Kind of a clip show episode today because I'm just finishing up the new book. I wanted it to be called There's Something in the Water but that has been used a few times already so we're going with A Creature Wanting Form which is a line I stole/changed

Down below a conversation with a physician's assistant who works at a hospital in Philadelphia about what her job entails, how people use the emergency room for their primary care, and preparing for the future of abortion care in uncertain times.   First a look at a devastating case of brutality

A dragonfly bungled its way into the car as I was pulling into the parking lot at the new Market Basket up the road and I tried to backhand shwoop it out but it got itself turned around somehow and started ping-ponging between the dashboard and the windshield real fast

On the site for paid subscribers this week we've got a great piece from Casey Taylor. It's got a bit of everything: the personality-based evangelism of Charismatic Christianity, how that connects to contemporary Democrats' substitution of the State for God in the Holy Trinity, Bill Clinton, Pete Buttigieg, speaking in

Hey chip in for a subscription if you can please and thank you. $51 for a year In February of 2019 a man named Christopher Ransom walked into a T-Mobile store in Queens, New York, brandishing a fake gun in an attempted robbery. His associate Jagger Freeman is alleged to

This piece appears in my book Lockdown in Hell World available here. It’s June of 2020 and one thing I would like to see come out of all this besides all the other necessary things is for media to please stop considering the police a reliable source when reporting

Not sure there's enough sanitizer in the world to ever scrub their hands clean. A police officer gets a squirt of hand sanitizer while 19 children and two teachers were murdered at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas pic.twitter.com/WqhXoQySIF — Max Lewis (@MaxLewisTV) July 12, 2022 Yesterday for

Today Larry Fitzmaurice reports on the regressive practice of music venues charging bands – even the smaller struggling ones – a tax on any merch they sell. This is widespread despite the fact that merch sales are one of the only ways left for most bands to (maybe) break even on tour.

Subscribe if you can afford to thank you. 20% off for a year Down below Andrew Quemere reports on Rayla Campbell the homophobic and transphobic MAGA-brained “Biggest Masshole In Massachusetts” who is currently running for Secretary Of State. You can also jump directly to that piece here. The biggest masshole

Thanks for reading. Today's issue of Hell World for paid-subscribers can be found here: We cannot preemptively and "pragmatically" kick our more vulnerable allies off of the plane. The result will be having to face the fascists later on anyway but with a diminished coalition. Better to face them now

Hello. Thanks for reading. Subscribe if you can please and thank you. subscribe now The major democracy-eroding decisions handed down by the malevolent tribunal of unaccountable Christofascists have garnered much of our attention of late and rightfully so. This is what a judicial coup looks like pic.twitter.com/dTZ4zgHJdg

Thank you for subscribing to the free version of this newsletter. Here's some of what you missed in the past week. If you'd like to purchase a subscription here's a nice little discount. 15% off for a year The national media is simply not up to the task of the

Yesterday writer Emily Bazelon posted a lengthy thread on Twitter defending her work in a recent story for the New York Times Magazine. Thin-skinned Times writer unable to accept criticism from the left as colleagues circle the wagon isn't exactly news but nevertheless. The piece in question was an ostensibly

This essay appears in my book Welcome to Hell World. It was originally published in Esquire. The fifth time I went to watch my father die was the one that finally took. He'd been in and out of hospitals, and hospice, and nursing homes for so many years. He'd clawed

We've got a music-centric two-parter today. Down below I talk with Jen Malone, the widely lauded TV and film music supervisor, about her colleagues' recent decision to try to unionize the profession, as well as what it's like curating music for shows like Atlanta and Euphoria. Also today, for paid

Subscribe now please and thank you I'm not especially enthusiastic about this reportedly bipartisan gun legislation proposal from what I've seen so far. It seems to be conceding to the framing of the right that our epidemic of gun violence is a school fortification and mental health issue and not

Do you ever think about how they got it so you can't smoke cigarettes anywhere anymore like ten to twenty years ago? That effort would not work if we tried it for the first time now. You'd have chuds burning heaters in the grocery store in cashiers' faces and making