Lawyers, Guns & Money
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
Was Alex’s Pretti’s killing a targeted and premeditated first degree murder?
Break a Few Eggs
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
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 of Switzerland
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 “fight anti-Semitism” and “educate investors about the blockchain”
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 shoots and probably kills civilian in Minneapolis
Facts Don’t Matter
Any Good News on the Green Energy Front?
The party of evil
The Death of Tim Walz’s Career
The spook who liked to get paid
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
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
Is doing everything you can to alienate your core potential consumer base a good idea?
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.”
Greetings from the Future
Trump vetoes bipartisan clean water law to punish state for enforcing its laws, politician for wanting to see the Epstein files
The War Against Venezuela
The vagaries of literary fame
Performative tantrums for Trump
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,049
Alone in the dark
Well, sheeeeeeeeeit
Trump take Social Security
Melania, The Movie!
Dogs/vomit. Fools/folly. White supremacists/
Donald Trump is very concerned about fraud, so you should be too
The Great Tolkien Reread: A Long-Expected Party
Somehow, the Iranian Nuclear Program Came Back
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,048
Peace president bombed land target in Venezuela
Homage to Catalonia and the decline of leftist aspirations
A Change of Mind
Realism! Restraint!
Donald Trump and remote diagnosis
Why is Donald Trump getting frequent IV injections in both hands?
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,047
This will hurt him more than it hurts you
Drugs, Oil, and Immigrants
NFL Open Thread
Best TV of 2025
Look on my works, ye mighty
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,046
Election of the weekend V: Kosovo
Election of the weekend IV: Myanmar
Election of the Weekend III: Guinea
Election of the Weekend II: Central African Republic
Election of the weekend I: Cote D’Ivoire
Week 49
More on the Peace President’s Christmas bombings
LGM’s Southeast Asia Correspondent
Somebody Else’s Battleships
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,045
Man mistakes himself for white; hilarity/fascism ensue
Extremely online president has very tired message
What Do We Expect From the Epstein Files?
More from the Peace President!
Columbia and the iron law of institutions
This Day in Labor History: December 26, 1996
Merry Christmas From The Peace President
All I want for Christmas is …
Christmas NFL/NBA Open Thread
Christmas morning
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,044
Christmas Eve Thread
Revisiting the 2023-24 Detroit Pistons in light of subsequent developments
All Sugar Cookies All the Time
The argument behind yesterday’s ruling
Pain without gain
Merry Christmas v. Happy Holidays
The Golden Fleet?
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,043
Trump’s business is corruption and business is booming
Supreme Court does not permit Trump to send troops into Chicago
Bari was exercising “free speech” as she has always understood it when she killed a story on behalf of the administration she was hired to support
Turning Points
Life is Unfair: A love story
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,042
The MAGA field is littered with failed kiss-asses
LGM Film Club, Part 524: Pioneer Axe
Canadian network aired too-hot-for-Bari report
The Celebrity Steakhouse
Trump class battleships
Trump take energy
Gaming Notes
A Nice Quiet Story
LGM Podcast: If You Love It, Let It Kill You
Trump Take Greenland
Advancing the ball
James Ransone, RIP
Affordability
This Day in Labor History: December 22, 1945
Bari Weiss spiked a story for being “incompletely reported” because the Trump administration refused to respond to any questions about it
LGM Film Club, Part 523: Drug War
Josh Gruenbaum to Negotiating Team
Bari Weiss misplaces story that would be unfavorable to the Trump administration
Tucker’s Takes: Racism against white men is as bad as antisemitism. Only much worse.
JD Vance: our coalition accepts everyone who thinks the Democrat Party is controlled by Jewish financiers
NFL Open Thread: Game of the Year edition
The CNN Paywall
Fashion and Historical Memory
Some further thoughts on affordability
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,041
$100 gets you 5 minutes in the car
Warning: Some links in this post feature Andrew Tate getting punched in the face
Republicans who expect a normal presidential primary report to me for wallet inspection
Music Notes
Groyper Nation
The affordability crisis
Week 48
College Football Playoff Saturday Thread
Director of Health and Human Services: not enough kids are dying
The political/financial crisis of the American university in the Trump era
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,040
This is Fine
Trump administration fails to release Epstein Files
Another pilgrim on the Chris Christie path to political oblivion
Need Some LoomCoin Love this Christmas?
