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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.

Chronicle of a death foretold

Today’s newsletter has a lengthy metaphor about the Gabriel García Márquez’s novel of that title.

Stop doomscrolling, it’s all collected here already

Today’s newsletter begins with Ecuadorean mask squads and ends with doom, with a kitten chaser.

Just Another Long Black Letter Day

Today’s newsletter is about the bleak expanse of sameness and horror stretching before us endlessly to the horizon.

Daily Doomscroll

Today’s newsletter is about doomscrolling, fascism, and gibbons. Also an interview with Jia Tolentino and a couple good articles in Foreign Affairs.

Like a Rider on a Downbound Train

Today’s newsletter is about Bruce Springsteen and cliches and puppies.

Uber, But For the Moral Arc of the Universe

Today’s newsletter is about the fallacy of Whig historiography.

Secretly Ironic: Trust me on this one

Apparently I forgot to crosspost this to the blog back in March so I’m backdating it. Here’s the March 6 newsletter.

Newsletter: Watch Out For This Flag

Today’s newsletter includes a warning about that creepy thin-blue-line flag. Also a tiny kitten and a tiny dog, as a chaser for the bad news.