Dan Hirschman
@asociologist.bsky.social
Sociologist @Cornell. Currently interested in the history of inequality statistics, and the role of economic expertise in climate policy. “Venceréis, pero no convenceréis.”
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they're doing it for gender, imo
It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
January 6, 2026 at 1:57 AM
they're doing it for gender, imo
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The Onion can just copy and paste this HHS language
Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them
January 6, 2026 at 1:39 AM
The Onion can just copy and paste this HHS language
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"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month
On the first day back following the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro & first lady Cilia Flores, 6 Senate Democrats vote yea to confirm Keith Bass as an Assistant Secretary of Defense by a vote of 50-35.
January 5, 2026 at 11:55 PM
"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month
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Report from Georgia that gives a picture of what’s happening with influenza.
Flu hospitalizations 2024: 427
Flu hospitalizations 2025: 1176
Flu deaths 2024: 0
Flu deaths 2025: 27
Flu hospitalizations 2024: 427
Flu hospitalizations 2025: 1176
Flu deaths 2024: 0
Flu deaths 2025: 27
Georgia sees rise in hospitalizations, deaths due to aggressive flu strain - The Current
Georgia has seen a significant increase in flu-associated hospitalizations and deaths since October, with the CDC recommending the flu vaccine for people over six months old, including pregnant women ...
thecurrentga.org
January 6, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Report from Georgia that gives a picture of what’s happening with influenza.
Flu hospitalizations 2024: 427
Flu hospitalizations 2025: 1176
Flu deaths 2024: 0
Flu deaths 2025: 27
Flu hospitalizations 2024: 427
Flu hospitalizations 2025: 1176
Flu deaths 2024: 0
Flu deaths 2025: 27
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
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holiday academic Bluesky (US version): here is a list of everything I accomplished this year plus I had some Thoughts about the humanities
holiday academic Bluesky (UK version): I’m 80% brandy butter, 12% brussels sprouts, 8% brisk walk, what’s a university again, also I’ve forgotten how to write
holiday academic Bluesky (UK version): I’m 80% brandy butter, 12% brussels sprouts, 8% brisk walk, what’s a university again, also I’ve forgotten how to write
December 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
holiday academic Bluesky (US version): here is a list of everything I accomplished this year plus I had some Thoughts about the humanities
holiday academic Bluesky (UK version): I’m 80% brandy butter, 12% brussels sprouts, 8% brisk walk, what’s a university again, also I’ve forgotten how to write
holiday academic Bluesky (UK version): I’m 80% brandy butter, 12% brussels sprouts, 8% brisk walk, what’s a university again, also I’ve forgotten how to write
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People informed about the attack beforehand: NYT, WaPo, oil executives
People not informed: Those with the sole power to declare war
People not informed: Those with the sole power to declare war
Trump Reveals He Gave US Oil Companies a Heads Up ‘Before and After’ Maduro Raid
Trump revealed that American oil companies were informed in advance of the raid on Venezuela that led to the capture of the country’s president.
www.mediaite.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:48 PM
People informed about the attack beforehand: NYT, WaPo, oil executives
People not informed: Those with the sole power to declare war
People not informed: Those with the sole power to declare war
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yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.
Right.
If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
a lot of problems wouldn't exist if we had a congress with even an ounce of self interest
January 4, 2026 at 11:52 PM
yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.
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For those of us not in the cult, this is what we hear when anyone from the Trump administration speaks.
For the people in the back, this is satire and so well done…
For the people in the back, this is satire and so well done…
January 4, 2026 at 7:56 PM
For those of us not in the cult, this is what we hear when anyone from the Trump administration speaks.
For the people in the back, this is satire and so well done…
For the people in the back, this is satire and so well done…
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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...but you don't know! another person's situation! you don't know if the person walking is in intense pain! or exhausted after taking the hundred steps they need to get to their seat! you just don't know. so when Steve describes his life as an ambulatory wheelchair user -- that's powerful to me! 3/3
January 4, 2026 at 8:54 PM
...but you don't know! another person's situation! you don't know if the person walking is in intense pain! or exhausted after taking the hundred steps they need to get to their seat! you just don't know. so when Steve describes his life as an ambulatory wheelchair user -- that's powerful to me! 3/3
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but you can't say it enough -- because out in the world, you often see people cop an attitude if they see somebody boarding early at the airport who doesn't "look different." or parking in a disabled spot and then walking out of their car...2/3
January 4, 2026 at 8:54 PM
but you can't say it enough -- because out in the world, you often see people cop an attitude if they see somebody boarding early at the airport who doesn't "look different." or parking in a disabled spot and then walking out of their car...2/3
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this is my friend Steve Bailey. We met at one of the YoYo festivals, we were lodged at the same place, and we've been friends since. I am really stoked that he is sharing this stuff because "not all disabilities are visible" is something people say, 1/3
deadline.com/2026/01/grey...
deadline.com/2026/01/grey...
