Collage: Trump shaking hands with Mohammed bin Salman, thought bubble reading “This old fool is just giving me everything”
Gen Z protesters in India

Hey all you rebels out there,

the excitement in this week’s brainstorms is palpable:

the Cockroaches marched, Modi cracked down, but Gen Z is fighting back with fuckitall fervor.

“It hasn’t been feeling like democracy here for the past 10 or 15 years,” said Wishwas Srivastav.

“It took us long enough,” said Mina Ganesh, “but now that we’ve begun to speak up, there’s no stopping us.”

A dozen countries in the Global South have that pre-Occupy electricity right now! We sit around our office scratching our heads, wondering why the appetite in the Global North hasn’t caught up.

Why is that?

What will it take for that revolutionary spark to catch fire here in the US, Canada, the UK, Europe, Australia? What the fuck is up with us? What will it take to get Gen Z out the door?

Tell us: what would move you?

The Symbol of a new world The Blackspot flag, symbol of a new world to come.

Meanwhile, Fox News finally kiboshed our Trojan-horse Trump ad. They’re refusing to sell us airtime . . . unbelievable! So we’re lawyering up to sue the shit out of them before the midterms. We need $10K pronto — please donate, buy a flag.

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Kalle’s already got the next issue cooking. It’s going to be another Design Anarchy blockbuster, round three of our antidote to AI — the unprocessed aesthetic — and we want your dreams in it. Send us your best writing & visual memes.

That’s the view from our office this week. WBU?

— Team AB

So tell us what sort of call to arms would inspire you to actually get out there and do it again, once more with feeling.

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An excited World Cup crowd

World Cup 2026: The Beautiful Game as Compliance Ritual

Do not call it sport.
Call it a mood stabilizer for empire.
Eleven men run. A billion eyes obey.
The screen glows. The flag waves. The sponsor smiles.

Trump gets his photo op. FIFA gets its cut. The platforms get the data. The beer companies get the chant. The banks get the logo. The tech firms get the stream. The billionaire class gets the one thing it always needs:

Your attention.
You know this.
You know the spectacle is poisoned.
You know the stadium is a billboard.
You know the match is a laundering machine.
You know the whole thing turns joy into obedience.

And still, when the whistle blows, you reach for the remote. That is the politics of our age:
“I know, but.”
I know, but I love the game.
I know, but I need a break.
I know, but everyone is watching.
I know, but one person won’t matter.
“I know, but” is the anthem of the defeated consumer.
Not the oppressed.
The comfortable.

The comfortable radical.
The streaming anti-fascist.
The Prime-shipping anti-capitalist.
The algorithm-fed revolutionary.
The person who wants a new world, as long as it loads in HD.

The machine does not need you to believe in it. It only needs you to watch.

Cody Dalton is a PhD student in history at Virginia Tech.

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