Caitlin Johnstone
@caitoz.bsky.social
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This Is All Our Rulers Are Offering Us
"The AI-generated clip looks fake and creepy, and everything about Musk’s post is downright depressing. But it’s not quite as fake, creepy and depressing as the capitalist dystopia which birthed it."
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"The AI-generated clip looks fake and creepy, and everything about Musk’s post is downright depressing. But it’s not quite as fake, creepy and depressing as the capitalist dystopia which birthed it."
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This Is All Our Rulers Are Offering Us
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November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This Is All Our Rulers Are Offering Us
"The AI-generated clip looks fake and creepy, and everything about Musk’s post is downright depressing. But it’s not quite as fake, creepy and depressing as the capitalist dystopia which birthed it."
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"The AI-generated clip looks fake and creepy, and everything about Musk’s post is downright depressing. But it’s not quite as fake, creepy and depressing as the capitalist dystopia which birthed it."
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I've Got A New Book Of My Paintings With Prints You Can Cut Out And Hang On Your Wall
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I've Got A New Book Of My Paintings With Prints You Can Cut Out And Hang On Your Wall
Okay I’m going to try something I’ve never tried before.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I've Got A New Book Of My Paintings With Prints You Can Cut Out And Hang On Your Wall
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I've got a new book of prints of my paintings that you can cut out and hang on your wall. It's called "Faces Of The Empire: The Battle For Humanity's Soul", and I've got some locally-printed copies I can sign and mail to you if you order one.
Here's a video I made about it:
Here's a video I made about it:
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I've got a new book of prints of my paintings that you can cut out and hang on your wall. It's called "Faces Of The Empire: The Battle For Humanity's Soul", and I've got some locally-printed copies I can sign and mail to you if you order one.
Here's a video I made about it:
Here's a video I made about it:
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.
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Israel Constantly Stretches The Ceasefire Rules Because That's What Israelis Do
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November 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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.
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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.”
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The US Empire Keeps Getting Creepier
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November 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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.”
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Artificial Intelligence Is Making Everything Dumber
Just today I saw two viral tweets that had received Community Notes from Twitter users warning that the posts featured AI-generated videos.
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Just today I saw two viral tweets that had received Community Notes from Twitter users warning that the posts featured AI-generated videos.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Making Everything Dumber
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November 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Artificial Intelligence Is Making Everything Dumber
Just today I saw two viral tweets that had received Community Notes from Twitter users warning that the posts featured AI-generated videos.
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Just today I saw two viral tweets that had received Community Notes from Twitter users warning that the posts featured AI-generated videos.
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Things Are Shitty Because We Are Ruled By People Who Want Things To Be Shitty
This dystopia looks more or less exactly how they want it to look.
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This dystopia looks more or less exactly how they want it to look.
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Things Are Shitty Because We Are Ruled By People Who Want Things To Be Shitty
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November 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Things Are Shitty Because We Are Ruled By People Who Want Things To Be Shitty
This dystopia looks more or less exactly how they want it to look.
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This dystopia looks more or less exactly how they want it to look.
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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.
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.
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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.
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.
Israel Is Still Starving Gaza
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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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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Israel Is Still Starving Gaza, And Other Notes
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November 6, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Israel Is Still Starving Gaza
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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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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Cheney Should Have Died Alone In A Cage
"That said, the world actually does feel better without Dick Cheney in it. Feels a bit brighter. A bit lighter. Kinder. Gentler."
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"That said, the world actually does feel better without Dick Cheney in it. Feels a bit brighter. A bit lighter. Kinder. Gentler."
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Cheney Should Have Died Alone In A Cage
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November 5, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Cheney Should Have Died Alone In A Cage
"That said, the world actually does feel better without Dick Cheney in it. Feels a bit brighter. A bit lighter. Kinder. Gentler."
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"That said, the world actually does feel better without Dick Cheney in it. Feels a bit brighter. A bit lighter. Kinder. Gentler."
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Still can't wrap my head around the fact that internationally renowned activist Greta Thunberg said she was tortured and sexually humiliated by Israeli soldiers when she was abducted for trying to bring aid to starving civilians and the world just shrugged and moved on.
November 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Still can't wrap my head around the fact that internationally renowned activist Greta Thunberg said she was tortured and sexually humiliated by Israeli soldiers when she was abducted for trying to bring aid to starving civilians and the world just shrugged and moved on.
New Issue Of JOHNSTONE: Tech Dystopia In The Shadow Of The Empire
The new edition is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version.
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The new edition is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
New Issue Of JOHNSTONE: Tech Dystopia In The Shadow Of The Empire
The new edition is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version.
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The new edition is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version.
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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.
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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.
They Tortured Lambs In The West Bank
This, to me anyway, just says so much about the level of vitriolic hatred by which the state of Israel is sustained. It’s baked in to the way the whole state is set up.
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This, to me anyway, just says so much about the level of vitriolic hatred by which the state of Israel is sustained. It’s baked in to the way the whole state is set up.
