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Sentences that no one wrote

Today Keith Plocek, who teaches journalism at the University of Southern California, writes about Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, solipsism, and the permission structure "AI" gives us to doubt and devalue one another's humanity. This piece will be sent out in the next edition

Something that was once potentially good

They put blanks in one of the firing squad rifles

We are the consequences

We, collectively, are the condition that makes their defeat inevitable.

The least human thing you can do

I read a story just now about a man in Chicago who saved a baby after its carriage had been blown into the harbor by heavy gusts of wind. Lio Cundiff – who is a trans man not that it should matter here but it does – leapt into the freezing cold

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The air in D.C. felt evil

This has been the longest coldest snowiest winter of my life. I do not care if that is technically true or not it is how I feel and that is valid. Hell World Chief Jacob Elordi Correspondent Rax King returns to write about the new Emerald Fennell film “Wuthering Heights.

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The eternal push and pull of their doomed yearning

Rax King on "Wuthering Heights"

A crisis that needed my attention

In May of last year Bill Shaner reported for Hell World on the abduction of a Worcester, MA asylum-seeker named Rosane Ferreira-De Oliveira by the federal government. It was an early look at how horrific scenes much like this would play out regularly throughout the country over the next nine

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MA governor on ICE: “I support them”

Maura Healey declines to end state’s partnership with ICE

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The power of solidarity and the lengths the state will go to squash it

On WTO/99

One of the beautiful things music can do

Teaching music inside San Quentin

Look at what we allow

They said he threw his jacket. Kept saying that over and over. The man was agitated on the subway and he threw his jacket. I don't know what that means. I understand the basic physics of the action being described mind you and I understand why they would

A Surprise Zone of Interest

We are All Responsible for What Happens in our Community

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Dead soldiers lined up on the table

Ratboys, The Testament of Ann Lee, smoking, The Small Bow and more

The so-called sanity the world represents

Zack Budryk on The Testament of Ann Lee

Burn It Down

On Singin’ to an Empty Chair by Ratboys

A real blogger and real journalist

RIP to Dan McQuade

The Battles of Home 2 Suites Hilton and Springfield Suites By Marriott

A Dispatch From Minnesota

There is no such thing as other people’s children

It is intolerable

It really really really could happen

Upstairs from the world's shittiest loudest neighbor

We must love one another or die

A Hell World reader in Minneapolis sent me the drawing above. "Here's a drawing by an unknown artist at my kid's school. Among many other sweet gestures going in all directions, kids at the school have been making thank-you cards to the parents who have

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It is mortifying to be seen

An excerpt from The Third Beat by Lauren Lavín

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We can't go on like this forever

May we all have occasion to post that photo above sometime soon. Inshallah. I love being a big time hard ass by the way. Me and my buddies get to have all of the armor and weapons and you get nothing. We can beat you or kill you or poison

The destruction of USAID and my grandfather's legacy

by Colette Shade This piece will go out in the next edition of the Hell World newsletter. Consider a free or paid subscription to support our work. Support independent media Read Kim Kelly on the murder of Renee Nicole Good from yesterday if you missed it. Justification for our own

Justification for our own murder

Are you not as sick as I am of being lied to?

Stripping away everything of value

On Venezuela and Trump's gangster capitalism