Mike Elk
@mikeelk.bsky.social
Emmy-nominated labor reporter @PaydayReport often in 🇧🇷. Alum: @Guardian! Yinzer @UEunion fam. Autistic ⚾️ Jew. Falo Português e Pittsburghese. Melk@PaydayReport.com
The co-founder of the 2024 National Uncommitted Movement, Abbas Alawieh, decisively won his primary to become a State Senator in Michigan. Abbas was endorsed by both Bernie Sanders and Gretchen Whitmer. Abbas Alawieh also privately met with former VP Kamala Harris last month upon her request.
Stevens and her allies spend 9x as much on advertising as El- Sayed & he still beat them!
Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left
The former public health official has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, NBC News projects, despite facing a huge advertising disadvantage.
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I am as excited about this as I am preemptively annoyed about the Democratic establishment (right wing of the left wing, if you watched The Darkest Hour) demonstrating that they will tank the Senate to beat a leftist.
Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 12h agoOkay then! www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
El-Sayed in Michigan and Hong in Wisconsin is really gonna test the strength of socialists
NEW: Israel has imprisoned an American teen. Soldiers raided Adam's West Bank home right before his sister’s grad party. They ignored his US passport. As they took him, they blew kisses at his mom. Adam is now the second American in Israeli prison. Trump just hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.
Israel Has Imprisoned a 16-Year-Old Palestinian-American Boy for Two Weeks
Adam Karakrah is one of at least two Americans in Israeli prison – both held while Trump hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.
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In his 2020 run, Buttigieg stopped releasing the names of his campaign bundlers after scrutiny. They included: -superlobbyist, and now Palantir lobbyist, Steve Elmendorf -billionaire Blackstone exec Hamilton James -"Silicon Valley's favorite fixer" Bradley Tusk -Merck's head of public affairs, etc.
Here Are the Lobbyists and Corporate Execs Collecting Checks for Pete Buttigieg
As the Buttigieg campaign stops releasing its bundler names and blocks press from fundraising events, here are some of the pharmaceutical and finance executives behind its rise in the big money race, ...
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Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17h agoWe see that our political system is broken, then keep behaving as if it worked. We need serious change, and it's time to take bigger swings.
Fascinating interview with @muellershewrote.com on the @nicolesandler.bsky.social show about her FOIA request to get the drawings ICE seized from kids at the Dilley concentration Camp in Texas. More at the link: youtu.be/fjBO1GSyvs4 or watch later at nicolesandler.com
Nicole Sandler@nicolesandler.bsky.social · 23h agoBig show today as AG @muellershewrote.com herself joins me with breaking news from her own reporting dealing with ICE and Trump's money laundering, GOP caving etc! Allison joins at the top of the show, so be here 3ET/12PT youtu.be/fjBO1GSyvs4, nicolesandler.com, pod later, nicolesandler.substack.com
TAPPER: Hold on -- hold on, 'cause I'm not done with the list of women who have accused you of violence. Are all three of them lying? REP. MAX MILLER: Yes. And I'm not getting out of the race because in 2016, President Donald J Trump faced the most extreme allegations in the world ...
On this day in 1944, the Gestapo found Anne Frank and her family in their Secret Annex. Her diary stands as a warning against hatred and persecution. Eighty years later, we should recognize the warning signs before it’s too late.🙂↕️
Quite an upset in the #KSGov Dem primary. State Sen. Cindy Holscher, who came out against data centers and the Kansas City Chiefs stadium deal, has defeated state Sen. Ethan Corson, who had a big financial edge and an endorsement from term-limited Gov. Laura Kelly.
I am so triggered by RJK Jr's comment about ICU's being empty during #COVID. I re-read what I wrote after one of the surges. How do others forget. The trauma was--and is--real.
I'm An ICU Doctor. I’m Haunted By What I’ve Seen During The Recent COVID-19 Surge.
“I can’t stop thinking about the 40-something man who told me, ‘I can’t die like this. I just got engaged and have a 6-month-old baby.’ I encouraged him to be positive, but that didn’t stop him from d...
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After 45 years as a New York City news anchor, Kaity Tong will retire this month. In a business that often kicks women to the curb decades before their male counterparts, Tong leaves the air at nearly 80 years old. And New York will miss her. www.newsday.com/entertainmen... #TVSky #NYC
New York TV anchor Kaity Tong announces retirement
New York TV icon Kaity Tong, known for her mentorship and influence, retires from WPIX after a remarkable 34-year career.
