The Center Cannot Hold

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Televandalist; no longer slowly making you a great mixtape. Personal opinions, not of my employer. http://sam.alcoff.com

Several morons at an anti-wealth tax event hold signs, one of which reads "First They Came for the Millionaires..."
Screengrab reading: "We want to ensure that the Western Hemisphere remains reasonably stable and well-governed enough to prevent and discourage mass migration to the United States; we want a Hemisphere whose governments cooperate with us against narco-terrorists, cartels, and other transnational criminal organizations; we want a Hemisphere that remains free of hostile foreign incursion or ownership of key assets, and that supports critical supply chains; and we want to ensure our continued access to key strategic locations. In other words, we will assert and enforce a “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine;"
A map of Latin America with a timeline mechanism that allows readers to quickly learn about some of the histories of Latin America and U.S. Foreign Policy.
Climate Activists marching in Belem, Brazil carry large signs with the book covers of Walter Rodney and Olufemi Taiwu
Kamala Harris is sending out A Last Ditch Request emails.
Someone on reddit said all the music footage breaks are very Adam Curtis Lite
Shaq sleeping while the US is Arming Genocide in Palestine but awake and angry in Defunding USAID meme
A banner over a billboard in Brooklyn reads viva Tortuguita and alland defenders/we will destroy the empire with earth as our witness
Air force one leaving Asheville, NC
Tik Tok deas
A pro choice sign echoing Luigi's Deny, Defend, Depose.
A sign at the women's march asking when are we going to storm the capitol?
David Lynch's quote of "keep your eye on the donut, not the hole" over a freaky donut. Not as freaky as David Lynch's movies.
Corey Booker in front of a picture of Frederick Douglass having his picture taken with Yoav Gallant.
A single person holds a sign that says "Corrupt Insurance CEOs have got to go" outside the Altoona Mcdonalds.
I wanted to write a poem that rhymes but revolution doesn't lend itself to be-bopping then my neighbor who thinks i hate asked - do you ever write tree poems - i like trees so i thought i'll write a beautiful green tree poem peeked from my window to check the image noticed that the school yard was covered with asphalt no green - no trees grow in manhattan then, well, i thought the sky i'll do a big blue sky poem but all the clouds have winged low since no-Dick was elected so i thought again and it occurred to me maybe i shouldn't write at all but clean my gun and check my kerosene supply perhaps these are not poetic times at all
Three of the worst grifters stand in front of a window in a what appears to be a banquet hall.
On the second floor of the hotel, the company's annual investor conference continued seemingly without interruption as news of the shooting was just beginning to spread. Attendees mingled over cups of coffee, shaking hands and talking shop. “Someone got shot outside,” one attendee said to another as they made their way up from the lobby. Others took photos of the news crews gathering outside on their phones.
Screengrab of quote by Jeremy Moss talking about Trans Safety.
Artwork of Mark Lombardi showing a circular diagram of the relationships of power. The artwork is titled: "Industries Carlos Cardoen of Santiago, Chile c. 1982-90"