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HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS Makes Movies Silly Again
The 30 Best Books I Read in 2024
This Year's Best Writing By Me
Nightbitch And the Mess of Female Creation
CUCKOO Is a Messy B-Movie Metaphor for Autism
The Great Anti-Christmas Index
Against Christmas Movies and Romance Movies Both
Charlie Baltimore Fights Christmas
The Gremlins' War on Christmas
Die Hard’s Reactionary Values Make it a Christmas Movie
"It's a Wonderful Life" Seems Less Wonderful In Trump's America
Disney Bans Trans Stories, Embraces Hate
Anora Is a Great Film Stapled to a Mediocre Film
Why Do Portions of the Left Fall for Fascism?
Sydney Sweeney and Evaluative Aggression
Weep For the Beautiful People in WE LIVE IN TIME
Hamilton, Immigrant Anti-Immigrant Demagogue
In Romulus, Hollywood is the Xenomorph
Biden using the pardon power to thwart Trump is good, actually
The Weird Smile of the Mainstream
FDR Is Not a Good Model for the Current Democratic Party
GOP and Trump Agree They Should Rule
LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back
HERETIC Believes in Intelligent Bad Guys
Why The Patriarchy Wants You To Hate Incels
The Substance Twists Body Horror Back On Itself
AI Poetry Is Better than Human Poetry If You Don’t Like Poetry
“Game Over!”: Bill Paxton Models Complying In Advance
Blink Twice And The Master’s Tools
The Meaning of Star Wars is Chewbacca
Rosa Nevadovska and Home in Exile
It May Not Be Safe to Remain Friends With MAGA
MY OLD ASS Is A Story About Being True to Yourself Which Isn’t
If Trump Wins, We Will Need Solidarity, Not Blame
White Supremacy Leads People to Swallow Ridiculous Bullshit
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Yes, You Can Be Racist Against Puerto Ricans
Losing to Fascism Will Make Everything Worse
Damien, I Love You! It's All For You!
Possession, Race, and Innocence in ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘Angel Heart’
Liz Cheney Makes Pro-Choice Arguments
Safe for Zionism Is Not The Same As Safe for Jews
We Don’t Know What Harris Will Do On Gaza
Be Skeptical of Anti-Establishment Branding
If Trump Wins, He Will Have Unified GOP Control
Why Does Kamala Harris Keep Courting Republicans?
I SAW THE TV GLOW Embraces Queer Obscurity
It's Okay to Protest Matt Yglesias (and! This Week's Writing 10/12/24)
The Greens Want to Harm Their Enemies
“I Don’t Believe in Taft-Hartley”
Why Trump Lies About Natural Disasters
The Right to a State and State’s Rights
NEW LIFE And the New Zombie Disability
Military Aid to Israel Is Immoral Because It’s Immoral, Not Because It's Expensive
Steph Cha’s YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY Unwinds the Carceral Plot
Is Trump Planning To Coup Instead of Planning to Win?
I Try to Mask. And Then Sometimes I Fail.
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Everyone Knows Trump Is Less Fit Than Biden
Trump Is Lying When He Says He Has a Concept of a Plan
Why Do People Want To Come Here If It’s So Horrible?
Professor X Isn't MLK. He's Booker T.
Why Did W.E.B. Du Bois’ Support Zionism and Stalinism?
Books! By Me! That You Can Buy!
R-pilled Polls Are Bad For Rs…and This Week’s Writing 9/7/24
Death vs. Genre in A Quiet Place
Zionists Exercise Power by Policing the Definition of Zionism
Harris’ 2020 Campaign Was Not a Failure
Trump’s Arlington Photoshoot Shows That Fascism is Here
Gus Walz Was Bullied at the DNC Because He’s Neurodivergent
In Challengers, Zendaya Gets to Compete
The Hitler Myth vs. The Trump Myth
Why Isn’t Trump Campaigning Hard? Maybe Because He Has PTSD.
James Merrill And The Queer Carpet
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We Don't Know Who Wins, We Don't Know If It Will Be Close
Claude McKay’s Dance With Gender
Harris Can Declare a Change From Biden’s Israel Policy Now
The 25 Best Albums of the 2020s
Why Is Trump Obsessed With Saying Harris Isn’t Black?
Was Vance Sincerely Radicalized, Or Is He Just An Opportunist?
J.D. Vance's Hatred of Cat Ladies Is Eugenics
My Poetry Book,*Not Akhmatova,* Publishes Today!
I Was Wrong About Biden Dropping Out
Poems To Celebrate the Poetry Book!
