Erik Loomis

I know, it surprised me too to find out that Trump supporting young men have a hard time on the dating scene. When it comes to dating, it’s not an even playing field. While both Gen Z men and women have had a harder time with dating compared with previous generations, Gen Z men have fared […]

What would another Trump administraiton mean for labor? I mean, we almost shouldn’t even have to ask this question. We already know the answer, which is horrible. But still, since Trump makes Sean O’Brien feel good since they can tell tranny jokes or whatnot, fighting for every union voter has been a big part of […]

I’ve long believed that looking at the economy in terms of numbers is nonsense. The reason for that is that you can’t measure people’s experiences through numbers (sorry social “scientists”) and people don’t respond to data in isolation. In other words, the economic numbers can say what they want and they can even be “right,” […]

This is the grave of Robert Belloni. Born in 1919 in Myrtle Point, Oregon, Belloni was the first person in his family to attend college, at the University of Oregon, where he graduated in 1941.

On November 4, 1942, copper mines in Butte, Montana went on strike to protest the use of Black miners on the job. One of far too many hate strikes during the war, this strike is particularly important because the miners were organized in Mine, Mill, a leftist union explicitly dedicated to interracial unionism. But that […]

We can talk about the great evil that Donald Trump did on the border and the horrible ways he treated immigrants and how he wants to deport them all now. We should. But it’s worth noting that the border wall is completely bipartisan, the result of multiple presidents making white people in Nebraska feel safe […]

Rhode Island is extremely far from a swing state. In fact, it is a very boring year in Rhode Island elections. The only possible election of interest is for mayor of Warwick. The current mayor is the ultimate in POLITICS WITHOUT POLITICS and got elected based on his work on….wait for it…

This is the grave of Mary Engle Pennington. Born in 1872 in Nashville, Pennington grew up in Pennsylvania.

I have no idea what is going to happen tonight and neither does anyone else. Could be a range from barely saving American democracy for another four years to the complete destruction of American democracy. Guess we will see. If it's the latter, well, the country will get what it evidently asked for.

I don't particularly see any reason to watch the politainment networks tonight. There's nothing CNN or MSNBC can tell me that I can't figure out without having listen to Van Jones or Paul Begala or whoever. One thing I like to do early in election returns is to follow county maps as early states report results. This can give you a very strong sense of where things are going to go through the night. In 2016, I called my wife about 30 minutes after Virginia and North Carolina results starting coming in and told her that Trump was going to win, because it was so clear in the county data how everywhere had shifted hard to Trump.