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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 19h

@djinnandtonic.bsky.social has been on this beat for a minute www.etsy.com/shop/WideAwa...

COPPERHEADS OUT!
WERE VOTING FOR A NEW RECONSTRUCTION CAUCUS
UP AND DOWN THE BALION
PRIMARY THEM ALL 2026

The phrases “Defend the Homeland” and “Join ICE Today” split in two like the tearing of paper, and between them are artistic representations of the letter “K” and “L” with the following text:

K is the Kidnapper, who stole
That little child and mother—
Shrieking, it clung around her, but
He tore them from each other.

L is the Lash, that brutally
He swung around its head,
Threatening that “if it cried again,
He'd whip it till 'twas dead."

NO COMPROMISE WITH TRAITORS.
NO ARGUMENT BUT THE CANNON'S MOUTH!
FREE SPEECH!
FREE SOIL!
FREE PEOPLE!
WIDE AWAKE CLUB
Est. 1860 Re-Est. 2026
MIND YOUR EYE

THEY USED TO CALL US WOKE

NOW THEY CAN CALL US

WIDE AWAKES

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 12/09/2026

Not defending it, just clarifying the process. Still personally recording it, then putting it through a filter.

To understand the Elephant Graveyard Al voice, one must distinguish between the two primary forms of vocal Al. Most casual users are familiar with Text-to-Speech (TTS), where a user types words and a computer generates a flat, often robotic audio file. Even high-end TTS models like those from ElevenLabs often struggle with the complex pacing and emotional micro-shifts required for top-tier satire.

Elephant Graveyard utilizes what is known as Speech-to-Speech (STS) technology, likely powered by frameworks such as RVC (Retrieval-based Voice Conversion). In this workflow, the human creator records their own voice, performing the script with all the intended pauses, sighs, emphasis, and rhythmic nuances. This recording is then fed through an Al model trained on a specific vocal dataset. The Al replaces the timbre and tone of the original voice while preserving the underlying human performance.

This is why the Elephant Graveyard narration feels so "real." It isn't a machine trying to guess how a human would speak; it is a human using a digital mask. In our tests with RVC v2 models, the ability to capture breathiness and subtle sarcasm is entirely dependent on the source audio. Elephant Graveyard succeeds because the creator is, first and foremost, a talented voice actor and writer.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 02/09/2026

Downloaded Organic Maps: no data collected, uses OpenStreetMap, downloadable maps

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 25/08/2026

I’d argue that it’s older. Just read Freedom’s Dominion, and the history broadened my perspective around the underlying ideas and values www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jeffe...

WINNER
Pulitzer
Prize

JEFFERSON COWIE

FREEDOM'S
DOMINION
A SAGA OF
WHITE RESISTANCE TO
FEDERAL POWER

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY - An "important, deeply affecting-and regrettably relevant" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way

American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom-their freedom to dominate others.

In Freedom's Dominion, prizewinning historian Jefferson Cowie traces this complex saga by focusing on a quintessentially American place: Barbour County, Alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace. In a land shaped by settler colonialism and chattel slavery, freedom became a weapon. With freedom as their cry, white Americans seized Native lands, championed secession, overthrew Reconstruction, questioned the New Deal, and fought against the civil rights movement.

Through a riveting account of two centuries of local clashes between white people and federal authorities, Freedom's Dominion offers a radically new history of federal power, democracy, and American freedom. This history summons us today to embrace a vigorous model of American citizenship, backed by a federal government that is not afraid to fight the many incarnations of the freedom to dominate.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 14/08/2026

Been reading Freedom’s Dominion by Jefferson Cowie, and have thought of this FT quote a few times. In this case, freedom to slur

"Outstanding and urgent. A remarkable achievement." -NEW REPUBLIC

FREEDOM'S DOMINION

A SAGA OF WHITE RESISTANCE TO FEDERAL POWER

WINNER of the Pulitzer Prize

JEFFERSON COWIE

A prize winning historian chronicles a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way. American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom— their freedom to dominate others.

Freedom's Dominion traces this complex saga by focusing on a quintessentially American place:
Barbour County, Alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace. In a land shaped by settler colonialism and chattel slavery, white people weaponized freedom to seize Native lands, champion secession, overthrow Reconstruction, question the New Deal, and fight against the civil rights movement. A riveting history of the long-running clash between white people and federal authority, this book radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 10/08/2026

American Hysteria with Chelsea Weber-Smith does it again

August 10 • 1 min left

KU KLUX SCAM pt. 1
American Hysteria
> Resume

We often think of the Ku Klux Klan as anonymous, masked vigilante terrorists, but for several years of the 1920s, joining their ranks was a mass pop cultural craze, leading to millions signing up and millions more supporting them. For part one of this two part series, we'll learn about the proto pyramid scheme of the second KKK in which a PR company assembled a national sales team to whip up the many racial, religious, and cultural grievances of white Protestant Americans, convincing them to pay up to join a real life fantasy role-playing game in the form of a fraternal order.

Through marketing the Klan as a patriotic, upstanding, and normal social club, they also used family-friendly events to bring in more paying members, all while committing their trademark acts of violence and intimidation behind the scenes.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 30/07/2026

I also think there’s some parallels here. Don’t know a lot about most of the stuff he and his admin does, but they know about gas prices (and egg prices, can’t forget those)

Rod Hilton
@rodhilton@mastodon.social
13h *

He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit l've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 26/07/2026

Not going to lie and say that this speech didn’t change me

There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy.
Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy.

There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.

Remember this. Try.

Karis Nemik

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 15/07/2026

The root of so much of this “ALLOWABLES” by Nikki Giovanni says it better than I could.

ALLOWABLES

I killed a spider
Not a murderous brown recluse
Nor even a black widow
And if the truth were told this Was only a small
Sort of papery spider
Who should have run
When I picked up the book
But she didn't
And she scared me
And I smashed her

I don't think
I'm allowed

To kill something

Because I am

Frightened

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 08/07/2026

I have a few more for ya

*Charlie @bro-laren.bsky.social
Joined Jul '23
Lol even Bernie disavowed

hoylebrunson.bsky.social @hoylebrunso... • 3h
As he should. It is politics after all.

*Charlie @bro-laren.bsky.social • 3h
• Joined Jul '23
So the conclusion we've reached is that you see the real rape of real human beings as nothing more than a football when it comes to politics.
You'd prefer your party "win" than to see justice for the survivors of rape.

hoylebrunson.bsky.social
@hoylebrunson.bsky.social
Of course because my party winning means a lot less rape. Right now there are concentration camps in America that are being treated like an all you can rape a buffet those will not operate with progressives in charge. Is it worth it to allow one rape to stop thousands of rapes? To me yes, to you?

