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
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
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
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
After the IOF's recovery of the bodies of 6 hostages in Gaza on Saturday, including the high-profile US-Israeli dual citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, whose parents spoke at the DNC only a few weeks previously, Israeli streets have once again erupted in protest. These protests, the largest within settler society
Only post this week as i'm on vacation 🏖🏖 be back next week with a subscriber-review of a movie and whatever other chaotic screeds I can come up with After my piece about how you absolutely don't have to hand it to the Democrats, I was asked
The global revolution enters adolescence It has been ten years since the Black residents of Ferguson, Missouri lit a QwikTrip on West Florrisant Avenue on fire in the memory of Mike Brown and thereby set the whole country alight. It is fourteen years since Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak were
This is a very special issue of All Cats Are Beautiful. It was revealed on Monday that three weeks previously, on July 22, Politico, The New York Times and The Washington Post received leaked internal emails from the Trump campaign. These emails were apparently obtained via a hack, and the
As the number of movie screens in the US has plummeted, the centrality of US box-office has diminished and the endless sequels, reboots, remakes and requels dig deeper and deeper into absurd and boring corners of our pop cultural history; as one-time deals from streaming sites turn mid level producers
Or: you absolutely don't have to hand it to them Over the last couple weeks, and for the first time in my adult life, the Democratic Party has risen to the historical moment, seeming to wake from the fever dream of appeasing Republican Christofascism and shake off decades
Line Goes Down While everyone enjoys watching the Olympics, I'm having my own personal biannual sporting event: a stock market panic. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying "sportsball": I enjoy watching baseball, basketball, and football (American and otherwise), and marvel at
Like many other anarchists, one of my favorite phrases is "the thing to do is to start" but I don't often suggest a specific thing to begin doing. Of course, you know best what your life and your community needs, what you want to do. But