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All Joy/No Doomscrolling

Today’s newsletter has only the good stuff from my feed. Mostly, anyway. You’re welcome.

Abort, Retry, Fail?

In today’s newsletter, it all comes back to realizing that all of politics right now is basically the principle that “there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

We Need to Talk About Kyle

Today’s newsletter is about macroeconomics, alleged vigilantes and their fanboys on the right, and Sri Lanka, with a bonus of tiny animals wearing hats, and people wearing tiny animals as hats.

Sign Language

Today’s newsletter is about gestural evolution, regulatory arbitrage, and homecoming dances. And a very smol cat.

Newsletter: Why’s Everybody Look so Nasty?

Featuring Galaxie 500, facetuning in the Paris Review, Wallace Shawn on fascism, anteaters and corgis. Bonus: Three music recs.

No Launch Party for Decay

Today’s newsletter is about Bikini Kill and the viral Medium article from Indi Samarajiva about how we’re already collapsing. There is no joy section.

No Such Thing as Dysfunctional

Today’s newsletter is about the entrenched interests of the status quo, the fear of change, and kittens.

Hints and Allegations

Today’s newsletter is about genocide, with a bonus set of links to important articles about economic crisis, climate crisis, and voter suppression. There’s also some nonhorrible stuff in it, like funny Tweets and some very cute dogs, but mostly it’s very upsetting and you shouldn’t read it.

I don’t argue with people John Brown would’ve shot

Today’s newsletter is about re-examining the subtext of school lessons, the intractable screwed-up-ness of the carceral state, and a goddamn hilarious story about someone’s Desi uncle who ordered too much rice from the grocery.

Some of those who work forces

Today’s newsletter is about how 1992’s “Killing in the Name” is still relevant.