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They Tortured Lambs In The West Bank
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November 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
They Tortured Lambs In The West Bank
This, to me anyway, just says so much about the level of vitriolic hatred by which the state of Israel is sustained. It’s baked in to the way the whole state is set up.
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This, to me anyway, just says so much about the level of vitriolic hatred by which the state of Israel is sustained. It’s baked in to the way the whole state is set up.
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The Nastiest Warmongers Are Trump's Biggest Fans Now
Trump duped his base into believing he’ll make peace, and he turned out to be Lindsey Graham’s gooiest wet dream incarnate.
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Trump duped his base into believing he’ll make peace, and he turned out to be Lindsey Graham’s gooiest wet dream incarnate.
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The Nastiest Warmongers Are Trump's Biggest Fans Now
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November 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The Nastiest Warmongers Are Trump's Biggest Fans Now
Trump duped his base into believing he’ll make peace, and he turned out to be Lindsey Graham’s gooiest wet dream incarnate.
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Trump duped his base into believing he’ll make peace, and he turned out to be Lindsey Graham’s gooiest wet dream incarnate.
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How The Media Normally Report On A Mass Atrocity
If they had been reporting on Gaza in the same way these last two years, the west’s support for Israel would have completely collapsed by now.
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If they had been reporting on Gaza in the same way these last two years, the west’s support for Israel would have completely collapsed by now.
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How The Media Normally Report On A Mass Atrocity
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November 3, 2025 at 2:05 AM
How The Media Normally Report On A Mass Atrocity
If they had been reporting on Gaza in the same way these last two years, the west’s support for Israel would have completely collapsed by now.
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If they had been reporting on Gaza in the same way these last two years, the west’s support for Israel would have completely collapsed by now.
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Painted Roger Waters in the middle of a furious tirade against the evils of the empire. Thinking of calling it "The Most Vindicated Man On Earth" or "You Shoulda Listened To Me, Thom".
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November 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Painted Roger Waters in the middle of a furious tirade against the evils of the empire. Thinking of calling it "The Most Vindicated Man On Earth" or "You Shoulda Listened To Me, Thom".
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They Want You Relying On Artificial Intelligence So That You Will Lose Your Natural Intelligence
They want you to require easily controllable software to form your understanding of the world, and to express that understanding to others.
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They want you to require easily controllable software to form your understanding of the world, and to express that understanding to others.
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They Want You Relying On Artificial Intelligence So That You Will Lose Your Natural Intelligence
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November 1, 2025 at 1:42 AM
They Want You Relying On Artificial Intelligence So That You Will Lose Your Natural Intelligence
They want you to require easily controllable software to form your understanding of the world, and to express that understanding to others.
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They want you to require easily controllable software to form your understanding of the world, and to express that understanding to others.
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In theory the press are there to create an informed electorate who can then use their votes to move their government in a healthy direction. In practice the press are there to keep the public too ignorant, propagandized and distracted to meddle in the workings of the imperial machine.
October 31, 2025 at 9:05 PM
In theory the press are there to create an informed electorate who can then use their votes to move their government in a healthy direction. In practice the press are there to keep the public too ignorant, propagandized and distracted to meddle in the workings of the imperial machine.
Americans Have No Idea Who Their Government Is Bombing
What percentage of Americans even realize that Trump has bombed Somalia nearly a hundred times this year? I doubt it’s even one percent.
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What percentage of Americans even realize that Trump has bombed Somalia nearly a hundred times this year? I doubt it’s even one percent.
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Americans Have No Idea Who Their Government Is Bombing, And Other Notes
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October 31, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Americans Have No Idea Who Their Government Is Bombing
What percentage of Americans even realize that Trump has bombed Somalia nearly a hundred times this year? I doubt it’s even one percent.
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What percentage of Americans even realize that Trump has bombed Somalia nearly a hundred times this year? I doubt it’s even one percent.
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"Has Anyone Seen The Antichrist?"
Portrait of Peter Thiel
Oil on canvas.
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Portrait of Peter Thiel
Oil on canvas.
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New Painting: "Has Anyone Seen The Antichrist?"
The other day I read an article about how Peter Thiel has been going around giving strange speeches in which he speculates about who the Antichrist might be and what signs we should look for to spot h...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"Has Anyone Seen The Antichrist?"
Portrait of Peter Thiel
Oil on canvas.
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Portrait of Peter Thiel
Oil on canvas.
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Notice Which Genocides You Are And Are Not Allowed To Oppose
"Do you notice how nobody’s losing their jobs or getting deported for criticizing the genocidal atrocities in Sudan?"
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"Do you notice how nobody’s losing their jobs or getting deported for criticizing the genocidal atrocities in Sudan?"
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Notice Which Genocides You Are And Are Not Allowed To Oppose
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October 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Notice Which Genocides You Are And Are Not Allowed To Oppose
"Do you notice how nobody’s losing their jobs or getting deported for criticizing the genocidal atrocities in Sudan?"
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"Do you notice how nobody’s losing their jobs or getting deported for criticizing the genocidal atrocities in Sudan?"
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