The Sedate One Is This Month's Skittish One

Not reactivating My Sillyass Deserted Island Five Game beyond elevating Lampchop, who may already have a permanent seat, who remembers? from one of the permanent rotating members to an irrevocable permanent seat, Lambchop, the only drug that eases my bouts of dark despair at my dearth of hope for my daughter's life in the clusterfucked world I leave her (and I find myself wishing often for an on/off switch I could flip so I won't be a geriatric burden while she navigates the constantly worsening gruesomeness of the United States of Assholes). How's that for a Blog Days of Summer in a dying Stringtown, Blegsylvania post for you?





Gets better, me, every time I listen to that song. When my daughter is my age it will be 2059, the earth will still be here, will the world? The blog is getting more bot pings than ever, I told a friend, and what's truly weird now is that the latest mass sweep is not coming from the giant AI-shitlord bot farms but from seemingly private citizens on their home's local internet providers

each looking at an archived old post, is creepy, and my friend said, you know every fascist overlord and their shock troops are documenting and hording every nasty thing you say about them and I said yes, I'm counting on it, it's the only on/off switch I can contemplate enabling now even if I'm not the one that will throw *that* switch. More damning evidence of my treasonous opinions in grid below, but first

Trump Protected By Surface-to-Air Missile System While Golfing
"A mercurial, strange, demented grifter president now has near-complete power over the conjugation of two powerful states within the State, each of which has its own bipartisan life — the National Security State, and the Predatory Capitalist State"
Why Peace Would Spell Ruin for the Global Elites
Why the system of death and destruction fears Palestine advocacy
A dying West is eating its children
"The only way to understand about "MAHA" or Trumpism is that these people all believe the fundamental flaw with our society is that we devised too many ways to intervene against the laws of nature to allow The Weak to survive. They're solving the problem that some kids should be dying but aren't"
It’s a Third World After All
Thoughts on atomised society and why atomisation is related to alienation
Normativity from the Standpoint of Its Victims
The Shitlord Networks of America
How an Imperial Project Exploits Data Workers
Monopolies Made Life Unaffordable
Showing how Quickly the American State Can Plan an Economy When Empire Demands It
"I mean, there's really no hiding anymore that the purpose of The Atlantic is to ease centrists into gladly welcoming and accepting the rise of fascism"
"Culturally, this is because we had twenty years of roaring all-channels advocacy for increased racism, harder crackdowns and latterly more deportation and demonstrative cruelty. We had this alongside - at best - total contempt for those opposing austerity, war, racism, police violence and genocide"
"This is how you know we need a wealth tax"
Understanding the Dictatorship of Capital
Atheism, nationalism, and the conductor of the crazy train
"Says a lot about the incentive structure of US politics on the left of center that every single progressive is scrutinized for every little thing while the most rabidly right wing Democratic member of Congress can go talk to Trump's stenographer and call his fellow party members bigots"
"Republicans roll the dice on anti-Muslim bigotry one more time"
"Still thinking about the time my Jordanian pastor friend was on facebook trying to explain to fellow evangelicals that "Allah" is just the word in his language for "God" and everyone needs to stop talking about it being "demonic" or whatever because they saw it on the Internet"
"Republicans are gonna be so normal about this, I can feel it"
The Impunity Machine				Medical Censorship and Gaza
ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
Today's ➥ monologue	Too many people do not understand that Dump's Army is double-dipping with immigrants, it thrills the bass and just as importantly trains and gives ICE live target practice for when they're coming at you after the imminent coup
➥	Here's the Manual for ICE's Electric Shock Gloves
➥	Incarcerated for Life in Shitlord’s War on the Left
➥	When will the resistance step it up?
Multiple USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have tried to go overboard amid extended deployment, families say
Shitlords use helmetball to launder money
Ross Douthat Knows the Fascists are On His Side
"If someone in a press relations role is exceedingly helpful and goes out of their way to do something for you it's usually important to figure out what they get out of that interaction"
Review of Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the United States
How Baltimore Achieved Historically Low Homicides—With Less Police
How Maryland’s Partisan Election System Disenfranchises a Quarter of Voters
Maggie		Fuck patriotism				Send him off
GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost
Prehistory from the air				Freshman move-in day
All Trees Bear Witness: Colonial Histories, Climate Breakdown, and Sonic Experiments in Silvic Storytelling
The Unrelenting Hoofbeats of the New Literature						Watergaw
Nonverbalnessmy spasmadvances myapace exblisscusing me
{ feuilleton }			Rest in Peace, John Crowley
Where the Meanings Are: on Fairfield Porter's art
➥	From James Schuyler’s Diary (August 5, 1968)
I probably liked REM too much then and probably dislike then too much now and both are on me but this then and now is a great song
The new Lambchop album drops a week from today, may it save me

LAST MONTH

John Ashbery

No changes of support—only

Patches of gray, here where sunlight fell.

The house seems heavier

Now that they have gone away.   

In fact it emptied in record time.   

When the flat table used to result

A match recedes, slowly, into the night.

The academy of the future is   

Opening its doors and willing

The fruitless sunlight streams into domes,   

The chairs piled high with books and papers.

The sedate one is this month’s skittish one   

Confirming the property that,

A timeless value, has changed hands.

And you could have a new automobile

Ping pong set and garage, but the thief   

Stole everything like a miracle.

In his book there was a picture of treason only   

And in the garden, cries and colors.