Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 06/06/20261) 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-- 2106
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Many 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... 3126
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 25/05/2026You have to actually read it to understand how corrupt this administration really is: 174
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Once 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 120
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026The 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?... 172
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Rampant corruption. State-sponsored cruelty. The definition of a functioning liberal democracy... 121
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 17/05/20261) 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-- 184
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Perhaps 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... 030
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026ON LIBERALISM Thoughts On An Endangered Word My first essay on Substack. Hope you enjoy it! open.substack.com/pub/marshall... 051
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026“…the SPLC was sharing the intelligence it gathered with the FBI for years.” We are living under the most corrupt administration in American history. 0105
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 23/04/2026AI's job-killing spree has begun where it was born, in software and tech. Thousands of workers forced to train AI to replace them, ordered to dig their own figurative graves before their bosses shoot them. If you don't want this future for America, time to do something about it. 110
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 20/04/2026So excited to be back with my dear friends Jim and Tiffany Drastic - @thedangerousones.com! We talked about the looming AI disaster. Please watch! youtu.be/m8UpEcWZQAo?... 040
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Classic propaganda: Oh no! MMR vaccine linked to 26 times the number of deaths from measles itself! Except there were literally only THREE deaths from measles in that entire period because everyone was vaccinated! Which means 75 deaths (maybe, no cause determined) among 300,000,000 vaccinations. 061
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Easy to see why Andreesen is so cheerful about destroying civilization as we know it: believes introspection is a silly modern invention. Spectacularly wrong. Clearly never read Hamlet. Or St. Augustine. Or Maimonides. Or the Stoics. Or Socrates. Or Gilgamesh. I could go on, but what's the point. 193
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Unforgivable that politicians and news media forced Trump to pay no price for abandoning the Iran nuclear deal in 2018. The Iranians had been complying and his reckless decision is why we're at war now. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/o... 0137
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 23/02/2026The geniuses: Klausewitz. Grant. Eisenhower. Kushner and Witkoff. 312
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Shameful misinformation by @washingtonpost.com Editorial Board. Police DO NOT release criminals in order to help them avoid ICE, as implied below. They simply don't cooperate with ICE, which is allowed under federal law. "Blue States Banning Cooperation with ICE Will Backfire" wapo.st/49XOorB 063
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 08/01/20261) Scott Jennings seems honestly confused why people all over the country are incensed at ICE “simply because they’re enforcing the law.” Could it be he really hasn’t seen the HUNDREDS of videos showing ICE agents harassing and attacking innocent-- 171
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Once again the Washington Post Editorial Board shows bias against the truth: "Large investors aren’t the villains of the housing problem" wapo.st/4sve1XV 120
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 03/01/2026This is the Editorial Board of the Washington Post. Not the Wall Street Journal. Not Breitbart. Jeff Bezos must need a REALLY BIG favor from the Trump administration. 0147
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 02/01/20261) Mamdani gave a great speech, and destroyed it with this one sentence. “Collectivism” has a specific meaning, and it’s not “the common good” or “communal purpose.” It is the belief that the individual does not matter, that only the collective - the state, the government, the— 220
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 30/12/20251) Virtually every liberal democracy in the world now has an antisemitism problem. We in the US already see it bleeding in from the edges, on the left and right. And for those on the left who say this is not antisemitism but moral revulsion against Israel, ask the Jews who’ve— 110
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 07/12/20251) Why It's A Wonderful Life is the greatest film ever made. A thread: 284
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Once again the Emperor's New Clothes of AI: incredible excitement over high productivity and profits caused by slashing employment, without asking whose going to buy all the results of that productivity when AI has decimated the entire white collar class. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b... 293
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Bernie Sanders is a great American who wants the best for the American people. I wish he said the words below more often, because he clearly believes them: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o... 051
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Waiting to see what excuse the DOJ gives for dropping charges against Jack Smith before his trial begins. 022
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Brilliant @nytopinion.nytimes.com piece by Kyla Scanlon, one of our best economic thinkers. The ultimate expression of neoliberalism is where the rich do all the gambling and everybody else takes on all the risk. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o... 063