9:38 AM • Jul 8, 2026
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@evethevampire.bsky.social

There is genuinely no way you can twist this in which you're somehow not evil for being okay with the fact that Platner broke into a woman's home and raped her.

@hoylebrunson.bsky.social

I am not OK with that. It cost us an amazing candidate.

@evethevampire.bsky.social

How could've he been an amazing candidate when he already raped that woman before he ran?

@hoylebrunson.bsky.social

Quick little Time Machine to stop that or if she had a heart attack a year ago and it never came out. Either one would've been fine.

@evethevampire.bsky.social

Im FUCKING sorry, you're saying that if she had died, you would be fine with it because she couldn't come forward???

@hoylebrunson.bsky.social

Yup

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 19/06/2026

“The revolutionary’s role is to liberate, and be liberated, with the people — not to win them over.” - Paulo Freire

PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED • 95

alongside the people for the recovery of the people's stolen humanity not to "win the people over" to their side. Such a phrase does not belong in the vocabulary of revolutionary leaders, but in that of the oppressor. The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and be liber-ated, with the people-not to win them over.

In their political activity, the dominant elites utilize the banking concept to encourage passivity in the oppressed, corresponding with the latter's "submerged" state of consciousness, and take advantage of that passivity to "fill" that consciousness with slogans which create even more fear of freedom. This practice is incompatible with a truly liberating course of action, which, by presenting the oppressors slogans as a problem, helps the oppressed to "eject" those slogans from within themselves. After all, the task of the humanists is surely not that of pitting their slogans against the slogans of the oppressors, with the oppressed as the testing ground, "housing" the slogans of first one group and then the other. On the contrary,
ssed become aware
Conven
Manato

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 14/05/2026

Lots of weeding and woodworking mostly, cat tax included

A plastic wheel barrel of picked grass and weeds

A gray and white cat snoozing on a brown leather armchair in the sun

A square end table covered in squares in the process of being sanded

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 21/04/2026

Big Chris and little bryan

Quick doodle of the not even a show guys: a podcast about guys Sunday stream with a closeup of the two cohosts stacked with the stream of Chris showing him large on the screen. The doodle of Bryan below shows him as a lot smaller on the screen. The artist had more focus and attention for Chris’s stream square and started getting tired for Bryan’s and it shows.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 14/04/2026

(Order and) change your air purifier filters, everyone

Three air purifier filters on an orange metal mesh bench, two on the left are in bags and both are dirty or very dirty. The one on the right is new and clean.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 13/04/2026

Survey is really interesting for a) the data and b) the commentary

Is God's Love Unconditional?

Perhaps most surprising is the response of evangelicals to the statement "God loves all people the same way," with 94% in agreement.
More evangelicals answered this question incorrectly than the general U.S. adult population, in which 83% agreed with the statement.

STATEMENT NO. 6
God loves all people the same way.
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94% agree vs. 5% disagree
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This suggests a major misunderstanding among evangelicals regarding the different types of love that God has for human beings. R.C. Sproul has noted, "God's benevolence (good will) is demonstrated by His beneficence (kind actions).
His sun and rain are given equally to the just and the unjust" (Ps. 145:8-9; Matt. 5:44-45;
Acts 14:16-17). While there is a genuine sense in which God loves all people whom He has created, Scripture also clearly shows that He extends a special love to His elect, those whom He has called to Himself in salvation and has made His
children through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ (Ps. 147:11; 149:4; John 17:23-24; Eph. 1:4-6).

What Is Marriage?

In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court legally redefined marriage to allow for "same-sex marriage" nationwide. Yet still, ten years later, two-thirds of Americans recognize that God created marriage as the union between one biological male and one biological female (Gen. 2:24; Matt. 19:4-6;
Eph. 5:31-32). This points to how deeply embedded marriage is within the natural order of creation. Though man-made laws may contradict God's law, His law remains written on the heart of every man (Rom. 2:14-15).

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 10/04/2026

Finally mended my sofa. Now I can sit on it without worrying about the seams continuing to separate.

A sofa made up of sewn gray squares; four of the seams which had come undone have been mended with sashiko thread. The thread patterns are multicolored in red, blue, orange, black, cream, pink, and sage. Each seam mended has a different collection of colors.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 08/04/2026

“The episodes in Barefoot Gen are all based on what really happened to me or to other people in Hiroshima…I hope that Gen's story conveys to its readers the preciousness of peace and the courage we need to live strongly, yet peacefully.” Note from the author, Keiji Nakazawa pt 2/2

In 1966, after seven years of illness, my mother died in the A-Bomb Victims Hospital in Hiroshima. When I went to the crematorium to collect her ashes, I was shocked. There were no bones left in my mother's ashes, as there normally are after a cremation. Radioactive cesium from the bomb had eaten away at her bones to the point that they disintegrated. The bomb had even depnved me of my mother's bones. I was overcome with rage. I vowed that I would never forgive the Japanese militarists who started the war, nor the Americans who had so casually dropped the bomb on us.

I began drawing comics about the A-bomb as a way to avenge my mother. I vented my anger through a "Black" series of six manga published in an adult manga magazine, starting with Kuroi Ame ni Utarete (Struck by Black Rain). Then I moved to Shukan Shonen Jump (Weekly Boys' Jump), where I began a series of works about the war and the A-bomb starting with Aru Hi Totsuzen ni (One Day, Suddenly). When the monthly edition of Jump launched a series of autobiographical works by its cartoonists, I was asked to lead off with my own story. My 45-page manga autobiography was titled Ore wa Mita (/ Saw It). My editor at Jump, Tadasu Nagano, commenting that I must have more to say that

wouldn't fit in 45 pages, urged me to draw a longer series based on my personal experiences. I gratefully began the series right away. That was in 1972.

I named my new story Hadashi no Gen (Barefoot Gen). The young protagonist's name, Gen, has several meanings in Japanese. It can mean the "root" or "origin" of something, but also
"elemental" in the sense of an atomic element, as well as a "source" of vitality and happiness. I envisioned Gen as barefoot, standing firmly atop the burnt-out rubble of Hiroshima, raising his voice against war and nuclear weapons. Gen is my alter ego, and his family is just like my own. The episodes in Barefoot Gen are all based on what really happened to me or to other people in Hiroshima.

