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NFL Open Thread: Super Wilcard Edition
11/01/2025

NFL Open Thread: Super Wilcard Edition

We previewed the playoffs on the overwhelmingly popular LGM podcast! NFC here AFC here. For today’s games, I like the Chargers to win and cover on the road against the Texans (-2.5), and the Ravens to win but the Steelers to cover with a more competitive effort than their recent wont in a division...

Evading Accountability
11/01/2025

Evading Accountability

The Mississippi Free Press notes that there is nothing new under the sun about Donald Trump evading accountability for his crimes. In fact, it’s completely normal in this country, from the president on down. Though nothing in the U.S. Constitution suggests that presidents cannot be prosecuted, the...

Who is Fighting the Fires in California?
11/01/2025

Who is Fighting the Fires in California?

Remember that a lot of firefighters are actually prisoners. That might be OK in a sense–better than being in a cell. But what are they getting paid? Not much. And given that they are risking their lives for this work, that’s really unacceptable. Chuy Hernandez turned 18 when he was at Pine Grove...

SEIU Rejoins AFL-CIO
11/01/2025

SEIU Rejoins AFL-CIO

Back in 2005, SEIU led a group of unions out of the AFL-CIO to form an alternative federation. Change to Win was supposed to revitalize organizing. It turned out to be SEIU leader Andy Stern’s project to stroke his own ego and nothing else. Completely worthless. Most of the unions soon left it. Bu...

Soon We Will Know
11/01/2025

Soon We Will Know

Peter Thiel seems to have given us a concise listing of what billionaire Silicon Valley investors think. It’s likely to be driving Mark Zuckerberg as well. Thiel mentions Eric Weinstein, who manages Thiel Capital and pushes the “intellectual dark web,” along with his fellow billionaire Marc An...

MAGA Zuckerberg
11/01/2025

MAGA Zuckerberg

Appearing on Joe Rogan is definitely how you make your enthusiastic collaboration with Trump official: MAGA Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta announced Friday that it would be repealing all diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. An employee memo from Meta’s vice president of human resources Janelle Gal...

Climate change blues
11/01/2025

Climate change blues

This article (gift link) lays out how 2024 was the hottest year in the historical record globally, and exceeded the +1.5 C. over the pre-industrial baseline benchmark, that has been a focus of climate activism. The data in it drive home an interesting chapter in the history of science, which is this...

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,797
11/01/2025

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,797

This is the grave of Richard and Mildred Loving. Richard and Mildred Loving were both born in the small town of Central Point, Virginia. Richard was born in 1933 and Mildred in 1939. Segregation was at its peak. But on the ground, Jim Crow could get weird. It wasn’t as uniform as its usually taugh...

LGM Podcast: The NFC
11/01/2025

LGM Podcast: The NFC

In Part II of our NFL podcast, we discuss the broadly competitive NFC playoffs. Part I is here. Enjoy! Transcript is here.

LGM Film Club, Part 444: The Assassin
11/01/2025

LGM Film Club, Part 444: The Assassin

Because I curate my film watching pretty carefully, I usually end up liking the films I watch. But it’s always useful to discuss a film I didn’t care for much. This leads us to Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s 2015 attempt to combine a wuxia film with his trademark slow and quiet filmmaking, The Assassin. No...

LGM Podcast: Black Monday and the AFC
10/01/2025

LGM Podcast: Black Monday and the AFC

In anticipation of tomorrow’s games we recorded a two-part podcast on the NFL playoffs. In the first half (below) we worked our way through the AFC side, ending up with two championship predictions between the three of us. We also talked “Black Monday,” which saw the firing of several NFL coac...

Red-Brown Donald the Dove Dreams Never Die
10/01/2025

Red-Brown Donald the Dove Dreams Never Die

I suppose we will never be sure that we have reached peak Quincy Institute self-parody, but this is surely a contender: That makes Trump’s choices essential. He appears to be open to a multipolar world, though his investment in rules and laws is a different matter. But if he is serious about reduc...

The perils of presidentialism, convicted felon edition
10/01/2025

The perils of presidentialism, convicted felon edition

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday in his historic hush money case to an unconditional discharge — allowing Trump to avoid prison, fines or probation, but cementing his status as a convicted felon just 10 days before he takes the oath of office for his second term. During a brief vi...

Southern Poverty Law Center: Unionbusters
10/01/2025

Southern Poverty Law Center: Unionbusters

I know someone in passing who worked for the Southern Poverty Law Center for quite some time. Their verdict is that the SPLC is an incredibly toxic workplace, filled with awful management. Well, this is not exactly going to change anyone’s mind on this and workers are fighting back. Workers at the...

The eternal reactionary search for pretext
10/01/2025

The eternal reactionary search for pretext

Granted, I’m not sure it even counts as “pretext” for racism when the not-yet-found pretext is pretty much racist on its face: President-elect Donald J. Trump is likely to justify his plans to seal off the border with Mexico by citing a public health emergency from immigrants bringing disease ...

Opening The DNC’s Black Box
10/01/2025

Opening The DNC’s Black Box

Micah Sifry shares the 449 names of the members of the Democratic National Committee today. Those names have been a secret until now. On February 1, the DNC will vote on a new chair. SO FAR, EIGHT CONTENDERS FOR THE DNC CHAIR have demonstrated sufficient support to be included in a series of public....

Port Strike Averted
10/01/2025

Port Strike Averted

Good news for the economy and for the longshoremen: Dockworkers on the East and Gulf Coasts reached a tentative labor agreement with employers on Wednesday, averting a strike that could have hammered the economy days before President-elect Donald J. Trump took office. The International Longshoremen....

The Greatest Scam in History
10/01/2025

The Greatest Scam in History

I was reading the obituary for Carole Wilbourn, cat psychologist, and I thought, what a brilliant scam. This is a woman who made millions of dollars a) pretending to understand the post-understandable cats, b) selling rich people on paying them to talk to their cats, and c) writing books about cat p...

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