Michael Hiltzik
@hiltzikm
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Pulitzer-winning columnist, author, mhiltzik @latimes . Read Iron Empires and my blog at . @hiltzikm .bsky.social,
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"History doesn't always repeat itself, but it often rhymes"--Mark Twain(?) To see how the original Gilded Age prefigured today's Gilded Age, read my new book "Iron Empires," just out from
@HMHbooks
and available via booksellers everywhere :
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@JonLemire
So let me get this straight: We have passengers assaulting flight crews at an unprecedented rate, over politics--do we really need a pilot stoking political rage from the cockpit?
@SouthwestAir
needs to take this incident in hand before the sun sets tonight.
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Observations, having just watched Biden’s press conference: He stood up there and answered questions on some of the most complex issues in the world—comfortably , clearly, cogently, and comprehensively. Who dares say that he’s too old? Try to imagine trump on this situation…
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Unspeakable hypocrisy, or does Merrick Garland not mean anything to you?
Mike Pompeo is a highly qualified nominee. We used to have a tradition here in the Senate of overwhelmingly confirming people to important positions. Unfortunately, we’re in an atmosphere now where that is just not the case.
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Possibly the most ignorant tweet of 2018, 2019, and 2020.
When you show up at Davos to warn about global warming and there is 14 ft of snow
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Column: Major study of Ivermectin, the anti-vaccine conspiracy crowd's latest COVID drug, finds 'no effect whatsoever'
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CHIP is expiring in 4 hours: Congress just blew a chance to save healthcare for 9 million children
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Column: Trump's electoral lawyers should be disbarred
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So bitcoin has lost more than 22% of its value because one guy who you should never follow in the first place hinted that he sold his stake. Sure, let's make it a currency.
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Column: Elon Musk is on a collision course with European regulators. He's going to lose
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Column: Here's the 'hall of shame' of companies that haven't left Russia
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The Senate GOP hid the meanest things very deeply in its Obamacare repeal bill. We found them.
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How big was this landslide? After weeks of stories claiming the recall was so close it might be days before we had the result, it was called about an hour after polls closed.
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Column: Trump's election lawyers should face disbarment
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Column: Sorry, Joe Rogan: Scientists should never 'debate' anti-vaccine quacks. Here's why
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A Koch-funded think tank tries hard to pretend that it didn't find savings from Bernie Sanders' Medicare plan
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Time's up: Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) just expired at midnight, as Congress failed to vote to renew. Healthcare for 9 million children now in grave doubt:
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Column: People talk about the cost of that $3.5-trillion bill but don't know what's in it. So we'll tell you
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Column: Meet the most dangerous quack in America
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Trump in Wilkes-Barre today: Single most disturbing political display I've seen in 50 years of following US politics.
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Anyone who watched Trump gasping for air on the WH balcony tonight has to be thinking about the panic in the WH medical unit right now— and at Walter Reed. This is on them.
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Column: As measles spreads, 'herd stupidity' grips Florida's government
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Here are the lies Paul Ryan told about Obamacare during his Town Hall meeting
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Column: My apology to Florida Gov. DeSantis: Sorry, you're even worse than I imagined
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Column: Did Astros beat the Dodgers with cheating? The numbers say no
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Big win for the Washington Post
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So In the contest for the worst reporting of the pandemic, NYT puts up a strong contender—somehow ignoring the data in its own story showing that DeSantis fucked things up spectacularly, but giving him a pass.
Florida shows that even a large state that made a strong push to vaccinate people can be crushed by the Delta variant, reaching frightening levels of hospitalizations and deaths.
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Column: Here are all the reasons CBS should never have hired Trump aide Mick Mulvaney for its newscast
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CHIP expired unrenewed last night, as Congress blew a chance to save healthcare for 9 million children
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@JonahDispatch
@patriottakes
Reminder of Upton Sinclair's line: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it!”
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Column: ProPublica and Vanity Fair are pushing the COVID lab-leak theory, but their exposé is a train wreck
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Column: U.S. government debunks COVID lab-leak conspiracy theory, enraging conspiracy theorists
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Column: COVID-19 may make universal basic income more palatable. That's a good thing
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@tedcruz
Argument that Becerra can't run HHS because he's not a doctor is the rankest BS. My take, w/ names of the 11 HHS/HEW secs appointed by GOP presidents without healthcare experience. Also, raising Trump picks Price and Azar as paragons is hilariously stupid.
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Not quite sure I have any use for columnists who are just now discovering how rotten the GOP has become. Where you been?
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Column: Scientists used to love Twitter. Thanks to Elon Musk, they're giving up on it
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Column: Scientists are paying a huge personal price in the lonely fight against anti-vaxxers
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Column: Measles is again on the march across the world, thanks to anti-vaxxers such as RFK Jr.
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@NateSilver538
Yeah, what I want when analyzing a scientific issue is basing my conclusion on the "strong instinct" of people who don't know shit.
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Prediction: Just as GOP "forgot" that Obama got bin Laden after W. didn't even try, GOP will "forget" that Biden crushed the virus after Trump didn't even try.
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Why is Congress trying to weaken the FDA's oversight of dangerous drugs? The answer is money:
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How the University of California exploited a visa loophole to move tech jobs to India--at taxpayer expense:
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Column: These 'experts' sold the U.S. on a disastrous herd immunity COVID plan, and never paid a professional price
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Column: Elon Musk is giving $150 million to charity. What a cheapskate
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A devastating analysis of the tax cut shows it’s done virtually no economic good
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Column: Mocking anti-vaxxers' deaths is ghoulish, yes — but necessary
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Must say that every legal filing with more details of the insurrection makes my blood run colder. The US averted a massive political and social upheaval by a hair's breadth. Imperative to punish Trump and his minions for their role grows stronger by the minute.
