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Marshall Herskovitz

@mherskovitz.bsky.social
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Writer, producer, director - thirtysomething, Last Samurai, My So-Called Life, Dangerous Beauty. Let's build a future for our children - and their children. LA, PDX

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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So interesting that @nytimes.com only tells us about the terrible tempers and abusive behavior of female Democrats in Congress. I guess the Republicans who support ICE shootings, black-hole deportations, and taking healthcare from millions are just nicer people. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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Mary Peltola’s Campaign in Alaska Senate Race Is Rocked by Tumult, With Angry Outbursts and Slurs (Gift Article)
Democrats hope that Mary Peltola can flip a Republican Senate seat in Alaska. Former aides describe a campaign and congressional office marked by chaos.
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
1) Jonathan Kaufman comprehensively deconstructs the terrible damage done by neoliberalism, which GE CEO Jack Welch essentially defined in 2009 as the "single-minded pursuit-- www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/o...
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Opinion | Blame Ronald Reagan (Gift Article)
We are suffering the consequences of the conservative revolution that began in the 1980s.
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Perfect irony: After spending 100's of billions in a race to eliminate American jobs and pollute the American landscape, the sociopaths running our giant AI companies will now see their own jobs eliminated by cheaper AI from China. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/t...
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Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I. (Gift Article)
Companies like AT&T are increasingly using cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over expensive ones from Anthropic and OpenAI.
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Great Conversation Live with The Intellectualist today, covering everything from My So-Called Life to income inequality to World War III! Thank you, Brian! Please watch! theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/live-with-...
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Live with The Intellectualist
A recording from The Intellectualist's live video
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Story that got WAY too little attention last week: Todd Blanche on a call with faith leaders assured them DOJ and WH are “working hand-in-hand" to make sure the "DOBBS DECISION BECOMES PERMANENT IN EVERY SINGLE STATE.” thehill.com/policy/healt...
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Blanche pledges to make Dobbs decision ‘permanent’ in every state
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told faith leaders he is planning to roll back abortion access even in states that have laws protecting it.  On a private call last week hosted by the Whit…
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Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych @nick-carmody.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
As Ed Elson & @justinwolfers.bsky.social point out on @profgalloway.com's Prof G Markets... ...disordered psychological thinking underpins the failures of both the tariffs & the Iran war. As I wrote on page 128 of @bandylee.bsky.social's, "The MUCH more dangerous case of Donald Trump"... 1/
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
1) The moral collapse of the great law firm Paul Weiss perfectly illustrates the fatal difference between capitalism and neoliberalism. Famous for decades for its groundbreaking pro-bono, pro-social victories, the firm-- www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
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How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee (Gift Article)
Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
🎯 @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social : “Any senator who votes to confirm Todd Blanche should know — you’re now part of the cover-up. You’re complicit in the cover-up if you vote to confirm the Todd Blanche for attorney general, who has led the cover-up of the Epstein Files.”
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Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych @nick-carmody.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
As seen throughout his life, JD Vance is a shapeshifting sociopath. Here, he pathetically mimics not just Trump's persecution complex, but also Trump's cadence and inflection when speaking in the 1st person about himself: "JD" ...and when he says, "...and the media didn't care about that." 1/
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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This man, who I understand to be a 17 year veteran, likely just threw away his military career. He is a patriot of the first order.
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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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Nuke It: Nuclear Mushroom Cloud
ALT: Nuke It: Nuclear Mushroom Cloud
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
1) Further evidence that a growing part of the Democratic coalition has disconnected from reality. The activist screaming in Wiener's face crossed the line from political speech to physical threat. (A threat against a pro-trans candidate-- www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/u...
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Pro-Transgender Candidate Is Chased From a Trans Rights Event Over Gaza
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
1) A righteous and necessary Democratic populist economic movement is in danger of being hijacked by extremists who espouse insanity already rejected by 90% of Americans. Dems must decide if they're willing to do the hard work of saving America-- www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/o...