Human beings are foolish. Thanks to bigotry, religious fanaticism, and the greed of those who traffic in war, the Earth is never at peace, and the specter of nuclear war is never far away. I hope that Gen's story conveys to its readers the preciousness of peace and the courage we need to live strongly, yet peacefully, in Barefoot Gen, wheat appears as a symbol of that strength and courage. Wheat pushes its shoots up through the winter frost, only to be trampled again and again. But the trampled wheat sends strong roots into the earth and grows straight and tall. And one day, that wheat bears fruit.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 08/04/2026

Note from the author, Keiji Nakazawa pt 1/2

A Note from the Author

Keiji Nakazawa

The atomic bomb exploded 600 meters above my hometown of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 at 8:15 a.m. I was a little over a kilometer away from the epicenter, standing at the back gate of Kanzaki Primary School, when I was hit by a terrible blast of wind and seanng heat. I was six years old. I owe my life to the school's concrete wall. If I hadn't been standing in its shadow, I would have been burned to death instantly by the 5,000-degree heat flash. Instead, I found myself in a living hell, the details of which remain etched in my brain as if it happened yesterday.

My mother, Kimiyo, was eight months pregnant. She was on the second floor balcony of our house, had just finished hanging up the wash to dry, and was turning to go back inside when the bomb exploded. The blast blew the entire balcony, with my mother on it, into the alley behind our house. Miraculously, my mother survived without a scratch.

The blast blew our house flat. The second floor collapsed onto the first, trapping my father, my sister Eiko, and my brother Susumu under it My brother had been sitting in the front doorway, playing with a toy ship. His head was caught under the rafter over the doorway. He frantically kicked his legs and cried out for my mother. My father, trapped inside the house, begged my mother to do something. My sister had been crushed by a rafter and killed instantly.

My mother frantically tried to lift the rafters off them, but she wasn't strong enough to do it by herself. She begged passersby to stop and help, but nobody would. In that atomic hell, people could only think of their own survival; they had no time for anyone else. My mother tried everything she could, but to no avail. Finally, in despair, she sat down in the doorway, clutching my crying brother and helplessly pushing at the rafter that was crushing him.

The fires that followed the blast soon reached our house. It was quickly enveloped in flame. My brother yelled that he was burn-ing; my father kept begging my mother to get some help. My mother, half-mad with grief and desperation, sobbed that she would stay and die with them. But our next-door neighbor found my mother just in time and dragged her away.
For the rest of her days, my mother never forgot the sound of the voices of her husband and son, crying out for her to save them. The shock sent my mother into labor, and she gave birth to

a daughter by the side of the road that day. She named the baby Tomoko. But Tomoko died only four months later - perhaps from malnutrition, perhaps from radiation sickness, we didn't know.
After escaping the flames near the school, I found my mother there by the roadside with her newborn baby Together we sat and watched the scenes of hell unfolding around us.
My father had been a painter of lacquer work and traditional-style Japanese painting. He was also a member of an anti-war theater group that performed plays like Gorky's "The Lower Depths." Eventually the thought police arrested the entire troupe and put them in the Hiroshima Prefectural Prison. My father was held there for a year and a half. Even when I was a young child, my father constantly told me that Japan had been stupid and reckless to start the war.
Thanks, no doubt, to my father's influence, I enjoyed drawing from an early age. After the war I began reading Osamu Tezuka's comic magazine Shin-Takarajima (New Treasure /sland); that had a huge impact on me. I began slavishly copying Tezuka's drawings and turned into a manga maniac. Hiroshima was an empty, burnt-out wasteland and we went hungry every day, but when I drew comics, I was happy and forgot everything else. I vowed early on to become a professional cartoonist when I grew up.
In 1961 | pursued my dream by moving to Tokyo. A year later I published my first cartoon serial in the manga monthly Shonen Gaho (Boys' Pictorial). From then on I was a full-time cartoonist.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 08/04/2026

“His work is humanistic and humane, demonstrating and stressing the necessity for empathy among humans if we're to survive into another century.” Introduction by Art Spiegelman, part 2/2

ly, and without much nuance, but it gets the job done. It is clear and efficient, and it performs the essential magic trick of all good narrative art: the characters come to living, breathing life. The drawing's greatest virtue is its straightforward, blunt sincerity. Its conviction and honesty allow you to believe in the unbelievable and impossible things that did, indeed, happen in Hiroshima. It is the inexorable art of the witness.

Although the strangeness of the unfamiliar idioms and conventions of Japanese comics language may set up a hurdle for the Westem reader first confronted with this book, it also offers one of its central pleasures Nakazawa is an exceptionally skillful storyteller who knows how to keep his reader's attention in order to tell the Grim Things That Must Be Told. He effortlessly communicates a wealth of information about day-to-day life in wartime Japan and the anatomy of survival without slowing down the trajectory of his narrative. There is a paradox inherent in talking

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 08/04/2026

Introduction by Art Spiegelman, part 1/2

Barefoot Gen: Comics
After the Bomb

An Introduction by Art Spiegelman

Gen haunts me. The first time I read it was in the late 1970s, shortly after l'd begun working on Maus, my own extended comic-book chronicle of the twentieth century's other central cataclysm.
I had the flu at the time and read it while high on fever. Gen burned its way into my heated brain with all the intensity of a fever-dream. I've found myself remembering images and events from the Gen books with a clarity that made them seem like memories from my own life, rather than Nakazawa's. I will never forget the people dragging their own melted skin as they walk through the ruins of Hiroshima, the panic-stricken horse on fire galloping through the city, the maggots crawling out of the sores of a young girl's ruined face. Gen deals with the trauma of the atom bomb without flinching. There are no irradiated Godzillas or super-mutants, only tragic realities. I've just reread the books recently and I'm glad to discover that the vividness of Barefoot Gen emanates from the work itself and not simply from my fever. Or, more accurately, it emanates from something intrinsic to the comics medium itself and from the events Nakazawa lived through and depicted.

Comics are a highly charged medium, deliverng densely concentrated information in relatively few words and simplified code-images. It seems to me that this is a model of how the brain formulates thoughts and remembers. We think in cartoons. Comics have often demonstrated how well suited they are to telling action adventure stories or jokes, but the small scale of the images and the directness of a medium that has something in common with handwnting allow comics a kind of intimacy that also make them surprisingly well suited to autobiography.

It's odd that, until the development of underground comics in the late 1960s, overtly autobiographical comics have not com- . prised an important "genre." Rarer still are works that overtly grapple with the intersection between personal history and world history. Perhaps it was necessary to have a concept of comics as suitable adult fare for the medium to move toward autobiography.
Or so I thought until I became more aware of Keiji Nakazawa's career. In 1972 Nakazawa, then 33, wrote and drew a directly

autobiographical account of surviving the atomic blast at Hiroshima for a Japanese children's comic weekly. It was called, with chilling directness, "I Saw It." A year later he began his Gen series, a slightly fictionalized narrative also based on having seen "It," an adventure story of a boy caught in hell, a "Disasters of War" with speech balloons.

