All Cats Are Beautiful

Let's Get Started

In winter 2015/2016, as folks prepared to face whatever was coming from the first Trump administration, a call went out across social media to "join an organization". Once moribund groups that had barely survived from the 70s were suddenly full of excited young organizers ready to push

On Being Loudly, Publicly Wrong

Some self reflection, some perspectives for the future. Alas for me, I not only convinced myself that I would never have to think about Trump again because he was going to lose this election, but I loudly broadcast it to all who would listen. While most of my comrades correctly

City on a Shill

The Internal Consumption Engine of the American Reich The grift has almost run its course. Even the combined forces of the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Gannett papers group, The Atlantic, CNN, NBC, 538, the nation's pollsters, the Substack intelligensia and all the rest can no

Free HRT On Demand Without Apology

Thing have been quiet here at All Cats Are Beautiful as I went in to the final push to finish the second draft of my Extended Universe manuscript and have since submission been on a road trip. But I wanted to share a little piece of writing that weve produced

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Apocalypse dreams

I dreamt last night that it was the day after Milton had passed east over the land, and pictures were coming out from Tampa Bay. A series of images, brown mudflats with chunks of asphalt and the very ends of tree trunks or were they telephone poles poking up out

How it Could Happen Now

As of last night, at midnight (EST), ~50,000 dockworkers, as part of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), walked off the job in a strike that will shut down ports across the whole east coast and the gulf. While you may not have heard, as this has been

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Waiting on the End Times

I haven't been going to the movies much the last few months, despite there being some movies that are so obviously my shit that I feel like a total dork for not making it to see them, but I go through phases where, frankly, I'm just

All Out for the South

At this point, if you're in the US, you've probably heard about the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Helene. Helene was both a horrible storm and a terrifying harbinger, because it went from tropical storm to CAT 4 hurricane within 36 hours, picking up unprecedented strength and

AI Must Be Destroyed

Turns out Skynet isn't a terminator that rips apart human flesh, it's an unconvincing lying machine that punches holes in the ozone layer Yesterday, a piece of news crossed my feed that seemed to offer just a small bit of comfort: that the speed at which

In A Time of Endless Provocations

One horrible fact about human cognition we have been forced to learn over the last ten years is that terrifying and traumatic news, events and facts tend to crowd one another out, and if they come fast enough remembering the crimes and outrages of this week becomes impossible to remember

Donald Trump: A Post-Mortem

I believe when they found the body of General George A. Custer Quilled like a porcupine with Indian arrows He didn't die with any honor, any dignity, nor any valor I wouldn't doubt when they found George A. Custer An American General, Patriot Indian fighter He

How Does the Genocide End

After the IOF's recovery of the bodies of 6 hostages in Gaza on Saturday, including the high-profile US-Israeli dual citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, whose parents spoke at the DNC only a few weeks previously, Israeli streets have once again erupted in protest. These protests, the largest within settler society

Anarcha-Punditry

Only post this week as i'm on vacation 🏖🏖 be back next week with a subscriber-review of a movie and whatever other chaotic screeds I can come up with After my piece about how you absolutely don't have to hand it to the Democrats, I was asked

The Beginning of the Middle

The global revolution enters adolescence It has been ten years since the Black residents of Ferguson, Missouri lit a QwikTrip on West Florrisant Avenue on fire in the memory of Mike Brown and thereby set the whole country alight. It is fourteen years since Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak were

It's About Ethics in News Journalism

This is a very special issue of All Cats Are Beautiful. It was revealed on Monday that three weeks previously, on July 22, Politico, The New York Times and The Washington Post received leaked internal emails from the Trump campaign. These emails were apparently obtained via a hack, and the

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For Whom the Bird Shrieks

As the number of movie screens in the US has plummeted, the centrality of US box-office has diminished and the endless sequels, reboots, remakes and requels dig deeper and deeper into absurd and boring corners of our pop cultural history; as one-time deals from streaming sites turn mid level producers

Feeling Good Doesn't Require the Democrats

Or: you absolutely don't have to hand it to them Over the last couple weeks, and for the first time in my adult life, the Democratic Party has risen to the historical moment, seeming to wake from the fever dream of appeasing Republican Christofascism and shake off decades

Let's All Watch the Tech Economy Die

Line Goes Down While everyone enjoys watching the Olympics, I'm having my own personal biannual sporting event: a stock market panic. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying "sportsball": I enjoy watching baseball, basketball, and football (American and otherwise), and marvel at

How to Get Started

Like many other anarchists, one of my favorite phrases is "the thing to do is to start" but I don't often suggest a specific thing to begin doing. Of course, you know best what your life and your community needs, what you want to do. But

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My What Long Legs You Have

Light spoilers ahead for Longlegs. The last five years have been rough for long-time Nic Cage fans. This may seem counter-intuitive. After all, the rest of the world has finally caught up with those of us who have loved the guy as an actor since Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call

The New American NatC Party

Last night, as many of you may have seen circulating, the RNC printed out signs for their delegates to hold up that, alongside "Make America Strong Again" said "Mass Deportation Now!", "Strength Through Peace" and "American Oil From American Soil". While the

Work Will Set You Free

The genocide meant that the world should stop, everything should stop, we went into the streets, we screamed and wept, held vigils and wrote screeds, the bravest lit themselves on fire, students occupied, windows were broken and cop cars destroyed, boycotts and call-ins and direct actions and takeovers, but through

We Must Unify Around the Wounded Body of the Dictator

Yesterday’s shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania calls on all of us to take a step back, take stock of where we are, how we go forward from here.  We all thank God that Trump is not injured. I’m sincerely grateful that he’s doing well.

Every counter-revolution is a throw of the dice

The Supreme Court has officially thrown their lot in with a fascist coup. They have indicated their absolute willingness, indeed excitement, indeed collective engorgement for the fascist power grab. In the last seven days they legalized bribery, then said that January 6th was cool and good, then made it impossible

But but the outside agitators!

They're hurting the movement! They're too rowdy! As police clear out encampments with extreme violence, graduations and commencements end the school year, and the momentum of the university encampments begins to slow, we are starting to hear the reactionary slanders that attach themselves to every movement