Michelle Newcome
@michellenewcome.com
Publisher of How2Conquer / global security and crisis management consultant / member of the UN Committee for the protection of public places / avid photographer. michellenewcome.com
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It should have ended at this moment.
January 18, 2026 at 6:25 PM
It should have ended at this moment.
Just spent 2 hours escorting my 80 year old mom to a cocktail party with her friends in a chichi gated community on Hilton Head. (There is a long story here).
The group has been around YEARS and they're called the 6to8s.
Y'all, if only they could stay awake until 9 they could've had a funnier name.
The group has been around YEARS and they're called the 6to8s.
Y'all, if only they could stay awake until 9 they could've had a funnier name.
January 19, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Just spent 2 hours escorting my 80 year old mom to a cocktail party with her friends in a chichi gated community on Hilton Head. (There is a long story here).
The group has been around YEARS and they're called the 6to8s.
Y'all, if only they could stay awake until 9 they could've had a funnier name.
The group has been around YEARS and they're called the 6to8s.
Y'all, if only they could stay awake until 9 they could've had a funnier name.
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Today is a good day for self care.
The groceries and laundry can wait.
Try out a new hobby, like haunting the attic of a mansion on the moors, or disappearing into a malevolent fog and becoming your own terrifying folk tale.
The groceries and laundry can wait.
Try out a new hobby, like haunting the attic of a mansion on the moors, or disappearing into a malevolent fog and becoming your own terrifying folk tale.
January 17, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Today is a good day for self care.
The groceries and laundry can wait.
Try out a new hobby, like haunting the attic of a mansion on the moors, or disappearing into a malevolent fog and becoming your own terrifying folk tale.
The groceries and laundry can wait.
Try out a new hobby, like haunting the attic of a mansion on the moors, or disappearing into a malevolent fog and becoming your own terrifying folk tale.
This makes me physically ill. You can tell from the ICE agent's face that he does not see that child as worth care.
Absolutely evil.
Absolutely evil.
This video shows ICE holding children hostage to bait parents out of their homes.
Just unspeakable levels of cruelty and inhumanity.
Just unspeakable levels of cruelty and inhumanity.
January 16, 2026 at 2:05 PM
This makes me physically ill. You can tell from the ICE agent's face that he does not see that child as worth care.
Absolutely evil.
Absolutely evil.
Translation: "Infuriate people more" = "We know we've put lunatics with guns into indefensible power plays where they might go off like firecrackers"
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."
January 11, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Translation: "Infuriate people more" = "We know we've put lunatics with guns into indefensible power plays where they might go off like firecrackers"
On most days my husband and I get to Genius individually on the NYT Spelling Bee and then we collude to get to Queen Bee and honestly this is a great metaphor for our entire 32 year relationship.
High-level solo effort topped off with collaboration.
High-level solo effort topped off with collaboration.
January 11, 2026 at 5:10 PM
On most days my husband and I get to Genius individually on the NYT Spelling Bee and then we collude to get to Queen Bee and honestly this is a great metaphor for our entire 32 year relationship.
High-level solo effort topped off with collaboration.
High-level solo effort topped off with collaboration.
Legend.
January 10, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Legend.
Facebook is such a cesspool as a medium for human interaction.
What I'd like to see? Updates from my globe-trotting flight attendant cousin.
What I get instead?
Ads for lymphatic drainage.
What I'd like to see? Updates from my globe-trotting flight attendant cousin.
What I get instead?
Ads for lymphatic drainage.
January 10, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Facebook is such a cesspool as a medium for human interaction.
What I'd like to see? Updates from my globe-trotting flight attendant cousin.
What I get instead?
Ads for lymphatic drainage.
What I'd like to see? Updates from my globe-trotting flight attendant cousin.
What I get instead?
Ads for lymphatic drainage.
Um.
Trump talks about Denmark and Greenland just now: "The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land."
January 10, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Um.
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I would write a poem
about what it makes you
if you look Good in the face
and fire your gun
But she was the poet who wrote about making room for wonder
And you are the one who took her words
about what it makes you
if you look Good in the face
and fire your gun
But she was the poet who wrote about making room for wonder
And you are the one who took her words
January 8, 2026 at 5:42 AM
I would write a poem
about what it makes you
if you look Good in the face
and fire your gun
But she was the poet who wrote about making room for wonder
And you are the one who took her words
about what it makes you
if you look Good in the face
and fire your gun
But she was the poet who wrote about making room for wonder
And you are the one who took her words
Listen to the rhetoric around the killing of Renee Good. It's morphed into gutter trash misogyny. When they can't sustain that she was an anarchist now she was shot because she was an irrational emotional woman who couldn't follow orders.
January 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Listen to the rhetoric around the killing of Renee Good. It's morphed into gutter trash misogyny. When they can't sustain that she was an anarchist now she was shot because she was an irrational emotional woman who couldn't follow orders.
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Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power
- file impeachment articles every day in the House
- withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee
- be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable
- file impeachment articles every day in the House
- withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee
- be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable
January 8, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power
- file impeachment articles every day in the House
- withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee
- be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable
- file impeachment articles every day in the House
- withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee
- be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable
One thing I did get done over the holiday was to entirely clean up the my phone pics. All 4,701. There were an unconscionable number of my cat, Jingle.
And a very distant second were pictures from vacations in Spain and Buenos Aires.
And then a smattering of security violations spotted in the wild.
And a very distant second were pictures from vacations in Spain and Buenos Aires.
And then a smattering of security violations spotted in the wild.
January 4, 2026 at 11:40 PM
One thing I did get done over the holiday was to entirely clean up the my phone pics. All 4,701. There were an unconscionable number of my cat, Jingle.
