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For today's main feature Rowan Glass reports on the 12th anniversary of the Rojava Revolution in northeast Syria. Paid subscribers can jump directly to it here. 12 Years of Revolution in Rojavaby Rowan Glass On July 19, 2012, as Syria spiraled into a bloody civil war that still

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12 Years of Revolution in Rojava

by Rowan Glass On July 19, 2012, as Syria spiraled into a bloody civil war that still rages today, a revolution was born in the country’s north. A militia called the People’s Defense Units, or YPG, seized a military base in the city of Kobanî. They blocked roads,

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What else can we do?

Today Justin Glawe reports from Springfield, Illinois after the release of bodycam footage showing police murdering a woman named Sonya Massey in cold blood in her own home. It is one of the worst such killings we have seen in a long time. So bad in fact that the cop

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It was sort of a last call deal for us all

They are enemies of labor and of the working class

Today Kim Kelly returns to write about two contrasting speeches by labor leaders this week: UAW President Shawn Fain at Netroots Nation and Teamsters President Sean O’Brien at the Republican National Convention (not great man!) Previously Kim wrote for Hell World about her Last Normal Day before covid and

I don’t want nothing anymore

I want everything

Back when nothing was bad

I do not want Donald Trump to be president. I shouldn't have to say that but I'm seeing a lot of those sorts of accusations being tossed around again at the infamous and dastardly online left. (A group which is as always both an all powerful

A whole thing of pasta salad

A whole thing of pasta salad in the heaviest bowl you've ever seen on a weak fold out table. The tinfoil half on and a wooden spoon poking out. Penne, lemon, olive oil, red wine vinegar, cherry tomatoes, green pepper, red onion, cucumber, kalamata olives, flies buzzing around,

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The shine had worn off

I've had this confusing feeling for the past day or two. Am I actually gassing myself up with excitement over the idea of Kamala Harris stepping in for Biden? That can't be right. Then a couple hours ago I realized what I was actually experiencing was

Nothing but punishment

Micah Herskind joins us today to write about the latest developments in the Stop Cop City movement, including a major fuck up by the Georgia Attorney General’s prosecution of 61 activists that could potentially derail the entire case. Read it down below or jump directly to it here: The

The goal is to attack a movement

by Micah Herskind The Georgia Attorney General’s office appears to have made a major blunder in the ongoing prosecution of 61 Stop Cop City activists—one that could potentially cost the state its case altogether. According to a motion filed by attorneys for three defendants who run the nonprofit

In the Heart of America, Trump Supporters Are Hard to Find

Dispatches from the site of the 2016 debate.

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Whether or not you had listened

The Warehouse

The largest system of incarceration in human history

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We had it coming

We drove into the city the other night – only an hour and twenty minutes with the traffic! – to go see my close personal friends who live inside of my phone turned into flesh for a Comedy Bang Bang live performance. The show was a lot of fun of course but

There was nothing he could do but carry it

90% of being a poet is just knowing what the names of the trees and the birds and the fish are where you live then looking at them and writing it all down. Which is why I'm never going to make it. I'm not learning all

It smelled like death

You would think that by now we would have heard of all the different ways in which the police can enact suffering and violence against citizens right? There certainly can't be anything much worse they could do to us just beyond the scope of our imaginations right? Well

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I can't do it

Today the great Jim Ruland joins us to write about seeing Dead & Company at The Sphere and Devo at Punk Rock Bowling on back to back nights in Las Vegas. You'll need be a paid subscriber to read that one down below or you can jump to

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Suburban Robots That Monitor Reality

The Dead & Devo in Las Vegas

I have never seen that level of deliberate cruelty

At least they didn't kill him

You don’t have to do any of that

You don’t need to get married like a rich person

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Every day this has to happen

This has to happen for some reason

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There is no ladder

As bad as you think things are, they can, and will, always somehow be worse

How to live an intentional and ethical life

RIP Steve Albini

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Louder than bombs

Where we want to go is back to beauty