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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 11h

How much do you do for free?

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

At the end of the clip, after Emmer’s ridiculous, easily challenged answer: KARL: “Let’s turn to the midterms…” Beltway reporters are more afraid of asking follow-up questions than Mister Mxyzptlk is of saying his name backwards.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

For real 👇

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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

People piss and moan endlessly about legislating not being transparent, and now they're bitching about the opportunity to make laws directly?

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Legacy media’s sanewashing of Trump’s campaign appearances as 'speeches' bears less and less resemblance to the reality of his verbal incontinence...Responsible coverage would highlight his mental unfitness daily, provide ample extracts of rants, and play them back: open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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Words & Phrases: A Crazy Rant Isn’t a ‘Speech’ or an ‘Interview’

🚨 28 Days to the Midterms 🚨

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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rude question: if the Rams fall to 1-3 today, should Bari Weiss be fired for running that piece on the premiere for 60Minutes about how they’d be coasting to the Super Bowl?

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Arlene Hirsch @ashirsch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why do journalists even bother talking to him? He's just a pawn for the president's propaganda crusade.

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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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Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What’s really sad here is what happened to Joe Nocera’s judgment

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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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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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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.

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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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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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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 · 05/09/2026

Peter Paul & Mary Mothers of Invention Zoot Sims Cassandra Wilson Miriam Makeba Seatrain Bonnie Raitt Taj Mahal Leo Kottke The Roches

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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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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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