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Michael Hiltzik

@hiltzikm.bsky.social
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Pulitzer-winning journalist, historian..."Golden State," my new history of California (the resistance state) is now out in paperback! Details at michaelhiltzik.com. And find my columns at www.latimes.com/hiltzik

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Commentary: Sure, use Meta's Muse bot to help with your chores — if you want Mark Zuckerberg to know all your secrets
Meta says it made privacy a priority when it designed Muse, but its record on privacy protection is horrific.
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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Commentary: No, AI bots won't extinguish humanity on their own — but you should worry about the humans behind them
Apocalyptic fears about AI in the future distract us from its present-day harms — just as its promoters hope
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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Commentary: Think an 'independent' editorial board will protect CNN from political meddling? Think again.
The 'independent' oversight board Paramount says will protect CNN from its owner's political interference will be utterly toothless.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it
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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"The entire news cycle was driven by a smarmy combination of baseless CEO comments and the vibes of one 27-year-old Jacob Coxon, who'd been employed at Anthropic all of four months. Barely long enough to get a meaningful bead on the lunch menu or restroom layout."
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Sarah Lueck @sarahl202.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s surreal to see federal officials take a victory lap today for cancelling hundreds of thousands of marketplace enrollments, while massive health coverage losses are underway. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/h...
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Trump Officials Eject 750,000 From Obamacare Markets, Claiming Fraud
Vice President JD Vance said the measure would save the government $2.2 billion.
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Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
$32 million in government contracts for $150,000 in campaign donations—that’s a return of roughly 213 to one. Susan Collins might not be a very good Senator, but she sure is a cheap date. 🧵👇
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hopeful66 @hopeful66.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is a genuinely terrible piece of journalism: Reporting, editing, writing, all of it. (Photos OK). Will appear alongside the word "credulous" in dictionaries. I had thought that the WaPo's news section was still "mainly good," in contrast to its laughable editorial section. But...
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good. Damn good.
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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Commentary: Why are workers feeling so stressed? Maybe because labor's share of the economy is at a record low
While corporate profits are soaring, labor's share of the gains is shrinking.
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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Commentary: An 'independent' study takes Paramount's side in its merger battle. But Paramount paid for it
A 'leaked' study paints a grim picture for L.A. if Paramount fails to merge with Warner Bros. Here's why you shouldn't trust it.
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
to some degree the entire Trump phenomenon, from his self-inculcated celebrity status to his absurd 2015-16 candidacy to his two disastrous administrations, has been a media failure
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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I see where JD Vance has launched an experiment to see if crass malevolence (or is it malevolent crassness?) will have legs as a campaign theme...
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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Question: Does my giggling at the idea that Bari Weiss's new 60 Minutes will open Sunday with a piece about how the LA Rams are a "superteam," which happened to get blown out yesterday on national TV by the 49ers, make me a bad person?
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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Commentary: The NBA report on the Ballmer/Clippers scandal shows it was even worse than you thought
Question about the Clippers' attempt to evade the NBA salary cap: Did they really think they would get away with it?
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Joël.V @tinyspotbigworld.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Canada is a sovereign country! 🇨🇦 We are not and will never be American in any form. Please repost if you stand by Canada forever.🍁 Show your solidarity for Canada during these difficult times.
Map of Canada
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Classic @rexhuppke.bsky.social on the Dallas Trumpapalooza: "This convention seems a bit like taking the bad-smelling, week-old food that’s in your fridge and placing it on the counter so everyone can get a better whiff." For 2 nights in a row. Brilliant strategy. 🙂 www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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Midterm convention invites GOP to celebrate Trump's failure | Opinion
A proper title for the Republican Party's two-day midterm convention in Dallas is: 'We've performed terribly and made your lives worse. Please clap!'
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Dashiell Eaves @dasheaves.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Give me an example of a trans athlete dominating a sport. This is a manufactured issue with no bearing in reality and you fell for it.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 09/09/2026
Dress like a seat night at the RNC 🪑... This is the crowd to open the GOP's midterm convention.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Commentary: Despite Trump's pressure, companies that maintained their DEI programs did just fine
A study finds that businesses that resisted Trump's anti-diversity pressure paid no price. Are the law firms and universities that capitulated listening?
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Fast Casual TBogg+ @tbogg.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I‘ve never been to or watched on TV a UFC fight before, but after watching this, I can safely say I’ve seen better and more dignified fights between two sloppy drunk guys after closing time outside of bars for free than whatever the hell this bullshit is.
