Michael Hirschorn

When To Accommodate, and When To Fight? NY Officials Agonize and Prepare for Federal Escalation Jackie Bray has been thinking about how quickly things could spiral out...

"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. "

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'we have lost young men' was pushed by Shor, and his source was 'i made it up'

Young Men Go Blue CNN exit polls show young men backing Democrats in New Jersey, Virginia, and New York

Young men voted Mamdani by 68-26 percent for Cuomo. Young men voted blue in last night's other major races but by nowhere near this margin

Like I've always said, when you're explaining (that you're not a secret Nazi) you're losing

Agenda item for Mamdani: get Newsmax out of NYC taxi cabs

The New York City Office Market Is Roaring Back, and It’s Pricier Than Ever Manhattan office space is leasing at a rate not seen since 2006, while office markets in other cities are plodding along.

If a few billionaires want to move to Florida or East Hampton they definitely should. Manhattan is way too crowded as it is

That seems unarguable!

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight “Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

Well I definitely do not have final say but I did not want to be a shirker. Here's a link to your carefully argued piece for those who want to go deeper www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

Thanks for the kudos Pitchbot. Have to admit I also proposed the headline, because engagement

Opinion | With Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension, the Mask Comes Off Laughter is now a government-regulated product.

Is 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.

Opinion | We Can No Longer Tell Ourselves This Isn’t Really Happening

My 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...

Opinion | We Can No Longer Tell Ourselves This Isn’t Really Happening

An urgent and essential piece by @hirschorn.bsky.social

Imagine if the government devoted the same kind of energy to ridding the country of guns as it does to ridding the country of immigrants. It is possible to do things if you want to

Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.

"What happened to Kirk is horrifying. But Kirk...was an accelerationist force whose work to dehumanize LGBTQ+ people and threaten the free speech of professors, teachers, and school board members has put the livelihoods+physical safety of many people in danger. " www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

"The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in."

Economists sound the alarm about produce prices doubling - FORTUNE

Find Me a New Yorker Who Doesn't Support Zohran Mamdani A new poll sees Mamdani decisively on top. And more links for your Wednesday morning.

Mamdani is winning....85 percent ....of men 18-34
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Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year In 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

Thinking of this article from 2020

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020... #trumpepstein

The Zohran Coalition Mamdani's Mandate & The Dawn of a New Day

It's not the ideology, it's the anti-establishmentarianism. Must read from @michaellangenyc.bsky.social

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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.

I 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...

Your move, Catsimatides

This

There's your Democratic blueprint: insurgent, young, uncompromising, focused, optimistic. Now we need to clear out the deadwood #mamdani

Ok now I'm definitely voting Mamdani

YouTube video by MSNBC MAGA 'pod army' invaded by AOC, Bernie's populism & Mayor Pete's love story: Melber report

Had 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

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I'm sorry to hear that and thank you for sharing your POV

Not 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??

Opinion | The Achingly Simple Lesson That Democrats Seem Determined Not to Learn Trying to find a lefty Joe Rogan entirely misses the point.

“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.

Opinion | The Achingly Simple Lesson That Democrats Seem Determined Not to Learn Trying to find a lefty Joe Rogan entirely misses the point.

New 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".”

I changed my mind on trans rights – and lost multiple friends As a human rights lawyer, I never questioned the trans movement. But, after a lightbulb moment, I publicly changed my position

You'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.

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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.”"