Marshall Herskovitz
@mherskovitz.bsky.social
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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Also another reminder that <10 people in Washington - all of whom are Republicans & all of whom keep getting total daily free passes from the media about their cowardice - could end most of the madness tomorrow by simply caucusing with the Democrats & giving them control of both the House & Senate.
Suddenly the special election in TN-07 becomes potentially hugely consequential. It shouldn’t be competitive, but if Democrats steal it, when Greene resigns the Republican majority will be down to 218-216 w a sure Dem seat with no special scheduled in Texas.
Just catching up; what’s the significance of Jan 5? Does waiting until then affect when the special will be scheduled?
November 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Also another reminder that <10 people in Washington - all of whom are Republicans & all of whom keep getting total daily free passes from the media about their cowardice - could end most of the madness tomorrow by simply caucusing with the Democrats & giving them control of both the House & Senate.
We live every day knowing Jim Crow happened, the internment of Japanese citizens happened; but we comfort ourselves that that was before our time.
This sadism is happening right now.
To American citizens.
What are we willing to do to stop it?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
This sadism is happening right now.
To American citizens.
What are we willing to do to stop it?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Opinion | ‘The System Is Meant to Break You’: What ICE Is Doing to People Here Legally
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
We live every day knowing Jim Crow happened, the internment of Japanese citizens happened; but we comfort ourselves that that was before our time.
This sadism is happening right now.
To American citizens.
What are we willing to do to stop it?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
This sadism is happening right now.
To American citizens.
What are we willing to do to stop it?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Ken Burns' American Revolution is truly excellent. Amazing to see England's strategy of divide and conquer fail when Massachusetts stood up to oppression and the 12 other colonies rushed to its aid.
If only Paul Free, Columbia, Zuckerberg, Disney, and other cowards knew more about American history.
If only Paul Free, Columbia, Zuckerberg, Disney, and other cowards knew more about American history.
November 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Ken Burns' American Revolution is truly excellent. Amazing to see England's strategy of divide and conquer fail when Massachusetts stood up to oppression and the 12 other colonies rushed to its aid.
If only Paul Free, Columbia, Zuckerberg, Disney, and other cowards knew more about American history.
If only Paul Free, Columbia, Zuckerberg, Disney, and other cowards knew more about American history.
Klein rips the lid off the conversation no one in business, media, or government is willing to have:
AI is going to decimate the ability of Americans to make a living; what are we going to do about it?
Clearly, at the moment the answer is nothing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...
AI is going to decimate the ability of Americans to make a living; what are we going to do about it?
Clearly, at the moment the answer is nothing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...
Opinion | The Government Knows A.G.I. Is Coming
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Klein rips the lid off the conversation no one in business, media, or government is willing to have:
AI is going to decimate the ability of Americans to make a living; what are we going to do about it?
Clearly, at the moment the answer is nothing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...
AI is going to decimate the ability of Americans to make a living; what are we going to do about it?
Clearly, at the moment the answer is nothing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...
1) Rarely disagree with Chait, but he’s dead wrong here. Healthcare will continue to dog the GOP because their imminent refusal to vote for subsidies will ignite rage across the country. And his support for ending the filibuster is incomprehensible. Does he not—
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake
The shutdown was hurting Trump. Ending it helps him.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 AM
1) Rarely disagree with Chait, but he’s dead wrong here. Healthcare will continue to dog the GOP because their imminent refusal to vote for subsidies will ignite rage across the country. And his support for ending the filibuster is incomprehensible. Does he not—
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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If you have a little Sunday time, here is a thought provoking conversation with political mind and author Gregg Hurwitz.
New episode of THE RISING is up!
Join us with great novelist and political mind Gregg Hurwitz for a deep conversation about what Democrats, and all Americans, must do to save our country.
youtu.be/28iOIuZ7Pd0?...
Join us with great novelist and political mind Gregg Hurwitz for a deep conversation about what Democrats, and all Americans, must do to save our country.
youtu.be/28iOIuZ7Pd0?...
Divided we FALL: Can Americans UNITE again?
YouTube video by The Dangerous Ones
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November 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
If you have a little Sunday time, here is a thought provoking conversation with political mind and author Gregg Hurwitz.
