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cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 3h

There's a weird and cruel irony that we've basically flipped the electoral process for the house and senate, where the state fundamentally chooses who their elected will be for house seats and the Senate is now popular vote.

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cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 7h

SCOTUS gonna rule that unless a legislature drops a hard R in their rationale for diluting the voting power of black folk, it's not actually racism.

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 7h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 7h

I'm out of the loop on this...why is Russia's ambassador handing over docs related to this?

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cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 10h

Fenway Health is canceling its gender affirming care program for minors. People uprooted their lives and moved states to come to places like this, and it feels like no one cares even half as much about thing like this as they did literally anything else last year.

fenwayhealth.org/press/

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cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 22h

It was also the same ceasefire agreement presented this week.

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cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like there is a very strong correlation between this and the current environment.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 2d

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cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 2d

Yea, I know lots of cops are offended. They don't do anything about it.

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cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 4d

Be the change you want to see in the world, Ben. Go run in there!

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cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 4d

3 weeks from now - "I am the most amazing presidential president ever who should get a Nobel prize in economics for making China agree to my trade! Thank you!"

cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 5d

Take a long walk off a short pier. Blocked.

cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 5d

"My opponent is in the pocket of rich bus riders" is genuinely funny, I'm sorry lmao

cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 5d

lmao what do you mean wealthy new yorkers who take the bus?😂😂😂😂

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 5d

Lower income New Yorkers are more likely to ride the bus s. Also the house he used to live in before he split with Sandra Lee is worth 1.8 million dollars (third link) and had five bedrooms and six bathrooms and at 5,000 sqft meets the historical definition of a mansion

.
@ZohranKMamdani
’s “plan” provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while
@ZohranKMamdani
the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 5d

Every time I've ever stepped into a new management position, ESPECIALLY with new people I haven't worked with, my first question to them is always "what bugs you about the way things are working right now?" and I work on and deploy a fix for it. But then again, I like my staff.

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cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 5d

If there's one thing I've learned as I've elevated to Director level positions, it's that employees LOVE taking time out of their day for a dog and pony show for the new boss.

"Prove to me your worth, underling, so that I may decree whether you are suitable for more work as I fire those who arent"

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 5d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 5d

I had a friend years ago suggest making phyllo from scratch. I laughed, and laughed.

cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 5d

Oh so the polling is bad bad.

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 6d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 5d

Who knew the secret to Massachusetts housing crisis that puts people on the streets is, ah, ✨🍎DA APPLE ORCHARD🍎✨

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cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 5d

You'll never catch me making a croissant at home because I aint got time to layer 10,000 layers of dough and butter. F that noise.

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cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 5d

Three 60+ year old white people opining on prime-time news about the current state of affairs for an event that they have no personal attachment to - exactly the kind of innovative decision making you would expect from CBS under the guidance of another mediocre white person.

Boomers will love it.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 6d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 5d

Sitting at a bar and one of the tvs is just ads and menu items. A local electrician company is selling a subscription service. You can now subscribe to your local electrician for 20/mo. Whhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

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cygnusxyz.bsky.social @cygnusxyz.bsky.social · 6d

Jesus. You'd think the "tough" guys in today's Gestapo wouldn't be afraid of frogs but, here we are ...

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cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 5d

Doubt, unfortunately

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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cleverhandles.bsky.social @cleverhandles.bsky.social · 6d

I cannot express how much stuff like this is going to continue to fund my lifestyle as I have to get my firm to clean up garbage contracts 😂

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