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Leaving #Murica behind: at G7 summit, leaders seek less reliance on Washington and to contain deranged Trump. {WP 15 June}
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
Monday, June 15, 2026
After the American century, the old world ascends once more
Leaving #Murica behind: at G7 summit, leaders seek less reliance on Washington and to contain deranged Trump. {WP 15 June}
The lady of the crimson banner
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“The word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.” Jake Wallis Simons: Trump is turning victory in Iran into an American humiliation. {The Telegraph 15 June; image generated via ChatGPT}
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
Three sisters beneath an ancient banner
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Los Angeles: thousands of Iranian émigrés to protest the Islamic Republic’s inclusion in the World Cup. {City News Service 15 June}
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
Sunday, June 14, 2026
The maple leaf and the machine
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Carney: US curbs on Anthropic models highlight risks of Canada and other nations relying on a scant few American providers. {AP 14 June}
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
Hourglass Republic
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Ex-Clinton/Obama WH staffer pleads, regarding the state of Social Security: ‘we never imagined this problem would get this bad’. {Jason Furham, NYT 14 June}
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Norma says: “Had someone informed me that Americans would spend decades arguing about the solvency of a programme upon which millions depended, while simultaneously refusing to agree upon how to preserve it, I should not have been surprised. Human nature, unlike financial projections, rarely changes.”
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
The light beyond the tempest
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“The UK military has intercepted an oil tanker linked to Russia’s shadow fleet in the English Channel, according to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in the first such operation by British forces.” {CNN 14 June}
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/14/europe/uk-intercepts-russian-shadow-fleet-tanker-for-first-time
A great morale boost — or one that ought at least to be seen as such — for the Royal Navy, Sir Keir Starmer, and Britain as a whole. And another crack in Putin’s rapidly depleting armour.
Yet behold: when a tiger is wounded, that is when he is most dangerous, particularly if he feels that he has nothing left to lose.
Hats off to the UK Armed Forces for a tremendous success.
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
"Sports! Politics! Cryptocurrency! Money! Patriotism! Spectacle!"
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Gladiators (human cockfighters) competing for the emperor’s pleasure to be paid bonuses in crypto issued by a Trump business. {The Guardian 14 June}
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/14/white-house-ufc-fighters-crypto
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
Saturday, June 13, 2026
#Murica’s World Cup: the scarlet pilgrimage?
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World Cup travel to and from Trumpistan and its unfortunate neighbours is expected to accelerate global measles resurgence. {The Telegraph 12 June}
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
Daisy’s stormy night at the White House
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Trump's bizarre blood fetish and violence take centre stage as UFC arrives at the White House for Orwellian 'Freedom 250' event. {John Casey 13 June; image generated via ChatGPT}
Norma says: “If someone had shown me this image in 1926, or 1946, or even at the very end of my life around 1983, and informed me that one day prizefighting would be held upon the grounds of the American President's residence while half the nation argued about it on pocket-sized glowing rectangles, I should have assumed the poor soul had spent too much time near the studio prop department's whisky cabinet.”
“(A)n obsession of dystopic science-fiction proportions, rhetoric and fantasy that bleeds into policy and biology.” Not a read for squishism types.
That we still have to keep pointing out what a disgusting pig this individual is, day after day, for ten bloody years now (no pun intended), is just so incredibly exhausting and disheartening. My faith in people, full stop, is shot.
And my faith in the Almighty is not faring too well these days, either.
Get me the f**k out of this giant nuthouse, Lord.
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
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For some time now, I’ve been using the hashtag 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈 on most of my posts, a practice that began as a prayer, of sorts, for a certain lady. Now, with or without her, it hath become so much more: no longer about an individual, but about the universe itself.
It shall forever remain my tagline, for I have no control over any of this madness going on about us, and whatever shall be, shall be. I am merely counting down the days, months, and years until I am finally set free from this cosmic prison.
