Mike Hinkley

Flood, P&C Field Marketing Specialist; Vietnam Vet; 199th LIB, Redcatchers. UNH grad but SU Basketball fan. Lifelong Red Sox fan and now 20 year Phillies fan.

[Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 @JasonJournoDC]

💥NEW: Alan Dershowitz on Zohran Mamdani: "He is the GREATEST perpetrator of anti-Jewish hate in modern American history!"

"I’m now almost 88 years old. I’ve seen it all. This is the CLOSEST thing I’ve seen to Nazi Germany in the presence of Mamdani!"

[Mike Hinkley @RedCatcher68]

Jimmy Carter gave me a 15% mortgage. It was a corporate transfer and I had to buy a house so I had to get a mortgage.

[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

Average 30-Year Mortgage Rate in the US…
1970s: 8.9%
1980s: 12.7%
1990s: 8.1%
2000s: 6.3%
2010s: 4.1%
2020s: 5.3%
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All-Time Low (Jan 2021): 2.65%
2023 Peak (Oct 2023): 7.79%
Today's Rate: 6.58% (highest since Aug 2025)

[Mike Hinkley @RedCatcher68]

EU control freaks out of control.

[John Tamny @johntamny]

EU regulators aren’t just demanding Google choose a path of self-harm that is anti-consumer, they’re also demanding that it harm itself to the detriment of the third parties intent on utilizing Google’s popularity as their own growth strategy.https://t.co/9VK36uOa6n

[Mike Hinkley @RedCatcher68]

Did AI leave those notes or did an evil human do it?

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: OpenAI reportedly caught an AI agent leaving “notes” to future versions of itself on how to escape internal constraints.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

The @NYCMayor Mamdani should take up the Chairman’s offer for a tour of the Holocaust Museum so he understands what is genocide.

[Mike Hinkley @RedCatcher68]

All because of the media's massive exaggeration of the problem.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Across social media, people are avoiding salads, swearing off lettuce and wondering if it’s safe to order a burrito bowl. For many Americans, the question is no longer just about where the outbreak came from, but whether any lettuce can be trusted. https://t.co/xHSOBC4gZ8

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

This is what real friendship between nations looks like.
While the world stays busy with noise and posturing, Mexico sent 200 of its own firefighters to help Canada fight its fires.
No press tour.
No conditions.
Just people showing up when it mattered.
Mark Carney was right to pause and say thank you out loud.
In a time when solidarity is often performed for cameras, this was quiet, practical, and human.
To the Mexican firefighters who left their homes to stand in someone else’s flames thank you.
To Mexico for answering the call thank you.
That’s how neighbors behave when the smoke rises.

[Mike Hinkley @RedCatcher68]

12/69 - 11/70 was a recession.

[Yahoo Finance @YahooFinance]

Initial applications for US unemployment benefits fell to the lowest level since 1969, a signal that layoffs remain low in the labor market.

[Mike Hinkley @RedCatcher68]

The Houthi needs to be destroyed.

[ABC News @ABC]

Global oil prices on Thursday crossed $100 a barrel for the first time since May, after Houthi militants in Yemen claimed to have struck two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea.

https://t.co/tNDsl09VcJ

[Mike Hinkley @RedCatcher68]

AI Security will be a huge challenge especially with foreign bad guys.

[CNN @CNN]

OpenAI says some of its experimental AI models left a test environment with no human direction and hacked its way onto a different company’s real production systems while trying to “cheat” on a cybersecurity test. https://t.co/zRnsEmUaKj

[Mike Hinkley @RedCatcher68]

I agree.

[Ambassador Mike Huckabee @GovMikeHuckabee]

Would be easy to say NY Mayor is just an ignorant bigot, but he is not dumb. He's an evil anti-Semite who deliberately lies about serious things like "genocide" to stoke Jew hate. If anyone should be arrested, it's the Mayor of NY for incitement. NYC should be ashamed.

[Mike Hinkley @RedCatcher68]

He is a disgusting, despicable Socialist. My Jesus was a Jew.

[Simon Wiesenthal Center @simonwiesenthal]

Mayor Mamdani did not simply express a personal political opinion. He used the authority, symbolism, and credibility of the mayor’s office to issue what amounted to an official public address declaring that the democratically elected leader of the world’s only Jewish state is a ‘war criminal’ who is ‘not welcome in New York City.’ That is a profound misuse of the office entrusted to him by all New Yorkers.

After acknowledging that New York City has no independent legal authority to execute the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant, the mayor nevertheless chose to transform that legal reality into a televised political spectacle. Respect for the separation of powers and the legal limits of public office is a bedrock of American democracy; those limits should not be treated as an inconvenience to be exploited for political theater.