Horatio Alger’s Darkest Tale
Lies, damned lies, and Trumpism
Gil Gerard RIP
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,039
Release the report!
LGM Film Club, Part 522: Heart of Glass
Thursday Open Thread: DVOA Bowl Edition
All Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends
RFK responds to doctors pointing out that he is getting children killed by creating more avoidable child death
Brothers in misogyny
What Will Our Brilliant Media Savant Think of Next???
Thank You For Your Service
Can Democrats Win in Texas?
Epstein’s Wealth
Building Without A Foundation
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,038
Former Harvard Law professor: Constitution ambiguous on the question of whether a 4-year-old born in Italy can be president
LGM Film Club, Part 521: Augusta
Arnett
Verbal Incontinence Open Thread
Reiner
Podhoretz
It’s just that her appeal is becoming more selective
Bongino is bongoing
Sinema of the absurd
A garbage president for garbage people
John Roberts’s lie about democratic accountability
Not Made for TV
Kushner’s Trump Belgrade plans crushed, Paramount deal ditched
If You Just Refuse to Study Climate Change, It Will All Go Away
Russell Vought moves to destroy government’s leading climate change research institution
Trump’s War on the Forests
War and Peace
War for oil? Yes
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,037
Republicans take health care
LGM Film Club, Part 520: Itam Hakim, Hopiit
Living in an abusive political culture
Deranged Trump Syndrome
Trump take jobs
Director of Poasting
The Great Tolkien Reread: Introduction
Trump’s Unionbusting
Taking notes on a criminal conspiracy and then publishing them in major media outlets
Trump Unemployment
The Broken Recycling System
The Last Second MAGA Desperation to Stop Citizenship
Burn!
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,036
LGM Film Club, Part 519: California Split
Joe Ely, RIP
The Hilarity of Dead Africans
Anything for a Reichstag Fire
Tne broligarchs
Raised a Cain
LGM Podcast: The Trump NSS
Another day, another shooting, same FBI director fucking up the investigation
The new normal
Eliminationist rhetoric and the GOP
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,035
Rob Reiner and his wife apparently murdered
The collateral benefits of Trump’s wars
Extremely online at the Tiffany Network
No, There Is Not A Nuclear Weapon On Nanda Devi
NFL Open Thread: Old Man Rivers edition
Thinking About Jefferson and the American Contradiction
Another holiday massacre
Scumbag Don’s Fake War on Drugs
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,034
LGM Film Club, Part 518: Rushmore
The American Way of Death
What’s America’s Worst Democratic Governor Up To?
Kavanaugh Katch-22s
Week 47
Los Alamos During The Cold War
“Maybe I’m Naive, or an Incurable Socialist”
Junk numbers, general innumeracy, and the death of shame
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,033
The Hoosier rebellion
The Capture of SCOTUSBlog
The Sherrone Moore debacle
Not even on his best day
The plot against the king
The Warners
Trump issues “pardon” for seditionist convicted under state law
The Republican plan for healthcare is that you’re not rich you should not be able to get healthcare
I can take a hint
A major Beltway scandal
Looks Like It’s “Or Bust”
South Carolina with an outbreak of the Bobby Kennedys
A Legacy of Spies
A quid needs a quo
A Couple of Thoughts on the National Security Strategy
A Pirate’s Life for Me!
Trump seizes Venezuelan oil tanker
Trump, dementia, and the 25th amendment
Heckuva job
Elon Musk’s final solution to the immigration question
The Fall of Mark Welsh
This Day in Labor History: December 10, 1906
Deep down in Florida
Libertarianism under the false cover of formalism
Should the field goal rules be changed in the NFL?
The “M” in “MAGA” stands for “misogyny”
Ramble on
Trump raise prices
Welcome to my nightmare
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,032
How much are they going to take?
Let’s Go Bowling!
Trump to offer bailout to a small minority of the people damaged by his tariffs
The Unitary Executive is just the first punch
Progress and its discontents
Transnational Kleptocracy and American Authoritarian Consolidation
White supremacist America
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,031
Trump to search for the real price inflator
Tom Cotton succinctly explains MAGA foreign policy
Drone Damage to Chernobyl Confinement Structure
NFL Open Thread: Stay in School Edition
On Mamdani’s Foreign Policy
Grading college papers in Jesusland
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,030
Did you ever meet a woman with a death wish?
