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October 2026
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,263
- Common clay of the west returning to the Democratic Party?
- A very abbreviated list of a few corruption scandals from the first half of Trump’s second term
- Trump furious that associate would take a $50 million bribe…without giving him tribute
- Where Are The Trump Voters?
- What are early voting totals telling us?
- Generational National Defense Opportunity
- Patrick Stewart, 1940 – 2026
- Even me know that not real money
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,262
- Patrick Stewart RIP
- The dead-eyed sociopath who would be president
- Stewart
- Trumpism without Trump
- The refusal to take Trumpism’s fascist essence seriously
- Republican Optimism
- Whiteness as perpetual victimhood
- GPC? From LOL to ROTFL
- The Nerd Reich
- Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, RIP
- Ride Like the Wind
- The social media dilemma
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,261
- RFK Jr. bypassess scientific testing to allow his personal quack remedies
- The Ramaswamy/Vance/Trump child rape apologia ad is tanking with Ohio voters
- Twenty-six months
- What’s up with Trump’s increasingly homoerotic fantasies about other men?
- Consultant affinity fraud: not just for Republicans anymore
- The Latest from KY-6
- Dolores Huerta, RIP
- The Flop
- Election in Israel
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,260
- LGM Film Club, Part 579: Dead Man
- Today in flagrant Republican racism
- NBA Week 2 Thread
- The Kleptocrats!
- Trump administration issues visas for Bolsonaro and family
- After the Midterms
- Election of the Day: Israel
- The Doors of Perception
- The quiet DOGE killer
- Silicon Valley’s Golden Age of Science
- Man Camps
- Are Kamala Harris’s white papers sufficiently detailed? The investigations continue
- America for sale
- This Day in Labor History: October 27, 1969
- It’s Patriotic to Steal Secrets
- It’s like rain on your Election Day
- Preemptive election interference
- Walter Koenig
- Right wing suffer shock defeat in Brazilian presidential race; concludes election was rigged
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,259
- Today in Michigan
- Orban Fails Up?
- NFL Open Thread
- Election of the weekend III: Brazil
- Election of the Weekend II: Serbia
- The Fox News Propaganda Universe
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,258
- While he’s down
- Week 92
- Asshole even by the standards of pro sports owner outdoes itself
- College Football Week 8 Thread
- Election of the Weekend I: British Columbia
- Trumpism and the future of American neo-fascism
- This Day in Labor History: October 24, 1975
- The Enemy of My Enemy……
- Trump suspends ruinous policies in desperate bid to save Susan Collins
- Fights We Can Win
- Trump orders DOJ to file suit to block any Senate outcome in Alaska other than a Republican victory
- Marginal voters discover that voting for the “to the victor belogn the spoils” tariff guy to lower prices and end the wars was not entirely rational
- Special Immigrant Group Status
- The Tariff! The Tariff!
- The New Bond
- AIPAC gives $9 million to try to help Trump keep Senate
- The thermostat is a harsh mistress
- Not only worse than we know, worse than we can imagine
- Viper RIP
- Trump adds his unequivocal support to the Ramaswamy/Vance pro-pedophilia ad
- Elon’s control of Starshield is untenable
- Regime Aligned Regime
- The psychology of affordability and the valorization of labor for its own sake
- The Future of the Army
- LGM Film Club, Part 578: Clean
- The Peace President’s Endless War
- An analogy about the current state of American politics
- Vivek’s closing argument: “I am a horrible person being bankrolled by equally horrible people”
- You Can See AI
- On Technology and Learning in War
- The Return of White Supremacy Through One Politician’s Life
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,257
- Trump is the president of the plutocracy
- Alina Habba given $50 million imaginary job
- What to Do with Youthful Social Media Idiocy?
- Read Books
- Worst people in the world fund worst political ad
- Trump And Putin
- Populism for billionaires
- NBA Week 1 Thread
- The Great Tolkien Reread: Treebeard
- The End of the Eastern Hardwood Forest
- Using the 25th amendment to reassert Congressional sovereignty via a quasi-no confidence vote
- MAGA-Inspired shitheads get rinsed in November preview
- Do Techbros Have a Theory of Capitalism?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,256
- Monday Open Thread: I will let you down, I will make you Hurts edition
- Kim Jong-un now part of the choir invisible?
- Imaginary public drunkard originalism
- Open Thread Test!
- Election of the Day: Alberta
- France is Burning
- Theory of Change: Blogging and the Two Party System
- Gambling for resurrection and looting
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,255
- LGM Film Club, Part 577: Christ Stopped at Eboli
- Free Speech for Me, Not for Thee
- How to stay ahead at CBS News
- Navi Pillay
- NFL Open Thread: the art of creating unappetizing alternatives edition
- The Diplomat Season 4: Now Actually About Diplomacy
- His disciples lead him in, and he just does the rest
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,254
- Why aren’t Republicans constantly being asked to defend the incredibly vile views of their top donor?
- Trump’s closing pitch to Michigan voters
- Upt
- Week 91 – No Kings!
- College Football Week 7 Thread
- The Disconnect
- Party of Elon
- The real Russiagate is Putin ratfucking the 2016 elections to get a major ally in the White House
- Erik Visits a (Latin) American Grave, Part 2,253
- Trump and Elon collaborated to sabotage the Ukrainian defense on behalf of Daddy Putin, Part II
- LGM Night at the Movies: The Thing
- Checking in on the candidate of cognitive fitness and youthful vigor
- Texas Republicans despise free speech
- Bar examination, salty Margaritas in Malibu edition
- From the Readers
- On Deters-Rence
- Privatizing the Nation’s Public Land
- America when will you be angelic?
- Trump and Elon collaborated to sabotage the Ukrainian defense on behalf of Daddy Putin
- Liberalism was in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me!
- Considerably more than one thousand words
- Erev Trümpentod update
- The great MAGA circle jerk
- No administration for women
- Total Depravity; Unconditional Midterm Election
- LGM Film Club, Part 576: Copland Portrait
- Find the woman and I’ll find the crime
- White House’s bold new anti-corruption agenda enters second day
- The Two Blogospheres and Electoral Politics
- Sally Rooney Refuses to Sell in England Because of the Palestine Action Ban
- Trump raise prices
- Bruce Ackerman’s Donation
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,252
- Department of Grifting Efficiency
- No More Child Actors
- Men act; women appear
- Party Down With Ken Paxton and other crooks
- Fain Reelected as UAW President
- The Border Wall and the Tribes
- How Corrupt Do You Have to Be to Get Fired by this Administration?
- Latest on KY-6
- Free and Fair Elections Are For Losers
- When crazy people make crazy claims on the internet
- Erik Visits a (Latin) American Grave, Part 2,251
- LGM Film Club, Part 575: Days and Nights in the Forest
- Monday night open thread: the must surely be the worst time management fiasco of Dan Quinn’s career edition
- Making corruption matter
- Lawyers, Ratfucking, and Money
- General Matter, Nuclear Startup
- Stealth, Secrecy, and Democracy
- Monday Updates
- Something fishy
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,250
- Senator Debt Prison (R-KS) stiffed a small bakery
- NFL Open Thread: the 2024 WR draft
- More From Donald Trump, Unionbuster
- Don’t Need a Weatherman
- Easy like Sunday morning
- Erik Visits a (Latin) American Grave, Part 2,249
- LGM Film Club, Part 574: The Cost of Carelessness
- Music Notes
- Critical state races
- Week 90
- College Football Week 6 Thread
- A stain on the country
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,248
- LGM Film Club, Part 573: Thief
- Friday Sports Thread
- Trump funds Putin’s war
- Latino Turnout
- Maybe Vaccines Are Good…..
- LGM Podcast: Backlash Presidents With Dr. Julia Azari
- Who Signs Up for the Fascist Strike Force?
- It Depends on What You Mean by Crisis
- Trump’s performance of gender
- Ditka
- The spectacle of sadism
- It Ain’t Over
- Great job Jared Polis
- The loud parts even louder
- Thursday Open Thread: Yankee Elimination Day
- Early vote tracker
- More of this please
- The Math Dump
- Ken Paxton wants to cut your healthcare and social security
- Hunter Biden painting sale update
- The man who always put others first
- The Greatest Unionbuster of Them All
- If and when it rains, she takes the credit
- The Retreat
- Counterproductive authoritarianism
- Russia killed twenty Ukrainians in overnight bombings last night; Trump calls Putin today to wish him a happy birthday
- Hunter Biden laptop update
- Fashy French artists have a huge erection for Elon
- Why is Elon Musk so very very rich?
- New Wars, New Wounds
- Babylon is nothing but an infinite game of chance
- Eva Marie Saint, RIP
- 506 citizens have been detained by ICE during the second Trump administration
- Fox News’s Book of Martyrs, Sam Alito edition
- That Russian Pneumonia Case
- Yamato vs. Enterprise
- Hanging on in loud desperation
- The Great Tolkien Reread: The Uruk-Hai
- A Cancer on the Body of Christ: The Ballad of Jim Bakker
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,247
- More thoughts from the mental acuity and youthful vigor candidate
- Monday Night Open Thread
- Dennis Hastert
- This may sound crazy, but they said Crippen was crazy, too
- The Manliest TSA Force We Can Muster
- Can Trump’s corruption be made to matter?
- “Waiting for the End of the World:” Elvis Costello’s ‘My Aim Is True’ on its 49th Anniversary
- Are people getting worse and to what extent is this Donald Trump’s fault?
- Texas Forever
- Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,246
- Election of the Day: Quebec
- Music Notes
- Mechanics Open Thread
- Who Moved my Goalposts?
- AI Safety
- Election of the weekend III: Brazil
- Cat Blogging: Singapore Edition
- NFL/MLB Playoffs Open Thread
- Election of the Weekend II: Bosnia and her entities
- The extra blind side
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,245
- Grandpa Sundown doxxes Tom Cotton over daylight savings bill
- Trumpian Food Safety
- When we were cruel
- Week 89
- College Football Week 5 Thread
- State of the Senate Races
- Election of the Weekend I: Latvia
- The close game fallacy
- Problems in Maine
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,244
- Friday Sports Thread
- Connie Hawkins v. Paul Simon
- John Roberts learns the reputational consequences of buying high on Trump
- Trump/Vance take job
- Gender: The Unanswered Question
- Trump ’28: A question from the audience
- What Does Ted Lasso Know About Women?
- New(old) Carrier Alert!
- Take These Broken Wings and Learn to Fly
- Thursday night open thread
- Checking in with the cognitive ability and youthful energy candidate
- Abortion opponents attempt to enlist Supreme Court in race to the bottom
- Trump administration’s laser focus on the most pressing issues facing America remains laser-like
- Abolish The Death Penalty. And Reform The Prisons.
- Close Minnesota senate race
- September Reading List
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,243
- Supreme Court sanctions Tennessee torture
September 2026
- Trump take tourism
- The worst division there ever was
- SCOTUSBLOG: the regime-aligned years
- The Cornell rape case
- White House misspells “United” in official document on regulating “Super Intelligence”
- The Sources of Russian Missiles
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,242
- LGM Film Club, Part 572: Scenes from a Marriage
- Eric Schmitt went on Charlie Kirk (RIP) AFTER falsely accusing Jack Smith of perjury based on a hilariously idiotic misunderstanding, to keep making the same accusation
- Supreme Court allows deportations to third countries to continue
- You don’t have to be an abject moron to be a MAGA senator, but it certainly helps
- Welcome to Election Month
- The surprising facts about college tuition
- Today in Climate Change
- Minab Re-Revisited
- Your American Voters: Ohio Edition
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,241
- When There Are No Rules…
- Monday Night Open Thread
- Ken Paxton points out he sent predatory sex abuser of child to jail for 60 days (actually 30)
- Unionbusting is About Power, Not Money
- John Roberts’s royalist presidency
- Negotiations Again?
- It’s terrifying when you think about this
- Lies, damned lies, and Trump
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,240
- The Miraculous AI Discovery Engines
- Give us another chance to find the warmongers
- The AI Sex Cult(s)
- Election of the weekend: Sao Tome and Principe
- NFL Open Thread: the playoffs began Thursday edition
- Down the Rio Grande
- This Day in Labor History: September 27, 1972
- Susan Collins outraged that guy she voted to confirm is doing exactly what he said he’d do
- Music Notes
- Trump: I promise endless war
- Privatizing Public Lands
- Cat People
- Week 88
- College Football Week 4 Thread
- Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,239
- LGM Night at the Movies: Fantastic Planet
- Friday Sports Thread
- Even Republicans sometimes must respsect our authoritah
- Imbalance of equities
- The Republican Party owns the war in Iran lock, stock, and $105 a barrel
- Mechanics Open Thread
- SCOTUS uses shadow docket to allow Trump administration to disrupt election to address wholly imaginary issue of non-citizens voting
- The Machine God
- Onward Christian suckers: The Tim Tebow story
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,238
- Thursday night open thread
- 0% of Trump administration claims of voter fraud in Nevada turn out to be substantiated
- Trump using federal government money to pay for campaign ads
- Tsco
- Reminder: LGM Night at the Movies
- UPS, the F-35, and the What the Hell?
- Judge issues ruling requiring return of media credentials to CNN, MSNOW, Politico journalists; Administration defies the order
- District Court judge unpersuaded by some of the stupidest arguments ever filed by the Department of Justice
- Trümpentod Actuarial Update
- Believing in thinking machines, and the severe risk therefrom, does not require believing in magic.
