michael

michael

@michaelberry.bsky.social

posting amidst the fall | he/they

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Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

michael reposted

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

shock and awe hasn’t won the us a war in 80 years and we don’t have domestic military supply lines. it’s only purpose is terror until the next escalation in violence

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the supposedly media trained successor to maga seems unable to answer softball media questions

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

REPORTER: Why are troops stationed here at Union Station and at the National Mall instead of areas where crime is higher? JD VANCE: Crime is actually extremely high here at Union Station. You have vagrants.

trump will cancel the meeting with Putin because Putin has all control re: Ukraine peace and he would look unable to make a deal. maga will say Putin is owned meanwhile Russia & allies get to paint trump as the feckless belligerent westoid just as Israel and US resume Iran bombing.

oof Florida next to redistrict

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

NBC News confirms: JD Vance will meet tonight at his residence with Susie Wiles, Pam Bondi, Deputy AG Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and other top Trump officials to discuss the Epstein scandal. @msnbc.com

imo one of the grand projects of the Republican Party is to bring the Vatican to Washington DC. operation gladio introduced tangentopoli inside America which has contributed to the normalization of bribery. in the age of tracking payment activity, corrupt officials in America need a private bank.

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now you have an actual parallel government structure to conduct all of your corruption through and, oh, the most private transaction system in human history just as surveillance effectively neuters digital corruption in the public sphere.

all of this Epstein stuff stands out to me as a loud demonstration that America will legally protect catholic leaders and priests who engage in child abuse in ways that Europe will not in the coming years.

imo one of the grand projects of the Republican Party is to bring the Vatican to Washington DC. operation gladio introduced tangentopoli inside America which has contributed to the normalization of bribery. in the age of tracking payment activity, corrupt officials in America need a private bank.

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if/when Russian expansion leads to the spread of orthodox Christianity along east Europe, Catholicism is cooked. if Russia takes over Italy and discovers proof of the degeneracy of the Vatican, that’s easy fuel to the fire. that kills Catholicism worldwide and effectively ends its quiet empire.

republicans really want to occupy and transform an urban democrat city into their white nationalist vision for the future. Vatican in DC meets all of the stated goals above while manifest destiny is renewed along the lines of “liberating” western us states.

imo one of the grand projects of the Republican Party is to bring the Vatican to Washington DC. operation gladio introduced tangentopoli inside America which has contributed to the normalization of bribery. in the age of tracking payment activity, corrupt officials in America need a private bank.

has the Vatican ever had a Panama papers leak? have they ever had transactions leaked regarding child trafficking? If NATO dissolves and Russia expands its borders through annexation, east Europe is going to drop like a house of cards. Germany/Turkey need to partner with Russia.

why would the south secede from a white ethno-nationalist state? that seems like a lot of redundant bureaucracy. Colonialism recognized the value of indigenous culture and land — that’s why it was stolen and reintegrated into empire.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social

Meanwhile, on Twitter, the Everything App...racism, mostly? But also bad, obviously wrong history - lots of multi-ethnic pre-modern states: Romans, Persians, Mongols, etc. Or just note the numbers of Welsh, Irishmen and Scots in key posts in the British Empire.

me cooking the monthly KPIs so the client is happy

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Powell: "GDP rose at 1.2 percent pace in the first half of this year, down from 2.5 percent last year. Although the increase in the second quarter was stronger at 3 percent, focusing on the first half of the year helps smooth through the volatility in the quarterly figures."

michael reposted

"The man who is not yet mayor is to blame for a shooting that happened under the watch of an ex-cop mayor who's thrown every available dollar at the NYPD," insists sex pest

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this Epstein stuff represents a legitimate threat to ouster the president. expect the gestapo to commit crimes against humanity at the protests this weekend to grab back the headlines. that fat fuck is scared as shit right now.

it won’t stop it though, all of Epstein’s payments went through Russian banks. Putin is slow dripping a leak that the president probably believes is his own cabinet to force a losing war. Hitler and trump BOTH made fools of by Russian authoritarians — there’s your rhyming history!

these news drips always precede the most heinous crimes of this administration. can’t wait to see which horrors await us next.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

President Trump has floated changing the name of the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Gulf ahead of a trip to the Middle East next week, infuriating Iran and its people. The body of water has been called the Persian Gulf since at least 550 B.C. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/w...

to put the final nail in the coffin on this: masks are protecting the identity of the ice agents carrying out illegal arrests. in the us, identity obfuscation is their primary purpose and why it became suddenly bad and gay for you to wear an N95. your health was never a priority.

Marco Foster@marcofoster.bsky.social

HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center

aj styles and cody rhodes refusal to use dirty tactics to win mirrors the democratic party’s inability to take radical action in the face of fascism in this essay i will…

people like this want their sorry opinions to be institutionally validated through the State. the marrying of a dying opinion with a dying institution will only accelerate the demise of both.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

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