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
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
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
Light spoilers ahead for Longlegs. The last five years have been rough for long-time Nic Cage fans. This may seem counter-intuitive. After all, the rest of the world has finally caught up with those of us who have loved the guy as an actor since Bad Lieutenant: Port
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
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