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Bayan Haddad (@BayanHaddad) remembers her former student Oudeh Hathaleen—a Palestinian teacher, father, and community leader, murdered by an Israeli settler. Haddad testifies against the inhuman colonial violence that was the antithesis of Oudeh's spirit.

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On World-Building: Lessons From a Martyred Teacher • Protean Magazine
Bayan Haddad once taught literature to Oudeh Hathaleen, who would become a teacher himself, as well as Palestinian community advocate and consultant on the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. In ...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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if you missed it—i want everyone to know about the extremely disturbing warrantless spying made possible by "Flock Safety," a policing surveillance startup that gives local cops (and even some corporations) an AI-enabled camera network, empowering them to follow individual drivers all around a city.
December 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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fucking hell. by which i mean to both swear like an Englishman and reiterate that we live in fucking hell
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Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones. One recent Kalshi betting market that allowed people to bet on whether Palestinians in Gaza would suffer mass starvation.
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
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December 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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this month marks Protean's 8th year. the mag has been wholly reliant on many, many hours of our free labor. output is also limited because we pay writers.

i just lost my main day-job income (to AI, no less). unfortunately, without more support, it's just not viable to keep going like this forever.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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So glad to have been able to write about Solidarity with Children by @lalouverouge.bsky.social for @proteanmag.com. Special thanks to Tyler Walicek, an extraordinary editor.
Horizons of Youth Liberation • Protean Magazine
Sarah Brouillette reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's new book Solidarity With Children, out this month from Haymarket Books.Sarah Brouillette reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's new book Solidarity With Ch...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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i hope you'll read this compelling survey from Sarah Brouillette of the newest work from the always-astute and incisive Madeline Lane-McKinley—it's a tautly reasoned case for affording children greater rights and autonomy, reimagining social institutions that produce suffering and dehumanization.
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Sharing a practice of reading with children is also a practice of listening to children: “What are you thinking about? What are your questions?“ @lalouverouge.bsky.social
The Case for Child Liberation Through Children‘s Books
In troubling the idea of childhood, there is perhaps no better place to go than children’s literature. Children’s literature is where stories of childhood are produced, ostensibly, for children; it…
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November 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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i love this. partly out of my deep love for archival anything. but it also brings to mind the flow state i achieve during hours of DSLR scanning 35mm and 120 film rolls
November 18, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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I've been banging on & on about Fargo Tbakhi's essay in @proteanmag.com ever since it came out almost 2 yrs ago

this part spoke to me the most, cuz i've been pleading with ppl to stop using this word, so i am sharing it again with y'all.

"t*r*or*sm is the great weapon of the West. It is used only
We must remember that t*r*or*sm does not describe an objective reality; it is, like other pieces of language weaponized to murder, an ideological word used by ideological powers, with specific legislative and carceral bodies attached to its use. C. Heike Schotten, in Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler-Colony, offers us the only definition of terrorism that matters. She writes that the figure of the te*ro*ist: “…can be understood as the contemporary settler state’s moralized imperial name for the unthinkable indigenous remainder that, in the insistence on remaining, challenges the settler state’s claim to sovereignty, security, and civilizational value. Indeed, indigenous peoples’ continued existence not only challenges settler sovereignty’s claim to legitimacy and ‘first’-ness, but is the harbinger of that sovereignty’s death insofar as they become legible to it as existing.”
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Now up: Noah Kulwin reviews Seth Harp's new book, "The Fort Bragg Cartel," tracing the historical continuities between Vietnam War era drug smuggling operations and the overwhelming present-day criminality taking place at the Fort.

