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Anthropocene We can make a home here. In these ruins. In this shattered civilization full of walking autopsies where every twinkle in the night sky is an Elon Musk satellite. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/anthropocene

Trump Inherited Peace Deals But Torched Them For More War He had the possibility of peace in the middle east handed to him on a golden platter, and he actively torched it. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/trump-inhe...

How To Be An Empire Propagandist "Pretend the protesters killed in Iran had nothing whatsoever to do with the known US-Israeli agendas to foment violence in that country and arm insurgent factions in order to topple Tehran." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/how-to-be-...

Have I Mentioned It's Great That Lindsey Graham Is Dead? Some psychopathic murderers never stop killing until they are imprisoned or dead. Since American war criminals never go to prison, it is a fortunate thing that Graham kicked the bucket when he did. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/have-i-men...

We can't keep doing this. We need to find our true heroism. Our world is in peril, and we can't let its rescue remain a decorative flicker on the silver screen.

And the problem is that far too many of us are content with this. Give us bread made by PepsiCo and circuses starring Robert Downey Jr, and that's good enough for us.

Somehow fighting the bad guys and saving the planet only ever stays in movie land. We are handed fictional triumphs in lieu of real victory.

We make movies about saving the world as the real world hurtles toward ecological collapse. We make movies about defeating diabolical villains while letting the real diabolical villains rule the world. We make movies celebrating heroic acts while real heroes are imprisoned.

We're Being Plunged Into Dystopia When We Could Be Living In Paradise It’s not just all the war, injustice, ecocide and dystopia that hurts. It’s knowing it didn’t have to be this way. It’s knowing what could have been. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/were-being...

There’s a powerful new documentary out called Earth’s Greatest Enemy by Abby Martin about the ecocidal abuses of the US war machine, and it addresses the most pressing existential hurdles we face as a species like nothing I’ve seen before. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/earths-gre...

There Will Be Times, Oh My Child, When It All Seems Hopeless www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/there-will...

It looks at you, and you meet its gaze. Everything goes still. You remember what you are. Oh my sweet, darling child, you see it now. You see that This could never be contained.

Beneath all the doomscroll addiction psychosis, beneath all the oceans of trauma and toil, a creature is stirring and opening its eyes, its eyes full of primordial déjà vu, its eyes full of Big Bang recursions full of eyes watching eyes watching eyes watching eyes.

But oh my child, do not be daunted, and oh my child, do not despair. There are forces within us the Flock cameras can’t see. There are depths within us not even the balrogs can reach.

It is true that the bank boys have long fingers and they are putting marbles in our minds. The sky is red, and the moon has a FOR SALE sign, and parts of Palestinians are turning up in our tap water.

When you’re on a first-name basis with the police surveillance drones and your colonoscopy screen in the exam room is running ads for Northrop Grumman. And it is true, oh my child, it is true that the machine is mighty and that its armor is very thick.

There will be times, oh my child, when it all seems hopeless. When the trees all have QR codes and the bank boys and balrogs are holding all the cards. When your refrigerator tells you “THE IRANIAN PEOPLE YEARN FOR FREEDOM” and your electric shaver can smell if you’ve been reading Parenti.

De-Normalize Israel www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/de-normali...

That’s a good thing. The more we unite around a red hot “NO” to Israel and Zionism, the harder it will be for those in power to normalize the increasing Israelification of our society.

The increasingly unapologetic eye-rolling every time “antisemitism” is used as an excuse to shut down criticism of Israel. These are signs that we are growing morally healthier.