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If police investigated this case thoroughly would they have prevented the Boston Marathon bombing?

In 2011 three men were brutally murdered in Waltham, Massachusetts, a city a few miles outside of Boston. Those three men, Erik Weissman, Brendan Mess, and Rafi Teken, were found with their throats slashed – almost decapitated – in what was described at the time as “a bloodbath.” Strangely, the crime scene

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Of course they had been lying to the court

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Coffee and invisible labor

The Productivity Panopticon

We've got two great pieces today. One free and one for paid subscribers only. Ed Zitron has been doing a great job covering the work from home debate over the past year or so at his newsletter Where's Your Ed At, so when I saw this

They're all just tired, emotionally drained and done

Down below we have an excerpt from the new book Crisis and Care: Queer Activist Responses to a Global Pandemic available today via PM Press. You can jump directly to the essay on the Hell World site here: We keep trying. We keep failing. We keep figuring it outThe following

We keep trying. We keep failing. We keep figuring it out

The following essay by Zephyr Williams is excerpted from the newly released anthology Crisis and Care: Queer Activist Responses to a Global Pandemic (2022, PM Press), which looks at how LGBTQ+ people and communities responded to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and what lessons were learned that could

There's something in the water

Kind of a clip show episode today because I'm just finishing up the new book. I wanted it to be called There's Something in the Water but that has been used a few times already so we're going with A Creature Wanting Form which

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Defends Pop Punk

A talk with the retired NASCAR driver about how discovering The Dangerous Summer shifted his musical gears I did this interview for Noisey I don't remember when that site doesn't exist anymore who cares. Just got home from a @PinegroveBand concert in downtown Charlotte. Everyone jammed.

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A brief pocket of borrowed joy

It's inside where the punishing actually happens

Down below a conversation with a physician's assistant who works at a hospital in Philadelphia about what her job entails, how people use the emergency room for their primary care, and preparing for the future of abortion care in uncertain times.   First a look at a devastating case

They reinvented indentured servitude

A dragonfly bungled its way into the car as I was pulling into the parking lot at the new Market Basket up the road and I tried to backhand shwoop it out but it got itself turned around somehow and started ping-ponging between the dashboard and the windshield real fast

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If it's supposed to be sad why are we all having fun

God is still abundant enough to sustain the fantasy

On the site for paid subscribers this week we've got a great piece from Casey Taylor. It's got a bit of everything: the personality-based evangelism of Charismatic Christianity, how that connects to contemporary Democrats' substitution of the State for God in the Holy Trinity, Bill

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Liberal Democrats Enter their Charismatic Phase

Defendants are punished for seeking their right to a trial all the time

Hey chip in for a subscription if you can please and thank you. OK I WILL DO THAT In February of 2019 a man named Christopher Ransom walked into a T-Mobile store in Queens, New York, brandishing a fake gun in an attempted robbery. His associate Jagger Freeman is alleged

With cops it almost always is a lie

This piece appears in my book Lockdown in Hell World available here. Subscribe to this newsletter for free or a paid subscription thank you. cops lie It’s June of 2020 and one thing I would like to see come out of all this besides all the other necessary things

I know a habit isn't a superpower it's the opposite of that

Not sure there's enough sanitizer in the world to ever scrub their hands clean. A police officer gets a squirt of hand sanitizer while 19 children and two teachers were murdered at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas pic.twitter.com/WqhXoQySIF — Max Lewis (@MaxLewisTV) July 12, 2022

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We argued that human rights are not up for consultation

Paying Your Dues (Literally)

Today Larry Fitzmaurice reports on the regressive practice of music venues charging bands – even the smaller struggling ones – a tax on any merch they sell. This is widespread despite the fact that merch sales are one of the only ways left for most bands to (maybe) break even on tour.

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The biggest masshole in Massachusetts

Dumping weight so the plane can take off

Subscribe if you can afford to thank you. 20% off for a year Down below Andrew Quemere reports on Rayla Campbell the homophobic and transphobic MAGA-brained “Biggest Masshole In Massachusetts” who is currently running for Secretary of State. You can also jump directly to that piece here. The biggest masshole

Corporate Media Must Stop Making Ads for Fossil Fuel Companies

Thanks for reading. Today's issue of Hell World for paid-subscribers can be found here: We cannot preemptively and "pragmatically" kick our more vulnerable allies off of the plane. The result will be having to face the fascists later on anyway but with a diminished coalition. Better

The most absurd and depraved acts of violence

Hello. Thanks for reading. Subscribe if you can please and thank you. subscribe now The major democracy-eroding decisions handed down by the malevolent tribunal of unaccountable Christofascists have garnered much of our attention of late and rightfully so. This is what a judicial coup looks like pic.twitter.com/dTZ4zgHJdg

The national media is simply not up to the task of the moment

Thank you for subscribing to the free version of this newsletter. Here's some of what you missed in the past week. If you'd like to purchase a subscription here's a nice little discount. 15% off for a year The national media is simply not