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30% off one year's subscription Six a.m. cold and bright on a mid-November morning. Time to attach my brain to the Lying Machine and read one thousand lies an hour until I can crawl back into bed and dream of different lies. For a month now I

None. No possibility

The best case scenario is only 11,000 dead

When I call I need to know you’ll be home

Then I watched Priscilla

Queerness in Colorado Springs

Today Annie Howard looks back on the one year anniversary of the Club Q nightclub shooting and reflects on growing up queer in Colorado Springs. I published another excerpt from A Creature Wanting Form yesterday which you can read below or jump directly to here. My whole life I’ve

My whole life I’ve never seen anything like it

And shoot them for what?

The absurdity of the Halloween fentanyl candy panic

Spreading baseless panics

Trying to convince the world that you are dying

Watch this video if you can. Even if you can't. A video broadcasted a few moments ago by Al Jazeera shows the areas that were targeted in the airstrikes last night in #Gaza, revealing the immense destruction and the efforts to rescue citizens from under the rubble. pic.

A million ways to get things done

Donald Borenstein on Stop Making Sense

The other team

Today's main feature is Miranda Reinert writing about the sale of the beloved music site Bandcamp and the massive layoffs by its new owner. You can read it below or jump directly to it here. They can and will ruin everything you loveby Miranda Reinert In March of

They can and will ruin everything you love

by Miranda Reinert This was sent out as a part of today's Hell World newsletter. Find the rest here and please subscribe if you like what you read. The other teamToday’s main feature is Miranda Reinert writing about the sale of the beloved music site Bandcamp and

The most powerful nation in the history of the world

Neither getting too close to the ocean nor the sun

Kingston Street

This story appears in my new book A Creature Wanting Form available now. I was telling Joe about a video I had seen earlier of an osprey hunting a fish. It was a magnificent and terrifying thing to behold I said. The type of thing you’d say holy shit

We are going to regret this

I'm not sure what else I was expecting to see after turning on cable news for the first time in a while this morning. Of course it was a parade of warmongers espousing genocidal and eliminationist rhetoric. I certainly imagined the drum was beating while I couldn'

Being made to collapse

“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip," Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant said. "There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed." “We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly,” he said. "All of the places which Hamas

How nothing can hurt you

Thank you to everyone who has read A Creature Wanting Form and sent me lovely thoughtful messages about it or left great reviews on Goodreads and such. It honestly makes it all worth it (?) Maybe tell a friend! Or ask your local book store or library to get a copy.

That was what happened in the dark

You've probably seen a few photos of Elon Musk standing around in his backwards cowboy hat on his tour of the southern border in Texas on Thursday – and yes we all had a good laugh about that – but now let's look at another photo that'

Whether or not you die by accident is just a measure of your power

We have the resources. We have the means.

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I've known these people all my life

They are selling him his own anger

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For us it felt like a year

And now we are all safer

It seemed like something that would make him happy

Maybe all those kids have limited value

Having had enough of it all

The top 5 Elliott Smith songs ever

The paper had life to live

The reader response to this piece from the other day was so strong (like weirdly wildly strong) that I decided to take it out from behind the paywall for a couple days. Apparently it's "one of the good ones." While I do need to make money

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We don't want them anywhere

You'll need to be a paid subscriber to read today's piece in full. Thank you for being here either way. Police departments in Minnesota are withdrawing officers from schools in protest of a new law that says they can no longer "physically restrain students in

Do I contradict myself?

Today I'm going to talk about whether or not it's ok to take any joy in watching Mr. "I Love Doing Crimes and Getting Away With It" not entirely get away with it for once. Real quick before that though I posted this new-ish

Now and at the hour of our death

I sent this short story out to paid subscribers a few months ago but I'm taking it out from behind the paywall for a while today. Subscribe if you want to get every piece as they come out. It doesn't appear in my book A Creature