Luke O'Neil

A life was snuffed out in the pursuit of a quota

He was forced to make an impossible choice by the federal government

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The day the country was dismantled was so perfect

Everything else about it

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How safe we all are now

Today's main thing is about my recent trip to visit family in the suburbs of Atlanta. Did I manage to somehow shut the fuck up the whole time? Did I have an existential crisis in the airport? Well let's find out down below. I may have

My new book! 'We Had It Coming'

A haunting yet darkly humorous exploration of a world teetering on the edge of collapse.

How do you sleep at night?

LeVar “Var” Lawrence is a resident of Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center, a public nursing home on Roosevelt Island in New York City. On March 13, 2020, as coronavirus spread through the city, Coler closed its doors and locked in residents, who were confined to the nursing home and

Came out swinging

Today we have a story about how ICE check-ins have become an abusive and maddening catch-22 for immigrants. They can either continue to show up and risk being detained or stay away and end up being detained for that anyway. These cruel motherfuckers I swear to God. Also today a

There are more of us than there are of them

I went looking for something to feel good about

It is happening here

Three days of escalation by the feds in Los Angeles

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Who counts as a person?

The ‘Soft Eugenics’ Presidency

I will love you til the end of time

The best of Lana Del Rey

The long drop below

Today Andrew Quemere writes about Massachusetts governor Maura Healey's recent remarks on Trump's draconian immigration enforcement. "To understand why Healey is praising Trump, you need to understand that she is not a liberal or progressive—she is a cop... It’s this cop worldview that

Maura Healey hands it to Trump, praises migrant crackdown

by Andrew Quemere Legendary poster dril has a handful of tweets that people can’t stop referencing. Here’s one of them: Keep it in mind while you read these comments about immigration policy from Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, which were reported by the State House News Service: "I

Nobody wants this!!!

I hope none of you are sick of me complaining about "A.I." yet because I am never going to shut the fuck up about it.

Believing you will receive

This piece will appear in my forthcoming book We Had It Coming. It was originally published at Flaming Hydra. I was out on the porch in the dark with a friend who had stopped by to tell me he was getting a divorce. No no no he didn’t want

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Reverse engineering the life that I wanted to have

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of interviewing Niko Stratis about her new book The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. You can read an excerpt here. A little ghost for the offeringThe Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman by

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The next turn of the ratchet

The right will never be satisfied with diet bigotry

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A years-long tale of xenophobic scapegoating in the UK

Last summer Simon Childs reported on a series of racist and xenophobic riots around the UK. It was the culmination of years of anti-immigrant rhetoric in the press and from across the political spectrum. Playing the victimSimon Childs joins us today from the UK to write about the recent racist

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They don't need a warrant

A federal kidnapping in Worcester

What makes you so much worthier of your peace?

I know there's a lot going on in the world right now but probably the biggest story of them all is that it is my birthday today. Wow. Getting old is so cool. I suppose it's better than the alternative though. All I really want is

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All of this beauty is worth fighting for

The people trying to take it from you are your enemies

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Sinners and its audience say fuck you to fascism

Sean T. Collins on Sinners, Andor, The Pitt and Daredevil

I'll keep on if you do too

I guess I shouldn't have said anything nice about the Pope the other day because right after that and right after he met with JD Vance he died straightaway. It feels like the time I briefly joked around with a cop inside of my polling place back in

We cannot all be eradicated

by Patrick Kuklinski. The last few months have delivered a sort of grim vindication about what many of us have said has been coming for years. The Trump administration has acted to brutally undercut every minority group in the country as quickly as possible. Most notably of late with the

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Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner

Happy Easter everyone! Even on Easter? I was under the impression that Easter was the only day the Bunny actually served but alright. When I always say that "a.i." is the tool and the aesthetic of fascists this is the kind of thing I'm talking

Everybody watches porn but nobody thinks it’s important enough to defend

by Noelle Perdue Siri Dahl is not an agriculturalist, but she is an expert on corn. Or at least, according to search engine optimizing keywords she is. In October of 2024, Siri hosted a 12 hour “Corn Telethon,” interviewing 30+ comedians, performers, and journalists, all in the name of corn.