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Bugonia Is A Hive of Heartfelt Misanthropy
Yglesias and Fear of a Black Intellectual
Emily Dickinson and White Entitlement
Materialists Puts the Class Back in Romance
Men Aren't Lonely. They Just Have Guns.
Democrats Think Impeachment Is An Electoral Loser
Why Does Captain Marvel Have Amnesia?
“In The Guise Of A Kiss”: Why Are Fascists Mesmerized by Slavery?
How Women Can Have At Least Some Of it
The Old Man Milks Gross Out Animation
Seamus Heaney, Great Poet, For Better & Worse
TPUSA Silences Another Trans Person
Will Hegseth Face Consequences?
Getting Confused by John Ashbery
Buy *Not Akhmatova* For The Holidays!
Sean Duffy Serves Neoliberalism for Thanksgiving
Journalists Have Been Turning Into AI Slop For Years
The Self And Neurodivergence And The Other Self
The Epstein Files Will Continue To Hurt Trump
Centrism Cannot Fail, It Can Only Be…
MRI Says Trump Is A Bad Person
Good Boy Is a Horror Film About Grieving
The GOP Ending The Fillibuster Would Be Bad
Manly Scott Galloway Explains How to Be a Man
Glorious Is An Underwhelming Apocalypse
Mikie Sherrill Ran a Strong Campaign
The GOP War Over Which Jews to Hate
Republicans Want Poor People to Suffer
New Wave Is Defined By Whiteness
Marilyn Chin and Getting Rid of the Self
If Moderates Overperform, How Do You Explain Sinema?
Progressive Candidate Has Dropped Out Of ME Senate Race
The (Not) Horror of the Great War
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Unity Without Solidarity Is Fascism
Graham Platner Is Not Going to Be Senator
Ida B. Wells vs. Social-Media-Caused-MAGA
Stephen Miller Wants to Be Fanon
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Mills Is In ME Senate Race. That's Good.
Where Will We Be In Ten Years?
Sylvia Plath and Holocaust Analogies
A Skrull Can Be Anyone. Except a Hero.
If Immigrants Don’t Have Due Process, No One Has Due Process
Stop Pleading, Start Threatening
Fascism Makes You Stupid, Not the Other Way Around
Rooting for the Arm to Come Off
What Counts as Political Violence?
On Ezra Klein Whitewashing Charlie Kirk
The Happiest Sylvia Plath Poem
Disney Adults Are the Antifascist Resistance
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Stop Being More Craven Than Ted Cruz
10 Movies Classified as Rotten That Are Actually Good
How the Cops Silenced Thelonious Monk
The Dangers of “Debating” The Right
The Pretty Good Music of Fake Musicians
Whitewashing Charlie Kirk Promotes Political Violence
Ds Can't Continue Trump Policies
Yes, there actually is good news
Thunderbolts vs. Dhalgren vs. Mental Illness
Trump’s Health Problems Won’t Save Us
Slavery Was Defined by Sexual Violence
Thunderbolts Is a Craven Retread
Writing for Hire Is Not Spiritual Debasement
Pritzker Shouldn’t Be Disqualified Because He’s a Billionaire
Democrats Have Problems. The Horserace Isn’t One of Them.
Ash Riffs on Alien and Colonial Body Horror
When Harry Met Sally, They Both Should Have Run
Toulouse-Lautrec, Lonely Man in Crisis
The Left Should Consider Pritzker 28
"It's really hard to be optimistic right now"
New Free Chapbook: Goose Ears!
The Greatest Movie Criticism Ever
The Loosey-Goosey Judaism of Howard Wolowitz
What Science-Fiction Books Should Kids Read First?
Trump’s Invasion of DC Is Not A Distraction
Rahm Emanuel Is Not the Fucking Future of the Democratic Party
Sydney Sweeney and ‘Phantom Lib Syndrome’
Meritocracy (In Dating) Is a Myth
Democrats Need to Be More Negative
Sydney Sweeney and Common-Sense Eugenics
Why Isn’t Trump (Even More) Unpopular?
No, Trump Is Not Fulfilling His Campaign Promises
Fucking Fight, You Useless Fucks
Epstein Coverage Largely Ignores Trump’s Assault on E. Jean Carroll
You've Got Your Genre In My Lit Fic, Mr. Norrell
The Music Cassie Never Got To Make
We Need to Defund the Police to Fight Fascism
Nirvana vs. Sinead O'Connor: Battle for the Future
"We can't be afraid of using the power that we are given": An Interview With Alex Rikleen
The New York Times Attacks Mamdani With Race Science
Switchblade Sisters and Teen Feminist Revolution
It’s Still Fascism When Democrats Do It
The 20 Best Films of the 21st Century
In Substack We Trust: Navigating the Tension Between Powerful Tools and Platform Dependency
“People Don’t Want To Feel Helpless,” an Interview with Kat Abughazaleh
But I’m a Cheerleader Understood The Campy Soul of Christofascism
Has Social Media Led America Into Fascism?
