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Although it often gets lost amid the subsequent media hysteria and toxic infighting that followed in the wake of August 2017’s hyper-ironically titled “Unite the Right” rally, the event’s initial intent was to prevent a massive bronze sculpture of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from being removed by the members of a largely white-hostile and seemingly illiterate city government in Charlottesville, Virginia. (more…)
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Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “Black People of Walmart,” about black people in Chicago being deprived of their inalienable right to shop at — or steal from — Walmart. See below. (more…)
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In the summer of 2009, a website called “People of Walmart” debuted and, like a fever blister sprouting under the hot August sun, it enjoyed a few moments of Internet virality. Its stock in trade was to feature reader-submitted photos of lumpy, fat, trashy, tacky, stupid, déclassé, weird — and almost entirely white — Americans trudging through those giant hollow warehouses of depressing consumerism that are target-marketed toward consumers of meager means. (more…)
Republican Party mastermind Ali Abdul-Razaq Akbar, aka Ali Alexander.
Republican Party mastermind Ali Abdul-Razaq Akbar, aka Ali Alexander.
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As a primary architect of the entirely unsuccessful “Stop the Steal” movement and now an alleged strategist for Kanye West’s 2024 presidential ambitions, Ali Alexander squirms and wiggles like a greasy brown salamander to place himself at the top of whatever high-profile Right-wing political disaster he can helm. Histrionic, grandiose, and absolutely repulsive to behold, he is easily the slimiest and most suspicious character ever to leave a shit stain on these circles. (more…)
Ron Johnson. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Ron Johnson. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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As I write this, the final results of the 2022 midterm election remain in doubt, but it appears that the Republicans will win a bare majority in the House and gain half the Senate. Georgia’s Senate race will be determined in a runoff. Regardless of whoever wins there, Georgia will not produce a very good Senator. (more…)
Joanna Bourke, a writer who defends bestiality, whose photo perhaps explains how she became interested in the subject.
Joanna Bourke, a writer who defends bestiality, whose photo perhaps explains how she became interested in the subject.
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We should all pity poor Antoine Kendrick of Prescott Valley, Arizona. For starters, he was born black, and no amount of bleaching and scrubbing can change that. Because of the institutionally racist school-to-fast-food-to-prison pipeline, Po’ Antoine was also trapped in a dead-end job as a Wendy’s cashier at the age of 35. (more…)
Michael Edgar Bivins allegedly photographed in the act of being as hateful as the Right-wingers he wrote about as an antifa-friendly journalist only a few years ago.
Michael Edgar Bivins allegedly photographed in the act of being as hateful as the Right-wingers he wrote about as an antifa-friendly journalist only a few years ago.
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Everyone has a favorite hate crime hoax, right? Mine is the hilarious saga of Azalea Cooley, a cancer-stricken wheelchair-bound black lesbian from Portland. Talk about ticking off the oppression boxes! Once you combine the cancer and the wheelchair and the black and the lesbian, that’s what’s known as an Intersectional Quadfecta. (more…)
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Zach Dundas
The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015
The real inference is that Sherlock Holmes really existed and that Conan Doyle never existed. If posterity only reads these latter [fan-produced] books, it will certainly suppose them to be serious. It will imagine that Sherlock Holmes was a man. But he was not; he was only a god. (more…)