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Opinion | Democrats Are Done With Caution
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Once in a great while the news is not all bad: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump administration reverses decision to scrap ocean monitoring system
Move to dismantle $368m sea observatory initiative faced opposition from experts and lawmakers
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
1) Today is a day to teach and remember. First and foremost the heroism of those - many our fathers and grandfathers - who waded into hell in order to save freedom from the forces of tyranny. But we must also teach and remember that millions--
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
1) Piece notes today's average CEO pay is 465 times what workers make. Not noted is that in 1965 - during America's greatest period of growth, when the world's greatest middle class was built - average CEO pay was only 30 times-- www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/b...
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Led by Elon Musk, C.E.O. Pay Heads Toward the Stars
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Sebastian Junger is a brilliant writer, a serious person with very penetrating things to say about everyone and everything surrounding the Graham Platner phenomenon. Read this. I JUST HAD BREAKFAST WITH GRAHAM PLATNER open.substack.com/pub/sebastia...
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I JUST HAD BREAKFAST WITH GRAHAM PLATNER
Here is what you need to know.
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Remarkable piece by David French should be the basis of a mandatory course in every high school and college in America. If you can't see behind the paywall, the most important sentence is Santayana's: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...
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Opinion | The Fire of Stupidity Cannot Be Contained
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Many lessons can be learned from how Hungary finally defeated Orban. This is perhaps the most important: "They were united by a sense of moral outrage." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The tech bros gave us crypto currency that isn’t currency, artificial intelligence that isn’t intelligence, and prediction markets that are inside-trader scams. On the other hand, they have given us gigantic data centers that employ no one and destroy communities. So there’s that.
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Eye of Mysterioso @mysteriphoto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Dune (1965) Frank Herbert
Kaleidoscopic image of Frank Herbert’s Dune
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
You have to actually read it to understand how corrupt this administration really is:
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Once again @washingtonpost.com shows how shamefully captured it is by tech self-interest. See below the substance of Trump's EO, perhaps the most reasonable he's ever contemplated, reminiscent of safeguards against nuclear accidents. To WaPo it is unendurable government intrusion. wapo.st/4varGo1
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Dreyer never mentions that as an authoritarian state, China's people accept universal surveillance as a normal part of life. Americans don't, and shouldn't. And they're just learning that every time you use AI you're helping to create a universal surveillance state. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...
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Opinion | Why China Is So Much Less Scared of A.I.
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The secret to understanding AI is simple: the sociopaths creating it are the aliens in Rod Serling's 1962 masterpiece "To Serve Man." youtu.be/Zp_EhjlLGkQ?...
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
1) Even Newsom misses the point: Firing 20% of white collar workers will leave 14 million highly-skilled people unemployed. At the height of the Great Recession there were "only" 10 million unemployed. But it's even worse. These-- www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/t... www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/t...
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California’s Governor Signs A.I. Order Aimed at Protecting Workers
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
As the Trump era unravels before our eyes, Americans must reckon with the fact that authoritarianism isn't what did him in; millions cheered his smashing of our most sacred values. In the end we were just lucky. He was more interested in looting the country than in being a dictator.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Yes, we must win the AI race with China, just as we had to win the nuclear race. But the nuclear race was controlled and PAID FOR by the govt for the good of the American people. The AI race is controlled by billionaires who only want to beat China so they can make trillions destroying human labor.
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Rampant corruption. State-sponsored cruelty. The definition of a functioning liberal democracy...
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
1) Kevin O'Leary is following a 90-year history of right-wing propaganda calling out Communist, Russian, Chinese influence on liberal US movements. To be clear, foreign governments try to influence US politics all the time, but they do it across the board, giving money to pro-Palestinian groups as--
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
A universal surveillance state is completely at odds not only with the 4th Amendment but the very founding of America. You can't have a free country if your movements are constantly tracked by the government. Just look at China. This idea would have been unthinkable to our forebears. wapo.st/4uc4aXn
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AI license plate cameras tore this town apart and led to a state of emergency
In Troy, New York, residents and city officials are at odds over police use of Flock cameras, which some call a safety tool and others see as surveillance.
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
1) Huge admirer of French, but I think he's wrong in his attack on Platner. There are many American men like Platner, with a history of saying and doing wrong things, and condemning them is ironically more a left wing problem than a conservative one, yet here-- www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/o...
