaccines cause autism
- Kennedy isn’t out of touch, it’s the sick children who are wrong
- Drunken rapist posts precise details of military attack plan to journalist by mistake
- Dumb as a Box of Rocks
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,846
- The cover up is even dumber than the crime
- Liberation Day Delay
- Another batch of horrible and illegal executive orders
- The Cast
- Making Russia Great Again, Again
- Elon and Trump destroying the Social Security administration
- It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your DNA data is?
- Take this Waltz, please
- The Scandal
- What If We Didn’t Suck, or, Taking Out the Gerontocracy
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,845
- Turkey’s autocratic slide
- What Did the President Know, and When…?
- Worst national disaster since Civil War makes eliminating disaster relief a top priority (irony alert)
- Standing up for cancer
- The Genocide of Palm Oil
- The Shipping News
- The Information Security Administration!
- WSJ editorial page: Sam Alito would never resign if he thought he would be replaced by a results-oriented hack
- Shoring up America’s vital white people reserve
- The F-47 MAGA?
- The autocratic structure of the American university
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,844
- It’s a non-interventionist mindset, you wouldn’t understand
- Frayed nerves
- Snap election in Canada
- 50,000 Dead
- Why We Can Never Give Up on Trump Voters
- Trump Turns Against the DEI Marxist Communist Islamocommunist First Trump Administration
- An Elaboration
- The rot
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,843
- The Department of Government Inefficiency
- Music Notes
- Why is the historically unpopular president so popular?
- “Calipari is a pimp. He never could have outfought Pitino.”
- Fascist Aesthetics
- People Who Matter, People Who Don’t Matter
- The Little Bits of Destruction
- Week 9
- It did happen here
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,842
- The Man, the Legend
- This will hurt you more than it hurts me
- Shrug
- A boom market for wallet inspectors
- Howard Lutnick thinks that if you don’t get your Social Security check and complain you are probably a fraudster
- Trumpism without Trump
- A Note On Strategy
- More people making choices
- Cease-Fire Negotiations
- The “struggling middle class”
- Lawyer, up!
- As the information security administration turns
- Paul, Weiss agrees to pay protection money
- Just for you: The birthplace of Facebook & Xitter
- DOGE ends Social Security benefits and raids bank account of living recipient
- Minn. MAGAt who introduced TDS is a mental disorder bill accused of attempting to pay a minor for sex
- Warning and NCAA Tourney Open Thread
- Democratic Leaderocity!
- Does anyone else smell metaphor? I think there’s a leak.
- The Mar-a-Lago Accord
- LGM Podcast: The Rise and Fall of Kentucky Bourbon?
- College professors are paid less now than they were in 1970, while upper administrator salaries have increased many times over
- This Day in Labor History: March 20, 1945
- Tourney Challenge: Last Chance Reminder
- Where have you gone Jackie Robinson
- Advice from your mortal enemies
- A man in my position cannot afford to be made to look ridiculous
- United States Institute of Peace Resists The Musk Boys
- Trump take all the eggs
- The state of exception
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,841
- Unredacted JFK assassination files released
- The Antitrust Revolution president illegally attempts to fire the two remaining Democratic appointees to the FTC
- Breaking: The Information Security Administration hands over White House Wi-Fi to totally not any kind of security risk Elon Musk
- And you may say to yourself, “My God, What Have I done?”
- The Not-Yet-A-Ceasefire
- The problem is the idiot vote
- Post-Tenure Review
- The information security presidency
- What happened last November
- This Day in Labor History: March 18, 1886
- Texas Arrests abortion provider
- Eggspansionist bEGGars can’t be choosers
- Whither the Panther?
- Collaborator’s remorse
- They will call them the Unity President (update)
- 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
- I see a little silhouetto of a man
- Musk Attacks NNSA
- Will Trump order Bondi to prosecute the people Biden pardoned for attempting to prosecute Trump?
- DEI Medal
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,840
- Tourney Time!
- Trump’s trade war will do disproportionate damage to his voters
- Out of Touch
- Survey Sunday – Activism
- The DOGE Deaths
- The Democratic Party Disaster
- Uneasy but effective collaboration
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,839
- What DOGE considers “waste”
- The book Zuck doesn’t want you to read
- Director of HHS convinces people to expose their children to measles and then not to take them to a doctor
- Week 8
- Men who will not be president
- Politico. Politico Never Changes.
- “It’s just a tell when someone is lying all the time”
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,838
- I Can Haz Friday Cat Blog
- Friday Cat Blogging VI
- MuskTrump’s V.A. plots new interim final rule on abortion access.
