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monk @warisaracket.me · 11/09/2026

Loved rocking my Sean Price (aka Jesus Price Supastar) "Jesus is my Homeboy" t-shirt but had to retire it when I started getting way too many compliments from evangelicals who were obviously unfamiliar with the source material...

T-shirt with a picture of rapper Sean Price that says "Jesus is my homeboy" in reference to his album "Jesus Price Supastar"

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monk @warisaracket.me · 25/08/2026

I really wish some people I would love to subscribe to leave this site so that I may do so in good conscious. I really do not understand any reason for staying. (cc @radleybalko.bsky.social, @atrupar.com, @mehdirhasan.bsky.social, @sulliview.bsky.social etc.)

Bernie Sanders "I am once again asking" meme saying "I am once again asking you to get off Substack or publicly defend your decision to stay"

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monk @warisaracket.me · 20/08/2026

Pre-ordered @gilduran.com's new book a couple months ago. Finally get to dive in...

Gil Durán's book "The Nerd Reich. Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy"

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monk @warisaracket.me · 12/08/2026

The consequences of producing literally zero usable munitions for $533 million apparently include $2.5 billion more in future contracts. Glad to see so much accountability after spending trillions on these companies. Especially since our stockpiles have been depleted after only a few months...

Reporting Highlights

Ready, Fire, Aim: In a rushed process exempted from normal rules, the Army hired General Dynamics, which brought on a Turkish subcontractor with little vetting, to make artillery shells.
Money for Nothing: Despite being paid $533 million, General Dynamics did not produce a single usable shell at its new factory — and has not been held publicly accountable.
Wages of Failure: Since the Army halted two production lines at the factory, the General Dynamics unit responsible for the debacle has received contract awards totaling $2.5 billion.

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monk @warisaracket.me · 11/08/2026

I remember her arch nemesis too...

Photo of Atanas Ilitch as the "Driller Killer" in the 1987 horror movie "Slumber Party Massacre II" holding an electric guitar with an enormous drill bit at the top of the neck.

Crystal Bernard holding a blowtorch and screaming from the 1987 horror movie "Slumber Party Massacre II"

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monk @warisaracket.me · 11/06/2026

I cannot see or hear about this clown without reflexively referring to him as "Mark Wayne Gary Wayne"

Jon Hamm as the Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne in the tv show "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt"

Mug shot of Richard Wayne Gary Wayne as played by Jon Hamm on the tv show "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt"

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monk @warisaracket.me · 15/05/2026

These dudes were money. After crushing one island mystery with Scooby and the gang no way they weren't getting these mfs saved...

The Harlem Globetrotters in the Scooby-Doo episode "The Mystery of Haunted Island"

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monk @warisaracket.me · 13/05/2026

Incredible quote from New York journalist John Swinton given at a banquet in reply to a toast to the "Independent Press." This most likely occurred in 1880 but could just as easily be levied against the corporate access journalists of today...

Quotation by journalist John Swinton in 1880 in reply to a toast to the Independent Press that reads: "There is no such thing in America as an independent press, unless it is in the small towns. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write his honest opinions, and if you did you know beforehand that they would never appear in print...The business of the New York journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his race and his country for his daily bread. You know this and I know it, and what folly is this to be toasting an 'Independent Press.' We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks; they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

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monk @warisaracket.me · 25/04/2026

The flu killed almost as many US soldiers as combat in WWI www.military.com/history/this...

American combat deaths in World War I totaled 54,402. But about 45,000 American soldiers died of influenza and related pneumonia by the end of 1918.

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monk @warisaracket.me · 20/04/2026

Whether it's the sweatshops that got him promoted, the touchbar and butterfly keys fiascos, the vision pro flop, or kneeling to Trump, Tim Cook's pathetic legacy deserves to be in tatters.

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monk @warisaracket.me · 20/04/2026

Remember all these fucking idiots...?

Split screen photo of absolute morons wearing apple vision pro headsets while eating in a restaurant and riding in a train both in public if you can believe it

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monk @warisaracket.me · 09/04/2026

A month ago it was going to replace all white collar jobs within 18 months. Now it’s just for funsies. bsky.app/profile/busi...

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monk @warisaracket.me · 02/03/2026

Fred Gwynne with two absolute heaters in this category

Photo of Joe E. Ross and Fred Gwynne feomt eh opening credits of the tv show "Car 54 Where are You?"

Cast photo from the tv show "The Munsters"

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monk @warisaracket.me · 30/12/2025

While the white vote was still depressingly high (55%) it actually remained static compared to previous elections. Black and Hispanic voters shifted more right in 2024: www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

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monk @warisaracket.me · 29/12/2025

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains. Although released in 1989 it was indisputably an iconic and influential 90s album. I'll die on this hill...