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Who counts as a person?

2 days 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.
I will love you til the end of time

1 week 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.
The long drop below

1 week 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.
Maura Healey hands it to Trump, praises migrant crackdown

1 week 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?
I felt briefly like I was a part of something potentially good

2 weeks 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.
I'll keep on if you do too

2 weeks 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.
Sinners and its audience say fuck you to fascism

2 weeks 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.
All of this beauty is worth fighting for

2 weeks ago | welcometohellworld.com | Luke O'Neil

Sean T. Collins joins us today to write about the success of Ryan Coogler's new film Sinners and how audiences are clamoring to see depictions of racists and fascists getting dumped in the fucking trash. He also digs into The Pitt and Daredevil and Andor. It's a real fun one. By the way after resisting any new Star Wars bullshit for years I finally recently gave in and have become fully Andor-pilled.
Reverse engineering the life that I wanted to have

2 weeks ago | welcometohellworld.com | Luke O'Neil

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of interviewing Niko Stratis about her new book The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. You can read an excerpt here. A little ghost for the offeringThe Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman by Niko StratisIt was a lovely talk and a great crowd so I thought I'd share it with you nice people here today.
What makes you so much worthier of your peace?

2 weeks ago | welcometohellworld.com | Luke O'Neil

I know there's a lot going on in the world right now but probably the biggest story of them all is that it is my birthday today. Wow. Getting old is so cool. I suppose it's better than the alternative though. All I really want is the one thing we all want right now. Let's all pause and think about that happening. Pretty cool right? Do you ever imagine what you will do on the day that it happens? Will you run out into the street and flag down the mailman or the neighbor and share the news?