- The immediate surrender caucus
- Trump goes to DOJ and declares CNN and MSNBC are breaking the law because they criticize him
- Raul Grijalva and the Gerontocracy
- Elon brings in Silicon Valley crony to destroy Social Security
- On Fridays, Cat Blogs You
- Leopards, Faces, Etc
- Ce n’est pas mon chat
- The Internal Rebellion
- I Hope I Die Before I Get Old
- The Trump Administration Economic Plan
- Friday Cat Blogging III
- Friday Cat Blogging – II
- Maybe if I’m extra nice he’ll stop hitting me
- Friday Cat Blogging I
- Alan Simpson
- This Day in Labor History: March 14, 1882
- Donald Trump doesn’t want you to retire
- Shots Fired
- Why Covid Won the Youth Vote
- Schumer voting for cloture on the CR
- Dementia
- Paranoia runs deep
- The art of the deal
- Scenes from American Kleptocracy
- Trump administration to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency’s woke “environmental protection” agenda
- Unless it comes from the Po valley region of Italy, it’s just sparkling authoritarianism anyway
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,837
- Dunces of the Confederacy
- LGM Film Club, Part 497: Fantastic Mr. Fox
- The politics of the Musk/Trump/Thune/Johnson shutdown
- Schumer says Democrats united on not signing off on House funding bill
- Trump/Elon: there are not enough drug overdoses in America
- Election of the Day: Belize
- Russia-Ukraine Cease-Fire Simulation
- The Art Looters
- Wilcox Returns to the NLRB
- Make Way for Tomorrow
- Make America Healthy Again!
- The decline of Christianity/religion in American life
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,836
- Trump take away your 401(k)
- Musk’s incel wreckers lay off half of the Department of Education’s work force
- Duterte Arrested
- Trump is getting increasingly fixated on annexing Canada as “our cherished 51st state”
- Legal US resident is “disappeared” EXPLICITLY for engaging in legally protected speech
- Cease-fire?
- Rapid scheduled disassembly: the economics of Donald Trump
- Five years a pandemic
- The MAGA exacta
- If you get sick it’s your fault, unless you got vaccinated, in which case it’s the vaccine’s fault
- Okay (Nork) Boomer?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,835
- There are multi McCarthyisms a day
- LGM Film Club, Part 496: Pryor on the Mafia
- Remember “Great Power Competition?” Lol.
- The Disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil
- Election of the Day: Greenland
- Tesla and the Trump Tank
- The emptiness of MAGA
- The best labourer dead
- Cybertruck panic
- Right Wing Washington’s Cult House
- Trump’s War on Public Sector Unionism
- Trump’s Rewriting of the Past for Evil
- The free speech presidency
- Populist science and the destruction of expertise
- Collapse of the Kursk Pocket
- This Day in Labor History: March 10, 1959
- The Sun Also Rises
- Mark Carney becomes Canadian Prime Minister
- Greenland. Panama Canal. Canada. Gaza.
- Elon and Trump’s war against healthcare for vets and cancer research
- Elon thinks that anti-Tesla protests are being driven by a dead guy
- The appropriate response to RFK Jr. is to destroy him
- The Definition of Trumpism
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,834
- The party of death
- Music Notes
- Trump’s assistance to Daddy Putin getting a lot of Ukrainian civilians killed
- Syria Remains Unsettled
- Trump administration: Article II makes Article I unconstitutional
- Week 7
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Scenes from Broke Dick Mountain
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,833
- Little Marco gets into screaming match with president
- “Have I Been Banned?”
- The “Fighting Antisemitism” Canard
- The art of the deal
- “DEI” is anything that makes white nationalists uncomfortable, continued
- Tanking Tesla
- Factions
- Heroin: You had ONE job
- LGM Podcast: Hackman
- Politics and the thought-terminating cliche
- The National Interest According to Trumpland
- Another Kennedy Killing
- How to stand up to unconstitutional bullying
- Cult of personality
- The Trumpcession
- Gavin Newsom acknowledges that rootless cosmopolitans have too much influence on German finance
- The Ever Brave Democratic Caucus
- The incredible further shrinking of Little Marco
- Trump revoking legal status of 240,000 Ukrainian war refugees
- Government by chaos, cnt’d
- In speech televised across Europe, Macron warns continent to prepare for war with Russia
- Locked in the trunk of a Tesla
- You didn’t have to love me like you did but you did, but you did. And I thank you
- What We Think Works to Protest Trump Might Not Work
- The SCOTUS’ muddled USAID ruling
- The Department of Defense Deputy Press Secretary is a Leo Frank troofer
- Slotkin’s rebuttal
- Thoughts on the state of the union
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,832
- It’s been a short honeymoon
- LGM Film Club, Part 495: Husbands and Wives
- Watch Anything But the Trump Speech
- Trump crash stonks, Republicans run away
- Fire Sale!
