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The Trump regime; his cognitive decline; our left-politics, plus the Chomsky situation.
Helping Elias and his Family, Plus Some Updates on Future Work
Victim Says Donald Trump Witnessed Infanticide When She Was Sex Trafficked
It's a Wrap: A Look Back on My Favorite and Most Popular Pieces
Bi-Weekly Round-Up of Readings
America's "One Drop" Blood Law Too Extreme for Nazis
Chomsky, Grief, and the life of a Proletarian Academic
The Language of Supervised Sadness: A Critical Lexicon of Distress Under Neoliberal Capitalism
Personal Essay: The Tides of Death(s), Terror, and Resilience
What the Greg Grandin Nation Piece About Chomsky Tells Us
The Racist Bastards We All Need To Know
Split from the Body: Disembodied Writing
Bi-Weekly Round-Up of Readings
Misogyny, Gatekeepers, and the War on Kindness
Michael Wolff's Bizarre Claim about Ellie Leonard
The Difficult Lessons I Learned about America When I Left Academia for Corporate America
Trump's Cognitive Decline is a National Security Threat
Is it the Algorithm or Readers' Tastes?
The Disingenuous Grift of Women's Gossip
Cryn's Monthly Nomination of an Outstanding Substacker: Ken Klippenstein
From the Future: A Post-Trump World
Trump's Tirade on Truth Social
Deaths of Despair and the Social Question of the 21st Century
Bi-Weekly Round-Up of Readings
Trump is not a Lame Duck President. But He is likely a Sundowning One.
A Truncated List of the Greatest (Worst) Hits: Crimes of Capitalism
The Myth that Capitalism is only Bad When It's "Unrestrained"
The World is Fucked. We All Know It. But Here's Why We Still Shouldn't Give Up Hope
What the Mamdani and Trump Meeting Really Revealed
Fundraising Appeal: Elias Broke His Leg
ICE Agents Arrested: Armed Thugs Walk Our Streets
Our Amgydala Response(s) to Trump
Enough! Ignoring the Pain of Black Women is Reckless and Also Deadly
The Specter of Epstein and Its Threat to Democracy
Bi-Weekly Round-Up of Readings
Autonomy and Creativity Reclaimed in the Commune
287(g) Program Challenged and Set to End in Bucks County Pennsylvania
Moving in the Direction of Change
The Groypers Are Sweeping the GOP Zoomers
Capitulation or Counterstrategy?
Didier Fassin's Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza
No More Hopedy-Hope-Hope: The Politics of Real Change
Trump, as Hypnotist, and the MAGA Cult in a Sleeping-Dreaming-Awake State
Another Death of a Person in ICE Custody
Debt Jubilee for Student Loan Debtors Now
A Horrifying Glance Back: A Post from October 30, 2024
Bi-Weekly Round-Up of Readings
Helping the Most Vulnerable, or Interning Them?
Conversing with Scholar Alexander Laban Hinton
Update: Brain Scan Needed for the Father of Gazan Family Whom We Support
Meeting a Man with the All-American Family
What Happened to Randall Gamboa Esquivel While in ICE Custody That Caused Him to Die?
Camp Resistance at Auschwitz and The Little Snowmen and Their Deaths
How Everyday Life Sustained Francoism
Man Arrested for Posting a Charlie Kirk Meme
Angry Morning Mail: Phil's Diatribe and the Problem with Left-Liberal Unity
Collecting and Reading Works that Matter: Verboten und Verbrannt (Forbidden and Burned)
White People Keep Telling on Themselves - And Please, Stop with the Defensive White Tears
Update: ICE Shoots Well-Known TikToker Carlitos Ricardo Parias and U.S. Marshal in Los Angeles
Developing Story: ICE Agent Shoots Immigrant and U.S. Marshal
Punching Down: Trump Shits on the American People in AI-Generated Video
NEED TO KNOW: ICE's Aggressive 287(g) Program
The GOP's Pedophile Problem: Why Won't the Mainstream Media Talk About It?
Close Analysis of "Counterplanning from the Kitchen"
At Least 19 Dead While in ICE Custody
"Are You Haitian?" - ICE Agent Arrested for DUI
Modern Carnivalesque in Portland: Topsy-Turvy, Transgressive Protest
Small Request: Send Me Your No Kings Pictures!
Let's Be Real: The GOP is a Fascist Party
"A Community of Murder:" The Emergence and Solidification of the Third Reich
Update: Emmanuel Gonzalez-Garcia Still In Custody, Underwent Emergency Surgery
The Necessity of Embracing Your Inner "Radical Recovering Racist"
White Power and the Real Threat of Genocide in the United States under the Trump Regime
ICE Kidnaps Autistic Kid in Houston
ICE Shoots A Pastor In The Head With A Pepper Ball
"Whatever serves the state is right, whatever harms the state is wrong"
"I voted for a fascist, and you tried to kill him... You Lefties are getting what you deserve!"
Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez Ruthlessly Killed for "History of Reckless Driving"
The "War from Within" Is Here and It's Is Getting Worse
Quick Note Expressing Appreciation and Gratitude
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933 - 1945
Trump's Speech to "His" Military
It Isn't Too Late: Why We Should Embrace Trump Hating Us
The World is on Fire, and It Has Come from the Past
Jimmy Kimmel's Return: Taking Me Off Air Was "Un-American"
Heinz Heger's The Men With the Pink Triangle (Die Männer mit dem rosa Winkel)
Part III: The Slow Dig Out of a Murderous Eugenic Past and Germany's Antipostfascism Moment(s)
Satire Collides with Fascism: The Cancellations of Colbert and Kimmel
Part II: The Enactment of Eugenics during Nazi Germany and Counter-Positions in Christian Circles
Part I: Dagmar Herzog's The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics And Germany's Twentieth Century
"This Means War": Our Further Descent into Fanatical Fascism
Part II: Carolyn Dean's "Goldhagen's Celebrity, Numbness, and Writing History"
Revisiting a Microhistory - The Raucous Tuscan Village of Monte Lupo and the Black Plague in 1630
Fund Raising Drive for Elias' Education
Part II: Victor Klemperer's Language of the Third Reich
Part I: Victor Klemperer's The Language of the Third Reich
Quick Update - Elias Is on the Mend!
The Struggle Has Just Begun: Update on the Ibrahim Family
12 Years Later - The Forgotten War: Love Letter to a Soldier in Afghanistan
Philosophical Lessons In Love: Bell Hooks on Love
Review - The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance
Notes on Cutting Across the Country
Personal Essay: Metonymic Illuminations from my Childhood
On the Margins of the Law: The Reader as Fugitive
Emil Ludwig's Study on Dictators
Bourdieu's Acts of Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the Market
Joseph Vogl's Capital and Ressentiment
The Case for Degrowth Communism - Kohei Saito's Marx in the Anthropocene
Takeaways - The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life by Kristin Ross
Takeaways - Peter Beinart's Being Jewish After The Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
Committing to One Gazan Family: Salem, Nourhan, and Elias
Reading Michel de Certeau: "The space of a tactic is the space of the other."