It’s the one-year anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s death, and the world’s first Kirkiversary. And as we tentatively predicted last year in the weeks A.K. (After Kirk), the Internet has certainly changed ...

Kash Patel's new challenge coin and the actual performative male moment. In early October, journalist Ken Dilanian posted an image of the two faces of an alleged new challenge coin issued by the dire...

Two months of news updates on the US militia movement, including their election results and DOJ action.

Warning: big spoilers for Squid Game (all seasons) and also for AI slop content purporting to be continuations of the show (just in case you’re bizarre and care about that!). Continue only if you are ...

Few people know this, but I was an unpaid intern in a local office for Lindsey Graham my first summer after starting college. I worked a few hours a week, filling time in the days while I ran the take...

This blog post discusses the work of two very different directors, American filmmaker Charles Burnett and Chinese director Jia Zhangke. It includes light spoilers for Killer of Sheep and Still Life, s...

Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman is in Belfast, where several days of racist riots have targeted immigrants and ethnic minorities with violence, threats and property destruction. It is the third consec...

“Shit. I know shit’s bad right now with all that starving bullshit, and the dust storms, and we’re running out of French fries and burrito coverings, but I got a solution” - Dwayne Elizondo Mountain D...

Prior to the violence in Belfast this week, a flyer circulated all across Northern Irish social media and in group chats, which identified 26 “road closures.” The flyer, which appears AI-generated du...

News updates about militia groups, including new DOJ activity and Riverside County Sheriff Bianco.

The Backrooms (2026) has real script problems, but its concept is interesting enough to warrant some analysis. Using Frentz and Rushing's reading of Jaws as a framework, this post argues for Clark as ...

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Season two of Severance and Squid Game built on the anti-capitalist critique of their first seasons, but in vastly different directions. This post explores how they diverge.

This post is a companion piece for a paper I presented on an archive at UGA.