In Japan there is no stigma attached to reading comics; they're consumed in truly astonishing numbers (some comics weeklies have been known to sell over 3 million copies of a single issue) by all classes and ages. There are comics devoted to economic theory, mah jongg, and male homosexual love stories designed for pre-pubescent girls, as well as more familiar tales of samurai, robots and mutants. However, I should confess to a very limited knowledge of Japanese comics. They form a vast unexplored universe only tangentially connected to my own. Sometimes that seems true of everything about Japan, and Gen may be an ideal starting point for the twain to meet.

The modem comic book is a specifically Westem form (making it all the more appropriate as a medium for reporting on the horrors brought to the East by the atom bomb), but Japanese comics have stylistic quirks and idioms that are quite different from ours, and these must be leamed and accepted as part of the process of reading Gen. The stories are often quite long (the entire Gen saga reportedly runs to close on 2,000 pages), usually with rather few words on a page, allowing an entire 200-page book to be read during a short commuter ride. Overt symbolism is characteristic of

during a short commuter ride. Overt symbolism is characteristic of Japanese comics; for Nakazawa it takes the form of a relentlessly reappearing sun that glares implacably through the pages. It is the marker of time passing, the giver of life, the flag of japan, and a metronome that gives rhythm to Gen's story.

The degree of casual violence in Japanese comics is typically far greater than in our homegrown products. Gen's pacifist father freely wallops his kids with a frequency and force that we might easily perceive as criminal child abuse rather than the sign of affection that is intended. The sequence of Gen brawling with the chairman's son and literally biting his fingers off is (forgive me, I can't resist) especially hard to swallow. Yet these casual small-scale brutalities pale to naturalistic proportions when compared to the enormity of dropping a nuclear weapon on a civilian popula-tion.
The physiognomy of the characters often leans to the cloyingly cute, with special emphasis on Disney-like oversized Caucasian eyes and generally neotenic faces. Nakazawa is hardly the worst offender, though his cartoon style derives from that tradition. His draftsmanship is somewhat graceless, even home-

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 08/04/2026

Barefoot Gen—a ten-volume comic written by a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima—is more than necessary reading. His story of Gen is both incredibly depressing and yet one of the most hopeful stories I have ever read. Intro by Art Spiegelman. Vol 1: ia800404.us.archive.org/19/items/man...

BAREFOOT GEN
A CARTOON STORY OF HIROSHIMA
VOLUME ONE
Keiji
Nakazawa
All New Translation
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ART SPIEGELMAN

Red cover with a drawn picture of Gen leaping up in the air and his brother standing behind him with his foot outstretched. Both are joyous and laughing.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 15/02/2026

“I really think that what fascism offers is the promise of pleasure and the promise of a sense of superiority…if the Germans just kill off the weak and vulnerable, then they will become strong and beautiful and smart.” publicseminar.org/2025/11/new-...

publicseminar.org

Adam Koehler Brown: This book gets us into a discussion of fascist body politics in the past and the present. And, at least from my reading, there are two key ideas that you're introducing: the phenomenon you call "sexy racism" and this obsessive hostility towards the disabled.
One of the interesting notes you make is that these were recurrently twinned across recent German history. Can you say a little bit about what those individual concepts mean and the way they come together in German history?

Dagmar Herzog: For a long time, the standard checklist of what makes a fascism, or how you recognize one, included extreme nationalism, terroristic violence against political opponents and minorities, and knowledge control through both propaganda and censorship. And those are important; we're definitely seeing those happening. But what I've always thought was unsatisfying was this idea that people are seeking subordination, when I really think that what fascism offers is the promise of pleasure and the promise of a sense of superiority. It's flattering to the in-group and it's also permission-giving, above all permitting cruelty towards the weak.

publicseminar.org

This goes way back to before the Nazis, back even to the 1890s. Alfred Ploetz, the man who invents the term "Rassenhygiene," or racial
hygiene, as the German equivalent of eugenics, the Anglo-American term, is actually combining hostility to the disabled with the promise of sexual transgressive pleasure. And that doubleness, that combination, becomes the Nazi program. The idea that if the Germans just kill off the weak and vulnerable, then they will become strong and beautiful and smart.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 15/02/2026

“The frail elderly are not their target…They actually refer to this notion of "affection value" (Affektionswert) and say, well, of course your grandma with dementia has affection value because you loved her, but somebody who has always been disabled has no affection value.”

publicseminar.org

It's all multifunctional for the right, but one of the many functions it serves is that liberals are confused. They like to think of themselves as the smart ones as opposed to "the deplorables." They've long assumed they're the nonstupid ones. And so they're caught off guard, not even noticing that this is about justifying the massive maldistribution of income and ongoing theft. Right now the self-declared "high-IQ" elite is stealing from the public purse, hand over fist.

publicseminar.org

One of the things that was most horrifying to me, when I delved into the German story:
There's this book from 1920, which becomes the template for the Nazi "euthanasia" program. It's by Karl Binding, who's a lawyer, and Alfred Hoche, who was a psychiatrist. It's right in the wake of Germany's defeat in World War I. And its title is literally "Permission to Annihilate Life Unworthy of Life." They are the coiners of that awful phrase, "life unworthy of life." And that text has consequences all the way through to the 1980s. It's unbelievable that it continues to set the terms of debate.

publicseminar.org

life." And that text has consequences all the way through to the 1980s. It's unbelievable that it continues to set the terms of debate. They are truly advocating killing those who require the care of others. The frail elderly are not their target, but rather the people who are vulnerable all along. They actually refer to this notion of "affection value" (Affektionswert) and say, well, of course your grandma with dementia has affection value because you loved her, but somebody who has always been disabled has no affection value. That's why it was so important to me then to uplift the un-dehumanizers that I found in every era, but especially the activists in the 1970s and 1980s who rebelled against the long-lingering, Nazi-exacerbated ugliness, and insisted, "There is no reason for hierarchy of human worth; we do love these people, and we can be in ongoing, meaningful relationship with them. Neurotypicality is not better than anything else. And we believe in human possibility, and everyone learning from each other." That way of being is nonfascist, and it is profoundly precious. And that way of being is what is now under attack.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 15/02/2026

“One factor might be the strength of Evangelical Christianity, which has been a complicated force in the United States, to put it mildly, via its anti-abortion politics, but it has done a lot to treat disability parenthood as heroic.”

