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The D-List Celebrities Still Shilling for Genocide

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Recently, more than 4,000 film industry workers — including Olivia Colman, Elliot Page, Javier Bardem, Aimee Lou Wood, Mark Ruffalo, Juliet Stevenson, Riz Ahmed, Ayo Edebiri, Tilda Swinton, Ava DuVernay, Adam McKay, Josh O’Connor, Brian Cox and Emma Stone — signed a pledge promising not to work with film institutions or governments that are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.”

The UN, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Physicians for Human Rights Israel, B’Tselem בצלם, Jewish Voice for Peace and most genocide scholars agree. It is now indisputable that Israel is guilty of the crime of genocide.

But like a chorus of braying donkeys, Liev Schreiber, Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing and a long list of holocaust deniers claimed this pledge was antisemitic. They also said it was a form of “collective punishment,” which is rich coming from a group that has ignored or applauded Israel’s decades-long collective punishment of the Palestinians.

Mayim Bialik is perhaps one of the most well known “celebrities” on the list. The former sitcom star and gameshow host infamously endorsed a children’s book entitled “Under Rockets Glow” where a young girl is indoctrinated to believe she is the victim and not the daughter of colonizers. A more apt name might have been “Baby’s First Genocide.”

Debra Messing is another. The former sitcom star embarrassed herself long before the genocide started by attacking progressive Democratic Black women for daring to challenge the conservative slant of the party. After Israel began its campaign of annihilation, she flew to the country on a “birthright” trip where she filmed herself blubbering over IDF soldiers as they prepared to carry out the Final Solution.

Some may find these criticisms too harsh. But there can be no forgiveness for celebrities who choose, even now, to support and defend genocide. None. As they shill for a regime that burns, bombs and starves hundreds of thousands of children, they deserve nothing less than our scorn and contempt.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Held Hostage by a Death Cult

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I was thinking about the latest “rapture” craze on social media. And I remembered learning about it growing up. I went to a conservative protestant church, and later to a conservative Christian college. So, I am quite familiar with the concept.

When I began deconstructing my faith I learned that the word “rapture” isn’t even in Biblical scripture, In fact, the idea first emerged in 1830s America. And while it is popular in fundamentalist or evangelical circles, most Christian denominations reject the doctrine completely.

Regardless of that, I have been reflecting on the despair that buttresses such a theology. How sad that there are so many who would rather be whisked away into the sky to some imagined paradise, rather than stay here and fight for this world to be livable, just, egalitarian and kind. And how very misanthropic. This doesn’t appear like spiritual practice, it strikes me as spiritual abuse.

Not only does this idea of “rapture” delight in leaving earth and billions of human beings to perish or suffer unimaginably. War? Genocide? Destruction of the biosphere? It sees it all as necessary to the story. There is only one ending to this tale. Only one conclusion. And that is for its apocalyptic “prophecies” to be fulfilled. Whether or not that will come about by the Divine or his followers is the sticky part.

If this was a religious belief that did not grievously affect virtually everything about our future as a species, it would not matter. But now that evangelical Christian fanatics are firmly in power in the United States, the wealthiest and most powerful military empire in human history, it matters to everyone.

So, while we may laugh at such ideas or pity those bamboozled by them, maybe it is time we acknowledge that we are all being held hostage by an unhinged death cult. And their sole intent is to rise into the heavens while reducing this world, our only home, to a pile of ash.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

From Goebbels to Miller, the Milestones of Fascist Ideology

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There are moments in history that serve as milestones. Points in the timeline of human experience that help to identify when events shifted so much so that the course of everything after was forever altered. These points cannot be predicted, but they can be anticipated when other factors come together in a manner that echo other times or are considered reliable indicators of the consequence of actions.

Such is the case of the murder of Charlie Kirk. It will undoubtedly serve as a milestone in the timeline of American fascism. A point in history that indicated the final demolition of societal norms and the ascendancy of fascism accelerated. This isn’t necessarily about that moment when Kirk was shot. But it is about every moment that has followed.

The recent memorial service for the fascist ideologue was one of those moments. For all intents and purposes, it was a rally. An unprecedented opportunity to see exactly what the Trump regime and its cultish fanbase Maga, think of the majority of Americans. And a chance to catch a glimpse of its roadmap for humanity.

