This Week's Writing 4/4/26

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Here’s what I wrote this week.

Politics

The GOP faceplants on DHS funding. (Public Notice)

An interview with ME SN candidate Andrea LaFlamme. (EIH)

Slotkin and the whiteness of centrism. (EIH)

Trump is the status quo. (EIH)

Cultural criticism

Soderbergh doesn’t show up for Presence. (Splice Today)

AI slasher DRAGN is bad in human ways. (Splice Today)

Yasmin Williams finds folk music for everyone on her guitar. (Chicago Reader)

John Wayne advocated for genocide. (EIH)

The Dead Don’t Die murders zombie movies. (EIH)

Poetry

I’ve got a new chapbook! Someone Else is free. Please check it out! (LJMcD Communications)

A villanelle made from spam. (A Door Is a Jar)

From the archive