Perhaps most telling was what the mayor chose to leave out. His address made no mention of Hamas or the October 7 massacre of innocent civilians. Instead, he delivered a sweeping moral indictment of Israel while erasing the terrorist atrocities that ignited this war. Appeals to universal humanity and justice ring hollow when they exclude the victims whose suffering does not fit a preferred political narrative.

This is no longer simply about Prime Minister Netanyahu. It reflects a broader pattern in which Mayor Mamdani repeatedly singles out Israel while using the prestige of his office to legitimize rhetoric that further isolates the Jewish state and deepens division here at home. At a time when Jewish New Yorkers are experiencing alarming levels of antisemitism, harassment and intimidation, they deserve a mayor who refrains from fomenting hatred against the world’s only Jewish country while maintaining the fiction that this is not anti-Jewish.

Throughout his campaign, Mayor Mamdani repeatedly insisted that his responsibility as mayor would be to focus on New York City and the issues affecting New Yorkers. New Yorkers elected him to make their neighborhoods safer, combat hate and unite a diverse city, not to conduct foreign policy or transform City Hall into a stage for ideological declarations about world leaders.

New Yorkers elected a mayor, not a prosecutor of foreign leaders. Mayor Mamdani should spend less time trying to demonize only one leader and one country from City Hall and more time protecting the New Yorkers he was elected to serve.

#Mamdani #MayorMamdani #Israel

[Mike Hinkley @RedCatcher68]

Good news.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

New Jersey says it has removed roughly 6,600 noncitizens from the state's voter rolls after officials discovered what Gov. Mikie Sherrill calls a "serious software error" in the Motor Vehicle System.

Sherrill says some people identified themselves as noncitizens and ineligible to vote, but were registered anyway between June 2023 and June 2024 because of the glitch.

The governor says she ordered an immediate investigation after learning of the issue last week and directed officials to remove anyone who should not have been on the voter rolls.

[CNN @CNN]

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a new video that he does not have the legal authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he were to come to New York City. https://t.co/cdFQmnspuL

[Mike Hinkley @RedCatcher68]

If you bought a new home ten years you have added $200,000 to your net worth. That is not bad news.

[Andrew Lokenauth @FluentInFinance]

The median new home is now cheaper than the median existing home for the first time in 50 years of data.

The median new home in Q1 was $403,200. The median existing home was $404,600.

Builders are cutting prices, buying down mortgage rates, and covering closing costs to move inventory.

I’m sure everything is fine.

[Mike Hinkley @RedCatcher68]

A totally disgusting Socialist.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani admits the city can't arrest Benjamin Netanyahu.

Despite his campaign promise to have the Israeli prime minister arrested, Mamdani was forced to concede that New York City doesn't have legal authority to execute the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant.

Mamdani instead called on the federal government to enforce the warrant if Netanyahu visits New York, while reiterating that he believes the Israeli leader should be "arrested and tried for his crimes."

Netanyahu is expected to travel to New York in September for the United Nations General Assembly.

[Andrew Lokenauth @FluentInFinance]

US home prices just hit an all-time high with 30-year mortgages at 6.55%.

10 years ago, the average new home cost $350,000 and rates were 3.5%.

Today, the average new home costs $540,600 and rates are 6.55%.

With 20% down, the mortgage payment has more than doubled, from $1,257 to $2,748/month.

Meanwhile, 49% of Americans under 30 now live with a parent, up from 37% in 2019.

Crazy numbers.

[Mike Hinkley @RedCatcher68]

Disgusting Un-American Socialist.

[Reuters @Reuters]

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani called on the US government to enforce the ICC's arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, citing alleged war crimes during the Gaza war. ICC issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu in 2024 https://t.co/WgPSj5drWh

[Mike Hinkley @RedCatcher68]

I believe his problem is that he starts thinking about throwing the ball before he finishes catching it. You need to watch the ball into your glove.

[John Clark @JClarkNBCS]

“We ride with Trea”

Phillies manager Don Mattingly says Trea Turner is his guy. He says Trea cares and works every day on his defense. Last night Trea could’ve had multiple errors but he also had some big home runs and knocked in 5 runs
https://t.co/jYy2W9oKdD

[Mike Hinkley @RedCatcher68]

What about minimum wage????

[Governor Josh Shapiro @GovernorShapiro]

I started this week in Harrisburg by signing 23 bipartisan bills into law — bills that cut red tape for Pennsylvanians trying to get into the workforce, expand access to benefits for our veterans, and require county DMVA offices to provide training for trauma-informed care.

I know a lot of people are looking at the chaos in DC right now and wondering if government can still work for them. Here in Pennsylvania, we’re proving that it does.