St Michael

@stmichael23.bsky.social

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Detroit-area weirdo. Doylist. Canonized by a Discordian Pope. Beliefs are tools. Pick up your tools. Currently running: Free Trader Bebop - Fate system, Traveller setting. I Remember Lemuria - A Barbarians of Lemuria Saga

Marjorie Taylor Greene, making sense by railing against Pete Hegseth.
Image from Pinterest of a normal-looking woman doctor in a labcoat.
“One of the reasons I didn’t come forward sooner was, the huge moral conflict that I had between supporting his politics, but not supporting him as a person,” she said. “I just want the truth out there. I just want people to have a whole scope of who he is as a person.”
“We wouldn’t have gotten into this if we had to build it all from scratch,” Kurtzig says.
That is the administration’s playbook for a series of recent high-handed moves: the $1.8 billion slush fund for January 6 defendants, the systematic destruction of presidential records, the collusive settlements with Mike Flynn and Steve Bannon, and now the ballroom rising on the demolished White House East Wing. Not that they acted lawfully, and not that they aren’t injuring the interests of the American people—but that nobody can do anything about it.
Movie poster for George Romero's The Crazies
Oh, the hell with that! Get the first Trixie man that arrives!
AI isn’t the problem. Offer AI in a way that’s environmentally sustainable, with the consent and compensation of people whose work it artificially has in its intelligence, to a population guaranteed a universal basic income, and it’ll be welcomed like a king who’s not an edgelord tech bro.
A frowning three-star general, his helmet riding low over his brow.
Israel has clear missions as well, for which we are grateful. capable partners, as we’ve said since the beginning, capable partners are good partners. unlike so many of our traditional allies who wring their hands and clutch their pearls, hemming and hawing about the use of force. America, regardless of what so-called international institutions say, is unleashing the most lethal and precise air power campaign in history. B-2s, fighters, drones, missiles, and, of course, classified effects — all on our terms, with maximum authorities. no stupid rules of engagement, no nation-building quagmires, no democracy-building exercises, no politically-correct wars. we fight to win, and we don’t waste time.
Castle of Blood
Grace Kuhlenschmidt as the Gordie Howe Bridge Troll.
OpenAI said Beiermeister “made valuable contributions during her time at OpenAI, and her departure was not related to any issue she raised while working at the company.”
Two months later, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum followed with his own order, calling for changes to monuments and memorials that “inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures; or include any other improper partisan ideology.” The secretary’s order calls for the removal of “descriptions, depictions, or other content that inappropriately disparage Americans past or living (including persons living in colonial times), and instead focus on the greatness of the achievements and progress of the American people or, with respect to natural features, the beauty, abundance, and grandeur of the American landscape.”
Elon Musk sympathizing with the sentiment, "Money can't buy happiness."
Coalie, the Trump Administration's new coal mascot!
The big picture: Trump wants a peace-with-honor withdrawal from Minnesota that doesn't look like his immigration surge was a loss driven by botched law enforcement efforts under Bovino, and plummeting poll numbers.
Donald Trump and Republicans talk about Greenland the way Vladimir Putin has long talked about Ukraine. Both insist that: The target is not a real nation. That it has autonomy only as a historical accident. That its possession is required for purposes of the hegemon’s national security. That NATO is treating it unfairly by interfering with the hegemon’s legitimate claims.
Finely chopped onion and carrot.
Is there anything more on the nose for this administration than literally muting a Black woman so that they can claim the vote was unanimous to rename a beloved culture and arts institution after an openly white supremacist president?
Pete Hegseth - "SS"ecretary of War
Scorpio: Keen Cancer: Crabby Virgo: Cunning Libra: Balanced
Tweet from White House "spiritual advisor" Paula White-Cain: "I DECLARE EVERY DEMONIC BATTLE AGAINST YOUR MIND, FAMILY AND FINANCES IS CANCELLED IN THE NAME OF JESUS!!!"
Elena, Sonia, and li’l Ginsburg on the porch.
In recent months, tech journalists at The New York Times have received quite a few such messages, sent by people who claim to have unlocked hidden knowledge with the help of ChatGPT, which then instructed them to blow the whistle on what they had uncovered. People claimed a range of discoveries: A.I. spiritual awakenings, cognitive weapons, a plan by tech billionaires to end human civilization so they can have the planet to themselves. But in each case, the person had been persuaded that ChatGPT had revealed a profound and world-altering truth.
Hey did you know it’s considered bad luck in the Navy to rename ships? Pete Hegseth might know that if he wasn’t so out of his depth and maybe if he had more military experience.
There was much mockery of Noem for being so dumb in mainstream and left-leaning media, but notably, neither Noem nor her allies have shown any shame or defensiveness about her alleged mistake. Whether Noem comes by her confusion honestly or she was just play-acting, she's there to play the role of the proud MAGA bimbo, in the grand tradition of figures like Sarah Palin. The MAGA bimbo isn't just ignorant. She's contemptuous of people who actually know what they're talking about, especially if those facts-laden human beings are fellow women.
Here’s the upshot: Walmart has already said they’ll “absorb” some of the costs. So will some Walmart suppliers — including small businesses. Walmart will compensate by raising prices on non-tariffed, American-made goods. Bullying companies into eating tariffs could mean layoffs. Bullying companies into eating tariffs means China doesn’t have to change shit. Walmart expects to do better because of the tariffs. Walmart expects to increase market share, at the expense of small business. Despite the tariffs, Walmart still expects to have enough money to buy up shares of its own stocks; driving up the share price, investor returns, and executive salaries.