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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 41m

It's a start and abandon online shopping carts kind of day.

Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 6d

Do people really not understand the mass comms aspect of social media (aside from, um, the Atlantic)? Like, how is that possible in 2025?

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Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11d

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 11d

"And the rest of us, whether we’re elected officials or ordinary citizens, should do everything we can to let our fellow Americans in uniform know that if they risk their careers and even their freedom to protect the Constitution, we will stand with them."

But how do we do this?

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 12d

Business Continuity, IT/DR, Crisis Comms

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 12d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 13d

This really needs to be the strategy everywhere. Cartoon suitup to defeat authoritarianism.

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 13d

Portland never stops being Portland.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 14d

wizard frog is insane

Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 15d

Who doesn't love a fresh Target bag to cuddle into? #Caturday

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 16d

Publisher here. It is, indeed, impossible. Algorithms have been tweaked to a pointless point, but outside of sandwich boards on commuter routes what choices are there?

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 18d

I wish we could have decided to decry authoritarianism instead of fascism. But, I guess it's just harder to spell and not as sexy to rail against.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 20d

Local fire marshal for fire code violations. Local health department for health code. It's a very broken up jurisdictional system.

Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 23d

People can say what they will about Reagan, but at least he had class and was on the whole honorable.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 24d

As someone who writes emergency management plans - this is a very bad idea. Ever had to dump an entire building due to an emergency evacuation from a gas leak? Now, try having everyone be barefoot.
I was once brought in to fix things after this exact scenario.
Nightmare.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 24d

The biggest man baby to have ever disgraced the world stage.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24d

oh my god lol -- Trump calls for UN workers to be arrested because his escalator didn't work yesterday

A REAL DISGRACE took place at the United Nations yesterday — Not one, not two, but three very sinister events! First, the escalator going up to the Main Speaking Floor came to a screeching halt. It stopped on a dime. It’s amazing that Melania and I didn’t fall forward onto the sharp edges of these steel steps, face first. It was only that we were each holding the handrail tightly or, it would have been a disaster. This was absolutely sabotage, as noted by a day’s earlier “post” in The London Times that said UN workers “joked about turning off an escalator.” The people that did it should be arrested! Then, as I stood before a Television crowd of millions of people all over the World, and important Leaders in the Hall, my teleprompter didn’t work. It was stone cold dark. I immediately thought to myself, “Wow, first the escalator event, and now a bad teleprompter. What kind of a place is this?” I then proceeded to make a Speech without a teleprompter, which kicked in about 15 minutes later. The good news is the Speech has gotten fantastic reviews. Maybe they appreciated the fact that very few people could have done what I did. And third, after making the Speech, I was told that the sound was completely off in the Auditorium where the Speech was made, that World Leaders, unless they used the interpreters’ earpieces, couldn’t hear a thing. The first person I saw at the conclusion of the Speech was Melania, who was sitting right up front. I said, “How did I do?” And she said, “I couldn’t hear a word you said.” This wasn’t a coincidence, this was triple sabotage at the UN. They ought to be ashamed of themselves. I’m sending a copy of this letter to the Secretary General, and I demand an immediate investigation. No wonder the United Nations hasn’t been able to do the job that they were put in existence to do. All security tapes at the escalator should be saved, especially the emergency stop button. The Secret Service is involved. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · 26d

I can't think of anyone I'd rather be left behind in the rapture with besides you.

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · Sep 19

Dutch late night TV has its take

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · Sep 15

But is he taking your advice?

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · Sep 10

I agree - speech has moral consequences. But those consequences should not be death & to celebrate death as the ultimate outcome is troublesome.
Don't get me wrong, I found him detestable & his views abhorrent.
I very much wish that the inner hate that drove those views is judged, but not by me.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · Sep 10

This is a moment to rise to better angels.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · Sep 10

It's an act of humanity to pray for someone you detest. Both your own humanity and theirs. It's not complicated. "Dear Heavenly Father, I pray that the soul of Charlie Kirk finds peace as he journeys onward and I pray for his wife and children that their community uplifts & sustains them. Amen."

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · Sep 10

In a civil society, speaking your mind should not equate to a death sentence even if your views are abhorrent or troubling. In the immortal words of the great detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch, either everyone matters or no one matters.
I'm very sorry for the wife and children of Charlie Kirk.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · Aug 26

Merry?

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · Aug 26

Try the Evernote subreddit. Bending Spoons monitors it and sometimes will help with user problems.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · Aug 17

Indeed. I'm ruminating on an essay about the man I bought it from and met at a Marathon gas station surrounded by trees and nothingness, his beat down truck and lopsided trailer the only thing in the lot.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · Aug 17

I just finished a four hour Uhaul round trip out into the country to buy 511 sqft of 130 year old heartpine shiplap. It's going to become the ceiling of the family room in my circa 1900 house. The wood is so beautiful and now it has renewed purpose.

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Michelle Newcome @michellenewcome.com · Aug 16

I spend an inordinate amount of time negotiating with southern good old boys who go by two first names (Harry Dean, Bobby Lee) who have a pile of reclaimed heart pine 3 inch reveal tongue and goove boards they seem loathe to part with even though they're listed on FB Marketplace. I mean HOURS!