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Music Notes
02/03/2025

Music Notes

I saw two shows in the last two weeks. The first was our old LGM friend Jason Isbell, doing a solo show at the Providence Performing Arts Center. Little known fact, King Crimson’s “Providence,” off of Red is titled that because it was recorded during a show in that building, although it was no...

Just say absolutely not
01/03/2025

Just say absolutely not

How can we not miss you if you won’t go away? Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who resigned in disgrace more than three years ago, announced his return to politics Saturday with a bid to be New York City’s next mayor, joining a crowded primary field that includes embattled incumbent Eric Adams.  Cuom...

Fash Ivy League Debate Club
01/03/2025

Fash Ivy League Debate Club

JD Vance knew what his job was yesterday — attack Zelenskyy as a stunt to give Senate Republicans a pretext for abandoning Ukraine for Daddy Putin, because both Vance and Trump prefer right-wing authoritarianism to liberal democracy — and he executed it like the Yale debate-me-bro nihilist striv...

Election of the Weekend III: Tajikistan
01/03/2025

Election of the Weekend III: Tajikistan

This weekend, the citizens of Tajikistan will elect a new Assembly of Representatives. This body contains 41 single member district seats, which will go to a runoff if necessary to get to 50%+1, and 22 seats via proportional representation in a single nation-wide constituency with a 5% threshold. Th...

Election of the weekend II: Abkhazia
01/03/2025

Election of the weekend II: Abkhazia

The Georgian SSR declared their independence from Moscow in April of 1991; by the end of that year they’d suffered a coup d’etat and descended into civil war. Abkhazia, along with South Ossetia, were a major part of that war, as separatists in both regions sought freedom from Georgian rule, The ...

Week 6
01/03/2025

Week 6

This is the week when the President of the United States and his bully boys ceased to support democracy against autocracy. There are still a lot of things happening. I am unable to keep up with the lawsuits but will note that at least one of them is exerting pressure on the way Elon Musk […]

Election of the weekend I: Hamburg
01/03/2025

Election of the weekend I: Hamburg

The German federal election last week basically tracked polling; if there was any surprise it was the strength of Die Linke, which makes me wonder if the BSW reactionaries breaking off to form their own party might have rendered the party more palatable to some actually progressive left-wing voters....

Putin’s man in DC votes against boilerplate condemnation of unprovoked invasion
24/02/2025

Putin’s man in DC votes against boilerplate condemnation of unprovoked invasion

Russiagate was real as all hell: The United States voted with Russia, North Korea, Iran and 14 other Moscow-friendly countries Monday against a resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine and calling for the return of Ukrainian territory. The resolution passed overwhelmingly in the U.N. Gene...

Banksy shot
24/02/2025

Banksy shot

“You should have seen the original edit: It wasn’t his toes believe me.” Ian Faith Meanwhile: Government by 4chan incel trolls, of which Elon is the king (paid s*x doesn’t count).

On the lighter side: Rock stars and death
24/02/2025

On the lighter side: Rock stars and death

This is the cover of the February 1970 edition of Circus magazine. For you kids, Circus was a big deal in the 1970s, rivaling Rolling Stone on the I Want To Be On the Cover index. It eventually morphed into People for methadone addicts before eventually expiring in 2006. I thought it would be fun, [...

Banana Republic Foreign Policy
24/02/2025

Banana Republic Foreign Policy

When I make my points that the Trump administration is trying to recreate the Gilded Age rather than N**i Germany is the foreign policy. This gangster s**t he’s pulling on Ukraine is really nothing that the Americans didn’t do to Honduras and Guatemala in the fruit imperialism era. I mean, check...

Local News and the Growing Resistance
24/02/2025

Local News and the Growing Resistance

Some good points here at this here substack about how the real media coverage of people standing up to Trump is happening at the local level: I’ve spent my journalism career working in local newsrooms and I’m very impressed by the quality of work. It’s timely, often gut wrenching and impactful...

Roberta Flack, RIP
24/02/2025

Roberta Flack, RIP

What a total, 100% legend of song. RIP.

Everything Changed When the Fire Nation Attacked: ATLA Turns Twenty
24/02/2025

Everything Changed When the Fire Nation Attacked: ATLA Turns Twenty

[If you’ve had your fill of politics for the day and are looking for something else to talk about, this is a guest post by LGM commenter Murc on the twentieth anniversary of the beloved, seminal animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Enjoy!] Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four nations...

No compassion
24/02/2025

No compassion

What’s the appropriate attitude to take toward people like this Virginia couple? A Virginia couple is hashing out their next steps after the husband, a disabled veteran and information technology technician with a federal agency, was fired Monday, as part of the newly created Department of Governm...

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,827
24/02/2025

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,827

This is the grave of Charles Henry Foster. Born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1833, Foster became a spiritualist. The weird religious movements of the pre-Civil War era brought on by the rapid changes to American society and economy continued after the war to some extent too, almost entirely located am...

Trump nominates the Glenn Greenwald of Joe Rogans to be Deputy Director of the FBI
24/02/2025

Trump nominates the Glenn Greenwald of Joe Rogans to be Deputy Director of the FBI

When you see a social media post and hope that the screenshot is a joke… Dan Bongino sued the Daily Beast for $15 million for reporting the NRA fired him for being "unfit for his duties" and not only did he lose but he was found liable for the Beast legal fees and had to […]

Musk unilaterally shutters USAID
24/02/2025

Musk unilaterally shutters USAID

It’s clear where this was headed: The Trump administration said Sunday that it was placing all but a fraction of staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave worldwide and eliminating at least 1,600 U.S.-based jobs. The move was the latest and one of the biggest steps yet t...

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