The dolphins are getting Alzheimer’s from algae blooms caused by warming waters and toxic runoff and you could see the bloodstains in Sudan from space. The cobalt is mined by children and the music is made by robots and the grownups are wondering where the fireflies went.

Right wingers think a mother should be at home raising her children, a position many mothers would agree with, but if you say this requires either state support or for employers to be forced to increase pay so that single-income families can exist they say "No that's socialism!"

In Capitalism They Tell You To Become The Hammer If You Don’t Like Being The Nail Saying “If those low-wage workers want better wages they should stop being low-wage workers” is telling a man to stop drowning while you are holding him underwater. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/in-capital...

I keep thinking about the interaction I had with a guy who angrily told me that “AI minds are actually minds” and relationships with them “can absolutely be real relationships." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/on-the-rap...

There Are No Easy Fights In The Struggle Against The Empire You fight them because what the hell else are you going to do? Even if the treads of the machine are going to roll over us all in the end, at least you’ll go down knowing you left it all in the ring. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/there-are-...

The Empire Only De-Escalates In One Area So It Can Escalate In Another As things cool down a bit in the middle east, the US has relocated the USS Gerald Ford from the Mediterranean Sea to the Caribbean while the Trump admin discusses plans to bomb Venezuela. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-empire...

AI Companies Are Encouraging Users To Believe Chatbots Are People, And It's Insanely Creepy They’re trying to manipulate us into believing we are much, much less than what we are, just so they can become billionaires and trillionaires. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/ai-compani...

The Media Focus On Epstein's Ties To Trump And Ignore His Ties To Israel Which just so happens to align nicely with the objectives of the US empire. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-media-...

The Difference Between The US Empire And The British Empire The US empire is a larger, stronger, sneakier, bitchier, less honest, more manipulative version of what the British Empire was. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-differ...

A longtime reader used some lines I wrote to make a really fun song about guillotines: soundcloud.com/left-handed-...

One of the craziest things happening right now is how there’s been report after report confirming that Jeffrey Epstein really was an Israeli intelligence operative, and yet it’s had no measurable impact on mainstream media or politics. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/sometimes-...

This Is All Our Rulers Are Offering Us "The AI-generated clip looks fake and creepy, and everything about Musk’s post is downright depressing. But it’s not quite as fake, creepy and depressing as the capitalist dystopia which birthed it." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/this-is-al...

I've Got A New Book Of My Paintings With Prints You Can Cut Out And Hang On Your Wall www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/ive-got-a-...

I've got a new book of prints of my paintings that you can cut out and hang on your wall. It's called "Faces Of The Empire: The Battle For Humanity's Soul", and I've got some locally-printed copies I can sign and mail to you if you order one. Here's a video I made about it:

It’s interesting how much the IDF’s constant ceasefire violations in Gaza and Lebanon line up with the way people familiar with Israeli culture say Israelis like to test everyone’s boundaries to find out exactly how much they can get away with. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-con...

Pete Hegseth said during a speech on Friday that the US is at “a 1939 moment” of “mounting urgency” in which “enemies gather, threats grow,” adding, “We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing.” www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-us-emp...

Artificial Intelligence Is Making Everything Dumber Just today I saw two viral tweets that had received Community Notes from Twitter users warning that the posts featured AI-generated videos. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/artificial...

Things Are Shitty Because We Are Ruled By People Who Want Things To Be Shitty This dystopia looks more or less exactly how they want it to look. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/things-are...

It is easy to miss the cloud reflections in the puddles when the drones are perching on the telephone wires and boats are exploding off the coast of Venezuela. It’s easy not to notice the flirtatiousness of the wind when there is black smoke over Palestine and everything’s coated in oil.

Israel Is Still Starving Gaza They’re using bureaucratic red tape and arbitrary restrictions to put as much inertia on the effort to rush aid into Gaza as possible. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-is-...

Cheney Should Have Died Alone In A Cage "That said, the world actually does feel better without Dick Cheney in it. Feels a bit brighter. A bit lighter. Kinder. Gentler." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/cheney-sho...