- Government By Chaos
- A blow against NIMBYism and for sane and decent housing policy in….Cambridge?
- The chocolate ration has been raised to 20 grams per week
- Election of the Day: Federated States of Micronesia
- Liberal Urban Leadership!
- Negotiations?
- Not All Christians Suck
- Musk Attacks The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
- Enjoy Your Trump Groceries!
- UAW Organizing
- What is going on at the SCOTUS with the USAID funding freeze?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,831
- A return to the original impeachable sin
- Trump crash economy
- Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season
- Breaking news: Formerly vegan leopards unexpectedly turn carnivorous
- And as the planes crashed down [because we gutted the FAA] he thought “well, isn’t that nice”
- Nothing the Trump administration does should be supported by anyone who isn’t a fascist
- Trump Screws Over His Base, Part the Zillion
- The Rich Will Always Be Our Enemy
- Little Marco fires people for telling the truth about his administration’s murderous policies
- Sanewashing Trump’s mental deterioration
- Connectivity and Carrier Life
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,830
- Academy Awards Open Thread
- Ponzi schemes, real and imagined
- Netanyahu announces blockade of food and aid shipments into Gaza with Trump’s support
- Oscar Thoughts
- Document, Document, Document!
- Recipe Review: Smitten Kitchen Carrot Tatin
- Trump belongs to Putin
- More Working Class Populism
- This Day in Labor History: March 2, 1957
- Music Notes
- Just say absolutely not
- Fash Ivy League Debate Club
- Election of the Weekend III: Tajikistan
- Election of the weekend II: Abkhazia
- Week 6
- Election of the weekend I: Hamburg
- Disgust
- February Reading List
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,829
- Government inefficiency
February 2025
- Hegseth threatens unilateral military action in Mexcio
- What Zelenskyy understands about Trump’s smarmy lickspittle that too many American elites did not
- Cities of God
- A profile in courage, a narcissist, and a fascist bootlicker walk into a bar…
- Kayfabe for Hitler
- The Meeting
- All the Smartest Guys in One Government
- What Are Days of Action Supposed to Accomplish?
- Governance by Scam
- Money and attitude
- Does NATO Have a Future?
- Citibank collaborating with Trump administration’s attempt to use knowingly baseless criminal charges to illegally claw back already disbursed funds
- Brief Thoughts on the Thing
- LGM Film Club, Part 495: Exiled
- Lil’ Marco illegally condemns countless people to avoidable death and suffering
- A Handy Chart For Supporters of Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism
- The importance of Trump’s fake moderation
- Exit, voice, and loyalty
- The Party of Rural America: Life Expectancy in West Virginia is way too high
- Preordering Organizing America
- TechBro Apocalyptic Fantasy Hour
- In The Leopards’ Den
- The Cuddled Little Vice
- Complete Capitulation
- Primary the Terrible Democrats
- Donald Trump successfully pressures Romania into releasing human trafficking child rapist so he can return to the US
- RFK Jr. is taking your vaccines away
- Hackman
- Election of the Day: Ontario
- Make Ebola great again
- Goodbye, Dawn
- LGM Film Club, Part 494: In the Mood for Love
- Republicans: it’s fraudulent for the non-affluent to have access to healthcare
- The post-policy era?
- Billionaire Class Interest
- RFK Jr. claims first American murder victim this year
- Bezos Goes Gilded Age
- We Will Never Do Anything About Climate Change
- Mr. Government Welfare
- Democrats Who Suck
- Project Labor Agreements
- And that’s the way it is, February 26, 2025
- Musk: we must suspend the Constitution because it does not allow me to be the CEO of the United States
- LGM Film Club, Part 493: The Organizer
- House votes to reduce the deficit by pairing $4.5 trillion in tax cuts with $2 trillion reduction in federal spending
- Gangster Imperialism Works
- State Media
- Checking in on Seattle NIMBYs
- Author of “How to Fight Anti-Semitism” publishes defense of public Nazi salutes
- The Dunning-Kruger Coup
- Private jet decides to ignore DEI instructions from ATC in honor of DOGE initiative
- SCOTUS reverses Richard Glossip’s conviction
- The spaceship hidden by the comet’s tail
- LGM Podcast: The Magic Hours
- The new Lavender Scare
- Wilhoit’s Law enshrined by DOJ
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,828
- I guess the honeymoon is over
- LGM Film Club, Part 492: Days of Heaven
- Inanity
- Andor 2
- Unhinged and Hallucinating
- “As President Trump’s Lawyers”
- Give it up DougJ
- Banksy shot
- Putin’s man in DC votes against boilerplate condemnation of unprovoked invasion
- On the lighter side: Rock stars and death
- Banana Republic Foreign Policy
- Local News and the Growing Resistance
- Roberta Flack, RIP
- Everything Changed When the Fire Nation Attacked: ATLA Turns Twenty
- No compassion
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,827
- Trump nominates the Glenn Greenwald of Joe Rogans to be Deputy Director of the FBI
- Musk unilaterally shutters USAID
- An appropriate response to the Free Speech administration sending threatening letters in response to criticism of de facto president
- Is Agent Krasnov God’s imperfect vessel?
