Rants, diversions and other general flotsam.
✝ Euzcil Castaneto
Paradise Lost in Modern English
A line-by-line, side-by-side paraphrasing of the epic masterpiece in plain English for the lazy student or teacher in need.
Tougaloo College ✝ Phil Huckelberry and Stephen Berrey
History and Social Justice with James W. Loewen
A site of racial, gender, and inequality studies inspired by the work of James W. Loewen. One of the single best sources for challenging the taught history of America.
yes! magazine ✝ Shane Burley
A Return to Leftist Self-Defense
Communities targeted by escalating right-wing violence are learning from their own histories how to keep each other safe.
Global Network on Extremism and Technology ✝ Marc-André Argentino, Barrett G, M.B. Tyler
764: The Intersection of Terrorism, Violent Extremism, and Child Sexual Exploitation
Analysis of the online activity of O9A and those who adopt their visual aesthetics, such as 764, indicates that there is a significant threat nexus between terrorist and violent extremism content (TVEC) and child sexual exploitation and abuse material (CSAM).
wreckage/salvage ✝ Erin Kissane
Reflecting on science fiction writer Liu Cixin’s dark forest theory of the universe to social media, an idea called the Dark Internet Forest emerges. Recommended reading for those thinking about the visibility and accessibility of online spaces.
Anark (Youtube Channel) ✝ Daniel Baryon
The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Organizing
Daniel Baryon goes deep on how to organize for social change using Cooperation Tulsa as an example.
Girlhood in the Modern World ✝ Freya India
Pulling apart the conflation of religion and self-help in the modern age of girlhood.
The Reframe ✝ A.R. Moxon
What "Center" Is That, Exactly?
Choosing your enemy and having your enemy chosen for you, being told to seek an ever-drifting “center” that doesn’t include basic governance and common human decency, and finding a center to the left of our current poles.
LA Times ✝ Deborah Netburn
What is the ‘shadow self’ and why is everyone talking about their hidden desires?
How a concept created and coined by Carl Jung became the latest pop psych buzzword for self-discovery on social media.
Expansive repository of articles, books, notes, and writings about Lilith. Inspired and inspiring.
The Orwell Foundation ✝ George Orwell
Orwell’s essay in nationalism versus patriotism. In essence: patriotism is pride in who you are, nationalism is pride in who you are not.
Defector ✝ Erik Baker
The Ghosts of New Atheism Still Haunt Us
Examining how the New Atheism movement (Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins) lost its relevance to the left by assuming conservative stances on trans rights.
✝ Anonymous
Dedicated to summarizing the problematic nature of The Satanic Temple mostly due to the beliefs and actions of the owners and controllers, Cevin Soling and Doug Misicko.
Tumblr ✝ Will-o-the-Witch
Everything You Want to Know About Lilith
Unpacking the meaning of Lilith without the traditional cultural appropriation, misinformation, and antisemitism.
MIT Press ✝ Kay Redfield Jamison
In Their Own Words: Narratives of Mania and Depression
Clinical psychologist and bestselling author Kay Redfield Jamison explores mood disorders from antiquity to the present, blending science, history, and personal memoir.
Filter ✝ Tony Vick
The Private Prisons Industry Is Changing What Constitutes “Food”
Capitalism destroying us again: most of the food prisoners are served is starch that’s been fortified with powders that are meant to replace actual nutrients. American prisoners get about $2 of food per day.
Hazlitt ✝ Meg Bernhard
For twenty years, PostSecret, the website of anonymous confessions, has broadcast suburban America’s hidden truths—and revealed the limits of limitless disclosure.
Religion Dispatches ✝ Joseph Laycock
Reviewing the high notes of the satanic panic through the lens of indie horror movie Late Night With the Devil. (Authored by the same guy that wrote Cambridge Elements' Satanism.)
The Atlantic ✝ Helen Lewis
The Atlantic dives into the controversy of Lucien Greaves of TST associating with David Silverman. (Internet Archive link.)
Prevail ✝ Greg Olear
Unpacking Milton’s epic poem to examine its critical view of Heaven and God’s methodologies and how that predictably maps back to the attitudes of American Christian Nationalism.
Medium ✝ Joan Westenberg
A high-level treatise on the personal and systemic changes needed to “quit” — or at least reduce — our slavery to a system that is “a philosophical and ideological force that shapes our lives, environment, and perception of humanity”.