Steve Barrera

This Cruel Age How did we get so mean?

My latest on Substack. The cruelty is the point, they say, but how did we get here?
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As American as Spooky Fun and Branded Merch In a recent post, I praised the NFL for being woke by inviting a Spanish-language Puerto Rican rapper to headline the Super Bowl LX halftime show, and lambasted the MAGA reactionaries for throwing …

From the blog. I'm doing a lot of writing these days, keeping up with both my blog and my Substack publication.

In this post, I discuss how Halloween is as important an American holiday now as Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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How's that Republic Going, America? Addressing the eternal "are we Rome?" question

New article up on Substack, where I examine the question of whether the U.S. Republic has fallen, as the Roman Repbulic did in a past millennium.
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Welcome Back to the Mafia State! You thought you were out, didn't you?

Most recent Substack article. New one drops tomorrow!
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Public Service Announcement: Embrace Your Doom The modern state's mandate for despair, and the next slogan for our new dystopia

I've fallen behind on sharing my Substack articles here on Bluesky. Here's one from nearly 2 weeks ago, which introduces the second of three new slogans for our dystopia:
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I hope someday we defeat fascism and in the far future, No Kings Day is celebrated as a federal holiday, and little children leave out dance mixtapes and cookies for the Resistance Frog, who leaves pocket Constitutions in their shoes.

Of course I was at a No Kings rally. How about you?

MAGA’s Bad Bunny Conniption Exposes Their Retrograde Agenda The National Football League announced last month that rapper Bad Bunny, who is Puerto Rican, will headline the halftime show at the Super Bowl next February. This got MAGA in a tizzy – as ev…

From the blog. Kudos to the NFL for their choice for Super Bowl halftime show next year. Welcoming Latin Americans into the fold is the right direction for the U.S. of A. Spanish-speaking Americans been a part of this experiment for a long time.
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The Land of (Unequal) Opportunity Far removed from the Land of (More Equal) Outcomes

My latest Substack article about our More is Less dystopia.
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Screenshot of Goodreads Reading Challenge showing 1 book ahead of schedule.

I like logging into Goodreads and seeing this. I think I'm gonna make it this year!

What Happened to the Internet? How the foundation of the market state got rotted, plus the first slogan for our new dystopia

My latest Substack article, in which I introduce the first of three slogans for our new dystopia.
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The Orwellian Market State Part 3 of a series.

I conclude my market state series on Substack with a dystopian twist.
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1. I don’t know who is going to win the fight over the shutdown of the US government. I do know that it’s wrong for Donald Trump and the Republicans to do nothing while 24 million Americans enrolled in state exchanges watch their health insurance premiums spike by two, three or four times.

It's a "shitdown" lol

Being not so gently reminded today that this meme I got somewhere accurately describes the administration’s “grand strategy” for the new world order.

COVID-19 Retrospective Do y’all remember that we had a pandemic? And that it was a seriously big deal, that had the world in a panic? At the onset, there were overwhelmed health care systems. As it went on, overflo…

New post up on the blog! Yes, still writing there as well as on Substack. Revisiting the topic of COVID, which I blogged about *a lot* during the pandemic, when I was over on the hell site.
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Red State Rising Dispatch from the information warfare front

New post up on substack!
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When it’s all over, the tribunals will be held at Quantico.

A still shot from the television show "All of Us Are Dead" showing two high school girls walking through the woods looking distressed. A subtitle reads: "Maybe they want us to die."

Between doing nothing about school shootings and now ending vaccine mandates this is what the children must be thinking about older generations.

War in the Market State Era Or, why World War III doesn't look like it used to. Part 2 of a series.

Continuing my market state series on substack.
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What the Heck is a Market State? Part 1 of a short series on another cycle theory

My latest on substack. Revisiting ideas I used to post about a lot on my blog.
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Well, here we go.

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.

A Generation Takes a Stand Millennial women were raised to expect more. Why are we asking them to accept less?

Release the Epstein files!
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The National Guard, DC landscaping and the great pursuit of lethality Few training methods guarantee a better fighting force than boredom-induced annoyance.

This is absolutely amazing. From the Air Force Times, too. Read w tongue in cheek.

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The Idiokakistokleptocracy Literally the worst possible form of government

My latest on substack.
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2025 State of the Coup In which I look at how it was we lost our government, which resembles what happened elsewhere in the 1930s

The latest on my substack. A primer on how we got from democracy to one-man rule.
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Life in the Blue Zone We live in Berks county, Pennsylvania, just south of Reading, which I have described as living in the purple zone. We’re in a Democratic Congressional district, surrounded by Trump supporters…

I have an exciting new Substack publication but I am also still blogging. Here is a recent blog post about visiting my Mom's neighborhood in Northern Virginia.

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Really enjoyed listening to this interview, and the break from the usual format for the podcast.