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Here’s what I published this week.
Politics
Trump is the orange, sagging face of explosive diarrhea. (Public Notice)
Talked to Stephen Robinson about Platner, El-Sayed, and the problem with attacking the left. (PlayTyperGuy)
MAGA’s vision of progress and its roots in liberalism. (EIH)
Democrats oppose Israel because Israel supports Trump. (EIH)
Cultural criticism
Her Private Hell is a triumphantly plotless exercise in style over substance. (Splice Today)
The Thomas Crown Affair and empowerment for rich white male assholes. (EIH)
Dust Bunny and empowerment you know is a fantasy. (EIH)
Trading Places vs. the myth of meritocracy. (EIH)
Poetry
Two poems. (Five Fleas)
After Jean Valentine
footprints
slowly
fill with snowwrite a different poem
slowly
not about snow
Purity
I do not read poetry.
I do not want it to affect
my voice.
The struggle is real. (smols)
don’t
want
to
do
list
From the archives
Elon Musk is Autistic, and Also, Unrelatedly, a Horrible Person
I’ve been writing and thinking a good bit about autism and neurodivergence over the last couple of weeks. (In part because of this piece at Public Notice). In the course of researching and talking about these issues, it’s been brought to my attention that a lot of people feel strongly that Elon Musk is not autistic.
