Hey Starkin. How’s things? Thank you for hanging in there during my long break. Lots of things are and have been happening this month.
Chloe, that was some important information to share. But what are the various tools you suggest since “picking the right one” is crucial?
Karl, Anonymous, Bill, Claud, I was unaware of the change; maybe the theme updated.
I went to NY recently. It was crowded. But pretty with the holidays lights up. There were large crowds outside Radio City Music Hall for the Rockette’s 100th Anniversary. I walked to the Morgan Museum & Library – its a three story building JP Morgan built in 1906 next to his house to house his private library, and it was stunning. In its day, I’m sure it was IT. There was also a Renoir exhibit happening. And, I knocked off a bucket list item – dinner at Le Bernadin! It seems I missed meeting Eric by about an hour, but other than that, it was everything I wanted it to be! It truly was the highlight of my trip. Food is life!
Here’s another cool event. One of my favorite movies is George Cukor’s 1954’s It Should Happen To You with Jack Lemmon, Judy Holiday, and Peter Lawford. In the movie, a small town girl can’t catch a break in big city New York, so she rents a billboard in Columbus Circle and puts her name up on the sign. There is scene where she asks Jack to continue to drive her around in circles so she can see her name blown up like she’s somebody. Spoiler: it accomplishes what she wants. So I’ve always wanted to see for myself where the billboard in the movie was located, and even though the outside of the buildings have all changed, that corner building turned out to be the same building where one of my holiday parties was held. I love kismet!
I’ve got a good life. <3
I’ll have to add the photos later – I need to strip my EXIF data first 🙂
Happy Holidays, all!
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Thank you for reading today's post. Have an InterStellar Day! ~PrP
Your research suggesting that at least one of the Three Gods expressed anger with the Roman city of Herculaneum because of their choice of name offended IT has been received with a request. Please explain why Pompeii was also destroyed at the same time.
Can you please explain and go deeper into why “IT” was offended over the name? Assuming you are referring to the Immortal?
Hercules was a Demi God. IT didn’t like humans blaspheming his memory. At least that was what I was told when we were pals some 200 Earth years ago.
Thanks for responding. Interesting. Did the immortal personally know Hercules?
The first « bomb tRump has launched on Syria is to forbid travel from Syria to the US. Perhaps this is the idiot’s attempt to prevent any relatives of the Family from uniting with them.
Again this site has predicted correctly: The U.S. is conducting airstrikes against ISIS targets in Syria in retaliation for the attack that killed two American soldiers and a U.S. interpreter on Saturday, officials said. Multiple sources told CBS News earlier Friday that the strikes were being conducted.
One of the officials said the U.S. began striking dozens of targets at multiple locations across central Syria using fighter aircraft, attack helicopters and artillery. More than 70 targets were struck, a U.S. official said.
F-15 fighter jets, A-10 Thunderbolts — known as “Warthogs” — and Apache attack helicopters were used to target ISIS positions in Syria on Friday, U.S. officials told CBS News. F-16 fighter jets from Jordan were also involved in the operation.
U.S. Central Command described the operation as a “massive strike” and indicated that it was retaliatory in a post on X. In a follow-up post, U.S. Central Command said it used “more than 100 precision munitions targeting known ISIS infrastructure and weapons sites.”
My question is, who is leaking shit?
U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the Department of Homeland Security is proposing changes to the application process for the Electronic System for Travel Authorization, or ESTA, which is required for travel into the U.S. under the Visa Waiver Program.
As part of the proposed changes, CBP will be adding social media as a mandatory data element for an ESTA application to comply with the president’s January executive order titled “Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats.”
The order essentially called for enhanced vetting and screening for travel and immigration into the U.S.
ESTA applicants will need to provide their social media from the last five years under this proposed change.
CBP is also proposing to add several “high-value data fields” to the ESTA application when feasible in order to comply with the executive order and an April 4 memorandum about updating all forms to collect baseline biographical data.
These fields include telephone numbers used in the last five years, email addresses from the last ten years, business telephone numbers and emails, certain biometrics, IP addresses and metadata from electronically submitted photos, and the names, telephone numbers, birthdays, places of birth, and residences of family members.
