Reminder on why cigarettes matter (CW: SA, death, lynching, poison). In 2014 in Staten Island, Eric Garner was strangled by the pig Daniel Pantaleo on accusations Garner was selling otherwise-legal single cigarettes. Garner had been targeted for violence by pigs over cigarettes and their own opaque discretion multiple times in his life, including at least […]

Tumblr @cryptosuchusthe propaganda in tv shows does numbers on y’all and i’m not immune to this either but it’s been bugging me a lot lately because y’all will see a character who is a radical who is radically anti-war or radically pro-racial justice or a communist or whatever and you’ll see a character who is […]

Tumblr @sepulchritudeGlasses-wearing folks, do you remember when you first put on glasses and you were like, “This is how other people go through life? You all just walk around, seeing things??” and you just sat there for a while, staring at the leaves or the billboards or the texture of the sidewalk, amazed and baffled […]

White supremacy is a bipartisan project, the most consistently bipartisan project in this nation’s history. Nancy Pelosi is already trying to turn George Floyd’s death into something triumphant, something to keep people at home except when they come out to stand in line and vote for Democrats while hoping for change. Cops in Ohio just […]

In the United States, very serious people will claim “justice” is done because a cop strangled a man to death on the streets in broad daylight and the cop might actually experience the worst sort of punishment we routinely give people like his victim for every sort of harm and harmless done. Might. Every day, […]

It’s worth noting that it certainly wasn’t always like this. In fact, the reason why so many early comic creators were Jewish Americans is that, like the film industry before it, Jews couldn’t get jobs in traditional media fields with established gatekeepers. And, wouldn’t you know it, early superheroes fought more than just “crime” back […]

“Your grandpa was an antifascist” works for liberals and baby leftists as their rhetorical attempt to frame fascism as illegitimate, unpatriotic, etc., but it’s ultimately based on twice-faulty assumptions. The first is the idea that things being “un-American” even should be regarded as bad; ultimately, appealing to nationalism is always a dead end because the […]

Exclusionary definitions with hard boundaries (for others) require essentialist definitions of folk to function at all. In that way, sexualities that focus on preserving “purity” end up mirroring oppressive but fragile straightness; they can invert hierarchies but not dismantle them. It is not enough to memorize that homophobes are wrong or transphobes are wrong. You […]

There’s a much longer discussion to be had here on how racism (not speciesism) as it applies to dogs, how claims about “breeding” are also applied to people, and how class also plays a role. A German Shepherd owned by, say, Joe Biden that bites someone is going viewed differently than any pitbull terrier barking […]

There are people who will tell you that to be a Satanist, you have to read Anton LaVey because he invented it, that no such thing existed prior to him. We would not grant that as so. The Satanisms that predated and have rejected his are quite rich. (In our estimation, much richer.) It is […]