Trump’s eulogy wasn’t a surprise in regard to its rambling, tangential nonsense and thinly veiled threats. In this speech, Kirk’s vile life was but a footnote to Trump’s epic narcissism. In fact, Trump’s only ideological principle is narcissistic self-aggrandizement. In many ways, it was humorous because it appears like the Vaudeville act of a cartoon villain, only lacking a mustache to be twirled.

But Stephen Miller’s tirade, although drenched in melodramatic buffoonery, was far more chilling. Echoing Joseph Goebbels from a speech the Nazi propagandist gave in 1932 for the murder of a Nazi militant, Miller lashed out at the so-called “enemies” of America: “Our lineage and our legacy hails back to Athens, to Rome, to Philadelphia, to Monticello… Our ancestors built the cities… the art and architecture… the industry.”

“To the enemy, I say this: You are nothing. You can build nothing. You can create nothing.”

His use of lineage is telling. He ignored every other civilization, choosing to elevate European history alone. The Maya, the Assyrians, the Persians, the Chinese, the Indus, the Australian Aboriginals. None of them matter or even exist in Miller’s timeline.

This is the lynchpin of all supremacist ideologies. The invocation of mythic beginnings in some imagined grandeur that is above all others. The descendants of this lineage are not only the creators of civilization. They are civilization itself.

In addition to this, Miller dehumanizes his opponents and anyone who does not fit into his white nationalist narrative of revisionist history as “nothing.” To him, descendants of the enslaved, the indentured, the immigrant, especially if they are Black, Brown or Asian, have no birthright to the nation, despite being the ones who actually built the infrastructure of the American Empire.

“The day that Charlie died, the angels wept, but those tears had been turned into fire in our hearts, and that fire burns with a righteous fury that our enemies cannot comprehend or understand,” Miller threatened. His use of spiritual imagery was no accident. Fascists view the world in black and white. There is no nuance, no grey areas, no room for questioning. It is a world full of angels and demons. One where an invisible war rages between the forces of darkness and light. Miller seized on this framing in order to tap into the ever-present angst present in the Maga base. An uneasiness that is pervasive within all fascist movements.

Miller told the crowd of nearly 100,000 cheering mourners that they are “on the side of God.” And this is something most of them fervently believe. It is what enables them to shut down rationality and reason when it comes to a failing economy and a reduction of their civil liberties. It is what allows them to ignore human suffering, even that of children, in their support and defense of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Being on “God’s side” gives Maga the unfettered right to attack, oppress or annihilate anyone who differs from them, because “they” are the “enemy” of God.

Without a doubt, Miller knows exactly what he is doing. He is a student of history. And he has meticulously curated this persona and image of himself. In truth, he appears to be relishing in the fact that so many are comparing him to the infamous Goebbels. But anyone who takes history seriously should not take any of this lightly. Miller is the architect of the Trump regime’s mass deportations and ICE thuggery.

Miller declared: “We are the storm.” In 1932, Goebbels proclaimed “Der Sturm bricht los” which means, “The storm breaks loose.” And we know what followed. A storm of fascist fear, brutality, terror, murder and destruction was unleashed in Germany that would end with the near total devastation of Europe and the annihilation of millions of people. That Miller chose to echo this man knowing the horrendous years that followed that speech is bone-chilling. And if this is not reason for alarm, I don’t know what is.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Statehood is Meaningless in a Genocide

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There are some who are pleased with the announcement that the UK, Canada, France and Australia are finally recognizing a Palestinan state. But this entire charade is merely a weak attempt for these nations to hide their complicity in genocide.

Right now, Gaza is in ruins. Over 90% of its buildings reduced to rubble, with countless souls entombed in their homes from Israeli airstrikes. Millions of people are being starved to death by the Zionist state, half of which are children. And an estimated 690,000+ have been killed in this campaign of annihilation that is almost at the two year mark.

All of this has been supported, funded and facilitated by the United States. Israel remains its most important colonial asset. But Britain, France, Canada and Australia have blood on their hands too. These nations continue to provide aid to Israel. They continue trade and that diplomatic relations with Israel.

Their recognition of Palestinian statehood is little more than political spectacle. A cruel kabuki theatre of the absurd. A pitiful attempt to whitewash their part in the most heinous crime against humanity in this century. And every single political leader in these nations know this.