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Fast Casual TBogg+ @tbogg.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I don’t think we talk enough about how thoroughly degrading it must be for a grown-ass man to be pulled away from whatever he’s doing to stand silently behind this dumb motherfucker while he babbles away like a three year old toddler who has just seen his first trash truck.
Stupid man sitting at a desk while men behind him silently pray to Jesus to immediately rescue them from this earthly torment even if it’s painful.
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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Has anyone else noticed that the parking lot where the Amazon plane crash-landed was filled with (presumably unsold?) Teslas?
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
No one. No one. No one can ever say to me again that Jay Bhattacharya was a reasonable pick for NIH Director. He was and is an ideological zealot. This is his doing. Shame on him. Shame on Matthew Memoli, Jon Lorsch, John Powers and the rest of them at NIH.
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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Commentary: Today's tycoons learn a lesson from history — public esteem for rich entrepreneurs inevitably sours
Familiarity ultimately breeds public contempt for technology pioneers
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Fast Casual TBogg+ @tbogg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Douthat leaving the NYT for CBS News and 60 Minutes is like quitting your job for a sweet spot as a cashier at a Spirit Halloween store on Oct 30th
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Fast Casual TBogg+ @tbogg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
My occasional reminder the Peter Navarro ran for office 5 times here in San Diego and voters told him to: fuck off fuck off again no, seriously, fuck off you again? fuck off and are you still here? We told you to fuck off And we’ve elected three mayors who have resigned in disgrace since 1985…
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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Seems to me the current handwringing over various flaws in the Dem Party warrants reposting this absolutely single greatest online post of all time on any topic whatsoever, by Tom "TBogg" Boggioni in 2008:
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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Commentary: Medicare for All is back on the political front burner. A Democratic majority could pass it
Democrats have begun running on a Medicare for All platform. It's about time
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Kat4Obama @kat4obama.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Yes, yes, exactly, we ARE telling children not to have babies, you rightwing pedophile freaks.
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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Goodbye, Arte. Now can we put a team on the field in Angels Stadium, finally?
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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Commentary: The U.S. national debt has reached $40 trillion. Should you care?
News that the national debt has reached $40 trillion inspired lots of partisan hand-wringing — and even more misunderstanding.
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"He's the worst person I've ever met, and I've met Robert Mugabe" is the quote from a friend of mine that springs to mind when I hear that Milo is having a spot of trouble.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) on Pete Hegseth's call for more lethality "Our problem isn't lethality... our problem is sometimes we put idiots in charge of things"
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Coach Rusty @coachrusty.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
had an unexpected $5000 car repair and I’m really struggling. if someone could rename a lake it would really help ❤️
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 28/08/2026
If you're claiming to be held back by trans women in the WNBA, but there aren't any trans women in the WNBA, maybe you suck at basketball a little bit
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Samoa had to import little coffins from NZ.
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Infant-sized coffins are being sent to Samoa as measles death toll rises to 70
New Zealand volunteers are preparing two dozen white-lined coffins to be transported to Samoa at the end of the week as the measles-ravaged Pacific island nation languishes under a growing death toll ...
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This reinstatement happened for one reason: a union contract. She was brought back against managements wishes because she won the highest level of the grievance procedure, arbitration. This is how you can take the power back from people like Jeff Bezos: form a union.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Renée Good did not deserve to be gruesomely lynched in front of her partner and dog She was a 37-year-old mother. She had a family.
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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Well, it IS International Dog Day...
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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly’s final gift to us—she passed away as someone that nobody, but nobody, has a bad word to say about her—the eulogies fill us with joy at a life well lived
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Damn those queer-loving commies. I bet they took his penis and gave it to vegan farmers to use as compost smh
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I've been spending thousands of dollars at the supermarket every year, voluntarily exchanging money for food to feed my family. That's thousands of dollars I lost! So unfair. How could the store do this to me? Something must be done.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Dodger TV commentators engaging just now in a weird by-play about the longest books ever. One cites War and Peace, the other counters with “In Search of Lost Time” by someone named “Marcel Prowst”
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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Commentary: Baseball labor talks may look like a battle among millionaires, but it's really about billionaires vs. peons
In their labor talks, baseball owners want to get richer and players want to hold on to their gains
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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Commentary: Baseball labor talks may look like a battle among millionaires, but it's really about billionaires vs. peons
In their labor talks, baseball owners want to get richer and players want to hold on to their gains
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