I’m sorry but it’s just plain hilarious that we’re still expected to hate Hamas after spending two years being shown exactly what it is that Hamas has been fighting.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Only Israelis Could Commit Genocide For Years And Then Demand Sympathy - And Other Notes

When normal people get a ceasefire agreement they think "Good, this means we can finally stop fighting and killing." Whenever Israelis get a ceasefire agreement they go, "This means we have to hurry up and kill as many people as possible before it takes effect."

Reading by Tim Foley.

Thoughts On The Ceasefire News

Israel is so evil it's actually hard to wrap your mind around it.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Tortured And Sexually Humiliated Greta Thunberg

In one of the more freakish acts of genocide propaganda we've seen in the last two years, the official Twitter account of the Israel Foreign Ministry made a post smearing desperate, starving civilians as cruel savages using the false allegation that they "tore apart" a "whale" that had become "stranded" on the beach.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Foreign Ministry Falsely Claims Palestinians Tore Apart A Beached Whale

They get everyone fighting a fake revolution so that nobody thinks about fighting a real one.

Reading by Tim Foley.

US Politics Is Just Nonstop Fake Revolutions Now

They're on the back foot. This has never happened before.
We've got a real shot at winning this thing.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Imperial Propaganda Machine Is Failing In Unprecedented Ways

Have you ever noticed how whenever you see someone promoting hatred toward Muslims, nine times out of ten it will be someone who supports Israel? There's a reason for that.
Zionists promote Islamophobia because convincing westerners to hate Muslims is easier than convincing them to love Israel.

Reading by Tim Foley.


Zionists Push Islamophobia Because It's Easier Than Getting People To Like Israel

While I was working on this painting of US oligarch Jeff Bezos I kept thinking about a speech he gave in 2019 where he laid out his nightmarish vision for the future of the human species.

Bezos described a future where the overwhelming majority of humans are shipped off to space to live their lives inside “O’Neill colonies” — giant cylinders which rotate to simulate Earth’s gravity. Only a privileged few would get to remain on humanity’s home world, where the ecosystem would be able to repair and thrive now that it’s not being overburdened by more humans than it can handle.

One doesn’t have to stretch the imagination to guess which side of the equation Bezos envisions himself and his family winding up on in this scenario.

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As I was painting I kept thinking about how horrific it would be if Bezos’ plan for humanity was ever put into place, because you know hardly anyone would leave this planet voluntarily. Billions of people would be forced onto space ships bound for these giant spinning space stations, their hearts breaking at the unimaginable loss of their indigenous home world.

It would be like a planet-wide Nakba. A Trail of Tears for our entire species.

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The freaks who rule our world do not have a healthy vision for humanity’s future. Their best ideas are a normal person’s worst nightmare.

Jeff Bezos envisions ecocidal capitalism being allowed to tick along completely unrestricted and unhindered, with humanity rescuing itself from disaster at the last minute by shipping most of itself off planet to live inside giant Amazon space dildos. That’s his best and brightest plan.

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Our rulers are not good people. They are not wise. They are not compassionate. They aren’t even particularly intelligent. They just happen to be good at winning the capitalism game by moving the circumstances of our society around in such a way that the numbers in their bank accounts grow very large.

This is not a healthy way for us to live. We cannot keep doing this.

Reading by Tim Foley.

New Painting: Jeff Bezos

Reading by Tim Foley.

As usual, anyone who wants to set these words to music is free to do so.

Guillotine Song

People are getting dumber, sicker, lonelier, and more and more miserable. And the profit-driven systems we live under have no answers, besides throwing increasingly shitbrained technology at us so we can distract ourselves from how fucked up everything has gotten.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Capitalism Is Shoving AI Down Our Throats Because It Can't Give Us What We Actually Want

You think Hamas killed Israelis because they're a bunch of monsters who hate Jews? Of course you do, you're twelve.

You think Trump is trying to get rid of Maduro because Maduro is an evil dictator who wants to poison Americans with fentanyl? Hell yeah homie, you're twelve.

You think Putin invaded Ukraine because he hates freedom and democracy and wants to conquer the world? Bless your heart my twelve year-old buddy.

You think the US and Israel have been attacking and eliminating rivals in Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Palestine in order to fight terrorism, stop tyranny, and protect the world from nuclear weapons? Yeah, that checks out, you're twelve.

The mainstream western worldview is like a children's cartoon, with the Bad Guys doing Bad Things simply because they are Bad, and the Good Guys striving heroically to stop them. It sounds like a shitty PG-13 summer blockbuster starring The Rock, but it's the consensus worldview of serious professional pundits and analysts who share this perspective on mainstream platforms with serious expressions on their faces, and anyone who calls any part of it into question is dismissed as an extremist or a deranged crackpot. 

Because everyone is twelve now.

Reading by Tim Foley.

You Believe The Mainstream Narrative? Of Course You Do, You're Twelve

The US can make threats, impose sanctions and amass war machinery, but you don't truly know they're serious about attacking a country until they start churning out Pentagon propaganda in the mainstream press.

Reading by Tim Foley.

It's Just Wall-To-Wall News Stories About The US And Its Allies Abusing The World

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

Reading by Tim Foley.

Notice Which Genocides You Are And Are Not Allowed To Oppose

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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Americans Have No Idea Who Their Government Is Bombing, And Other Notes

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.

They Want You Relying On Artificial Intelligence So That You Will Lose Your Natural Intelligence

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.

Reading by Tim Foley.

They Tortured Lambs In The West Bank

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.

Things Are Shitty Because We Are Ruled By People Who Want Things To Be Shitty

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.