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,237
- Politico was stripped of its press pass for quoting JD Vance
- It’s not going to get better
- Things that Brett Kavanaugh insists could not happen continue to happen on a routine basis
- Curbing my enthusiasm
- Coursework in the Age of AI
- Reminder: Declaration of Independence Talk Tomorrow
- Election of the Day: Isle of Man
- Something wrong with a country
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,236
- The press always had the leverage
- The affordability discourse
- Election of the Day: Morocco
- JD Vance doesn’t want you to have healthcare
- Trump killed an investigation into Susan Collins’s corruption
- The AOC experience
- The Great Tolkien Reread: The Riders of Rohan
- The Professor Watchlist is Dead
- A Public School Experience
- The Affordability President
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,235
- Monday night open thread: Rodgers-McCarthy War II edition
- Patricio Guzman, RIP
- Trump’s approval rating hits all-time low, and is now among the worst in history
- The Barbarian invasions
- A good thing
- Mechanics Update
- Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,234
- “We Blew It:” Revisiting the ‘Easy Rider’ Soundtrack
- LGM Film Club, Part 571: Le Jour Se Lève
- Union Wages
- NFL Open Thread: Hanging on in quiet desperation is the Chargers way edition
- The Hypocrisy of Centrist Democrats
- Faith-Labor Partnerships
- White trash nation
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,233
- Maintenance Open Thread
- “We’re repressive also”
- Week 87
- College Football Week 3 Thread
- Tech Union Busting
- AI helps DraftKings identify problem gamblers
- Technically the Patient Isn’t Dead Yet But an Autopsy is Still Warranted
- This Day in Labor History: September 19, 1874
- Time for another round of the TWITTER FILES!
- Friday Sports Thread
- Hated but not feared
- Signs and wonders
- Weekend elections
- The Silmet Rare Earths Plant, Estonia
- Maintenance Updates
- White panic and fun with numbers
- American Revolutions Lecture Series–Available for LGM Readers!
- Thursday night open thread
- Not just a river in Egypt
- The measles outbreak in Pennsylvania is huge
- AI And Liability
- The midterms and the curious psychology of inflation
- Needs Moar Testosterone
- Failure is an orphan
- To Bari 60 Minutes
- I can’t even
- How much does it cost to run a law school these days anyway?
- Backlash midterms
- LGM Podcast: The National Security Legacies of 9/11
- The hidden Trump vote in 2016 and 2024 (eta: and 2020)
- Erik Visits a (Latin) American Grave, Part 2,232
- Remember the MAGA vibe shift?
- Robert Kraft, meet Barbra Streisand
- Trump board votes to shutter Kennedy Center
- Updates from the Aether
- Is this about Leda and the Swan or wut exactly?
- “You thought it was one way. But it was the other way.”
- The politics of law are always complicated
- This Day in Labor History: September 15, 1846
- Mitch 2
- Monday night open thread: the failed completion
- Bush Justices Vote to Hand Republicans Midterm Elections
- You cannot have bespoke candidates in coalition politics
- Submitted for your approval
- Trump lackeys threaten to shutter Kennedy Center unless it can be illegally turned into a personal monument to the person responsible for destroying it
- What Are We Even Talking About Here
- A Russian oligarch paid for my wedding and all I got was this compromised regime
- The paranoid style and American college football
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,231
- LGM Film Club, Part 570: Manzanar
- The problem is obviously far worse than anyone imagined
- Trump: if you don’t let me keep prices high I will create a depression
- NFL Open Thread
- Election of the day: Bangsamoro
- Christian Values
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,230
- Hegseth at war
- Music Notes
- Carolina softcore ecstasy
- Week 86
- Election of the Weekend: Sweden
- College Football Week 2 Thread
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,229
- An honest man in TrumpWorld
- Schrödinger’s dividend
- The Scorecard
- Hackiest prosecutor Trump could find not hacky enough
- Facts are useful in emergencies
- Facts don’t do what I want them to
- Limits To AI
- JD Vance: talk about the filthy vermin invading the country from foreign shores and people will call you a racist
- In memoriam: Meredith Whalen
- NFL Open Thread: Live from Melbourne
- Don’t blame JD, he didn’t do it
- Supreme Court of the United States acts like court of law
- Shut it all down until we can figure out what the F is going on.
- 1st Circuit refuses to lift injunction on Trump’s USPS vote-destruction scheme
- Technology and the Crushing of Labor
- LGM Podcast: 9/11 and Cultural Memory
- Office of Worker Power
- Genocidal Lunatic Mourned
- Is a one trillion dollar bribe for votes bad?
- A Nation’s People Separated from Its History
- LGM Film Club, Part 569: Three American Beauties
- NFL Opening Day open thread
- All the Wages Go To Your Masters
- Will Trump’s obvious decline become a defining campaign issue?
- Trump take oil
- The Trumpalooza will not be (widely) televised
- On Delegation
- Like a loaded weapon ready for the hand
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,228
- More price hikes courtesy of the affordability president
- Demographics
- He called the system’s bluff and the system retreated
- Remember when the UAE told Bush a week before 9/11 that Al Qaeda was about to launch a major terrorist attack and Bush didn’t even tell the NSA?
- Who says Republicans have no ideas about healthcare?
- The Great Tolkien Reread: The Departure of Boromir
- More on Jesus Truth v. Regular Truth
- Global Swarming
- Trump’s Man in Texas
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,227
- Economic anxiety does not explain the neo-Nazi win in Germany
- LGM Film Club, Part 568: The American Ruling Class
- Faster Labor Contracts Act
- A Mysterious Silence
- This will hurt you more than it hurts me
- Joe Biden age and cognitive ability update
- The Naval War off Iran
- AIPAC’s Failures
- Notes on the camp of the fascist saints
- Erik Visits a (Latin) American Grave, Part 2,226
- The Most Annoying of Democrats and the Perils of a Slim Majority
- Ohio Democratic Governor Candidate Survives Assassination Attempt
- Nobody can say they did nazi this coming
- The Purge
- Bad religion
- Erik Visits a Latin American Grave, Part 2,225
- Music Notes
- John Roberts, party operative
- Week 85
- College Football Week 1 Thread
- Further thoughts on how paying for things means you are losing
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,224
- More on “What is to be Done?”
- College Football Week 1: Friday Sports Thread
- Donald the Dove’s war for oil
- President incapable of understanding the concept of a positive-sum interaction
- Election of the Weekend: Saxony-Anhalt
- Questions from the commentariat
- LGM Podcast: 2026 NFC Preview
- Unfit for office
- Get off the grift
- The Man Comes Around
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,223
- How your regime-aligned media sausage gets made
- LGM Film Club, Part 567: Sirāt
- This is IT
- No, but I did attend the Yale Law School
- Juan Linz’s work is a cautionary tale Supreme Court Republicans see as an instruction manual
- The madness of Trump’s trade war
- Some Naval Gazing
- Gloria Steinem, RIP
- LGM Film Club, Part 566: Blue Heron
- Getting clipped
- Israeli government seeks Trump’s support for ethnic cleansing of Gaza
- LGM Podcast: 2026 AFC Preview
- Grandpa said some things again
- Trump Killing the American Auto Industry
- The Demise of a Bad Democrat
- Totally not a cult
- John Roberts: Public Enemy #1
- Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,222
- Democracy dies in false equivalence
- Make MapQuest Great Again
- We need to get the word out: Do NOT use the USPS to vote in the midterms
- CBS News is as regime-aligned as Fox or NewsMax
- Get Ready
- Wendell Berry RIP
- More Weight: A Salem Story by Ben Wickey
- Donald Trump bitterly disappoints supporters of imaginary Donald Trump
- On nominating women and non-white people for president
- August Reading List
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,221
- LGM Film Club, Part 565: The Secret Agent
August 2026
- The Historical Collapse of Cal Raleigh
- What Will AOC Do?
- Supreme Court demolishes separation of powers to facilitate the illegal demolition of the White House
- The AI catastrophe
- The most recent temptation of John Roberts
- American Craziness Wasn’t Always This Crazy
- The End of the West’s Forests
- Castles Made of Sand?
- Analysis from Peter Baker: The Obama Difference
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,220
- And to all a good night
- Google’s disgraceful capitulation
- Woke 2.0 is crazy
- Clyburn: Expand the Court!
- UAW Monitor Trying to Overthrow UAW Leadership over Gaza
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,219
- Trump-aligned gas stations allegedly used classic Trump business model
- LGM Film Club, Part 564: Dolly in an Irish Pub
- Keep Out the Yutes
- Hamberder helper
- Death to the Polling Industry
- Week 84
- NCAA Football: Week 0 Thread
- Election of the Weekend II: Guinea-Bissau
- Will Americans Treat Social Media Like Smoking?
- Can We Professors Indoctrinate Our Students?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,218
- LGM Film Club, Part 563: King Haakon VII
- We can message our way out of this!
- Where the dark money comes from
- Land Acknowledgments: Against Meaningless Political Symbolism
- Stop feeding your face to leopards
- Do you remember your president Reagan?
- 40 Acres and a Mule is DEI
- The Global Leader in Science
- The Everyday Corruption of the New Gilded Age
- Six months into another catastrophic GOP Middle East War
- Election of the Weekend I: Iceland
- Norway Has a New King
- Life During DeSantis
- LGM Film Club, Part 562: O Brother, Where Art Thou
- Greg Abbott successfully nullifies federal law
- Remembering the Oakland General Strike
- Free-form fash exploration
- BREAKING: RFK Jr. is a compulsively dishonest anti-vaxx crackpot
- Adventures in high functioning psychopathy
- Terrible Human in His Early 80s Dies
- Trump’s Destructive Border Wall
- How to Clean Up a PR Mess: Dolly Edition
- It’s OK, Texas isn’t a big football state
- Trump judge allows Greg Abbott to nullify federal law
- Ratcliffe To Moscow
- OK so next it’s going to be an 80-year-old who appeared in Home Alone II and was married to a Slovenian “model”
- The scientific breakthroughs against cancer that Trump and RFK Jr. want stopped
- South Carolina Republicans are purists
- Der Untergang
- KY-6 Revisited
- It’s time for some game theory
- Dolly Parton, RIP
- Trump threatens to demolish Kennedy Center if he can’t put his name on it
- First deaths from measles in Pennsylvania in 35 years
- Dolly Parton
- How many NFL football players will develop CTE?
- The Great Tolkien Reread: Unfinished Tales
- Communications Breakdown
- Democracy at War
- The function of criticism at the present time
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,217
- Trump’s chaos agents
- Key Moments in Cheese History
- SCOTUS allows Trump administration to interfere with mail-in voting
- How can you make Trump king? The shadow docket knows
- Glass half full
- Let’s Make a Deal?
- Revisiting the Lavender Scare
- The structure of political revolutions
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,216
- Trump’s Accidental Green New Deal
- Burning Our Allies
- On Memory, Community, and Judah Benjamin
- Wut
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,215
- LGM Film Club, Part 561: Trouble Sleep
- Election of the weekend:Kazakhstan
- Music Notes
- The Inflation President imposes more taxes
- Week 83
- Fun Times With European Wildfires
- Christian Evangelicalism and the Kim Dynasty
- The way (some of us) live now
- Erik Visits a (Latin) American Grave, Part 2,214
- LGM Night at the Movies: The Madness of King George
- The free speech administration
- Yikes 6
- Bottomless narcissistic rage
- Partners against law
- LGM in the News
- On Polls
- Reminder: LGM Night at the Movies
- On the USS Doris Miller
- Scenes from a loveless marriage
- MAGA DEI
- Man Responsible for Jason Arday’s Suicide Suspended
- Trump To End Roadless Rule
- Elon will try to buy Texas Senate election
- The information security administration
- What’s the going rate for a “higher purpose bride” anyway?
- Who is the Greatest Living Jazz Musician?
- The Nuclear Renaissance
- Stupidity appendix update
- Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,213
- The new map
- Musical tribute to the very beautiful Donald and Natalie stalker romance
- Sour revenge
- Nothing to see about this completely normal situation
- Election result of the day: Wyoming
- Notes from a continuing nightmare
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,212
- Laurene Powell Jobs’s effective tax rate is way too low
- LGM Film Club, Part 560: Two Prosecutors
- So Let’s Talk About Natalie Harp
- Among Our Many Horrible Americans
- Knowing how to play this game
- Seven days
- A Kavalcade of Kavanaugh stops
- We’ve been sniffing that cocaine, ain’t nothing better when the wind cuts cold
- Good news is on the way: Iran deal “imminent”
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,211
- Time to make plans for the 2027 WHCA dinner!
- Cassidy’s kids
- Trump’s Military
- 60 days after ceasefire agreement, fire has not ceased
- Notes from Management
- Ukraine Hits Soyuz Factory
- Made in the USA
- Keeping tabs on the always crucial moron vote
- AI and Teaching
- Logistics, Bro
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,210
- Ever wonder why most fund managers can’t beat the S&P 500?
