God's Own Monster

Let me not be put to shame, Lord, for I have cried out to you; but let the wicked be put to shame and be silent in the realm of the dead. Psalms 31-17

hunter s. thompson showed up at all of these places and would say "the parties are fancy and it is a mask for monsters" and these people can't stop praising the fine cheeses on offer

"The rich are only defeated when running for their lives." - CLR James, The Black Jacobins

Last night I gave a lecture on La Jetee to a prison classroom and basically everyone in the class loved the movie. People who try to tell you that difficult or experimental art is only for educated nerds are wrong, that’s just shit that giant corporations want you to believe.

Pure security theater. The RAW has no interest in cutting off their asset from doing the state's dirty work. There are people in Indian prisons who have been locked up for years without trial but this guy has been ordering contract hits from prison for a decade with no real consequences.

Italy: Four bomb attacks in five days across Rome and its metropolitan area have renewed concerns over criminal groups competing for control of drug markets and local businesses. 1/4

Italy: The latest ’ndrangheta shooting in Calabria has renewed concerns over the fragile balance between rival clans in the Sibaritide, where years of relative calm have been interrupted by murders, attempted assassinations and intimidation. 1/5

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Pennsylvania ‘lookback’ bill for child sexual assault survivors again stalled Law would open two-year window for child sexual abuse victims to file lawsuits beyond statute of limitations ...

Lula is a veritable giant of a man among world leaders. A world historical tough guy who ate everything the system could through at him and still won

Get em

I said he'll flip ya, flip ya for real

Xi has completely changed the system in China in ways that I don't think a lot of people understand. The pre Xi status quo has been completely destroyed and entire sections of the CCP leadership have been purged. He oriented everything around his personal authority and ideology.

"Work is what you are doing when you would rather be doing something else, right?" Ken Bruen

Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault

'Fascism is a hysterical phase of capitalism, and, consequently, something very new and very old.... So, what is the use of speaking the truth about fascism, which condemns itself, if nothing is said against the capitalism that gives rise to it?' Bertolt Brecht.

We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

Mexico: Former Chihuahua state attorney general César Jáuregui has been arrested and accused of treason over an anti-drug operation involving CIA agents that ended with four people dead. 1/5

USA: Himanshu Bhau [left], one of northern India's most wanted fugitives and the suspected leader of a violent organized crime network, has been detained near Las Vegas after years on the run. 1/4

Breaking Bad in Warwickshire

Ryu Murakami essentially single handled introduced Cuban jazz to Japan and fostered a Japanese audience for it with his record label. He was a die hard believer in the transformative power of art. In The Miso Soup is one of the darkest meditations on Japanese-US relations

Belgium: All 31 defendants in a major international drug-trafficking trial have escaped conviction after a court in Hasselt terminated the prosecution over nearly five years of unexplained delays and surveillance evidence that could barely be accessed. 1/5

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

RIP to a real one

“Kushner appeared to have transferred significant amounts of money from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man. The story sounded preposterous, I told my source. And yet.” A staggering story of corruption: www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Italy: Anti-mafia prosecutors have requested a combined 586 years and 10 months in prison for 96 defendants in the Glicine-Acheronte maxi-trial in Crotone, exposing the alleged infiltration of Calabria's political institutions and public contracts by the ’ndrangheta. 1/4

USA: A courier who personally handled approximately $23 million in drug trafficking proceeds has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for her role in a Chinese money laundering network that moved more than $92 million in less than two years. 1/5

Brazil: Angélica Saraiva de Sá, known as Angeliquinha and identified by Brazilian police as a Comando Vermelho leader in northern Mato Grosso, has been returned to the same prison she escaped from in August 2025. 1/5

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

Zero percent interest rates subsidized the hell out of the American video game industry and the end of that was the end of everything lowkey

Lucan description of Caesar destroying the sacred grove of the Gauls:

‘Protest is when I say I don’t like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.’ Ulrike Meinh

Norcross might be the last old school political boss on the east coast. He was charged with federal racketeering charges before his political juice made it go away. Trump bought the land for his casinos from the Philly mob. Atlantic City remains Atlantic City.