Caitlin Johnstone
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It Is Easy To Miss The Cloud Reflections
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It Is Easy To Miss The Cloud Reflections
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November 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
It Is Easy To Miss The Cloud Reflections
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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.
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.
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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.
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.
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.
for an algorithm and a memecoin.
There are still birds in the skies of this world.
There are accordion angels playing in the ruins.
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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.
for an algorithm and a memecoin.
There are still birds in the skies of this world.
There are accordion angels playing in the ruins.
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.
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.
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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.
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.
All decent people want to undo everything that Dick Cheney was.
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
All decent people want to undo everything that Dick Cheney was.
Dick Cheney left a stain upon our species that we will spend the rest of our lives trying to scrub out. All decent people want our world to move in the exact opposite direction he spent his entire blood-spattered career working to steer us toward.
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Dick Cheney left a stain upon our species that we will spend the rest of our lives trying to scrub out. All decent people want our world to move in the exact opposite direction he spent his entire blood-spattered career working to steer us toward.
New swamp monsters have stepped in to fill his shoes and advance the same murderous and tyrannical agendas he advanced, confident that they too will suffer no consequences and live long and comfortable lives in reward for their loyal service to the US empire.
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
New swamp monsters have stepped in to fill his shoes and advance the same murderous and tyrannical agendas he advanced, confident that they too will suffer no consequences and live long and comfortable lives in reward for their loyal service to the US empire.
Dick Cheney is dead now, but his legacy lives on. The damage he did is still unfolding. The hegemonic, hypermilitaristic ideology he promoted has become the baseline norm.
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Dick Cheney is dead now, but his legacy lives on. The damage he did is still unfolding. The hegemonic, hypermilitaristic ideology he promoted has become the baseline norm.
We live in the sort of society that lets a man unleash a chain of events which kills millions and displaces tens of millions causing more human suffering than the mind can possibly comprehend, and then live out the rest of his life in comfort and privilege, with zero consequences of any kind.
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
We live in the sort of society that lets a man unleash a chain of events which kills millions and displaces tens of millions causing more human suffering than the mind can possibly comprehend, and then live out the rest of his life in comfort and privilege, with zero consequences of any kind.
In a slightly sane society, he would have been punished for the rape of Iraq and lived out the rest of his life in a cell in The Hague.
But we do not live in a sane society, or in a fairly sane society, or even in a slightly sane society.
But we do not live in a sane society, or in a fairly sane society, or even in a slightly sane society.
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
In a slightly sane society, he would have been punished for the rape of Iraq and lived out the rest of his life in a cell in The Hague.
But we do not live in a sane society, or in a fairly sane society, or even in a slightly sane society.
But we do not live in a sane society, or in a fairly sane society, or even in a slightly sane society.
In a sane society, Richard Bruce Cheney would have lived out his life in relative obscurity, working as a gardener or something. In a fairly sane society, people would have realized what a monster Cheney was before he could do any harm and he would have been driven out of any town he tried to enter.
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
In a sane society, Richard Bruce Cheney would have lived out his life in relative obscurity, working as a gardener or something. In a fairly sane society, people would have realized what a monster Cheney was before he could do any harm and he would have been driven out of any town he tried to enter.