Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 23/12/2025SCOOP: Melik Kaylan talks to Ukrainian intelligence chief Budanov about the Russians plan to invade Europe in 2027forbes.com 011
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 17/12/2025This is a very strong argument www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...nytimes.comOpinion | There’s a Simpler Explanation for the Rightward Shift of Young Men 010
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 14/12/2025"At a moment when income inequality, the looming threat of A.I. and the rise of authoritarianism seem to be straining American societal cohesion, a revolt against self-dealing elites may be the only cause compelling enough to bring us together." My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com 22611
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 03/12/2025"This week, a state gambling board approved licenses for three proposed casinos: one of them is set to be built on a golf course that belonged to the President. The move will net the Trump Organization $115 million. " talkingpointsmemo.com/news/new-yor...talkingpointsmemo.comWhen To Accommodate, and When To Fight? NY Officials Agonize and Prepare for Federal EscalationJackie Bray has been thinking about how quickly things could spiral out... 0119
Reposted by Michael HirschornAtrios @eschatonblog.com · 05/11/2025'we have lost young men' was pushed by Shor, and his source was 'i made it up' 1425043
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Like I've always said, when you're explaining (that you're not a secret Nazi) you're losing 040
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Agenda item for Mamdani: get Newsmax out of NYC taxi cabs 0114
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 15/10/2025If a few billionaires want to move to Florida or East Hampton they definitely should. Manhattan is way too crowded as it iswsj.comThe New York City Office Market Is Roaring Back, and It’s Pricier Than EverManhattan office space is leasing at a rate not seen since 2006, while office markets in other cities are plodding along. 040
Reposted by Michael HirschornNew York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 19/09/2025Is it possible that the purveyors of popular culture “will ignore the 50 percent or more of this country that want television, film and music that doesn’t feel like it was extruded directly from the president’s brain,” Michael Hirschorn writes.nyti.msOpinion | With Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension, the Mask Comes OffLaughter is now a government-regulated product. 0157
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 19/09/2025My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com "Is it possible that these purveyors of popular culture will ignore the 50 percent or more of this country that want television, film and music that doesn’t feel like it was extruded directly from the president’s brain? " www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...nytimes.comOpinion | We Can No Longer Tell Ourselves This Isn’t Really Happening 052
Reposted by Michael HirschornSteve Lichtman @stevel3000.bsky.social · 19/09/2025An urgent and essential piece by @hirschorn.bsky.socialnytimes.comOpinion | We Can No Longer Tell Ourselves This Isn’t Really Happening 053
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Mamdani is winning....85 percent ....of men 18-34 hellgatenyc.com/mayoral-race...hellgatenyc.comFind Me a New Yorker Who Doesn't Support Zohran MamdaniA new poll sees Mamdani decisively on top. And more links for your Wednesday morning. 063
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Thinking of this article from 2020 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020... #trumpepsteintheguardian.comTeen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the YearIn the early 90s, Donald Trump judged contestants at the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it 032
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 27/06/2025It's not the ideology, it's the anti-establishmentarianism. Must read from @michaellangenyc.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/michaell...open.substack.comThe Zohran CoalitionMamdani's Mandate & The Dawn of a New Day 021
Reposted by Michael HirschornBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I had a REALLY lovely time talking to @milesklee.bsky.social at Rolling Stone about why The Onion is thriving. It's because we're one of the only legacy outlets unafraid to accurately reflect the mood of this country. That mood? Everyone fucking hates this. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... 513783712
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Had a good, wide ranging, densely meta chat with @thebeat.msnbc.com on brocasters, the Democratic turn from labor and how to relearn talking in 2025 youtu.be/QsGSfU15oYA?...youtu.beMAGA 'pod army' invaded by AOC, Bernie's populism & Mayor Pete's love story: Melber reportYouTube video by MSNBC 132
Reposted by Michael HirschornMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Not sure how the World Cup can still happen here a year from now. Which foreign fans are going to fly to the US with the risk of being Gitmoed once they get here?? 1552719612
Reposted by Michael HirschornNew York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 10/06/2025“Andrew Breitbart articulated the theory that ‘politics is downstream from culture.’ That’s no longer quite right. Culture now is politics, and these podcasters — or bro-casters — are a perfect example of why,” Michael Hirschorn writes.nytimes.comOpinion | The Achingly Simple Lesson That Democrats Seem Determined Not to LearnTrying to find a lefty Joe Rogan entirely misses the point. 084
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025New from me in NYT "If there’s one issue that unites the bro-casters — beyond the need to find three hours of content — it’s a disdain for wokeness. “The word ‘retarded’ is back,” Mr. Rogan recently announced, ridiculously, “and it’s one of the great culture victories".”nytimes.comOpinion | The Achingly Simple Lesson That Democrats Seem Determined Not to LearnTrying to find a lefty Joe Rogan entirely misses the point. 131
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025You'll be ok lightbulb man: in the trans rights "debate" the issues are always framed around personal victimization and never, you know, trans people themselves.telegraph.co.ukI changed my mind on trans rights – and lost multiple friendsAs a human rights lawyer, I never questioned the trans movement. But, after a lightbulb moment, I publicly changed my position 032
