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attention to people who are above the age of eighteen: Sickos Selection #4 is popping with the sale of 400 pages of comics, 500 pages of art, and 100,000 words of fiction from 25 of the internet's spiciest smutsmiths into ONE convenient Itch bundle.
I put some expansion-pack-pages onto the ELF comic for my contribution to the Sickos #4 bundle. if you don't like it ur a cop.
Why does Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan feel more alive in 2026 than it did in 1990?
It should be hopelessly dated: debutante season, Jane Austen talk, UHB manners in a quiet Manhattan winter.
Instead it’s brutally perceptive about how classes don’t vanish in thunder . They mutate, aestheticize their anxiety, and keep speaking in exquisitely overbuilt sentences while the room slowly empties.
New essay from Kelsey Maurine Brickl: “The Elegance of Decline Without Illusion” - https://asovereignwound.substack.com/p/whit-stillmans-metropolitan
When working well, the family can provide sanity, protection and normality, a small haven amid chaos. A politics that seeks to displace or disrupt the family will not, in any case, last long. It no longer seems to be politically radical to advocate for destroying or 'abolishing,' the family. On the contrary, eliminating the family very much suits an economy and culture that create and prey upon the isolated, atomic individual. The couple too can be a 'secret society.'
Nina Power, “What Do Man Want?” (2022).
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995
On the nose.
Social media, social decline
Reading the comments on most trending posts on social media is just vile. It shocks me that people treat other people with such rudeness, judgement of what is being posted and name-calling for holding a different opinion, etc. Most of these people wouldn't dare say these things if face to face. It is an eye opener.
American politics is little more than the internal politics of the overclass, now that the working class majority has lost the grassroots, mass-membership institutions that once gave it collective bargaining power—private sector trade unions, influential religious organizations, and local political parties. Members of the working-class majority play no role except as occasional voters. They tend to be ignored, except during election seasons, when they are targeted by manipulative appeals based on race and gender in the case of the Democrats and religion and patriotism in the case of the Republicans...At the risk of being overly schematic I would suggest that the “center,” “left” and “right” of America’s top-thirty-percent politics can be mapped imperfectly onto the managerial elite, the professional bourgeoisie and the small business bourgeoisie. In particular, both DSA progressivism and Tea Party conservatism can be understood as different strategies for enlisting the power of government to stave off the proletarianization of the constituents of the two bourgeoisies.
Michael Lind, “The Double Horseshoe Theory” (July 16th 2020).
New Slogan
Democracy: "Everything fails, but it's working."
The Bureau of Prisons must continue providing hormone therapy and social accommodations to transgender inmates after an order signed by Pres
We need to deal with this problem permanently. Donald Trump cannot go hard enough at these things. He should do absolutely anything necessary.
It’s time to eradicate this infestation, and it wouldn’t hurt to deal with these activist judges either.