- Election of the Day: Germany
- DOGE: destroying the administrative state for trivial savings with Enron-caliber bookkeeping
- Stories of Quality Engineering
- Will John Roberts stand up to Donald Trump?
- What *Did* I Do Last Week?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,826
- Update on the post-Dobbs Republican pivot to maternal care
- Elon Musk ready to fire any federal worker who didn’t get enough done last week
- The Historical Analogy for Trump is the Gilded Age, Not Nazism
- Musk trying to buy Wisconsin judicial election to strangle its restoration of democratic elections
- Labor’s Moment of Truth
- Week 5
- Why We Gotta Figure This Out
- For the Trump administration, “anti-DEI” means “Jim Crow”
- At the dark end of the democratic street
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,825
- The One Where They Purged the Senior Military Leadership
- Trump crash economy
- RFK Jr. acts immediately to ensure as many people get sick from viral infections as possible
- Is it good that the de facto president gives every appearance of having a serious substance abuse problem?
- Banana Republicans
- Working toward the Elon
- 10th circuit judge states in published opinion that Trump may be eligible for election to a third term
- Trump to attempt to illegally end USPS’s status as an independent agency
- Four Nations Etc. Open Thread
- Cool cool cool
- The conservative legal movement’s undermining of the 14th Amendment is a dry run for their undermining of the 22nd Amendment
- Trump’s War on Workers
- The Texas War on Women
- Hochul isn’t going to remove Adams
- Mitch Reaches the End
- Some Rumblings
- The Bernie Plan
- One Month
- This Day in Labor History: February 20, 1917
- Sean O’Brien: let’s not bicker over who fired who
- LGM Film Club, Part 492: The Big Gundown
- In the war for constitutional governance, Phil Murphy shoots the pro-democracy side in the back
- Have the emperor’s methods become unsound?
- You played the salesman who sold you a 20-year extended warranty like a drum
- ALL HAIL THE KING!
- A Litany of Greats
- The DEI Madness
- By a remarkable coincidence, Donald Trump’s view of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is now exactly the same as Vladimir Putin’s
- Figuring Out the Democratic Party’s Problems
- Setting the Terms for the Negotiation
- Fascist Solidarity
- Editor of most influential Beltway political newsletter: Franklin Delano who now?
- To what extent is MAGA a political movement based on sadism?
- LGM Podcast: Weaponizing InterdepenDANCE
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,824
- Luke 10:25-37
- Trump: Ukraine should not have chosen to be invaded by Russia
- Head of D.C. Criminal Division resigns rather than pursuing a legally baseless prosecution
- Notes on the Bishop of Rome
- Make measles great again
- Election of the day: Bermuda
- Update on the post-Dobbs Republican pivot to maternal care
- Reactionary beasts and the politics of law
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,823
- Hochul appears open to removing Donald Trump’s sock puppet
- Elon’s army of groyper incels coming for your Social Security data
- Demonstrations Today
- Intellectual death recorded
- Bezos spikes Anti-Musk ad
- A Note On Strategy
- Musk/Trump respond to increase in plane crashes with indiscriminate mass firings of people in an already understaffed agency
- It’s Not The Egg Shortage We Should Be Worrying About
- Review: The Sentence by Gautam Bhatia
- Our misfortune
- The Negotiations
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,822
- Musk Youth wants full access to your tax returns
- Trump to farmers: drop dead
- Vice signalling
- Boycotting President Elon
- The collaborators
- New Baby CV!
- Week 4
- What’s Going on at Planned Parenthood?
- In Opposition to Nazi References, in Favor of Gilded Age References
- Bad Unionism
- The Tech Bros Who Destroyed the World
- Ebikes and Bike Lanes
- 3 Quick Recipe Reviews
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,821
- Government by unaccountable moron
- Music Notes
- The Leader Principle
- Musk and Trump are stopping the distribution of live-saving aid and firing anybody who tells the public about it
- Ilya Shapiro and Josh Blackman defend the rule of law
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,820
- Red state legislators upset that their constituents’ faces are being eaten
- The mainstream press should boycott Trump’s free form fascism explorations until the AP’s access is restored
- In Munich
- Bove finds his Bork
- Authoritarian clown show
- Trump and competitive authoritarianism
- DOE, NNSA, and the Weapons Complex
- Hochul must remove Adams
- What Shall We Call Them? Followup
- Deputy Attorney General admonished DOJ lawyer for taking notes on his criminal fuckin’ conspiracy
- Kathy Hochul fires the first shot
- Trump’s deranged press conference
- What Shall We Call Them?
