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A Depressed Anarchist’s Guide Surviving Winter

In case you haven’t noticed, dearest motherfuckers, my mental health is kind of a hot mess. OCD, ADHD, CPTSD, OSDID, all on top of LGBT and just a...

17.01.2025 3

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In 2025 We Must All Fight Like the Few People Who Didn’t Suck in 2024

I have been writing this annual post celebrating a handful of people who have achieved the impossible and miraculously failed to suck over the last...

10.01.2025 3

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How Imperialism Stole Christianity and Why We Should Steal It Back

I haven’t exactly kept my fraught history with organized Christianity a secret. In fact, in keeping with my weird tradition of publishing my...

03.01.2025 3

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A Few Lessons that Anti-Imperialists Should Learn from the Collapse of Assad

I’ve been closely following the labyrinthine chaos in the Levant for most of my adult life now and I honestly didn’t see this latest twist coming,...

27.12.2024 4

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How Holocaust Survivors Become Holocaust Revivors

I realize that I’ve said this before but there really is no more room left for interpretation. Israel is engaged in a concerted effort to...

20.12.2024 4

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The Isolationist Shuffle: How the GOP Became the New Fake Antiwar Party

Kamala lost for a lot of reasons. Having the vibrant personality of a power-hungry high school principal in a cheesy 80s movie and playing second...

06.12.2024 3

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Dear Queer People: A Message to My Battered Tribe

There are few things more heartbreaking in this world than watching someone you love in an abusive relationship. Sadly, I’ve seen it firsthand,...

28.11.2024 4

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A Second Trump Term is the Beginning of the End and That’s Not All Bad

How could this happen? Again? On what planet, in what parallel universe does it make any logical sense for Donald J. Trump, the ghastliest beast to...

22.11.2024 3

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The Weird Turn Pro

In case you haven’t noticed dearest motherfuckers, I’m pretty goddamn weird and I seem to be getting weirder by the hour. This isn’t a flex;...

15.11.2024 1

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The Bipartisan Border War is Turning America into a Prison

I write this screed during the waning hours of an election season that has made me thirst for the taste of a blue steel shotgun barrel like a...

05.11.2024 10

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Hey Parents, Make Halloween Dangerous Again

To say that my childhood was less than idyllic would probably be an understatement. Growing up stuck between genders in a dreary small-town...

31.10.2024 3

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Horror Movies Against War

I am a lifelong antiwar activist and a diehard horror movie buff. A lot of people seem to find those two facts to be a contradiction, and I guess...

25.10.2024 2

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Israel is F’ing Crazy

Israel is fucking crazy, and they have nukes. I honestly don’t have a more tactful way to start this diatribe, I am legitimately terrified, and...

27.09.2024 10

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Why I Refuse to Vote

America is an imperial slaughterhouse and every four years that bloody kill room floor hosts a jingle-brained three-ring-circus that the men with...

20.09.2024 4

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Electing War Junkies

If you were foolish enough to take sociopaths at their word, you could be forgiven for believing that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are the...

13.09.2024 3

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Opposing War Should Not Be a Partisan Issue

America is deeply engaged in two simultaneous and rapidly expanding proxy wars that could both very easily end in a nuclear third world war… I...

09.09.2024 10

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For the Love of Gaza, Bring Back the Students So They Can Bring the War Home Again

I was born and raised in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, a small-town cowering in the shadow of a vast college metropolis known simply as State College...

30.08.2024 3

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