HeyJaredA Thousand Natural Shocks
A newsletter about class division, the stresses of everyday life in a capitalist hellscape, and my ride into both activism and overwhelm.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 15
- Latest publication
- Sep 28, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Aug 11, 2026
Latest issues
Stay Out. Stay Away. It Isn’t Safe. (opens the original)
Read excerpt
There are active concentration camps operating in the United States. There are children in them. ICE shoots and kills people in the street.I’d write nothing but those three sentences every single day on here if I thought it would do anything. At all.It won’t. Not for people still in the States.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xFrP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages
Renee Good's Mother Voting For Trump Does Not Matter (opens the original)
Read excerpt
There’s this hack street joke where when people don’t feel badly for a person in a video, they comment, “Anyway what’s everyone having for lunch?” I hate these copy-paste replies because 1) they add nothing to the conversation and 2) they’re just commenting “first!” in a contest of who can have the least empathy. It’s so boring.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZpzZ!,
Get Over Yourself And Help Us with Jake Hart (Ad Free) (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Read more
Fully Traumatized By Love, Yet Somehow Writing Romance (opens the original)
Read excerpt
My love life has the consistency of Miami’s weather. Rainstorms careen into the middle of otherwise bright and sunny days. Soft, tropical humidity is suddenly cut with high velocity, freezing winds.I work a lot.I bury myself in probably hopeless, fast-paced anti-fascist activism. I scrape together shards of journalism from underneath a dictatorship and try to turn them into mirrors for the people. There are four whole states that I should not even set foot in because I’m trans. I’ve been <a href
A Thousand Natural Shocks Podcast: Connecting Politicians And Trans People with Honey Mahogany (Ad Free) (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Read more
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.