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On the other hand, I would say that if you think about disability in the US, until Trump's cruelties, I do think there was a more sentimental and more respectful attitude towards children with various kinds of cognitive difference, whether that's due to Down syndrome, or cerebral palsy, or the many varieties of autism, and towards their families.
There was-there still is—a sincere sentimentalization of devoted loving parenthood in the US that I greatly appreciate, and that is not as much in evidence in Germany. One factor might be the strength of Evangelical Christianity, which has been a complicated force in the United States, to put it mildly, via its anti-abortion politics, but it has done a lot to treat disability parenthood as heroic. Trump is wreaking havoc on all that now. His nephew, who has a much-loved son with significant impairments, reported that Trump told him that his son (and others like him) "should just die." But it actually remains an achievement that in the United States leftists are not the only defenders of disability rights by a long shot. In Germany, it took such a long time-four decades or more-to get over

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him) "should just die." But it actually remains an achievement that in the United States leftists are not the only defenders of disability rights by a long shot. In Germany, it took such a long time-four decades or more-to get over the horrifyingly stubborn, lingering after-effects of fascism, the old hostility to the disabled that had been so savagely exacerbated by the Nazis, with massive investment of time, money, and energy in thousands and thousands of eugenic workshop sessions. But—here's the third thing—in the US now with Trump, there is also a campaign to make eugenics acceptable again. There's a racial dimension there, but it goes beyond that.
There's lots more hype talk about IQ and the idea that (Elon] Musk is a "genius." [Historian] Quinn Slobodian has done the most important
work in terms of showing that the far right's turn to "Nature" and supposed "natural" smartness and "natural" hierarchies is all about
trying to justify the ever vaster inequalities in society.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 15/02/2026

Toscano says it’s not “preemptive counter-revolution…it's preemptive counter-reform. They don't want the slightest little adjustment, the slightest regulation that might be good for the environment or for consumers, or the slightest diminution of their profit.”

publicseminar.org

One thing that philosopher. Alberto Toscano
said about the production of surplus populations: We're not living in industrial productivist capitalism anymore. We're living in utterly over-the-top, earth-destroying consumer capitalism. Basically, entire populations aren't needed anymore. And that's a really important point he's making. And simultaneously, what are we to make of the over-the-top histrionics in the face of calls to tax the rich? These people have billions. What is the hysteria about? And you realize-and Toscano says this-it's not counter-revolution, preemptive counter-revolution the way that Herbert Marcuse or Angela Davis would've analyzed it, it's preemptive counter-reform.
They don't want the slightest little adjustment, the slightest regulation that might be good for the environment or for consumers, or the
slightest diminution of their profit.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 15/02/2026

“One thing that's always stuck with me was the famous Nazi photographer, Anna Koppitz, complaining she can't find enough perfect bodies in reality.”

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Koehler Brown: It seems to me that in many of your examples of the present-day AfD, the mechanisms by which they articulate their dispositions-about sex, about race, about disability-the whole means by which they communicate is totally different from how Nazis or even from how people in the late twentieth century did. Now we're using social media, we're using posts, we're using memes, and especially Al-generated memes. Do these new mediums of communication, these new technologies, actually change the way we think about disability or race or gender or whatever it might be?

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Herzog: I am definitely one of those people who thinks that technology changes human nature. I think that this is also where my emphasis on postmodernism comes in; it's postmodern fascism. It's all about deliberate contradictoriness (e.g., the AfD can put out pro-gay and anti-gay content, depending on their target audience). The incoherence-and with it, the easy deniability ("Oh, can't you take a joke?")—is the point. I think one of the things that fascism thrives on is the utter
disorientation about what is real and what is
not.

It exaggerates something already long since happening in photography, which is that you can touch things up. One thing that's always stuck with me was the famous Nazi photographer, Anna Koppitz, complaining she can't find enough perfect bodies in reality.

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One point I would make about the fascist body is that there is no such thing. It's a dream ideal, a fantasy to be implemented through brutality.
And then there's a fascist body like that of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, striding around in front of powerless men in cages, with her styled hair, taking pleasure in the pose of dominance.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 14/02/2026

Found a book published last Dec called The New Fascist Body by Dagmar Herzog. In it she explains that far-right movements like the AfD have been successful because of what she calls “sexy racism” combined with an “obsessive hostility to disability.” publicseminar.org/2025/11/new-...

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 08/02/2026

“Then they just have to get sick.” Not surprising that the pro-billionaires march organizer a) hasn’t thought through his positions and b) is a much bigger fan of keeping billionaires in CA regardless the impact over supporting pregnant mothers with healthcare.

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"California is, I believe, the only state to give health insurance to people who come into the country illegally," Kauffman said nervously. "I think we probably should not be providing that."

Fourteen states offer health coverage to undocumented immigrants. Far more offer health coverage to pregnant undocumented immigrants. Kauffman later clarified that he meant the state was the only one to extend state-funded health coverage to all low-income adults regardless of immigration status.

"So you'd rather everyone just be sick, and get everyone else sick?" another reporter asked.

"That's not what I'm saying," said Kauffman.

"Isn't that effectively what happens?" the reporter countered. "They don't have access to health care and they just have to get sick, right?"

Kauffman contemplated that one for a moment.
"Then they have to just get sick," he said. "I mean, it's unfortunate, but I think that it's sort of impossible to have both liberal immigration laws and generous government benefits."

Kauffman, who recently left his tech job, has since been completely occupied with organizing Saturday's march. He said he expected dozens to join him.

All told, at least 20 did, Kauffman later said. It was for the best that more did not: The group later
decamped from Alta Plaza Park and marched to Civic Center, where they did not have a permit for a rally.

Half an image of three pro-billionaire people holding signs, Kauffman in the middle with a sign that that says, “the pie is growing!”

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 07/02/2026

Screenshots of “X” posts when the creator is right here

Bluesky post:

Long Time
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@longtimehisto... • 1d
Joined Nov '24

ICE break window to enter U.S. citizen's house without warrant-violently tackle man for filming them.
Agents turn to leave and close front door— suddenly barge back in to physically assault homeowner.
"They're inside my house with no warrant-l'm a U.S. citizen!" she tells 911.
San Antonio, Texas

Video embedded below

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 07/02/2026

He’s showing up in my feed for Epstein file analysis; but looks like he’s not even understanding what he’s sharing. The highlighted blue section is asking for guidance for redacting, not saying they are going to redact all of these people.

Scott Horton
@robertscotthorton.bsky.s... • 5h
Joined Nov '24
In March 2025, the FBI discusses internally Pam Bondi's "clear and specific guidance" to redact images of "former U.S. Presidents, Secretary of State, and other celebrities."