Other proposed changes include requiring applicants to submit photos of their face, or selfies, in addition to a photo of their passport’s biographical page when applying through the ESTA website. But CBP is also proposing to decommission applications through the website in favor of using only the mobile app for ESTA applications. The agency believes this will enhance security and improve efficiency, while the website would remain as an information resource and allow applicants to view the status of their applications.
Soon they will ask to see at least 5 years of your internet activity and even your emails.
Those of you who like to say the “wets,” “nigs” and others who voted for tRump got just what they deserved can add the military voters to that. They are just about to get less health care.
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions this month, mostly unfilled jobs, including doctors, nurses and support staff, according to an internal memo, VA staffers and congressional aides.
The cuts come after a massive reorganization effort that already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 employees this year.
Agency leaders have instructed managers across the Veterans Health Administration, the agency’s health care arm, to identify thousands of openings that can be canceled. Employees warn that the contraction will add pressure to an already stretched system, contributing to longer wait times for care.
The decision comes after Veterans Affairs Secretary Douglas A. Collins, under political pressure from Congress, backed away from a plan to slash 15% of the agency’s workforce through mass firings. Instead, VA lost almost 30,000 employees this year through buyout offers and attrition.
The agency hopes the cuts will reduce the health care workforce to as few as 372,000 employees, a 10% reduction from last year, according to a memo shared with regional leaders last month and obtained by The Washington Post. Details of the cuts came into focus in recent days, according to 17 VA staffers and congressional aides who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share the plans.
Democratic politicians are taught to blend in first, stand out later. But leadership doesn’t work that way, and neither does trust.
This isn’t just about confidence. It’s about agency. When you define your right to be in the room based on other people’s comfort, you are constantly negotiating your existence. That negotiation never ends. And it never tilts in your favor.
We’re living in a political moment obsessed with performance and allergic to truth. Social media rewards outrage. Cable news rewards caricature. Campaigns are pressured to flatten human beings into talking points.
In that environment, authenticity becomes a radical act.
Candidates—especially women, candidates of color, and first-time candidates—are often told to prove they belong before they’re allowed to lead. They’re asked to justify their ambition in ways others never are.
The burden Vice President Harris names is familiar to anyone who has ever been told to be “less threatening,” “more palatable,” or “more grateful.”
And that burden doesn’t just weigh candidates down. It weakens democracy. When leaders are trained to center other people’s comfort over their own convictions, politics starts to feel less about real choices and more about carefully managed risk.
For Democrats, that weakness is especially damaging. Our party talks the most openly about representation, voice, and inclusion, yet too often, our candidates feel pressure to shrink themselves to fit what they believe party insiders will tolerate. Voters are left choosing between carefully edited versions of leadership, and elections become exercises in risk management instead of moments of real choice. We don’t just lose bold candidates. We lose a full range of ideas, experiences, and truths that push the country forward.
PrP, I am a very loyal Girlz. I like your blog because it is written with the same attitude that Michelle wrote hers. You don’t ask for permission to tackle a subject.
Like Michelle:
You don’t chase every headline. You don’t contort yourself to satisfy the angst of your readers. You don’t carry the impossible burden of being all things to all people, and that’s why we love your blog.
Michelle showed that real leadership doesn’t come from comfort. It comes from conviction. The blogs that will shape the future aren’t the ones that kiss their readers’ asses to survive. They’re be the ones who show up, defined themselves, and refused to leave the arena where facts matter.
Thank you, Nicole. Michelle’s are big shoes to fill. That’s kind of you to say.
Did You Know
The iconic arcade game “Pac-Man” was originally released as “Puck Man” in Japan due to the titular character’s hockey puck-like shape. However, when it was released in English-speaking countries, the name was changed to Pac-Man to prevent arcade cabinets from being easily vandalized into displaying something obscene.
I love a friend whose cheering voice
Can soothe my aching heart;
Can wipe the tears of grief away
When sorrow bids them start.
Thank god for poets, they just know how to say what I feel.
And you my love make me feel that way every day.
As Marine General Smedley Butler once wrote in, War Is a Racket, “war often serves corporate and financial interests.” Trump has taken that to new lows.
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Remember when the Immortal showed us that there were more than just three states of matter, Solid, Liquid and Gas? The Immortal just improved on showing us that hybrid state between ITS being a solid and a liquid at the same time.
IT showed us that it can bend time by containing atoms that stay stationary during ITS linear time period and having is atoms exhibit themselves constantly in motion when he is existing in oval time. For IT both of these conditions can be present at the same time.
We have been using the technology IT gave us to form matter combining characteristics of solids and liquids in the same material to construct the outer shells of our motherships for centuries. Today IT showed us a new from of matter that combines the properties of a liquid and a gas.
What we know so far is that unlike when a liquid starts to turn into a solid the how and where its atoms travel doesn’t ultimately determines the final shape of a gas as it does the shape of a solid. Also tracing the paths of these atoms is more difficult than when the liquid is becoming a solid.
But we do know that mastering the process would yield how the Immortal can create something out of seeming nothing. The control of electrons in the quantum realm which exist both as waves and particles with neither fixed volume or fixed shape would allow us the ability to create metals that self repair at oval speeds.
That beast allowed millions to die because IT refused to help when we were attacked yesterday. Many beings who can live limitless years call themselves “immortals,” but they can all be slain by one means or another. Only this creature is truly an Immortal. IT is feared by all the other so called “immortals.” And for good reason, IT slays them at will.
IT has no special consideration for the rest of us mortals. IT will kill us just as capriciously. Of course we should learn whatever we can learn from IT, but we must never let our guard down. This beast is a wild animal and can never be tamed. We must unite to find a way to kill or at least control this beast.
I feel the same way about you guys because you do the same thing you kill humans at will and you don’t interfere to stop wars which humans wage between themselves. As a result millions of humans die every day because of those conflicts.
But you can blame the immortal because he did not help yo, yet we cannot blame you because you don’t help us.
So true Nader1. Thank you for the putting that into words.
Nader1, you are always so concise. You would be a great representative as a human to the aliens, or as an alien to the humans.
The Powerball jackpot has climbed to an estimated $1.5billion for the next drawing on Saturday, the fifth-largest in the game’s 33-year history.
The winner has already been chosen when the pot reaches the designated amount.
And how do you know this?
The cannabis industry has shoved a huge amount of dough into the hands of the tRump family to get them to persuade tRump to move weed from a Schedule I drug to a Schedule III along with Tylenol.
Marijuana was classified as a Schedule I drug in 1970 under President Richard Nixon, when the scheduling system was first created in the United States. Nixon launched the so-called War on Drugs in 1971, which was largely a smokescreen to target racial minorities, marginalized groups, and left-wing political opponents. Nixon privately called marijuana “not particularly dangerous” in a recording only discovered in 2024, and one of the president’s top men admitted in an interview decades later that the goal was to actually fight against Americans with a flimsy pretext.
Nixon’s domestic policy chief, John Ehrlichman, gave an interview in the mid-1990s that laid it all out, though it wouldn’t be quoted in Harper’s magazine until 2016.
“We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” said Ehrlichman, who died in 1999.
“We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
The point not to miss here is how well the white race can keep an evil secret. Especially one that is dangerous to, or one that is, or has harmed non-whites. This act by another racist POTUS was kept secret for 53 years by whites, they are a race not to be trusted.
You may think that you have great white friends, but if someone opened the ovens, you would be surprised how fast those friends would throw you into them.
She was unexpected, exhilarating, He said having met her he felt more alive than he had in a long time. She made him feel like a human being.
He said that when I find a human that does that for me, I should back her in whatever she does or wants,
ProPublica’s New Tool Provides Drug Info the FDA Won’t
The first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and see the track records of the factories that made them.
With every bottle of prescription medication comes an implied promise: The drugs are safe and effective and meet strict standards set by the Food and Drug Administration.
But the agency known as one of the world’s toughest regulators provides only intermittent oversight of the foreign factories where generic drugs are made. And when investigators turn up mold, filthy equipment and contaminants in those facilities, the FDA keeps the names of the drugs they make secret.
Consumers often have no way of knowing if the medications they are taking came from factories that used dirty water, were infested by insects or birds, or were outright banned from shipping drugs to the U.S., but then granted special exemptions to do so anyway.
