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1 week ago | 
welcometohellworld.com | Luke O'Neil
Today we have a story about how ICE check-ins have become an abusive and maddening catch-22 for immigrants. They can either continue to show up and risk being detained or stay away and end up being detained for that anyway. These cruel motherfuckers I swear to God. Also today a reminder how awful Andrew Cuomo was as a governor from one of the many people whose lives he put at risk during the height of Covid.
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1 week ago | 
welcometohellworld.com | Luke O'Neil
If you like what you read here please consider supporting Hell World with a subscription. I went looking for something to feel good about. I don't need to tell you that there's not much left in stock of late.
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2 weeks ago | 
welcometohellworld.com | Luke O'Neil
by Sean Beckner-Carmitchel Days and days of escalation by federal agencies within the County of Los Angeles have left protesters, the community, and journalists alike reeling. In Los Angeles a fog of rumors, raids, reports and confrontations have led to a feeling of unease within myself that I won’t be able to shake, or analyze, for a long time. News broke on Friday that a federal immigration raid was in progress at a Home Depot in the Westlake neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles.
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3 weeks ago | 
welcometohellworld.com | Luke O'Neil
I had four new short pieces go up at Flaming Hydra yesterday. Paid Hell World subscribers can read one of them in here down below. Here's a fifth bonus one for you nice people. What the window showed themThe hunger Well we just got back from stringing up our weakest friend in the middle of the town square for the vampires to feast on overnight. No one liked the doing of it when it came to actually doing it I’ll admit that.
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4 weeks ago | 
welcometohellworld.com | Luke O'Neil
Welcome to the latest edition of the Hell World Top 5 Songs series. Today we're discussing the music of the brilliant Lana Del Rey. If you missed previous editions please check out the pieces on David Berman, Jason Molina, The Cure, Elliott Smith, R.E.M., Chris Cornell and Weezer. Here's a playlist to listen along. This one is really long so let's cut to the chase. As usual some of them are ranked in order and some are not who cares.
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1 month ago | 
welcometohellworld.com | Luke O'Neil
Today Andrew Quemere writes about Massachusetts governor Maura Healey's recent remarks on Trump's draconian immigration enforcement. "To understand why Healey is praising Trump, you need to understand that she is not a liberal or progressive—she is a cop... It’s this cop worldview that explains what’s really going on: Healey is praising Trump’s border policies because she genuinely agrees with him." Read it here or down below.
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1 month ago | 
welcometohellworld.com | Luke O'Neil
by Andrew Quemere Legendary poster dril has a handful of tweets that people can’t stop referencing. Here’s one of them:Keep it in mind while you read these comments about immigration policy from Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, which were reported by the State House News Service:"I told President [Joe] Biden that he needed to act on the border and shut it down two years ago, three years ago now. I think that some of what Donald Trump has done on the border makes a lot of sense, right?
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1 month ago | 
welcometohellworld.com | Luke O'Neil
It never feels good per se sending off money to the federal government around this time of year but it has never felt as bad as it does today. I know I have paid to produce so much suffering my entire life I’m not an idiot but there was always a plausible deniability baked in. Like how they put blanks in one of the firing squad rifles. Could be my money is going to school books or cancer research you could sort of lie to yourself before.
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1 month ago | 
welcometohellworld.com | Luke O'Neil
I guess I shouldn't have said anything nice about the Pope the other day because right after that and right after he met with JD Vance he died straightaway. It feels like the time I briefly joked around with a cop inside of my polling place back in November and we all know how that turned out.
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1 month ago | 
welcometohellworld.com | Luke O'Neil
by Sean T. CollinsThe number one movie in America two weeks running, which enjoyed a smaller second-weekend box-office drop than any film in modern history, ends with Michael B. Jordan machine-gunning Klansmen. This is not a coincidence. Sinners, the new movie from Black Panther/Creed/Fruitvale Station director Ryan Coogler, is a gorgeous and raucous vampire period piece about undead bloodsuckers descending on the grand opening of a Black-owned juke joint in 1930s Mississippi.