This Week's Writing 5/2/26
floofs at the door!
The floofs want out!
I kind of also want out of this timeline. But alas…
I am going on vacation next week though, which means posting will be significantly reduced (though not abandoned entirely!)
And hey, here’s what I wrote this week.
Politics
Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Trump’s clown cabinet. (Public Notice)
Dems must expand the Supreme Court first. (EIH)
Promoting false flag conspiracy theories helps fascists. (EIH)
An interview with Julia Azari and the racist history of the presidency. (EIH)
Cultural criticism
The psychedelic Persian fusion of Mehrnam Rastegari. (Chicago Reader)
Near Dark and the tyranny of toothsome pretty boys. (EIH)
Poetry
Sad monostitch poem. (Five Fleas)
All my enemies are doing well.
Compromise poem. (dadakuku)
Bipartisanship
sink sunk
From the archive
The Boys Is Still Super
The Boys, Season 2, released in 2020, was one of the best superhero narratives of the modern era, or of any era. The Nazi supervillain Stormfront (Aya Cash) infiltrated the corporate superteam The Seven, allowing showrunner Eric Kripke to spin a deceptively nuanced story about capitalist complicity in fascism and the line between girl power appropriatio…