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Opinion | The Platner Trap
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Doesn't matter how many seats the GOP steals, Democrats will simply have to work harder. They've spent a year-and-a-half whining in passivity instead of presenting a muscular vision to all Americans of freedom, prosperity, ending corruption, and igniting hope. We need another Greatest Generation.
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Perhaps the most misunderstood word in today’s political universe. Time to reclaim what it really means. New piece on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/marshall...
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ʇᴉɯᴉl ɐɯǝɥɔs® @timforgot.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Marshall @mherskovitz.bsky.social is hitting all the notes here. What's comforting to me in these truly dire times is the knowledge that ideas are impossible to erase. Read this, though, because he's right (and informative): marshallherskovitz.substack.com/p/on-liberal...
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
ON LIBERALISM Thoughts On An Endangered Word My first essay on Substack. Hope you enjoy it! open.substack.com/pub/marshall...
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
1) Wow. Ruy Teixeira is appalled by Dem candidates having the temerity to raise millions in small donations instead of the corporate money that has corrupted both parties. Talk about out of touch. I agree Democrats must come to grips with-- www.thefp.com/p/how-the-fa...
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How the Far Left Tapped Into a Money Machine
Graham Platner’s success in the Maine primary shows how easy it’s become for radical candidates to attract major campaign donations, writes Ruy Teixeira.
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Likely unpopular take, but watching Marco Rubio’s confident, good-humored performance in today’s press conference, I can’t help but think if the GOP is smart enough to nominate him in ‘28 it’ll be hard for any Democrat to beat him. Dem hopefuls need to start upping their game right now.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 02/05/2026
bit.ly/4eS4A0i What is creativity—and does it survive the age of artificial intelligence? Emmy-Winning Director @mherskovitz.bsky.social gives his insight on the latest episode of History of the Present with @theintellectualist.bsky.social— only on Lincoln Square
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
1) Mostly excellent exploration of AI's looming societal effects still suffers from neoliberalism's 45-year effect on the elite imagination: The Market is not God, and AI is not an asteroid heading for earth. It's a choice. A choice made by a very small group of-- www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/o...
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Opinion | Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass
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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 30/04/2026
bit.ly/4eS4A0i What is creativity—and does it survive the age of artificial intelligence? Emmy-Winning Director @mherskovitz.bsky.social gives his insight on the latest episode of History of the Present with @theintellectualist.bsky.social— only on Lincoln Square
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Thanks again to @lincolnsquare.media and @theintellectualist.bsky.social for inviting me on. Americans have the power to create the life they want. But in a passive age it’s hard for people to know that.
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Catch-26: "Take that man out and arrest him!" "On what charge, General Dreedle, sir?" "That bastard arranged seashells in the sand!" "Is that illegal, sir?" "It is if I say it is!" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/u...
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Trump Administration Secures New Indictment Against Comey
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Take a few minutes from doomscrolling to read what may be the most important piece in any newspaper today... wapo.st/4mRZTFD
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The hardest working staff at the airport? These two good boys.
Border collies Hercules and Ned help protect planes and passengers from bird strikes. We spent a day with the local celebrities at work.
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This entire sanctimonious Free Press piece is invalidated by one simple fact: Democrats would vote tomorrow for a national ban on partisan gerrymandering. Republicans wouldn't. "Virginia Failed the Basic Test of Our Democracy" www.thefp.com/p/virginia-f...
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Virginia Failed the Basic Test of Our Democracy
A liberal society can’t work if both sides seize every advantage they can. But the latest gerrymander suggests we’ve gone awfully far down that road, writes Charles Lane.
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Next time, if you want to fool anybody other than your idiot supporters, move the clouds.
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Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
1) I have no reason to doubt Ayaan Hirsi Ali's word that the mission of SPLC has been corrupted, and for that it should be condemned. But the DOJ's indictment is another matter entirely. Ali cites SPLC paying a leader of-- www.thefp.com/p/ayaan-hirs...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The SPLC Targeted Me. Now Its Reckoning Has Come.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The SPLC, a group that called me an ‘extremist,’ has been accused of funding hate groups. And it’s provoked racial conflict for decades.
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