Today, ProPublica is launching Rx Inspector, a first-of-its-kind database that provides answers to what the FDA won’t tell us: where our generics are coming from and the track records of the factories that made them. The information is harder to find than you may think.
Labels on pill bottles often list a distributor or repackager rather than the actual manufacturer — and some have no information at all. When ProPublica asked our readers to send in photos of their pill bottles, they flooded our inbox with pictures proving just how difficult that information is to come by.
Even though generic drugs make up 90% of prescriptions dispensed in the U.S., the FDA only provides piecemeal information about them. It’s scattered across different websites with no easy way to link drugs to their manufacturers, factory locations and regulatory track records. Over many months, our journalists connected that data. In one case, ProPublica had to sue the FDA in federal court and received a partial list of factory locations.
You can use this app to connect your own medication to the manufacturer that made it, to the specific factory where it was made and to any FDA inspection reports and serious compliance violations linked to that facility that ProPublica has obtained.
For example, you can enter your drug name and any information on the label of your pill bottle about the company that may have made it. If you don’t have a company name, you can enter the color of your pills, or any markings on them, details that can lead you to information for your specific drug. From there, you can learn the name of the actual manufacturer (not the company that simply repackaged or distributed it). And you can also see the address for the factory that produced it.
If the factory has been inspected by the FDA, we’ll show you the inspection reports and any subsequent warning letters. We didn’t have access to every inspection report, so you may only see summary information that includes the dates of the inspections and any findings.
For pharmacists and others particularly knowledgeable about drugs, we’ve added an advanced search option so that you can enter key information, such as the National Drug Code, and quickly pull up manufacturing and regulatory details.
Finally, this app will allow you to learn more about individual drugmakers overall by providing a way to search for their factories. By entering a company name, you can see when those factories were last inspected and whether the FDA took any action in recent years.
Keep in mind that if you turn up a troubling inspection report, it doesn’t necessarily mean that your drug is compromised. Doctors and pharmacists advise that you not stop taking your medications. Instead, you should talk to your health care provider about any concerns.
ProPublica described the app and the methodology used to build it to the FDA, which did not comment. The agency previously told ProPublica that it doesn’t reveal where drugs are made on inspection reports to protect what it deemed confidential commercial information.
Our data is incomplete in places. The FDA, for example, hasn’t released all of its inspection reports. And though the agency provided ProPublica with a list of medications and the factories that made them, some locations were missing. We’ll add more details as they become available.
But this app provides the most detailed look yet at the makers of America’s generic drugs and whether they’ve met manufacturing standards meant to keep us safe.
Earth’s scientists also discovered the remains of those two planets the Immortal smashed into each other. Well they saw the dust cloud that was the result of IT smashing the two planets into each other. Of course humans being as dumb as they are think such things happen only once in 100,000 years.
The human’s knowledge of the Known Universe will always be limited and speculative at best. They are still marveling at the results of destruction done my the Immortal billions of earth years ago. They occasionally discover the light from stars and suns the Beast created or destroyed in those billions of years and immediately begin speculating about what it tells them about how the Known Universe was formed or shaped.
Only actual space travel can reveal the true wonders and perils of Space travel. It will be at least a million years before they venture outside their own solar system unless we assist. Our MotherShip is willing to assist if the counsel will agree.
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When you are watching TV, the TV is watching you and what you are watching. If you don’t want to be seen naked put some clothes on your naked ass.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed lawsuits this week against five big TV manufacturers, Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense, and TCL, alleging the companies are “spying on Texans by secretly recording what consumers watch in their own homes.”
Paxton argues that the TV companies’ use of Automated Content Recognition (ACR) technology lets them capture screenshots of a given user’s TV and can send that information back to the company, allowing for “real time” surveillance of the content anyone is watching without the user’s knowledge or consent.
Smart TV operating systems have become an important part of the TV industry’s revenue, delivering targeted ads based on user data. ACR is sometimes on by default and as Ars Technica points out, turning it off can be buried in obscure menu settings, depending on the model of TV.
A press release about the new lawsuits, posted on the Texas AG’s website, notes that Hisense and TCL are both based in China. The AG claims “these Chinese ties pose serious concerns about consumer data,” noting that China’s National Security Law “gives its government the capability to get its hands on U.S. consumer data.”