- CNN Headline: “Vaccine skeptic RFK Jr. confirmed as health secretary”
- Kevin Drum Is Very Ill
- The 2025 Hugo Awards: My Hugo Ballot
- The future Republicans want
- I’m not saying they’re not going to get their hair mussed
- Elon wets Trump’s beak ten million times
- Women in Combat
- House Republicans propose devastating cuts to Medicaid and SNAP to (partially) pay for upper-class tax cuts
- Trumpflation
- Trump Bends The Knee To Putin
- Trumpism’s anti-DEI agenda has nothing to do with legitimate criticisms of DEI
- The economic populisms of Donald Trump, economic populist
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,819
- Conspiracy theory nation
- Living the fever dream
- More on the Potential Death of USAID
- Totally not a cult
- Republicans hate it when government works I
- How Reactionary Centrism Brought Us To This Moment
- Delusion and desire
- Shutting down the government
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,818
- Why would you buy a Tesla when you could just give money to the Nazi Party directly?
- Nominally bipartisan corruption
- Trump: ethnic cleansing in Gaza should be total and permanent
- What are we doing here?
- Judge rules that Trump administration is not in compliance with the law
- Musk’s Goals
- Nostalgia Comes Fast
- A Decent Idea is a Decent Idea
- Tom Robbins, 1932-2025
- Reciprocal tariffs and Donald Trump’s bottomless stupidity
- Jaguars and Faces
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,817
- LGM Film Club, Part 491: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
- Super Bowl Open Thread II
- Super Bowl Open Thread I
- Well that’s just Super
- Election of the Day II: Kosovo
- Election of the day: Ecuador
- Hubie
- “How Much Can I Hate Myself?”
- Leopards, Faces, Etc
- If it happened there
- All the Best People
- Curtis Yarvin’s lunatic fantasies are being used as a blueprint by President Musk
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,816
- “You can’t be a senator in private”
- Music Notes
- The F-Word
- Week 3
- Project 2025 guy literally put in charge of the CFPB
- The excuses for anticipatory obedience
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,815
- Trained lawlessness
- LGM Film Club, Part 490: Love Film
- Hillary Clinton email server update
- LGM Podcast: The Big Game
- Elon Musk free speech absolutism update
- J.D. Vance, who is married to an Indian-American, posted this
- Don’t Buy Teslas
- New Frontiers in Whole Foods Unionbusting
- Naming the calamity
- A Trumpian Farm Policy
- The End of USAID
- NCAA immediately acts to implement total ban on trans athletes
- A Worthless Democrat
- People stuck with implanted medical devices because President Elon arbitrarily and illegally cut off funding for medical trials
- Federal judge blocks the Elon Youth from access to Treasury files
- L’Etat C’est Trump
- On the X and Meta Questions…
- A Beautiful Real Estate Deal
- When Will Blue States Embrace Unions?
- Forbidden Words
- Getting What You Asked For
- Manic dope fiend Elon Musk’s satellites are falling out of the sky
- We are ruled by <s>effete</s> petty arseholes
- The Musk Fiction
- DOD getting rid of Holocaust Remembrance Day; Navy pausing Sexual Assault Prevention Response training
- The information security presidency
- Supine, submissive and subordinate: Congress and the Musk coup
- We Don’t Know What Musk’s Script Kiddies Are Doing
- Our Weekend with Tariffs
- Odds are you won’t live to see tomorrow
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,814
- The brazen Mister Trump finally making imperialism great again
- Speaking of Special Elections…
- Fetterman supports US occupation of Gaza
- Genocide Joe Baby!
- Rally At Treasury
- More of this please
- Stories from the front lines
- Republican opposition to access to healthcare now entails support for bringing child-killing illnesses back
- Some Computer Explanations
- Special Elections
- RFK and Gabbard will be confirmed
- Get to Know Your North American Neighbor Part II: Canada
- Housing and Mountaintop Removal
- 25-year-old techbro Musk acolyte given complete access to US government payment system
- A Government By White Men, For White Men
- The Crazy: Wyoming Version
- Marco Rubio thinks it’s a great idea to deport US citizens to foreign prisons if the price is right
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,813
- Trump/Vance want to do to the US what the Bush administration did to Iraq
- LGM Podcast: He Not Busy Being Born Is Busy Dying
- Rare Earths For Military Aid To Ukraine?
