Please subscribe if you like what you read here thank you. Indigenous people in Alaska and other northern regions have been hunting whales for thousands of years which sounds almost impossible doesn’t it. I can barely reconcile the fact that whales even exist today never mind think about seeing

Here is a thread of verified fundraisers for the victims of the right wing terrorist attack in Colorado Springs over the weekend.   I often find it difficult to say anything new or novel in the immediate aftermath of yet another mass shooting. It makes a person feel insane to keep

This piece appears in my book Lockdown In Hell World. It was also published on Defector a good website. Support this newsletter please and thank you. Subscribe now I’ve been sleeping with a shovel under the bed. It wasn’t my first choice. I rifled through the shed out

Down below a brand new short story from me. You can jump right here to read it on its own page if you like but you'll need to be a paid-subscriber to read the whole thing. First some other business. It's nice that things didn't turn out as badly as

The following appear in my forthcoming book A Creature Wanting Form available now for pre-order here. An international incident There was a shooting yesterday that was one of the ones that was big enough that we all had to know it had happened so they sent me out to lower

This piece was sent out as a part of today's full Hell World newsletter which you can find here: Schadenfreude is thin gruel in terms of sustenanceDown below we’ve got an essay about black metal and Black Metal Rainbows, a compilation of 100+ queer, trans, leftist, anarchist and antifascist

My forthcoming book of short stories A Creature Wanting Form is available for pre-order now. Aware that he only had a few months left to live the great Mike Davis gave one of his final interviews back in August to the Guardian. "You’ve been organizing for social change your

If you are able to please support independent writers whose work you read. SUBSCRIBE NOW for 27% OFF Someone out back had burned a tray of croissants the one gal was saying to the other gal and the buttered smoke was suffocating so we thought twice about staying but then

Today Zachary Siegel joins us to write about the very real phenomenon in which drug cartels are trying to kill your children with fentanyl disguised to look like Halloween candy. Previously he wrote for Hell World on the only other group of people more susceptible to overdosing on fentanyl than

Today's newsletter is about – you guessed it! – the fucking cops. It's an interview with author and comics artist Johnny Damm about his new comic I'm a Cop which combines public statements from police union leaders around the country with a 1950s era horror comic style. As he explains it the

Reposting this from the old Substack site from October 2019. Chip in to support important music journalism like this buddy. Support independent media Here’s the list of my personal favorite 118 emo(ish) songs from the 2010s. A couple things to keep in mind: I probably forgot like ten

If you like what you read here please support my work. $5 a month One of the bad storms was on the TV. It was one of the ones that was bad enough that I gather the guys down at the TV store thought they could make good money off

Man the cops are pretty bad. Have you heard about this? Here's a bunch of reminders anyway. SUPPORT THIS NEWSLETTER PLEASE AND THANK YOU When LAPD officer Houston Tipping died back in May the department described it as an accident during a training exercise. Tipping was engaged in a grappling

Thanks for reading as always. The next issue will be paid-only so subscribe to make sure you get it as well as access to everything in the archives. SUPPORT THIS NEWSLETTER At the beginning of his press conference yesterday Sheriff Shannon Dicus of San Bernadino County introduced himself to reporters.

The much beloved and staggeringly talented author Hilary Mantel has died. I read this interview that she gave shortly before she passed and these two answers have stuck with me me. Do you believe in an afterlife? Yes. I can’t imagine how it might work. However, the universe is

On Friday in this piece for paid subscribers I wrote about Ron DeSantis' cruel political stunt of flying migrants to Martha's Vineyard as well as its parallels with the so-called "reverse freedom rides" of the 1960s in which Black people were similarly tricked and bussed north. Both cases of tossing

The other day I wrote about the fake idea of California that I believe in despite knowing it's a lie. Today a more realistic look. Paid subscribers can read that one here. All of us were here for a little while and then we were somewhere elseThank you for your

This piece originally ran in the Boston Globe Shane Patrick Boyle lost his mother in March of 2017. You’ve heard this story before, or at least one like it, but you should listen again. It’s about Boyle but it’s also about the rest of us. About a