tyler
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Contributing Writer, Truthout
Editor-in-Chief, Protean Magazine
Editor-in-Chief, Protean Magazine
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Now up: Noah Kulwin reviews Seth Harp's new book, "The Fort Bragg Cartel," tracing the historical continuities between Vietnam War era drug smuggling operations and the overwhelming present-day criminality taking place at the Fort.
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A History of Violence • Protean Magazine
Noah Kulwin reviews Seth Harp's new book, "The Fort Bragg Cartel," tracing the historical continuities between Vietnam War-era drug smuggling operations and the overwhelming present-day criminality ta...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Now up: Noah Kulwin reviews Seth Harp's new book, "The Fort Bragg Cartel," tracing the historical continuities between Vietnam War era drug smuggling operations and the overwhelming present-day criminality taking place at the Fort.
proteanmag.com/2025/11/12/a...
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Excited to be in conversation with Abby Anderson, part of the Budding Roses collective, organizers of an excellent youth liberationist project here in Portland.
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Excited to be in conversation with Abby Anderson, part of the Budding Roses collective, organizers of an excellent youth liberationist project here in Portland.
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That’s all very fair but my most recent story literally compares AI to Victorian grave robbers, like let’s think about who we’re piling on before going off proteanmag.com/2025/10/31/r...
Return of the Body Snatchers • Protean Magazine
This Halloween, Kim Kelly digs into the history of medical graverobbing and desecration-for-profit—a long-buried symptom of the heedlessness and abject cruelty of centuries past. Right? Surely nothing...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
That’s all very fair but my most recent story literally compares AI to Victorian grave robbers, like let’s think about who we’re piling on before going off proteanmag.com/2025/10/31/r...
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man it'd been a while since my last real chortle of glee
November 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
man it'd been a while since my last real chortle of glee
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always, always, always read Mel:
November 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
always, always, always read Mel:
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I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...
November 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...
pleased as ever to have work from Luke O'Neil in the magazine. these three new stories are some of my all-time favorites, but having read We Had it Coming, i highly recommend the whole thing.
"I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me."
"I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me."
Three new short stories by Luke O’Neil (@lukeoneil47.bsky.social)—"The rules,” “How to live,” and “Something that was once potentially good”—are excerpted here. All three appear in his new book of stories, We Had it Coming and Other Fictions, now out from OR Books.
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We Had it Coming [EXCERPTS] • Protean Magazine
Three new short stories by Luke O'Neil—"The rules," "How to live," and "Something that was once potentially good"—are excerpted here from his new book of stories, We Had it Coming, out from OR Books.
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November 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
pleased as ever to have work from Luke O'Neil in the magazine. these three new stories are some of my all-time favorites, but having read We Had it Coming, i highly recommend the whole thing.
"I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me."
"I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me."
happy Halloween—enjoy this next entry in Protean’s tradition: we have Kim Kelly once again exploring more fascinating and macabre historical narratives, and making the case that we still show just as much ghoulish disrespect to human values and our fellows to this day.
This Halloween, Kim Kelly digs into the history of medical graverobbing and desecration for profit—a long-dead symptom of the heedless cruelty of centuries past. Right? Surely nothing so grotesque could still take place in our enlightened era.
proteanmag.com/2025/10/31/r...
proteanmag.com/2025/10/31/r...
Return of the Body Snatchers • Protean Magazine
This Halloween, Kim Kelly digs into the history of medical graverobbing and desecration-for-profit—a long-buried symptom of the heedlessness and abject cruelty of centuries past. Right? Surely nothing...
proteanmag.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:48 PM
happy Halloween—enjoy this next entry in Protean’s tradition: we have Kim Kelly once again exploring more fascinating and macabre historical narratives, and making the case that we still show just as much ghoulish disrespect to human values and our fellows to this day.
it is SIGNIFICANTLY more dangerous to work as a school crossing guard than as a cop.
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School crossing guards face life-threatening dangers on the job
An investigation by The Associated Press and Cox Media Group Television Stations found that school crossing guards face dangerous conditions, with many injured or killed on the job.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
it is SIGNIFICANTLY more dangerous to work as a school crossing guard than as a cop.
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www.bls.gov/charts/censu...
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You can still snag a print edition of our most recent print edition—Protean Magazine Issue V: Contra Temps.
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Protean Magazine Issue V: Contra Temps • Protean Magazine
Protean Magazine Issue V: Contra Temps features some of the best writers and artists working today. In dozens of critical essays, poetry, and art, our contributors and editors grapple with genocide, h...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
You can still snag a print edition of our most recent print edition—Protean Magazine Issue V: Contra Temps.
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Read the ORB interview with Luke on the part of his book that was about California, and "quotes-California": www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/we-have-the-...
My new collection of short stories and poetry -- We Had It Coming -- is available for pre-order now! It's the best thing I've ever written and I think you all will find solace and despair in equal measure within.
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October 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Read the ORB interview with Luke on the part of his book that was about California, and "quotes-California": www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/we-have-the-...
get this fuckin garbage off MY GOD DAMNMED MICROSOFT WORD!!!!
October 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
get this fuckin garbage off MY GOD DAMNMED MICROSOFT WORD!!!!
this is a really, really fascinating article from Greg Afinogenov about his relative that participated in organizing before the Russian Revolution. this appeared in our third print issue—worth reading online now if you didn't get your copy at the time (in which case i still don't forgive you)
From the Protean Archive -
“In the years since I discovered that piece of paper from the Archive of the Revolution, I have found myself pulled toward two diametrically opposite conclusions.”