- Music Notes
- Tommy John RIP
- The WNBA and American Politics
- It Always Gets Stupider
- Home runs and fascism
- This Day in Labor History: August 16, 1845
- Confused old man wakes up from nap, threatens to destroy constitutional order
- The Colorado shakedown
- Week 82
- In too deep
- Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,209
- I’m not sure the swamp is going to get drained
- The Family of a Martyr
- Hating the troops
- Arday Found Dead
- Bleg to the LGM universe
- The Jasons Report on Plutonium Pits
- WTFing the Carrier Fleet
- The Strategic Bombing Survey and Local History
- Junk science a la mode
- LGM Film Club, Part 559: Where the Lilies Bloom
- Judge dismisses nuisance suit against Harvard
- Election of the day II: Clacton
- On the one hand, land acknowledgments in email signatures are pretty annoying
- Election of the Day: Zambia
- The party of fiscal discipline
- New Book Alert!
- Soft fascism
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,208
- The expendables
- What happened in Wisconsin
- Election of the Day: Cook Islands
- Breaking: Donald Trump is really old and in poor health
- Shocking, in a Bad Way
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,207
- Primaries
- LGM Film Club, Part 558: One Sings, The Other Doesn’t
- Eine kleine populism, Trump style
- The wages of ineptitude
- HUGE TEAMS OF DIPLOMATS
- The campaign against wokeness (literally)
- The Great Tolkien Reread: The Great River, The Breaking of the Fellowship
- Airstrikes on Amazon Warehouses?
- Hi, vote for me because I have a white-sounding name
- Mad Max
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,206
- Arsonist comes out against fire
- LGM Film Club, Part 557: Portugal, 1950
- It Might Have Looked Like It, But That Wasn’t Air Force One
- Things Are Going Great!
- What Will Become of Gianni Infantino?
- A bottle of soda?
- Max Miller: Republican Representative, representative Republican
- Out of the Sandbox
- Decadence and “late rentier capitalism”
- Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,205
- LGM Film Club, Part 556: La Chimera
- House of the Dragon Season Finale Open Thread
- Scenes from a poorly arranged marriage
- Music Notes
- Mike Rogers joins Trump’s war on constitutional democracy
- Will the fire ever cease?
- Chainsaws and the Wilderness Act
- The Breakup Song
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,204
- Max Miller refuses to drop out
- I never thought the “We will target your group for removal, specifically” party would tagret my group for removal
- The Cassidy roll
- Week 81
- A Nation That Lies About Equality of Opportunity
- In the words of an eminent analytical philosopher of the contemporary academic scene . . .
- A Fart in a Stiff Wind
- This Day in Labor History: August 8, 1635
- Donald Trump is determined to go down in history as the man who cured autism
- Let them eat reflecting pools
- Any chance to break the neoconfederate hold on the Court starts in November
- The boy in the bubble
- Should we have a liberal democracy or an authoritarian cult of personality?
- The Battleships that Won’t
- This Day in Labor History: August 7, 1933
- Hack heaven
- Terrible Labor Conditions, Terrible Public Health
- A pattern of bunny withholding
- Big strong men with tears in their eyes want to kiss him all over
- The New Diplomatic Establishment
- Free markets, personal liberties, things of that nature
- The unending obesity panic in the face of the data
- Making diarrhea explosive again
- Republican creep drops out
- Elsewhere in the midwest
- Is Your Law School Going Broke?
- Running on Empty
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,203
- LGM Film Club, Part 555: David Golder
- Michigan primary open thread
- 60 Minutes had major Epstein scoop before Donald Trump’s hand puppet fired the reporter
- The great Covid bait and switch
- Max Miller so obviously guilty that Bernie Moreno forced to side with daughter over House backbencher
- How Does The World’s Major Military Power Run Out Of Munitions?
- The American Ethnic Cleansing Regime Ramps Back Up
- Hegseth’s Catch
- Tiny bubbles
- European Energy Policy
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,202
- “Not just right-wing but often really dumb”: the Ballad of Adam O’Neal
- Ask Anything: On donations
- America: Keep Your Head and Arms Inside the Mixer At All Times
- Patreon and Other General Updates
- I Would Like To Know More About This
- Cornyn and Tillis roll
- Man tries to bribe Donald Trump; gets double-crossed
- Unconventional Weapons
- Man who discovered Graham Platner turns out to be kind of rapey
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,201
- Empanadas
- Wants and want-nots
- How Does The War End?
- The Michigan senate primary
- The Correspondence of the Colonel!
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,200
- Music Notes
- Big Pussy RIP
- Susan Collins not happy that you would criticize her for the inevitable consequences of her actions
- Joe Biden cognitive ability update
- Week 80
- Has any university other than Harvard actually opposed Trump’s attack on their institutions in any meaningful way?
- Those Dirty Demon Democrats Who Hate Javier Milei’s Freedom Loving Argentine Cheaters
- We Should Pick Democrats Who Don’t Suck
- Environmental Impact of War: Donald the Dove Edition
- Living On A Thin Line
- July Reading List
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,199
- Bernie Moreno puts random backbencher above his own daughter
- Friday Night Open Thread: Know Before You Mix
July 2026
- Vengeance Denied?
- Pay to play
- Further thoughts on affirmative action, or, what was JD Vance’s LSAT score?
- You Probably Won’t Like This Recommendation
- J.D. Vance’s excellent affirmative action adventure
- Make the Federal Government Eugenic Again
- Blanche slate
- The Play
- Elon still loves Trump and will spend a fortune to help him again
- Should Estonia Demolish Tallinn’s Alexander Nevsky Cathedral?
- Ain’t That America
- Reality isn’t what it used to be
- LGM Film Club, Part 554: Victims of Sin
- The sanewashing of Elon Musk
- Yeah. I wouldn’t worry about it though, Medicare recipients aren’t a big turnout demographic
- The Republican Covid circus
- McConnell Can Fake Being Alive The Rest of His Term
- American Carnage
- Is Trump going to run for a third term?
- Erik Visits a (Latin) American Grave, Part 2,198
- LGM Film Club, Part 553: North by Northwest
- But she would Douthat
- Clap for the Wolfman
- Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous in the New Gilded Age
- The War Goes On Forever and the Party Never Ends
- Atlantic Monthly: Make Explosive Diarrhea Great Again
- Minas Tirith
- The Great Tolkien Reread: Farewell to Lórien
- Remember when we murdered several hundred people because it was so important to stop cocaine from flowing into the US?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,197
- Looking out for their own
- Inside the bubble
- How Did Iran Bring the F-15 Down?
- Trump administration admits it canceled grants to punish states that didn’t vote for him
- Somebody needs to leak this to Jake Tapper
- But Fraud Is Part of God’s Plan?
- Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,196
- Pete Hegseth’s antisocial promotions
- What We Don’t Know
- In a refreshing change, Maine Democrats find candidate with an interest in winning the general election
- Regular truth v. Jesus truth
- Nuclear Ambitions?
- Free Labor, Free Exploitation
- Erik Visits a (Latin) American Grave, Part 2,195
- Trump take grocery
- Music Notes
- “bleached marble monuments to their own superiority”
- The collapse of the American law school financing model
- Week 79
- Notes from around American Higher Education
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,194
- Trümpentod is coming
- LGM Film Club, Part 552: Fantasy Life
- Sometimes an asshole is just an asshole
- The Illegitimacy Paradigm
- “Quagmire of the vanities”
- We interviewed this goldfish about its memory of the first Trump administration
- Life During Bari
- LGM Film Club, Part 551: Elephant Boy
- Another triumph for the “burger more exponsive” voter
- The gang that couldn’t authoritarian straight
- Trump’s Betrayal of Miami Cubans
- Life in the peace lane
- Jon Ossoff?
- LGM Podcast: Learning on the Campaign Trail
- The American Way of Punishment
- This is, like, *really* rich
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,193
- How the explosive diarrhea gets made
- LGM Film Club, Part 550: Swedenheilms
- Closing the Frontier
- Stainless steel lemon
- Gee, I Wonder If There’s a Solution to This Impending Labor Market Crisis
- Mamdani and Netanyahu
- Sometimes It Takes Balls To Be a Woman: Talking ‘The Easy Kind’ With Katy Chevigny and Elizabeth Cook
- An Impending Democratic Senate Revolt?
- When will we get a historically accurate version of The Lord of the Rings?
- What Is to Be Done?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,192
- LGM Film Club, Part 549: The Rink
- Going Rural
- Acting 101
- Make America Hungry Again
- The politics of water in Iowa
- The Reactionary Fever Dream that is the Clash of Civilizations
- MAGA imperialist fanfiction
- A new real estate order
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,191
- The free speech administration tried to get the phone records of people related to reporters
- LGM Film Club, Part 548: The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
- Moron Americans continue to benefit from policies such as “illegally make everything more expensive”
- Dems in array
- Trump take gas
- The Patreon Tiers
- Why Not Tie Your Boat to China over the US?
- World Cup retrospective
- Erik Visits a (Latin) American Grave, Part 2,190
- What it’s like to get the DOGE explosives
- LGM Film Club, Part 547: Green For Danger
- Life in the peace lane
- Spain-Argentina Game Thread
- Oregon Democrats: A Parody of Liberals
- Comida Chatarra
- The Price Appalachia Paid
- They’re writing think pieces about a guy who doesn’t
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,189
- Tates arrested for extradition to the UK
- LGM Film Club, Part 546: Daughter’s Daughter
- Music Notes
- Making America Weak and Stupid
- Murkowski gives firm no on Trump’s vote suppression bill
- Week 78
- Meet Your Murderous ICE Agents
- Gender-affirming care for fascists
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,188
- Precious Memories: Happy 40th Anniversary to Bob Dylan’s ‘Knocked Out Loaded’
- Peace Sells, but Who’s Buying?
- If you aren’t inside, you are outside, okay
- Russian Sovereignty
- Transgender semiconductors
- The floating clown show
- Grandpa said some things last night
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,187
- Explosive verbal diarrhea open thread
- Trump: High prices, endless war, explosive diarrhea
- I am beginning to think that prediction markets can be used for corrupt purposes
- The Sad Tale of the Misbegotten Connies…
- Reclining Your Seat on an Airplane is an Act of Evil
- Why are people so goddamned stupid? An enquiry concerning human misunderstanding
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,186
- Look… why take a chance? At least, that’s the way I feel about it
- The wyrding way
- Donald the Dove ponders sending the Screaming Eagles into Cuba
- England-Argentina Game Thread
- Billionaire Derangement or Elective Affinity
- Oral History of the Blogosphere Part 15: Majikthise
- New frontiers in sanewashing
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,185
- I’ve found in you my endless war
- What would EAIAC on crystal blue persuasion meth sound like?
- ICE ordered to stop most vehicle stops
- France-Spain Thread
- Yes, Comments Matter!
- The Great Tolkien Reread: Lothlórien, The Mirror of Galadriel
- Flexible Work in the Factories
- On Economic Pressure
- DHS lies about murder of Maine man don’t constitute justifiable homicide even if you choose to believe them
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,184
- Susan Collins still at zero on ICE concern-o-meter
- Trump orders Lindsey Graham’s replacement a la carte
- Comment!
- You don’t play constitutional hardball to help the other team
- ICE murders 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine
- Judge rebukes Trump’s most direct attempted robbery of the treasury
- Sam Neill RIP
- Also, all nations shall acknowledge that Mommy did too love me
- Ukraine’s New Look Defense Industrial Base
- On the other hand, he really liked dogs
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,183
- Jesus Christ: Lisa Walker From Wussy and Elizabeth Nelson From the Paranoid Style Are Doing a House Tour Together. Here’s How To Get In on This Historic Event
- Murder is the sport of the unelected
- As the World Turns…
- The congressional gerontocracy
- A Bad Deal
- On the Primary Process
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,182
- Lindsey Graham dies
- Argentina-Switzerland Game Thread
- Patel serves subpoenas on Times journalists for writing accurate but embarrassing story about Trump grift
- Norway-England Game Thread
- Trump administration stopped monitoring diarrhea parasite
- Week 77
- Just Keep it Simple?
- Statistics v. Reality: The murder rate
- Erik Visits a (Latin) American Grave, Part 2,181
- Possibility of beating Susan Collins officially reopens
- Raging Stupidity: Social Media Edition
- The mystery continues
- Spain-Belgium Game Thread
- The Techbro Goal of Unemploying Everyone Not Going As Planned
- Another innocent person murdered by ICE thugs, who immediately concoct standard issue lie about fearing being run over
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,180
- 11 CA panel strikes down Stop WOKE Act
- Trump continues to deny disaster relief to blue states
- France-Morocco Game Thread
- An asshole to the end
- Count Binface For Clacton!
- That’s a hell of an act, what do you call it?
- Yet One More Platner Post
- A few quick soccer thoughts for the quarterfinals
- Trump Crashing Out
- This Day in Labor History: July 9, 1971
- Catastrophic senate candidate finally recognizes the obvious
- The end of an empire is messy at best
- What next revisited
- The slopulist tendency in American politics
- To sir, with love
- Shall We Be Ceasing Fire Today?
- Hey have you heard about Graham Platner?
- Erik Visits a (Non)-American Grave, Part 2,179
- Maine Democrats to the disastrous sex pest and the consultants who brought you John Fetterman: go away and let us try to beat Susan Collins
- The wages of hate
- The IOC Peace Prize Goes to……Vladimir Putin!