1) An entire generation of young people is being destroyed right now. They can't find jobs, they can't afford to have children, they will never be able to afford a house, their minds are being fried by social media. If we as a culture cannot rise up against the forces making--
November 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
1) An entire generation of young people is being destroyed right now. They can't find jobs, they can't afford to have children, they will never be able to afford a house, their minds are being fried by social media. If we as a culture cannot rise up against the forces making--
New episode of THE RISING is up!
Join us with great novelist and political mind Gregg Hurwitz for a deep conversation about what Democrats, and all Americans, must do to save our country.
youtu.be/28iOIuZ7Pd0?...
Join us with great novelist and political mind Gregg Hurwitz for a deep conversation about what Democrats, and all Americans, must do to save our country.
youtu.be/28iOIuZ7Pd0?...
Divided we FALL: Can Americans UNITE again?
YouTube video by The Dangerous Ones
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
New episode of THE RISING is up!
Join us with great novelist and political mind Gregg Hurwitz for a deep conversation about what Democrats, and all Americans, must do to save our country.
youtu.be/28iOIuZ7Pd0?...
Join us with great novelist and political mind Gregg Hurwitz for a deep conversation about what Democrats, and all Americans, must do to save our country.
youtu.be/28iOIuZ7Pd0?...
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Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.
1) Excellent piece by @sohrabahmari.bsky.social about one of many angry Gen Z voices. Truly amazing that the hold of neoliberalism over our culture is such that we are watching, seemingly powerless, as these young people's lives and futures are--
Why Nikki Haley’s son went radical: His generation inherited insecurity.
I profile Nalin Haley, a fascinating young man, who I believe will likely play an important role in conservative politics in years to come.
unherd.com/2025/11/why-...
I profile Nalin Haley, a fascinating young man, who I believe will likely play an important role in conservative politics in years to come.
unherd.com/2025/11/why-...
Why Nikki Haley’s son went radical
unherd.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
1) Excellent piece by @sohrabahmari.bsky.social about one of many angry Gen Z voices. Truly amazing that the hold of neoliberalism over our culture is such that we are watching, seemingly powerless, as these young people's lives and futures are--
This sure is newsworthy. About as newsworthy as the sexual preferences of Axios CEO Jim VandeHei and Editor in Chief Mike Allen.
James Talarico, a Texas Democrat running for U.S. Senate who has put his faith at the forefront of his campaign, follows several adult film performers, escorts and OnlyFans models on Instagram, according to an Axios review.
Faith-forward Texas Senate candidate follows porn actors, escorts online
James Talarico has become a sensation in Texas politics by talking about how his Christianity is the basis for his progressive politics.
www.axios.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This sure is newsworthy. About as newsworthy as the sexual preferences of Axios CEO Jim VandeHei and Editor in Chief Mike Allen.
Bernie 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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
November 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Bernie 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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
Waiting to see what excuse the DOJ gives for dropping charges against Jack Smith before his trial begins.
November 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Waiting to see what excuse the DOJ gives for dropping charges against Jack Smith before his trial begins.
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November 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
WE NEED YOU to help us GROW and AMPLIFY these important pro-democracy voices!
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Algorithms make us hate each other. Lies spread 6x faster than truth. Surveillance capitalists manipulate our beliefs.
If we’re going to save America, it will REQUIRE dealing with the monetization of our attention.
FDR talked about Freedom from Want.
How about Freedom from Manipulation?
If we’re going to save America, it will REQUIRE dealing with the monetization of our attention.
FDR talked about Freedom from Want.
How about Freedom from Manipulation?
POISONING Our Freedom: The Big Tech Addiction War
YouTube video by The Dangerous Ones
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Algorithms make us hate each other. Lies spread 6x faster than truth. Surveillance capitalists manipulate our beliefs.
If we’re going to save America, it will REQUIRE dealing with the monetization of our attention.
FDR talked about Freedom from Want.
How about Freedom from Manipulation?
If we’re going to save America, it will REQUIRE dealing with the monetization of our attention.
FDR talked about Freedom from Want.
How about Freedom from Manipulation?
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🚨POISONING Democracy
Outrage is the business model. Attention is the drug. And we’re the product.