‘Grey’s Anatomy’s Steven W. Bailey Reveals Neuromuscular Disorder, Wheelchair Use: “Same Actor … Now With Wheels”
A familiar face to fans of 'Grey's Anatomy', Steven W. Bailey is opening up about a five-year struggle with his own health.
deadline.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:54 PM
this is my friend Steve Bailey. We met at one of the YoYo festivals, we were lodged at the same place, and we've been friends since. I am really stoked that he is sharing this stuff because "not all disabilities are visible" is something people say, 1/3
deadline.com/2026/01/grey...
deadline.com/2026/01/grey...
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Polls show that 70% of Americans oppose the war in Venezuela. But at this CBS News staff meeting, that number feels much smaller.
January 4, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Polls show that 70% of Americans oppose the war in Venezuela. But at this CBS News staff meeting, that number feels much smaller.
This is simultaneously a great analogy and a completely inaccurate portrayal of how Settlers of Catan works.
Trump views energy geopolitics “almost like the world is a Settlers of Catan board—you kidnap the president of Venezuela and, ipso facto, you now control all the oil,” @roryjohnston.bsky.social told me
i took a look at why Trump's plans to pump more Venezuelan oil are a lot harder than he thinks
i took a look at why Trump's plans to pump more Venezuelan oil are a lot harder than he thinks
Trump Wants Venezuela's Oil. Getting It Might Not Be So Simple
The administration has made it clear that Nicolás Maduro's capture was tied to Venezuela's vast oil reserves. Much less certain is how US companies will actually access them—or if they even want to.
www.wired.com
January 4, 2026 at 7:31 PM
This is simultaneously a great analogy and a completely inaccurate portrayal of how Settlers of Catan works.
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You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true
NYT, WaPo learned of the secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin but held off publishing what they had at the administration's request to avoid endangering US troops
January 4, 2026 at 4:18 AM
You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true
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It's a class on the history of the far right in the US and each student will design and execute a research project on a Cold War era figure about whom almost nothing has been written, but for whom there is an enormous primary source archive available to work with. 1000s of pages of FBI files...
January 4, 2026 at 4:36 PM
It's a class on the history of the far right in the US and each student will design and execute a research project on a Cold War era figure about whom almost nothing has been written, but for whom there is an enormous primary source archive available to work with. 1000s of pages of FBI files...
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This semester I’m teaching a guided research seminar for undergraduates in which they will hopefully have the experience of using the internet as a place of discovery and connection, rather than as the hellscape of algorithmic distraction & rage bait it’s become. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Internet bad
Podcast Episode · Today, Explained · 01/04/2026 · 30m
podcasts.apple.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:32 PM
This semester I’m teaching a guided research seminar for undergraduates in which they will hopefully have the experience of using the internet as a place of discovery and connection, rather than as the hellscape of algorithmic distraction & rage bait it’s become. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Mamdani rescinded every executive order issued by Eric Adams after Adams's indictment, but still the "New York Times" is focusing exclusively on two of those orders that had to do with Israel.
There is someone singling out Israel here. And it isn't Zohran Mamdani.
There is someone singling out Israel here. And it isn't Zohran Mamdani.
January 4, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Mamdani rescinded every executive order issued by Eric Adams after Adams's indictment, but still the "New York Times" is focusing exclusively on two of those orders that had to do with Israel.
There is someone singling out Israel here. And it isn't Zohran Mamdani.
There is someone singling out Israel here. And it isn't Zohran Mamdani.
Die young or live long enough to be the one holding the “I can’t believe I’m still protesting this shit” sign.
Im in my late 40s, and im just flashing back to every ‘justified’ regime change and invasion for decades, every ‘weapons of mass destruction’ lie, every ‘evil communists’ trope bought and sold by politicians, journalists and people, and all the incredible suffering that followed
January 4, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Die young or live long enough to be the one holding the “I can’t believe I’m still protesting this shit” sign.
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Im in my late 40s, and im just flashing back to every ‘justified’ regime change and invasion for decades, every ‘weapons of mass destruction’ lie, every ‘evil communists’ trope bought and sold by politicians, journalists and people, and all the incredible suffering that followed
January 3, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Im in my late 40s, and im just flashing back to every ‘justified’ regime change and invasion for decades, every ‘weapons of mass destruction’ lie, every ‘evil communists’ trope bought and sold by politicians, journalists and people, and all the incredible suffering that followed
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Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*
January 3, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*
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It’s sobering to look back on the run-up to the Iraq war—a period of unceasing chattering-class debate, elaborate official lies, media complicity, unavailing global protest, in the end a giant stitch-up—and have it seem like some sort of paradise of public deliberation compared to these gangsters.
January 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
It’s sobering to look back on the run-up to the Iraq war—a period of unceasing chattering-class debate, elaborate official lies, media complicity, unavailing global protest, in the end a giant stitch-up—and have it seem like some sort of paradise of public deliberation compared to these gangsters.