- The fallibility of the primary electorate
- So Much Winning
- World Cup Thread
- Review: Angel Down by Daniel Kraus
- More Platner stuff
- Erik Visits a (Latin) American Grave, Part 2,178
- The time for reflection is over
- USA-Belgium Open Thread
- The Mitch Contingency
- Pod save Republican control of the Senate?
- World Cup Thread
- Commynists!
- Trump ruins everything he touches: Part the 10,000th
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,177
- The day James Comey blew up the world
- FIFA suspends Balogan suspension
- The return of Judeo-Bolshevism
- Erik Visits a (Latin) American Grave, Part 2,176
- A metaphor for something or the other
- Ain’t that America
- Debs and July 4
- The July 4 Cinematic Journey
- Week 13,044
- Komm, Trümpentod
- Erik Visits a (Latin) American Grave, Part 2,175
- JD Vance’s puppet master having a very normal one
- World-historical corruption
- All of Its Defects, None of Its Virtues
- More Alito retirement hijinks
- After all it was a great big world
- With Friends Like These…
- American Olympic athlete charged with felony for picking up a piece of lining floating in Trump’s catastrophic remodel of Reflecting Pool
- Trump ruins everything
- Elon, Elon, what a killer
- The Most American of Films
- Immigrants Are Good, Actually
- Is housing really three times more expensive relative to family income than it was in the early 1960s?
- What the fuck is wrong with Jared Polis?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,174
- Luna-tics
- ‘Murica Open Thread
- It’s immoral to let a sucker keep his money
- Trump Court makes American politics more corrupt
- Talking the other football
- Russia’s Gasoline Shortage
- The two billion dollar man
- June Reading List
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,173
- Colorado primary election
- JD Vance On Religion
June 2026
- Koach Kavanaugh targets U.S. v. Virginia
- Terminating America with extreme prejudice
- Trump v. Barbera shows just how radical the Roberts Court and the modern conservative legal movement are
- Oral History of the Blogosphere Part 14: In Media Res
- Alito retirement hijinks
- The Great Tolkien Reread: A Journey in the Dark, The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm
- Supremes Open Thread
- Trump awarded $500 million no-bid contract to Virginia firm last year to build his stupid fucking ballroom at the very same time he was claiming it would be privately funded
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,172
- The Court declines to join the Dersh’s war on NYT v. Sullivan
- The South American Dictatorship Museums
- The Roberts Doctrine: Royalism, unless it affects my portfolio
- Schrödinger’s cat says hello
- Some that you’ve hardly even heard of
- Airpower Errata
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,171
- Hunter Biden painting sale update
- At this point we’re just all living in the constantly expanding director’s cut of This is Spinal Tap
- Beshear
- World Cup Open Thread
- The Luddites: A True History
- The American Everyman if Every American is a Lying Cheating Scumbag
- Silicon Valley’s Reactor Projects
- The LGM Village Green Cultural Preservation Society
- More on the ephemera of fame
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,170
- Lysenkoism
- Ceasefire without ceasing fire
- Sam Alito’s neoconfederacy
- Week 75
- Why is it so hard to get by on $130,000 per year?
- The American Way of Death
- This Day in Labor History: June 27, 1993
- LGM Night at the Movies: Ruthless People
- Pete Buttigeig was victim of a SWAT attack
- Are the people who vandalized the Reflecting Pool in the room with us right now?
- Bloody Sam Alito’s Wild Years
- LGM Night at the Movies Reminder
- Even Richard Nixon has got soul
- An Anal History of the Fall
- USA-Turkey Open Thread
- Everything new is Taney again
- John Roberts: the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to ignore blatant discrimination on the basis of race
- Goodbye, Scientific American!
- Stupid Is as Stupid Does
- Never again is what you swore the time before
- Climate denialism in the empire of stupidity
- Trump tires to use rare bipartisan bill as blackmail to pass his vote suppression bill
- Don’t Look Away
- The Prediction Markets Strike Back… and They Brought a Friend
- The real if no longer young Americans
- The very postmature end of Camelot
- Eat a peach
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,169
- Crush Mainstream New York Democrats
- LGM Night at the Movies
- Senate approves war powers resolution
- Supreme Court Republicans invent bizarre rule to deny a remedy to Rastafarian whose rights were egregiously violated
- The Warren-Moreno Social Security proposal
- Reflections on the Reflecting Pool
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,168
- I’m no longer a Republican, I am a proud independent (who votes a straight Republican Party line in every election)
- Vandals used box cutter or knife to cut 290 or 300-foot “slit” in lining of Reflecting Pool
- A Possible Design for Burevestnik
- Trump official pitched invasion of Greenland as a way to bring back endless shrimp at Red Lobster
- Si era del gabacho
- Rare Notable Exceptions
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,167
- The Science of Identity Foundation Candidate
- On Professional Diplomacy
- Solar Fields and Ecological Diversity
- Election of the Day: Colombia
- The smallest man
- Prediction Markets
- Corruption in the New Gilded Age
- Multiple arrests of people picking blue flakes and algae out of reflecting pool
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,166
- The people going hungry to pay for (a small fraction of) Trump’s wars and upper-class tax cuts
- Empty Suit Putz Toasted
- Jim Crow Hegseth
- Week 74
- The Future of News?
- Greatest peace deal in history lasts not quite as long as drum solo at Grateful Dead concert
- The narcissist’s reflecting pool
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,165
- Jumping the anti-war lane
- Charging Anxiety
- USA v. Australia open thread
- It is not “hawkish” to point out that the Iran war was a counterproductive disaster
- Nuclear Diplomacy is More Complex than New York Real Estate
- The Marketplace of Ideas
- Among the new thugs
- Burnham
- Administration Dumping Its Planned Concentration Camps
- What next?
- The Flu!
- Trump allies shocked to discover he puts his own political interests ahead of theirs
- Review: Nonesuch by Francis Spufford
- Versailles II: Orange Boogaloo
- Trump Knows He Lost the War
- The Deal
- Trump handing out buckets of warm piss
- Kidding on the square, JD Vance political obit edition
- The MOU
- Am I welcome in the “we despise you and think you should leave the country” party?
- Our anti-anti-Trump misogynists are not OK
- “Something Got Daddy in the Lake”
- What “voter fraud” really means
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,164
- A Post That Will Likely Receive No Comments
- Hardcore eugenicist to be put in charge of disability education
- Look on my works ye mighty
- Susan Collins: I got Roe v. Wade overruled and je ne regrette rien
- Shorter Bret Stephens: If Donald Trump were a completely different person the Iran war would have been a good idea
- The Death of Epstein
- More Details on the Deal…
- The Great Tolkien Reread: The Ring Goes South
- Only connect
- Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,163
- If only there was any prior evidence suggesting that Donald Trump was an unreliable ally
- All for This?
- Who here saw the Seattle Pilots play baseball?
- Vance and Miller: All the laws but maybe one are to go unexecuted
- A Declaration for a Second Reconstruction
- The kayfabe cease fire
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,162
- 80 horrible years
- LGM Film Club, Part 545: Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus
- Andy did you hear about this one?
- Swiss electorate decides suicide is not painless
- Emotional Labor and Working Women in Asia
- Presidential drinkers and smokers
- Against Cult of Personality Unionism
- Priors Affirmed
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,161
- NBA Game 5 Thread
- How to Destroy Your Own Economy: Switzerland Version
- And you may say to yourself, my god, what have I done?
- Week 73
- Happy birthday to you
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,160
- Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets
- Bribery works
- World Cup open thread
- If you’re saving for retirement, you’re probably helping Elon become a trillionaire
- Sorsby
- This Is The Centrist Position Now
- Sheep and war
- Trump trying to “void” his first two impeachments
- Movement?
- Burning down the farm
- President Deals ends the Iran war for the seventh time
- Trumpism at Its Core
- Meet Your New LGM South American Correspondent/World Cup Open Thread
- Joe Biden health update
- Those who can make you believe in absurdities can convert that belief into financial instruments with a significant cash value
- I Am Also a Top Gun Trophy Winner
- Frigid Britannia
- Why people hate Trumpnomics
- Forever wars and collapsable regimes
- Will the fires ever cease?
- What should my 7,000th LGM post be about?
- Gimme five
- Inflation now at highest rate in three years
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,159
- How ceased is the fire, really?
- Maine Primary Open Thread
- Not to put Descartes before the horse, but this is getting out of control
- An Assignment from Jamelle Bouie
- Easy like Monday morning
- Trump and family made $2.3 billion from crypto; guess how much investors made?
- A Durable Cease-Fire?
- The House of the Dead
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,158
- It’s not a lie if you believe it
- NBA Game 3 Open Thread
- The Wages of Sin
- Meet Your 2028 Republican Presidential Nominee
- Out-of-touch elitists
- Flagrantly insane election denialism is now mandatory for the entire Republican party leadership
- The whiteness of the wail
- Amazon’s Pay to Play
- The varieties of MAGA experience
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,157
- Trump and Elon take beef
- Bari Weiss demanded that 60 Minutes lie about Renee Good to whitewash her murder
- Basketball jones
- Election of the Weekend IV: Peru
- “Do You Have The Evidence” – K. Welker
- Complying In Advance – Science Edition
- Off the deep end
- This Day in Labor History: June 7, 1912
- Ain’t that America
- Packwood
- Election of the Weekend III: Kosovo
- Saving private Adolf
- It’s the System, Man
- Election of the Weekend II: Armenia
- Week 72
- Jake Tapper investigating possibility that Joe Biden will be 84 in November
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,156
- Friday night sundowning
- More fact-deprived MAGA slop from the Free Press
- The post-Dobbs Republican pivot to healthcare
- Election of the weekend I: Jersey
- Tolkien Reread Addendum: The Art of Cor Blok
- Moral nihilism Inc.
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,155
- Violent 1/6 felons disproportionately likely to commit more felonies
- On Platner
- Making Jim Crow Great Again: Not Just for the Supreme Court
- My generation
- Once, Incels Were Creative
- Ending this Stupid War
- Marjane Satrapi, RIP
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,154
- House votes for war powers resolution
- Closing Time
- A Last Plea
- Roberts Court Refuses to Stop Nullifying the Voting Rights Act
- Bigger and Stupider
- Auction Time Running Down…
- Revised Editions: Quick Thoughts on Lazarus and Invincible
- Hyperfascist dreams on a screen near you
- LGM Merch: The Return of Sunday Battleship Blogging
- Till human voices wake us, and we drown
- Jose Would Like To Remind You Of The Silent Auction
- The End of Governance?
- Strongly Felt Opinions on Stuff That Doesn’t Matter
- His Excellency, Ambassador Morris
- Useful Democratic Initiative
- May Reading List
- Day Three Kickoff
- Erik Visits a (Non)-American Grave, Part 2,153
- For So Long It’s Been Chelada Fun. My Last Fundraising Letter, Until Next Year
- Score 2
- Prodigal son
- Luca Would Like To Remind You Of The Silent Auction
- Think of how bad things could be
- It’s official: Trump $1.8 billion slush fund for traitors dead at least for now
- Oral History of the Blogosphere Part 13: Jacob Levy
- LGM Merch: The Long, Strange Journey of LoomCoin
- THE GODDAMN PLANE HAS CRASHED INTO THE MOUNTAIN
- Garbo is judging your donations to Lawyers, Guns & Money
- Donald Trump has not been seen in public for six days, and the increasingly costly martyrdom of Charlie Kirk
- Zooey Would Like To Remind You Of The Silent Auction
- Shakedown Street
- The Great Tolkien Reread: The Council of Elrond, Part 2
- LGM as Social Media 2026
- I mysteriously didn’t show up for work once for three straight months, but am still getting a great performance review from Donald Trump
- LGM can’t sue itself for billions of dollars and then agree to settle with itself for fewer billions of dollars (now with added context)
- Day Two Kickoff
- Erik Visits a (Non)-American Grave, Part 2,152
- Open Thread: Pay to Play Fundraiser Edition
- Our solemn pledge to you: we will not view your pledges as an existential crisis
- Lawyers, Guns & Money – A subsidiary of CBS News
- LGM Merch: An Internet Tradition
- Election of the Day: Ethiopia
- The Triumph of Stupidity manuscript: A very special offer
- Will Lawyers, Guns & Money perform at the Great American State Fair?
- Silent Auction – Cat Harnesses
- The Patreon Tiers
- Kibeth (2011-2026)
- Silent Auction 2026
- Have Some Recommendations, Give Us Some Money
- Behind the Blogging 2026
- It’s that time of the year
- You know what I want (or maybe you don’t)
- Day One Kickoff
- Erik Visits an American Grave: Part LGM Died Because Readers Didn’t Support the Site
- Maverick v. Rockford
- The great circle jerk of looting
May 2026
- Music Notes
- Peripatetic Plutonium
- Leavin’ Babylon
- 250 To 250
- Unsafe Work Kills
- Sunday survey and open thread
- 25 years of flat wages and no increase in the college wage premium, while value of capital has skyrocketed
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,151
- Boiling frogs, the media, and cumulative radicalization
- Western Conference Finals Game 7 Thread
- Washed 80s nostalgia act to headline “Great American State Fair”
- Ellisons to Bari 60 Minutes
- Week 71
- Election of the weekend I: Malta
- Hotel Art
- Sunday Morning Comin’ Down
- The soul of a dead machine
- This Day in Labor History: May 30, 1925
- Another man done gone
- Who’s Excited for $8 Gas?