It Is Good That Trans People Exist
Netanyahu Is Not Fighting For Democracy In Iran
Kitty Says, "Order Noah's Chapbook!"
How Corporate Media Is Paving the Road to Fascism in America with Noah Berlatsky
Why Not Give King Arthur an Elephant?
Demanding Protestors Be “Nonviolent” Helps the Fascists
We Made Musk and Trump Fight Each Other
Don’t Scold Us For Laughing At Trump and Musk
The Meg Tries to Distract Us With Sharks
They Did Vote For This (GOP House Edition)
Soderbergh's Ableist Mish-Mash
*Life* is *Alien* Without the Messiness
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Biden Should Have Imprisoned Trump on Day One
Is Beyoncé the Joe Rogan of the Left?
Trump’s Incompetence Is Incredibly Dangerous Part A Billion
Uncle Sexy and the Nephews Go to Work
The Best Lead Singers of All Time
Fighting Antisemitism Without Jews
Exploitation Isn’t a Plot Twist
Trump Is (One) Logical Endpoint of the GOP
The Best Greatest Albums of All Time Ever
Trump’s Attack On The Economy Is An Opportunity
The Danger of Fascist Bipartisanship
Democrats Should Still Nominate Women for President
People Say Nice Things About My Poetry
Wallace Stevens and the Whiteness That Is There
What Would It Mean for Trump to Lose?
Elon Musk is committing a genocide
New Poetry Book: Gnarly Thumbs!
June Jordan & the Erotic Politics of Being In The Wrong Place
Elon Musk is Autistic, and Also, Unrelatedly, a Horrible Person
Book News: Yet Another Heart of Darkness
Gavin Newsom Is A Piece of Shit
Democrats Need To Forget the Lessons of the 2024 Election
How Loving Art Can Make You Hate
*Companion*’s Robots Aren’t Believable. That’s a Good Thing.
Is Trump Corrupt Or Is He A Butthead?
In the Purge, American Fascism Is Stupid and Boring.
How Fascism Explains Trump’s Tariffs
New Chapbook: The Sentient Flock
Mini Chapbook: Apologies to Basho
Democracy Wins in Wisconsin…Sort Of
Some Worldbuilding Should Be Shoddy
Fiction Cultivates Empathy, Not Morality
Yang and Bengelsdorf Put America First
Why Signalgate Might Break Through
The Oligarchy Isn’t Really In Control
The Road to Trump Was Paved With Mass Incarceration
To Fight Fascism You Have To Fucking Fight It
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Is a Painful Chronicle of Abuse and Silence
Senate Democrats Ritually Debase Themselves
All Tentacled Horrors Are Created Equal
Leopards Don’t Always Eat Your Face
Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism
Anger at Dems is not a left/right issue
BREVITY: A New Poetry Collection
Why Do Ds And Rs React Differently to Election Losses?
Atticus Finch Would Have Voted for Trump
Trump Greets Zelenskyy With Antisemitism
Democrats Who Attack Identity Politics Are Supporting Fascism
Can Authentic Empathy Cause Harm?
The (Righteous) Cruelty Is the Point
In The Stepford Wives, Which Side Is The Author On?
Atrocities Don't Need to Be Popular
Revolt Against the Robot Revolution
On Substack, Meritocracy Is a Myth
Martin Niemöller Was an Antisemite
The Shadow King Vs. Lemon Meringue
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Joseph Brodsky and the God You Can't Mean
Saving Jews for Fun and Profit
Why Is Six Hypersexualized in Battlestar Gallactica?
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No, We Shouldn't Be Paying Attention to Something Else
“If This Were Fascism, You Couldn’t Say So”
Trump’s Weakness Is Not At Odds With His Fascism
The Bipartisan RFK Acclamation That Wasn’t
A Meditation on a Poem Out of My Control
The Best and Worst Songs of 1985
Pritzker and Budde Need Your Support
Every David Lynch Movie, Ranked
Is Elon Musk an Asshole or Is He a Nazi?
Democrats Cave Because Trumpism Is In Fact What America Is
STRANGE DARLING Is Clever…But Not That Clever
Cop Shows Make Cops Look Exciting
Covers for Two New Poetry Collections
QUEER Is About Desires That Are Too Real and Not Real Enough
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Trump Wants To Disenfranchise Canadians
(Absolutely Not The) Oscar Predictions!
This Awards Season, Let’s Pray for the Death of Film
Racism Directed Against Meghan Markle Matters
HANDLING THE UNDEAD Depicts The Zombie Attack of Grief