Michael Hickins

“It was never going to be me” —- is the new “have you no shame?”

@lance-olsen.bsky.social howdy bub

Right on!

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It’s unbelievable!

Who’s gonna stop him? The Supremes? Congress? Susan Pearl-Clutcher Collins? Maybe JD Vance will tire of waiting in the wings…

Reminder, the Trump campaign sued the Washington Post in 2020 over this assertion in a piece of mine about Trump and Russia (and another from @paulwaldman.bsky.social). WaPo fought the lawsuit and won. Judge dismissed.

Highly regarded memoir by a Jewish American journalist who discovers what really happened to his family’s silk factory during the Holocaust — and how that trauma has affected his own life and children. a.co/d/abY3YPT

Interesting piece!

I used to think Charlie Brown was Jewish because of his irrepressible optimism in the face of Great Pumpkin denialism and his obstinate insistence that baseball games be played, rain storms be damned!

Congrats to Spirit Airlines for designing the smallest tray table in existence!

This

I assume you mean being pro-Israel. So am I. I don’t think being pro-Israel and being a leftist are mutually exclusive! In fact, I’d call myself woke but that feels presumptuous, so let’s say I aspire to be woke. I oppose Likud and still mourn Rabin, and support a 2-state solution.

Sadly, you only get noticed when you throw hard, so you don’t get longevity without high velocity!

A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, the health care we can access and, now, the information we receive.

This is what oligarchy looks like.