Last night, as many of you may have seen circulating, the RNC printed out signs for their delegates to hold up that, alongside "Make America Strong Again" said "Mass Deportation Now!", "Strength Through Peace" and "American Oil From American Soil". While the
The genocide meant that the world should stop, everything should stop, we went into the streets, we screamed and wept, held vigils and wrote screeds, the bravest lit themselves on fire, students occupied, windows were broken and cop cars destroyed, boycotts and call-ins and direct actions and takeovers, but through
Yesterday’s shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania calls on all of us to take a step back, take stock of where we are, how we go forward from here. We all thank God that Trump is not injured. I’m sincerely grateful that he’s doing well.
The Supreme Court has officially thrown their lot in with a fascist coup. They have indicated their absolute willingness, indeed excitement, indeed collective engorgement for the fascist power grab. In the last seven days they legalized bribery, then said that January 6th was cool and good, then made it impossible
They're hurting the movement! They're too rowdy! As police clear out encampments with extreme violence, graduations and commencements end the school year, and the momentum of the university encampments begins to slow, we are starting to hear the reactionary slanders that attach themselves to every movement
During the Trump years, there was a popular Twitter joke format that involved linking to a news story about events in the US and imagining how the headline would be written if the same events had happened in a third world country. This was used to demonstrate how differently newspapers
I have felt over the past few weeks that attention, coverage and hype for today's total solar eclipse has been more noticeable and consistent than it has previously in my life. But as the last one was in 2017, aka infinite time ago emotionally-speaking, this feeling is at
At around 1:45 AM this morning, March 26th, a container ship, the Dali, flagged out of Singapore, was leaving the port of Baltimore when it briefly lost power and control. That brief loss of power - in the video of the incident it appears to occur for only a
Sometimes the girlies deserve a little toxic crime romance, as a treat. Going to the movies: sometimes it's just good clean fun. Although sometimes it's filthy pervert madness. And if you're a chaotic queer freak, well, those times are the same time. Love Lies
I was incredibly honored to be asked by my dear comrades at Death Panel Podcast to come on and talk about a piece I wrote for this newsletter, Remembering as an Act of Revolt. We discussed the Biden administration's counterinsurgent use of denial and forgetting, and how powerful
Dune Part Two and the Return of Socialist Realism We are living through an era of thudding cultural literalism. In our narrative products (movies, TV and to a lesser but noticeable extent, novels) that has meant that instead of story we get plot, premise and lore, dialogue is replaced by