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The simple fact of America is that you can't have capitalism and democracy in the same place any more.

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We're one massacre away from a violent conflict on national scale. The trumpists are gunning for that. So many lines have been crossed, and each time an army of columnists and reasonable analysts predict that America will reboot to its default mode of metaphysical democracy.

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In 2017, after Trump's election, I co-wrote a pilot and an outline for a show premised on disintegration of the USA. In it, California first declared full sovereignty then independence. There was also the Great Lakes Federation. The opening shot was the Capitol dome collapsing in flames in 2040.

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From The Archives: Trump Locks Bathroom Door So Elon Musk Can’t Follow Him In theonion.com/trump-l...

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It turns out that literature could be for something more than dumbfuck empathy point-scoring.

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When a federal judge starts a ruling about the government's actions with an extended retelling of Kafka's "The Trial," you know the state of democracy in the good old US of A is in tip-top shape 🙃

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MAGA Voter Assumed Trump Would Only Deport People On List She Mailed To White House

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It was wonderful! Thank you all!

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17th May is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia. The date commemorates the World Health Organisation’s decision in 1990 to remove homosexuality from its classification of diseases. We exist. We don’t need a cure. #IDAHOBIT

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Ran into this old interview: “It’s the end of America. They just don’t know it yet.” Hemon pauses, grins, looks sheepishly over the top of his glasses. “They’ll probably revoke my passport after this,” he says.

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If This Were a Movie, You’d Think It Real by Aleksandar Hemon www.divasofverse.com/2025/05/if-t...

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"Cities razed, boats sunk, children drowned, kindle wood carved from ancient olive trees, shrapnel-shredded bodies in tall heaps." —Aleksandar Hemon, "If This Were a Movie, You'd Think It Real," TYR's Poem of the Week yalereview.org/article/alek...

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It seems that my application for the Pope job was not considered. But we must pick ourselves up and keep going.

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While everything that is happening in the US, Palestine, the world has been in the making for a long time, the tsunami of gleeful evil is soul-crushing.

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I'll be there. The word is Cielo is DJing at the closing party. Follows me like a fucking shadow.

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92 years ago today the world’s only research institute about trans people was destroyed by the Nazis. All transphobia is inherently fascist.

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najbolji roman na našim jezicima (koji nije pisan na našim jezicima) u zadnjih puno decenija. hemon feat. irena žlof. boga mu dragog, kakav tour de force

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On 5/22, we’re sponsoring two events at the Bridges–City of Asylum Creative Summit. Grab free, remote or in-person tickets to see WWB’s Elisabeth Jaquette in conversation with writer Aleksandar Hemon, or to a Translation Slam emceed by Michael Reynolds! buff.ly/gYMzVvu

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🌈📚 📖 The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon a grand, tender, sweeping story that spans decades and continents Affiliate Link ebook bookshop.org/a/100590/978... print bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks #lgbtqia #historical #literary #gay

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Our Great Leader.

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Sretan Valterdan svima koji slave, a naročito onima koji ne slave!

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The obvious reason for Trump's destruction of the US economy is that they want it destroyed, as that is part of their radical revolution, and supported by their coalition of radical tech bros, Putin, Jesus freaks and the armies of thieves and grifters.

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“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” ― H.L. Mencken

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I used to follow Sasha Hemon over in the bad place and I don't know if he's on here, but this piece he wrote for Lithub in 2018 is still absolutely dead-on. lithub.com/fascism-is-n...

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