Obergruppenfuehrer Miller orders cancellation of naturalization ceremonies
The fact that there’s barely a president is in fact a major national crisis
Week 46
College Football Week 15 Thread
Trump replaces MLK Day with his own birthday
The Data Center Backlash
Secretary Pete Fights Congress
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,029
Play it, Steve
Does He Get a Preemptive Pardon?
Committing War Crimes on Behalf of Suriname
Supreme Court grants cert to sub-frivolous appeal
Make Hepatitis B Great Again
Breaking: Donald Trump awarded peace prize that a lot of people are saying is MORE prestigious than the Nobel Peace Prize
The non-fog of non-war
Republican voters and conspiracism
This Day in Labor History: December 5, 1997
It’s not fascism unless… nah, fuck it. It’s fascism
Roberts Court Republicans use shadow docket to refuse to allow its precedents to be applied because it would be an electoral disadvantage for the Republican Party
Drug Use Is A Civil Problem
Played them all the old songs, thought that’s why they came
Head of Miitary Ops forced out by Hegseth for opposing his unauthorized murders of civilians
John Roberts et al, accessories to murder
On Legal Justifications
Today’s Hearing On War Crimes
Making murder respectable
Trump pardons grifter indicted by his administration earlier this year
The new conservatives
Who Does the Trumpist War on the Public Lands Serve?
The loud parts through a bullhorn
I Can’t Believe This Extremist Right-Wing Christian Doesn’t Treat His Female Colleagues with Respect
Continuing Vandalism
Sustain the President & You Protect the White Man
You can apparently be stripped of the status of economist
The scandal of American political journalism
Sleep will be difficult the night before the announcement of the winner of the first FIFA World Peace Prize
The “game recognize game” pardon cycle crosses party lines again
War criminal without war
Sparkling War Crimes
TN-7
To Fight Or Not
Death by Lightning
The way we live now
Jersey Gonna Jersey
Sleepy Don: people being targeted for crackdowns based on their race
My honor is called loyalty
A media wired for RFK Jr.
This is the reason
The machinery of the world
LGM Giving Tuesday: Oaxacan Dog Rescue
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,028
Former Today Show host goes full fash
Sometimes In Life, You Get What You Ask For
Toward a unified theory of the Trump cabinet
Sacking the US Treasury
Gridiron Chaos in the Bluegrass
The American right and the Jewish question
November Reading List
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,027
The amorality of the pundit class
I’ve got a question for you
Radiation Yum Yum
NFL Open Thread: Checkout Time in Vegas Edition
Former JAGs Say It’s Murder
The Corruption of American Foreign Policy
The secret life of Trumpist intellectuals
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,026
The game recognize game pardon cycle
Old man look at my life
Music Notes
The Peace President orders unilateral no-fly zone over Venezuela
Access and solidarity
Week 45
The Slave Labor Scam Complex
College Football Week 14 Thread
Precursors of Trumpism
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,025
“Securing Our Homeland From the Drugs that Are Killing Our people”
“The order was to kill everybody”
POW/MIA hysteria and the 1992 presidential campaign
Life during the free speech administration
Is MAGA Falling Apart? No.
Farwell, Connies
An imperial message
Frohes Erntedankfest!
LGM Film Club, Part 517: Liz and the Blue Bird
Mamdani and the Public Sector Unions
The Trumpist Perversion of Christianity
Thanksgiving NFL Open Thread
Terrible Food Day
Happy Thanksgiving!
Paranoia runs deep
Election of the Day: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Inoculating the fascist body against contamination
Kennedy Katch and Kill Kontinued
Grassley
Let’s Make Sure No One Wants to Visit America
The end of the accountability
Making whooping cough great again
A Thanksgiving Reckoning
A Better Peace
Hope from the Kids
Taking Donald Trump’s evident cognitive deterioration seriously
Sleepy Don
Everything You Ever Wanted
I’ve Said It Before – The Realtor Who Sold My House Could Do Better Than This
Trump administration telling demonstrable lies to the Supreme Court to justify domestic military mobilizations
RFK Jr. names anti-vaxx fanatic #2 at CDC
Little Marco’s Army are on their way
The Misogynist Idiocy of 2024
LGM Podcast: Twenty-Eight Points
The canons of Eileen
America, November 2025
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,024
A world of ratfuckers
We regret to inform you of a minor editing error
Is using public office to encourage the spread of deadly viral infections bad? Views differ
Couple of NFL football stats things
Indictments against Comey and James dismissed because 3rd place runner up in Miss Colorado USA pageant invalidly appointed
DOGE moves on to the next boiler room
Degrees of separation
New International Student Enrollment Craters
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,023
H. Rap Brown
Udo Kier RIP
Putin’s man in DC continues to push Ukraine to surrender
A battle with her blood
Will Democrats Govern by Democratic Principles?
