U.S. politics | Concrete Confessions

A YouTube video thumbnail with a black-and-white picture of a young, striking-looking trans woman on the left and a photo of photographer Mark Laita (an older, white man with stringy hair) on the right, with the words "The Road to Hell" along the border between them.

I'm Back

Fall 2025 life updates: Going viral on YouTube; Trump's E.O. criminalizing harm reduction services; my writing projects and methadone taper.

Nov 67 min read

Split screen showing the author of this blog (mid-thirties white male) with a shocked expression in one panel and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi giving an update on the second Trump administration's first 100 days at a roundtable in the other.

Reaction Vid: Pam Bondi Saved My Life (and 258 Million Other Americans')!

In an epic stroke of idiocy, Attorney General Pam Bondi asserts that the fentanyl seized at the border over the past three months has saved 258 million U.S. citizens' lives (current U.S. population: 340.1 million).

Jun 152 min read

Land of the Free, Home of the Incarcerated

TL; DR: I love my country, but we are not Number One. Western democracy's in trouble right now, but we'll get through this somehow.

Dec 22, 20248 min read