Dominic Umile
Writer (Not recently: LA Times, Hyperallergic, WCP, Chicago Reader, The Comics Journal). Editor. SEO person. Brooklyn, NY.
I hate board games.
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- “It’s as if someone made a documentary in which Eva Braun feels sad about Hitler invading Poland” youtu.be/DTyUni8dbkE
- I'm no expert on what templated messaging should look like from helpless establishment Dem senators to their constituents but you are absolutely not "like me"/we don't agree if your answer is "accountability and reform"—it's simply "abolish ICE period" and you have no idea what is going on
- Via @motherjones.com, 2024: "When a handful of players dominate a marketplace, that’s an oligopoly. When a handful of players dominate political power, that’s oligarchy. In the media industry both are converging" www.motherjones.com/politics/202... #washingtonpost
- Shouts to Michael White's Spirit Dance and East Broadway Run Down herein! The Pete Rock-sampled "Today" on Tom Scott's Honeysuckle Breeze is a must-mention, but in headphones I've totally dug into/blissed out on the heavenly Joan Baez cover more than I care to admit www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/a...
- This Walter Schreifels interview is great even if you know his story—he played in FOUR of the seven bands on that '87 NYHC comp. seven inch on Rev (GB, Youth of Today, Warzone, but also Supertouch). Wrote all lyrics and music for the Start Today LP. Go off king podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
- "As the mogul-heavy history of modern journalism shows in stomach-churning detail, news organizations that live by oligarchic support often die by it as well" | @thenation.com on Jeff Bezos's gutting of the Washington Post www.thenation.com/article/soci... @chrislehmann.bsky.social