History will remember the gall of the West. Its platitudes and lofty speeches about human rights and international law will forever be seen as threadbare cloaks, poorly obscuring its racism, hypocrisy and the lingering ghosts of its own murderous colonial past. This latest stunt will do nothing to change that fact.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Tremors in Magaland

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Since the murder of Charlie Kirk, the Trump regime has made it clear that it intends to crush all dissent from the left. US Homeland Security Advisor, Stephen Miller, made the ridiculous allegation that the Democratic Party was a “domestic, extremist organization” before the shooting. After, he practically spat out venom when talking about using the full power of the state to “dismantle the left.” Those thinking these are idle threats haven’t been paying close attention.

But there may be one glimmer of hope. Maga is in disarray since the shooting. Prominent voices, including Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Meghan Kelly have been raising questions about Kirk’s allegiance to Israel, with some alleging he was about to shift. Even before Kirk’s murder, Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Green were beginning to stray from the pack.

Just a day before his death, Kirk did an interview with the infamously smug and endlessly irritating genocide apologist, Ben Shapiro. He asked uncomfortable questions about genocide and ethnic cleansing to a visibly shaken Shapiro. This, and other instances, have created a conspiracy theory spiral in Magaland with some indicating they believed Israel was either responsible for or involved in the assassination of Kirk.

Make no mistake, Charlie Kirk was an odious man. His racism, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny and Islamophobia are on the record for anyone to see. But Israel has banked on unwavering allegiance from the American far right. Evangelical Christians, who make up a large portion of the Republican Party, have a cultlike devotion to the Zionist state, with many believing it is essential for the second coming of Christ. But for others in the far right sphere, particularly gen Z, this bond is beginning to fray.

“There’s rumors going around—maybe Mossad is a part of the Epstein files,” one young male student told Kirk at one of his university events. And he wasn’t the only one to raise these issues. Other students noted that the algorithms on their phones are different to that of their parents. Their feeds are an endless stream of horror and suffering in Gaza. And the fact that Netanyahu was the first political leader to post on social media asking for prayers for Kirk after the shooting has also raised eyebrows, with many of them asking why a foreign leader would be so invested in a far right, American podcaster. So much so, that he was aware of the shooting before even Trump knew.

Kirk knew that the “America first” crowd were tired of wars and foreign investments that cost too much. As its primary colonial asset, Israel gets the lion share of American foreign aid. And he felt the pressure from them, as well as the wealthy, pro-Israel donors who funded Kirk’s Turning Point USA. Even ultra-Zionist billionaire hedge fund manager, Bill Ackman, has been embroiled in this, with accusations of pressure and even blackmail attempts. Something Ackman has denied.

To be sure, it is unlikely Kirk would have changed direction on supporting the genocidal state in light of his political ambitions. But the fractures aren’t something to take lightly. As the American Empire declines and unravels, it becomes a churning mess of conspiracies, suspicion and paranoia.

All of these issues shouldn’t convince anyone that the Trump regime will change course. The killing of Charlie Kirk has provided it with its very own Reichstag fire, undoubtedly thinking it is a perfect distraction from the damning Epstein files and the genocide in Gaza that it wholeheartedly supports. It is feeling emboldened with small victories, like the recent sacking of popular, nighttime comedian, Jimmy Kimmel. But the regime is clearly shaken and fearful. It knows its fragile alliances are unstable and unreliable.

Whatever the regime does now, opposition to its cruelty and sadism must be paramount. Protests against ICE, deportations, concentration camps, attacks on vulnerable communities and the genocide in Gaza must not be thwarted by its threats. Fascist regimes create or capitalize on chaos in order to benefit from the confusion. Giving in to that confusion would be a fatal mistake no one could afford.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Photo Credit: A billboard showing an image of US President Donald Trump (L) embracing Charlie Kirk on the side of a building in Tel Aviv, on September 13, 2025.© Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images

Subverting Fascism means Communicating Outside the Box

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When I was in Lisbon, I learned about the hair scratching and tugging that Portuguese women would do to communicate with others in public under the fascist regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. I thought of this again in seeing how the Trump regime in the United States is cracking down even more on free speech and on the media.

The “Estado Novo” (the name given to the Portuguese fascist regime) made women second class citizens. Fear ruled their daily lives as patriarchy was paramount. Men could do anything to women without worrying about the repercussions. But they found ways to subvert the oppressive system. And creative communication became a vital tool in this resistance.

