Like One Who Scrawls a Listless Testament of Gold Quirks

I doom scroll and document the clusterfuck to help me focus my nourishing fury through futile action but understand those who reasonably don't doom scroll don't want to and won't click the links in my grids, I said to a friend who tells me he no longer can. My daughter can't, won't, my wife, who concedes that while I'm angry I'm not mad, can't, won't. I have a another friend who can't, won't, who tells me she just wants the midterms to be over, thinks a resounding repudiation of Trump and magamericans will slow rather than, like I do, dramatically accelerate infuriated shitlords into enacting and brutally enforcing the United States of Assholes into the fascist shithole Shitlords desire, and tells me she doesn't want to hear what I think will happen if voters deliver a resounding repudiation of Trump and magamericans on November 3 because I'm fucking nuts and too often right

Making these headshots disperses my soothing seething fury far more effectively than the grids but people want to see them even less than the grids and I have stats to prove it and reassure me. I said to a chaired professor renowned as a leading historian on American shitliberalism, who still believes a revival of New Deal and Great Society in Shitlordistan is possible, you *don't* believe that shitlords are weaponizing Trump's descent into madness as the trigger for kabooming what remains of America's false democracy forever, you actually believe that after corruptly gaining all this power they will peacefully relinquish it in a world they are willfully and profitably destroying in their efforts to subsidize their survival of their own deliberate wreckage? He would never look at this blog, but he did say I'm fucking nuts. Julian Cope turned 69 yesterday, if this is not one of this shitty blog's theme songs, only a few of which I can remember now, it's certainly one of mine

The riots in Europe are about shitlords not immigrants
Epidemic of Shitlords				Their gestapo agents
Shitlords are evil - what sustains them?
The Hidden Looting by the Rich leads to the Physical Looting by Those Who've Been Looted
The shitlord plot to delete democracy
A shitlord Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal					94 Year-Old Electronics shitlord Accused of Hiring Goons to Infest Chicago With Huge Rat Swarm
Shitlords and the quiet reshaping of America's public lands
Palestinian Youth Helped Save WaPo Journalist Attacked by Israeli Settlers
Israel using US-made electroshock weapons on Palestinian detainees
UK Announces It Will Officially Brainwash Children To Be Hateful Zionists
The hunting of Ilhan Omar					Rep. Ilhan Omar says she will move out of her Washington, DC, home after federal search
Since I've been barking about Obama not denouncing Trump's searching of Omar's house I now need give credit where due
If this is true and the Democrats don't run commercials on it in every competitive campaign down to the state house level, they don't want to win
➥	That was added to this grid three days ago - Democrats DON'T want to win
How Trump’s FBI Purge Saved Lindsey Graham and James Clyburn From a Bribery Investigation
Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination
Why OpenAI Hired Chuck Schumer’s Daughter Away From Amazon
"I chose to say slurs in return for no health insurance and still not get laid and now I'm angry at how I was treated"
➥	"People are rightfully dunking on these guys, but as somebody who’s had to deal with so many of them in so many aspects of their life, good. Let them fuck off. If you’re useless, the only thing you can do is cause more harm. Fucking off and doing nothing is literally the best possibility here"
Her fiancé and caretaker was murdered by a far-right extremist. Then Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned the killer
Nothing will come of nothing				The hidden history of how Big Oil invented the American Dream
A GREAT MORAL BLIND SPOT
Nearly 1.6 Million Pounds Of Hot Dogs, Bacon And Deli Meats Recalled After Cooler Failure
And stop watching helmetball too, ffs
I'm going with men are pangingly insecure assholes who find their only pleasure in dominating lesser pangingly insecure assholes and who measure their worth in power and profit
Why So Many Pet Owners Can’t Afford a Veterinarian
The Bilberry Riots >				"Why have homelessness when we have the land and the resources to house everyone? Why have food poverty when we could cultivate everything we need sustainably? Beyond the moral consideration, it was, frankly, illogical. Our advancement as a species can’t happen if we artificially create poverty"
Your prices are being rigged					Cometh the Man
Maggie		Lives of the poet				SWANS	SWANS
To feel the possibility that we could if we wanted to
{ feuilleton }			Let me share a bit of business with you
Tom LeClair on China Mieville's new novel *Rouse*
In Her Life as a Visiting Lecturer I Meet Various and Sundry People or, Another Way to Think of This, Here Are All the Novels I Never Wrote and You Are Welcome to Them					2026 October 21
The Unexpected Literary History of the Dildo
Swans help, and this is a personal theme song							⬇

INVECTIVE AGAINST SWANS

John Ashbery

The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks

And far beyond the discords of the wind.

 

A bronze rain from the sun descending marks

The death of summer, which that time endures

 

Like one who scrawls a listless testament

Of golden quirks and Paphian caricatures,

 

Bequeathing your white feathers to the moon

And giving your bland motions to the air.

 

Behold, already on the long parades

The crows anoint the statues with their dirt.

 

And the soul, O ganders, being lonely, flies

Beyond your chilly chariots, to the skies.