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 25/10/2025In one dismissive paragraph, Douthat exemplifies the right's embrace of authoritarianism. "Without much external consultation" and a "whiff of private-donor corruption" describe everything from ICE lawlessness to the most corrupt administration in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o... 3154
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 24/10/2025A child's primer on federal forces on our streets, courtesy of @nytimes.com. The normalization of autocracy is in full swing. 003
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Like it or hate, this single paragraph defines where Democrats have to move if they ever want to be relevant again. Contrary to the rage merchants, this is the America we actually live in, and it's not so bad. Call it Common Sense and Common Decency: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o... 162
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 05/10/2025New episode of our podcast The Rising is up! Join Nick Knudsen and me as we talk more about moving on from this era of authoritarianism. And curing the cancer on our economy that has blighted two generations. youtu.be/SmTv-1xC5JA?... 4199
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 05/10/2025This cannot be ignored and cannot be normalized. If you think you're safe because your skin isn't brown and your accent isn't Hispanic, please, please, study history. 32911
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2025In any sane era since the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, this would be patently illegal: 0105
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 22/09/20251) Been thinking about this Kurt Schlichter post since yesterday. Saying he prefers a civil, working democracy but will accept living in an authoritarian state, because the only other alternative would be a communist dictatorship. Seems to me this clearly expresses what-- 341
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Juxtaposition: @SenJohnKennedy rails against Dems for an outlier poll supporting Scandinavian-style Social Democrats - while turning a blind eye to his own party’s Gestapo as it brutalizes American citizens right now. Clean up your own house, Senator. 3103
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 08/09/2025You need to be following Christopher Armitage on Substack. He’s one of the few voices speaking of the size of action we need. open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita... 064
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Instructive to watch Seven Days in May, made 61 years ago. The president was the hero and not the traitor, but otherwise scarily prescient. Especially when General Scott the traitor says, "This country's in a lot of trouble." And thinks that's a reason to overthrow democracy. 34711
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 27/07/2025If you haven’t seen this film please find it. It’s on Prime and likely other platforms. It will remind you there was a time when we had a common purpose and weren’t driven by hate. Pierce Brosnan is astonishing. 260
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 26/07/2025This quote from Marco Rubio's senate report in 2020 is all you need to know about the dangerous and obscene farce being perpetrated by Tulsi Gabbard, as she brings shame upon the office of Director of National Intelligence: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u... 817461
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 17/07/2025This is the importance @nytimes.com gives to stealing an election: tiny piece, way down the front page. Folks need to wake up. Trump and the GOP would not be doing what they're doing if they thought the Democrats could ever be in power again and do the same to them. 122
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 12/07/2025The better AI gets, the more of a disaster it becomes. This is what happened after Grok's Nazi meltdown was halted and the all-new Version 4 of Grok was introduced: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o... 1116
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 29/06/20251) I'm one of the very few free speech absolutists who believes that the "public sphere" is not protected by the First Amendment, and shouldn't be. Nazis and Communists don't get to publish op-eds in newspapers, public obscenity and drunkenness are illegal; there are-- 342
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025The problem with socialism is not just that Americans don't want it, it's that it doesn't give Americans what they want. Free buses, rent control, govt-owned grocery stores just help people cope better. Americans are tired of coping. They want OPPORTUNITY. They want to succeed,-- 6123
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Where are the lawsuits regarding ICE agents masking and refusing to identify themselves? All federal agents by law must identify themselves unless engaged in specific undercover missions. 053
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 04/06/2025A man driving 100MPH runs a slew of stoplights, looks back and sees a horde of cop cars chasing him, lights flashing, sirens wailing. "That's more cop cars than have ever chased anyone in the entirety of the 20th Century. This is not normal. These cops must be corrupt!" 293
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 31/05/2025I post about the coming AI bloodbath virtually every day, in virtually these exact words. People simply do not see or believe what's coming. And the CEO's somehow imagine we'll have a booming economy when 20% of the people who consume goods and services are unemployed. www.axios.com/2025/05/28/a... 095
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Many have been talking about this Steven Pinker piece, and rightly. It's a brilliant distillation of what's wrong and what's right about Harvard, and what's wrong with the Trump administration's jihad against it. He also explains why Harvard must resist this jihad: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o... 061
Marshall Herskovitz @mherskovitz.bsky.social · 26/05/2025This man, our AI czar (!!!!), has clearly never read a science fiction novel or knows who Hal was in 2001: A Space Odyssey. He seriously thinks this is a great idea. We are so fucked. 3238