June 7, 2026 - Week in Review

Sorry for being a day late, I was in Las Vegas for a conference, and I was tied up when I got home.

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Saturday, May 30: This week's "Glorious Garbage" episode was the phenomenon of Blacksploitation:

Say It Loud: Blaxploitation and the Cinema That Couldn’t Be Ignored

I am going to admit that I missed this genre. Oh, I heard about it, but it wasn’t my jam. Now, I am totally diggin’ it.

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Sunday, May 31: I tear into the fiction that infects the Never Trumpers where they seem to believe that there is a reset and that some rational "republican" party can rise again. Bollocks -

Facts Not in Evidence

The clean sheet doesn’t exist. The tab is coming due. And the people who ran up the bill are very busy pretending they didn’t.

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Monday, June 1: I continue the weekly episode of the tech industry and why they've resisted organizing, something they are going to wish they'd done -

Übermensch in a Cubicle Farm Part 3: Golden Handcuffs and Hunger Games

Part 3 - we get into the factors employed by employers to turn the staff into a Hunger Games fight for survival that doesn’t feel unnatural

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Tuesday, June 2: I talk about how the Never Trump ecosystem has shifted from being an effective narrative to a business model for media. Yeah, I went there -

Never Trump Isn’t a Conversion. It’s a Business Model

The people who claim to be saving democracy have made a very comfortable living not quite doing that.

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Wednesday, June 3: I begin the long arc series with a treatise on the original sin, and how we got to where we are, starting with the aftermath of the Civil War -

The Original Sins and Their Echoes

Series: The Long Arc — American Democracy’s Recurring Failure, Part 1; Beginning a deep dive on the history and the modern parallels

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Thursday, June 4th: A double-header day. Originally I had nothing scheduled, but the fuckery that is Graham Platner made me dash off this first newsletter -

Same as the Old Boss, Just in a Flannel Shirt

I fear that the Left (and the Never Trumpets) are selling their souls on the cheap with their Platner defenses…

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This was the last day of our conference, and I was done early afternoon, and because it is Pride month, I had some thoughts on the threats that those fucking twats in the SCOTUS are likely to do to Obergefell -

The Convenient Patience of the Already-Married

Longwell and Miller crossed the marriage equality finish line. Now they counsel patience to those still running. Meanwhile, Republican support for marriage equality has collapsed 18 points. The process they’re selling is already running in reverse.

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Friday, June 5th: The second episode in the Long Arc series drops, the Lost Cause being an output from the collapse of Reformation, and how that echos with the "Stolen Election" narrative of today -

Lost Cause 2.0: The GOP Didn’t Get Hijacked, it Got Completed.

Series: The Long Arc — American Democracy’s Recurring Failure, Part 2

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This will pick up next Saturday with the "Glorious Garbage" drop. See you then!