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A History of Violence • Protean Magazine
Noah Kulwin reviews Seth Harp's new book, "The Fort Bragg Cartel," tracing the historical continuities between Vietnam War-era drug smuggling operations and the overwhelming present-day criminality ta...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Excited to be in conversation with Abby Anderson, part of the Budding Roses collective, organizers of an excellent youth liberationist project here in Portland.
Book event flyer: Powell’s on Hawthorne Thursday November 13 at 7
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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That’s all very fair but my most recent story literally compares AI to Victorian grave robbers, like let’s think about who we’re piling on before going off proteanmag.com/2025/10/31/r...
Return of the Body Snatchers • Protean Magazine
This Halloween, Kim Kelly digs into the history of medical graverobbing and desecration-for-profit—a long-buried symptom of the heedlessness and abject cruelty of centuries past. Right? Surely nothing...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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man it'd been a while since my last real chortle of glee
November 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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always, always, always read Mel:
"It was never about the numbers, though. It never is. You can bring insane audience engagement, break records on views, court new eyeballs to your verticals, shape the national and international conversation with accurate, empathetic, even funny coverage of the most important topics that are dominating our minds these days; get new laws passed by exposing the ill-treatment of regular-ass people, etc., etc., etc.; you can win awards—Pulitzers, Murrow Awards, Emmys—champion new ways of Doing The News, including maybe even swallowing your pride and misgivings about giving up editorial control to a goddamn AI fact-checker, and on and on and on – and they will still nuke your job and your entire desk in the name of capital consolidation and kissing the fucking ring."
November 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...
The rules Iwas fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. A total bloodbath. The referee would have stepped in by now but they had knocked him out with a steel chair. The only others watching were either fascists themselves or the people trying to fight fascism with the power of love and kindness and they weren’t having a great go of it either. I kept trying to explain in between haymakers that we were better than this and on top of that it wasn’t likely to be ruled on favorably as far as the courts. None of it helped. I was on my knees now bleeding profusely from the mouth and nose. It spilled out of me onto the snow in a pattern that if you sort of squinted at it from the right vantage looked like a cartoon heart. See that I pointed. Look how beautiful the world can be I tried to say through my broken teeth. Alright well now he was pulling out a gun. I didn’t think we were allowed do that.
November 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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pleased as ever to have work from Luke O'Neil in the magazine. these three new stories are some of my all-time favorites, but having read We Had it Coming, i highly recommend the whole thing.

"I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me."
proteanmag.com Protean Magazine @proteanmag.com · Nov 1
Three new short stories by Luke O’Neil (@lukeoneil47.bsky.social)—"The rules,” “How to live,” and “Something that was once potentially good”—are excerpted here. All three appear in his new book of stories, We Had it Coming and Other Fictions, now out from OR Books.

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We Had it Coming [EXCERPTS] • Protean Magazine
Three new short stories by Luke O'Neil—"The rules," "How to live," and "Something that was once potentially good"—are excerpted here from his new book of stories, We Had it Coming, out from OR Books.
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November 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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happy Halloween—enjoy this next entry in Protean’s tradition: we have Kim Kelly once again exploring more fascinating and macabre historical narratives, and making the case that we still show just as much ghoulish disrespect to human values and our fellows to this day.
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This Halloween, Kim Kelly digs into the history of medical graverobbing and desecration for profit—a long-dead symptom of the heedless cruelty of centuries past. Right? Surely nothing so grotesque could still take place in our enlightened era.

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Return of the Body Snatchers • Protean Magazine
This Halloween, Kim Kelly digs into the history of medical graverobbing and desecration-for-profit—a long-buried symptom of the heedlessness and abject cruelty of centuries past. Right? Surely nothing...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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it is SIGNIFICANTLY more dangerous to work as a school crossing guard than as a cop.

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School crossing guards face life-threatening dangers on the job
An investigation by The Associated Press and Cox Media Group Television Stations found that school crossing guards face dangerous conditions, with many injured or killed on the job.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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You can still snag a print edition of our most recent print edition—Protean Magazine Issue V: Contra Temps.

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Protean Magazine Issue V: Contra Temps • Protean Magazine
Protean Magazine Issue V: Contra Temps features some of the best writers and artists working today. In dozens of critical essays, poetry, and art, our contributors and editors grapple with genocide, h...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Read the ORB interview with Luke on the part of his book that was about California, and "quotes-California": www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/we-have-the-...
lukeoneil47.bsky.social Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · Jun 25
My new collection of short stories and poetry -- We Had It Coming -- is available for pre-order now! It's the best thing I've ever written and I think you all will find solace and despair in equal measure within.
www.welcometohellworld.com/my-new-book-...
October 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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get this fuckin garbage off MY GOD DAMNMED MICROSOFT WORD!!!!
October 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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this is a really, really fascinating article from Greg Afinogenov about his relative that participated in organizing before the Russian Revolution. this appeared in our third print issue—worth reading online now if you didn't get your copy at the time (in which case i still don't forgive you)
October 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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October 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM