Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 30/03/2026open.substack.com/pub/monkeyca...open.substack.comThe Biggest Winner of America's War Isn't AmericaRussia is making $8.5 billion a month while helping Iran kill American soldiers. The president doesn't seem to mind. 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 14/03/2026open.substack.com/pub/monkeyca...open.substack.comThe Original Sin: How Britain and the CIA Stole Iran’s Democracy and Started the Clock on EverythingFifty-two years of foreign theft. One democratic vote to stop it. One covert operation to punish them for trying. 001
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 14/09/2025The Groyper milieu is an internet-native network built around the influencer orbit of Nick Fuentes. It rebranded the alt-right by swapping out tiki torches for crucifixes and polo shirts for suits, and by invoking Christian nationalism and “America First” traditionalism to rehabilitate Jim Crow. 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 11/09/2025From 2015 to 2025, far-right extremists, especially white supremacists, were the main perpetrators of ideologically motivated gun violence in the U.S. Despite this, right-wing media and political narratives distort reality by portraying the left as the primary source of violence. 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 09/08/2025There is a specific kind of quiet that settles when rulers start rearranging facts. You can hear it in the pause between a question and the non-answer that follows, in the sudden disappearance of a spreadsheet that used to arrive like clockwork, in the tantrum that becomes policy.open.substack.comCentral Planning for Dummies, Written by the Party of “Freedom”Tariffs, tamed numbers, and the everyday horror of power 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Somewhere between the Gospel of Matthew and the acid-laced sermons of Southern television politics, we arrive at the doorstep of Rep. Nancy Mace. She knocks loud. She brings receipts: rolled-up legislation, cherry-picked Bible verses, and a smile that’s been fine-tuned for Fox News hits.open.substack.comPearls Before ICE: Nancy Mace, Bible Theater, and the Gospel According to CrueltyHello there, fellow watchers of the unraveling veil. 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 21/07/2025What happens when cruelty becomes the policy and silence becomes the law? No Face, No Name is a searing protest anthem set to haunting visuals. This animated video brings to life the true horror of a nation losing its soul. youtube.com/watch?v=fhAl...youtube.comNo Face, No NameYouTube video by EchoPulse AI 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 14/07/2025“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Animal Farm The Boogeyman Budget and the Birth of the American Police State open.substack.com/pub/richardj...open.substack.comThe Boogeyman Budget and the Birth of the American Police StateHow a $3.3‑Trillion Debt Bomb, a $1‑Trillion Medicaid Massacre, and a $175‑Billion ICE Windfall Are Dismantling the Republic, and Why the Fight Begins on Your Block 010
Reposted by Monkey CatMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/07/2025DHS appears to accidentally confirm CNN's reporting in an unhinged reply to MeidasTouch on X, noting that "by Tuesday, FEMA had deployed" staffers. This aligns with CNN's reporting that Noem didn't authorize FEMA's deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday. 59969762474
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 10/07/2025This story has roots deeper than Smallville’s wheat fields, and it blows in from the direction of a 1930s jazz joint, echoing the fears, hopes, and dreams of two Jewish kids in Cleveland. And, yes, we’re going there. open.substack.com/pub/richardj...open.substack.comSuperman Has Always Been Woke and Right-Wing Manufactured Outrage Is BoringThe Man of Steel Was Born of Immigrants, Raised on Hope, and Has Always Punched Fascists in the Face 020
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 08/07/2025More than 100 Texans, many of them children at Camp Mystic, never got a chance to wonder whether the storm sounded like “When the Levee Breaks.” They had no warning because the very agencies built to sound the alarm had already been hollowed out for the sake of a billionaire tax bonanza.open.substack.comPrelude to a Deluge: How Billionaire Tax Cuts Washed Away Texas Warning SirensDisaster capitalism drowns Texans while the one percent buy lifeboats. 010
Reposted by Monkey CatChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/07/2025The builders behind Alligator Alcatraz and other detention sites are top DeSantis donors. They scored no-bid or “emergency” contracts worth tens of millions—while funneling cash into his political machine. Pay-to-play isn’t just speculation—it’s backed by the paper trail. 🧵 55595214971
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Imagine this: a man in a penthouse sipping single malt scotch, staring at three screens lit up with numbers you and I weren’t meant to understand. He leans back, clicks a button, and a thousand people lose their homes.open.substack.comMoney for Nothing, Debt for Free: How the Wealthy Robbed the Working Class and Inflated the Next Economic CollapseA deep dive into economic injustice, the coming financial implosion, and why the ruling class handed us the bill for their champagne. 010
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Pull up a chair or, better, a bar stool, because this one’s going to unspool like an all-night session at your favorite dive. We will riff on how cults fuse anthropology, psychology, and raw political expediency; why we clutch their banners even as reason begs for a timeout.open.substack.comWon’t Get Fooled Again: Charisma, Control, and the Choirs of ComplianceA long-form meditation on why good people line up behind bad ideas, spun through the howl of a 1971 power chord and the enduring anthropology of cult behavior. 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Happy 4th of July. Nothing says freedom more than building Concentration Camps. 000
Reposted by Monkey CatRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/07/2025If someone doesn’t ask Karoline Leavitt why she posted on social media that this bill includes no taxes on Social Security when she knows it is a lie and she intentionally lied to the American people, everyone in the room should lose their jobs. 1031332348384
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Hello there, fellow travelers in this uneasy republic we still call home, where the bass drum of history thumps beneath our feet and the feedback of yesterday’s revolutions screeches into the present. open.substack.com/pub/richardj...open.substack.comWon’t Get Fooled Again: Charisma, Control, and the Choirs of ComplianceA long-form meditation on why good people line up behind bad ideas, spun through the howl of a 1971 power chord and the enduring anthropology of cult behavior. 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 01/07/2025I need more of my fellow anthropologists to start speaking out. In particular, you comfy University types. If you are staying silent now, don't call yourself an anthropologist; you are a career grant scammer. 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 01/07/2025A global study ranked the United States fifth in ignorance worldwide. That's around 77 million people, about the same number of Trump voters. That is how much of our population is ignorant. Ignorance is deadly to democracy and freedom. So when I say MAGA are ignorant MFers, it is based on DATA. 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Long before the first Spanish fever ship docked, before Andrew Jackson’s cannonades and the modern bulldozers carving “Alligator Alcatraz” from Big Cypress’s marl, this peninsula pulsed with millions of Indigenous heartbeats. open.substack.com/pub/richardj...open.substack.comGator Chains and Broken PromisesMAGA has always hated Indians 010
Reposted by Monkey CatPBS News @pbsnews.org · 28/06/2025The legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican priorities, including new money for national defense and deportations. Now it’s up to Congress to decide whether President Donald Trump’s signature domestic policy package will become law.buff.lyWhat's in the latest version of Trump's 'big bill' Senate Republicans are trying to passAt some 940-pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican priorities, including new money for national defense and deportations. 1110532
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Pull up a rocking chair, pour yourself a mason jar of theoretical moonshine, and prepare for a front-porch tale that meanders from the red-clay foothills of Appalachia to the marble corridors of the Beltway, and the uncanny spectacle of our most articulate marionette: “JD” Vance. 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 27/06/2025open.substack.com/pub/richardj...open.substack.comStrings Attached: JD Vance, Hillbilly Puppetry, and the Post-Liberal Power PlayHello there, fellow wanderers of the digital holler and honorary nap-time supervisors of my feline house-philosophers Miko and Bobby. 000
Reposted by Monkey CatSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 24/06/2025This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy. 12804038912751
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Hey, fake ass patriots, man we got ourselves up in a pickle right now. It's kinda embarrassing if you think about it, we've been going around here praising King TACO for NO NEW WARS. Y'all love those three-word sentences, right? We were lied to by Donald Fin' Trump, to drag us into a war in Iran. 000
Reposted by Monkey CatAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Members of Congress are being denied access to an ICE facility in Manhattan, because the conditions inside are that bad. 534195496334
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 20/06/2025We all saw the warning signs. They weren’t just red flags, they were Kremlin-issued parade banners, complete with synchronized goose-steppers and a Fox News float sponsored by testosterone supplements and beef jerky-flavored protein powder.open.substack.comThe Bag of Doodoo You Lit on America's DoorstepA Cautionary Tale of Buyer’s Remorse, Burnt Masculinity, and the Putin Pecker-Checker in Chief 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 19/06/2025The Tiger Cub Is Growing Teeth (And Is Now Eating Your Face): Reflections from the Godfather of AI open.substack.com/pub/richardj...open.substack.comThe Tiger Cub Is Growing Teeth (And Is Now Eating Your Face): Reflections from the Godfather of AIWhat the Rest of Us Should Do While the Machines Get Smarter, Stronger, and Even Sentient. 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 18/06/2025The foundations of democratic governance rest upon the premise of an informed and engaged citizenry capable of rational deliberation and holding power accountable.open.substack.comThe Pernicious Effects of Ignorance and Stupidity on Society and Democracy: Welcome to MAGAtopiaI. 000
Reposted by Monkey CatAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this 727284358576
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Are we really just going to let fascists take our country? 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 17/06/2025The most villainous criminal scum have been given free reign to pillage and assault our country. Those of you who voted these obvious grifters, liars, and self serving bigots into office are even worse. Fuck You All. 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 17/06/2025No Kings, No Rain, No Clue: Trump, The Mule, and the Collapse of American Psychohistory open.substack.com/pub/richardj...open.substack.comNo Kings, No Rain, No Clue: Trump, The Mule, and the Collapse of American PsychohistoryA deep dive into fascist cosplay, climate denial, and authoritarian delusion—through the eyes of Asimov’s Foundation, the fury of Prophets of Rage, and the defiance of 10 million protesters. 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Mike Lee is a lying POS and should be censured and removed from office. 000
Reposted by Monkey Cat𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 15/06/202597% of extremist-related murders in the U.S. in 2024 were linked to right-wing extremists. It’s not a political movement anymore - it’s a hobby for failed men with too much testosterone and not enough brain cells. 844293517133
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 16/06/2025It seems the long arc of history has once again bent—not toward justice, nor even toward peace, but toward fire.open.substack.comIsrael Strikes Iran, History Strikes BackFrom Cyrus to Cyberwar—How the June 12, 2025, Israel-Iran Crisis Just Confirmed We Learned Nothing from the Last 2,500 Years 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Boelter is not just about guns and delusion. He is the golem birthed by decades of racialized fear-mongering, prosperity gospel fascism, and white evangelical nationalism mutating into something unrecognizable but unmistakably American.open.substack.comNo Kings, No Peace: The Minnesota Assassinations and the Rise of Evangelical FascismA long, bloodstained thread connects militias, MAGA, and the silence of power. What happened in Minnesota wasn’t a tragedy—it was a warning. 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Let’s not sugarcoat it. What happened on June 14, 2025, in Minnesota is not just a tragedy. It is a rupture—a gash torn through the increasingly frayed fabric of this alleged democracy.open.substack.comNo Kings, No Peace: The Minnesota Assassinations and the Rise of Evangelical FascismA long, bloodstained thread connects militias, MAGA, and the silence of power. What happened in Minnesota wasn’t a tragedy—it was a warning. 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Game Over or Start Again? The Arcade-State of America in 2025 open.substack.com/pub/richardj...open.substack.comGame Over or Start Again? The Arcade-State of America in 2025From Pac-Man to Project 2025: How Los Angeles Became Ground Zero in the Fight for Civil Liberties 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Shit Pants Nero and the June 14th Death Riff open.substack.com/pub/richardj...open.substack.comShit Pants Nero and the June 14th Death RiffWhen fascism comes draped in bunting and backed by AC/DC, it’s time to pick up your axe, swing the sword, and break the amplifier. 000
Reposted by Monkey CatMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/06/2025Disgraceful for any news organization to bend the knee to these bad faith actors. Shameful. 67177081355
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 10/06/2025The Algorithm, the Longhouse, and the Lipstick Ritual: Decoding Cult Power from Mountainhead to June 6 open.substack.com/pub/richardj...open.substack.comThe Algorithm, the Longhouse, and the Lipstick Ritual: Decoding Cult Power from Mountainhead to June 6From Kant to Beyoncé, from billionaires on ice to Seoul beatmakers, we unpack how charisma, culture, and consensus collide in the age of weaponized AI and cinematic disinformation. 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 06/06/2025History applauds the encore. After flames devoured Rome in 64 CE, Nero fingered Christians and requisitioned new marble districts.open.substack.comSunrise on the Reaping: Trump, Terror, and the Hunger for PowerWhy rulers adore catastrophe, how archaeologists prove it, and why Carsie Blanton swears revolution needs a horn section. 010
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Pull up a folding chair on the edge of the cypress stand, friend, because tonight the frogs are gossiping, and the wind is humming a Jesse Ed Davis slide riff.open.substack.comIkaniaksasi Rising: Swamp Spirits, Seminole Defiance, and the Digital CrusadeHow One Unbroken War in the Everglades Illuminates Modern Resistance to Billionaire-Fueled Christian Nationalism 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Conspiracy fuels policy → Policy validates conspiracy → Conspiracy recruits more adherents.open.substack.comApartheid in a Flag Wrapper: Refugees of Empire, Billionaires of MythWhen refugee policy starts to look like a Homelander monologue 010
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 03/06/2025THE MOUNTAINHEAD IS WATCHING: How Trump, Thiel, and Palantir Are Building the American Panopticon open.substack.com/pub/richardj...open.substack.comTHE MOUNTAINHEAD IS WATCHING: How Trump, Thiel, and Palantir Are Building the American PanopticonA techno-dystopian nightmare isn’t coming—it’s already here. This is not surveillance capitalism. This is surveillance feudalism. 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Are “Friends” Electric? How AI’s Silent Hum Disrupts Our Lives—and Why Our Cats Don’t Care Before the neon hum of server farms demanded our attention, hominins ambled across savannas, clutching sharpened stones to butcher carcasses and pry tubers from sunbaked soil.open.substack.comAre “Friends” Electric? How AI’s Silent Hum Disrupts Our Lives—and Why Our Cats Don’t CareHello there, fellow wayfarers drifting between Typewriters and Terminators, as we sift through anthropological relics and algorithmic omens to discern how AI disruption and displacement reverberate th... 000
Monkey Cat @arkanium.bsky.social · 30/05/2025President Trump and dual-hat wonder Marco Rubio have treated the NSC like Loki making off with the Tesseract—career experts gone, directorates folded, cables spliced into State and Defense.open.substack.comBlack Hole Sun Comes to the Situation Room—Trump & Rubio’s Great NSC Gut JobGrunge riffs, Marvel one-liners, and two very judgmental cats guide you through the purge that just cranked America’s security feedback to 11. 010
