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Michelle💙🌊🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸✌🏽
@mcorey79.bsky.social
TST member 😈 Lover of democracy & human rights💙Stephen King enthusiast💙Animal lover/adopt don't shop💙 Fierce ally 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♀️💙Horror movies are my jam & anything related to Halloween 👻💀🎃Scorpio♏️
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this scam is particularly effective because the scammers imitate Michael’s standard email greeting: “I’m Michael Hobbes - yes, THAT Michael Hobbes.”
Scam alert: Someone is pretending to be me and reaching out to authors. The pitch contains enough specific details that it sounds plausible at first.

This is not me! I'm so sorry to anyone who has fallen for this.
December 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Scam alert: Someone is pretending to be me and reaching out to authors. The pitch contains enough specific details that it sounds plausible at first.

This is not me! I'm so sorry to anyone who has fallen for this.
December 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Uhh it kind of sounds like the key is to become a grifty money coach
www.reuters.com/lifestyle/ho...
December 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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both!
Will this book be a future If Books Could Kill episode, or is it's content too insubstantial?
December 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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“I look down at the crashing swell. Alone at the after-party, a kind of honeymoon in hell. I am on the list, a bit of grave misfortune. I am in the New York Post, even worse. The ink is black, the pages yellow. Everything, some kind of lie. What of doubt? Scientists cannot see the soul.”
Sentences From American Canto That Sent Me To The Hospital
I reviewed Olivia Nuzzi's American Canto for Slate. There's far less RFK Jr. in it than you'd expect.
substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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this is the raw physical prowess that Olivia couldn’t resist
In line for the TSA behind this guy
December 9, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Unhinged to describe the criticism of her journalistic ethics as a "freaksome lynching" when she has not denied any of the allegations and admits to most of them in her book.
Possibly the only thing more freakish than Nuzzi's prose is the contortions her defenders twist themselves into. "She's not just hot, but she definitely is hot, while also being a vulnerable smol child. Also, criticizing her is sexist."
December 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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ending your resignation letter with “you can take the girl out of New Jersey, but you cannot take New Jersey out of the girl” should be considered an actionable true threat.
December 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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I agree that we should not judge Farage solely on the racist things he said when he was a kid. We should also judge him on the racist things he has done with the entire rest of his life.
December 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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"money's real power is quieter and deeper. It decides which candidates get to run, which policies are thinkable, and whose voices get amplified or ignored."
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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a very coherent read. how can we all move this forward. @aoc.bsky.social are you seeing this?
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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This is absolutely brilliant. Yes it’s about the US but it applies in a less obvious way over here too. We need to free democracy from the grip of the billionaire class. It can be done, the vast majority of people agree that a tiny wealthy elite should not dictate how we are governed
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Getting the grade you earned is religious persecution now?
University Of Oklahoma Places Professor On Leave After Student Cries 'Religious Discrimination' For Bad Grade On Essay
www.comicsands.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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I love this random exoplanet youtuber who starts all of his videos like "for those of you who've been living under a ROCK" and then talks about the most obscure shit.
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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It’s so good!
I‘ve been listening to Sarah Marshall’s The Devil You Know and it’s so great. She knows this stuff inside out and weaves a tale of so many subjects; the satanic panic (duh), evangelicalism, the patriarchy, media, so much more. Highly recommend.
December 6, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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A big deal (or it should be):
December 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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This clip is even more insane considering that in her book she basically admits that she encouraged him to drop out and join the Trump administration.
December 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Lots of interest here, and I will write about it. But what jumped out at me was ZM's observation that the laws we need are already on the books. We just need to enforce them. I mean, OF COURSE, but... it needs to be said.
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Please tell us you're going to be adding this to an IBCK episode @notalawyer.bsky.social
She follows Trump to a senior center in Arizona and includes this insanely rude anecdote?
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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1. Why is there a long description of black holes in your book about sexting an anti-vaxxer.

2. That is not what Hawking radiation is.

3. lol what
December 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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"In a just world, where the career of a political pundit was somehow tied to his ability to analyze politics, this would be an extinction-level event for these morons."
My latest newsletter is about how centrist pundits got the lessons of the 2024 election wrong, and how the politics of 2025 exposed them.
The Pundits Were All Wrong
The Republican collapse has exposed elite pundits as clueless
stringinamaze.net
December 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Even her political commentary — the thing she is allegedly good at — is fucking gibberish. We're supposed to overlook her execrable ethics for this?!
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Finally updated my phone and I'm sorry but the thing where anyone can change the background of a text conversation is psychotic
December 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM