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some oddities here on the Social Media Hell Hole Twitter . . . nee, X Marks the Sign of the Beaste

Paulo Kirk

Jun 19, 2026

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This is Trump donor and Mar-a-Lago neighbor John Cafaro who got the no-bid contract to install a water purification system for the reflecting pool. He has 2 prior convictions, one for bribing a member of Congress and another for an illegal loan that violated campaign finance laws.

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Hereo:

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The Israeli soldier who responsible for the killing of Palestinian child Hind Rajab with 335 bullets was killed in Lebanon

Jews

Hedges gets it right!

The buffoons who orchestrate fascism, with its quack science, idiocy, penchant for violence and grotesque hypermasculinity, are ripe for satire. It is easy, as late-night comics do — and as the cabarets did for the Nazis in Berlin — to pillory the goons, misfits and mediocrities who hold power and spew fascist bile. But this form of satire blinds opponents to its destructive power and murderous core. It ignores the real centers of power. It does not engender resistance. It engenders disdain and cynicism. It furthers the social and political divide between us, the “enlightened” and “educated” elite, and them, the despised and ridiculed “basket of deplorables.”

There are two forms of satire. That of the educated elites, which dominates the commercial media, ridicules the foibles and pretensions of Trump and his hapless followers. This satire does not attack corporations or the war industry. It ignores the decay and rot within our political institutions, including the Democratic Party, which created Trump. It pretends we live in a democracy. It breeds cynicism, not resistance. It is characterized by a repugnant moral and intellectual superiority and heartless demeaning of the underclass. It fosters the social divisions and alienation that feeds fascism.

Antonio Gramsci warned that elitist satire is counterproductive. He called for a “passionate sarcasm,” which targets the machinery of power. Satire, he wrote, must excoriate the dominant myths and ideologies which buttress capitalism and fascism. It must expose not only the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of fascism, but acknowledge the legitimate grievances of those under its spell. It must focus on the institutions that perpetuate injustice and social inequality.

“Trump has also been necessary to expose the plastic progressives, the liberal anti-Trump imperialists who, in their opposition to Trump’s deal with Iran, can only look like warmongering imperial psychopaths,” writes Nate Bear. “From all those sharing memes on social media about surrender, from the Democrats and CNN talking heads decrying the deal, to Jimmy Fallon dragging Trump for giving Iran back the money the US stole, there is no articulation of an alternative to endlessly bombing Iran. There’s no anger from liberals over dead Iranians, or at the imperial state, at Zionism or the embedded death machinery that made this violence possible. No, they’re just embarrassed for empire. And they don’t want to recognise the limits of that empire.”

Nation of Strangers

The Turkish writer Ece Temelkuran, driven into exile by the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in her book “Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century,” lays out the familiar pattern:

It begins with a movement that divides society into two: the ‘real people’ versus the ‘corrupt elite’, and with a leader who insists they alone embody the ‘real’ people. The next step is the dissolution of truth and the prioritisation of loyalty above decency. Then shame is dismantled. The leader breaks the long-standing political and moral consensus with unprecedented relentlessness. The longer they remain in power, the boundaries of what is acceptable begin to stretch. What once felt unthinkable or despicable gradually becomes normal. As the institutions that hold democracy together are quietly hollowed out and the very definition of democracy is rewritten as being simply majority rule, universal values — human dignity and the rule of law — are replaced with a fierce nationalism, a proud victimhood, and a rewriting of history. Cruelty and ruthlessness are deemed just, not only in the highest echelons of politics but also trickling down to daily life. The circle of who counts as ‘us’ grows smaller, while millions of fellow citizens are recast as permanent suspects.

As Temelkuran warns, Americans, like those in other nations that have been down this path, “…soothe their fears by repeating the same illusionary line, ‘The institutions will hold.’ They do not yet dare to recognize their future country, and soon, they will not be recognized as citizens unless they follow the new rules in Trump’s America.”

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What is Ho Chi Minh Thought In Vietnam?

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Ho Chi Minh Thought isn’t a watered-down nationalist gloss on Marxism-Leninism. It’s the most fully worked-out version of Vietnamese communism there is



And no, the label “Vietnamese communism” doesn’t explain itself.

Versus . . .

He’s been catholic, Mormon, Baptist, anti-Trump, pro-Trump, pro-immigrant, anti-immigrant, anti-Iran war, pro-Iran war…



The man has no identity outside of opportunism.

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There’s a saying passed down from earlier generations of Black Texans who were there for the first Juneteenth: “It was not a piece of paper that freed the slaves, but the men with the guns.”

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In Libya, black men are captured and sold in an open air market like vegetables.

