hirschorn
@hirschorn
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Ish Entertainment (https://t.co/Zh0sNTtaza), The People (https://t.co/GV1dPWD9b4), https://t.co/QAHzX9pEsX, formerly: head of programming VH1, writer The Atlantic, NY Mag
New York, USA
Joined February 2009
Hugging a bearded guy with an AR-15 right now. Feels good
Chris Pratt says Americans supporting each other after Election Day is a "bigger civic duty" than voting. "Accept the results and focus instead on showing up for each other. Check in with your neighbor—especially if they voted for the other guy or girl." https://t.co/By3k7B0WYA
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This is terrific
I'll be voting for Harris today. A brief thread of my reasons why. This is not to argue with Trump supporters, this is to share with anyone who is on the fence.
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Trump appears to be unraveling live on stage “When I say insane asylums, and then I say, Doctor Hannibal Lecter, does anybody know? They go crazy. They say, oh, he brings up these names out of— Well, that's genius. Right. Doctor Hannibal Lecter. There's nobody worse than him.
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A Chinese American friend tells me there's heavy disinfo on WeChat targeting conservative Asian men
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1/2 But…the full data have been in the public domain for years, in some cases decades. Anyone with internet access can go to the PubMed National Library of Medicine database. The data are unequivocal: vaccines don’t cause autism and there’s not even a plausible mechanism.
To be clear, my wife and I trust our doctors and following their advice have vaccinated our children and ourselves. However, not everybody trusts such advice or the FDA. We would be doing everyone a service if the government respected Bobby Kennedy’s request to make the full data
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Wow. Mike Johnson was caught on a hot mic saying that he and Donald Trump will repeal the Affordable Care Act. Spread this everywhere.
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Where is @KingJames? His has been a powerful voice over the last few years but it sure could make a difference now
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that all Dems were idiots. I told her we respectfully disagreed. Signs were 50-50 almost exactly, one after the other. I couldn't say for sure we made any difference but perhaps the effort is the point. Next week PA
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Exhausting, humbling and rewarding afternoon of canvassing in Kenosha, WI today. A recent immigrant from Belize wouldn't reveal she was pro KH until she was sure we were safe to talk to. Two Trump supporters on cycles rounded us twice. And an older Latina yelled after us
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Have you heard that even most Latino voters support Trump’s mass deportation plans? That’s because of what I call “poll-washing”—using surveys to “reveal” popular support for something the survey-takers don’t fully understand. It’s time for pollsters to poll the policies, not the
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More @Mike_Podhorzer brilliance: " ...surveys are used to “reveal” popular support for the indefensible (once it’s been sanitized), lending it a veneer of democratic legitimacy. This is what I call “poll-washing.” " https://t.co/VYFfBlvh1v
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We're trying to stand up to a fascist who's in cahoots with the world's richest man, and our only weapon is: knocking on doors and having conversations. Of course it feels scary. Right now our job is to be brave and keep knocking.
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At this point in October 2020, I wrote a piece for the glorious @BulwarkOnline, imploring my new Dem friends to finish the campaign with confidence and swagger. I wrote that if I ran the Dem party, my message would be: We are going to crush Donald Trump and the sickness he
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Victory is near.
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On @TheBeatWithAri in < hour to discuss this essay and many more uncomfortable things about Reality, reality, and our increasingly inability to distinguish between the two
When Donald Trump says outrageous things, “doesn’t he know people are going to be shocked?” @hirschorn asks. Of course. “He says them specifically because people will be shocked. He has succeeded in making himself the most most-hated man in America.” https://t.co/dmZoJpGoXJ
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We should be alarmed by how unalarmed we are about a second Trump administration. This race is closer than it would be if more people understood what a second Trump term would actually mean for them. 🧵
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Idea for @kamalaharris: agree to a Times or Post or NPR interview and ask her interviewers to explain why they can't call out Trump's explicit fascist turn for what it is. That would make news
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If Democrats would go on offense and wedge abortion/freedom as hard as Republicans are wedging immigration and gender pronouns, I would sleep much better at night. We are not learning the lessons from 2023 on most of the swing may, which continues to run old strategy.
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The @nytimes reported extensively on Mayor Adams' ethical issues back in 2021 but all of that got erased amid the great George Floyd backlash of 2021-22 https://t.co/5bwzSsip47
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Mr. Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, has called money the “enemy of politics.” But his fund-raising has repeatedly pushed the boundaries of campaign-finance and ethics laws.
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