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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 1h

They've known they have little to no control over these forces since 2020 and all chose to ignore it during the Democratic administration that might have given them some cover to do something about it!

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 10h

Interview aside, who is the Katie Porter staff person who allowed her to be lit like this in a TV appearance?

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 15h

Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train wreck interview with her and said “now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.”

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 22h

Had to present at an all-hands today and it took every ounce of my will power not to end with "let's do the fucking news."

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 22h

If you are not paying attention to fitness influencer social media, just know that the entire community is being riven by a debate about whether someone made errors in their Ph.D thesis a decade ago. People are taking it incredibly seriously and it's one of the funniest things you've ever seen.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 23h

Australia, too. Lots of down under fitness influencers posting from some weird Dubai steakhouse.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 1d

If we’re being honest, not a ton of the ICE officers in the videos look like they have passed any sort of PT test recently

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

lol

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 1d

I would make all three of those one long sentence?

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 2d

We hebben een serieus probleem

CNBC @cnbc.com · 2d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

cnb.cx

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 2d

He’s just letting them all fight?

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 2d

Because you’re probably not paying attention to weird endurance sports, a Spanish ultrarunner just completed all 72 14k peaks in the contiguous U.S. in just 31 days. Oh and he also biked between each trail head, did the entire 3,000+ mile trip under his own power. explorersweb.com/kilian-jorne...

Kilian Jornet Summits Mount Rainier, Completes All 72 U.S. 14’ers » Explorersweb

The Spanish athlete climbed all 72 accessible 14,000-foot peaks in the contiguous United States in 31 days, hiking and cycling between them.

explorersweb.com

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 2d

Am I missing something or does none of the reporting on this deal explain what will happen to the Free Press itself? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/b...

Paramount Nears a Deal to Buy Bari Weiss’s Free Press

www.nytimes.com

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 2d

God what if this turns out to somehow be about seed oils.

Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 2d

The police narrative of Mark Sanchez’s stabbing is truly bizarre, in the sense of “ah I see why they charged the guy who got stabbed.”

apnews.com/article/nfl-...

Details of the confrontation were disclosed in the affidavit, based on video footage and the truck driver's statement to police.
The video showed a man believed to be Sanchez running in the alley toward the truck, the affidavit said. The driver works for a company that specializes in commercial cooking oil recycling and disposal, and he was performed his work duties, it said.
Sanchez opened the truck door and began talking to the driver, the affidavit said. Sanchez told the driver he couldn't be at the loading dock and that Sanchez had spoken to the hotel manager, the document said. Sanchez smelled of alcohol and his speech was slurred, the driver told police.

Sanchez followed the driver from side to side of the truck, the court document said. When the driver darted toward the driver's door, video showed Sanchez "grabbing and throwing" the driver toward a hotel wall, it said. The fight continued against a dumpster and Sanchez threw the driver to the ground, it said.
Sanchez climbed into the truck but got out when told by the driver he wasn't allowed in, it said. Sanchez repeated that he spoke to a manager and didn't want the driver to replace fryer oil, the document said. Sanchez tried again to get into the truck and blocked the driver from calling his manager, it said.
Believing he was in danger, the driver grabbed pepper spray from his pocket and sprayed Sanchez's face, it said. Sanchez wiped his face and advanced toward the driver again, it said.

The driver then pulled his knife and stabbed Sanchez as the ex-quarterback came at him, it said. The driver fell onto pallets on the ground, he told police.
"While P.T. was on the ground, he could only see the feet of Mr. Sanchez coming at him, making P.T. realize that he was in a life-or-death situation," the affidavit said.

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Harry McCracken @harrymccracken.com · 3d

When stuff like this happened during the first term, CEOs of large companies felt obligated to express their anguish.

CNN @cnn.com · 4d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 3d

Besides the point but you’d think a simple take down of a guy facing you would be one of the major things they taught you in training…

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 3d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 3d

When I speak at conferences there’s often a MUA backstage that the female panelists are directed to automatically but men have to proactively ask. I think a lot of men think it’s eyeliner and not that if you sit under the wrong light your forehead will be blinding the audience.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 3d

A funny thing about the switch to increasingly high production video podcasts is they all invested in bright lights but no make up and everyone on a video podcast is the shiniest person you’ve ever seen. Even the Times’ podcasts!

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4d

The switch in the last few years from audio-only podcasts (which are very cheap to produce) to video podcasts, which have non-trivial production costs associated with them, I would wager has strained the economics here along with declining ad revenues bsky.app/profile/coff...

coffeeaddict.bsky.social @coffeeaddict.bsky.social · 4d

I cannot believe these podcasts make any money

Like the sports ones are all just “yOu sHouLd gAmBLe it’s sooooo fUN!”

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 3d

My kid is really into rhyming nonsense words and just invented “cunty” based on first principles. In a moment of weakness, I cracked up and now… it’s going to be an interesting weekend.

Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 4d

The pitch clock has been so revolutionary for parents as fans, I think. I had taken a long break from baseball and then went to a game, prepped my family that I wouldn’t be back until like midnight and everyone (myself included) was so confused when I was home at like 9:30.

Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 4d

What’s behind the MLB resurgence imo:
-Millennials who watched Griffey/Jeter are now middle-aged and leaning into the nostalgia of their youth, plus their kids are now at sports ages
-Related, Griffey et al are who Mays/Aaron/Mantle were for Boomers
-pitch clock
-Ohtani/Judge/etc
-sports card boom

Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 4d

It was incredible malpractice that once this became abundantly clear during 2020, no mayor or governor worked on addressing it during a Democratic presidency. And now here we are.

Thank You for Your Attention to This Matter @thewriteverdict.bsky.social · 5d

This is the thing - D mayors and governors can't control their law enforcement. We've seen cops refuse to work in cities that elected Black men as mayors - Cleveland and Chicago for instance. They are not afraid to assert their independence when they don't like the person elected. Massive problem.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 4d

Or just do 1 deadlift

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 4d

I think a lot of people assume the outward displays of Trump worship is just sycophants looking to get ahead by stoking the ego of the leader, but I think the evidence is mounting that the motivation for a lot of it is more messianic than utilitarian.

Defector @defector.com · 4d

Treasury Department has plans to mint dollar coin featuring Donald Trump's likeness: defector.com/treasury-dep...

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector

The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

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Amy Farley @afarles.bsky.social · 4d

When you hear about someone arrested or swept up in an immigration raid, there’s a good chance they’ve ended up at a facility run by Geo Group, the nation’s largest for-profit jailer of immigrants and one of ICE’s biggest contractors. 🧵👇 1/6 www.fastcompany.com/91396722/the...

The house that ICE built

Geo Group, America's largest for-profit jailer of immigrants, is preparing for a windfall under Trump. Its chairman is an immigrant himself.

www.fastcompany.com

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 4d

If some sci-fi movie from the 80s had featured a year 2025 where the key to accessing all technology was entering a series of random six digit codes ad nauseam, everyone would have said that was very bit about a dystopian future.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 4d

At Yom Kippur services my toddler was playing with some bigger kids in the back and I vaguely heard them trying to teach her whatever this "six seven" thing is that all kids are saying now and I basically ran back and tackled her away from them. Not on my watch!