JOHNSTONE

Weep, sisters, for the child with the blown-out skull,

for the other child burned alive,

for the limp, lifeless, tiny bodies

and the piles of unrecognizable carnage.

Weep, brothers, for the cackling politicians,

for the apathetic westoids,

for the human drones chanting "We love Joe"

and the DNC attendees covering their ears

to avoid hearing the names of murdered children in Gaza.

Weep for this fraud-faced civilization,

this microplastics civilization,

this OnlyFans civilization,

this Moloch civilization Ginsberg wrote about in Howl,

this civilization with enormous forced grins 

over plates full of shredded children

in selfies with AOC and Tim Walz.

Weep with careless abandon.

Weep til the sobbing wrings you out like a sponge.

Weep with head back, screaming sloppy and snot-nosed,

ribcage splayed open to the heavens

and human heart beating unguarded and unhidden.

There are no answers in the weeping.

There are no solutions in the tears.

There is only the release of something that needs release,

and an act of sacred solidarity,

and an act of unauthorized humanity,

and the small, private victory

of having gone one more breath

without being assimilated

by the machine.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans will kill a million Palestinians and say they’re doing it so Jesus will come back, whereas Democrats will kill a million Palestinians while making noises with their mouths like “ceasefire” and “two-state solution”.

That’s basically it; one does an evil thing in an evil way, while the other does the same evil thing in a much more photogenic way. Republicans want to kill Muslims for evil reasons like claiming they’re all terrorists and irredeemable heathens, while Democrats want to kill Muslims for nice guy reasons like helping Israel defend itself and bringing peace and stability to the region. They both want to kill middle eastern civilians, but one of them will kill middle eastern civilians in ways that let liberals feel good about themselves.

It’s just a classic good-cop, bad-cop routine. One plays your friend and the other plays your enemy, depending on what end of America’s fake ideological divide you happen to land on. But really they both want the same thing — in this case to murder people around the world with total impunity without sparking domestic unrest.

Reading by Tim Foley.

When you're siding with John Bolton on whether to bomb Iran, you're as insanely hawkish as it gets.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel is a murderous, tyrannical, psychopathic regime. So is the western empire. So when westerners talk about having “shared values” with Israel, they’re not actually lying.

Reading by Tim Foley.

One bizarre thing about modern US presidential races is watching politicians in one of the most dystopian civilizations ever to exist warning people that the other candidate wants to lead them into a dark dystopia, which depending on the party they label "communism" or "fascism".

Reading by Tim Foley.

Just like the ongoing mass atrocity we are witnessing in Gaza, this fondness for rape is just one of the many, many symptoms of the injustice and abusiveness that the state of Israel is founded on and built from.

Reading by Tim Foley.

One reason westerners are so clueless about communism is because every four years the most influential western nation launches a massive months-long disinformation campaign about what communism is. People like Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Lauren Boebert and Tim Pool have been claiming Kamala Harris is a Marxist for proposing price controls, a measure that was also put forward by noted communist Richard M Nixon.

Republicans are so fucking stupid that every few years they start shrieking that they're under attack from "communism", and by "communism" they mean the opposing US party which supports the exact same capitalist status quo they support but with tampons in the boys' bathroom.

God I wish Democrats were as cool as right wing idiots make them sound.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Democrats Are Pigs

Author Stephen King has a new viral tweet featuring a picture of himself wearing a Kamala Harris t-shirt modeled after an Obama campaign sticker captioned with the words “I’M SPEAKING” — a phrase with which she drew headlines and severe public outcry last week by using it to shut down anti-genocide protesters at a campaign rally in Detroit.

That’s right: they’re using her condescending shutdown of pro-Palestine demonstrators as a fun girlboss campaign slogan now.

God damn it I hate Democrats so fucking much.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Americans are voting for Red War or Blue War. That's it. Those are the choices.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article version: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/peace-is-not-on-the-ballot-in-november

He had two babies.

Twins. Aysal and Aser, a boy and a girl.

Mohammad Abu Al Qumsan had two babies and a loving wife.

Now he has nobody.

An Israeli airstrike killed both his babies, and their mother, and their grandmother, while he was out collecting their birth certificates.

They had just been born.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article version: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/he-had-two-babies