michelet.bsky.social
Also known as Misha. UX design then (frog, CFPB, startups) and now (Salesforce Platform). Brooklyn native/cliché. Posts a lot about her dog.
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I saw it with a group that included two queer friends who love psychoanalytic theory and were also dating, and there was much hilarity
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Hypothesis: the opening costs are lower because the kitchen build-out has already been done?
FWIW, my experience is that many small business owners are quite bad at businessing! So it might be a good opportunity the previous owners saw but couldn’t execute on
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Godspeed, and maybe a long but compelling audiobook to keep you going!
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You aren’t getting rescheduled?
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More KBJ: "But [the Roberts Court Majority's] legalese is a smokescreen. It obscures a far more basic question of enormous legal and practical significance: May a federal court in the United States of America order the Executive to follow the law? "
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I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.
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Queer Nation was founded in 1990! The youngest early members would now be in their fifties! HE WAS THERE complaining about the word "queer" AT THE TIME!!
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When I was at the CFPB, the policy types used data in the plural, and I was always like “oh, you lovely nerds”
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Paul used to stop en route to my mom’s for a bag of bagels and cream cheeses, and it still doesn’t quite feel like the start of a holiday season without one for me
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Worked for FDR
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TR as an NY state assemblyman from the city is as close as you can get, yes
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And the not insignificant Trump voter bloc
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Mamdani, Adams, Cuomo, Sliwa, and another third-party candidate whose name I don't recall. Could definitely break up the anti-Mamdani vote
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(His daughter, my grandmother, also had her English name changed, but that was by my great-aunt, who was the best English speaker in the family and registered her little sister for school with a name she liked better. Grandma eventually changed it legally.)
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If it's more than half the year, the tax department has some fun questions for him!
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Just when you think the Brooklyn Democratic machine couldn’t get worse, it comes up with a way to do it!
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Tldr: it’s a district that was created by the Brooklyn machine to get more votes for internal party power struggles, but the people involved in that battle don’t live there
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Lander: www.curbed.com/2022/04/red-...
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Hakeem Jeffries is the next Speak of the House
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It’s always good to have a nemesis
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Selfishly, I would like that, because I’m tired of recycling his PAC’s mailers
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But also big donors who will carry him to November, and who might pressure big names to stay silent. Schumer needs to keep raising lots of money to keep his leadership position. I guess we’ll see!
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Yes. Cuomo has his Fight and Deliver party line and Adams has two.
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I think if the final tally is this bad for him, he probably stays out, but 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
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He filed for a party line in the general, which allows cross-party nominations, so the general expectation is that he will use that line on its own now. He hasn’t said directly, because of course they wouldn’t admit to thinking of losing