Josh Hirschfeld Kroen

Emmy winning video journalist @MorePerfectUS | previously @sunrisemvmt | all 3 of my tweets are my own | he/him

[Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil]

Yes, this is slop—in part because the person making seems tasteless, dull, and infatuated with the tech itself rather than narrative art—but video gen is clearly close to *commercial viability* in the right hands. Especially for kids’ content, since they’re undiscerning.

This is why I’ve been agitating for a leftist AI skeptical response bigger than “it’s slop, it sucks, it’s fake, it’s bad.” Because it has been getting vastly more capable, and is rapidly approaching the point at which *enough* people will be willing to pay for it—even if YOU don’t, even if LOTS OF US don’t—that it will entrench. Right now, we call it slop and get a lot of positive feedback and feel superior and good and like we are leading the majority.

Give it two years and people will be parking their kids in front of AI-generated children’s shows without a second thought. They’ll be getting mad at you for calling it slop, because they’ll feel impugned as parents. Other people will be getting mad because they have AI “friends,” or they’ve gotten addicted to using it at work or school to take shortcuts. It feels so good right now to shit on AI on the basis of its capabilities, but that is clearly *time-limited* and ultimately a failing strategy to contain and regulate AI. we have got to come up with something better, stronger.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

We need to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump.

Threatening war crimes is a blatant violation of our constitution and the Geneva Conventions.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Americans are being killed in the street by their government. Our Constitution is being shredded and our rights are dissolving. Resist.

Senate Dems should block ICE funding this week. Activate the National Guard.

We can and must stop this.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

The global sumud flotilla is being intercepted by the Israeli occupation forces in international waters. Pressure your government for the protection of global sumud flotilla

[Yipeng Ge 葛义朋 @yipengGe]

I woke up this morning to see a video of a healthcare worker colleague in Gaza be shot in the head while working in the hospital. Shot in the head by the Israeli military. While working in the hospital. Israel continues to target healthcare workers with impunity. Fuck this world.

[Arya Sundaram @arya_sundaram]

BREAKING: Eleven NY city and state elected officials were just arrested by Department of Homeland Security officers.

That's after they demanded to inspect ICE holding rooms at 26 Federal Plaza and refused to leave until they were granted entry.

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, @BernieSanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT.

I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Every American needs to watch this testimony. American mercenaries are killing starving innocents paid for by our tax dollars.

[Josh Hirschfeld Kroen @JoshKroen]

So many terrifying details.

This may be the most unsettling:

the aid sites are strategically placed in order to displace people.

"The United States of America is complicit in setting mouse traps. The food is the bait to bring them down and then displace them from the north."

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

As starvation worsens by the day in Gaza, the Netanyahu govt has been using food as a weapon of war — with complicity from Trump & U.S. taxpayer dollars.

This is painful to listen to but here’s what a U.S. Army veteran & Green Beret who witnessed it first-hand recounted to me:

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

As starvation worsens by the day in Gaza, the Netanyahu govt has been using food as a weapon of war — with complicity from Trump & U.S. taxpayer dollars.

This is painful to listen to but here’s what a U.S. Army veteran & Green Beret who witnessed it first-hand recounted to me:

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

Phoenix where Charlie lives has a homicide rate twice as high as NYC

[AJ Curet @Arod95]

The city with the largest Puerto Rican population outside of Puerto Rico, the largest Jamaican population outside of Jamaica, the largest Chinese population outside of China, etc. and yet there is no demand to pay fealty to those places.

[Josh Hirschfeld Kroen @JoshKroen]

@tabongkima thanks Tabong!

[Josh Hirschfeld Kroen @JoshKroen]

less than a year ago, we made a short documentary about a county in KY that voted for Dems for 144 years, before flipping to Trump.

yesterday, that doc won an emmy!

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: We just won an Emmy!

We're honored to have taken home the award for Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis.

More Perfect Union was built to tell stories of, by, and for the working class. We're thrilled by the recognition we are receiving for our reporting.

[Josh Hirschfeld Kroen @JoshKroen]

@butlikesrsly yes!!! congrats on your insane run the last 6 months. has been so inspiring to watch

[Josh Hirschfeld Kroen @JoshKroen]

shoutout to the whole team!! @heyjohnrussell @Nehemi_ah @jmillerlewis @fshakir Meg Herschlein @courtfullert4t

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant.

This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

[Dean_Moses @Dean_Moses]

Comptroller Brad lander was just arrested by ICE at federal plassa.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Elon Musk reiterated his intention to destroy programs like Social Security, which he has called a Ponzi scheme:

"Most of the federal spending is entitlements... that’s the big one to eliminate."

[Congressman Greg Casar @RepCasar]

You can understand almost all of American politics with just two numbers:

71% of Republican voters oppose Medicaid cuts.

100% of House Republicans are trying to cut Medicaid right now.