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These are insane numbers. If El-Sayed wins after being outspent by this much, wow, watch out!
With an estimated 21% of the vote in, Sunrise Movement co-founder William Lawrence is cruising with 40% while Bridget Brink and Matt Maasdam each have 30% #MI07 Lawrence and his supporters have spent months campaigning door to door in the district @wewill2026.bsky.social
Several Democrats are pushing for Ohio GOP Rep. Max Miller to resign or face expulsion over allegations of domestic abuse, but privately some wouldn’t mind if he stuck around for now. Here's why: www.semafor.com/article/08/0...
Why some Democrats may hesitate to push Max Miller out
Several Democrats are pushing for Ohio GOP Rep. Max Miller to resign or face expulsion over allegations of domestic abuse, but privately some wouldn’t mind if he stuck around for now.
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Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion
A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Same editor who stalled the CECOT migrant story until Stephen Miller got a say. CBS keeps calling it timing. Sure looks like a pattern.
60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals
Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity
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The vote will be 48-50 against until John Fetterman wheels in a brain-dead Mitch McConnell on a hospital gurney and presses his hand to the "yes' vote clicker, before he and JD Vance put Blanche over the top, probably
As someone who has reported on veterans who commit crimes (some who have been executed) I thought this was a really interesting piece. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
The Complications of Graham Platner’s Veteran Identity
How much of Graham Platner’s behavior should be read through the lens of what combat did to him, and how much of it is simply who he is, independent of war?
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PPS spent $1.4 million on special education settlements as families, advocates continue to call for services.
PPS spent $1.4 million on special education settlements as families, advocates continue to call for services
A Pittsburgh family’s yearslong fight for disability services shows how case-by-case resolutions can leave broader problems unaddressed.
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easier to say on Bluesky than elsewhere, but Pittsburghers: you don’t need to root for the Steelers as long as this bum is the QB. JUST WALK OUT. you can leave!!! I hit da bricks last year and highly recommend it.
Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 2d agoIt’s August 2026 and Aaron Rodgers is having a full blown meltdown about Anthony Fauci.
New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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Bon voyage to Margo Howard, longtime gossip columnist for Slate and daughter of Ann Landers. She was one of a kind. May her memory be a blessing. It is to me. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/28/m...
Margo Howard has died. She was babysat by Elizabeth Taylor, thrice divorced, and a longtime writer of ‘Dear Prudence.’ - The Boston Globe
"My answers are going to come from my experiences," Ms. Howard once said of her approach to the family trade of penning advice columns.
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Even if the reasons Kelly cites are valid (let’s say, diplomatically, YMMV) Montgomery has sat down and come back 7 times. He’s faced at least five batters 15 times. And more than anything else — just WATCH how he’s pitching! Watch him. In no way would he have been strained going back out.
Dominic Campbell@domismoney.bsky.social · 6d agoAsks Pirates manager Don Kelly if he considered having LHP Mason Montgomery go out for the ninth inning after just seven pitches Here’s what he had to say
These imbeincels are inventing whole new ways not to get laid just so they can make extra sure they won't. I don't think they had to worry before.
Playboy@playboy.com · 6d agoWhat are the incel men up to over on X? Focussing on a quirk of women’s bodies most of us have never even thought about before now. Our take? "Making women mad and getting likes from fellow incels is all they have going for them." Read now: www.playboy.com/read/sex/the...
Chicago teen shares his experience in ICE detention centers: I am 18 years old and I just graduated from high school in Chicago. I was in ICE detention for 2 months and 10 days. They kept me in solitary for 2 days for no reason, alone in a room with just a toilet. They never let us go outside.
A good look at the state of affairs for your Buccos. I know we've beaten this point to death, but it's absolutely *ABSURD* to be 46-31 against a right-handed starter and 9-23 against a lefty starter (with a 122-point gap in OPS!)
Chris Mueller@chrismuellerpgh.bsky.social · 6d agoNine Straight Threes is back. Finally. On why the 2026 Pirates, maddening though they are, are worth trying to fix: nine-straight-threes.ghost.io/the-pirates-...
Tom Ricks on the only thing anybody wants to talk about, Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey." Subscribe to Backbencher. It's free, for crying out loud! timothynoah.substack.com/p/an-old-war...
An Old War Correspondent Admires Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey"
Combat trauma isn't superimposed on Homer's narrative; it's there in the original.
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