Nitrate Fires
Make Gladiating Great Again
Gladiator II and Hollywood's fascist drift
Vicky Osterweil
Let's Get Started
In winter 2015/2016, as folks prepared to face whatever was coming from the first Trump administration, a call went out across social media to "join an organization". Once moribund groups that had barely survived from the 70s were suddenly full of excited young organizers ready to push
On Being Loudly, Publicly Wrong
Some self reflection, some perspectives for the future. Alas for me, I not only convinced myself that I would never have to think about Trump again because he was going to lose this election, but I loudly broadcast it to all who would listen. While most of my comrades correctly
City on a Shill
The Internal Consumption Engine of the American Reich The grift has almost run its course. Even the combined forces of the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Gannett papers group, The Atlantic, CNN, NBC, 538, the nation's pollsters, the Substack intelligensia and all the rest can no
Free HRT On Demand Without Apology
Thing have been quiet here at All Cats Are Beautiful as I went in to the final push to finish the second draft of my Extended Universe manuscript and have since submission been on a road trip. But I wanted to share a little piece of writing that weve produced
Apocalypse dreams
I dreamt last night that it was the day after Milton had passed east over the land, and pictures were coming out from Tampa Bay. A series of images, brown mudflats with chunks of asphalt and the very ends of tree trunks or were they telephone poles poking up out
How it Could Happen Now
As of last night, at midnight (EST), ~50,000 dockworkers, as part of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), walked off the job in a strike that will shut down ports across the whole east coast and the gulf. While you may not have heard, as this has been
Waiting on the End Times
I haven't been going to the movies much the last few months, despite there being some movies that are so obviously my shit that I feel like a total dork for not making it to see them, but I go through phases where, frankly, I'm just
All Out for the South
At this point, if you're in the US, you've probably heard about the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Helene. Helene was both a horrible storm and a terrifying harbinger, because it went from tropical storm to CAT 4 hurricane within 36 hours, picking up unprecedented strength and
AI Must Be Destroyed
Turns out Skynet isn't a terminator that rips apart human flesh, it's an unconvincing lying machine that punches holes in the ozone layer Yesterday, a piece of news crossed my feed that seemed to offer just a small bit of comfort: that the speed at which
In A Time of Endless Provocations
One horrible fact about human cognition we have been forced to learn over the last ten years is that terrifying and traumatic news, events and facts tend to crowd one another out, and if they come fast enough remembering the crimes and outrages of this week becomes impossible to remember
Donald Trump: A Post-Mortem
I believe when they found the body of General George A. Custer Quilled like a porcupine with Indian arrows He didn't die with any honor, any dignity, nor any valor I wouldn't doubt when they found George A. Custer An American General, Patriot Indian fighter He