*Not Akhmatova* Is Out On July 23rd
Debunking J.D. Vance’s Biography Is Counterproductive
The 50 Best Novels of the 21st Century
Malignant and Metastasizing Trans Horror
Don’t Spread Baseless Conspiracy Theories About The Assassination Attempt
Why Does the Media Freak Out About Biden’s Electability, But Not Trump’s?
Writing Is Not A Glamorous Spiritual Calling
Was Sex Better Before? (In Hollywood)
The Global Anti-Incumbent Post-Covid Wave
Best Roots Albums of 2024 So Far
Should Biden Arrest the Conservative Supreme Court Justices?
Trump Understands Fascism Better Than Stanley Milgram
Robert Creeley’s Unsettling Poem “Kore”
A Simple Favor Is a Twisty Path To Standard Hollywood Default
Kate Atkinson in the Multiverse of Sadness
Donald Sutherland Fights Conformity
How Trump Changed the Way I Look At The Old Masters
Trump Hates Votes. Even When They're For Him.
Please Help Journalist Linda Tirado
The Dreyfus Affair And the (Not) Inevitable Road to Zionism
Mitt Romney Kisses Trump’s Ass, Because That is What Republicans Do
This Week's Writing 6/1/24—40% off sale!
When people stand up to Trump, they deserve our solidarity, not our cynicism.
What If Your Empowerment Fantasy Wasn’t That Empowering?
Trump Is The Heir of Eisenhower
The 25 Best Albums of the 2010s
Force Alito to Appear at Hearings, Dick Durbin, You Doofus
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Sam Alito Is a Fascist Insurrectionist
Who Wrote Auden’s “The Lesson”?
White Capital Paid for Kavanaugh’s Debts. Also Thomas’.
The 120-Year Old Zionist Poem Still Being Used to Smear the Diaspora and Justify Atrocity
Effective Altruism Is Neither Effective Nor Altruistic
Baseball, Movies, America—Pros and Cons
No, Protestors Don't Have to Talk to Media
The Day After Tomorrow, Will We All Be Okay?
The Fall Guy Isn't About the Fall Guy
A Quiet Place Is Stalked by Ableism
Long Covid Is a Feminist Issue
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Trump’s Hush Money Trial Is Petty. Maybe That’s a Good Thing.
Why Disruptive Protest Makes Sense
Student Protestors Aren’t Elites
Democratic Supreme Court Justices Need to Retire Strategically
Why Do White Rural Voters Vote for Republicans?
Identifying, Or Not, With *Men*
Justice Breyer and Ruling Class Solidarity
The Beekeeper Is a Bad Movie That’s Good At Fighting Scams
This Week's Writing 4/5/24: Please Renew Your Subscriptions!
Evil Dead 2: The Deadites Are Right
The 25 Best Albums of the 2000s
Populism Isn’t About Popular Policies
Day Shift Is a Toothless Vampire Action Film
The Feral Fake Horror of The Evil Dead
Bad Polls Aren’t Bad for Biden
The Utopia At The End of the World
Director of Film About War Crimes Can’t Be Bothered To Talk About War Crimes
Want to Punch Fascists? Fucking Fund Ukraine
*Maestro* Presents Unconventional Genius In the Usual Conventional Way
“You Can Use Me”: The Aesthetics of Whiteness
The Most Iconic Science Fiction Work Ever
It’s Still the Day of the Dead
We Need Fewer Strong Male Characters
Joe Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Shows the Power of the Presidency
Why Does the GOP Support Putin?
The Expanse Shows That, Yes, Israel Is A Colonial State
Why Was Lee Majors At Mar-A-Lago?
Fear of Neoliberal Identity Politics
*Ready Or Not* And the Romance of Murdering the Rich
Women Outnumber Men In College Because of Sexism
What Knowing Nothing About the Super Bowl Tells You About Politics
The Holdovers Tells You That You Are Special
Donald Trump is a rapist. Why won’t Biden say so?
Best Albums By Decade: Rationale and Rules
Star Trek TOS S2E14: The Wolf in the Fold
“I Need to Get Back to My Crew”: Amos and Crowd-Sourced Morality
Trump Isn't Unfit Because He's in Mental Decline
Fatphobia Hasn't Gotten Better Over Time
Ron DeSantis Didn’t Lose Because He’s Repulsive
The 25 Best Albums of the 1980s
Why You Shouldn't Think for Yourself
Gen V Supercops Fight Against Prisons...Then For Them
Why You Should Want Nikki Haley to Win the Primary
AI Art Shows the Value of Disability Aesthetics
Star Trek TOS S2E13: Obsession
Low Unemployment Is A Vital Progressive Goal
This Week's Writing 1/6/23 (also 40% off sale)
People Want Trump On the Ballot Because They Think He's Authentic