Burnt Ground
Joe ZeiglerThe United States is drowning in noise. We cut through the static with clear, sharp Burnt Ground doesn’t soothe. It names. It cuts. It tells the truth even when the truth costs something. This is writing for people who can still feel the ground moving
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The Last Lap
Before the first lap, everything is ahead of you. That is the whole feeling, and it never comes back. The grid is full. The engines are up and the noise gets into your chest and does your breathing for you. You are twenty-something and you...
It Was Never About the Immigrants
it's about rasism
Frederick Douglass spent the years after the Civil War selling the country a hopeful story. He called it the Composite Nation. Immigrants were arriving by the millions, Irish and German and Chinese, and where others saw a...
The World’s Most Luxurious Bug
Joe Zeigler Burnt Ground · 08 July 2026
The 1945 Great Seal was wood, lacquer, and a passive resonator hidden in the beak of a carved eagle. The 2026 version is a Boeing 747-8, painted navy and red, parked inside a hangar built specially t...
I Built a New Tool
Drawer can help you too.
You know I write a lot. Burnt Ground. Books. More manuscripts than sense. All of it means copying and pasting the same things all day — boilerplate, addresses, passages I’m moving between drafts.
Through the Heat
Independence was voted on July second.
Independence was voted on July second. John Adams bet the second would be the day we celebrated forever. He lost by two days.
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Joe Zeigler, educated in economics and engineering and founder of FirePrograms Software, writes How to Fly, The Gorge, Connecting the Bots, Eliza, Quantum Apocalypse, and the Substack Burnt Ground.
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