- The new populist Republican Party fires CFPB head, then orders it to stop work entirely
- Trump folds again
- Schatz to put hold on all nominees until USAID is restored
- Unelected South African drug addict takes over the government
- The Nonviolence Fetish
- How About Democrats Act Like a Political Party?
- The Long Roots of Technofascism
- Starting To Move
- Latest on the Shakedown…
- On Failing to Keep Mexico Weird…
- Trump thinks a trade deficit is a subsidy
- This Day in Labor History: February 3, 1908
- Inside the civil service
- Music Notes
- Trumpflation
- Names
- Fay Vincent, RIP
- More notes on stupidity
- It’s now the official policy of the US government to wage a trade war against Canada until it can be annexed
- Elon Musk Stops Payments To Lutheran Family Services On The Advice Of Michael Flynn
- Notes on stupidity
- It’s All about Having New Littorals to Conquer
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,812
- The response to Trump’s McKinleynomics
- The Low Grocery Prices President imposes huge across-the-board mutually punitive tariff on closest allies
- Bessent gives unelected drug-addled fascist full access to the Treasury’s payment system
- Trump-fluffing owner of the Los Angeles Times dishonestly edits an op-ed to make it appear pro-RFK Jr.
- Week 2
- Trump orders military to flood California
- January Reading List
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,811
- Sanewashing a coup
January 2025
- A coup by any other name
- This Is A Coup
- Friday afternoon in Trumpland
- Trump wants you to pay more
- Refusing to comply
- Who Goes MAGA?
- The birth of an authoritarian nation
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,810
- Killing kids for profit
- Marianne Faithfull, RIP
- Irony found dead after choking on someone else’s vomit
- Page Removed
- The Dignity Wraith comes for Zuckerberg
- Reagan National air traffic control was understaffed on the night of the crash
- Russian Refineries Going Up In Flames
- The Plane-Helicopter Crash
- Elon pushed the head of the FAA out, replaced him with nobody
- Musk announces he will be lead engineer on Operation Warp Speed II, aka the new Air Force One
- Begun, these Bourbon Wars Have?
- The Trump Administration’s War on DEI
- Human error
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,809
- Plane crash in DC
- Nominating RFK Jr. is an attack on the public health of all Americans
- Zuck pays Trump $25 million tribute
- Donald the Dove, the free speech president, to issue order cancelling the visas of Palestinian rights protestors
- Schrodinger’s freeze
- Pushback Works!
- No longer fit to print
- Can Trump End Russia’s War Against Ukraine?
- The Sanctions Game
- This Day in Labor History: January 29, 2009
- Apply to the Patterson School!
- LGM Film Club, Part 489: Bonnie & Clyde
- Fork You
- Who Needs a Laugh Tonight?
- Everyone needs to stop pretending to be so savvy
- RFK Jr, charismatic psychopath
- The Supreme Court and the Impoundment Crisis
- The Podcast Election
- Not even a story
- The President of the Working Class
- Every issue is a kitchen table issue
- Tulsi Gabbard’s Dicey Sources of Information on Syrian Chemical Weapons
- The Best Friend China Ever Had
- Just Put Trump on Mt. Rushmore
- Trumps illegally orders halt to all federal loan programs
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,808
- Thom Tillis hung Danielle Hegseth out to dry
- To the Archives—Mitch the No Vote Version
- Trump bans trans people from military service
- Career DOJ lawyers fired for crime of doing their jobs
- Make pandemics great again
- Trump’s Gestapo-style ICE raids
- Elon: Italy’s famous cultural homogeneity must be upheld at all costs
- R-E-S-P-E-C-T
- The Fall of the Idols
- LGM Podcast: What Happened?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,807
- Trump advocates ethnic cleansing of Gaza Strip
- NFL etc. open thread part II
- Trade war with Colombia over Trump’s use of US military to transport deportees
- NFL Open Thread: the man who had everything but what he wanted edition
- Staying alive
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,806
- This Is Our Country Now
- Musk tells Germans to “move beyond” the Holocaust at neo-Nazi rally
- 4Chan history is as bad as law office history
- Week 1
- Friday night massacre
- Five-day catastrophe
- Let’s Make Brinner
- This Day in Labor History: January 25, 1960
- JD Vance casts tiebreaking vote to confirm unqualified, abusive drunk as Secretary of Defense
- Kennedy worship in 2025 is an embarrassment that could get children killed
- You do not, under any circumstances, “gotta hand it to” pseudo-scholarship supporting the Trump administration’s attempted nullification of the 14th Amendment
- Cavalcade of morons/naturalist Emperor update
- Panama!
