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But enough shilling! Here’s what I published this week:
If you read one thing by me this week:
Comics needs Jacob Lawrence, not crumbs of freedom. (Vault of Culture)
Politics
Marianne Williamson’s challenge shows Biden’s strength. (Public Notice)
Tucker Carlson can both hate Trump and support fascism. (Independent)
We can’t enforce our way out of our child labor crisis. (Editoral Board)
Trump’s CPAC speech and the possible GOP primary apocalypse. (Independent)
Jon Chait wants to be anti trans and anti fascist. It doesn’t work. (Splice Today)
An interview with Vron Ware on white femininity and racism. (EIH)
Holocaust analogies shouldn’t be overused, but shouldn’t be abandoned either. (EIH)
The real key to being a successful writer; be born privileged. (EIH)
We don’t value trans voices—even on trans issues. (EIH)
Movies
Alienoid, the best wuxia/science-fiction/time travel movie you’re likely to see this week. (EIH)
Bullet Train is a moderately enjoyable ride. (EIH)
Poetry
12 Rules for Manly Knowledge: a massive double sestina about Jordan Peterson. (Synchoronized Chaos)
Superintelligence: A villanelle made of lines by eugenicist AI dope Nick Bostrom. (Spillwords)
A cento of lines from LGBT writers on silence. (EIH)
A poem: The Internet’s Forever Until It Isn’t. (Five Fleas)
A short nature poem. (Five Fleas)
When water-birds walk
their feet fold
so that the two outer toes
touch.
A dada poem. (dadakuku)
Cow Drill
Mrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
My chapbook “No Devotions” is being published in a free edition by LJMcD Communications. (EIH)
Star Trek TOS Rewatch
Galileo Seven is a great paranoid colonialist adventure. (EIH)
The Squire of Gothos sneers at its own tired pulp storylines. (EIH)