The youngest generation understands this now. They have mastered a form of communicating that has confounded older people. Indeed, their use of mixed political symbols and phrases are baffling the agents of the current fascist order. And that is a good thing.

As the forces of fascism seek to consolidate their power and control over the media narrative and landscape, many will need to learn how to communicate differently. And understand this as not only a means of survival, but as a form of resistance.

It may be as simple as a hair tug or a carefully placed pin on a lapel, or it could be the way we post on social media or communicate in emails. It may mean creating an entirely new medium or platform outside the control of billionaires. But what we do could have enormous ramifications for the future under a regime intent on crushing any dissent or speech it deems unacceptable.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

The Banality of Evil is Seeing Genocide as a “Real Estate Bonanza”

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The depravity and sheer evil we are seeing on full display is truly staggering to behold. In their hollowed out souls, they actually see this genocide as a business opportunity. As “urban renewal.” As a “real estate bonanza.”

They want to normalize this. For us to forget what has happened. To forget the families burned alive in their tents. To forget the infants left in incubators to die alone. To forget the children starved to death. To forget the toddlers shot in the neck. To forget the thousands upon thousands of doctors, nurses, medics, journalists, bakers, students, farmers, poets, artists, musicians. To forget Refaat Alareer, Dina Zaurub, Hind Rajab.

In truth, every seaside condo they intend to build would be a sepulcher. Every mundane settlement would be a graveyard. Every park they fill with non-indigenous trees would be over a mass grave. They can demolish buildings, but the bones will remain, even if crushed into dust. Every particle of suffering will linger in the air. Every soul tied eternally to the land they came from.

They will not be forgotten. And we will not let them ever forget.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Democrats Seek to Become Even More Unlikeable and Irrelevant

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So, this group, who look like a barrel of laughs at any well heeled dinner party, want the Democrats to become even more conservative than they already are. This, despite countless polls indicating Democrats lost votes for being too conservative, historic wins like socialism-friendly Zohran Mamdani, and that the base is far more left than the Democratic Party elite.

This “Democratic think tank” (an oxymoronic term I absolutely loathe) wants to throw LGBTQ people under the bus and stop talking about that pesky existential threat of looming climate catastrophe. I’m betting they aren’t too keen on Palestinian human rights either.

I mean, who needs human rights, an end to genocide and a livable biosphere when you have the corporatized version of Fleetwood Mac to make the party exciting again?

From left to right, Breston McWhiteywhite III, Hester Ravenwhite, Burley Whitewallace, Chester Thomas (nephew of the Supreme Court justice), and Karen von Whitenstein.

The excerpt below is from the piece in the New York Times on their nauseating attempt to get the Democrats to become more like Maga.

“As Democrats search for their way out of the political wilderness, a new think tank, introduced on Wednesday, has some ideas about where the party went wrong.

Among them: too much emphasis on issues like climate change and L.G.B.T.Q. rights, and far too much deference to the powerful liberal organizations championing those causes at the expense, some argue, of appealing to voters in battleground states.

The think tank, the Searchlight Institute, was started by Adam Jentleson, a veteran Democratic operative. He knows that his effort, intended to minimize the sway that left-leaning groups have over candidates before what is expected to be a crowded 2028 presidential primary, will infuriate almost everyone — activists, organizations and the party’s liberal base, which is urging Democrats to fight President Trump.”

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

The End of Israel

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The United Nations just confirmed what every person of conscience has known since the beginning or at least for nearly two years. That Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. It is true that the gears of international law grind slowly. But in this case the gears were impeded at every step of the way, even as Israel continuously broadcast its crimes openly.

No crime against humanity in history has been this well photographed, recorded or documented as Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians. No crime against humanity has been as loudly announced as Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians. What’s most striking is that this is the first known genocide in history where the perpetrators have provided most of the evidence.

Despite Israel’s smear campaigns and ongoing massacre of journalists, it is they, themselves, who have told us what they’ve done, what they are doing, and what they plan to do next.

From IDF soldiers parading around in Palestinian women’s lingerie that they killed or expelled, shooting toddlers in the neck, or assassinating medics, or blowing up hospitals, universities and bakeries, to Israeli media and political leaders openly inciting or calling for genocide. And all of this has only been possible because of Western support, chiefly the support and assistance of the United States.