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 25/05/2025😘 Diblasio "held forth among his fellow-patrons with a spirit of magnanimous, possibly unreciprocated camaraderie, greeting a startled man by the door with a familiar “How you doing, brother?” and ordering his breakfast...as “mi sandwich especial.”"breakfast.as 011
Reposted by Michael HirschornSteve Lichtman @stevel3000.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Future New York Knick? 0111
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 19/04/2025"There are 510,000 NCAA athletes in the U.S., as NCAA president Charlie Baker explained to a Senate panel in Dec, and he’s aware of “less than 10” athletes who identify as transgender. But if you believe many right-wing voices, you’d think it was far more than 0.001961 percent of college athletes." 000
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Will MAGA go the Full Venezuela and ride America all the way down to third world status? 011
Reposted by Michael HirschornAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor." 16538125025615
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Are the butthole lasers Jewish? “There is a battalion of male-to-female transgenders within the American intelligence apparatus,” The Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo posted on X recently. “They hate Italians and LibsofTikTok. They fantasize about pseudo-vaginas and butthole lasers.”garbageday.emailDo Republicans really believe this stuff?Read to the end for a truly incredible male living space 111
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Wasn't counting on the most DEI Super Bowl broadcast I can remember 011
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 31/01/2025The Economist has moved into its full feverish delusion phase "But things need not be so dire. What has the makings of a big, messy dispute could, if well managed, turn into a rare example of international co-operation with Trumpian characteristics."economist.comDespite fears of a global tax war, Donald Trump has a chance to make peaceA global minimum tax on companies ought to be acceptable to America 000
Reposted by Michael HirschornRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 31/01/2025The entire staff of 60 Minutes should resign. This would be a dangerous, historic act of cowardice. It requires an extraordinary, historic response. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...nytimes.comParamount in Settlement Talks With Trump Over ‘60 Minutes’ LawsuitA settlement, if reached, would be an extraordinary concession by a major U.S. media company to a sitting president. 983915873
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Curious if Murphy plans to nix NJ Turnpike tolls using same logic "The program’s opponents have urged Mr. Trump to re-examine it, with Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey calling it “a disaster for working- and middle-class New Jersey commuters and residents” in a letter to Mr. Trump last week."nytimes.comTrump Administration Considers Halting Congestion PricingThe New York City tolling program began on Jan. 5 after defying obstacles for decades. A move to stop it would likely touch off a legal battle between the state and federal government. 000
Reposted by Michael HirschornVirginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social · 20/01/2025FOR THOSE WHO DON'T CELEBRATE, join us for actual fun 11-1:30!!!! We'll be imagining solutions, distractions, parties, and maybe even some serious responses to the fresh hell. www.twitch.tv/whatroughbea...twitch.tvwhatroughbeastpod - TwitchWhat Rough Beast, hosted by Virginia Heffernan (Wired, Trumpcast) and Stephen Metcalf (Slate, Culture Gabfest) is a podcast where we bear witness to America’s demise, and ask what might be built from ... 081
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Joining at noon. Please tune in. I'll be wearing my party dress 010
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 20/01/2025I found this helpful open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...open.substack.comHere's What You Can Do to Keep Democracy Alive During Trump's Second TermAuthoritarians thrive on fear and hopelessness. Here are 17 things you can do to not give into such negativity. 010
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Arrived 20 minutes early for a drinks date because...congestion pricing. Thanks a lot MTA 130
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Nothing says sportswashing like the 4 most exciting teams in Serie A playing a mid-season tournament to a half empty stadium in Saudi Arabia 010
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Does this talk about New Jersey drones at all? 040
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Good faith journalism helps you make sense of the world. Bad faith journalism gives you someone to hate 010
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Thanks Braver Angels, but I don't need help "managing intense emotions." I would like to put them to good use. This is a democracy crisis, not a self-care sesh 020
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024The real genius is learning how to sound incredibly important while saying only blindingly obvious things www.instagram.com/reel/DCo-uhD... 000
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Did not have preemptive Democratic capitulation on my bingo card but in retrospect it seems obvious 100
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 15/11/2024While we're cleaning house on everything can we stop with these emails. No, Donald Trump is not crying... 010
Michael Hirschorn @hirschorn.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Commend to all Robert Darnton's "The Revolutionary Temper", a cultural history of France bf the French Revolution. Some unnerving echoes: a tech revolution, rampant crackpottery, $$ speculation, emergent new media + densely coded memeage, severe income disparities, clueless elites, and so much more 110
![We want to be able to say stuff that other people, for institutional reasons, can’t say, or they’re too afraid to say.
You may be the only CEO in America making that promise.
We’re in a unique position, certainly. And other places have to learn from this — being afraid all the time and just constantly making transactional moves. How long can you survive like this? What is even the point of being alive if you’re just gonna continue managing rot? And it seems like that’s what 98 percent of people are doing in these media companies right now. I don’t know, take a chance. Nobody likes what’s happening. Especially if you’re a journalism company or a media company, you’re [meant to be] actually reflecting what people want or what people believe. So get some guts and do something interesting. It’s not that hard.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreihhqahdsympkilcsdqyztdudygmevh2ioksi2kzbtdo7kbilcnalu)
