Everything Is Horrible

Everything Is Horrible

This Week's Writing 6/6/26

Cat attack

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Noah Berlatsky
Jun 06, 2026
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Eustacia and Gusgus with a little sibling tension there.

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Okay! Here’s what I published this week.

Politics

Zionist identity is built on the erasure of Palestinians. (Revealer)

Republicans go all in on toxic masculinity in Texas. (Public Notice)

Centrism means helping fascists. (EIH)

Musk is lying even when he seems to be confessing. (EIH)

Donald Trump is bad at lying. (EIH)

Cultural criticism

Rodrigo Toscano’s Deck of Deeds and poetry for concussed HR bots. (Splice Today)

Corporate Retreat is a pretty fun portrayal of CEO as sadist. (Chicago Reader)

On Pink Floyd’s best album. (EIH)

Split is boring Hollywood mental health exploitation. (EIH)

Poetry

Poem beginning with a line by Muriel Rukeyser. (Eunoia)

Super short poem. (smols)

two words

About being stuck with your poems. (Five Fleas)

away from home
can I find different poetry?
alas, I carry the same sack

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