Gentrification, Colonialism, and Anti-Production: Notes on the Failed Stadium

Needless to say, we weren’t really pro-stadium.

Social Murder in Action: Public Utilities in the Burn Down

I want to discuss the rolling blackouts that Evergy – the local electrical utility – engaged in during the President's Day Arctic Vortex, and how it constitutes social murder. While the situation in Missouri and Kansas is nowhere near the level of things in Texas, which produced a number of dramatic photographs (and which is dismissed by many because Texas went red, something that many people worst-served by the state aren’t responsible for,) it was still awful.

Political, Commentary, Written by: CameronCameron SummersFebruary 17, 2021Local, Politics, Public Utilities, Social Murder, climate changeComment

The Media Has No Message (Time of Monsters, Part 1)

The “media”, if it wants anything, wants as much of your attention as it can effectively extract for the lowest investment possible. More than any conspiracy theory about bad actors, more than any lie about modifying people’s behavior, more than anything else, this should be recognized as the root of the problem.

The Future of Right Wing Populism Is Every Idiot I Went to High School With

In short, Hawley is conflating the moderate position – “defund the police” – with the more radical position of “abolish the police.” These two policy positions are different, and while a number of police abolitionists view defunding as a good first step, there are also many people who support defunding without supporting abolition. Conflating the two is thus a way of discrediting the moderate position.