Similar concerns over consumer data in the U.S. were the basis of legislation passed in 2024 that sought to force TikTok’s parent company, the China-based ByteDance, to divest itself or see the social media platform be banned in the country.
The lawsuits filed this week against the big TV makers note that historically Nielsen has paid consumers for the ability to track their viewership habits. Here in the 2020s, that data is collected for free and without the same kind of transparency, according to the lawsuits. And nobody is getting paid, unless you count the incredibly cheap prices of gigantic TVs these days. The lawsuits do make note of that trade-off.
This is especially funny when you remember that the Dobbs decision, which Paxton and Texas are huge fans of, was based on the interpretation that there is no fundamental right to privacy in the US Constitution. Roe v Wade was largely based on the court’s interpretation that the Due Process clause of the 14th Amendment did grant a woman a fundamental right to privacy. So if they really believe that Texans do have a fundamental right to privacy, then they should still have a right to abortion.
Of course, it was never really about privacy or children to them anyway.
It’s not that Ken and TX Republicans mind the spying. It’s all about who is doing it and how it can be used to turn a profit for ‘the right people.’ Because the American people don’t actually matter to the Republican party. Only the ‘capital’ that can be extracted from them. At any cost. Because indviduals aren’t people in Great America — they’re chattel. Only Corporations are people to republican politicians.
He’s not wrong but it’s pretty weird having a criminal indicted for securities fraud but never bought to justice being an AG.
Not as weird as having a criminal as POTUS.
What’s crazy is it used to be worse. Back in the 2010s Vizio TVs would record and monitor conversations in the room while the TV was off.
It worked by configuring the speakers as microphones when the display was powered off. Any speaker can function as an impromptu microphone if set as an input, the quality sucks but is good enough to transcribe keywords which were then used to direct ads at you. What is great is a software engineer discovered it because he got an ad for a super specific medical condition which he had only just found out about when a friend talked to him about it in the room with the TV. After digging through the room for any bugs he eventually checked the TV and realized that it was still on when it appeared off.
I have been away from Michelle’s blog from almost 10 years. Then I discover this. So Michelle how are you doing. I am one of the lucky few who have pictures of you in shorts and other very revealing attire when you and Doug were at Burning Man. You were always so loyal that I didn’t dare to approach you. But now that you have moved on, I would like to approach you in a gentlemanly fashion. I will be 51 on December 19, 2025 and I can’t think of a better birthday present than dinner with you. I was a mortgage banker before I made enough money to retire at 45.
I’ve spent several years traveling this planet, but you and that ultra fine body have never been far from my thoughts. I presently live on an Island I bought in Fiji. Did you know it is where the first light of the day reaches Earth? I would love to share it with you.
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2025-12-17 at 9:18 am
Exactly how does she do that? I’d love to be prepared in case I meet one.
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Probably has something to do with the scent she emits or the fact that it is opined that her body is aerodynamically perfect. I don’t think it is something one can learn to do, but I like how you think.
You can sell real estate in Florida with an out-of-state license if you’re from one of their 10 mutual recognition states (AL, AR, CT, GA, IL, KY, MS, NE, RI, WV) by passing Florida’s 40-question law exam, but you must be a non-resident and meet basic qualifications to get that equivalent license. For other states, you’ll likely need to take Florida’s full pre-licensing course and state exam, though some other states like IN, LA, MD, OK, SC, TN, and TX might offer easier pathways.
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Like this. Maybe you should include it in all new Avenues.
Today, Donald signed the so-called Epstein Files Transparency Act. Let’s not forget that he didn’t have to do this. At any point, he could have simply said, “Hey, Pam, release the files.” He could have said, “Hey, what’s your name? Release the files,” at any stop along the way. But he dragged his feet and lied to his supporters. Ultimately, it took a handful of Republicans siding with Democrats to force Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to make the DOJ release the files.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act was signed a month ago, and this legislation required the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files by the end of today. That is not happening. This morning, during an appearance on Fox Day TV, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche delivered a word salad. The main takeaway was that the Trump regime’s DOJ is violating the law and perfectly happy to do so. If Todd Blanche is the spokesperson here, you know things aren’t going to end well for the rule of law or the truth.
