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MichelleZink

@michellezink.bsky.social
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Writer of over 50 books under this name and others. Repped by Steven Malk at Writer House. True blue Dem. CA native now in NY. Books, movies, politics, yoga. Trying to focus on the last one.💙

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/10/2026
If the Dems win the senate, expect this retirement and then the Senate GOP will jam the next person down our throats. Probably someone like Judge Eileen Cannon. Good lord www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement
The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 02/10/2026
"According to the report, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities ever since he returned to power, and during an Oval Office meeting with Elon Musk in December, he spent hours asking his Grok chatbot questions about his presidency and legacy" I hate everything www.thedailybeast.com/jaw-dropping...
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Jaw-Dropping Way Trump, 80, Got Talked Into a War Is Leaked
A Trump insider has offered a jaw-dropping glimpse of the president’s decision-making.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW AD: Are you a data center company looking to take over rural Texas? Are you a crime-loving millionaire looking to throw the FBI off your scent? Are you a child predator looking to get out of jail after just 1 day? Call 844-WHOS-KEN to hear what Ken Paxton can do for you!
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Frankensteinian trust of Paramount, Warner Bros., CBS, Turner, and Discovery will be called...Skydance. I'm glad the pieces are retaining their individual identities so they can dissembled when staggering debt collapses this exercise in corporate hubris. whbl.com/2026/10/02/d... #FilmSky
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David Ellison says combined Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery will be named Skydance
Oct 2 (Reuters) - Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison said on Friday that the combined company would be ​named Skydance, once its merger ‌with Warner Bros Discovery closes next week. The name was cho...
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Goodbye Paramount Goodbye Warner Brothers Goodbye HBO Hello MAGA TRUMP oligarchy media beast to be called SKYDANCE. Hollywood is now full-blown MAGA and we creatives are FUCKED. Have fun!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
CNBC on the September jobs report: "A bit of a disappointment. Expecting 90,000, comes in at 29,000. And we see two month revisions down 60,000 ... average hourly earnings -- this is a big miss. Big, big miss. We were expecting up three tenth. This comes in at one tenth."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
DUN DUN DUN -- Fox Business on the September jobs report: "The numbers do not look good. I'm looking at 29,000 jobs added. That is well below expectations for 90,000, and our unemployment rate jumps up to 4.2%. A significant slowdown."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
CNN on the last jobs report before the midterms: "It came in cold -- surprisingly cold. Job growth weaker than expected, unemployment unexpectedly went up, and paychecks aren't keeping up with prices. This was disappointing all around."
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MichelleZink @michellezink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Whew, got some serious Cold War PTSD flashbacks from Silo S3 Ep 10. I forgot what that unique brand of foreboding feels like.
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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He wants to nuke them. Before the midterms.
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
But of course, Trump’s son-in-law, and US envoy Jared Kushner holds the largest stake in Israeli firm supporting Israel’s military. Pure corruption. aje.news/ckzmrg#updat...
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US deploys strike group to Middle East, issues new sanctions on Iran
President says Iran 'has never avoided' dialogue with the US even though it’s been attacked three times during talks.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump's pretending his brand is good for the Kennedy Center...Not even close The Center was in "decent financial shape" until he took over. After? donors, audiences & artists fled & his board "borrowed everything its bank would lend" @washingtonpost.com did the math👇 -TN
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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over.
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MichelleZink @michellezink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Abolish the death penalty. Period.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today, Pretend Patton lectured men who don't, unlike Pete Hegseth, have makeup rooms, on the traditional norms for manliness.
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Michael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He’s a bit of a mumble mouth in every excerpt of this speech. Tripping over words, correcting himself. Not a great performance for a man who got the job primarily based on his ability to perform for the camera.