Still can't wrap my head around the fact that internationally renowned activist Greta Thunberg said she was tortured and sexually humiliated by Israeli soldiers when she was abducted for trying to bring aid to starving civilians and the world just shrugged and moved on.

New Issue Of JOHNSTONE: Tech Dystopia In The Shadow Of The Empire The new edition is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/new-issue-...

Dick Cheney died far too old and far too free. The fact that such monsters get to pass away in their eighties surrounded by loved ones instead of alone in a cage is an indictment of our entire civilization.

They Tortured Lambs In The West Bank This, to me anyway, just says so much about the level of vitriolic hatred by which the state of Israel is sustained. It’s baked in to the way the whole state is set up. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-tortu...

The Nastiest Warmongers Are Trump's Biggest Fans Now Trump duped his base into believing he’ll make peace, and he turned out to be Lindsey Graham’s gooiest wet dream incarnate. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-nastie...

How The Media Normally Report On A Mass Atrocity If they had been reporting on Gaza in the same way these last two years, the west’s support for Israel would have completely collapsed by now. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/how-the-me...

Painted Roger Waters in the middle of a furious tirade against the evils of the empire. Thinking of calling it "The Most Vindicated Man On Earth" or "You Shoulda Listened To Me, Thom". www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/new-painti...

They Want You Relying On Artificial Intelligence So That You Will Lose Your Natural Intelligence They want you to require easily controllable software to form your understanding of the world, and to express that understanding to others. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-want-...

In theory the press are there to create an informed electorate who can then use their votes to move their government in a healthy direction. In practice the press are there to keep the public too ignorant, propagandized and distracted to meddle in the workings of the imperial machine.

Americans Have No Idea Who Their Government Is Bombing What percentage of Americans even realize that Trump has bombed Somalia nearly a hundred times this year? I doubt it’s even one percent. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/americans-...

"Has Anyone Seen The Antichrist?" Portrait of Peter Thiel Oil on canvas. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/new-painti...

Notice Which Genocides You Are And Are Not Allowed To Oppose "Do you notice how nobody’s losing their jobs or getting deported for criticizing the genocidal atrocities in Sudan?" www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/notice-whi...

It's Just Wall-To-Wall News Stories About The US And Its Allies Abusing The World The US empire is a giant murder machine feeding on human blood and the life force of our biosphere while providing nothing but obstacles to a healthy world. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/its-just-w...

You think Hamas killed Israelis because they’re monsters who hate Jews? Of course you do, you’re 12. You think Trump is trying to get rid of Maduro because Maduro is an evil dictator who wants to poison Americans with fentanyl? Hell yeah homie, you’re 12. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/you-believ...

Capitalism Is Shoving AI Down Our Throats Because It Can't Give Us What We Actually Want www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/capitalism...

Guillotine Song Reading by Tim Foley. As usual, anyone who wants to set these words to music is free to do so. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/guillotine...

They Tell Us To Fear Muslims While The US Empire Terrorizes The World The empire we live under is everything we’re trained to fear. Our own rulers are the murderers. Our own rulers are the terrorists. Our own rulers are the tyrants. Our rulers are the problem. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-tell-...

New Painting: Jeff Bezos "The freaks who rule our world do not have a healthy vision for humanity’s future. Their best ideas are a normal person’s worst nightmare." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/new-painti...

Zionists Push Islamophobia Because It's Easier Than Getting People To Like Israel "Israel makes everything gross. It makes the world more violent, more sociopathic, and more hateful. The entire state is sustained by nonstop violence and hatred." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/zionists-p...

Larry Ellison Oil on canvas.

The Imperial Propaganda Machine Is Failing In Unprecedented Ways They’re on the back foot. This has never happened before. We’ve got a real shot at winning this thing. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-imperi...

Give me some questions and comments you'd like a response to and I'll get to as many as possible in essays over the next few days.

Medea Benjamin Oil on canvas.