Monkey Cat

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No Kings!

The 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.

From 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.

There 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.

Somewhere 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.

What 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...

“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...

DHS 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.

This 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...

More 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.

The 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. 🧵

Imagine 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.

Pull 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.

Happy 4th of July. Nothing says freedom more than building Concentration Camps.

If 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.

Hello 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...

I 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.

A 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.

Long 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...

The 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.

Pull 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.

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This 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.

Hey, 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.

Members of Congress are being denied access to an ICE facility in Manhattan, because the conditions inside are that bad.

We 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.

The Tiger Cub Is Growing Teeth (And Is Now Eating Your Face): Reflections from the Godfather of AI open.substack.com/pub/richardj...

The foundations of democratic governance rest upon the premise of an informed and engaged citizenry capable of rational deliberation and holding power accountable.

Unmask the Gestapo ICE “agents”.

Padilla: 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

Are we really just going to let fascists take our country?

The 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.

No Kings, No Rain, No Clue: Trump, The Mule, and the Collapse of American Psychohistory open.substack.com/pub/richardj...

Mike Lee is a lying POS and should be censured and removed from office.

97% 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.

It seems the long arc of history has once again bent—not toward justice, nor even toward peace, but toward fire.

Boelter 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.

Let’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.

Game Over or Start Again? The Arcade-State of America in 2025 open.substack.com/pub/richardj...

Shit Pants Nero and the June 14th Death Riff open.substack.com/pub/richardj...

Disgraceful for any news organization to bend the knee to these bad faith actors. Shameful.

The Algorithm, the Longhouse, and the Lipstick Ritual: Decoding Cult Power from Mountainhead to June 6 open.substack.com/pub/richardj...

History applauds the encore. After flames devoured Rome in 64 CE, Nero fingered Christians and requisitioned new marble districts.

Pull 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.

Conspiracy fuels policy → Policy validates conspiracy → Conspiracy recruits more adherents.

THE MOUNTAINHEAD IS WATCHING: How Trump, Thiel, and Palantir Are Building the American Panopticon open.substack.com/pub/richardj...

Are “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.

President 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.