Rule by Project 2025
Southern Prisoner Profit
NFL Open Thread
Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 2,022
Trump peace plan literally drafted by Russia; nobody in the administration realized this
Kennedy Katch and Kill
Alamo Lies
Schadenfreude is not just a village in Germany
Right Wing Populists Hate Workers: Indian Edition
The Party of Billionaires
Week 44
The Folly of Center-Left Parties Chasing after Nativist Voters
College Football Week 13 Thread
The medium is the mob
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,021
Trump briefly forgets that he’s supposed to hate Mamdani
The Culture Wars Claim Another Victim
Bill Cassidy beginning to wonder if the wallet inspector is ever going to return
LGM Podcast: NFL Midseason Report
Listen To Patti Smith
Tehran Runs Out Of Water
Steve Witkoff Rolled Again
Epstein’s financial collaborators
What Ought to Be Ought Not to Be So Hard
They make a desolation and call it peace
This Day in Labor History: November 21, 1896
Prosecutors drop charges brought to cover-up unprovoked shooting
EAIAC: seditious treason edition
The fragility of American constitutionalism
An Epstein Honeymoon
RFK Jr.’s CDC: Vaccines may cause autism even though there’s no evidence to support this belief
The Tariff!
We Have an Enemy and His Name is John Roberts
Trump administration: not enough pedestrians are being killed
Consequences for elite misbehavior
Commander ate the jobs report
Don’t Give Up The Ship
Bullshitting is a better campaign strategy than governing strategy
Visualize World Peace Prize, Ukraine Edition
Voting to Reject Trump’s Attacks on Federal Unions
Outsourcing Our Toxic Recycling
Lawyer hired by Donald Trump for deeply mysterious reasons has no idea what she’s doing
When You’re Too Toxic for Other Republicans
An Oral History of Destroying the Justice Department
Was MAHA Decisive?
Confirmation Bias is a Hell of a Drug, Part I
Ponzi schemer given clemency by Trump does another Ponzi scheme
LGM Film Club, Part 516: Juno
An Intimate Dinner
Rapid unscheduled disassembly
Trump-nominated judge strikes down Texas electoral maps because Trump’s DOJ took notes on its criminal fuckin’ conspiracy
The enemy
Will the White House press corps ever show some solidarity?
The WaPo Way
Middle-aged man surprisingly conversant with details of age of consent laws in multiple jurisdictions
Another Stellar Day for Our Techbro Overlords
I’m feeling thankful for the small things today
Vote Out Your Pro-Ethnic Cleansing Politicians
Dispatches from the Appalachian Trail
The Worst People
Generational Conflict?
Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 2,020
Another mission accomplished for RFK Jr.
The grift bubble
The prosecution of James Comey may not be legally sound
The Summers Peril
More on the End of the Penny
Mamdani Wants a Starbucks Boycott
TN-7
The documents in the case
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,019
To the Revolution!
There Are About A Thousand Of Us
Three more summary executions from the Peace President
NFL Open Thread: The Battle of Los Angeles Edition
Revolution blues
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,018
Music Notes
You didn’t want to throw your fishing line in that old main stream
Pam Bondi immediately opens nakedly partisan Epstein investigation after Trump demands it
Week 43
College Football Week 13 Thread
Strung out nation
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,017
The inevitable rehabilitation of Livvy
How UVA surrendered to Trump
Larry Summers, who is still on the Harvard faculty, tries to strongarm Harvard’s administration into punishing the student newspaper for printing the truth about him
TV Eye
Imagine if Biden Obama Bush II Clinton Bush I Reagan Carter Ford Nixon LBJ JFK Eisenhower Truman FDR Hoover Coolidge Harding Wilson Taft TR McKinley A Bunch of Gilded Age Guys I Can’t Remember Grant Johnson Lincoln Buchanan
DBTs on Colbert
The “take my word for it” theory of unlimited Article II powers to order summary executions
Trump vows to fix something he broke
Left-wing populist mysteriously morphs into actual fascist, a continuing series
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,016
Management Furious That Workers Speak Out, News at 11
Elite impunity as its own reward
Fake quotations
Some day this war will be over
A temple of white male grievance
Collapse of the MAGA cinematic universe
Bombs… Away?
Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 2,015
Stopped clock at midnight
EMAILS!
Discharge petition succeeds
DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
Epstein’s most important collaborator being given the Epstein special treatment
Leaked Epstein file emails reveal Trump was well aware Epstein was raping children and chose to cover it up
Prison Labor Cars
Follow the rules or do the right thing?
Zevon!
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,014
Mike Johnson finally ends anti-democratic blockade of AZ-7
The fall of the House of Nico
An envoi from the worst Democratic senator
The new Republican ecomomic populism
Reliving the Good Old Days of American Energy
Greatest real estate tycoon of the age unaware of length of standard residential mortgage
In Memoriam
Republicans and Black History Museums
In a little hilltop village, they gambled for my clothes
Nukes? Nukes!
This Day in Labor History: November 11, 1952
Senate hopes to provide large cash payments to senators to award their participation in seditious activity and punish the government for legitimate investigations
MLB’s betting partners to limit some prop bets
The Trump administration’s greatest atrocity
Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and Kevin Roberts
Court keeps its powder dry on same-sex marriage
LGM Podcast: Ditching Mitch in ’26
MAHA!
Maybe a Decentralized Energy Grid Has Value
Trump pardons all top insurrectionists for trying to overthrow government (except himself)
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,013
Bottom up, top down
Fear of a less undemocratic senate
Democrats: Caving Like The Losers That They Are
I could not foresee this thing happening to you
I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky
Maybe I can fade away and not have to face the facts
James Watson, 1928-2025
Boats, but from Space!
NFL Open Thread
Federal Judge Resigns
Dems in Disarray!
More from Donald Trump, Friend of the American Working Class
On a cult of personality and its consequences
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,012
President presiding over economic and governmental trainwreck laser-focused on gratifying his own ego
Week 42
The Radical Duke
College Football Week 12 Thread
Stephen Miller turns an even whiter shade of pale
Billionaire fights desperately to ensure the poor starve
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,011
Will the Supreme Court allow Trump to illegally stop SNAP payments?
Tough Guys
The futile pursuit of realignment elections
This Venezuela Nonsense…
Moderation, polarization, and the age of unhappiness
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,010
Moderate persuaders
The immediate return of “Trump wins” as the dominant desideratum of the Roberts Court’s Republicans
Minus 1000 words
A chance to create the appearance of independence
Ukraine Update: The Looming Fall of Pokrovsk?
The Republican party is doing neo-Nazism the right way
Pelosi Retiring
Trump the Populist
Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 2,009
Trump ground planes
Terrible Human Too Terrible for South Carolina Republicans
Gaming out 2028 and the SCOTUS
This is excellent news for JD Vance
Trump is just a very unpopular president, not the representative of the American volk
Court Pretty Skeptical About King Trump’s Tariffs
FIFA announces creation of new highly prestigious peace prize
Trump: voters furious at Trump shutdown
Keep the shutdown going
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,008
Confirmation Bias Affirmed
Blue wave
Polls closing thread II
Polls Closing Thread Number One
How much shit are the Supreme Court’s Republicans willing to eat for Trump?
Liminal whiteness and equality v. hierarchy
A Former Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Speaks Out
Sandwich Assault
Breaking, must credit LGM: Trump neo-Nazi base may harbor anti-Semites
Winning the Shutdown
Labor Unions and Working Class Health
Diane Ladd RIP
Cheney
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,007
Cuomo proudly accepts endorsement of his political ally and personal role model
Panic in DC
Attention Conservation
Bari Weiss’s security detail is costing CBS $10K per day amid layoffs at the network
Bari Weiss already providing a solid ROI to the regime-aligned ownership
The Party of the Working Class
Bringing a memo about how knives are dangerous to a gunfight
The New Jersey Problem
Jefferson’s Revolution
Good Germans
Organized Labor’s Support for Democrats in the Shutdown
A House of Dynamite
Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 2,006
LGM Film Club, Part 515: A Camel
Republicans refuse to recognize any opposition as legitimate, an ongoing series
Holding Things Together
NFL/World Series Aftermath Open Thread
A stupid murderous nation
The White Left’s Blind Spot on Race
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,005
LGM Film Club, Part 514: Promises: Through Congress
World Series Game 7 Open Thread
Music Notes
Stage 4 capitalism
The optimal long-term outcome of the shutdown
Let them eat Statuary marble
Week 41
College Football Week 10 Thread
What Did Democrats Do Wrong with Latinos?
