JOHNSTONE

It's interesting how much the IDF's constant ceasefire violations in Gaza and Lebanon line up with the way people familiar with Israeli culture say Israelis like to test everyone's boundaries to find out exactly how much they can get away with.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Secretary of War™ Pete Hegseth said during a speech on Friday that the US is at "a 1939 moment" of "mounting urgency" in which "enemies gather, threats grow," adding, "We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing."

Reading by Tim Foley.

Just today I saw two viral tweets that had received Community Notes from Twitter users warning that the posts featured AI-generated videos. Both were shared by right wing accounts with large followings, and both were used to spread Islamophobia.

Reading by Tim Foley.

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.

Reading by Tim Foley.

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

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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.

Reading by Tim Foley.

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.

Reading by Tim Foley.