Only the most sycophantic and obtuse refuse to see what is in plain sight. Those who hollowed out their very souls in exchange for a racist narrative, support a profitable grift, or reinforce devotion to an apocalyptic death cult. And there is literally no hope for any of them.

What comes next should not come as a surprise to anyone. Israel has already begun its spin, denying the obvious and attempting to deflect through outright lies. The US, its colonial benefactor which is now lead by a fascist regime, is doing everything within its power to destroy any opposition or dissent. There are many meaningful and encouraging developments, but the machinery of American Empire is still the most lethal and the most powerful. It will ensure that Gaza is completely erased and its people either annihilated or forcibly displaced. The rest of Palestine will be absorbed into the Zionist state.

There are a few other things that are true as well. In its fever of genocidal mania, Israel has destroyed any normal future for itself. Indeed, this is the end of Israel. It is being blacklisted and shunned, whether publicly or quietly. It no longer enjoys the unassailable image it once had, as European nations begin to distance themselves, threaten boycotts of Eurovision, divest billions of dollars of investment, and make Israeli vacationers feel unwelcome. And despite the sycophancy of its leaders, it has lost the next generation in the West. Like its benefactor the United States, Israel is rapidly descending from its pedestal in the most ignominious manner. Neither of them will ever recover.

This is of small consolation to the Palestinians, who continue to suffer unimaginable cruelty and horror at the hands of the Zionist state. But it is simply a statement of fact. One that both nations will learn the hard way in years to come.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025

Ezra Klein, Gavin Newsom, and the Death of American Liberalism

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We live in an age of absurdity when a fascist like Charlie Kirk is hailed as a champion of free speech and open debate. Free speech advocates don’t create databases of people they disagree so that they can be harassed, get death threats and have their career’s ruined. This is what Kirk’s Turning Point USA’s did to professors across the United States by creating the “Professor Watchlist.”

Kirk hated free speech, as evidenced by the watchlist and by his own rancid record of punching down on college students who objected to his rhetoric. His “debates” were merely opportunities for public mockery and the platforming of fascist ideas. And these professors, who generally taught the real history of the United States, represented an existential threat to his supremacist ideology.

He didn’t deserve to be shot, but the posthumous honorifics and performative mourning following his murder are beyond absurd. And it isn’t just Magaland that is responsible for that. Vacuous liberals like Ezra Klein have contributed to this kabuki theatre of wailing ninnies.

Klein is a particularly odious example. He penned a nauseating eulogy for the New York Times immediately following Kirk’s demise, claiming Kirk “did politics right.” Would this correct way of doing politics include the professor watchlist? Or paying for busses to the January 6th attempted coup? Klein’s intellectual rot is indicative of the nature of American liberalism, which usually plays handmaiden to fascism by pretending to be a foil while never obstructing its rise in meaningful or material ways.

Gavin Newsom is another problematic character in this regard. His gushing of grief for Kirk seems almost endless. Apparently, the two shared a warm moment on his show in their shared hatred of transgender athletes that Newsom still cherishes. And yet, we are told that he is the only viable opposition to Trumpian fascism. To many older, white liberals, Newsom charms with his use of memes to “own Trump.” It is a classic case of spectacle over substance.

If nothing else, Charlie Kirk’s death signals the death of American liberalism. An ideology that has always acted as a fortress to protect and save capitalism from itself. Presented as the only rational alternative to leftism, liberalism borrowed the left’s most palatable and inoffensive values and made them central to its ethos, all but ignoring the material concerns of the working class.

Championing equality and human rights ring hollow in a society where the working poor continue to see their status decline. And this is also how liberalism has provided cover for every brutal excess of American imperialism, from war, coups, up to and including the genocide of Palestinians by Israel, the empire’s most important colonial asset. Like so many Americans, white liberals are largely apathetic when it comes to foreign policy.

The result has inevitably been the rise of fascism. Like a ravenous vulture unobstructed from liberalism’s ashes, it ascends while liberals bask in self absorbed revelry, trample on the left for even modest demands, and pander to the very worst elements in society. What is tragically ironic is that figures like Klein and Newsom are busy throwing wood on its funeral pyre.

Kenn Orfanos, September 2025