- Update on the egg affordability president
- The Books I’m Looking Forward to in 2025
- Trumpism and the academic left
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,805
- Oscar nominations
- Abortion moderate Donald Trump expresses his moderation by pardoning anti-abortion activists who illegally blockaded clinics
- All the Trumpy FP Stuff So Far…
- What the 2024 presidential election looked like in terms of all eligible voters
- Reagan-appointed federal judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship EO, wonders how any lawyer could draft such a thing
- Trump’s war on the Civil Rights Act
- Trump is already trying to assassinate his political foes
- The whiteness of the wail
- This Day in Labor History: January 23, 1922
- Being anti-fascist now a fireable offense
- What the attack on birthright citizenship means
- Plutot Trump que le Wokisme
- Trump stands up for the sacred First Amendment right to solicit murders
- Is American democracy dying, and is it worth saving anyway?
- Speaking Truth To Power
- This Day in Labor History: January 22, 1905
- Trump/Vance: fuck the blue
- LGM Film Club, Part 488: The Original Kings of Comedy
- Ichiro!
- More extremely damning reporting about Pete Hegseth for Joni Ernst and Susan Collins to ignore
- Worst Day Ever?
- Speaking of pathetic, I don’t know anything about gaming but this sounds somewhere beyond pathetic
- If Trump continues to legitimize political violence Mitch McConnell might have to furrow his brow a second time
- Nazi-adjacent law professor still can’t quit Hunter Biden
- Cecile Richards, RIP
- What Happened to Separated Families
- Politics Today
- How Not to Do It
- Garth Hudson, RIP
- How to do it
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,804
- Am I a United States citizen?
- Trump pardons virtually all 1/6 seditionists
- People, this is supposed to be a HAPPY occasion
- Springtime for Elon
- Do not treat Trump’s attempts at constitutional nullification as legitimate
- The sci-fi fantasy worlds of the broligarchs
- More last second pardons/clemency
- Those are the rules
- “I said that I would see you because I had heard that you were a serious man, to be treated with respect.”
- Overrating the Media
- Biden issues pre-emptive pardons for Fauci, Milley, and 1/6 committee members
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,803
- I’ll go in and rob everyone blind and go to Florida because nobody ever thought of this before
- Department of Government Efficiency makes its first major cut
- NFL Open Thread, evening edition
- Voters Don’t Pay Attention to Policy, Part the Million
- NFL Open Thread: this is the good stuff
- Turns Out that Announcing Your Ethnic Cleansing in Advance is a Problem
- Evaluating the Biden Presidency
- Profiting from addiction
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,802
- Good and hard
- NFL Open Thread: Divisional Round
- Supreme Court upholds TikTok divestiture law
- Foreign Travel is Part of the Job
- A Great Day For Blogging
- Trying to get over
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,801
- CBS executives consider using frivolous lawsuit as a pretext for giving Donald Trump a massive bribe
- RFK Jr. tried to block Covid vaccines that probably saved a couple of million American lives
- Trump/Putin sock puppet fires head of House Intel
- Some thoughts on the next X years
- Joe Biden engages in empty gesture after doing nothing regarding issue for the first 99.79% of his administration
- ERA – YES!
- Man about to be indicted by IRS for massive tax fraud scheme publishes NYT op-ed advocating letting Donald Trump off the hook
- Wingnut venue shopping
- Unexpected Disassembly of Seventh Starship Launch
- Merrick Garland has one last chance to do something right
- The Miller told Zuck his tale
- Lynch
- David Lynch, RIP
- Trump and the 25th amendment
- I Must Be Sitting in the Front Row
- How will the Biden presidency be remembered?
- Is Bourbon Done?
- Because it’s wreckable
- Congestion pricing is extraordinarily effective public policy
- Trump’s Attorney General-Designate is an election denialist and Constitution denialist
- Should 7 Year Olds Get Time for Lunch? Opinions Differ
- Ceasefire
- It Begins
- The party of evil
- All of the Names
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,800
- Events from Seoul
- House passes anti-trans bill on party-line vote
- Susan Collins and Joni Ernst refuse to meet with woman who accused Pete Hegseth of raping her
- Environmental politics, the academy, and air travel
- Power to the People
- Some More on Gaiman
- FBI already in the tank for Trump
- This Day in Labor History: January 14, 1977
- The Smith Report on 1/6
- LGM Film Club, Part 447: On Dangerous Ground
- NFL Open Thread: Bye Beav edition
- Gaiman
- University of Colorado bars students from campus for protesting violence against Palestinians
- Do not support making polio great again
- The Freedom Rides and Resistance to Trumpism Today
- How Much Does SEIU’s Return to the AFL-CIO Matter?
