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Michelle

@footnoted.bsky.social
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Reading SEC filings intensively and obsessively for 20+ years. Home of the Friday Night 💩. Learn more at footnoted.com. Brooklyn-born and raised, but now an Angeleno with a soupçon of Paris.

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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Went to the new @lucasmuseum.bsky.social yesterday and loved the room dedicated to old comic strips, although was a bit surprised by the lack of female artists in this particular section. Also loved the Bansky lion eating the lion tamer!
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Central Ave. Jazz festival in LA is always a great (and free) event.
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here’s how I know I’m in Vegas: ordered @ubereats.bsky.social and got a plastic clamshell, plastic cup, plastic straw all in a plastic bag! Sigh! Is compostable stuff against the law here?
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just passed this gas station, which is not in the fancy part of LA. Diesel was up to $8.49 a gallon!
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Has anyone else noticed that Amazon has made it much harder to do returns? This morning, I had to answer 3 questions from their AI, then print out and box up the product for a $12 return. Only recently, I was able to just drop it -- no label, no box -- at a UPS store or Whole Foods.
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Finally made it to Howlin Ray’s! Loooooong line. So long that some random dude came up to the people behind us and offered to pay for their whole order if he let them cut the line! #mydayinLA
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just sat through (yet another) college webinar and there were parents of 7th graders in there wondering the secret to getting their kids into #Stanford. 🤪 Even funnier? At least half the parents on the call spelled the school incorrectly!
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just got a bill for some routine bloodwork. My insurance company was billed $1200. When I lived in Paris 2 years ago and had to pay out of pocket because I didn’t yet have my Carte Vitale, I paid €65. Just another sign how messed up #healthcare is in this country!
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Me and my husband and son all have the same phones and using same home network at same time. On my hub’s phone, Google Maps uses #LakeAmerica. On me and my son’s phones, it’s still #LakeOntario. Do you think it’s because Google assumes that a 50ish white guy would be on board the Trump train? 🤷‍♀️
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In his letter from nearly two decades ago, Kennedy bashes Republicans, including Bush, multiple times. How can someone change this much? (2/2)
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My hub was going through some old email and ran across this note from Robert Kennedy, back when he used to be an environmentalist from the Hudson Valley, and was campaigning for a Dem. (1/2)
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Friday night street tacos! One of the things I ❤️ about LA! #foodsky
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I only spent 1 semester in Denmark when I was 20. But I saw firsthand how while taxes are definitely higher, childcare, healthcare, higher ed and elder care are all essentially free or close to it. I’ve had to pay dearly for 3 of those 4 so far and will soon add the 4th when my son heads to college!
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Must be my day to be angry! Just got an unsolicited text message from some BS group asking me to "help put biblical lessons back" into my local public schools! Clearly, their targeting is off-base!
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Went looking for a press release on the WH site and was greeted with this, which rankled me! Grocery prices are through the roof, my health insurance is about to increase by a scary percentage and I'm staring down six-figures to put my kid through college. Where is this golden age touted here?
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Someone just sent me a site that looks suspiciously close to mine -- the one that I've been operating for 23 years! There's no contact info on it and it appears to be AI slop. Any suggestions on how to handle? Have already checked ICANN and no contact info there. footnote.news
footnote.news
Home | Footnote
Independent reporting on how AI is reshaping accounting. Weekly. Honest. Tactical.
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is the very first post that I did for the site on Aug. 18, 2003. At the time, Apple was trading under 40 cents a share (on a split-adjusted basis). www.footnoted.com/if-only-we-w...
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If only we were so lucky…. - footnoted*
Dozens of companies including Apple Computer and Delta Airlines have recently announced option exchange programs, according to recent 10-Q filings. This perfectly legal accounting trick, which surface...
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Today marks 23 years since I started footnoted, hard as that is to believe! To celebrate, I'm offering 23% off select paid subscriptions at footnoted.com/subscribe by entering coupon Footnoted23.
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Just spotted a McLaren in the Costco parking lot and wondering what that means about the K-Shaped economy. 🤔
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Kids that age who are influencers are punch-drunk on their so-called fame and can’t think through the consequences!
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Disappointing! When we lived in Paris, there was a 13 year-old influencer at my son’s school with over 200,000 followers who used her account to make fun of him. France’s Top Court Strikes Down Ban on Social Media for Children www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/w...
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France’s Top Court Strikes Down Ban on Social Media for Children
The move was a setback for President Emmanuel Macron, who championed the ban. He vowed to pass a new version before he leaves office next spring.
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Can’t imagine that there’s a lot of people doing this these days. 🤷‍♀️
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Get your 🍿ready: Trump Media is holding their first earnings call in a few hours. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
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ex_999015.htm
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Was kind of alarmed when I read this @wsj.com story this morning about needing to list your teenager, even if they don't even have a learner's permit yet, on your auto policy. So I called up my insurer and asked about it. www.wsj.com/finance/if-y...
