I looked at the LGM archives for the first week of 2021, and it's remarkable the extent to which the attempted coup on the 6th was something that should have been totally unsurprising. We had numerous posts here in the days leading up to that act...
The killers of Alex Pretti have been identified and, depressingly, they are both Latino men. The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in.
For the last few years, the rollout of the clock on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has been a flop. This year was the worst. People on my Bluesky.
During Trump - 1st Verse, a civic-minded IRS contractor accessed and leaked the tax returns of a number of wealthy people, including those of Trump and his sons. Trump - 2nd Verse is suing his former administration for $10 billion because of the leak. As the...
If sunlight is the best disinfectant, we know how Republican elites now feel about fighting infections [gift link]: In November of 2024, two weeks after voters returned President Donald Trump.
Alejandro Cartagena - Unsplash You might have heard that Donald of the Putrid Paws has threatened to add the latest NYT/Siena poll to his defamation lawsuit against the New York Times..
Sometimes it's the one you'd most suspect! A U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a whistleblower complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to U.S. officials and...
The NYT has a forum on the Big Questions surrounding the current and future AI revolution/explosion/hype/whatever. Some thoughts as a starting point for an LGM discussion of this whole topic:.
This is the grave of Samuel Ovenshine. Born in 1843 in Philadelphia, Ovenshine was a kid who wanted to be a lawyer. Then the Civil War happened. Ovenshine joined the.
Since for obvious reasons most of the scheduled artists have decided they ain't gonna play the Beltway equivalent of Sun City, Trump is responding the only way he knows how, with narcissistic spite: President Trump said the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will close for...
Stephen Miller is often compared with considerable reason to Joseph Paul Goebbels, but he actually reminds me even more of Stalin's most craven lickspittles (Most of these men were eventually.
The sub-frivolous complaint filed against Judge Boasberg for the crime if issuing unanswerable rulings against them has been dismissed: A high-ranking federal appeals judge dismissed an ethics complaint filed by.