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Eugene Debs portrait in black and white, lower left small print copyright by halloway 1912
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Dr. Walter Edmondson taking a blood sample from an unidentified and unknowing participant in the Tuskegee Syphilis study, 1932.



The study existed from 1932 to 1972 and was designed to observe how syphilis would destroy their bodies and eventually kill black patients.

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American President Ronald Reagan hosted a dinner at the White House in 1987 after becoming President of the United States.

During the reception, the First Lady circulated among the guests to greet them. Her attention was drawn to a Black man, dressed modestly. Among the white guests, she hadn’t recognized him.

She approached him, with a politeness tinged with condescension, and said to him:

“Sir, may I know what you did to deserve this invitation to the dinner?”

He replied to her:

“I changed the course of music five or six times… And you, what have you done to become First Lady, other than marrying the president?”

The man was Miles Davis, one of the greatest jazz musicians in United States history.

He was a composer, trumpeter, bandleader, arranger, autobiographer, jazz musician, actor, songwriter, and film score composer, and he neither accepted nor tolerated humiliation for the color of his skin.

Did you know the Soviet Union was brought down by an NED Color Revolution?

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Jew Jab:

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PFIZER HAS PUBLISHED THE LIST OF SIDE EFFECTS FROM COVID VACCINE



1) Blood clot,

2) Acute kidney injury,

3) Acute flaccid myelitis,

4) Positive anti-sperm antibodies,

5) Brainstem embolism,

6) Brainstem thrombosis,

7) Cardiac arrest (hundreds of cases),

8) Heart failure,

9) Cardiac ventricular thrombosis…

10) Cardiogenic shock,

11) Central nervous system vasculitis,

12) Neonatal death,

13) Deep vein thrombosis,

14) Brainstem encephalitis,

15) Hemorrhagic encephalitis,

16) Frontal lobe epilepsy,

17) Epileptic psychosis,

18) Facial paralysis,

19) Fetal distress syndrome,

20) Gastrointestinal amyloidosis,

21) Generalized tonic-clonic seizure,

22) Hashimoto’s encephalopathy,

23) Hepatic vascular thrombosis,

24) Shingles reactivation,

25) Cancer reactivation…

26) Turbo cancers,

27) Immune-mediated hepatitis,

28) Interstitial lung disease,

29) Jugular vein embolism,

30) Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy,

31) Liver damage,

32) Low birth weight,

34) Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children,

35) Myocarditis,

36) Neonatal seizure,

37) Pancreatitis,

38) Pneumonia,

39) Stillbirth,

40) Tachycardia,

41) Temporal lobe epilepsy,

43) Testicular autoimmunity,

44) Thrombotic stroke,

45) Type 1 diabetes mellitus,

46) Neonatal vein thrombosis,

47) Vertebral artery thrombosis,

48) Pericarditis,

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Oh fuck you. There is no way the guy who got the no-bid contract for using bottom shelf Home Depot sealant on the reflecting pool looks like this. Come the fuck on.

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Cover of American Socialist: The Life and Legacy of Eugene V. Debs by Shawn Gude. Black and white photo of Debs waving on a yellow background
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On June 19, 1953, the couple Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed in the electric chair for being communists in the USA, during the paranoid anticommunist persecution of McCarthyism.

It was the first public execution of communists after Hitler’s fall in 1945 and it took place in the country of the “Statue of Liberty,” under a campaign of mass persecution against professors, scientists, actors… devised by the anticommunist senator McCarthy.

The arrest of Ethel and Julius came about due to the “confession” of Ethel’s brother, the American sergeant David Greenglass, who accused his own sister and his brother-in-law of being “Soviet spies” out of pure hatred toward her… in 2001, David confessed that he had made it all up and had murdered his sister by lying to the FBI.

After learning of the death sentence, Ethel said: “I die with honor and dignity, knowing that my husband and I will be vindicated by history.”

Happy Juneteenth!!

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Anal penetration: Trump struggles to clasp the Medal of Honor to Major Nicholas Dockery — and then ties it?

It’s a single snap…

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While the World Cup is being played in the US, Trump’s Gestapo, ICE, gases civilians in the face for protesting against the kidnapping of immigrants and the repression against the American people who are fighting to prevent it.



The World Cup of shame, if this happened in Cuba or another enemy country of the West, it would be a scandal.

United States…

Bombs schools in Iran, supports the genocidal Israeli, backs the continuation of the war in Ukraine with weapons, carries out summary executions in the Caribbean, turned Argentina and Venezuela into 1950s-style Sub-Saharan extractivist colonies, wields…

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