- Treason in Defense of Slavery Hegseth
- And must ask the questions
- Science v. Superstition
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,799
- LGM Film Club, Part 446: Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
- Charles Person, RIP
- Without Immigration, We Are Nothing
- Today in NIMBYism
- Flooding the swamp, with wealthy libertarian assholes
- NFL Open Thread: Super Wildcard Part Deux
- Idiot wind
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,798
- Republicans will never give up trying to take people’s healthcare away
- LGM Film Club, Part 445: It Happens to Us
- Music Notes
- NFL Open Thread: Super Wilcard Edition
- Evading Accountability
- Who is Fighting the Fires in California?
- SEIU Rejoins AFL-CIO
- Soon We Will Know
- MAGA Zuckerberg
- Climate change blues
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,797
- LGM Podcast: The NFC
- LGM Film Club, Part 444: The Assassin
- LGM Podcast: Black Monday and the AFC
- Red-Brown Donald the Dove Dreams Never Die
- The perils of presidentialism, convicted felon edition
- Southern Poverty Law Center: Unionbusters
- The eternal reactionary search for pretext
- Opening The DNC’s Black Box
- Port Strike Averted
- Age-adjusted mortality rates and public health discourse
- The Greatest Scam in History
- Anita Bryant
- SCOTUS declines to delay Trump’s sentencing by 5-4 vote
- Stand in the fire
- How the sausage gets made
- North Carolina Republicans trying to steal another election
- A cozy little club
- The Greenland Gambit
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,796
- RFK Jr, child killer
- LGM Film Club, Part 443: Turumba
- Films of 2025
- The California Fires
- Life for the Next 4+ Years
- Because Sam enjoyed being a gangster, and he didn’t give a damn who knew it
- Why is Trump blaming Newsom for the Los Angeles fires?
- The new alignment
- The symbolic meaning of Jimmy Carter’s election
- Global Apparel: Loving That Forced Labor
- The Sclerotic Democratic Leadership
- Counting Birds
- The Foreign Policy Crises of Trump 47
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,795
- Pacific Palisades Fire reaches Getty Villa
- LGM Film Club, Part 442: Early Spring
- We must destroy democracy in order to save it
- Zuckerberg is an enthusiastic Trump collaboator
- This is just going to go great
- The Evolution of the Air War
- Trump wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America
- No More Russian Natural Gas Through Ukraine
- Amazon paying $40 million to Melania Trump
- The World War II Memorial
- A Scumbag is Dead
- The Snail Darter and Environmental Strategies
- Democratic Cluelessness
- Democracy uber alles
- 1/6 was ultimately a major triumph for Trump and his political allies
- Elbow Guy
- Pay to play
- Congestion pricing in Manhattan
- Arkansas Governance
- Freelance Mole In The Militias
- Remembering January 6
- Get Rid of the Performative Land Acknowledgements
- Trudeau Done
- Forgetting January 6th
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,794
- Collaboration, not acquiescence
- NFL Open Thread: Baker and Sam Edition
- Welcome to the Public Domain
- Bending the knee
- The VPN Industry is Booming in South Carolina!
- Maybe people think the economy is bad because journalists are economically illiterate
- State of the Unions
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,793
- One small victory against NIMBYs
- LGM Film Club, Part 441: Three Wise Girls
- Music Notes
- Jeff Bezos spikes editorial cartoon, proving cartoon correct
- Arnold Rüütel, 1928-2024
- Chuckwalla and Sáttítla National Monuments
- Amazon: What an Employer
- More Bad Public History
- The Men Who Withdraw
- Further Down the Laurel County Rabbit Hole…
- The feminization of college
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,792
- Mike Johnson delivers fake prayer
- Judge signals he plans to sentence Donald Trump to a good talking to
- All RFK Jr. apologia is anti-vaxx
- Johnson finally squeaks it out
- Reps in Disarray
- Well This Sounds Familiar…
- Child care and elder care in America as unaffordable luxuries
- Click-to-cancel
- LGM Film Club, Part 440: Bad Luck Banging, or Loony Porn
- The Afghanistan Papers
- Trump is still blaming immigration for a mass killing committed by a veteran born in Texas
- The risks and benefits of moderate drinking and the journalistic hazards of epidemiology
- The Carter FP Legacy
- Child Labor and Divided America
- Drilling Santa Barbara
- Dockworkers Readying for Strike
- What exactly is the problem?
- He added falsely
- “On the production of fresh wingnuts” revisited
- America 2025
- FBI believes multiple people were involved in New Orleans attacks
- New Orleans Updates
- College Football Playoff Open Thread
- This is who leads us
- Red Cabbage and Purple Carrot Gratin
- 2024: A Historian’s Reading List
- Man uses truck to murder at least ten people in New Orleans
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- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,791
- Patrimonialism
- College Football Playoff Thread: Fiesta Bowl Edition