Instead of relying on wealthy donors, congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social is using a Twitch stream to raise money – and fight a federal indictment aftermath.site/kat-abughaza...

wow has housing now btw

She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???

kirk face swaps have been unavoidable on the visual socials for weeks now. i (lightly) helped @oloonik.bsky.social in another WXQT Radio joint, which you can read for free. you should, however, consider signing up to get these straight in your inbox for free, if you don't mind max one email a week:

this show is really an indictment of the American tax code, truly a policy failure

I'm absolutely begging for the democratic party to get a grip

Profit “at the expense of safety for children and teens”

Google's mobile native news system was fine until they rolled out new AI features. I'm mostly getting fed endless book lists now. (Unfort, I have only encouraged this by hateclicking on articles with titles like "7 books to read before you die" or "5 life-changing novels" or "3 unusual nonfiction")

Last week, I got an email from Medium telling me to have my tax docs in order to report my income from the platform. I haven't published on it in a while, much less published members only. Anyway, the only story that I ever listed paywalled (by accident) has earned a whopping $3.53 in 6 years lmao

This week, @oloonik.bsky.social and I pushed a newsletter to the WXQT subscriber list, at the tail end of which we shared some things we had enjoyed in the past month. You can sign up for next month at the link below, but I'm sharing mine in a short thread.

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

this is exactly why it's so strange that it's normative to expect to go through the publication process for free. these enterprises can post a 30% profit margin because, in large part, they aren't paying the people who put in the research work.

imagine being Troy Parrott and trying to pay for your own pint at the pub after this level of heroics

New from me this morning, a deep dive on Elon Musk's Grokipedia-- the forthrightness of the white nationalist and eugenic advocacy in many entries surprised me and the experts I spoke to www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

go read Robin's newest on AI Jake Paul, depictions of which range from silly to deeply problematic (both of which are emblematic of internet imagination and sped up by generative AI like Sora)

I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

thinking of expanding on this type of phantom militia threat in this UNCW case, we have several case studies that have led to very different outcomes ('phantom' doesn't mean it isn't a threat felt as real, but that it has no materiality)

Jolani/Sharaa's last decade is wild, absurd to think of everything that has happened in and about Syria just in the last year to lead to headlines like these: www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

this week, I wrote an essay for class about two movies (killer of sheep + still life) where 'living amidst the ruins' is an important theme of many scenes, and I'm very interested in carrying this concept a bit further. pls share if you have any favorite movies that take place amidst ruin!

oh man we're at the risk of total sandwich carnage! also lol @ "a source familiar with lunch"

New Performative Male (ultramasculine edition) just dropped. Excellent analysis by @hampton.bsky.social on the lineage of Kash Patel's challenge coin

Dick Cheney's greatest achievement is avoiding being charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court in the Hague.

Check it out, interesting meme lineages inside

New piece from @hampton.bsky.social on WXQT talks performative masculinity in the FBI, challenge coins, and of course Mr. Patel: wxqt-radio.ghost.io/performative...

Another new blog post up at WXQT! This time, I write on Kash Patel's new(ish) challenge coin, which is indicative of how one of America's most powerful performative males crafts his visual identity (spoiler: mostly out of dudecore mainstream culture).

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

and Ronald Reagan has effectively been president for over 40 years. the rightward ratchet on the overton window is invisible to people who favor & benefit from conservative politics, in the same way that beneficiaries of white privilege naively deny the endurance of systemic racism

not enough data to say "democrats retreat from successful candidate" when they never really engaged him. however, plenty data to show how republicans seek boogeymen to drive fear among their base for a candidate who is very unlikely to ever impact their lives. we're truly haunted by Cold War ghosts.

the sheer amount of 'bipartisan, anti-PV' tables I've sat at where some version of "democrats moved really far to the left, so republicans responded by moving really far to the right" is shared as common sense information has had me pulling my hair out for the last decade. it's demonstrably false!!

If you're interested in reading about some of the responses to Kirk's death from online psychics, fortune tellers, and other mediums, @oloonik.bsky.social and I just hit publish on our first co-written weird Internet piece:

Inaugural blog post from a new casual venture/site - @hampton.bsky.social and I briefly delved into the world of TikTok psychics after Charlie Kirk’s death. Read more from the beyond below, and expect similar work in the coming weeks: wxqt-radio.ghost.io/charlies-psy...

among many others, we're certainly right at a "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" type moment as the White House literally builds a gilded ballroom amid government shutdown

Vincent Adultman

I don’t know how many times I have to say this but if you didn’t know any geek girls in high school or you don’t know any now it’s because they didn’t trust you and you’re *NOT A SAFE PERSON* for women to be themselves around.

always v telling where money is free and flows versus where austerity is the norm. yet another "all the president's friends" inversion of the "Ford to City - Drop Dead" headline

Brother, you already *were* a ghost. Up there, screaming — along with all of them. Scaring each other. Haunting each other. It's the living who are ghosts. The dead are silent. They don't rattle windows or write letters in blood. The living do. Leave them behind. Rest.

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened. This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

I would have 100 percented this game ngl

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany." - Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

Another good example from the season premiere: you can’t change Gosunkugi being Akane’s creepy stalker without fundamentally changing the character You can, however, change it from “he takes sexy photos of Akane doing gymnastics” to “he tries to get photos of Akane but Ranma keeps posing for them”

We are told time and time again that there isn't enough revenue in journalism, and that's what's causing the crisis. The reality is that there is money, it's just ever more centralized thru the usual forces of late capitalism, giving us ideological travesty like this while good reporters lose work.

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

It’s legal to insult cops in the US, fwiw

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Wild stuff — nuking a portion of your website because MAGA got mad at you for it. jewishinsider.com/2025/09/adl-...