Christopher Kirk

BBC News reporting on concerns about food security and water security We can all see the food and water crisis unfolding, why isn't our government doing everything possible to protect these two precious resources, our food and water supply?

Investigators found that leaders of a prison gang in Puerto Rico were selling inmates drugs in exchange for voting for Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican. After Trump’s election, prosecutors were told not to pursue charges. (Published May)

In 2025, Tesla gave Elon Musk a $132,298,849,867 paycheck for being CEO. In Malaysia, a Tesla salesperson starts at less than $10,000 a year. Does Elon Musk work 13,229,885 times harder? A system that gives one person 13,229,885 times more power than another is arguably worse than monarchy.

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Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

Reporter: “If you could say something to Trump, what would it be?” PA voter: “You're a worthless pile of shit.” Reporter: “How many times did you vote for him?” PA voter: “Three times. That was my bad. Apparently I'm an idiot.”

Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Even in the darkest days of the Nazi regime ordinary people found ways to resist. Non-compliance is always a choice.

“The brave men and women of ICE and the U.S. Border Patrol are doing their best to carry out these executions in a safe and professional manner,” said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem

Bovino should remind us not to call them "Gestapo" or use the term "kidnapping" every single day, so we don't forget. Remember, they don't like being called "Gestapo" or their actions being referred to as "kidnapping." It would be rude to continue calling them "Gestapo" who "kidnap" people.

Meanwhile, at Florida's Dollar Tree Versailles, guests are partying like it's 1788. Only, impressively, even weirder and dumber.

If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

Renee Nicole Good's blood covers the airbag of her vehicle after her murder by a masked secret federal paramilitary force. Her 6 year old son's stuffed animals appear to be poking out of the glove box. The murderer fled the scene with his co-conspirators and remains at large.

Whatcha doin. #catsofbluesky

told my landlord he no longer has to apologize for being white and he lowered my rent by 25%. told the grocer it's now the trump kennedy center and he sold me potatoes for $1. told PG&E it's a christian nation now and electricity is free. try it sometime

Fox News tries harder and harder to appeal to a dwindling, fading audience of absolute dipshits in nursing homes and the Oval Office. Eventually they'll shrink into nothing but an irrelevant, irritating, angry yappy chihuahua of media.

Photo: Anthony Vazquez of the Chicago Sun-Times

65-year-old Marine Corps veteran Curtis Evans carries an American flag through tear gas fired by faceless, nameless, federally-owned armored meatsacks during a protest at an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois. Source: www.bostonherald.com/2025/09/19/t...

One perfect pure minute of Murica.

I wrote about the experience of government of, by, and for people who have been driven insane by screens. (This is a gift link, please Consider Defector if you are interested in subscribing to a website) defector.com/the-united-s...

Kosmo's ready for his close-up. #proofofcat

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

/2 Trump appeals to people for a reason: because they’re shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture. When he’s a nasty, bullying, bigoted thug that appeals to them because those are their values. I’m not going to try to be more thuggy or bigoted or bullying to find common ground.

Every Trait Disqualifying ICE Agent From Previous Jobs Ideal For Current One theonion.com/every-t...

Well this is awkward

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Yeah my job is pretty cool. My uniform is a tactical vest that’s two sizes too small and a gaiter I bought in a gas station. They send me to sneak into schools to kidnap little kids because people got mad about having to press 1 for English. The president had to warn everyone to stop spitting on me.

From 2018 "ICE Training Day"

New FEMA head has never heard of "hurricane season." How nice for him. www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

I have written many healthcare stories, but never before have I written about my own health. I decided to do so after learning one of my drugs costs nearly $1,000 a pill and just 25 cents to make. What I found was an incredible story of discovery and exploitation. www.propublica.org/article/revl...

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

I love adding this one data point to economic charts. It works every time.

Kosmo casually keeping an eye on the situation from his cat tree

“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”

This is the whole thing, right here. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

Wise words for these troubled times

Listen, say what you want about my job performance, but have you considered how much national security information I did NOT leak on a group chat today? So.