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Domestic Left #170: BINGO! (opens the original)
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Since I’ve been a bit too busy to get a proper issue together this week, here’s a silly game for you all. Here are the rules:Go to domesticleft.substack.com/archives and scroll down far enough to load up a decent number of posts.Pick one at random.Use the Bingo Card below to identify various words, phrases, references and rhetorical devices that are way overused in this publication.First person to respond (domesticleft@substack.com) with a five-in-a-row (please identify from which post) gets, id
Domestic Left #169: Summer reading, 2026 (opens the original)
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The summer that America celebrated (or endured, depending on your perspective) its 250th birthday, I read a book written by French philosopher about an activity that by my lifetime had acquired a distinct tinge of un-Americanism; a Russian novel; a classic of American labor history; a biography of an American poet who lived most of his life on the very edge of the continent, in one of the least “American” cities in the U.S.; a cultural history of an iconic American geomorphology, and of how it b
Domestic Left #168: Those that give the orders are not the ones to die (opens the original)
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On September 12, 2001, one of my co-workers at the Flynn Theatre Box Office received a call from an irate customer. Lucinda Williams was scheduled to play a concert that night, and we had been answering calls all day: yes, the show was still going to happen. Williams and her band were on a bus, so the nationwide shutdown of air traffic following the previous day’s terrorist attacks was not going to prevent them from getting to the venue and playing the show.Most customers seemed relieved, but no
Domestic Left #167: A paradise to live in or to see (opens the original)
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In the first chapter of When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World, the firefighter and anthropologist Jordan Thomas describes how, shortly after signing on with the U.S. Forest Service as a wildland firefighter in 2020, he is standing on a ridge over a “flaming gorge” in Big Sur, California.It was hard to imagine fire ripping through the fog-filled valleys of Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park as we hiked up into its mountainous forests in April. The air was cool and damp, the ground
Domestic Left #166: Never work (pleasure every day) (opens the original)
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Hi! I know I said I was going to take August off from posting on Substack, but I just published a book review for the UE NEWS and thought I would share it with you all. It’s about labor history, but also about anti-work politics, pleasure, and “queer domesticity” in, of all places, the Teamsters union. Ryan Patrick Murphy’s book challenges a lot of stereotypes, and I think you’ll enjoy the review even if you’re not part of or even necessarily interested in the labor movement.Also, while writ
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