Todd Blanche: The most important thing the Attorney General and Director Patel have emphasized is protecting victims. So, what we’re doing is reviewing every single piece of paper we plan to release, making sure that every victim—their name, their identity, their story—is fully protected wherever necessary. I expect we’ll release more documents over the next couple of weeks. Today, it’s several hundred thousand, and in the coming weeks, I expect several hundred thousand more. There are a lot of eyes on these files, and we want to ensure that when we produce these materials, we’re protecting every single victim.
It’s obscene that Blanche or anyone else in the Trump regime would claim they care about the victims. The only “victim” they might be trying to protect is the person who doesn’t want the files released at all. As the New York Times points out, this last minute announcement drew immediate bipartisan criticism. Republican Congressman Thomas Massey posted on Twitter, “Time’s up, release the files.” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that Donald and Attorney General Pam Bondi are, “hell bent on hiding the truth.”
Donald, after declaring himself chairman of the board of the Kennedy Center and stacking the board with sycophants, basically ordered a vote to rename the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It is now, at least in their minds, the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center. Changing the name without the consent of Congress is illegal. According to legal scholars a new law would have to be passed to change it, as legislation created it. And yet, he has already etched his name into the center’s façade. What are the consequences for this? Are Republicans in Congress going to do anything about it? If you break the law and no consequences follow, why bother?
Apparently, Donald can put his name on anything he wants, and Republicans in Congress will continue to do absolutely nothing about it. But the second he exits the stage, all of it will go away. His name will be reviled and remembered alongside the worst of the worst and eventually disappear. In the meantime, my advice is: let him be the thirsty, desperate, grasping figure he is, and perhaps Republicans will finally get tired of it. Until then, don’t let it get to you, and have faith we will undo the harm. We will.
Donald pretended to be surprised by the so-called honor and lied, saying the board had voted unanimously to change the name. Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, a Democrat from Ohio, is an ex-officio member of the Kennedy Senate Board. She released a video statement contradicting Donald’s claim.
Joyce Beatty: Just ending a call with the Kennedy Center where I serve as an ex- officio member. I am bringing this to you live today because what you may hear is that there was a unanimous vote to rename the Kennedy Center, the Trump Center. Be clear. I was on that call, and as I tried to push my button to voice my concern, to ask questions, and certainly not to vote in support of this, I was muted. Each time I tried to speak, I was muted. Participants were not allowed to voice their concerns who were online, yet it was said at the end, it was a unanimous vote. Clearly, the Congress has a say in this. The Kennedy Center was created by the Congress. I think it’s important for us to know that this is just another attempt to evade the law and not let the people have a say.
CNN reports that House Republicans have adjourned for the holidays without extending the enhanced subsidies set to expire on January 1, even after a government shutdown ensued for seven weeks because of this very issue. Enough Republicans joined forces with Democrats, compelling the House to take up the vote, but Mike Johnson ignored it. As House Republicans head off for the holidays with their superior health coverage in tow, millions of Americans will lose their subsidies. As a result, 22 million people will face substantial increases in their premiums, encounter serious financial hardship, or be forced to give up their health insurance entirely.
GOP leaders claim the subsidies simply prop up a flawed Democratic policy in need of an overhaul. Year after year they offer no alternative. Simply talking about a plan isn’t the same as having a plan. Lawmakers from both parties have criticized their leaders for leaving Washington without a resolution. The Republicans who worked with Democrats to pressure Johnson into holding the vote are motivated by their own reelection prospects, especially those in competitive districts. Take Mike Lawler, for example, a New York congressman who managed to win in a traditionally Democratic district. It’s crucial for his voters to realize that his actions are driven by political self-interest, not genuine concern for their well-being. Any Democrat who takes his place would serve the district far better.
The destruction of the StarLink satellite was necessary because it was being used to intercept communications between MotherShips and Earth. When it crashes on Earth, Musk will learn that we will not tolerate his satellites interfering with our purposes.
We are in the act of documenting how the Immortal initiates primary succession. This has not been documented before. No one knows how the Immortal creates life that transitions from an uninhabited to an inhabited environment. The marvel is that IT can create life with little to no water or organic nutrients. It seems for the Immortal that doesn’t really matter.
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