Michele Tepper
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Michele Tepper
@michelet.bsky.social
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Also known as Misha. UX design then (frog, CFPB, startups) and now (Salesforce Platform). Brooklyn native/cliché. A vague disclaimer is nobody’s friend
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This is basically our dynamic
It’s not even a matter of want — they’re going to have to tear the thing down as a security measure
Listen: covert supply chain intervention concerns regarding implantation of listening devices in, say, new buildings in US military bases in Guam are considered really serious. And this is the WHITE HOUSE. Has there been vetting of vendors? Contractors and subcontractors? All labor? We don’t know!
Isn’t the presidential bunker on that side? Because I can’t even imagine the potential CI issues
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The Pickleball Court Oath
Maybe the Democrats can find a tennis court somewhere in DC to meet on.
One for @briancgrubb.bsky.social ‘s heist files
Ouch!

The German maker of the lift used in the Louvre heist is using the robbery in its new advertising:

"When you need to move fast — quiet as a whisper"
No, they sold back in 2017
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"It really wasn't much to look at":
The mothers of the disappeared during the Argentinian military junta would walk in pairs around the center of the Plaza de Mayo in BA — so they had a plausible excuse when public gatherings of more than 3 people were banned
About 50 protesters walked back and forth through the crosswalk to block the entrance of Coast Guard Island. A line of at least a dozen cars were stopped in traffic at the stop sign.

🎥: Sarah Ravani
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It's pretty telling that the rabbis most prominently out there saying, "We need to block Mamdani at all costs, for Jewish safety" are all men. It's not that women can't have legitimate concerns about Mamdani's record. It's that you can't say Cuomo will protect your safety if you're a Jewish woman.
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Rs were always floating SNAP cuts when I was working for the state health and family services agency -- leave aside that wanting adults to starve is also unconscionable, but about half our SNAP cases were "child-only," meaning benefits were PURELY to feed children. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | How Trump is exploiting the looming food stamps crisis
The stakes of the shutdown will increase dramatically in November. The Trump administration is trying to make the most of it.
www.msnbc.com
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It took us barely a year from (1) the Supreme Court's saying that a president even after leaving office is protected against prosecution for actions taken while in office to (2) a president's deciding to destroy a big chunk of the White House, on his own say-so, because, well, he wanted to.
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these are some really quick markups I sent to a former coworker over chat yesterday, and it's VERY difficult to draw any conclusions about what all was happening here without actually knowing plans, but yes, I see some very big hints that they actually fucked up what was *supposed* to be a partial.
Orecchiette. Those bastards curl up inside one another while they cook, just impossible
a second day of the same discourse? no. no thank you.

instead I need you to name your least favorite pasta shape
The canonical tattoo coverup is a sick-ass panther, I’m surprised we still have to explain that
Amazing, he doesn’t know what this one is either
PROCUREMENT REFORM! Now you’re talking my love language
Children and families deserve better than mediocrity and inertia. They need government that works.

My platform, Curing Procurement, will do just that, delivering excellence for city workers, taxpayers, and students.
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i have watched every teaser for this show and now i've seen the trailer and the only thing i know for certain is that Rhea Seehorn and Vince Gilligan have a stew going

which, to be fair, is all i need to know

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6lz...
Pluribus — Official Trailer | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
www.youtube.com
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"We should consider why Platner speaks to people. People don't want candidates from central casting anymore. They want people who look and sound like them. Who acknowledge the pain of getting by day to day. It so happens this one is ill-prepared and has a serious problem."

That took 20 seconds.
you know it is not at all difficult to acknowledge the legitimate concerns about the tattoo and still make a case for the candidate. but this would require maturity, a perspective outside ones own and a willingness to lose a little face, which means it won’t happen.
“Let him among you who is without a Nazi tattoo cast the first stone.” -The Bible
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This week felt like someone ran a blacklight over the hotel bedspread of politics and it all came up smeary swastikas
The extent to which X has cooked those guys’ brains is… something
Murderbot series, though I think they are all TPB originals which limits the collectibility

NK Jemison’s Broken Earth trilogy, especially if someone somehow adapts it
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A great story about innovation, what we perceive as innovation, and who gets credit for innovation (it's also about pumpkin spice lattes)
This is awesome, as always.
I am here to reveal the truth about pumpkin spice lattes, by way of *deep* archival research (and 3,600 words)

snackstack.net/2025/10/21/t...
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“Can you imagine if Obama had bulldozed the W…” NO. We just need leaders who respond the way Republicans would have responded if Obama had bulldozed the White House to build himself a palace ballroom. Removal from office. Criminal prosecution. Confiscate Mar a Lago. Sell it to finance rebuilding.
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meanwhile every day for like a month curtis sliwa has been out here saying stuff like “the only way I’m getting out of this race is if you physically push me onto the tracks and even then I might survive I’ve done it before”
On Sid Rosenberg's talk radio show, Andrew Cuomo voices openness to offering Curtis Sliwa a job in his potential administration in exchange for him dropping out of the mayoral race.

"That would be something i would be interested in," Cuomo says.
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i was rooting for him, but we have to uphold “no nazi shit” as the absolute minimum bar for entry into the democratic party
It’s a very distinctive ladder!