May the wrath of Saturn be great upon this wretched realm, for its inhabitants — the human ones, at least — deserve no better. — Arthur Newhook, 13 June 2026
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
Thursday, June 11, 2026
The tears of a fractured continent
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Nearly half of Canadians surveyed are open to joining the European Union; far fewer in joining Trumpistan. {Polling Canada 11 June; image generated via ChatGPT}
https://www.canadianpolling.com/p/nearly-half-of-canadians-open-to
Among other findings, fifty per cent say that America’s military is a threat to Canadian security. Just a few years ago, I would wager that not even two or three per cent of Canadians would have said such a thing. Perhaps fewer than one per cent. It is mind-boggling to consider.
The damage that hath been wrought by Donald Trump and his army of enablers — that means you, Mr and Mrs #MAGA — may never be repaired in our lifetimes.
The former United States shall have no friends left in the world, and Americans shall find themselves with nowhere left to turn once everything comes crashing down. A heavy price to pay for idol worship, indeed. Hey, at least we can say ‘Merry Christmas’ and discriminate against marginalised groups again, and that really is the top priority for all too many #Muricans; something we have learned the hard way since the 2016 presidential election. So long as that is the case — bigotry, malice, and grievance being what drives a wide swath of the nation’s voters – this rift with Canada and other traditional allies will never be repaired but only widen.
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
Daughters of Persia, exiled far from home
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Trump regime to deport non-dangerous Iranian, Afghan, and Syrian migrants to the Central African Republic despite court orders. {NYT 11 June; image generated via Gemini}
Add to this regime’s list of crimes the forcing of already vulnerable migrants (mostly women) into a completely unfamiliar place in deepest, darkest Africa: one of the world’s poorest and most fragile states, where humanitarian organisations have spent years documenting violence, displacement, weak institutions, chronic insecurity, and persistent human-rights concerns.
These folks have already fled upheaval, war, persecution, economic collapse, or some combination thereof. They will have crossed borders, navigated bureaucracies, endured uncertainty, and invested what little hope remained in the belief that they had finally reached a place of relative safety.
Imagine believing that the years of instability were finally behind you.
Imagine believing that, after all the turmoil, a measure of permanence had at last been secured.
Then imagine discovering that everything is once again thrown into doubt, to put this particular situation extremely mildly.
From a position of relative comfort and security, it is difficult fully to comprehend the anxiety such circumstances produce. The uncertainty alone must be exhausting. Every conversation, every official notice, every news report becomes a potential source of dread. One’s future ceases to be a plan and instead becomes a question mark.
A civilised society should at least be capable of recognising the profound human consequences attached to such decisions. Policies may be debated. Governments may change course. Laws may be rewritten.
Fear, however, is experienced one person at a time.
Many of these migrants may well die in their new ‘home’. I do not believe it would be outlandish to argue that the government of the former United States of America, under its orange-hued and lawless leader, bears responsibility for the foreseeable human consequences of these actions. Put plainly: committing genocide. Would not be the first time, of course, but we thought ourselves beyond such cruelty in the America I grew up in. No longer the case.
What ‘y’all’ voted for, #Murica.
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
The Oval Office, 2046
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Twenty-two different medical specialists assessed Trump during a recent physical; no details from the White House as to why so many. {WP, 10 June}
Twenty-two specialists for one physical. Other presidents have had multiple doctors on hand for these things, but nowhere near that number. I am telling everyone, yet again, that somehow this decrepit motherf**ker is going to be kept alive until he is 100 or older. Guaranteed.
And whether he becomes president-for-life or not — and I am betting that he will, somehow — he is going to be a daily nuisance in our lives for a long time yet.
All of this, of course, is contingent upon the world not blowing up, always a possibility with the madmen currently running it. In any event we are, the former United States of America, cursed from on high.
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
Fever dream? Four nurses for the wounded daughter of Columbia
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Everyday items grow costlier in the former United States, largely due to its nation-destroying president's policies and actions. {WP 10 June; image generated via ChatGPT}
Mother Nature hath done some damage – notably, of late, in the form of drought – and I believe America is simply cursed and is going to remain so long after the orange usurper hath either been deposed, by whatever means, or simply dies. As decrepit as the motherf**ker is, he is not going anywhere for a long time to come. Mark my words. He is a curse, we are cursed; we shall never know life as it once was again.
