Tonight There Are Dreams to Be Thumbed Through Before the Complicated, Awful Business of Summoning Beautiful Particles After the Horse Is Stolen

Reminds self I live seven miles and work two miles from nuclear ground zero if in fact the first direct side-effect of the heavily anticipated Trump electoral humiliation is Trump angrily dropping nuclear weapons on Iran and the descent into nuclear world war that follows and my concurrent incineration in the literal fallout. Vital Reminder One:



Life in the Rootcanalocene. I confess, until a month ago I thought there'd be a major false flag operation in the week before the midterms, someone lighting a firecracker backstage at a Trump rally while Gestapo Miller cuts Trump's earlobe with a razor blade, ICE running down brown people on a crowded street and starting a riot, shooting bystanders, etc, but I now think shitlords want Trump to react to a humiliating defeat exactly like you thing Trump will react to a humiliating defeat so shitlords can spend the next two years blaming Democrats for the devastating repercussions of Trump's reactions to a humiliating defeat, confident Democrats in power won't let them down. Vital Reminder Two:





Meanwhile, Olive is not happy about Spiderjackonugget though Spiderjackonugget are happy with us. Jacko will stay Jacko, Spider will stay Spider, Spider the black cat, I'm a cat-whisperer in general and a black cat cat-whisperer in particular. We're already buds. Olive smells him on my hands and hisses at me for my betrayal. If I was a betting man I'd bet the Senate goes 51-49 Democrats with Fetterman as the manchin, it's a proven gameplan, not predicting it, just the most likely outcome and safest bet. Vital Reminder Three:

Psychopolitics in the Interregnum
Klepto-Keynesianism's final phase
The purpose of a system is what it does
➥	"The point is that any motherfucker who tells you that they are simply reporting the news, fairly and professionally, is lying to you. Every single story is the result of a political choice and every single story has an intended political outcome by the people who write it and publish it"
Utilitarianism, Pragmatism, and the Anti-Human Drift of the Western Capitalist System
Reports Uncover Unprecedented Sums Shitlords Spent to Buy 2026 Midterms
The Foreign Policy Blob is The Ruling Class
Israel forces Palestinians in Gaza to choose between assassination alone or death with their families
"The litmus test for whether the US is an entrenched mafia state has always been Kushner, not Trump"
Advertisement for The Rise of the New Normal Reich, including a Stupid Anti-Nazi Disclaimer for the German Authorities
Autopsy of Europe’s Economic Sellout
American capitalism is socialism for shitlords
Our Shiny Next War, The Democrats’ Shiny Next Win
Auto-doxing			The quiet American writer
Remembering Dolores Huerta, Who Taught Farmworkers to Stand Up
Maggie		Avedon Carol's occasional links
Deep crime			Agony	Here be monsters
The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine
Gold Fever: The Nonsense of Translation
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Sacrificial Riffology: Reconsidering Altar by Boris & Sunn O)))

INFOMERCIAL 2

John Ashbery

The old mule delivers the goods.
Nugatory diddlings are on the decline.
Stateliness has its day.

There are indeed many encouraging signs
in the weather and in handshakes.
Still there are those who mistake dark clouds
for raffish hucksterism. They have never savored
the elation of an empty crystal ball.

To them I say, seconds will call upon you
in the morning. Tonight there are dreams to be thumbed through
before the complicated, awful business
of summoning beautiful particles after the horse is stolen.