Epstein file email thread start
From:
To:
Ce:
- (NY) (FBI" <
(IMD) (FBI)"|
(CID) (FBI" -
Subject: FW: Guidance NEEDED - S0D-NY-3027571 - 1B Items
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:50:12 +0000
Importance: Normal
(CID) (FBI)"
Good morning
DO you know what is the guidance for redacting images or who would be able to assist with the guidance (be is
CSAM, victims etc)?
Please see below for additional details.
Thx!
From:
To:
(NY) (FBI) <
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2025 11:46 AM
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Subject: Fw: Guidance NEEDED - S0D-NY-3027571 - 18 Items
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Do we have clear guidelines for redacting images?
A/SAC
FBI NY Criminal Division
Cell:
From:
To:
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(NY) (FBI) <
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2025 11:03:17 AM
(NY) (FBI) 4
1 (NY) (FBI) ‹
Subject: Guidance NEEDED - 50D-NY-3027571 - 18 Items
Good morning, Sir,
BLUF: IMD RIDS requests guidance redacting photographs - who is protected under this transparency task?
50D-NY-3027571 - 1B Items contain photographs of multiple individuals to include the subjects of this investigation (Epstein and Maxwell).
IMD-RIDS needs clear and specific guidance to redact those photographs. some photographs depict: victims, unknown-unidentified females and males, former U.S. Presidents, Secretary of State, and other celebrities.
The software does not have lA facial recognition to assist with the identification of some of public officials and celebrities.
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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 07/02/2026

Here’s the first critique I saw of him, posting Bill Amend’s drawing as his own. Would have been real easy to retweet the original. bsky.app/profile/bill...

Bill Amend
@billamend.bsky.social
Joined Feb '24

Seriously? No credit? And you're a Harpers editor?

Scott Horton
Joined Nov '24
@robertscotthorton.bsky.... • 1mo

Picture of a drawing on a napkin. A woman on the tv says,
“TONIGHT, ON "4O MINUTES"...”

A man and woman sitting on the couch watching the tv. The woman says,
“I GUESS ONE OF THE SEGMENTS STRUCK A NERVE.”

6:44 PM • Dec 21, 2025
Everybody can reply

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 06/02/2026

Currently on a “Cosby” kick in the #epsteinfiles Here’s Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen talking about he’s “being persecuted” www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Looks like iMessage text bubbles

jeeitunes@gmail.com

Jeffrey Epstein:
[redacted] said it was difficult. Maybe the 23 rd ? No problem. Bobby Slayton was here last night. HE said your casting director contacted him?? It seems Cosby unable to catch a break. Too much money for the town
Sent 12:56:12 pm

Woody Allen:
Maybe Bobby could do a small bit in the Amazon movie. Discussing that now with casting.
No pressure on seeing film. Whenever you like or never if the thought sounds too boring-and it may be just that.
Cosby is being persecuted. Ok, even if he's guilty no one died. He's been publicly humiliated, stripped of honors at schools, forced to cancel comedy tour, dropped from tv series that was in the works, old show taken off the air. Do they want his head on a pike?

Sent 01:04:49 pm

Jeffrey Epstein:
Call Soon-Yi. We might b able 2 cm 4 dinner tonight.
05:03:45 pm
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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 05/02/2026

“Rothbard called for the elimination of "the entire 'civil rights' structure," which he said "tramples on the property rights of every American."” It all comes back to seeing people as property with these ghouls

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Rothbard called for the elimination of "the entire 'civil rights' structure," which he said "tramples on the property rights of every American." He consistently favored repeal of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, including Title VII regarding employment discrimination, [136] and called for overturning the Brown v. Board of Education decision on the grounds that state-mandated integration of schools violated libertarian principles. [137] In an essay called "Right-wing Populism", Rothbard proposed a set of measures to "reach out" to the "middle and working classes", which included urging the police to crack down on "street criminals", writing that "cops must be unleashed" and "allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error". He also advocated that the police "clear the streets of bums and vagrants."[138][25]

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 04/02/2026

Defining child sexual grooming; not just about the “perpetrator’s behavior toward the child.” Four types of grooming: child, self, family, and community/institutional. Eye-opening way to understand the complex relationship dynamics at play.

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Given that sexual grooming behaviors can look different depending upon the offenders and type of situation (i.e., in-person, online, child sex trafficking; Elliott 2017), this paper will specifically focus on in-person sexual grooming. Taken together, it is evident that sexual grooming is a highly nuanced process involving varying types of behaviors and lengths of time depending on the offender and the context.

Research has shown that sexual grooming is not limited to the behavior of the perpetrator directed toward the child. Four broad categories of sexual grooming have been introduced in the literature: child, self, family, and community/institutional. The term child sexual grooming refers to the typical conceptualization of sexual grooming, in which the offender grooms the potential victim (Craven, Brown, and Gilchrist 2006). Self-grooming involves the process whereby offenders cognitively/psy-chologically groom themselves in order to justify, minimize, or deny their behaviors (Craven, Brown, and Gilchrist 2006; Katz and Field 2020; McAlinden 2006). Familial grooming involves gaining the trust of caregivers in order to increase access to the victim and decrease the likelihood of disclosure (Craven, Brown, and Gilchrist 2006; Katz and Barnetz 2016; Leberg 1997; McAlinden 2006;
McElvaney 2019). Lastly, an offender may groom the community by becoming a respected and established member of the community before sexually abusing children (Van Dam 2001, 2006; America, schools, foster care, sports teams, babysitting; Lanning and Burgess 1984; Leclerc and Felson 2016; McAlinden 2006; Sullivan and Beech, 2002) thus circumventing the need to gain access to or groom the child's family, or exploiting organizational weaknesses to facilitate child sexual abuse (O'Leary, Koh, and Dare 2017).

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 04/02/2026

So I was trying to see if there was more on Sandusky and came across this info from Lynn Crook who has been standing up against false memory defense witness Elizabeth Loftus for years. Crook theorizes Loftus was hired to get Kavanaugh confirmed. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

RESPONSE TO FALSE MEMORY CLAIMS: The false memory PR campaign disbursed $7.75 million over 27 years. The best response to false memory claims I've heard is one by Dylan Farrow. She says in a 2021 interview, "This is something that I'm literally telling you happened to me. Who are you to say, 'No, it didn't'"? I was there, you weren't. Go away."

TYPICAL TESTIMONY - Loftus reviews the case, selects incidents and speculates as to how they might have caused a false memory. Asked about the details of the charges during cross it becomes clear that she hasn't thoroughly reviewed the case.

