Christ This Sucks

It's a dark day for football after FIFA suspended Folarin Balogun's red card

How Soccer Became a Foreign Game in the United States

In the 1920s, foreign influence, a clash between the pro league, and the Great Depression conspired to drive soccer out of the American mainstream.

The Stadium Food at the World Cup is Dogshit

For this FREE Sick Burns Sunday post, I recount some highlights and lowlights from my impromptu trip to Los Angeles with my 78 year old father where we attended the USA-Turkiye game

It's Just a Pool... And Yet

The Reflecting Pool algae saga seems to be the Trump scandal that finally sticks to Teflon Don. Here's why.

It's The Centrism, Stupid

Centrist American political commentators are mystified that Keir Starmer's time as UK Prime Minister has crashed and burned. He did everything they wanted and everyone hated him anyway.

No newsletter today and probably next week

Hello all! There won't be a Sick Burns Friday post today, mostly because I didn't have anything compelling to say about recent news items. I can feel some burn out creeping in and want to be wary of doing that again, so I have decided to

The List of Trans Allies Grows Thin

And it's only Wednesday...

GUEST: A Crucial Update on the Trans Care Hospital Subpoenas

And how hospitals can be fighting back against the DOJ's attacks We are proud to bring you this guest essay by Williams College professor Chad M. Topaz NYU Langone Health faced a 9 a.m. deadline this morning to answer a federal grand jury subpoena demanding identifying records

The Odd Codpiece Politics of (Some of) the Left

Journalist Ken Klippenstein recently wrote a piece calling typical politicians "smoothgroins," which prompted me to imagine what we would call the opposite: codpiece

The MAGA Circus: GOP's Reality TV Guy Problem

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The GOP's Reality TV Freak Show

A collection of creeps, former reality TV stars, and former athletes now permeate the modern Republican party. But why? In 2010, a reality TV star had a famous on air crashout when he told a friend he was trying to control his anger with dozens of crystals on and around

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Does God Have a Dick??

This week's Sick Burns post is asking the important questions like: does God have a dick? How big is it? And perhaps most importantly, does God fuck?

VIDEO: Run Out the Clock: Why Delay is the Best Strategy Against Trump

I've been making little videos to accompany the newsletters I've been writing. I've enjoyed recording them and it gives me a chance to show off more of my personality for you folks, my readers! If you're a YouTube type of person I&

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The Best Weapon We Have Against Trump is Delay

But political delay takes a lot of work

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There Has Never Been an All Powerful Trans Lobby

And anyone claiming there is was lying to you

This Federal Judge is More Powerful than the President

Reed O'Connor is the right's go-to judge when they want to bend the law to their culture war will Think about the many high profile legal cases that have come and gone over the last ten years. There was the battle over the many aspects

Her Name Was Juniper Blessing

Sick Burns 5/15/2026 - The slain 19 year old trans University of Washington student has been identified in the press It's never easy to write about a trans woman who dies by violence. It's just a fact of life as trans people that there are

The Evangelical Trump Worship Just Took an Apocryphal Turn

Everything under Trump is Trump Worship, especially conservative sects of American religion In the Old Testament, Moses spent 40 days on Mt. Sinai, only descending once he had the ten commandments in hand. When he finally climbed off the mountain, he found his people worshipping a literal golden calf statue.

Sick Burns - 5/8/2026

It was a busy week over here at Burns Notice HQ. Here's my recap of the week and a few other cool things exclusively for paid subscribers! Friday Thought: Chief Justice John Roberts, fresh off completing his decades long venture to destroy the Voting Rights Act, took to

Lessons from a Cancellation

When cis people invoke Isabel Fall, they do not understand the complex trans dynamics at play This piece is not about Will Stancil. Though he is what prompted me to write this. To give you a short recap, Will Stancil has been the subject of intense online criticism for years

Richard Dawkins' AI is Neither Conscious Nor a Woman

The exhausting atheist and evolutionary biologist is kind of brainless It's been an ongoing joke on trans BlueSky for awhile now that AI is someday going to get full human rights before trans people do. It's a funny joke, but I don't really think

Sick Burns - 5/1/2026

Maine Governor Janet Mills officially dropped out of the Democratic Primary for Maine Senate and I have thoughts on the possible future Senator Nazi Tattoo Also weekly recap and things of interest Earlier this week, Maine governor Janet Mills dropped out of the Democratic Primary for the US Senate race

The Insidious Reason Blue State Hospitals are Abandoning Trans Kids

And what it means for the future of trans health care. A local group of concerned citizens showed up at the Chestnut St. entrance to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA Saturday to protest and draw attention to a recent decision by the hospital system to end its provision of