- White House unable to release results of Trump’s latest medical exam because they were too good
- The LLM Style
- There’s no dealing like self-dealing
- Ordinary men
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,150
- Milli Vanilli has far too much integrity to play for Donald Trump
- Claude Lemieux
- Trump mobilizes legal system against his sexual assault victim
- Confederate Jesus tells Markwayne Mullin to block international flights to blue cities
- Ebola, USAID, and the Health of the Commonwealth
- Notes from Underground
- Yeah But How Do You Move It?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,149
- Fighting the next war
- Hunter Biden art sale update
- A psychology of fandom question
- Bari fires Sharyn Alfonsi for insufficient Trumpism
- [Midterm] Blexas?
- California’s billionaire tax
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,148
- Undignified Trump sycophant eats shit against unctuous sycophant Trump prefers
- Cults of personality
- Jennifer and I revisited
- Joe Biden Health Update
- A little alt-history
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,147
- The Primacy of Domestic Politics
- Sonny Rollins, RIP
- Erev TrumpTod?
- Recently faceless people more reluctant to vote for the We Will Eat Your Face, Specifically Party?
- There Is a War and the Right Side is Winning
- The Merit Illusion
- So close to getting it
- Let’s Talk About Israel’s Nuclear Weapons
- Even the losers get lucky sometimes
- This Day in Labor History: May 25, 1806
- Just a friendly pop-by
- Mike Johnson: Only Donald Trump could negotiate a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran
- Renouncing Our Own Souls
- Online Media Discourse Worlds Make Almost No Difference
- The best and worst thing in the world
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,146
- Deal to end Iran war?
- Two people shot near White House
- Charges against Abrego Garcia thrown out as vindictive prosecution
- Week 70
- Knocking down mounuments to his own magnificence
- Trump Can’t Even Do Climate Change Right
- The right wing gender freakout, UK peas edition
- Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,145
- Trump to skip son’s wedding
- Tina Peters proudly displays Jared Polis’s wallet
- Democratic Populism
- The Union Busting Industrial Complex
- The Non-Strategist’s Fallacy Autopsy
- I Feel That Ice is Slowly Melting
- Gabbard Out
- Did she put on his knowledge with his power?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,144
- The Triumphs and Travails of CVN-78
- Don’t vote on the war
- The gang that shouldn’t shoot the First Amendment straight
- Punting over payout pot for punks
- The Autopsy!
- Colorado Democratic party bans Jared Polis from speaking at party events or being honored at them
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,143
- LGM Film Club, Part 544: Neighboring Sounds
- Senate refusing to fund Trump’s vanity ballroom
- Hunter Biden’s assets under management at his investment fund went from $200 million to $3.5 billion in the first year of his father’s presidency
- MAGA public officials being held accountable? In this economy?
- Mahmoud Ahmajinedad? Really?
- Barney Frank
- If I had $267 billion
- What If It’s… Aliens?
- NPR Layoffs
- AI wizards and prophets
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,142
- Thomas Massie is no longer the craziest son of a bitch in the room
- JD Vance: I’m fine if we give free taxpayer money to people who assaulted poilice officers on 1/6
- Trump exempts himself, his family, and his businesses from U.S. tax laws
- The non-cesspool parts of the Colorado Democratic Party strike back
- Good news will work its way to all them plans
- The Great Tolkien Reread: The Council of Elrond, Part 1
- Primary Day!
- The disappearing Covid epidemic
- Finally, Something Brings Americans Together
- Erik Visits a (Non)-American Grave, Part 2,141
- Game 7/Game 1 Open Thread
- LGM Film Club, Part 543: Wall Street
- Mark Fuhrman
- The Most Powerful Political Figure in American History
- Denial is a river James Comey should be dunked into
- There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in
- Donald Trump steals $1.8 billion in taxpayer money to pay off seditionists for trying to overturn the 2020 election in his favor
- Greed in the New Gilded Age
- LGM Podcast: The Starmer Endgame?
- This is fine (repeat as needed)
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,140
- Disney kills the 538 archives without explanation
- When professional liars defend the Supreme Court’s nullification of the Voting Rights Act
- Negotiating On Iran’s Nuclear Program
- It Got Weird, Didn’t It?
- The Real Racism
- Dr. Cassidy he dead
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,139
- Election of the Weekend: Cabo Verde
- Good and hard, an ongoing series
- Ferrell-McCartney SNL Live Thread
- Music Notes
- The Supreme Court should not have reinstated the Virginia maps
- Graham Platner interview
- Week 69
- All dysfunctional families are alike
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,138
- America’s worst Democratic governor frees election denialist as a personal favor to Donald Trump
- Republicans are the eugenicist party
- Gambling in Havana?
- Consubstantial mysteries of the unitary executive
- This Day in Labor History: May 15, 1984
- Mifepristone to remain accessible over the dissent of two misogynist septuagenarians
- Checking in on the post-Dobbs Republican pivot to child care
- Snorkeling in a tomb
- “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation” –Donald J. Trump
- Why are people so unhappy?
- American Alternatives
- Trump in Beijing
- Secretary of the Interior pretends not to understand why your phone still works when it’s not plugged in
- The spirit of the gag rule lives on
- One nation divisible?
- Juicing the Nuclear Weapons Complex
- Get it All Out
- Sundown, you’d better take care
- The right wing dogma on the Covid vaccines and the mysteries of the internet
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,137
- Today in the John Roberts presidency
- Know Your BBGN
- Whiteout conditions
- LGM helps write a book
- The cost of folly
- Election of the Day: The Bahamas
- The way we live now
- Inflation now highest it has been in three years
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,136
- Neoconfederacy in a hurry
- The slopulist tendency in Democratic politics
- Decorating with Donald: a very special update
- We Couldn’t Have Been Pwnd by Someone a Little Cooler, at Least?
- Selling out the lives of children for nothing
- Book revision bleg
- LGM Podcast: The Canada Contingency
- Will California be motivated to end its idiotic primary system?
- Reforming the SCOTUS as non-negotiable goal
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,135
- Worst mid-life crisis ever
- Lawless hack judges in broader DC area give Republicans a significant (but not insurmountable) advantage in 2026 House midterms
- MAGA as right wing affinity fraud
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,134
- Astroturf can wilt
- To secure and protect rights belonging to them as freemen and citizens, nothing more
- Week 68
- Russia-Ukraine Roundup
- Trump remaining in office after January 2029
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,133
- The Virginia Supreme Court’s nullification of the people’s initiative is embarrassing hackwork
- Why do Republicans have unlimited tolerance for Trump’s unprecedented corruption?
- Trump illegally funneling taxpayer money to his cronies again
- Bad for Business
- Corruption on an unimaginable scale
- It’s just a shot away
- Cannibalism and the common law
- This Day in Labor History: May 8, 1863
- Court of International Trade strikes down Trump tarriff
- On a more light-hearted note: Cannibalism
- Canvas Down!
- Good and hard, and more please
- New Car!
- Mission Accomplished
- Trump take vacation
- The Wisdom of Waging War on Woo
- The law question
- The Dog Question
- My “I am not an alcoholic” personally branded bourbon has people asking questions already answered by the inscription on the bottle
- Take a look at these hands (ongoing)
- Colorize This Obituary
- Unless it’s from the Po Valley region of Italy it’s just sparkling authoritarianism
- Ted Turner RIP
- LGM Podcast: The Venezuela Hinge
- Why Republicans Don’t Stand Up to Trump
- The indestructible illusions of legal formalism as anti-democratic roadblocks
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,132
- Operation Epic Clusterfuck
- The lawsuits will continue until free speech improves
- With your hands on your head or the trigger of your gun?
- Israel Has Nuclear Weapons
- Sam Ailto is extremely offended that someone is telling the truth about him again
- Latest test confirms Donald Trump’s dementia still technically sub-clinical
- The Subtle Racial Politics of Mississippi Whites
- The Great Tolkien Reread: Many Meetings
- The Fetterman Contingency and the Band of Malcontents
- Narcissistic injury, narcissistic rage
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,131
- It’s a Trump ceasefire
- Fuckin’ marginal rates, how do they work?
- Protocols of the elders of Trumpism
- Supreme Court stays 5th Circuit’s fiat ban on mifepristone
- Sharks Need Food
- The Fall of Skywalker feat. Yours Truly as Kathleen Kennedy
- Hunter Biden Laptop Update
- Trump and charisma
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,130
- Derby Fallout
- Why did the Democrat Party do this?
- The incredible shrinking Donald
- Texas politics and the meaning of the 1960s
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,129
- Today in the neoconfederacy
- Derby 6
- 5th Circuit restricts distribution of mifepristone by fiat
- The One Weird Trick Doesn’t Exist
- Week 67
- Decision in the Bluegrass
- So You Want a General Strike….
- Kamala Harris and 2028
- This Day in Labor History: May 2, 1972
- NBA/NHL playoffs open thread
- Election of the day: Niue
- Will Bunch on the Destruction of the Voting Rights Act
- Trump cognitive health update
- Know when to walk away
- No Spirit in the sky
- Remember when Biden put a three-dollar per gallon surcharge on gas to pay for transition surgery for trans volleyball players?
- An Oily Reckoning
- The ADHD style in Trumpist politics
- April Reading List
- This Day in Labor History: May 1, 2010
- War is over, if you want it
April 2026
- Films of Solidarity
- Republicans fold on ICE funding; Trump withdraws Casey Means nomination
- Roberts Court Republicans: anti-discrimination measures discriminate against white people
- Wong Kim Ark
- How Not to Treat Colleagues in Red States
- Graham Platner and class conversion
- The Writing Meets the Wall
- Flowers for Posner
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,128
- CBS News still getting Bari-ed
- A beautiful sight
- Alito: the Voting Rights Act has to go because enfranchising voters would interfere with the state’s ability to disenfranchise its voters
- Sam Alito’s Inspiration
- SCOTUS guts Voting Rights Act
- Election of the Day: Antigua and Barbuda
- I used to hurry a lot, I used to worry a lot, I used to stay out ’til the break of day
- I’ve been invited to a dinner with a prominent king
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,127
- Which tenured academic will be the first to defend the second Comey indictment?
- The American Voter
- Larry Ellison protects his investment
- Free speech administration tries to use FCC to force Jimmy Kimmel off the air
- Todd Blanche really wants to be AG I guess
- Randy Barnett’s unending trauma over a black man having been president
- OPEC Shakeup
- Conspiracy America
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,126
- Every asshole for himself
- Two Proposals From Iran Over the Weekend
- The party of free speech
- The End of AI
- The Democracy of Death
- Strictly ballroom
- Assassination Attempts
- The Tao of Trump
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,125
- Montana Senate Race–Special Request Post
- Texas Flood
- When I became a Republican for the seventh time
- Taking food from the hungry while funding a pointlessly destructive war: the Donald Trump story
- Don’t Sleep on the Tiger II
- How Some Liberals Take Ludicrous Positions to Seem Tolerant
- The White House Correspondents Dinner is Decadent and Depraved
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,124
- The Sucker’s Ball
- Shots fired at White House correspondents dinner?
- Kickback nation
- And now for something completely different: Republican creeps you haven’t heard from in a while
- Kleptocracy Destroys, Kleptocracy Builds
- Art of the deal
- Week 66
- Le léopard m’a mangé le visage
- Look who you made me be
- This Day in Labor History: April 25, 1923
- Their appeal is becoming more selective
- Declining national socialist president proposes nationalizing America’s worst airline
- Strategy and Tactics
- The dumbest timeline
- I’m getting used to it now
- Battle Lines Drawn at UK
- “I’m an International Man of Misery:” A Graham Parker Interview
- No dignity left to lose
- Trump take vacation
- LGM Podcast: Quagmire(s) in the Middle East
- Median family income over the past 70 years
- Ariana at the quinceanera
- This Day in Labor History: April 23, 1927
- Kash Patel ordered investigation based on theory that reporting is illegal
- Extraordinary brilliance, statistical division
- CDC refuses to publish valid study detailing the effectiveness of COVID vaccines
- The Democratic Gerontocracy Strikes Again
- Trump’s Regime Change
- The British American Revolution
- An Honest Dollar
- Hard to believe the press is free now
- “Wait, did we start the fire?”
- The era of unilateral disarmament is over
- NBA/NHL playoffs open thread
- Governor Andy Intervenes
- What comes after farce?
- TACO DONNY!
- John Roberts out of the shadows
- Turn your piss into gold and get a tote bag
- The Decline of Turning Point USA
- The Great Tolkien Reread: The Hobbit
- Stroking Daddy’s Ego
- Was the Plague of Athens Just Fake News?
- Coming soon from a MAHA mom near you: Heroin can treat insomnia if used responsibly
- How Long Shall Fire Remain Ceased?
- Erik Visits a (Non)-American Grave, Part 2,123
- They want you to die
- What exactly does a white guy have to do to get fired around here?