DURST - Deputy District Attorney John Lewin's 3-day cross of Loftus is on YouTube @ Durst trial. This was Lewin's second Loftus cross, and arguably the best I know of to date. Loftus became angry and sarcastic. Lewin insisted she face him, not the jury, to answer his questions.
He managed to mention more than once that she'd been doing this for 50 years. She did not like the reference to her age. Lewin is open to discussing his cross-examination.

WEINSTEIN - Arguably the most relevant testimony in the Loftus cross were the repeated mentions of the gist/core of the memory vs. the details. Loftus testified, "Well then, the less stressful, the one difference is when it is more upsetting and traumatic, if it is truly traumatic, there is evidence people who remember the gist and the core and the peripheral details especially suffer." So the memory is essentially correct, but maybe not the details. Sternheim mentioned memory contamination. That was tried in the Weinstein trial. Transcript available on request.
For the Weinstein trial I prepared a review of Loftus's "Remembering Disputed Sexual

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Encounters: A New Frontier for Witness Memory Research" which suggests that if a woman accepts a drink, etc., the man assumes she wants sex. If she physically defends herself it's because she doesn't want to appear easy. Available on request.

BLASEY FORD - I collected Loftus's media interviews on the Blasey Ford accusation. I got the sense Loftus probably spent considerable time prepping because her responses to the half-dozen reporters differed, and many were quite creative. Available on request. Can't prove it, but I wondered if she was hired to respond to the press to help ensure Kavanaugh was confirmed.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 04/02/2026

On Sandusky: “Kind of reminiscent of the community hysteria surrounding the Salem witchcraft trials.”

To:
Matthew I. Menchel
From:
Jeffrey Epstein
Sent:
Tue 12/11/2012 5:11:01 AM

robert trivers, genes in conflict.
-- blog found today...-. I also entertain the
possibly that Sandusky is innocent. Why? Because I took the initiative to read the trial transcript and formed my own conclusions.
I found nothing in the transcript that proved that Sandusky was innocent. I found nothing in the transcript that proved to me, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Sandusky is guilty either. The testimony of the victims is absolutely very sad. It's also inconsistent, and involves allegations that were brought to light often under very dubious circumstances (previously estranged family members hiring civil lawyers for them, psychologists uncovering repressed memories, questionable investigative and interview techniques, etc).

I encourage you all to read the transcript yourselves, then compare it with the Grand Jury testimony. Is Sandusky innocent? Not necessarily. But, it certainly raises questions of his guilt. To me, the most disturbing thing about this situation is the speed and conviction at which Sandusky was tried and found guilty by the media and public - long before the case went to trial. No physical evidence. Mainly testimony by a handful of people who are now filing civil suits for millions, and a former football coach who has told numerous different versions of his story (and is now filing a civil suit of his own). Kind of reminiscent of the community hysteria surrounding the Salem witchcraft trials. Scary.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 03/02/2026

"By that time, I thought: We were already on our way," Heather said. "This was already a thing. Everybody was already ready, so ... let's just do it." Hauntingly relatable: sacrifice and suppress your own choices because making a different decision would disrupt what was happening.

Kansas City, on the western edge of Missouri, was 17 hours away. They left on Heather's birthday and drove through the night, only stopping to get gas or when she needed to throw up. Heather's family members occasionally turned around to ask: Heather, is this really what you want?

"By that time, I thought: We were already on our way," Heather said. "This was already a thing. Everybody was already ready, so ... let's just do it."

They arrived on Sunday. Early the next morning, they strolled through the marble lobby at the Jackson County Courthouse to the recorder of deeds' office on the first floor.

A court clerk asked Heather and Aaron for their ages and a copy of their IDs. Heather's dad, Keith, signed a box on the marriage license application form that read: "I ... hereby give my consent to said marriage."

The marriage license was approved by 8:40 a.m.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 03/02/2026

Heather was pregnant at 15, her bf was 24. Her mother alerted local police. But if the man who impregnated her was convicted, he’d go to prison for statutory rape. So to protect him, their families decided the two of them should marry because of the Bible and to “keep [him] out of trouble.” Awful.

The pregnancy meant trouble for Aaron. He was 24 years old. In Idaho, where they met, it's a felony - statutory rape - for an adult to have sex with anyone younger than 16. The maximum punishment is life in prison.

Heather lived in a small town surrounded by wheat and potato fields in the valley below Yellowstone National Park. A few days before her birthday, her mother - who was divorced from her father - called the local police from her home in Utah and filed a report. An investigation was opened right away.

Heather said she didn't want Aaron to go to jail.
She loved him and needed him to be around for their baby. After the police started looking into the case, they sat down with their families and decided to get married. Heather's father, Keith, thought marriage was what the Bible advised and they all hoped it would keep Aaron out of trouble.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 03/02/2026

“The laws in all 50 states allow minors to marry with parental consent…Almost 90 percent of minors who married were girls. Most of them were 16 or 17 years old. In rare instances, however, children as young as 12 years old were granted marriage licenses” The other side of parent’s rights

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FRONTLINE

DOCUMENTARIES

Since then, 18 has become the official age of adulthood in every state except Mississippi, where it is 21, and Alabama and Nebraska, where it is 19. Today, turning 18 comes with a host of rights and responsibilities. In the vast majority of states, it's the age when a person can sign a lease for an apartment, open a bank account, serve on a jury and enlist in the military without a parent's permission.

And while 18 is also the legal age of marriage in most states, the laws in all 50 states allow minors to marry with parental consent. In some states, a judge must also approve the union. Nine states grant special permission for minors who are pregnant or have given birth to a child, according to a report by the Tahirih Justice Center, an organization that offers legal services for women and girls fleeing violence.

$pbs.org FRONTLINE DOCUMENTARIES Between 2000 and 2015, these laws made it possible for more than 200,000 minors to marry legally, according to a FRONTLINE analysis of marriage records from 41 states and the largest counties in Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. Data was unavailable for California, Georgia, Maine, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia. Almost 90 percent of minors who married were girls. Most of them were 16 or 17 years old. In rare instances, however, children as young as 12 years old were granted marriage licenses in Alaska, Louisiana and South Carolina. Only a fraction of these marriages involved two minors. Most of the time, a minor's spouse was 18, 19 or in his early 20s. Nearly 500 minors were permitted to marry partners in their 40s, 50s and even over 60. Overall, the total number of minors who marry each year has dropped by more than half since 2000. The rates of child marriage, however, have remained highest in states with large rural and low-income populations, like Idaho, Kentucky and West Virginia.$

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 03/02/2026

The post above has written testimony and photos taken by Jonathan Whittall in February 2024. He was part of a fact-finding mission for a report that was blocked by internal senior US officials because what Whittall and others had found was so devastating that it made Israel look really, really bad

dropsitenews.com

In February 2024, just over three months into Israel's war on Gaza, U.S. ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, and his deputy, Stephanie Hallett, blocked an internal cable intended for wider
distribution among senior officials in the Biden administration that warned northern Gaza had turned into an "apocalyptic wasteland," according to Reuters. Lew and Hallett reportedly blocked the cable, which described the consequences of Israel's assault in harrowing detail, because they believed it lacked balance.

