Michelle’s Nicole shoulder

Did ya hear — Michelle Obama has endorsed Republican Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis for mayor of New York?

Well, OK, not yet, but it’s just a matter of time. That’s the only way to read the former first lady’s remarks criticizing women who didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton last year — as a rationale for backing Malliotakis.

“What does it mean for us as women that we look at those two candidates, as women, and many of us said, that guy, he’s better for me, his voice is more true to me,” Obama said at a Boston conference. “Well, to me that just says you don’t like your voice. You like the thing you’re told to like.”

Strong stuff, given that 42 percent of all women, and 53 percent of white women, shunned Clinton to vote for Donald Trump.

But following Obama’s lead, surely Madeleine Albright, Gloria Steinem and the others who insisted that gender trumped all in 2016 will line up for Malliotakis against Mayor de Blasio. After all, this is also a chance to make history by giving New York its first female mayor.

Only one woman, Ruth Messinger, on the Democratic line in 1997, was a major party nominee. Other hopefuls in the modern era, including Bella Abzug, Carol Bellamy and Christine Quinn, lost primaries.

Malliotakis is the first to hold the GOP line, but gets little attention for her breakthrough. Nobody even talks about her glass ceiling.

All that’s about to change, once Dem women rally to her cause. Indeed, it can’t be long until Clinton herself makes sure that sexism doesn’t stand in the way of another qualified woman.

As a bonus, Clinton would be putting a stick in the eye of de Blasio. Who wouldn’t enjoy that?

Equifax ain’t fiction

Headline: “IRS awards multimillion-dollar fraudprevention contract to Equifax”

It’s a true story, but if you made it up, nobody would believe you.