- The Senate map
- For the gardeners: Rust and research
- The chief weapon of MAGA is the frivolous lawsuit
- Brainstorming Foreign Policy
- Populism as performative dumbassery
- Schrodinger’s Strait and Schrodinger’s War
- Erik Visits a (Non)-American Grave, Part 2,122
- Nations That Might Build Nuclear Weapons
- Thoughts, prayers, things of that nature
- The Art of the Hague
- AI and the exploitation of Kenyan workers
- Donnie don’t be a hero
- A Nice Grift if You Can Get It
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,121
- Cohort voting by age in presidential elections
- Week 65
- Hunter Biden art sale update
- Kashiered
- Alito and Thomas not retiring
- Trump ends ninth war, starts tenth
- What to Fear with AI
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,120
- Iran announces opening of Strait of Hormuz
- Banning Data Centers
- Trump negotiating $20 billion bribe from US to Iran to get a worse deal than the one he abrogated
- Sunlight, disinfectant & diet soda
- Water Wars
- News of the Blockades
- Shakezula pivots to ShakezulAI
- Election of the weekend: Bulgaria
- You read the Bible Pete?
- Fairfax
- Before the flood
- Shorter Clarence Thomas: Progressives are traitors, and my wife’s seditious attempt to overthrow the government was therefore a good thing
- There’s a club, and you’re not in it
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,119
- Eastman and Down (for the count)
- The smallest man in the world
- Bishop James Massa breaks it down
- But it’s *competitive* authoritarianism!
- Lead Does Not Explain Everything
- Trump thinks RBG died in January 2025
- Vancementum!
- The Acephalous Archives and a Broader SEK Project
- What is Wrong with Gen X?
- Death of a Salesman and the ambiguities of intention and identity
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,118
- Area man who has been Catholic for 20 minutes lectures the Pontiff on the finer points of doctrine
- Protecting America From the Immigrant Hordes
- 127-year-old senator has plan for giving the SCOTUS a fresh-faced new look
- More white supremacist adventures with defamation law – The defendant FA/FO
- Why Nations Don’t Want Nuclear Weapons
- The political failure of slopulism
- See if you can guess who is really to blame for the continuing political existence of Donald Trump
- Right wing intellectual disgust with Trump
- Someone just made another killing on Wall Street by distracting everyone from the Epstein files
- You Don’t Have to Go Home, But You Can’t Stay Here
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,117
- Bubbapest
- May Day Talk, Barre, VT
- Into the Wood Chipper
- The Dope vs The Pope
- California trash takes itself out
- Critics say president is demented and mentally ill; White House disagrees
- Trump’s True Constituency
- We must be ruled by the Catholic Church, unless the Pope disagrees with the controlling dogma established by Donald Trump
- Catholic School Union Busting
- Trump posts image of himself as Jesus Christ; Mainstream media do not report this development
- Had a Dream, You and Me and the War at the End Times
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,116
- How does this end?
- Potpourri
- Trump at war
- Orban concedes defeat
- Who Will Pay for AI Absurdity? You.
- Suicide Out of a Fear of Death
- I’m a fool to do your dirty work
- Good job America
- What to Do With NEPA?
- Incompetent Nitwits Achieve Fuck All
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,115
- Election of the Weekend IV: Hungary
- Music Notes
- America Low Priority
- Eric Swalwell accused of sexual assault and misconduct
- Week 64
- Journalists Strike over AI
- The Champions
- Christian nationalism is the enemy
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,114
- Something I Don’t Like
- Belated Artemis Open Thread
- Law, politics, and culture
- Trump promising preemptive mass pardons
- Kalling out Kavanaugh
- Election of the weekend III: Peru
- Orangegoliant is laser-focused on the things that matter: His feelings, his ego
- Monthly inflation in March was at an 11.3% annualized rate
- Election of the weekend II: Benin
- Just Say No….To Confederate Nostalgia
- Why is Melania Trump suddenly making a big deal about the “fact” that she never had anything at all to do with Jeffrey Epstein?
- Katie Miller: contraception stops teenagers from getting pregnant, which is why it is bad
- 4,496 out of 4,499 refugees admitted to the United States since October have been Afrikaners
- Resegregating the military
- Pentagon dope vs. the American Pope
- MADMAN THEORY is a silly pretext used by cynics to appeal to morons
- Stephen Walt Names Names
- Election of the Weekend I: Djibouti
- Negotiating
- The psychology of political cults
- Today in the Sixth Extinction
- Kentucky Primary Updates
- To Sir with love
- This Day in Labor History: April 9, 1917
- An envoi from Donald the Dove
- LGM Film Club, Part 542: Kedi
- Sometimes I think it’s a sin when he feels like he’s winning when we’re losing again
- On Impeachment
- Bringing Viktor Orban a bucket of warm piss
- A Better Peace
- On the 25th Amendment
- Podcast: Talking about Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell on A Meal of Thorns
- What Do We Know?
- Could Anti-Trumpism Revive Unions
- Area man believes God chose to protect US troops attacking Iran
- Messing with Comments
- Art of the deal
- Wisconsin winning
- Sometimes irrational warmongering is just irrational warmongering
- Taco
- Ambition will not counteract ambition
- The uses of the 25th amendment
- The Road to War
- The Nuclear Question
- Leonard Leo’s World
- The Great Tolkien Reread: A Knife in the Dark, Flight to the Ford
- Repost: Remove Trump Now
- The Prosaic Violence of America Abroad
- Trump threatens literal genocide (narrow definition) against “whole civilization”
- This Day in Labor History: April 7, 1947
- Happy Deadline Day?
- LGM Film Club, Part 541: The Count
- Federal prosecutors did not watch video of the shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis for weeks after falsely charging him
- Trump claims to have assassinated Osama bin Laden
- Unnato
- The pathetically low price to capitulate to Trump
- How should the Democrats respond to Trump’s war crimes?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,113
- Riyadh’s own Florida Man
- With malice toward all, with charity for none
- The Rescue
- Trump’s Unionbusting Rebuked in the Courts
- A Man of Deep Religious Principle
- An Easter message from the president
- Patriarchal theocratic white nationalism is risen
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,112
- WSO Rescued?
- Democrats likely to expand their Wisconsin Supreme Court majority
- Music Notes
- Trump: more bombs, less science
- Week 63
- For the gardeners
- Creating Crimes to Serve Ethnic Cleansing
- How the Park Service Obeys Trump
- Trump Guts the Forest Service
- Hard-bitten oystermen and the Blob’s forever wars
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,111
- Sam Alito was briefly hospitalized earlier this year
- LGM Film Club, Part 540: The Adventurer
- No one dies with dignity
- Donald the Dove calls for draconian cuts to social spending to further bloat funding for the Pentagon
- “What do you know about this world anyway?”
- Blocking Trump’s replacements for Alito and/or Thomas
- The Generational Divide
- America’s Worst Foreign Policy Decisions
- Not Quite Air Supremacy
- The American Concentration Camp
- Pete Hegseth fires Army chief of staff for opposing his racial and gender purges
- Iran War Update
- The failed politics of nostalgia
- MAGA will take your butter and give someone else guns
- God teleports top FEMA official to Waffle House
- Bondi Fired
- Social Media as Political Cancer
- LOL whatever
- Market discovers that Trump is not serving TACOs tonight
- A Major Address?
- At the end of every not-very-hard-earned day people find some reason to believe
- What’s going on here?
- The Taney Revivalists
- Is the 14th amendment unconstitutional? Views differ
- March Reading List
- This Day in Labor History: April 1, 1576
- Trump says he will attend oral arguments in his “make Dred Scott great again” lawsuit
March 2026
- Friends in immoral places
- Trump make mouth noises about Iran war ending; stocks jump again
- Supreme Court holds that bans on “conversion therapy” are presumptively unconstitutional
- “We’ve gotta get our priorities straight” – A tale in two headlines
- Oh Noem
- Women’s Tourney Update
- The boys who wouldn’t do their homework
- Let’s Get a List
- 1/6 insurrectionists sue the Capitol Police
- Birthright citizenship, white supremacy, and Stephen Miller’s herrenvolk America
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,110
- A week of ABS
- New York Times VERY CONCERNED that the “No Kings” movement hasn’t met the goals the New York Times has set for it
- Graham Platner, Donald Trump, and Gender
- You will die so that others may not live
- Orphan crushing machine operator hospitalized by stress of meeting productivity goals
- A note on sports and heartbreak
- Four Years of War
- No! War, for oil
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,109
- Did Duke Win?
- The Uranium Containers
- JD Vance’s demon-haunted world
- Review: Pretenders to the Throne of God by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- This seems bad
- Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,108
- No Kings protests
- Imaginary Donald Trump betrayed by real Donald Trump again
- Week 62 – No Kings!
- Fear itself
- “Trump interrupts a Cabinet meeting dealing with the Iran war and rising prices to talk Sharpies”
- Hillary Clinton email server update
- His brain is melted
- Dirty Bombs And Nuclear Weapons
- The death of Trump
- Senate Republicans cave on clean non-ICE funding
- Minab Revisited
- The lowest white man
- Boots on the ground
- Narcissists and sycophants
- The insanity is the point
- Dispatches from the redistricting wars: Utah
- “I don’t throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things.”
- Anabasis II: The Anabasising
- Bespredel
- The looting of the Treasury
- The Disney/OpenAI slop flop
- Election of the day: Faroe Islands
- Peter Thiel’s creepy obsessions
- There is no material non-liberal audience for mainstream news
- Shadow of the Past
- Would honest elite media coverage of Trump make a difference?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,107
- The fire does not seem to be ceasing
- Florida Democrat (Update: Florida DemocratS)
- An oral history of a failson’s wanton destruction of the CDC
- Sending 82nd Airborne to Middle East in search of another Peace Prize
- The nihilism of MAGA
- The Great Tolkien Reread: At the Sign of the Prancing Pony, Strider
- “Bibi’s a Pimp. He Never Could Have Outfought Khameinei. But I Didn’t Know Until This Moment that it Was MBS All Along.”
- Our Orwellian moment
- Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,106
- Bite the Big Apple
- John Roberts to once again rewrite election laws by fiat
- Let’s Distract from Iran by Doing Something Stupid
- Another Day Ending in Y
- Election of the Day: Denmark
- Iran war over for today at least
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,105
- The power of utterly delusional thinking
- Who lost Russiagate?
- Our Official Policy is “Let’s Blow Some Shit Up”
- This Day in Labor History: March 22, 1879
- Election of the weekend: Italy
- The alcohol crisis for restaurants
- Music Notes
- Week 61
- The knockoff effects of Trump’s war
- It’ll Never Be Mueller Time Again
- Nicholas Brendon RIP
- Fox News’s Book of Martyrs: An infinite series
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,104
- No money for Trump’s folly
- Things are going just great
- Communication Breakdown
- CBS News Radio gets Bari-ed
- VexAItious Litigants (Update: Birtherism)
- The Ugliest Coin Ever
- Begun, the Battle of Hormuz Has
- AI wrote my novel and I didn’t notice
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,103
- Iran bombs natural gas facilities in Qatar
- How Left Hero History Damages Current Social Movements
- Dear Ohio, you have too many universities these days, please eliminate 3 of them. P.S. I am not a crackpot. (Update: Teaching = Day care)
- Des canons sans beurre
- The Director of National Idunno: Determining threats is not my job
- He tells it like it is!
- Fourplexes
- The Shock Troops of Ethnic Cleansing
- Last Chance Tourney Challenge
- La Lucha Sigue
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,102
- Uh 4
- LGM Film Club, Part 539: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
- Fail Mary II: Do The Seahawks Get a Cheap Win Again?
- On the Chavez Revelations
- Increasing supply decreases prices
- Did Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) forget he is a member of the Republican party?
- Cesar Chavez’s history of sexual abuse
- Bad Ideas Never Die
- (Gas) Numbers Go Up
- The miracle worker II – Inside baseball edition
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,101
- Why other countries aren’t rushing to join the Iran War is a mystery that will never be explained, like the square root of 4
- Scenes from a metaphorical execution
- The dangerous politics of anti-Iran war anti-Semitism
- It’s not 2003, especially when you can’t even be bothered to try to make the sale
- Opening The Strait of Hormuz
- The miracle worker
- Taking fascism seriously
- Shit’s Fucked, Kabul Edition
- Blood, Fabrication, Death, War & Gambling (Update)
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,100
- Are you experienced?
- District judge halts RFK Jr.’s anti-vaxx policies
- Remember the Maine, or something
- Trump started Iran war to goose his approval numbers and is big mad that it didn’t work
- Joe Biden age update
- The Coalition of Nope
- Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Dollars
- Newt Gingrich and the party of ideas
- Tourney Time
- This Day in Labor History: March 16, 1907
- Hanging on in loud desperation is the MAGA way
- 98th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 1 hour countdown & predictions open thread
- Last Minute Oscar Thoughts
- I’ve got nothing
- The .047% that don’t pay taxes
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,099
- Nosferatu in the Flesh!
- Brendan Carr threatens to cancel networks who make the administration look bad by covering the Iran War
- Trump and the seven deadly sins: A theological analysis
- Hunter Biden painting sale special update
- Week 60
- RFK, Jr., Oz or Fauci: Who do Americans trust?
- Hunter Biden painting sale update
- This Day in Labor History: March 14, 1952
- ICYMI: The Paranoid Style Has A New Album Out
- USA-Canada WBC Open Thread
- Everyone who touches tRump dies
- The world according to Karp: The AI-apocalypse will own liberal women
- Speaking of Cultural Genocide and War….
- Covid six years on
- The case of the magic Rubio slippers (Update)
- Iran Update: Mines!