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“In the years since I discovered that piece of paper from the Archive of the Revolution, I have found myself pulled toward two diametrically opposite conclusions.”
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Forerunners • Protean Magazine
In Protean Issue IV, Greg Afinogenov shared the story of his Russian revolutionary ancestor, Antonina Vasilievna Fessalonitskaia, and reflected on the pitfalls and possibilities of contesting power st...
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October 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
this is a really, really fascinating article from Greg Afinogenov about his relative that participated in organizing before the Russian Revolution. this appeared in our third print issue—worth reading online now if you didn't get your copy at the time (in which case i still don't forgive you)
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From the Protean Archive -
“In the years since I discovered that piece of paper from the Archive of the Revolution, I have found myself pulled toward two diametrically opposite conclusions.”
proteanmag.com/2024/06/16/f...
“In the years since I discovered that piece of paper from the Archive of the Revolution, I have found myself pulled toward two diametrically opposite conclusions.”
proteanmag.com/2024/06/16/f...
Forerunners • Protean Magazine
In Protean Issue IV, Greg Afinogenov shared the story of his Russian revolutionary ancestor, Antonina Vasilievna Fessalonitskaia, and reflected on the pitfalls and possibilities of contesting power st...
proteanmag.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
From the Protean Archive -
“In the years since I discovered that piece of paper from the Archive of the Revolution, I have found myself pulled toward two diametrically opposite conclusions.”
proteanmag.com/2024/06/16/f...
“In the years since I discovered that piece of paper from the Archive of the Revolution, I have found myself pulled toward two diametrically opposite conclusions.”
proteanmag.com/2024/06/16/f...
i really thought this bio was a joke at first
October 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
i really thought this bio was a joke at first
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I have a new poem in @proteanmag.com proteanmag.com/2025/10/16/s... 💎⛰️🪞💙
October 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I have a new poem in @proteanmag.com proteanmag.com/2025/10/16/s... 💎⛰️🪞💙
a remarkable story here: Rebecca Ruth Gould was able to interview the Nasrallahs, a Gazan family, in Egypt. Rachel Corrie died to save their home in 2003—though Israel ultimately demolished it.
their second home was destroyed in 2023. they remain in legal limbo in Egypt, as do many other refugees.
their second home was destroyed in 2023. they remain in legal limbo in Egypt, as do many other refugees.
In 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed saving the Nasrallah family's Gaza home.
In May, Rebecca Gould interviewed the Nasrallahs. Like many others, they fled via Rafah to Egypt. With an uncertain legal status under the Egyptian state, they remain unable to truly rebuild.
proteanmag.com/2025/10/15/a...
In May, Rebecca Gould interviewed the Nasrallahs. Like many others, they fled via Rafah to Egypt. With an uncertain legal status under the Egyptian state, they remain unable to truly rebuild.
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A Cold Welcome in Egypt • Protean Magazine
Rebecca Ruth Gould interviewed the Nasrallah family—Rachel Corrie died in 2003 defending their house—and the al-Najjars to speak about both families' experience of fleeing to Egypt alongside many othe...
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October 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
a remarkable story here: Rebecca Ruth Gould was able to interview the Nasrallahs, a Gazan family, in Egypt. Rachel Corrie died to save their home in 2003—though Israel ultimately demolished it.
their second home was destroyed in 2023. they remain in legal limbo in Egypt, as do many other refugees.
their second home was destroyed in 2023. they remain in legal limbo in Egypt, as do many other refugees.
unless Kaiser Permanente management returns to the table at the last moment—which did happen in 2021—it looks like this gigantic cross-Kaiser walkout of 23 unions may well go forward tomorrow! i spoke with unionized healthcare staffers of the OFNHP here:
truthout.org/articles/23-...
truthout.org/articles/23-...
October 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
unless Kaiser Permanente management returns to the table at the last moment—which did happen in 2021—it looks like this gigantic cross-Kaiser walkout of 23 unions may well go forward tomorrow! i spoke with unionized healthcare staffers of the OFNHP here:
truthout.org/articles/23-...
truthout.org/articles/23-...
i spoke to the good folks of OFNHP AFT Local 5017 for this article about the authorization of a massive strike at Kaiser Permanente—chronic understaffing and low pay have become so intolerable, the OFNHP and 22 other Kaiser unions may walk out en masse on Tuesday.
truthout.org/articles/23-...
truthout.org/articles/23-...
23 Unions Plan to Strike Together If Kaiser Fails to Address Workplace Crises
Overworked and understaffed, over 45,000 health care workers at Kaiser Permanente are poised to strike.
truthout.org
October 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
i spoke to the good folks of OFNHP AFT Local 5017 for this article about the authorization of a massive strike at Kaiser Permanente—chronic understaffing and low pay have become so intolerable, the OFNHP and 22 other Kaiser unions may walk out en masse on Tuesday.
truthout.org/articles/23-...
truthout.org/articles/23-...
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i just saw this lol. Jake and i both decided to show a little skin
The editors of Protean Magazine have officially come out to endorse Lobster Supremacy
September 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
i just saw this lol. Jake and i both decided to show a little skin