Lawyers, Guns & Money
Religious lunatics interfere with seaside time share condo development plans
LGM Podcast: KY-6
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,999
Trump ground planes
LGM Film Club, Part 511: Poland Prepared
We’re not crying for you, we’re giving the money to Argentina
Election of the Day
A House of Dynamite – Review
NFL Open Thread: Break up the Colts edition
The Failure of Big Law
The Irish Sprint Left
The Bolton Case
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,998
Trump to impose tariffs as punitive measure against accurate commercial
LGM Film Club, Part 510: A Voyage to Cebu
Music Notes
It’s time to shut down Yale Law School until etc.
The Laboratories of Fascism
For the 8th Amendment, the shadow docket sleeps
Week 40
Insane racist heir to multi-billion-dollar fortune really really likes Donald Trump
College Football Week 9 Thread
I’d Stay Away Too
Unions and the No Kings Protests
Tin soldiers
Stellan Skarsgard
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,997
World Series etc. open thread
LGM Film Club, Part 509: Norwegian Forestry, 1920s
Rolling Coal
A new kind of politics
Peace president sending aircraft carrier to Latin America
Why personalized government doesn’t work
Murder is murder and lies are lies
AI Nuclear Weapons
What are we even doing here?
On Evals
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,996
A declaration
LGM Film Club, Part 508: 60 Minutes on Chiang Kai-Shek, 1971
Murder Inc.
Morally Wrong
Hunter Biden laptop update
Chess thread
How much do you think this pardon cost?
Scandal!
Even Richard Nixon
Ask a Naval Professional!
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,995
You can’t spell “tacky ballroom” without “money laundering.”
And when to run
LGM Film Club, Part 507: Thailand, 1953
What life in the post-Voting Rights Act world will be like
Trump demolishes entire East Wing of the White House to put up his vanity project
Tear down the Trump Taj Mahal wing of the White House
Ecuadorian prosecutors have no evidence to detain target of summary execution
Glamour profession
Reagan on Tariffs
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,994
Know when to fold ’em
On Trump running for a third term
The astonishing return of the advice and consent power
“Off the Record”
Trump announces plan to steal $230 million from US taxpayers
1/6 rioter pardoned by Trump arrested for threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries
Dead set on destruction
Texas Farming
And it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,993
And the Grady Little Award for world-historic pitching blunders goes to…
ALCS Game 7 Open Thread
Trumpified 9CA panel stays injunction against Trump’s use of troops in Portland
When Our Techlords Screw Up
Elon’s takeover of Twitter was a huge success
Dementia and the baby boomers
Making Recruiting Ends Meet
The TikTok disaster and Democratic elite blindness
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,992
Restraint!
The Maestro says it’s Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum
No Kings!
NFL Open Thread: the MAGA style in American sports
The kids are alright
The American NKVD
The Party of the Working Class
Hey Ezra Klein, here’s Charlie Kirk doing politics “the right way”
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,991
Trump accurately sums up his presidenting
All you protest kids
Music Notes
Sweethearts together
Week 39 – No Kings!
College Football Week 8 Thread
Ohtani
The non-interventionist mindset
President commutes sentence of career criminal as a reward for voting Republican
Is Trump’s attempted shakedown of universities about restoring legislative supremacy? Views differ
The Theiling of the Techbro Mind
Wealth and precarity
Trump administration doing great, says Trump administration
Top military personnel “retiring” all over the place
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,990
SOUTHCOM Commander Steps Down
Bolton indicted
Dozens of Kavanaugh stops
Barn door secured 11 months after cow reaches Washington, D.C.
Social dissatisfaction and right wing revanchism
One piece of the puzzle
What happens when the president gives illegal orders to the military?
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,989
Trump signs memo claiming power to do things he has no constitutional authority to do
JD Vance thinks participating in Nazi group chats is no big deal, for reasons that surely have no component of self-interest
When open murder becomes official government policy
John Roberts to fulfill lifelong dream of fully nullifying the Voting Rights Act
Oh Yeah, Climate Change
Union Guidelines on AI
Cryptotastic!
Trump administration murders six more people on a fishing boat
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,988
D’Angelo
Great Moments in AI
You still do not have to hand it to Donald Trump
Miller’s army are on their way
The best and worst thing in the world
This Day in Labor History: October 14, 1948
Refusing to violate the Hatch Act
The function of criticism at the present time
Law office “history” and John Roberts’s will to power
The Republican war on the lives of their constituents
LGM Podcast: Trump vs. Portlandia
Who was president on January 6, 2021? Views differ
Scenes from the classroom struggle
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,987
Anti-anti-Trump failson walks into the online abattoir
Damaged men and broken government
NFL Open Thread: A generation of generational prospects edition
A catastrophic legal, political, and institutional failure
I Want Boats that Turn into Robots!
This Day in Labor History: October 12, 1962
Trump take retirement
Music Notes
Diane Keaton, RIP
Are the editors of the New York Times engaged in a violent coup against the government of New York? It depends on the narrator
Keaton
Week 38
College Football Week 7 Thread
The Army’s Recruiting Solutions
They expect you to die
The shadow docket and the judicial legitimacy crisis
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,986
Game 5 etc. open thread
Roberts Court to open the vote suppression floodgates
A Guy Walks Into A Reactor Shop With 34 Tons of Plutonium…
Major victory over the NIMBY/MAGA coalition
The Qatar Thing
The Deal?
The little boy who never grew up
We’re just saying things now
This Day in Labor History: October 10, 1842
Scary monsters, super creeps
MAGA profit-taking
Malicious revenge prosecution du jour
The information security, youth, mental acuity, and anti-lawfare administration
A Time For Writing
The first cut is the deepest
They Hate You Because They Know You Know They Are Losers
Foreign Policy in the Bluegrass
The return of the grand jury
Peace deal in Gaza?
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,985
Happy Yankee Elimination Day!
Belichick in MAGAland
Roberts Court to invent inalienable right to impose disabilities on LGBTQ people
Hey Chuck!
Kavanaugh searches and seizures
Erik Visits an Non-American Grave, Part 1,984
How to play dumb
John Roberts, maximalist
Trump to attempt to deny furloughed workers back pay in violation of law he signed
The Miller presidency’s goal is to make fair elections in 2026 and 2028 impossible
From Cronkite to Cringe
An Alternate History
Spreading Twitter/X To Europe
Sundowning demented elderly man continues to confuse five-year-old B-roll on Fox News for the nightly news
And Now Everything is Worse
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,983
The Supreme Court’s next MAGA fan fiction
Now This is How You Summarize a Moment in History
What are super rich men who pretend, perhaps even to themselves, to be good at things doing, and why?
Stochastic terrorism
And I Bet He Was Drinking Vodka…
The Sewer and the Clear Blue Sky
Judge Immergut issues another TRO in light of Trump’s administration’s attempted nullifiction
Bush v. Gore 25 years later and Trump’s trashing of the DOJ
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,982
Eliminationist rhetoric de jour
A Historian of War: LGM Poetry Corner
The Oregon Operation
NFL Open Thread: the Sanchize and a knife edition
Notes for next time
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,981
Is Our Constitution Learning?
The information security administration
Week 37
“Authoritarian Capacity” and the Trump Regime
Week 6 College Football Thread
Play stupid games, don’t win stupid prizes
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,980
First Circuit insists on its novel claim that the 2024 election did not dissolve the United States Constitution
War-ravaged Portland to be liberated by US troops
RFK Jr. fires whistleblower for being insufficiently supportive of viral infections