The cable was drafted by U.S. Agency for International Development staffers and was based on a two-part humanitarian fact-finding mission by a small United Nations team that visited the area on January 31 and February 1, 2024.

I was part of that mission.

Northern Gaza had been under a total siege for over three months when we were eventually allowed to enter in January 2024. We moved through Gaza City, Beit Lahia, Jabaliya, and Beit Hanoun.

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What we found was an endless horizon of destruction. People were living under plastic sheeting or in the rubble of buildings. Schools had been destroyed. In parts of Beit Hanoun, the entire area had been depopulated and decimated. There was a deadly shortage of clean drinking water, food and access to healthcare.

Mass starvation had already set in. Everyone we spoke to asked us for food. People gestured to us in the street for something to eat. Israeli authorities continued to deny the entry of any supplies despite our warnings of the deadly conditions.

We found bodies of people that had been killed for getting too close to Israeli checkpoints. Their remains were being eaten by cats and dogs. On a wall that was still standing in someone's destroyed home we found the word "Revenge" graffitied in Hebrew, with the date of October 7, 2023, written below.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 01/02/2026

The Chomsky’s sent Epstein trust related things File: EFTA01047337 (below) File: EFTA00867486 talks more about their financial situation and the concerns from others

From: Valeria Chomsky 4
To: "jeffrey E." < jeevacation@gmail.com>
Ce: Noam Chomsky
Subject: Documents received from our lawyer
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 21:31:06 +0000
Attachments: Chomsky_-_Promissory_Note_(Carol_S._Chomsky_-_Exempt_Marital_Trust)_dtd_7-9-
17 pan 2 pl, Thome y 3-2 - A 7-2-
First_ Amendment_to_Carol_S._Chomsky_Rev_Trust_dtd_4-18-91_(HEKB) _ -_2-2-
17_(00580644xA4627).pdf; Chomsky, Carol -
Second_ Amendment _to_Carol_S._Chomsky_Rev_Trust_dt_1-11-07_(HEKB)_- 2-2-
17_(00580636xA4627).pdf; Chomsky,_ Carol_-
Noam's_Declination to Serve as_Trustee_did _1-22-09_(HEKB)_ - 2-2-
17_(00580634xA4627).pdf
As you requested, these are some of the documents we received today from our lawyer. It is strange that the text of the promissory note doesn't have the name of the entity Pershing completed, but it has the observation from the lawyer to have it inserted in the document "[insert full name of Pershing entity]". I don't know if it makes any difference.

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 31/01/2026

“I think there would be far more important uses - like changing the genes for dedicated savagery and lack of concern for the welfare or even security of the population on the part of that sector of educated elite that reaches positions of power.” www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

From: Noam Chomsky <
To: "jeffrey E." < jeevacation@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: Re:
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:55:21 +0000

Almost inconceivable. But if it could be done, I think there would be far more important uses - like changing the genes for dedicated savagery and lack of concern for the welfare or even security of the population on the part of that sector of educated elite that reaches positions of power.

From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2016 1:54 PM
To: Noam Chomsky <
Subject: Re:

I am aware of the potential for abuse. However imagine that a set of genes used for working memory like the ones for Tay Sachs could be found and adjusted. Not looking seems cruel

On Monday, 8 February 2016, Noam Chomsky <
> wrote:

Wish we could just toss of the cares and demands of the world.

First question is whether the facts have any significance. Second is what is the explanation. Answer to the first is that

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Kit Connolly @kitforkat.com · 31/01/2026

I also found that Chomsky did respond to him www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

From: Noam Chomsky <
To: "jeffrey E." < jeevacation@gmail.com>
CC: "
Subject: RE: Re:
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:58:38 +0000
Wish we could just toss of the cares and demands of the world.
First question is whether the facts have any significance. Second is what is the explanation. Answer to the first is that they don't. They have no scientific interest, and they tell us nothing about how to deal with Tom Jones - who is who is he, and not the mean of some group to which we assign him.
As for explanation, the likelihood I think is what I outlined, say the likely different outcomes for a kid like me and a counterpart in a family in Philly that is part of a group that for 400 years had a chance for about 2 or 3 decades to enter mainstream society, and then with the constant legacy of miserable racism. There were a few families that escaped the legacy - Thurgood Marshall, Condoleezza Rice, etc. But it's not surprising under the circumstances that few did. And simply as a matter of biology, the capacities involved are so deeply embedded that it would be quite surprising if an evolutionarily brief period that has produced only superficial changes would have affected them.
But in any event, I don't see the importance (except on ugly assumptions), any more than it would be important to show that tall people with blue eyes on average do better (or worse) in answering questions on tests.
But for later discussion.
Noam
From: jeffrey E. [mailto:)
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2016 6:58 AM
To: Noam Chomsky <
Subject: Re:
re caribean as you liked the expression If not now?-- on a different note, you have encouraged me to look at data, no holds barred. mortgages. inequalities. opportunities. I have seen some things through your eyes, and for that I am grateful.. the test score gap, amongst african americans is well documented. 20 years of testsing. many countries. James Watson had some of his private views made public and hence his

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From: "jeffrey E." < jeevacation@gmail.com>
To: Noam Chomsky 4
Subject: Re:
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 11:57:40 +0000
re caribean as you liked the expression If not now?-- . on a different note, you have encouraged me to look at data, no holds barred. mortgages, inequalities. opportunities. I have seen some things through your eyes, and for that I am grateful.. the test score gap, amongst african americans is well documented. 20 years of testsing, many countries. James Watson, had some of his private views made public and hence his dismissal from society. he told me that after one sentence he became an un-person. Making thigns better might require accepting some uncomfortable facts. . - you told me that.
http://therightstuff.biz/2015/09/02/race-and-iq=genes-that-predict-racial-intelligence-differences/
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 3:41 AM, Noam Chomsky 4
> wrote:
We both really enjoyed the evening immensely. And can't tell you how tempting the invitation is. Have to somehow work out the schedule.
Hope you beat the snow without any problem.
Noam
From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2016 11:29 PM
To: Noam Chomsky <
Subject:
thank you both for tonite., re island trip my plane will pick you up in boston and return you when you like
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