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Election of the weekend: Uruguay

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Programming note: this series went on an unannounced hiatus this spring, thus missing coverage of a good deal of this year's incumbent-dumping excitement. My life took an unexpected twist that pulled me away from mundane things like blogging around that time, but things are getting back...

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Another cabinet position (about to become particularly important given the pending trade wars) to an unqualified crony: President-elect Donald Trump is expected to offer Kelly Loeffler the job of secretary.

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The great quid pro quo cycle

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While Pam Bondi is in most respects a generic MAGA hack who will be no better or worse than anyone Trump would appoint to the job, she had one particularly critical qualification: In 2016, news emerged that Trump paid a $2,500 fine because his foundation improperly...
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LGM Film Club, Part 430: Zyedco

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I recently watched Nicholas Spitzer's 1984 film Zydeco, an hour long documentary about the zydeco scene in southwestern Louisiana, with lots of great material. People such as Bois Sec Ardoin are prominently featured, as are people I've never heard of. Spitzer also does a great job...
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Hegseth: Unfit on every level

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With Roy Moore Gaetz having withdrawn, we can increase our focus on some of Trump's other horrendous cabinet nominations, most notably Matt Hegseth: A California woman told police that Trump Cabinet pick Pete Hegseth physically blocked her from leaving a hotel room, took her phone, and...

Gaetz gone

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Apparently there are still limits, at least for moment. And no, I don't think this was some eleventydimensional chess to make equally horrendous picks like RFK and the Deus Vult.

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