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An index of my Medium articles you probably missed

The great conceit of any writer is that we assume other people want to read our stuff. There is heady blindness to truth in that regard, I’m sure, but I’m going to proceed as if.

I recently read an article from someone complaining about pinned stories, and it made a lot of sense to me. So from now on, this will be my only pinned story on Medium. Everything else you see under my name will be my most recent activity.

These stories are organized by subject matter.

Featured

The Trumps and the Pences Go To Dinner

A Tour Through the Republic of Texas in 2032

New!

We Need To Talk About Trump’s CNN Town Hall Audience

Why Your Job Sucks and How To Fix It

Can a TV Show End the Ukraine War?

Attention Clarence Thomas: It’s Time for Your Judicial Review

A Modest Proposal for Gun Control in America

The Story of the Ladybug and the Cockroach

The Real Reason Behind the Myth of White Supremacy

The National Divorce

Announcing the New Illustrated DeSantis Holy Bible

The Laws of Waffle House Fighting According to Moses

America Rediscovers Democracy

Dark Brandon Loves Trains While MTG Hates America

A Tour Through the Republic of Texas in 2032

DeSantis Gets Skewered by Disney’s Mousketeers

Politics

Why Every Small Rural Town in America Is Marienthal

Did House Music Elect Chicago’s Next Progressive Mayor?

Welcome to the Democratic Party, Mitt!

Why Is ProPublica Trying To Cancel Clarence Thomas’s Vacations?

America Rediscovers Democracy

How I’m Spending Arraignment Day

No, New York Times, Lori Lightfoot Did Not Lose Because of Crime

The Plot To Destroy Ron DeSantis

The War Between Trump and DeSantis

It’s Time for War with China

Trump’s Deep State Ties to Russia

The Far-Right Insurgency Is Alive and Well

Kevin McCarthy’s Humiliationathon

Why We Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Ron Desantis

Donald Trump Just Came a Step Closer to a New York State Prison

Donald Trump Just Came a Step Closer to a New York State Prison — Round Two

Sean Hannity Just Exposed Donald Trump

Why You Shouldn’t Pay Any Attention to the Polls

Was the Pelosi Attack an October Surprise?

Republicans Don’t Cut Crime, They Create It

The American Oligarchs Who Control Your World

Why Do Voters Love Republican Criminality?

The Biggest Fail of Obama’s Presidency

Fifty Years Later, the U.S. Is Still OPEC’s Bitch

Why Isn’t Charles Bastille Writing about Trump?

Republican Charlie Baker For President?

Will Georgia Voters Neuter Joe Manchin?

Gov. Ron DeSantis Just Ate My Favorite Part of the Bible

The Federalist Society’s War Against Americans

Gang Chen Just Helped Unveil a Revolutionary Semiconductor Advancement

Was Biden’s MAGA Attack a Mistake?

The Revenge of Dark Brandon

What If Babies Have No Souls?

It’s Time to Talk About Taiwan

So, Biden had a pretty good month

Samsung Says It Wants the Last Drop of Texas Water

Joe Biden Was Always Going To Be Joe Biden

There Is No Voting for the Lesser of Two Evils, You Evil Bastards

The First Amendment is Overrated

Trump Calls Nebraska “A Bunch of Losers”

Texas Governor Greg Abbott Just Choked the Supply Chain

Don’t Blame High Gas Prices on Biden

Sarah Palin Was Trump Before Trump Was Trump

Why the Looming Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is Trump’s Fault

Texas’s Attorney General Is Helping Send Death Threats to Texas Judges

Getting in Bed with the Cheneys

Let’s Talk About the Excesses of the Far Left

Don’t Look Now, But Democrats Are Fighting Back

Why Kamala Harris Won’t Win the Next Presidential Election

Greg Abbott Just Paid Samsung $680 Million To Turn a Red Congressional District Blue

Today Virginia, Tomorrow the Nation

Sleepy Joe Biden Just Got Busted for Sleeping on the Job

Gavin Newsom Just Burned the Republican Party to the Ground

The Texas Taliban Strikes Again

Joe Manchin Just Gave His Constituents the Middle Finger

Brazil Just Showed Us How To Handle a Sociopathic President

Why Do So Many Americans Want To Live in a Dictatorship?

How Biden and Democrats Can Win Rural Voters

It’s Time To Talk About Joe Biden’s Accomplishments

Remember the Time I Said the National Archives Was Sending Trump to Prison?

Read the Letter That Is Sending Trump to Prison

The Last Thing She Remembers Is Daddy’s AR-15

How PSYOPS Are Killing Republican Voters

Steve Bannon Is About to Start American Civil War 2.0

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Just Gave the Rich a Dressing Down

The Intercept Just Intercepted Joe Manchin’s Corruption

Governor Greg Abbott: At What Point Does It Become Negligent Homicide?

