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Blizzard of Lies by Dave Wedge and Sandy Ernest Allen on Who goes transphobe?

Blizzard of Lies

Karen Read, John O'Keefe, and the Shocking Unsolved Murder in Cop Town, USA by Dave Wedge

Who goes transphobe?

by Sandy Ernest Allen It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go transphobe. By now, I think I know. I have gone through the experience many times—in California, in Iowa,

We have to starve the fucker

People seem to be debating the efficacy of Covid-era policies again this week for some reason. I don't plug my Lockdown in Hell World book as much as the others because people didn't seem to want to read about Covid while it was still peak

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There has never been a better time in human history to be stupid

Alright that's enough Odyssey. Let's skip ahead to the next fucking thing. Unless you didn't read this piece yet then fine go do that but afterwards we're done. Today Gareth Watkins returns to write about what a great time it is to

A level of hubris: The Odyssey / Reagan Youth

Zack Budryk on The Odyssey and Lauren Napier on Reagan Youth

To think that you can break the world

Zack Budryk on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey

Tattooed, Pierced, & Fucked-Up: A Scene Memoir 2004–2008

Orange pill bottle by Lauren Napier

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You can’t outrun the wind

My entire world has the AI piss filter on it. It looks like a damn Coldplay song out there. No not Clocks. For today's feature Rax King joins us again to write about the band Crass and the long simmering tensions in punk music between the art-educated

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A conflict as old as punk itself

Rax King on Crass

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We are governed by serial killers

On the occasion of the passing of my esteemed colleague from across the aisle

Behind the bravado there was a pair of sad eyes

The heat has finally broken in Massachusetts. It is dry and gorgeous this morning. It will never be that hot and gross out again. Mark it down. I didn't really pay attention to what was going on in D.C. last night. Seemed like a lot of symbolism

A fear of the unclean and imperfect

John Oakes on Trump, slime, and gold

A golden age for dumb guys

Dan Ozzi on Danny McBride's Thrilling Tales of Modern Men

A memory of a photo rather than my life as it happened

That is just some guy that's not me

Decades of glorious self-destruction

Niko Stratis on Jackass: Best and Last

Who is afforded a non-politicized death?

All My Dead Cats and Other Losses by s.e. smith

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The one single impossible deal

It is indeed very funny that Trump is preparing to throw J.D. Vance under the bus if this latest iteration of the Beautiful Iran Deal falls through. Which it will. I've seen a lot of people question why he might do that though. Clearly he's

America 250: A Reckoning

Mythologizing ourselves to cover atrocities

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It’s the price we pay for love

Zack Budryk returns today with a lovely meditation on grief and how it changes over time. "One of these inexpressible phenomena tied to loss...is the way the person you’ve lost is fixed in amber for all time the way they were when they died, but the ghost

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I will cry for any of you behind your back

My seven year old iPhone has worked perfectly fine this entire time until I did the latest update like a mark and now it's a fucking piece of shit. I shouldn't have to shell out $1,000 just because a company felt like it was time

My Favorite Band: The Sheila Divine

This piece was originally published at Flaming Hydra. I saw my first real rock concert in 1993. It was at an air force base somewhere in Rhode Island. The opening band that day was called Rage Against the Machine. This is going to be my life I thought. I am

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They Want Us Dead

Acclimation to mass death—and the devaluing of humanity in general—is their primary purpose

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It does as it pleases and continually destroys

Sean T. Collins on Godzilla and America

This pain has to become foreign and unknowable

In memory of Juniper Blessing