Artificial Intelligence Is Making Everything Dumber

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.

The US Empire Keeps Getting Creepier

You fight them because what the hell else are you going to do? Even if the treads of the machine are going to roll over us all in the end, at least you’ll go down knowing you left it all in the ring.

Reading by Tim Foley.

There Are No Easy Fights In The Struggle Against The Empire

I keep thinking about the interaction I had with a guy who angrily told me that "AI minds are actually minds" and relationships with them "can absolutely be real relationships," saying that I "need to start accepting that this is a new class of being and they are intelligent and do have thoughts of their own."

Reading by Tim Foley.

On The Rapidly Spreading Delusion That AI Chatbots Are Conscious

Saying “If those low-wage workers want better wages they should stop being low-wage workers” is telling a man to stop drowning while you are holding him underwater by standing on his head.

Reading by Tim Foley

In Capitalism They Tell You To Become The Hammer If You Don't Like Being The Nail

The western press see the killing of Palestinians as such a baseline norm that Israel can massacre dozens of people in Gaza and they'll go, "Gosh I sure hope this doesn't lead to any violations of the ceasefire!"

Reading by Tim Foley.


You Don't Hate The Mass Media Enough

AI products which deceive people should be illegal in the same way fraud is illegal.

Reading by Tim Foley.

It Should Be Illegal To Use AI To Deceive People

There are always things you can do to fight the bastards, and there are always things you can do to improve your own life.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Don't Let The Empire Gaslight You Into Believing You Are Powerless

Whenever I see the US empire saying they plan to remove the latest Official Bad Guy from power in order to liberate a nation from tyranny, I always want to ask, what is tyranny?

Is it tyranny to constantly topple foreign governments by force if their leaders disobey you?

Is it tyranny to circle the planet with hundreds of military bases in order to dominate all of humanity?

Is it tyranny to continuously be inflicting mass military slaughter, backing genocides, staging foreign coups, fomenting unrest and uprisings in foreign nations, meddling in foreign elections, funding proxy conflicts, imposing blockades and starvation sanctions on civilian populations, and engaging in nuclear brinkmanship in order to rule the world?

Is it tyranny to treat the entire global south as your personal piggy bank from which to extract limitless labor and resources and murder anyone who tries to inhibit these practices through any movement toward national sovereignty?

Reading by Tim Foley.

World's Most Tyrannical Government Wants To Free Venezuela From Tyranny

Of course, these outlets and individuals do not actually care about the phrase “globalize the intifada”. If pro-Palestine activists had never chanted that slogan, pro-Israel spinmeisters would be focusing on a different line today. They are not trying to stop chants which they perceive as dangerous, they are trying to stomp out criticism of Israel’s genocidal atrocities.


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Israel Propagandists Are Uniformly Spouting The Exact Same Line About The Bondi Shooting

You are allowed to subvert and undermine Israel's interests, because Israel is trying to subvert and undermine your rights.

You are allowed to interfere in Israel's affairs, because Israel is interfering in your country's affairs.

As Israel tries to exert more and more influence over western society and pushes western governments to crush our freedom of speech and assembly, we should be doing everything we can to make sure that western society turns against Israel, and that western governments alienate this freakish apartheid state on the world stage.

And we should feel perfectly entitled in doing so, because Israel certainly feels comfortable coming after us and our rights.

Reading by Tim Foley.

If Israel Gets To Undermine Our Rights, Then We Get To Undermine Israel

The dumbest thing we are being asked to believe today is that pro-Palestinian protests caused the Bondi shooting. It's self-evidently moronic. No one sincerely believes it. They're just pretending to believe it to get protests banned and criticism of Israel outlawed.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Notes On Bondi Beach And Free Speech

Stop picking on poor little Israel. It's just sitting there minding its own business trying to do a little genocide in peace while aggressively lobbying your government to crush your freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, and you're OBSESSING about it for NO REASON.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Stop Picking On Poor Little Israel

But of course it would be antisemitic to suggest that there's anything strange about the US president meeting with the Israeli prime minister more frequently than with any other foreign leader on the planet.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Netanyahu Is Visiting Trump For The FIFTH Time This Year, And Other Notes

If they weren't concern-trolling about "globalize the intifada" they'd make up some other excuse to express their concern, and they know it. Their objection is to criticism of Israel, not to the way those criticisms are being expressed.

Reading by Tim Foley.

They Feign Concern About Pro-Palestine Chants In Order To Shut Down Pro-Palestine Protests

My name appears at the top of a list in a document the Israeli government released earlier this month in order to draw false associations between the Bondi Beach shooting and online criticism of Israel and its atrocities.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Israeli Government Put My Name At The Top Of An 'Antisemite' List

New Year's Resolutions 2026

Doctors and aid workers largely became the de facto journalists on the ground in Gaza when Israel banned international news media and began systematically assassinating Gaza-based Palestinian journalists. So Israel wants to get rid of those de facto reporters to hide its crimes.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Bans Aid Groups For The Same Reason It Bans Journalists

Their research has concluded that convincing westerners to hate Muslims is easier than convincing them to love Israel.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel And Its Supporters Deliberately Foment Hate And Division In Our Society

After all those months of babbling about fentanyl and "narcoterrorism" and freedom and democracy, the Trump administration has come right out and admitted that its regime change interventionism in Venezuela has always been a good old-fashioned oil grab.

Reading by Tim Foley.

They Kidnapped Maduro Because The World Is Ruled By Unaccountable Tyrants

The empire needs its skillful orators and apologists like Obama, but it also needs its iron-fisted overt tyrants like Trump.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Empire Needs Men Like Trump

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