- Top Trump officials failed to account for the possibility that people might fight back when you bomb them
- Trump does his best friend another soild
- LGM Film Club, Part 538: The Mastermind
- Florida Man
- Brotox addict bans press photographers for publishing un-airbrushed pics
- Trump take oil, retirement
- Is Obergefell Solid?
- It’s just a shot away
- LGM Podcast: Known Associates
- The gullicism of the American public
- What Happened to the Anti-Defamation League?
- Pete Hegseth’s Cultural Genocide
- Waste! Fraud! Abuse! (Maybe Not)
- When You’re Right, You’re Right
- The NBA Haters
- LGM Film Club, Part 537: Dahomey
- Towering political supergenius
- Area dumbshit wonders when the wallet inspector will come back
- We Own the Minab Strike
- The 1991 Iraq Model
- In massive upset, Alabama governor does right thing
- The calls to attack Iran were coming from inside the House of Saud
- Lethality Baby! Kill Em All!
- Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,098
- LGM Film Club, Part 536: Big City Blues
- The Ancient Bird Trade
- The neo-fascist dream of America’s golden age
- Iran War Update: Day 11
- Trump’s War on American Nature
- Tragedy is when you see pronouns in an email signature, comedy is when we bomb your schools for no reason
- Read Books
- More Explanation Needed!
- The Great Tolkien Reread: Fog on the Barrow-Downs
- Politically subclinical dementia
- Ain’t That America
- How Should Democrats Approach Israel?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,097
- Augie Meyers
- LGM Film Club, Part 535: Three on a Match
- The loud parts through an extra-amplified bullhorn
- Bo Gritz
- Trump says Iran war could be over soon; stocks go up
- Dump the Worst Democratic Governor
- Trump take paycheck
- R4I: Tillis says Miller gotta go
- Karoline Leavitt says draft is on the table
- Daylight Savings Time: the eternal controversy
- FDA vax, mask attacker packs his bags. For good this time.
- Meet Your New Supreme Leader
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,096
- Dignified transfer, undignified president
- The Peale of Trump
- Iran Update: A Rough Day for the Tomcat
- Election of the weekend: Colombia
- Kinetic illegality
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,095
- Don’t mention the war, escalated bombardment edition
- Music Notes
- Iran War Update: One Full Week
- On the turning away from Trump
- The order of death (comment free-for-all)
- States’ rights! Proposed rule would let DOJ stall ethics complaints against current, former attorneys (Update)
- Week 59
- Light the corners of my mind
- I Fail to See How This Could Go Wrong
- The rantings of a demented grandpa should be quite a bit more disturbing if he happens to be president of the United States
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,094
- Russia first
- LGM Film Club, Part 434: Integration Report No. 1
- This Ain’t No Goddam Tennessee Fried Chicken
- Our New DHS Leader
- Peace, prosperity, these are the demons you must slay if you wish to own the libs
- Will RFK Jr. cancel pumpkin spice latte season?
- Special Ops To Get The Uranium
- Trump demands unconditional surrender in what is not a war, legally speaking
- Don’t pay for Operation Epstein Fury
- Iran Update:Working for the Weekend
- America…well, not first. Somewhere in the back
- Casualties of please-do-not-call-this-a-war
- This is bad right?
- Don’t mention the war
- Why Are All These Nazis in My Group Chat?
- Noem is apparently being fired and is set to be replaced by Markwayne Mullin
- The State of Texas Republicans
- I had an affair with my staffer who then killed herself, but God told me we’re cool
- Iran Update: Day 6
- The underpants gnomes theory of war
- Republicans: the party of endless war
- Spain: The correct use of Nope
- Election of the Day: Nepal
- An aura of systematic mendacity con’t
- The aura of systematic mendacity
- Iran Update: Why Not?
- Even the losers get lucky sometimes
- Lots of cash in sight, you could win it all; you could take everything
- The primaries
- US military launching operations in Ecuador
- Get that Man a Wikipedia Page
- DJT is no PC & RJL
- The Soldiers Trump Murdered
- The shadow docket and judicial imperialism, an ongoing series
- Just Like Venezuela
- Hate in a time of choleric
- Election of the day: United States
- Iran War Update: Dumber than You Could Possibly Imagine
- Happy Birthday Darlin’
- Fox News Grandpa gets bright new idea from watching the teevee
- Meatball Ron: Man of the People
- Could Sanity Be Returning to the CDC?
- Liars, lunatics, and the Iran war
- Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,093
- Trump administration drops defense of its attempts to extort BigLaw
- LGM Film Club, Part 433: Love in the Time of AIDS
- Death by Lightning
- He Disappeared and No One Noticed
- Hitting the jackpot in the fake MAGA populist sweepstakes
- Donnie Stagflation
- Procrastination open thread
- The Triumph of Stupidity, an infinite series
- The Moustache of Understanding Is Back Yet Again to Explain Yet Another Middle East War
- Iran War Roundup: Eagles Down
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,092
- Iran Does Not Have Nuclear Weapons
- Florida Man forced to leave links to temporarily discuss some minor accidents in remote country
- Trump’s approval ratings not showing Bush bump
- Trump take gas
- Purchase of son in law proves to be excellent investment
- Air Campaign as Regime Change
- February Reading List
- Iran attack is extraordinarily unpopular among Americans
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,091
- You that hide behind walls, you that hide behind desks
- Music Notes
February 2026
- Trump announces Khamenei’s death
- Low-energy consent manufacturing from regime-aligned media
- Khamenei apparently killed in today’s attack
- Week 58
- Trump Gets His Iran War
- Maybe we should believe these people when they tell us what they believe
- Realism. Restraint.
- Trump confirms American participation in bombing of Iran, urges regime change
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,090
- If the GOP = MAGA = Trump, what is the GOP – Trump?
- Israel launches attack on Iran
- Pete Hegseth punishes company for trying to protect the privacy of its customers
- That Alleged Chinese Nuclear Test
- Manufacturing consent is too much work
- Rufo zips up his hot dog suit and goes in search of the guys who did this (Update)
- Yahoos Try to Invade Cuba
- Then your soul is in the lost and found
- Mamdani/Trump
- Tolkien Reread Addendum: Tom Bombadil is a Merry Old Fellow
- Sometimes It’s the Ones You Most Suspect
- Failing or faltering fascism
- Pew! Pew! Pew!
- Warner Bros. Discovery to become regime-aligned
- Hillary Clinton private email server update
- Keeping the stolen proceeds
- Three versions of Donald
- The Murderous Fantasies of ICE Agents
- Genocidal logic and political action
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,089
- The pivot to “you’ll pay more and you’ll like it”
- Murder by Miller
- Why go to class when you can just horse around?
- Consequences? During this administration?
- LGM Podcast: Japan’s Wave Election
- The birth of a nation
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,088
- Today is the day Donald Trump became president
- Military Power is a Wasting Asset
- It’s the State of the Union I Guess/We’re All in One Hell of a Mess
- The wages of dilettantism
- Just say no
- How the pink slime gets made
- DOJ illegally redacted minor’s accusation that she was sexually abused by Trump
- The Great Tolkien Reread: In the House of Tom Bombadil
- New gilded age money mania and America’s elite universities
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,087
- Who is GAERF for?
- Tariff dividend checks that were never happening still not happening
- Snowocalypse
- Neutralizing the threat
- Trump’s highest ROI nomination
- Battleships!
- Kashing the Party
- The varieties of nepotistic experience
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,086
- Drug war instability in Mexico
- Music Notes
- Kennedy’s Kidz
- I wonder how huge the TMTG bailout will be?
- Sometimes in Life, You Get What You Ask For
- Overtime/closing ceremonies opening thread
- Deranged American dictator threatens Greenlandic people with American health care (Update)
- Half measures
- USA-Canada Gold Medal Belated Open Thread
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,085
- The taxes will increase until morale improves
- LGM Film Club, Part 433: Bacurau
- I wanna kiss you all over
- Pay to play in John Roberts’s America
- The Labor Movement Makes You Brave
- The Moral Rot of Trumpism
- Week 57
- Karen and Bill’s American vacation
- The Tariff Defeat
- The Leopards Come for the Florida Tourist Industry
- Assume Every ICE Agent is a Murderer
- Mazeroski RIP
- This Day in Labor History: February 21, 1824
- The littlest man
- The revenge on America tour
- Kavanaugh is the new Alito, and another notes on Learning Resources
- Hunter Biden painting sale update
- Trump rages against tariff decision, says he has “a backup plan”
- No Tariffs for You!
- Union Membership Ticks Up in 2025
- MAHA and leopards eating the faces
- The Tariff and the Leopards Eating the Faces
- War With Iran?
- Trump announces ten billion dollar involuntary taxpayer donation to his Board of Piece
- Midday open thread
- How a functioning democracy does it
- ICE Scum
- The royal scam
- Author of Dow 36,000 wants staffers punished for publishing banal economic facts
- Play with fire
- Quack backtracks on FDA mRNA vax attack
- Donald Trump? That Donald Trump?
- Realism. Restraint.
- Sasquatch Israel
- TWITTER FILES update
- Doug Moe, RIP
- The Quackistocracy
- An oral history of the Trump shock
- The American Retrospective voter
- America’s zombie politics
- Reconstruction, Not Restoration
- The Freedom of CBS News
- Jesse Jackson, RIP
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,084
- Jackson RIP
- Please don’t Bari me
- State of New Mexico to Investigate Zorro Ranch
- After being cancelled by the woke mob for several minutes, Peter Attia has found redemption at the Bari Weiss Network
- How to make friends and influence people in the MAGA media ecosystem
- Duvall
- Putin’s perennially unlucky opposition
- My mind is going. I can feel it.
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,083
- It Shall Be an Heirloom of My House
- Trump’s cult of personality
- Trump 2.0 and South Texas
- The AI Apocalypse
- Reality hygiene
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,082
- Freezing cold takes
- The SAVE Act & commentary
- Trump tells soldiers they have to vote for him
- The power to publish is the power to destroy
- Week 56
- Will the Trump presidency collapse over the next 35 months?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,081
- Faux News: Epstein “mostly just a fixer,” mostly
- Vinay Prasad, child murderer
- The Primary Calendar
- How Exploiting Pathetic Male Addicts Took Over the Economy
- Why there will be a government shutdown over DHS
- The Epstein Files and Russiagate
- The Many Faces of Jeffrey Epstein
- Epstein blast radius and the mainstreaming of extreme misogyny
- LGM Book Club: Furious Minds
- Credit Where Due?
- Muh white foodways
- Lord take me downtown I’m just looking for some Kush
- Just enough information voters
- Trump administration officially rejects climate change as something that can be addressed via regulation
- Cartel drone attack or party balloon?
- Multi-billionaire brings foreign employees to the US, threatens them with ICE
- I prefer the term artificial person
- Election of the Day: Bangladesh
- Trump alienates critical swing state
- Pam Bondi needs to be impeached one nanosecond after the Democrats have a House majority
- Put a big yam, in your butt. Some uncooked ham, in your butt…
- It may be what marginal voters should have expected, but it’s not what they wanted
- Be Evil!
- Secretary of Eugenics demands more culling of the herd
- FAA Closes El Paso
- This Day in Labor History: February 11, 1918
- That’s entertainment
- Another Win For The First Amendment
- The Moral Turpitude of ICE Agents
- “Pro-life” & anti-vaccination: A most Republican combination of fuckwittery
- Trump administration to make climate change denialism official policy
- Can the Epstein files seriously injure Trump?
- The Further Enshitiffication of Academia
- The Great Tolkien Reread: The Old Forest
- Election of the Day: Barbados
- The Billionaire Hypocrites
- Will Trump Steal the Midterms?
- ICE Targeting Civilians
- What a Time to Be Alive
- Red China’s very real conspiracy to cancel the Stanley Cup
- Are Irish immigrants still white in the US?
- The Impending California Disaster
- My “don’t panic” t-shirt answers the many questions being raised by my t-shirt
- Seems totally legit
- There’s a moon called the Moon
- Tales from the Finance Domain: Bond Markets Are Now Battlefields
- We are the champions, my friend
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,080
- Bad Bunny’s halftime show
- Super Bowl Open Thread: Can Seattle win for America?
- The Tulsi Secret
- Covering up murder
- Election of the Weekend III: Portugal
- Election of the Weekend II: Thailand
- The post-Trump purges
- The State of (the) Race in the Commonwealth
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,079
- Will Lewis to no longer get paid for not doing any work
- Music Notes
- Cryin’ Ted
- The Latino Vote in Texas
- Week 55
- I Know You are Exhausted But…
- The varieties of racist experience
- Election of the Weekend I: Japan
- Great Powers?
- Mysteries of consciousness
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,078
- LGM Film Club, Part 432: A Star is Born (1937)
- Italian crowd refuses to accept the moral authority of the International Olympic Committee
- Murdering the Sick as a Side Benefit of Ethnic Cleansing
- No One Wants Stephen Miller’s Concentration Camps
- And Again
- How the propaganda systems work
- LGM Podcast: The Superb Seahawks?
- Day Ending in Y
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,077
- And when he sees his reflection, he’s fulfilled
- LGM Film Club, Part 431: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
- The Political Genius of Donald Trump and Greg Abbott
- The King of Comedy
- Florida Man murdered the Washington Post because he hates its reporters and readers
- MAGA: Asian Edition
- SCOTUS rules on California redistricting
- The future of remote work/WFH
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,076
- Regime-and-Epstein-Aligned BigLaw Honcho Steps Down
- The Diplomacy and International Commerce of Sports
- Free ‘zine & open thread
- Negotiate Over What?
