Is the Cost of Bread and Circus Worth the Price? How America Built a Trillion-Dollar Pacification Machine—Domestic and Foreign—and Convinced Itself It Was Rugged Individualism and Generosity chrisabraham.substack.com/p/is-the-…
Jes Grew Is Still a Crime
Ishmael Reed predicted the teen takeover panic in 1972. Nobody in American city government has read the book. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
The Cops About Whom Nobody Made a Doc: 277 federal officers. 113 laser eye injuries. Eighty nights in Portland. You know which riot got the HBO special. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-cop…
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 10,28-31
28 Peter began to say to Jesus, “We have given up everything and followed you.” 29 Jesus said, “Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the gospel 30 who will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age: houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and eternal life in the age to come.” 31 But many that are first will be last, and (the) last will be first."
Yikesy McYikesface! youtube.com/watch
All concerts are rich fans only—some are just richer than you…
The Worst Era of Concert Tickets Is Coming youtube.com/watch
Fun fact: Kyle Rittenhouse, the people he shot, all white. The entire incident was white-on-white violence during a Black Lives Matter protest.
“Senior Purple Prose Architect, who never forgets his intention; iron-clad at the core, he transforms one ordinary sentence into a cathedral of philosophical fog, magically and unconsciously expanding meaning while still secretly knowing exactly what he is doing.” —Twig
A shepherd in Central Texas tends 550 telescopes for stargazers worldwide. $99/month, your scope, his dark sky. This is citizen astronomy done right. Watch it. youtube.com/watch
There’s not enough suspension of disbelief in the entire known universe for this movie: Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan Ghost Wars. Yikes!
“If you don’t do X then you will have blood on your hands” totally isn’t manipulative at all. Just facts.
West Wing Democrats died in the ’90s. But the sharper point isn’t that Bartlet would lose a Democratic primary today—he couldn’t pass the vetting. Catholic, pro-military, patriotic without asterisks, willing to argue with Republicans in good faith. The base won’t tolerate him.
Brilliant insight for reals
The default core, the baseline tone of modern Western film and prestige television of today, is something audiences are truly sick of: cynicism. youtube.com/watch
Have You Ran or Have You Run? You can conjugate the verb. You just have to want to. chrisabraham.substack.com/p/have-yo…
An actual and truth-based primer on actual fascism.
A clarification of a widely-held misconception about what Fascists ACTUALLY believed youtube.com/watch
All Cops Are Beautiful (ACAB)
For One Day Out of 10,950, They Finally Meant It the Other Way open.substack.com/pub/chris…