Rick Perlstein
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"O, let America be America again— The land that never has been yet..."
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to hang out in the middle east while he starts the same war every day. when a missile blasts you into pieces he'll say your last words were "we must build a new ballroom in the white house" before your body is even cold. good luck soldier
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"
whenever someone tells you that it's simply impossible for police to be charged with misconduct or criminal charges, you can tell they're wrong because some cops do get charged regularly — when they are whistleblowers or reformers prosecutors are actually extremely eager to help drum them out!
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5d agoProsecutors charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job
A watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
The Complications of Graham Platner’s Veteran Identity
How much of Graham Platner’s behavior should be read through the lens of what combat did to him, and how much of it is simply who he is, independent of war?
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Any historian who accepts this dirty money is dead to me. The next post links to the reason why. nyhistory.org/about/david-...
David M. Rubenstein Prize for the Advancement of American History | The New York Historical
Annual prize to honor a historian, educator, content creator, or institutional leader who excels in promoting American history
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Marcus Goguen is the best athlete ever. The lowest-ranking competitor on the Freeride World Tour is a better athlete than the top competitors in the NBA, MLB NHL, NFL, Premiere League. Fight me.
Show TPM the money. As I've written, "If you are interested in how the American right went insane, TalkingPointsMemo.com is your actual publication of record." accounts.talkingpointsmemo.com/contribute
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The New Yorker Radio Hour this week has a feature about Rahm Emanuel's Israel speech, and the web page links to my 2015 exposé of him that ran on the New Yorker web site, "The Sudden But Well-Deserved Fall of Rahm Emanuel." Fun! www.newyorker.com/news/daily-c...
The Sudden But Well-Deserved Fall of Rahm Emanuel
It’s hard to remember a time when Rahm Emanuel wasn’t a Democratic Party superstar.
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In case you're wondering how Trump's speech played among the base...
I coined "E. coli Conservatism" in 2007. Like much else, MAGA is what has come before, turned up up 11. ourfuture.org/20110603/e_c...
E. coli conservatives | OurFuture.org by People's Action
First, they came for the spinach. I remember the day last September. The supermarket had a new kind of salad dressing, one that looked like it would taste good with spinach. I went to the produce...
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Senator Warner is yelling at CBS for carrying the speech as news. Also fascinating.
Senator Warner is yelling at CBS for carrying the speech as news. Also fascinating.
I'm watching CBS and it's fascinating to see them FINALLY seriously start educating people about why pur elections are secure. Shockingly, it's good stuff.
Weird, Wild stuff, some conservative think-tanker basically just said he admired his goals but not his methods, like they used to say about McCarthy.
Voters may not really matter now. He's recruiting strong men with guns.
This is worse than Joseph McCarthy's 1950 Wheeling, West Virginia speech. Way worse.
Fun fact, $1,000 baby bond would pay, at T-bill rates, yields about $2,000 in eighteen years, not, as our president claims, $100,000.
“In his head it’s justified. He’s unusually calm about it." Which is how psychopaths think. www.pressherald.com/2026/07/16/i...
ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer
An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.
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"Disgusts independents." This is why my slogan is "you can't win the horse race if you burn down the track." Because this is how journalism that cannot take that onboard as part of their narrative has taught people to think. It does not help people understand the political situation they're in.
The j6 reparation- slush fund and erasing of prior convictions to restore their 2A rights is tantamount to prepping a private militia.
Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 3w agoTomorrow, Trump will give a speech setting up prerequisites for an electoral coup in November. Here's a piece I wrote three weeks ago arguing how important it is to figure out whether President Trump is raising storm-trooper like forces right now. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/the-party-...
Tomorrow, Trump will give a speech setting up prerequisites for an electoral coup in November. Here's a piece I wrote three weeks ago arguing how important it is to figure out whether President Trump is raising storm-trooper like forces right now. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/the-party-...
The Party with the Parliamentary and Paramilitary Wings
It's time to start thinking seriously about totalitarian dictatorship.
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Tomorrow, Trump will give a speech setting up prerequisites for an electoral coup in November. Here's a piece I wrote three weeks ago arguing how important it is to figure out whether President Trump is raising storm-trooper like forces right now. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/the-party-...
The Party with the Parliamentary and Paramilitary Wings
It's time to start thinking seriously about totalitarian dictatorship.
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Public authorities ginning up this much hate, ere long we can expect pogroms.
Genius press criticism from the master. The New York Times's derangement of truth, by tiny increments over decade, has contributed so much to how America got his way. The way they launder evil is a kind of evil.
James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 3w agoWriting headlines is hard. You have to compress an article into a phrase or two. And you have to fit an exact and usually inconvenient line space. Two images below: What the NYT is running on line. (h/t @jaywillis.net for calling this one out.) And what would fit exactly the same space, by me.
I successfully FOIAed footage of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement operations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrmU...
Bonnie and Clyde (1967). Final scene
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Following the money. I never knew about this connection. How a tax pushed Jazz towards bebop.
Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 3w agoHeather Cox Richardson invited to join her celebration of the U.S.'s 251st year. But, over those years, shit got increasingly greedy, and "owners" of art come down like a ton of bricks against those who would share its beauty without paying—so, Hamlet without the prince, I'm afraid. More below.