See something say something
October Reading List
LGM Film Club, Part 513: Europe Endless I: The Specter of Eurocommunism
Game 6 etc. Open Thread
Heritage Foundation sans frontières
Happy Halloween!
The Sopranos Presidency
The non-interventions of Donald the Dove, an ongoing saga
The cultural contradictions of liberal democracy
Things That Go Bump In The Night
Hillbilly grifter going to dump “dark white” heathen wife for Mourning Barbie?
Get a Grip(en)
Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 2,003
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,004
Public disapproves of the Trump shutdown
Vignettes from the Age of Trump
Pivoting to video, and other fresh ideas from newspaper publisher Jeff Bezos
Hermeneutics of bumper stickers
How Trump Screws Over Workers
Turning the Classroom into a Political Propaganda Zone
JD Vance Wants Racial Purity (Minus His Own Family)
Make America Healthy Again and Fascist Psychology
MAGA-fied Christianity
Erik Visits a Non-American Grave, Part 2,002
World Series etc. open thread
The Worst Democratic Appointment of My Life
This is not OK
Burning down the House
Charisma and the failure of fascist regimes to survive the death of The Leader
Trump take healthcare
Garfield-Guiteau
Erik Visits an Non-American Grave, Part 2,001
The lightweight division
World Series Game 4 Open Thread
Ken Paxton joins RFK Jr.’s crackpot war on Tylenol
J’ai toujours faim à cause de Trump
Perhaps we should not start celebrating Trump’s “Middle East Breakthrough” quite yet
Jeff Landry’s To-Do List
Wait, Gambling Can Be Scandalous?
AUKUS?
Person, baseball, Japan, homer, walk
The Grave Series at 2,000
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,000
The Garland Justice Department never knew what the shot was
LGM Film Club, Part 512: This is the Bowery
Trump “jokes” about violating 22nd Amendment to yadda-yadda mystery MRI
50 Days of Kavanaugh Stops
Putin Announces Burevestnik Success
Not simply good, but also hard
Religious lunatics interfere with seaside time share condo development plans
LGM Podcast: KY-6
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,999
Trump ground planes
LGM Film Club, Part 511: Poland Prepared
We’re not crying for you, we’re giving the money to Argentina
Election of the Day
A House of Dynamite – Review
NFL Open Thread: Break up the Colts edition
The Failure of Big Law
The Irish Sprint Left
The Bolton Case
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,998
Trump to impose tariffs as punitive measure against accurate commercial
LGM Film Club, Part 510: A Voyage to Cebu
Music Notes
It’s time to shut down Yale Law School until etc.
The Laboratories of Fascism
For the 8th Amendment, the shadow docket sleeps
Week 40
Insane racist heir to multi-billion-dollar fortune really really likes Donald Trump
College Football Week 9 Thread
I’d Stay Away Too
Unions and the No Kings Protests
Tin soldiers
Stellan Skarsgard
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,997
World Series etc. open thread
LGM Film Club, Part 509: Norwegian Forestry, 1920s
Rolling Coal
A new kind of politics
Peace president sending aircraft carrier to Latin America
Why personalized government doesn’t work
Murder is murder and lies are lies
AI Nuclear Weapons
What are we even doing here?
On Evals
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,996
A declaration
LGM Film Club, Part 508: 60 Minutes on Chiang Kai-Shek, 1971
Murder Inc.
Morally Wrong
Hunter Biden laptop update
Chess thread
How much do you think this pardon cost?
Scandal!
Even Richard Nixon
Ask a Naval Professional!
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,995
You can’t spell “tacky ballroom” without “money laundering.”
And when to run
LGM Film Club, Part 507: Thailand, 1953
What life in the post-Voting Rights Act world will be like
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