- Good night, sleep tight
- Al Haig’s fantasy come to life
- Jeff Bezos bought and then destroyed one of the country’s three most important newspapers
- Moderation as a recipe for disaster
- Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,075
- The sound of gunfire off in the distance I’m getting used to it now
- Progress on the Construction of the New East Wing
- You should smile more
- The Trump manufacturing bust
- District Judge blocks order ending TPS status granted to Haitians
- Sports fandom and the paradoxes of consumer capitalism
- Trump is openly trying to steal the midterms
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,074
- Hunter Biden Art Sale Update
- When White Women Matter
- Looking back on January 6 2021 via LGM
- The Killers
- The Death of the Doomsday Clock
- Trump v. Trump Administration
- John Roberts’s coerced omerta
- Toplines, tables & crosstabs
- Tulsi 2
- AI: There’s something happening here
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,073
- Trump closes down Kennedy Center to turn it into a gaudy monstrosity
- How do you get inflation from 30% to 2% in just a few months?
- The dog ate my attachment
- NatSec at the Symphony
- Mamdani Discourse
- The rise of the celebrity billionaire
- The New Fugitive Slave Act
- Cops Don’t Have to Collaborate
- Election of the Day: Costa Rica
- January Reading List
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,072
- Democrats easily flip Texas senate district Trump carried by 17 points
- Trump: Source of the strongest arguments against joining Trump’s Board of Peace
- Music Notes
January 2026
- Judge grants the Great Writ to Adrian Conejo Arias and his son
- The Trump judges
- Week 54
- The conversation (not)
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,071
- Elon, Woody, and Jeffrey
- Realism. Restraint.
- Don Lemon arrested for covering a protest on Trump’s orders
- There’s more than one way to politicize the Fed
- Catherine O’Hara, RIP
- The End Of Arms Control
- Ain’t That America
- Serious but not literal or maybe that other thing
- No Death Penalty for Luigi
- Team B and the Backfire
- Operation Sindoor
- Domestic imperialism
- The affordability president on housing
- Pivoting to a proactively strategic new paradigm
- The “radical” position that ICE should be abolished is the most common opinion of the matter among Americans
- A Note On Titles
- Knowing ICE is Bad Politics
- What does Ken Paxton call 2 kids dead from measles?
- Making Friends
- Gaslit by reality
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,070
- My patience is at an end
- Your Good News For Tonight
- Chuck Schumer wants to reform the American Gestapo
- The five civil liberties violations of the invasion of Minnesota
- American Fascism’s Next Target
- When American Policing Reaches White Liberals
- Bari Weiss: Measles is back, but we can increase those numbers
- Le Leak, c’est chic
- Iran Again
- Making It Easier To Build Nuclear Reactors
- Disasters of politics and technology
- A Bit of Drama in the Kentucky Senate Race…
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,069
- World War III?
- The Theory and the Praxis
- LGM Film Club, Part 430: My Blueberry Nights
- The ILWU’s Continued Legacy of Justice and Solidarity
- Break a Few Eggs
- Was Alex’s Pretti’s killing a targeted and premeditated first degree murder?
- Minnesota v. MAGA
- Senate Candidates
- Founder of Jews for Hitler Shocked by Concentration Camps
- The cultural contradictions of techbro capitalism
- The Great Tolkien Reread: Three is Company, A Short Cut to Mushrooms, A Conspiracy Unmasked
- Next Steps in Minneapolis
- Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,068
- Cold blooded
- Busting out the Post
- Littlest Napoleon flees the jurisdiction
- I am I am Superman, and I can do anything
- Is Trump looking for an off-ramp out of Minnesota?
- Among the conservative pseudo-pseudo intelligentsia
- What’s Up in Beijing?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,067
- Late Night Open Thread
- Escalation Dominance and Theory of Mind
- NFL Open Thread: Conference Championship and the Beav edition
- Our Aspirant Fascists
- National Rifle Association: lawfully carrying a firearm is sufficient grounds for summary execution
- Living on a thin line
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,066
- LGM Film Club, Part 429: The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Senate Dems reject DHS funding package
- More Will Die
- The paper of record’s record
- NBA postpones Timberwolves game
- Week 53
- Kennedy’s head of U.S. vaccine panel wants to see kids get measles, polio. For science!
- Another person murdered by ICE in Minneapolis
- Food wars
- 2026 LGM Bowl Mania
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,065
- LGM Film Club, Part 528: We Won’t Grow Old Together
- Did flu shots make RFK Jr. forget he’s married?
- Is it seriously but not literally, or literally but not seriously?
- Remember the dumbest kid in your high school class?
- The child murdering failson, his ratfucker, and the editors who loved them
- Who Bought Slaves?
- Whitewashing History
- Trump agonistes
- Trump Take Longshoremen Jobs
- The Minnesota General Strike
- The 25th amendment and presidential dementia
- Whither Space Force?
- This Day in Labor History: January 23, 1976
- The poutine was sour anyway
- When podcasters become directors
- An Apocalypse of Snow
- Plenty of seats left on the peace board party bus – a clarification
- Thomas Edsall And Steroids In Law Enforcement
- The “But Muh Portfolio” carve-out
- Special Counsel Jack Smith live testimony thread
- Weekend at Thurmond’s
- Dementia Don update
- Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,064
- Unreasonable searches and seizures
- LGM Film Club, Part 527: Framed
- Wait, was that even legal?
- President TACO
- HHS Sec. Kennedy – MMGA
- When I Became President For the Seventh Time
- The Water We Fish Swim In
- Insanewashing
- Will Trump Face a Reckoning in 2026?
- O little town in Switzerland – Davos Day 3
- Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,063
- Lindsey Halligan still not a US Attorney
- LGM Film Club, Part 526: The Darjeeling Limited
- Happy 10% credit card interest cap day
- Ain’t That America?
- Trump crash markets
- Would Trump Face a Political Impact by Conquering Greenland?
- State of the union
- Is someone in the White House passing Trump’s medical records around? Probably not.
- The immortal legend of Harry Truman’s financial rectitude
- Yes to Bureaucracy!
- Organizing In Spite of Democratic Leaders
- American Inequality
- Elon Weighs In
- Trump threatens 200% tariffs because Macron won’t join his pay to play billion-dollar extortion scheme
- Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,062
- The arbitrary detention of ChongLy Scott Thao
- From Mineral Rights to Michelob Ultra: Roughly 76 Things I’ve Learned From ‘Landman’
- Expensive imperialist fantasies
- Welcome to the world of the true believer
- Measles for nothing and whooping cough for free
- The Books I’m Looking Forward to in 2026
- Temun
- Chronicles of madness
- Worst Timeline
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,061
- The chaos exception to the Sixth Amendment
- Der Mann im langen braunen Mantel
- Rare Earths In Greenland
- NFL Open Thread: Divisional Round Sunday
- What Is to Be Done with Greenland?
- The absurdity of the non-ideological university
- This Day in Labor History: January 18, 1913
- It’s funny until somebody gets hurt
- NFL Open Thread: Divisional Round Saturday
- Beijing’s best friend in DC
- Week 52
- Slow learners
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,060
- Cancel culture at Bari Weiss U.
- Hunter Biden painting sale update
- Virginia Democrats know what the shot is
- I was talking to my doctor down at the hospital
- Jagged little shill
- The Best and Worst of US Foreign Policy
- Those elections won’t cancel themselves
- Those points won’t shave themselves
- Machado gives Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal
- Trump take beef
- Burying the lede at the core of the Earth
- Resisting An Occupation
- Hunter Biden Laptop Update
- The Banks Matter
- The Democratic minimum
- A Democrat by the Billionaires, For the Billionaires
- Resisting the Data Centers
- Another ICE shooting in Minneapolis
- The principles of Josh Hawley, man of principle
- This Greenland Shit
- $20, same as in town
- Party of free speech raids reporter’s home
- Bari the ratings
- Is It Impossible to Understand the Geography of the American West?
- Claudette Colvin, RIP
- Trump administration officially using Nazi-sounding phrase that only sounds very much like something Nazis would say
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,059
- It’s a working class party now
- Make Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Great Again
- “Havana Syndrome” Again
- Iranian regime admits thousands of protesters killed; estimates of independent groups are 12,000 or more
- The bad advice that you gladly won’t take
- “The Most Awful Responsibility” and “American Experience: Bombshell”
- Scott Adams
- Eric Adams scams investors out of millions with meme coin marketed as dedicated to “fighting anti-Semitism” and “teaching our children how to embrace the blockchain technology”
- The Great Tolkien Reread: The Shadow of the Past
- Trump administration 2026: Fascist dystopia or farcically incompetent clown show?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,058
- Multiple officials in the civil rights division resign because Dhillon is refusing to investigate the Good shooting
- NFL Open Thread: Wildcard Monday
- R.I.P. The Emerging Republican Majority (2024-2024)
- Pam Bondi about to enter into full dignity wraith status, plus thoughts on the essence of blogging
- Peltola is in
- Trump: being Minnesota nice to a federal agent is grounds for summary execution
- Trump Havana Hotel and Casino?
- This morning in creeping presidential dementia (or whatever)
- This Day in Labor History: January 12, 1942
- Suspect arrested in Mississippi synagogue arson
- Polycrisis Hits the Fed
- Game theory
- Logistics
- NFL Open Thread: Wildcard Sunday
- An argument for a military coup
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,057
- Bob Weir
- ICE quoting white separatist ethno-nationalist song lyrics in recruiting materials
- NFL Open Thread: Wild Card Saturday
- Is Congress briefly awakening from hibernation?
- Week 51
- On the Ground in Tehran
- Think Smaller. Think More Legs.
- Grading RFK Jr. on the Harvard College curve
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,056
- America’s worst Democratic governor proposes shooting another massive brick
- You know that joke about how Trump wants Greenland because of the Mercator projection?
- The paranoid style and the infinite hypocrisy of the American right wing
- “I’m not mad at you”
- New Video Released of Murder of Renee Nicole Good
- LGM Podcast: NFL Playoff Predictions
- Trump to accept the Nobel Peace Prize from Maria Corina Machado
- Two more shot in Portland
- Why Understanding Organizing and Direct Action Activism Matters
- The Murderer
- What if Col. Kurtz was, besides being a certifiably insane megalomanic, also really stupid, ignorant, increasingly demented, tripping on Xanax etc. all night, and could launch thousands of nuclear weapons with a phone call?
- Vance: you will be summarily executed by state agents you pose no danger to and like it
- Living with the lies
- A Most Awful Responsibility
- We’re finally on our own
- Renee Good
- LGM Film Club, Part 525: Once Upon a Time in America
- Knowing lies are foundational to authoritarianism
- Nothing is Finished in Venezuela
- ICE murders civilian in Minneapolis
- The spook who liked to get paid
- Facts Don’t Matter
- Any Good News on the Green Energy Front?
- The party of evil
- The Death of Tim Walz’s Career
- Today’s Bari moment of abject self-abasement
- Money Coming Out Of The Ground
- Wyoming Republicans accidentally protect the rights of their citizens
- Trump punishes children to punish political enemies
- I don’t know what you do about this
- The United States of Denial
- LGM Podcast: The Most Awful Responsibility
- Obeying in Advance
- Trump’s razor, the Nobel Peace Prize, and Stephen Miller’s book of lebensraum dreams
- Five Years Since America’s First Coup Attempt
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,055
- The Bari Weiss News Network
- 1977
- RFK Jr.: more kids need to die
- The Dunroe Doctrine
- Petty tyranny
- It’s Time To Stop The Fascists
- You’re so vain you probably think this country is about you
- I prefer my dystopian satires to remain satirical
- Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,054
- FIFA Peace Prize winner outlines laundry list of invadable countries
- When Nations Still Invest in Science and Medicine
- Bay of Pigs II: The Legend of Little Marco’s Gold
- NFL Open Thread
- Yankee imperialism and neo-fascist spectacle
- Let’s Ask Ivan!
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,053
- Operation Emoji was as biggly as WWII! Thank you for oyur attenion to the MATTER!!
- NFL Open Thread, de facto beginning of the playoffs edition
- Music Notes
- The Dem Reaction
- No fighting in the Elon Room
- Week 50
- Donaldus Venezuelarum Conquestor
- Trump says US will occupy Venezuela and take back “our” oil
- President Gas (Update – Hegseth, Rubio, Caine have a new job)
- Realism. Restraint.
- Going out on a limb here, but FIFA may have to take back that peace prize
- Trump administration seizes Maduro
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,052
- Donald the Dove’s War For Oil
- “Meritocracy” for dorks who peaked in grade 11
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- Trump “aces” yet another dementia screening test
- Reorganization?
- We’lL be Greeted as lLiberators! Thank yo for your attention to this matter!!!
- I would like to give all glory to God for hitting this four-team teaser parlay
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,051
- Turning tail
- 2025 Year in Review
- Tired old man ignoring the advice of his doctors
- Did I make this one up?
- CFB Playoff Thread
- What would happen if you made a mobbed up grifting malignant narcissist president of the United States?
- December Reading List
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,050
- “Things to do today. Die.”