Afghanistan Demonstrates the Folly of Bipartisanship

The Far Right’s Battle for Texas

Cancel Culture, Child Killers, and Vaccinations

The Twenty-Year-Old Afghanistan Mistake Explained in Maps

The Fairness Doctrine Stages a Furious Comeback with the Passing of Rush Limbaugh

How Donald Trump Turned Me into a Patriot

Political Humor, Sarcasm, and Satire

President Trump’s Statement on the Chinese Balloon Over U.S. Territory

The Funeral of the Century

That Trump Rally You Wanted To Attend Is Cancelled

A Tour Through the Republic of Texas in 2032

Republicans Demand Live Feed of Biden’s Colonoscopy

Breaking…Congressional Democrats Pass Bill Giving Every American an Apple

Former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Calls for One Religion in America

Let’s Read Trump’s Next Campaign Speech before It Happens

Trump’s Plan to Defeat Impeachment

Vigilante Laws Other States Might Pass

Save the Dead!

Lindsey Graham Scolds Mitch McConnell After Second Trump Acquittal

Racism and Social Justice

Bill Maher Fumbles “Woke”

Don’t Be Haitian

Tyre Nichols: When Words Have No Meaning

Black Elves and Hobbits, Oh My!

Removing Racist Content from Social Media Is Easier Than You Think

Critical Race Theory: A Primer for White People

The Rise and Fall of Josh Hawley

Will Black Churches Change America?

Celebrating the Name behind the Chicago Blackhawks

The Ukraine Crisis

Putin’s Choreography of Violence

An Open Letter to the People of China From a Pissed-Off American

Is America Winning the War Against Putin?

Why You Should Care About Ukraine

Why the Looming Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is Trump’s Fault

Poetry

My Valley Is the Street

The Environment and Climate Change

Hi. My Name Is Exxon Mobile and I’m a Mass Murderer

Texas Just Allowed 763,000 Gallons of Sulfuric Acid Waste Into Its Waters

Stop Bugging Me!

Miscellaneous Fiction

Seeking Amy

Personal Diary

I Am a Time Traveler, and So Are You

I Just Found Out That the First Woman I Fell in Love with Killed Herself

Why Andor Is the Best Science Fiction TV Show Ever Made

Business and Finance

Let’s Build Some Houses!!

That Stench You Smell Is Musk

Elon Musk’s MasterClass on How To Ruin a Company

I Just Snagged Elon Musk’s Layoff Notice to Twitter Employees

Sports

The Chicago Cubs’ Frank Schwindel, Rafael Ortega, and Patrick Wisdom Is Baseball for the Rest of Us

Guns and Ammo

As We Escape Covid’s Grip, It’s Time to Shelter in Place

Life Hacking

The Gamestop Phenomenon Explained in One Image

Tech

Was Posting Twitter Source Code to GitHub Ethical?

There’s a Problem in Clarkesworld

Humor

The Differences Between Zoomers and Boomers in Vocabulary Format

The Future of Tesla

Earn more with AI!

Must-Have Subscriptions for Your New Tesla

Welcome to the Unofficial Medium Doomscroller Contest

Alexa Personality Writer? Count Me IN!

I’m Afraid of Jackfruit

Me and Hypersonic Weapons Development

It’s Time To Kill Off the “Succession” Characters… Yeah?

I Make $200,000 per Month on Medium by Posting Kardashian Butt Pics

Just Say No to Megastructures

Radical Christianity

Was God Found on GitHub?

Is God a Transexual?

A Psalm for Marjorie Taylor Greene

It’s Time To Talk About God

Valentine’s Day For the Rest of Us

Was Mary Magdalene an Apostle?

In Defense of Christ

No More Poo

MagicLand

If you’ve reached this far into this list of stories and you haven’t been convinced to buy my debut novel, MagicLand, there’s probably no convincing you. But I’ll try anyway.

Buy it here:

Home — charles-bastille.com

To read Publishers Weekly’s independent review of MagicLand, go here

The MagicLand Chronicles

These are a series of short stories related to my debut novel, MagicLand. The characters in the stories do not appear in the novel. The storyline is also different. The only way that the story is related to the novel is that they take place somewhere within the 2,000 years prior to the events of the novel. Here is a list in order of appearance:

The Dragons Amongst Us

Triage — Part One

The Fires of Easterly

The First Reckless

The Death of Charlie Hollywood

The Behavior Scale

The Graft Queen

Where Is MagicLand?

The House of Nadab

There’s an App for That

Mary Catches Fire for Free

The Wanderer

The Cesspool Mermaid

The Futurists

Scarlett’s Kitchen

The War Dogs of Lamar

Welcome to You+

The Return of PeeWee Secaucus

The Dragons of Sierra

Restive Souls

Restive Souls is a novel coming soon! It is currently in the final editing stages.

It’s about an alternative universe where a great African empire arises on the East Coast of North America after the Brits win the Revolutionary War and emancipate the slaves.

It’s Juneteenth, So I Wrote a Novel about the 1778 Emancipation of Slaves

These stories are related to the novel but are not an actual part of it.

Onlooker

The Day the World Got Woke

From Plantation to Congregation: How Plantations Became Christian Sanctuaries in the 18th Century…

Was Emmet Bolo the World’s Greatest Historian, or the Greatest Con Man?

Songs of Narragansett: The Black Liberation of Newport, Part 1

The Savannah Wars Were a Symptom of a Larger Disease

Additional Restive Souls stuff

Restive Souls: The Journey Begins

To Fix Racism, I Had to Delete the United States

The Timeline for Restive Souls

Cast of Characters in Restive Souls

The Trial of Summary James

Major Congregations in the Carolina Union

On Writing

Using DALL·E 2 as Book Cover Art

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