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A reminder that California universities WERE free:
@NormOrnstein
I honestly don’t know what the best and/or most realistic policy is.
In CA the UC and Cal State systems used to be inexpensive - not free, but not a huge expense. Seems like a good investment, considering that China and India turn out graduates at a min higher rate.
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@NateSilver538
Nate, you don't know what you're talking about on this topic. There isn't any "evidence" supporting the lab leak to evaluate, not a speck. If you've seen any, feel free to tweet back.
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U.S. judge finds that Aetna deceived the public about its reasons for quitting Obamacare
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Column: Just before a shooter killed 20 in El Paso, the NRA celebrated looser Texas gun laws
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One in every eight Americans lives in California, Chuck, you complete horse’s ass
NBC's
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's DC-focused perspective on display, saying CA seems "so distant from the political debate...how does CA fit in with the rest of the country?"
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Column: Progressives have ruined San Francisco. Just ask this wealthy heiress
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Pretty thorough demolition here of the notions that Ben Shapiro is (a) smart, (b) informed, (c) logical, (d) principled. Tell me again why AOS should even have replied to his offer to debate.
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Not subject to debate: Pence is guilty of recklessly modeling reckless behavior by not wearing a mask, but the Mayo Clinic is just as guilty for allowing him to flout its own rules.
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The red-state craze for Medicaid work requirements is disappearing, as the stupid politicians who imposed them discover they're useless and costly
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@EricMGarcia
The first person killed in the building of Hoover Dam was J.G. Tierney, who drowned on December 20, 1922, while surveying in the waters of the Colorado River. Exactly 13 years later, on December 20, 1935, the last man who died was Patrick Tierney, his son.
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The cruelty of Congress's treatment of CHIP families will go down in infamy:
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Isn't Trump's groundless assumption that Lewis's district is "crime infested" the very definition of racism?
There isn’t a congressional district in America more crime infested than Trump Tower or Mar a Lago.
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@Sphere_Cubed
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Imagine how stupid you'd have to be to engage in a debate with a clown whose stock in trade is conspiracy mongering, even with a distinguished family name. And how stupid you'd have to be to think it would be a useful "debate."
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Republicans claim they voted down the Sandy relief bill because it was filled with pork. Don't believe them
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Having just rewatched it, and speaking as an unsentimental guy, I ask: Isn’t “Local Hero” one of the sweetest movies ever made?
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Don't forget that the absolute high point of popular vote margins in US history was LBJ over Goldwater, 1964--and that was only 61%-39%
For those still shocked Trump is polling near 40%, Herbert Hoover won 40% of the vote in 1932 after the U.S. economy collapsed
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Column: Trump and RFK Jr. want to make the world safe again for polio and measles. Here's why that should terrify you
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Column: Scientists used to love Twitter. Now they see it as a menace
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What did Kevin McCarthy know, and when did he stop knowing it?
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What's "problematic" is why she would vote for a measure immensely worse than the one she voted against
Susan Collins says it'd be "problematic" to vote without a CBO score. And she says she has some "grave concerns" about cuts to Maine.
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What I would have loved: Pelosi turning to Pence and saying, "Are we keeping you up, Mike?"
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Dear Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Cal.: Don't you feel like a horse's ass just now?
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No.
Isn't this man employed by a news organization with journalistic standards?
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HRC was right about the “vast right-wing conspiracy.” She was right about the “basket of deplorables.” Who dares to say she’s wrong about Tulsi Gabbard?
I love how Tulsi outs herself and all the headlines are stupid Hillary freakouts. It’s as though they can’t let go of the reflexive need to trash HRC.
Who, by the way, has been right about everything.
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Subject to debate: Graduates of Harvard Law School have done more lasting damage to democratic principles in the US than any "bartender from Queens."
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@justinbaragona
@dianafalzone
Question: who are these idiots working at Fox News who are shocked, shocked to discover their anchors weren’t telling the truth? Did they really think Tucker, Sean, and Laura believed the shit they were selling? How dumb could they be?
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I've been calling them lies:
Congrats to LA Times for finally calling a lie a lie. (A year late)
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Column: Trump and RFK Jr. want to make the world safe again for polio. You should be terrified
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Question: whatever you think of Gavin Newsom, what in heaven’s name makes you think that a Republican governor would do better?
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@gabrielsnyder
Possibly the most honest piece The Federalist has ever published: “pay fast food workers a shit wage so I can pay less for my burrito “
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Is this the dumbest, most ignorant article published in The Atlantic this year? It’s in the running: To conflate Anderson, whose work on COVID origins holds up, with Ladapo, an outright and irresponsible fraud, is beneath contempt.
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Column: Will billionaire Bill Ackman ever learn to shut up?
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Even more interesting that no one asked the GOP for its plan to finance its tax cut
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Sure, let's be complacent about Trump calling the press "enemies of the people"
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Column: He was convicted in a historic healthcare fraud. Trump is letting him walk free
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Mitch McConnell says it out loud: Republicans are gunning for Social Security, Medicare and Obamacare next
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Can a president be impeach for crimes against irony?
Trump has issued a Presidential Proclamation for National “Character Counts Week” urging Americans to “positively influence the next generation of our Nation's leaders and inspire them to lead lives of virtue and integrity.”
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Column: Elon Musk comes around to blaming the Jews
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Column: Why haven't regulators stopped Elon Musk from breaking the law?
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