@hirschorn.bsky.social
Documentary and non-scripted producer, writer, political activist, sometimes MSNBC, NY Times
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.
19.09.2025 16:08 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2
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...
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
12.09.2025 18:27 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"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...
11.09.2025 19:35 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0"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
Mamdani is winning....85 percent ....of men 18-34
hellgatenyc.com/mayoral-race...
Thinking of this article from 2020
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020... #trumpepstein
It's not the ideology, it's the anti-establishmentarianism. Must read from @michaellangenyc.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/michaell...
![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@jpeg)
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
25.06.2025 14:19 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This
25.06.2025 02:49 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0There's your Democratic blueprint: insurgent, young, uncompromising, focused, optimistic. Now we need to clear out the deadwood #mamdani
25.06.2025 01:58 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Ok now I'm definitely voting Mamdani
19.06.2025 01:17 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
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
youtu.be/QsGSfU15oYA?...
I'm sorry to hear that and thank you for sharing your POV
11.06.2025 19:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Not 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??
10.06.2025 23:11 — 👍 2761 🔁 625 💬 159 📌 35
“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.
10.06.2025 19:33 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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".”
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.
29.05.2025 11:44 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0😘
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.”"
That's six #actuallytwitter
10.05.2025 14:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Future New York Knick?
08.05.2025 18:01 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0"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."
19.04.2025 11:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Will MAGA go the Full Venezuela and ride America all the way down to third world status?
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09.04.2025 01:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to get started...
07.04.2025 15:25 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"These are not serious people"
substack.com/@petebuttigi...
French 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."
Are 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.”