And a very distant second were pictures from vacations in Spain and Buenos Aires.
And then a smattering of security violations spotted in the wild.
And a very distant second were pictures from vacations in Spain and Buenos Aires.
And then a smattering of security violations spotted in the wild.
There's no Sunday blues quite like the end of the holiday period.
I've done a really great job mostly ignoring messages while I stuffed myself with cheese and bonhomie.
And that's going to make tomorrow interesting.
I've done a really great job mostly ignoring messages while I stuffed myself with cheese and bonhomie.
And that's going to make tomorrow interesting.
January 4, 2026 at 11:29 PM
There's no Sunday blues quite like the end of the holiday period.
I've done a really great job mostly ignoring messages while I stuffed myself with cheese and bonhomie.
And that's going to make tomorrow interesting.
I've done a really great job mostly ignoring messages while I stuffed myself with cheese and bonhomie.
And that's going to make tomorrow interesting.
Preeminent.
Dang I will take it. I am an actual global expert on organizational resilience and 2026 is my year to own that instead of feeling like an imposter. Already started working on a book, even.
Dang I will take it. I am an actual global expert on organizational resilience and 2026 is my year to own that instead of feeling like an imposter. Already started working on a book, even.
January 1, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Preeminent.
Dang I will take it. I am an actual global expert on organizational resilience and 2026 is my year to own that instead of feeling like an imposter. Already started working on a book, even.
Dang I will take it. I am an actual global expert on organizational resilience and 2026 is my year to own that instead of feeling like an imposter. Already started working on a book, even.
Uhurahans.
An Irish East African Fusion Bistro
Famous for a samosa made with beef and cabbage.
An Irish East African Fusion Bistro
Famous for a samosa made with beef and cabbage.
you've just opened up a star trek-themed restaurant
what are you calling it?
QUARK'S
I even have a cool jingle ready
what are you calling it?
QUARK'S
I even have a cool jingle ready
you've just opened up a star trek-themed restaurant
what are you calling it?
It's an automat called The Ready Room.
what are you calling it?
It's an automat called The Ready Room.
December 27, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Uhurahans.
An Irish East African Fusion Bistro
Famous for a samosa made with beef and cabbage.
An Irish East African Fusion Bistro
Famous for a samosa made with beef and cabbage.
For Your Eyes Only: The Importance of Publishing Your MFA Thesis Even If Nobody Reads It
Make a Bond movie academic:
For Your Eyes Only: Two-Factor Authentication in Higher Ed
For Your Eyes Only: Two-Factor Authentication in Higher Ed
Make a Bond movie academic
Tomorrow Never Hires
Tomorrow Never Hires
December 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
For Your Eyes Only: The Importance of Publishing Your MFA Thesis Even If Nobody Reads It
Oh sure. I'll just give up decades of hard won knowledge and experience and go learn joinery. It's blue collar so that means it'll be easy and require no skill at all.
Peter Navarro: "In an age of AI when all the white collar jobs are going away pretty damn quick, I think maybe it's a good time for people to think about having good blue collar jobs ... give tariffs a chance, because they're working"
December 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Oh sure. I'll just give up decades of hard won knowledge and experience and go learn joinery. It's blue collar so that means it'll be easy and require no skill at all.
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-Comes into your space uninvited, without permission
-Greedily uses up resources preferentially
- Forces a new mode of existence on you
-Steals your own shit to sell back to you
-Desperately wants to convince you that its arrival is good, that these are glad tidings
AI or colonialism?
-Greedily uses up resources preferentially
- Forces a new mode of existence on you
-Steals your own shit to sell back to you
-Desperately wants to convince you that its arrival is good, that these are glad tidings
AI or colonialism?
December 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
-Comes into your space uninvited, without permission
-Greedily uses up resources preferentially
- Forces a new mode of existence on you
-Steals your own shit to sell back to you
-Desperately wants to convince you that its arrival is good, that these are glad tidings
AI or colonialism?
-Greedily uses up resources preferentially
- Forces a new mode of existence on you
-Steals your own shit to sell back to you
-Desperately wants to convince you that its arrival is good, that these are glad tidings
AI or colonialism?
I'm old enough to have watched All in the Family as a child. Rob Reiner's comedic timing as Meathead established for me a life-long high bar few actors could top.
May his memory be a blessing.
May his memory be a blessing.
December 15, 2025 at 4:46 AM
I'm old enough to have watched All in the Family as a child. Rob Reiner's comedic timing as Meathead established for me a life-long high bar few actors could top.
May his memory be a blessing.
May his memory be a blessing.
As a million-miler who has traveled 265 days per year I beg of you - no.
I can think of nothing more awful than an airplane loaded with gym bros who have just sweated before taking their seat in a metal tube filled with recirculated air.
I can think of nothing more awful than an airplane loaded with gym bros who have just sweated before taking their seat in a metal tube filled with recirculated air.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
As a million-miler who has traveled 265 days per year I beg of you - no.
I can think of nothing more awful than an airplane loaded with gym bros who have just sweated before taking their seat in a metal tube filled with recirculated air.
I can think of nothing more awful than an airplane loaded with gym bros who have just sweated before taking their seat in a metal tube filled with recirculated air.
Not quite the same, but three of our very best dogs picked us by basically collapsing in front of us as starved strays. Literally out of no where. One was running down our street & suddenly turned into our driveway. Another was a puppy who came to our window, the third found us in very rural Spain.
December 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Not quite the same, but three of our very best dogs picked us by basically collapsing in front of us as starved strays. Literally out of no where. One was running down our street & suddenly turned into our driveway. Another was a puppy who came to our window, the third found us in very rural Spain.
Time's up for FIFA. This is nauseating.
December 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Time's up for FIFA. This is nauseating.