My newest piece for Ambush Magazine. I've felt so pessimistic lately that I almost missed the publication deadline; I had no idea what I could write that wouldn't be depressing. But I surprised myself, and ended up feeling a little better once I was done.
Some Notes on Grief and Gratitude - Ambush Magazine
Acquaintances when I see them: “How are you doing?” Me (usually) prior to November 5, 2024: “Pretty good, how about you?” That little bit of small talk is so ubiquitous that I usually don’t give it m...
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July 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
My newest piece for Ambush Magazine. I've felt so pessimistic lately that I almost missed the publication deadline; I had no idea what I could write that wouldn't be depressing. But I surprised myself, and ended up feeling a little better once I was done.
One of the most interesting stories I've read this year. This is a tour-de-force of reporting, about the most fascinating person you’ve never heard of. #PeterPutnam
Finding Peter Putnam
The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind
nautil.us
July 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
One of the most interesting stories I've read this year. This is a tour-de-force of reporting, about the most fascinating person you’ve never heard of. #PeterPutnam
If you want to see the original political playbook for the era we’re living through now, you should read this book.
Robert Fieseler, @wordbobby.bsky.social, has written a fine and important book, American Scare: Florida's Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives.
My interview:
‘We live in a second Red Scare’: what can we learn from a chilling book about Florida’s past?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
My interview:
‘We live in a second Red Scare’: what can we learn from a chilling book about Florida’s past?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
‘We live in a second Red Scare’: what can we learn from a chilling book about Florida’s past?
A harrowing new book looks back at a dark period of US history as the Johns committee targeted Black and queer Americans, drawing parallels to what’s happening now
www.theguardian.com
June 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
If you want to see the original political playbook for the era we’re living through now, you should read this book.
As we move into Pride weekend in New Orleans, I'm reminded of this fantastic panel discussion on the history of Pride in New Orleans from five years ago. Panelists included: Frank Perez, Valda Lewis, Michael Hickerson, Mark Gonzalez, and the late Catherine Roland. #NewOrleans #Pride #History
History of Pride in New Orleans
YouTube video by LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana
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June 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
As we move into Pride weekend in New Orleans, I'm reminded of this fantastic panel discussion on the history of Pride in New Orleans from five years ago. Panelists included: Frank Perez, Valda Lewis, Michael Hickerson, Mark Gonzalez, and the late Catherine Roland. #NewOrleans #Pride #History
Robert W. Fieseler's new book, American Scare, is a fascinating exposé of the Johns Committee, which devastated the lives of countless people in 20th C. Florida. This is an absolute page-turner, with plenty of lessons for our times. Here's my brand-new interview with @wordbobby.bsky.social
American Scare: An Interview with Robert W. Fieseler - Ambush Magazine
Robert W. Fieseler is a local journalist and historian whose first book, Tinderbox, won multiple major awards and has become the preeminent publication on the topic of the UpStairs Lounge fire. I rece...
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June 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Robert W. Fieseler's new book, American Scare, is a fascinating exposé of the Johns Committee, which devastated the lives of countless people in 20th C. Florida. This is an absolute page-turner, with plenty of lessons for our times. Here's my brand-new interview with @wordbobby.bsky.social
The city gave "Matt Wisdom, a local tech entrepreneur...and his team access to everything in the 311 system — without any kind of contract or other formal agreement outlining what they could or could not do with the data."
City pauses 311 partnership with local tech mogul - Verite News New Orleans
Internal emails show, and officials confirm, that the city gave Matt Wisdom’s team full access to residents’ personal information entered into its 311 system.
veritenews.org
May 2, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The city gave "Matt Wisdom, a local tech entrepreneur...and his team access to everything in the 311 system — without any kind of contract or other formal agreement outlining what they could or could not do with the data."
April 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Gay Easter Parade pop art, acrylic on canvas by Chris Tassin #peeps #GayEasterParade #NewOrleans #LittleDebbieSnatchcake
April 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Gay Easter Parade pop art, acrylic on canvas by Chris Tassin #peeps #GayEasterParade #NewOrleans #LittleDebbieSnatchcake
April 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
“When the range of factors that can get a person arrested stretches from political speech to a paperwork error, we are in territory described by the Russian saying, ‘Give us a person and we’ll find the infraction.’”
April 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“When the range of factors that can get a person arrested stretches from political speech to a paperwork error, we are in territory described by the Russian saying, ‘Give us a person and we’ll find the infraction.’”
