Michael Hiltzik
@hiltzikm.bsky.social
Pulitzer-winning journalist, historian..."Golden State," my new history of California (the resistance state) came out on Feb. 18. Details at michaelhiltzik.com. And find my columns at www.latimes.com/hiltzik
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Michael Hiltzik
@hiltzikm.bsky.social
· Dec 1
Every day brings us one day closer to the pub date for "Golden State: The Making of California," my new history of California. Pre-order at michaelhiltzik.com
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Clear cut case of two people who are famous for getting yelled at on twitter thinking literally anyone normal knows who they are
Insanely pathetic numbers for something so highly touted
December 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Clear cut case of two people who are famous for getting yelled at on twitter thinking literally anyone normal knows who they are
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Free at Fight the Fire on Substack:
The GOP health plan: Have you considered cremation?
Or maybe just a rolled-up carpet in a ditch on a scenic rural road?
A bid to extend ACA subsidies has failed. And the Republican alternative was ... Crapocare.
All links/subscriptions free.
The GOP health plan: Have you considered cremation?
Or maybe just a rolled-up carpet in a ditch on a scenic rural road?
A bid to extend ACA subsidies has failed. And the Republican alternative was ... Crapocare.
All links/subscriptions free.
The GOP health plan: Have you considered cremation?
Or maybe just a rolled-up carpet in a ditch on a scenic rural road?
fightthefire.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Free at Fight the Fire on Substack:
The GOP health plan: Have you considered cremation?
Or maybe just a rolled-up carpet in a ditch on a scenic rural road?
A bid to extend ACA subsidies has failed. And the Republican alternative was ... Crapocare.
All links/subscriptions free.
The GOP health plan: Have you considered cremation?
Or maybe just a rolled-up carpet in a ditch on a scenic rural road?
A bid to extend ACA subsidies has failed. And the Republican alternative was ... Crapocare.
All links/subscriptions free.
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Susan Collins helped harm cancer research via her votes for RFK Jr. and Russell Vought. #mepolitics
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
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December 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Susan Collins helped harm cancer research via her votes for RFK Jr. and Russell Vought. #mepolitics
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My kids have measles, there are no toys on the shelves, and I can't afford a steak. But at least there's no sign language interpreter at White House press briefings now.
December 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
My kids have measles, there are no toys on the shelves, and I can't afford a steak. But at least there's no sign language interpreter at White House press briefings now.
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Posted by the Tax Foundation — the world's leading nonpartisan tax policy nonprofit organization.
December 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Posted by the Tax Foundation — the world's leading nonpartisan tax policy nonprofit organization.
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"Republicans in the Indiana Senate have a supermajority. That’s right, a Republican supermajority just told Trump to fuck off"
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
www.wonkette.com/p/telling-do...
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
www.wonkette.com/p/telling-do...
Telling Donald Trump To F*ck Off Is Fun And Easy! Just Ask Indiana Republicans.
The emperor has no dick.
www.wonkette.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"Republicans in the Indiana Senate have a supermajority. That’s right, a Republican supermajority just told Trump to fuck off"
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
www.wonkette.com/p/telling-do...
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
www.wonkette.com/p/telling-do...
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Bye CBS...
This entire article is positive about Trump Gold Cards. It contains positive quotes about it from Trump, Lutnick and a CEO. It contains no quotes from the many critics of the program. This is sandwiched between 6 posts about Erika Kirk. CBS is lost.
December 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Bye CBS...
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Jared Kushner is still very much a part of the trump administration & still making zillions from various related deals. Now he wants to help grab CNN for his father in law with the help of several Arab states. What could possibly go wrong?
Good read⤵️
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Good read⤵️
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Jared Kushner – and three Arab monarchies – are at the heart of the Paramount-WBD bid | Mohamad Bazzi
The president’s son-in-law is once again at the center of an international business deal that will require administration approval
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Jared Kushner is still very much a part of the trump administration & still making zillions from various related deals. Now he wants to help grab CNN for his father in law with the help of several Arab states. What could possibly go wrong?
Good read⤵️
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Good read⤵️
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If there is a next “normal” US presidency, the sitting President will have a shitload of apology notes to write.
Just sayin’
Just sayin’
December 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
If there is a next “normal” US presidency, the sitting President will have a shitload of apology notes to write.
Just sayin’
Just sayin’
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Now @hiltzikm.bsky.social rushes in where angels fear to tread, with a column on the now (in)famous Michael Green's $140K precarity take, quoting me a bit:
Hiltzik writes and I agree that $140K is obviously not poverty (as Green came around to, I believe). So what is it?