Far more suffering and misery is yet to come. A drought here, a failed harvest there, rivers either overflowing or running lower than expected, reservoirs shrinking beneath an unforgiving sun. Perchance, another global health crisis. To say nothing of the ongoing political and social crack-up, all exposing the fragility lurking beneath the modern world's no longer so confident façade. One can never rule out the possibility of some madman – Putin, Kim Jong Un, the Iranians, Trump – playing with nuclear weapons. Fun times, yeah?
The former United States – and I do not use that moniker to be cute, this is not the country I grew up in – is in the midst of a long historical season from which there is no easy escape. One that began with a literal bang on 11 September 2001, and America and her people have done almost nothing but make nearly every bad decision possible since then: the resentment, the distrust, the hunger for strongmen, the endless appetite for spectacle over substance. We are a nation in the midst of a gradual systemic breakdown.
By and large, the peasantry have themselves to blame for the hard times we are only beginning to endure in earnest, and I would be here for days enumerating the hows and whys. Fifty years from now, after we are long dead and buried and assuming the earth is still standing, the mass of humanity shall revert to living in caves because of the catastrophically awful, short-sighted, and malevolent direction the former United States of America hath taken over the decades, particularly in the past quarter-century. The America of my childhood and young adulthood, before 9/11, may have been a bit of a fraud in retrospect, and any nation will always have its warts even in the best of times; overall, though, it was undeniably a more decent and liveable place than this one. As one who hath lived through this transition from the world's strongest nation by a gazillion miles into one that is now bordering on third world status and is the black sheep of the global community, I am horrified thinking of all the ways we threw our collective prosperity, security, and dignity away. We will never know again what we once knew, and the younger generations coming up now and the generations yet to be born – again, if the earth is still standing – will simply never know, period.
Karma is a bitch, #Murica.
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Children of the amber syrup
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Fear for the future: ‘Benadryl Challenge’ once more goes viral online, and at least three children are dead as a result. {Click2Houston 10 June}
A ‘Benadryl Challenge’? What the hell?
I seriously do wonder whether we are witnessing the rise of a generation that is going to be, on the whole, too stupid to function in life. Yes, I know it is not ‘all’ of them. A few kids here and there may remain who are not completely zombified, but more than enough to ensure humanity’s probable doom; one had best believe that.
The process of mass zombification already started in earnest a couple of decades ago. I also wonder just who the hell is starting these online ‘challenges’ that bully kids into doing stupid things in order to prove their worth among their brain-dead peers. This is felonious activity and needs to be punished severely.
The fact that I cannot recall, offhand, ever hearing of anyone facing real-life consequences for so blatantly encouraging such abject, even lethal, stupidity suggests to me that perhaps our friends over in Russia and/or China are spreading this filth, knowing that American children today, by and large, are so painfully and pitifully stupid — and our felon-led government under Donald Trump so treasonous and compromised to the hilt — that they can get away with brainwashing said American kids any way they see fit.
Good work, #Murica, allowing all this to happen. Let the kids die of Benadryl poisoning; at least Trump is keeping them safe from having their genitals mutilated without their parents’ permission, and all the other nonsense that one side of the political aisle hath so successfully conditioned more than half of this rotten nation’s populace to believe.