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🐝 RiderBabe52🐝 @riderbabe52.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
MIDTERMS PEOPLE. CLEAN OUT THE MAGA 🗑️ 🗑️ 🗑️ 🗑️
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Fire Marshal Bill @firemarshalbill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes, Athens, Rome, Jerusalem. All famously lasted forever without any societal collapses.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📌NEWS: Pete Hegseth said that the Pentagon is eliminating 1 in 5 generals and admirals. 📌NOTE: Authoritarian regimes eliminate military leaders who they believe aren't loyal to the regime. 📌UPSHOT: This is a very concerning development in the GOP's ongoing attack on America and her Democracy.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Democrats haven’t won a statewide election in Texas for 32 years,” Jim Geraghty writes. “To make it a race, Talarico probably needs four or five factors to break his way. By my count, he has at least seven.” wapo.st/4AGrQqE
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They (GOP) know this to be true and it will always be true.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
36 minutes before the hearing started.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt just kept doubling down on his Jack Smith conspiracy even after that painful moment in the hearing. Now, we have concrete evidence he misunderstood his own evidence. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...
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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyone who suggests we just turn the page is in league with the GOP. This guy is telling you they tried to overthrow the government. You don't just pretend it never happened @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We have only about a month before the election. You know democracy is at stake. Are you doing all you can to help elect Democrats & oust the Republican party of violent #ICE thuggery & Trump corruption? If they can do it to this man, they can do it to your loved ones. They attack citizens, too.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Published today!
AXIOS: "SCHMITT IS DRAWING BUZZ AS A POSSIBLE VANCE VP IN 2028"
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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why is a woman's future never as *promising* as her rapist's? 🤔
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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Kevin Haggerty @kevinrhaggerty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith is testifying before the Senate this morning, and a GOP Senator just grilled him about being at an Atlanta Hawks game in ATL, and accused him of perjury bc he denied this was the case. Turns out, it was an Iowa HAWKEYES game in Maryland. These are the most unserious people ever.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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MichelleZink @michellezink.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So are Republicans in the House and Senate going to do anything about the fact that Donald Trump has spent our money to run three political ads for himself just in the last week or nah?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Jensen Huang: "We all need to hope it's an engineering problem. If it's not an engineering problem, it's not solvable."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“.. Very good one sentence summary of the economy.” - Kyra Scanlon
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOLDMAN: ".. the longer a diesel export ban lasts, the more disruptive .. because diesel, gasoline, and jet fuel are largely produced together. .. We estimate that, once diesel storage is full, each week .. would likely be associated with $0.3/gallon of upward pressure on US retail gasoline .."
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 28/09/2026
‘S&P 500 breadth has narrowed to its weakest level since the dot-com bubble.‘ thedailyshot.com/2026/09/28/s...
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Scoop: The anonymous source behind a POLITICO story that the White House is now using to justify a ban on the outlet was none other than JD Vance himself. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/white-hous...
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The Source Behind The Ban
The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Taxpayers: If you're currently dropping coins in old coffee cans & kitchen drawers to pay for, say, gas or something you hope is actually beef, don't forget to add enough to pay your share of the $6 million Trump is spending on gold leaf for the vulgar ballroom he's thinking about instead of you.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And/but can we please dispense with the canard that merely saying the words 'national security' makes everything he's doing okay...
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 24/09/2026
Susan Collins' Campaign Manager: "We hear this every cycle that Susan Collins is corrupt. I mean....whatever" Uhhhhhh
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump rolls out the red carpet for a dictator Xi, yet he bars CNN, MSNBC, and Politico from the White House and Air Force One.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
NEWSNATION: Gas is $4.47. Diesel is $6.50. Mortgage rates are above 7%. Inflation is at 3.4% while earnings are lower. How are you making the case that that is the golden age? RNC CHAIR JOE GRUTERS: Biden left us an absolute disaster. We just gotta give him more time NN: Is that really the pitch?
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Everyone ready? We only had 10 years of people saying that this was their endgame. If it doesn't happen by November, it'll happen before January 2029. Either way, these creeps have no intention of allowing our democracy to survive or ever leaving power.
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The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms
Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud. A group of outsiders is making that difficult.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026
EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mike Rogers' estimated net worth in 2013: $380,000 Mike Rogers' estimated net worth in 2026: $14,600,000 He cashed in and sold out Michiganders.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In 9 months, Zohran Mamdani has: -Secured millions in worker restitution from DoorDash and UberEats -Launched the first stage of his universal childcare program -Cracked down on bad landlords -Balanced NYC's budget without cutting major social services This is what leadership looks like.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
In case you missed it, read our original investigation:
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Republicans' fear of fake socialism in the United States is bringing about real fascism in the United States. Mainly because they are too ignorant to know the difference.
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