Read his column.
Hiltzik writes and I agree that $140K is obviously not poverty (as Green came around to, I believe). So what is it?
Read his column.
Hiltzik: Is $140,000 really a poverty income? Clearly not, but the viral debate underscores the 'affordability' issue
A wealth manager wrote that $140,000 a year means poverty in today's America, sparking controversy. He's wrong, but he made a good point
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December 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Now @hiltzikm.bsky.social rushes in where angels fear to tread, with a column on the now (in)famous Michael Green's $140K precarity take, quoting me a bit:
Hiltzik writes and I agree that $140K is obviously not poverty (as Green came around to, I believe). So what is it?
Read his column.
Hiltzik writes and I agree that $140K is obviously not poverty (as Green came around to, I believe). So what is it?
Read his column.
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"The administration genuinely seems to believe it can pull back from the world stage yet somehow still tell the rest of the world what to do. And it has a very firm idea of what it wants Europe to do, which is 'be as racist and xenophobic as Donald Trump.'" — @snipy.bsky.social
We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it.
It's a gift to the Kremlin and a middle finger to our erstwhile allies.
www.publicnotice.co
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"The administration genuinely seems to believe it can pull back from the world stage yet somehow still tell the rest of the world what to do. And it has a very firm idea of what it wants Europe to do, which is 'be as racist and xenophobic as Donald Trump.'" — @snipy.bsky.social
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This is good to see. And I hope every one of these goons is followed by a crowd yelling and blowing whistles, for the rest of their lives. When they're off-duty, in civilian clothes; after they retire
Community members in Kenner, Louisiana, activate rapid-response teams to follow Greg Bovino and his Border Patrol goons through the neighborhood. They alert residents and warn them not to open their doors unless CBP has a court-ordered warrant.
December 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This is good to see. And I hope every one of these goons is followed by a crowd yelling and blowing whistles, for the rest of their lives. When they're off-duty, in civilian clothes; after they retire
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Imagine being Columbia University or CBS News and realizing you have less dignity and fewer principles than Republican Indiana state Senators.
December 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Imagine being Columbia University or CBS News and realizing you have less dignity and fewer principles than Republican Indiana state Senators.
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In a normal administration, this would be a career-ending, weeks-long scandal
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
In a normal administration, this would be a career-ending, weeks-long scandal
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The quality of the wax exhibits at Madame Tussaud’s is greatly diminished
December 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The quality of the wax exhibits at Madame Tussaud’s is greatly diminished
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Nothing says racism, cruelty, hatred and weakness combined in one quite like the orange felon removing all free access to National Parks on federal holidays that honor black people whilst giving free access on his own birthday. He should’ve been sent to jail forever.
December 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Nothing says racism, cruelty, hatred and weakness combined in one quite like the orange felon removing all free access to National Parks on federal holidays that honor black people whilst giving free access on his own birthday. He should’ve been sent to jail forever.
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Reading posts like this, you find a sense of where her skin got its healthy, bile-yellow tone.
December 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Reading posts like this, you find a sense of where her skin got its healthy, bile-yellow tone.
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December 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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I can't wait until the United States cleanses itself of all the ugly traces of Donald Trump. Take his name off buildings. Remove all the tacky gold bric-a-brac from the White House walls. Bulldoze his vulgar ballroom. Restore MLK, Jr Day and Juneteenth at parks. #Fumigate
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I can't wait until the United States cleanses itself of all the ugly traces of Donald Trump. Take his name off buildings. Remove all the tacky gold bric-a-brac from the White House walls. Bulldoze his vulgar ballroom. Restore MLK, Jr Day and Juneteenth at parks. #Fumigate
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If you care, Kennedy, you publicly call on the House to bring up articles of impeachment against RFK today.
No "thought and prayers," no hand-wringing.
Either call for his impeachment, or just be quiet. You have strong influence to stop this. Anything else is just performative nonsense.
No "thought and prayers," no hand-wringing.
Either call for his impeachment, or just be quiet. You have strong influence to stop this. Anything else is just performative nonsense.
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
If you care, Kennedy, you publicly call on the House to bring up articles of impeachment against RFK today.
No "thought and prayers," no hand-wringing.
Either call for his impeachment, or just be quiet. You have strong influence to stop this. Anything else is just performative nonsense.
No "thought and prayers," no hand-wringing.
Either call for his impeachment, or just be quiet. You have strong influence to stop this. Anything else is just performative nonsense.