Our rulers want us to be stupid, misinformed, distracted, sick, struggling and suffering, because if we all had enough time, information and mental acuity to form an understanding what’s going on in our world, things would get mighty guillotiney real quick. They have a vested existential interest in keeping us all in a mental fog of propaganda, diversion, ignorance, illiteracy, and psychological dysfunction.

Reading by Tim Foley.

It is easy to miss the cloud reflections in the puddles

when the drones are perching on the telephone wires

and boats are exploding off the coast of Venezuela.

It's easy not to notice the flirtatiousness of the wind

when there is black smoke over Palestine

and everything's coated in oil.

It's easy to overlook the electricality in our bodies

when the billionaires and bank boys

are trying to replace our minds with chatbots.

Don't let them trick you into forgetting the moon,

or the dragon eggs incubating in your ribcage.

Don't let them trick you into exchanging your heartbeat

for an algorithm and a memecoin.

There are still birds in the skies of this world.

There are accordion angels playing in the ruins.

Though at times it may feel like a giraffe bleeding to death

in an abandoned Presbyterian church

in a forgotten factory town

with faded billboards and faded eyes,

beneath the click clack marching of the robot dogs,

there is still birdsong.

There is still birdsong.

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They're using bureaucratic red tape and arbitrary restrictions to put as much inertia on the effort to rush aid into Gaza as possible.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Dick Cheney died far too old and far too free. The fact that such monsters get to pass away in their eighties surrounded by loved ones instead of alone in a cage is an indictment of our entire civilization.

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Israeli settlers were filmed torturing lambs which belonged to Palestinians in the West Bank.

Gouged their eyes out. Smashed them with cinder blocks. Beat them to death in front of their mothers.

Lambs.

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Massacre fetishist Lindsey Graham said "Trump is my favorite president" because "we're killing all the right people and we're cutting your taxes" during a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Summit on Friday.

"We've run out of bombs; we didn't run out of bombs in World War II," the senator said.

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If the western press had not been aggressively protecting Israel and its interests this whole time, all their reporting on Gaza over the last two years would have looked very much like the reporting we're seeing on the genocide in Sudan.

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Generative AI is just high-tech brainwashing. It's the next level of propaganda indoctrination. It is there to turn our brains into useless sludge which cannot function without technological crutches controlled by the imperial plutocrats.

Reading by Tim Foley.

What percentage of Americans even realize that Trump has bombed Somalia nearly a hundred times this year? I doubt it's even one percent. The mainstream press barely mention it. Americans have hardly any idea who their own country is bombing.

Reading by Tim Foley.

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Do you notice how nobody's losing their jobs or getting deported for criticizing the genocidal atrocities in Sudan?

Reading by Tim Foley.