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If You Get in a Car Crash, the Risk Is Growing Your Insurance Won’t Pay
Auto insurers didn’t pay out on 45% of auto liability and medical claims they resolved last year, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Was just saying to my hub that I’ve heard/seen virtually nothing about the upcoming governor’s race here. Et voila! He went to the store to pick up some groceries and found this on the car when he came out. Lots of promises!
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Just finished Theo Baker’s book about #Stanford U and was kind of impressed that he was digging through old SEC filings for his research when he was doing his reporting!
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Former local banking reporter here. Kind of sick of Scott Bessent blaming the decline in community banks "under the weight of over-regulation" when the @fdicgov.bsky.social own evidence shows that much of that consolidation is due to mergers.
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Here's a key sentence from the Senator's letter about the $TRUMP memecoin to SEC Chair Atkins:
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A recent story by @ericlipton.nytimes.com and David Yaffe- Bellany found that investors in $TRUMP has lost $3.8 billion while the President made $636 million. In normal times, the SEC would be all over this. But these aren't normal times!
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Senators Richard Blumenthal and @warren.senate.gov sent SEC Chair Paul Atkins a letter on Monday asking for an investigation of the Trump #memecoin. There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Atkins takes this on! www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Claw machines have very different prizes in Paris😉!
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Just came from a talk with @juliaangwin.com and @fieldsmeyer.com at UCLA’s Hammer Museum. Lively discussion that was worth fighting west side traffic for. Looking forward to reading their book.
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
$NFLX co-CEO Ted Sarandos disclosed in the company's recent 10-Q that he might sell up to 10% of his holdings. Read full details here: www.footnoted.com/a-big-potent...
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A big potential sale at Netflix - footnoted*
Netflix reported second quarter earnings last Thursday, which were widely viewed as disappointing, sending its stock down to a two-year low. On Friday, after the markets closed, the company filed its ...
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
@benmckenzie.bsky.social just told @warren.senate.gov that the #crypto industry doesn't "give a rats ass" about people who buy crypto. All it cares about is making money.
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Billions of dollars in losses and there's been nothing from the SEC -- not even a warning on #crypto", said former SEC enforcer John Reed Stark. Some important info in this hearing, but looks like only two Senators bothered to show up.
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Blumenthal: So #crypto is sort of in an "enforcement neverworld" with protections stripped by the agency charged with enforcing the rules. Former SEC enforcement officer John Reed Stark calls SEC Chair Paul Atkins a "carnival barker" for crypto.
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Have Senator Blumenthal's hearing on about the Clarity Act. A former teacher currently testifying that she was scammed for $600K via LinkedIn. Lots of Trump talk too. Are you listening too, @zacheverson.com? www.facebook.com/SenBlumentha...
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Last night, I paid over $10 for an single ice cream cone at Jeni's and can't stop thinking about what the profit-margin is on that. Yeah..I know that rent and wages are high in LA. But how does Paris, an equally expensive city, manage to pull this off for under €5??
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
They always say there were no disagreements! But if there were really zero differences, wouldn’t he still have a job?
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Listening to one of what feels like an endless stream of college consulting firm webinars and their advice is to take as many APs as possible -- as many as 4 or 5 a semester, which seems like a road to early burnout!
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I keep reading that writing with em dashes is a sure sign that someone used AI. But I've been using them forever, both in my personal writing and professionally. Am I really supposed to change my style and stop using them to avoid being accused of writing with AI? What are others doing? #booksky
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I've been getting what feels like hourly updates from Driscoll reminding me that their berries are safe to eat! It's definitely been more than once a day!
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I'd like to think that I have a pretty extensive vocabulary, being a journalist. But I had never heard of today's #Wordle answer before!
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Unbelievable! The number of comments on the SEC's proposal to eliminate the 10-Q has nearly doubled -- AGAIN! Earlier today, there were around 68,000 comments listed. Now, the number is up to 123,500 not including form letters. www.sec.gov/rules-regula...
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SEC.gov | Comments on Proposed Rule on Semiannual Reporting
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Quelle déception! My son, who is currently in France, says the fireworks for Bastille Day were cancelled and then this!
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Can I read SEC filings and watch the soccer game at the same time? We're about to find out!
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Nine big pharma companies team up to say they support semi-annual reporting and would likely adopt it. They urge the SEC to adopt this ASAP. www.sec.gov/comments/S7-...
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Saw my first Chery EV out in the wild. Looked great, but probably never available in the US.
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Many more letters on the SEC’s earnings proposal are likely. I submitted my letter on Monday June 30 and it just became public this evening. www.sec.gov/comments/S7-...
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Michelle @footnoted.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The SEC has received nearly 17,500 letters from individuals, companies and associations on its proposal to let companies stop filing quarterly. One of those letters from from quant fund Two Sigma which has “grave concerns” over the proposal. www.sec.gov/comments/S7-...
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