“In 1775, George Washington personally warned British General Thomas Gage not to mistreat Continental prisoners…Even amid the brutalities of war, Washington understood that how we treat captives speaks to the soul of what American democracy was supposed to be.”
Kristi Noem’s photo-op in El Salvador’s mega-prison was her Abu Ghraib moment. Trump’s administration is trading decency and democracy for cruelty and spectacle, and our protectors will pay for it www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
April 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“In 1775, George Washington personally warned British General Thomas Gage not to mistreat Continental prisoners…Even amid the brutalities of war, Washington understood that how we treat captives speaks to the soul of what American democracy was supposed to be.”
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Thousands held a rally to demand the release and safe return of Rumeysa Ozturk, who was disappeared by the Trump regime, one of many people that have been kidnapped nationwide. #3E
March 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Thousands held a rally to demand the release and safe return of Rumeysa Ozturk, who was disappeared by the Trump regime, one of many people that have been kidnapped nationwide. #3E
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March 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This list is by no means comprehensive, and any astounding omissions are my fault entirely. #StupidCoup
Who and What I'm Following During This Stupid Coup - Ambush Magazine
Beginning on November 5 and until late January, I felt an intense need to ignore the news media, social media, and any other media that might remind me of what was coming. It was too much. It was over...
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March 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This list is by no means comprehensive, and any astounding omissions are my fault entirely. #StupidCoup
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In which she quotes: “If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.”
My written testimony for yesterday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the so-called "censorship industrial complex," which is more detailed than my opening statement, can be downloaded here: www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/202...
Download File: 2025-03-25_Testimony_Franks | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
www.judiciary.senate.gov
March 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
In which she quotes: “If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.”
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A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
March 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
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DOGE broke into the U.S. Institute of Peace headquarters in Northwest D.C. Monday evening, the independent nonprofit’s CEO said.
US Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its building
Employees of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have entered the U.S. Institute of Peace despite protests from the nonprofit that it is not part of the executive branch and is instead an ...
www.nbcwashington.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
DOGE broke into the U.S. Institute of Peace headquarters in Northwest D.C. Monday evening, the independent nonprofit’s CEO said.
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This is a coup! U.S. Institute for Peace called the DC police on the Musk team members in an effort to stop them from trespassing because the institute has control of its own building and the land it sits on. But instead, the DC police allowed them to enter and kicked out the institute’s officials.
March 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This is a coup! U.S. Institute for Peace called the DC police on the Musk team members in an effort to stop them from trespassing because the institute has control of its own building and the land it sits on. But instead, the DC police allowed them to enter and kicked out the institute’s officials.
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Mad world, mad kings, mad composition!
March 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Mad world, mad kings, mad composition!
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I'm not tired of winning. You're tired of winning.
March 12, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I'm not tired of winning. You're tired of winning.
“[Nathan] Hooven, a disabled Air Force veteran and former Trump supporter, was fired from his VA job without warning. ‘I think a lot of other veterans voted the same way, and we have been betrayed.’”
Trump hugged the flag, then stabbed veterans in the back. Cutting 80,000 VA jobs won’t improve services-it’s a betrayal of those who served. Veterans kept
their promise, why won’t he? Read more:
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/betrayed-a...
their promise, why won’t he? Read more:
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/betrayed-a...
Betrayed and Abandoned: Trump’s War on Veterans
Slashing the VA, Gutting Benefits, and Breaking America’s Promise to Those Who Served
adamkinzinger.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“[Nathan] Hooven, a disabled Air Force veteran and former Trump supporter, was fired from his VA job without warning. ‘I think a lot of other veterans voted the same way, and we have been betrayed.’”
“The Trump administration…climbed over the backs of a bloodied but hopeful people to reach the man that ordered their suffering.”
The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
The War Trump Chooses
That wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi. It was Americans against reason
snyder.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“The Trump administration…climbed over the backs of a bloodied but hopeful people to reach the man that ordered their suffering.”
“No one was left in the city to speak his name. All memory of the King of Olympus lay scattered and fallow like an ancient statue in pieces, waiting to be reassembled.”
King of Olympus - 64 Parishes
Patrick "Skip" Kibodeaux was New Orleans's first public PWA (Person With AIDS), and an activist for gay rights in the 1980s.
64parishes.org
March 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
“No one was left in the city to speak his name. All memory of the King of Olympus lay scattered and fallow like an ancient statue in pieces, waiting to be reassembled.”
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The shouting and roaring of rude men is so hideous.
February 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The shouting and roaring of rude men is so hideous.