Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Introduction: Language in the Age of Fascist Politics In the age of expanding fascism, the power of language is not only fragile but increasingly threatened. As Toni Morrison has noted, “language is not only an instrument through...
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Ann Coulter Wants to Kill Native Americans (So Do Some on the Left)
Ann Coulter, Youtube screenshot. The live music had come to an end, and my friend Janene Yazzie, a brilliant organizer with the NDN Collective, looked up from her phone in disgust, horrified by what she had just read. Someone wished her people dead. A group of us were...
Roaming Charges: Heckuva Job, Puppy Slayer!
Central Texas floods. Still from video posted to X. “Ignorance might be bliss for the ignorant, but for the rest of us it’s a right fucking pain in the arse.” – Ricky Gervais While offering his “thoughts and prayers” for the families of those drowned in the Texas...
Resisting the Deadly Language of American Fascism
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Introduction: Language in the Age of Fascist Politics In the age of expanding fascism, the power of language is not only fragile but increasingly threatened. As Toni Morrison has noted, “language is not only an instrument through...
Closing Nuclear Reactors Means Big Improvements in Local Infant Health
Aerial view of the Consumers Power Company of Michigan’s Palisades Plant Unit 1. Photo: Department of Energy. Not long ago, the U.S. nuclear power industry was in freefall. Only two reactors had been ordered since 1978, meaning the existing reactors were aging. Old...
Ann Coulter Wants to Kill Native Americans (So Do Some on the Left)
Ann Coulter, Youtube screenshot. The live music had come to an end, and my friend Janene Yazzie, a brilliant organizer with the NDN Collective, looked up from her phone in disgust, horrified by what she had just read. Someone wished her people dead. A group of us were...
Roaming Charges: Heckuva Job, Puppy Slayer!
Central Texas floods. Still from video posted to X. “Ignorance might be bliss for the ignorant, but for the rest of us it’s a right fucking pain in the arse.” – Ricky Gervais While offering his “thoughts and prayers” for the families of those drowned in the Texas...
Resisting the Deadly Language of American Fascism
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Introduction: Language in the Age of Fascist Politics In the age of expanding fascism, the power of language is not only fragile but increasingly threatened. As Toni Morrison has noted, “language is not only an instrument through...
An Anarchist Appeal to the Disgruntled Deplorable
“Ooh, that smell Can’t you smell that smell? Ooh, that smell The smell of death surrounds you” ‘Ooh That Smell’ by Lynyrd Skynyrd I may be a hedonistic, post-left, genderfuck, heathen but I’m also a fiercely localist, small town agrarian, Appalachian Luddite and this...
The Passing of a Teamster Rebel: Remembering Bennie Jackson
Bennie Jackson on the right confronting one of the old guard dinosaurs. Photographer unknown. Recently, I learned that my old union representative Bennie Jackson passed away seven months ago. He was a lifelong union militant at United Parcel Service (UPS) in Chicago...
Texas Flood Deaths Were Preventable
Area of “Flash Flood Alley” in Texas; the lighter curved region running from Dallas down through San Antonio. Image Source: Zhongyu Han and Hatim O. Sharif – CC BY 4.0 The tragedy unfolding in Central Texas is stark. As of writing, over 100 are dead or missing — the...
America’s 25 Year Tax Cutting and Fiscal Train Wreck
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Last week the US Congress passed the Trump Tax Cuts. The mainstream media and economists have been mostly reporting the details of the cuts—i.e. which taxes got cut in the 2025 Act, how much accrued to businesses and wealthy as...