Rep. Jake Auchincloss tells The Rising how to detox America.
PRESS PLAY: youtu.be/0RsUJs4INGM?...
Outrage is the business model. Attention is the drug. And we’re the product.
Rep. Jake Auchincloss tells The Rising how to detox America.
PRESS PLAY: youtu.be/0RsUJs4INGM?...
POISONING Our Freedom: The Big Tech Addiction War
YouTube video by The Dangerous Ones
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
🚨POISONING Democracy
Outrage is the business model. Attention is the drug. And we’re the product.
Rep. Jake Auchincloss tells The Rising how to detox America.
PRESS PLAY: youtu.be/0RsUJs4INGM?...
Outrage is the business model. Attention is the drug. And we’re the product.
Rep. Jake Auchincloss tells The Rising how to detox America.
PRESS PLAY: youtu.be/0RsUJs4INGM?...
New episode of The Rising is up! Today we talk with the brilliant Jake Auchincloss, representative from MA, about how big tech is poisoning our children’s minds on social media - among many other important topics. youtu.be/0RsUJs4INGM?...
POISONING Our Freedom: The Big Tech Addiction War
YouTube video by The Dangerous Ones
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
New episode of The Rising is up! Today we talk with the brilliant Jake Auchincloss, representative from MA, about how big tech is poisoning our children’s minds on social media - among many other important topics. youtu.be/0RsUJs4INGM?...
Waiting for one Democratic leader to admit, "Yeah, saying we should nuke the filibuster was a really bad idea."
Should have been easy to see. Nuking the judicial filibuster is what got us a 6-3 SCOTUS.
Should have been easy to see. Nuking the judicial filibuster is what got us a 6-3 SCOTUS.
November 1, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Waiting for one Democratic leader to admit, "Yeah, saying we should nuke the filibuster was a really bad idea."
Should have been easy to see. Nuking the judicial filibuster is what got us a 6-3 SCOTUS.
Should have been easy to see. Nuking the judicial filibuster is what got us a 6-3 SCOTUS.
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It is breathtaking how much of what was painstakingly built up over 250 years has been destroyed in ten months.
From the economy to civilian/military relations to our foreign alliances to the DOJ to civil rights and on and on.
From the economy to civilian/military relations to our foreign alliances to the DOJ to civil rights and on and on.
October 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It is breathtaking how much of what was painstakingly built up over 250 years has been destroyed in ten months.
From the economy to civilian/military relations to our foreign alliances to the DOJ to civil rights and on and on.
From the economy to civilian/military relations to our foreign alliances to the DOJ to civil rights and on and on.
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In 2021, Jack Ciattarelli blamed Trump for the January 6th riot: “A very, very sad day in our nation’s history, and I do believe that the president’s rhetoric on that day, as that of Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell and L. Lin Wood, all contributed to that riot.”
October 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
In 2021, Jack Ciattarelli blamed Trump for the January 6th riot: “A very, very sad day in our nation’s history, and I do believe that the president’s rhetoric on that day, as that of Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell and L. Lin Wood, all contributed to that riot.”
AI slaughter of white-collar jobs has begun. These workers account for 65% of consumer spending: houses, cars, clothing, TV's, restaurants, on and on. Blind pursuit of short-term cost-cutting will propel us into a 2008-size recession, and the destruction of many lives.
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
Tens of Thousands of White-Collar Jobs Are Disappearing as AI Starts to Bite
Companies ranging from Amazon to Target are sending workers into an unwelcoming market.
www.wsj.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
AI slaughter of white-collar jobs has begun. These workers account for 65% of consumer spending: houses, cars, clothing, TV's, restaurants, on and on. Blind pursuit of short-term cost-cutting will propel us into a 2008-size recession, and the destruction of many lives.
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
Brilliant @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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...
October 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Brilliant @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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...
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The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
In 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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...
October 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
In 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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...
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It's ever incredible to me that all it would take is for a handful of people in Congress to stop pretending this is all fine and yet, nope. Survivalist nihilism is their north star.
October 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It's ever incredible to me that all it would take is for a handful of people in Congress to stop pretending this is all fine and yet, nope. Survivalist nihilism is their north star.