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A comprehensible tragedy

A comprehensible tragedy

Subscribe now The impulse is to try to write something beautiful. Something stirring that crystalizes how we're feeling. Devastated yes but not defeated. Not fully defeated. Not even now. To reassert our collective humanity. To remind ourselves that this is all worth it somehow. Living in the first

Go ahead and execute him anyway

Go ahead and execute him anyway

Hello. Please subscribe if you can thank you. 15% off forever The thing is the fucking cop knew what he was about to do was stupid. I always assumed they were just walking around with a void inside of their skulls like a robot on sleep mode that switched to

You can always find some way to have the past justify what you want to do now

You can always find some way to have the past justify what you want to do now

Your continued support as a paid subscriber is greatly appreciated. Earlier this week the sickos on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on a case called Jarkesy v. SEC finding that the Securities and Exchange Commission violated a hedge fund's constitutional rights by trying them and punishing

The longstanding battle of pen versus sword

The longstanding battle of pen versus sword

Hello and thank you for being a free subscriber. As a quick note the url for this newsletter's home is now welcometohellworld.com [https://www.welcometohellworld.com/]. You can get in touch with any issues or tips by replying to this email or using luke [at] welcometohellworld [dot

Look at what we can do. Even this. And what will be done about it?

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Look at what we can do. Even this. And what will be done about it?

As wide a circle of people as the law can implicate

As wide a circle of people as the law can implicate

I write about the epidemic of wage theft in the country down below but up first today Shane Ferro joins us to write on the passing of Kathy Boudin and the scourge of felony murder convictions. Please chip in to support our work here if you are able to. Here&

They will never return the favor

They will never return the favor

We can rely only on ourselves

We can rely only on ourselves

Thanks for being here. Support this newsletter with a subscription [https://hellworld.ghost.io/ghostttttt] if you can. If you missed the most recent issue here it is below. Make sure you whitelist Hell World in your email as some people tell me it's been going to spam.

Wanting the government to help people is free

Wanting the government to help people is free

A real shitty sleight of hand we do in this country goes like this: We tell kids they have to go to college to succeed. You'll never "make it" if you don't we say. You'll have to work menial jobs forever etc.

We couldn’t have done it unless we worked together

We couldn’t have done it unless we worked together

Here's 25% off a subscription [https://www.welcometohellworld.com/ghostttttt] if you'd like to support my work. Thanks for reading. On Thursday of last week employees of the Chicago Reader, the city’s fifty year old alt-weekly, rallied outside of the home of one of its

The most American thing you can think of

The most American thing you can think of

Quick what are the two most quintessentially American things you can think of? Cars and guns right? I guess you could say jazz or hip hop or I don't know watching a guy get chronic traumatic encephalopathy while we eat nachos on the couch if you wanted to

I gotta get out of here man

Hello. I am leaving Substack and switching over to another newsletter platform called Ghost which you are looking at right now. Ideally this won't change anything for you the subscribers in any way and you don't have to change or update your payment settings. At least

These people have stolen everything

These people have stolen everything

Today’s main feature is a dispatch by Andrew Quemere from an anti-carceral protest this week in Massachusetts against the proposed construction of a massive and expensive new women’s prison. Quemere writes the newsletter The Mass. Dump Dispatch which you should subscribe to if you care about public records

You can’t carry a thousand deaths around with you

You can’t carry a thousand deaths around with you

Remember how proud we all were of healthcare workers there for a while? It was a whole thing. Clapping for them and shit. Big sappy TV ads thanking them. As we enter what may be another surge [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/once-again-u-s-faces-another-covid-19-surge-as-cases-rise-nationally] (?) I thought it might be worth

A lot of people had the rug pulled out from under them

A lot of people had the rug pulled out from under them

A reader wrote in on how the expiration of the child tax credit payments has impacted his family. “So I will preface this with my family is middle class and doing okay and there are definitely people doing worse who were affected more,” he started and I certainly understand that