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I have no politics but revolutionary change--for the worse. Diatribist for Verdigris Magazine. I write regularly here: https://henrysimmons3578.substack.com/ Send all hate mail to harrysimmons3578@proton.me
5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.
Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
A group of us in the Senate are demanding public hearings on Trump's disastrous war with Iran with Secretary Hegseth and Rubio. And we've introduced a half dozen war powers resolutions to force the Senate to vote every day on the war if the hearings don't happen.
He's a fraud, though.
The percentage of Minnesotans without health insurance jumped from 3.8% in 2023 to 5.8% in 2025, an increase called "deeply disturbing" by Minnesota Commissioner of Health Brooke Cunningham.
In this essay, I meditate on the inevitability of contradiction. In this case, the fact that Twitter, the den of iniquity many fled to come here, is a better source of information about hard things than this purported land of civility: vdgasjournal.com/2026/03/11/t...
Extra trillion barrels not of just any oil, but barrels of snake oil.
To my long suffering learned readers, as well my long suffering editor @cloudquistador.bsky.social
I have finally finished and published my review of @saintsoftness.bsky.social book 'We the Parasites'. Give it a read and pass it along.
Hope you all enjoy it:
vdgasjournal.com/2026/03/11/i...
In a world where the mind only boggles, this is mind boggling.
A company uses your name to sell AI slop "expert review" in your area of expertise?
How. Is. This. Okay.
Answer: it's not.
To my long suffering learned readers, as well my long suffering editor @cloudquistador.bsky.social
I have finally finished and published my review of @saintsoftness.bsky.social book 'We the Parasites'. Give it a read and pass it along.
Hope you all enjoy it:
vdgasjournal.com/2026/03/11/i...
very excited for this to be out in the world: i wrote about repressed queerness in Elio, child surveillance in Inside Out 2, the post-Lasseter crisis, and the figure of the child in Pixar for The Baffler
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The New Mexico Department of Justice hasย carried out a searchย at the secluded Zorro ranch once owned by Jeffrey Epstein โ rekindling questions about whether the property was used for the sexual abuse and trafficking of young women and girls.
quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend
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can: what can it not?โ
And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law: but 'tis not so above:
There is no shuffling, there the action lies
In his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd,
Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults,
To give in evidence. What then? what rests?
Try what repentance
I noted those lines but, frankly, the following as a whole (including the lines I mentioned) probably has much resonance:
โMy crown, mine own ambition, and my queen.
May one be pardon'd and retain the offence?
In the corrupted currents of this world
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice;
May one be pardon'd and retain the offence?โ
Between the power and the bloodshed of Lincolnโs presidency, I think this contemplation hit a little closer to home than Hamletโs less rugged contemplation of suicide.
Off the top of my head, I donโt know for sure. However, the writer Gore Vidal probably didโhaving been one of the few writers to note Lincolnโs love of Shakespeare.
A guess: Vidal notes Lincolnโs ambition in politics, so perhaps this line resonated:
โMy crown, mine own ambition, and my queen.
*I always have
with very few exceptions.
donโt have the strength to do bad things or they have some other incentive not to. Often, they are good because the bad they can do is not as large-to-scale as others.
This is a point to be made in politics too; your favorite politician is usually some variation of awful, no matter where they are
I also have enjoyed the work of Roy Casagranda, and this is one insight I find important: in history and politics, there are almost never โgood guysโ. All actors tends to be some variation of awful. And often those who are โgoodโ are either that way because they merely
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This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
"As Derek Thompson explained, the Trump regime [has been] doing a Ctrl+F for โmonarchyโ on the body of American law. They have looked for any statute, ruling, or argument that would allow them to assume suprademocratic powers.
They have been fairly successful."
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NEW: We filed a motion to stop the U.S. Department of Justice from accessing Kentucky voters' personal data.
This is the 23rd state, plus DC, where we've taken action to protect voters' privacy ahead of the midterm elections.
every time i repost a joke about butlerian jihad i turn to my ipad and whisper "not you baby. youre different"
Jalen Smith was one of more than two dozen people charged in a sprawling gambling investigation that affected college games across the country.
โPiracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.โ
-Werner Herzog on NPR just now ๐ฅ