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
The breaking of the torchbearer
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Evangelical con man, one of so damn many, says the opening of the Obama Presidential Library is ‘an intentional slight to God’. And the Trump presidency is not? Oh well, of course not. Not with the version of Christ recognised in #Murica. {Right Wing Watch 10 June}
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
The sundering of Persia
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Two evil regimes in a stalemate: on Tuesday, Trump predicted peace was forthcoming with Iran. Wednesday, he vows fresh American strikes on the Islamic Republic; ‘situation is as bewildering as ever’. {NYT 10 June}
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06/10/world/iran-war-trump-us/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
Premonition: enforced citizen loyalty pledges to Trump are coming to the former United States
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After that public relations catastrophe at MSG on Monday night, I am more convinced than ever that Trump is going to go to drastic lengths to enforce loyalty from the general population. Though he may thrive from confrontation with his chosen media and political enemies, his ego cannot abide by being hated by the masses. I have been having intense visions of this for years, and it came very close to happening, had the January 6 coup attempt succeeded. Now, after ten years, we are nearing the end game and Trump hath never been more wounded. But, we all know what they say about a wounded animal being at its most lethal. He is not going down without a fight, and not without bringing everybody else down with him. Very well could be a forced loyalty pledge that will be universally compulsory, enforced by door-to-door canvassing from an army of Christian nationalist thugs and law enforcement officers. This is going to happen, and most of the gun owners and authorities are going to be backing him. Most will comply in fear of their lives, or because they want fascism (and this is a huge part of the population, no more pretending it is not true). Pray.
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
A symphony for the open range
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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins claims US food supply not at risk after second case of screwworm infection confirmed in Texas. {CNBC 8 June}
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/08/texas-screwworm-cases-food-supply-brooke-rollins.html
In other words, be concerned. Very concerned. Blind faith in institutions ends rather badly when those institutions cease deserving it. Absolutely nothing emerging from this regime should be accepted uncritically. Nothing. Every announcement, every assurance, every triumphant declaration: all are lies.
As for agriculture, I suspect we have scarcely glimpsed the beginning of the story. Our way of life is utterly dependent upon a stable and productive food supply.
Civilisations rarely collapse because people suddenly forget how to govern. More often, they discover that governing becomes considerably more difficult once harvests fail, supply chains fracture, costs spiral, and confidence evaporates. Food is not merely another commodity. It is the foundation upon which every other political, economic, and social arrangement ultimately rests. The health of a nation's fields frequently tells one more about its future than the speeches delivered in its capitals.
I am not a religious zealot, yet I confess to observing events unfolding across the world and finding myself wondering whether humanity hath become rather too pleased with itself. We are in an age of astonishing technological achievement, yet one of extraordinary arrogance. We often – too many of us, at least – behave as though every natural law has been conquered, every consequence postponed, every warning rendered obsolete. A society that ignores every warning because it finds those warnings inconvenient eventually discovers that reality is under no obligation to respect political narratives, ideological preferences, or comforting illusions.
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
Monday, June 8, 2026
The weeping republic
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Fewer Americans see the former United States as exceptional; young doubt democracy and the mythical ‘American Dream’. {AP 8 June}
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
Pine tree prophecy
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David Frum: Democrats must cut problematic Maine US Senate candidate loose. {The Atlantic 8 June}
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
The vigil of the Ituri nurse
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WHO: Ebola cases in DRC and Uganda have ‘increased rapidly’ over the past couple of weeks. {ABC News 8 June}
https://abcnews.com/Health/ebola-cases-increased-rapidly-late/story?id=133685492
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
Sunday, June 7, 2026
Sister Patricia Jane, beneath the fallen seal.
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FBI fires analysts behind 2023 memo warning of violent Catholic extremism in Patel-led purge. {AP 6 June}
https://apnews.com/article/fbi-kash-patel-firings-e9793d06e6310bfcd848b55bf8c47cc6
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
Saturday, June 6, 2026
The price of hope: Madison and her dreams beyond the Garden gates.
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Let them eat cake, he says. Knicks fan Trump dismisses concerns over $9K NBA Finals tickets at MSG: “They can watch it on television.” Unclear whether he will be paying to attend Game 3 on Monday evening. {Basketball Network 6 June}
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/watch-television-trump-dismisses-outrage-084501972.html
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
Daisy and the last brisket in Texas
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Are we 'great' again yet? Texas BBQ joints close as beef prices soar amid 75-year low cattle supply and Iran war costs. {ABC News 5 June}
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
Copyright 2026, Arthur Newhook.
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