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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 11h

My most vivid memory of the late Mike Ditka is flying from Chicago to Vegas with him and my Baubie 30 years ago. When the Bears coach blocked her path to the baggage carousel, Baubie threw a hard shoulder to open up the running lane. He might have been tough, but Baubie played tougher.

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 06/10/2026

kinda breathtaking to watch the U.S. media establishment lose its shit about one maybe-plague death in a Russian backwater town with 3,887 confirmed measles cases reported in the United States, SO FAR, in 2026

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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thanks! We're so thrilled that you found our film inspiring.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For decades, I've had cable news producers tell me to "be angrier" on TV. But we all need to do less yelling — and more listening — if we actually want to solve our problems. Delighted to speak with Daily Cal about our new film THE WORK IN PROGRESS.

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Robert Reich sits Americans down for hard political conversations in ‘The Work in Progress’

During Robert Reich’s political career as U.S. Secretary of Labor, he recalls being told to “be angrier.” Decades later,

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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don’t care what it cost. Whatever he builds, knock it down. And put his face on the wrecking ball.

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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Does Trump bloviating to the UN count as a hostage video? But with the audience as the hostages?

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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The term I am hearing more and more is workslop.

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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“Here is an incredible opportunity for Democrats to go on the attack and split the MAGA movement along its bursting seams. And the weapon is the one Trump seems to fear most: ridicule. Make his impotence and irrelevance the joke, and let him be the punchline.”

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What a Joke

Make Trump what he fears most

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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

But Jimmy Carter putting solar panels on the White House was the crazy one? Imagine where we might be today if we had followed that path back then.

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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The problem of course is not the press. It is that Donald Trump should have been impeached and permanently banned from the White House after January 6.

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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

But Jimmy Carter putting solar panels on the White House was the crazy one? Imagine where we might be today if we had followed that path back then.

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KUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 09/09/2026

A new study shows the steep economic cost of 2025's ICE raids in Chicago. Fear kept many immigrants home, draining the area of more than $1.26 billion in lost retail, restaurant, and sales-tax revenue.

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New report shows the economic toll of ICE raids

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"We all want to be seen and see one another. We all want to be included. And the more we acknowledge that, the faster our curiosity will take over and the kind of fracture we have right now will dissolve into the exciting mosaic of the amazingly diverse population displayed in this film."

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The Work in Progress

New documentary from Robert Reich and team

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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Not yet, but we plan to bring it there. Please add your name here so we can share with theaters the interest in different parts of the country: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Tell us where you are!

Help us bring The Work in Progress to a theater near you. Thank you! Fun fact! One of these prompts is from the film. Can you guess which one?

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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I don't care what it cost to build these marble monstrosities. They all need to be demolished with a wrecking ball bearing the visage of the would-be emperor who erected them.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.

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Abbey Rhodes @abbeyr28.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Love this reminiscent piece by Elliot Kirschner, extolling our connection with earth and the meaning it has had for his family. “Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life." - John Muir @elliotkirschner.bsky.social elliotkirschner.substack.com/p/rock-of-ag...

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Rock of Ages

I took great pride in watching my daughters efficiently take down their tents, roll up their mats, and stuff their sleeping bags.

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Emma Lewis @petchary.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

open.substack.com/pub/elliotki... “A search for wisdom, insight, and truth is, of course, the very opposite of the Repiblicans’ purpose behind the harassment of Dr. Fauci. Their aim is not to learn from the past but to rewrite it.” By @elliotkirschner.bsky.social

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Fauci vs. Trump

What Kind of Leaders Will We Choose?

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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

One of the great casualties of this era is our growing discomfort, bordering on antipathy, toward nuance, complexity, and depth. It is a trend bigger than any one man or moment, a loss long in the making that is making it harder to confront our problems, much less solve them.

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Alan Stamm @alanstamm.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

"It is impossible to know how this age will be viewed by people in the future, in part because we do not yet know how it will end. "But one distinct possibility is that they will look back and ask: 'How could they have been so stupid?'" -- @elliotkirschner.bsky.social

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Measles Loves MAGA

Stupidity Goes Viral

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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Isn't this what America should be? A laboratory in cities and states to see what works and then stumble forth or retreat accordingly?

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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If you are covering the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as an event and not an abomination and farce, you may indeed be part of the problem.

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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It is a grim and deadly irony that, in an age obsessed with “going viral,” one of today’s most successful influencers has been around for at least 1,500 years. Say hello to measles.

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Measles Loves MAGA

Stupidity Goes Viral

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The most amazing part of this is when she tells him London is not actually a dystopian hellscape, and he, the world's richest man who spends his days cooking his brain on his Nazi CSAM social media site, responds "You live a cloistered existence." He really is an extraordinary moron.

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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A preview of the celebration when he’s no longer president.

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Rep. Emanuel Cleaver @cleaver.house.gov · 13/07/2026

We should have learned that you can’t manage a public health crisis by ignoring it. Politicizing science and weakening disease surveillance doesn’t make threats disappear, it only makes us less prepared to respond.

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Brooke Pierce @bpie7.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

People are right to be mad about the predictable Platner fiasco, but it's worth remembering that last year a ton of establishment Democrats supported disgraced sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo against clean-as-a-whistle Zohran. Tolerating problem men is an issue across the ideological spectrum.

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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

How many times do we need to read or hear the same truth? Political hacks in robes.

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Inequality Media Civic Action @imcivicaction.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

THIS WEEK: Join Robert Reich himself for the final online watchalong of our film THE LAST CLASS this WEDNESDAY, JULY 8 at 5:30 p.m. PT/8:30 p.m. ET. We'll also be previewing our next film, coming out in September. RSVP at the link below.

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RSVP For Our Last Class Live Watchalong

We're excited to offer one final live online watchalong of The Last Class film on Wednesday, July 8, at 5:30 p.m. PT/8:3

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Alan Stamm @alanstamm.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"The radical, destructive & unhinged Supreme Court majority ... are radical, reactionary & revanchist, unrestrained in their methods & imperious in their certainty. "They don't seem to believe they are bound by precedent, Congress, history, institutional legitimacy." -- @elliotkirschner.bsky.social

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This Supreme Court Is Not Conservative

The radicals in robes strike again

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Thank you for sharing! It's true, I may have retired from the classroom, but I can never really give up teaching. I hope you'll all join us next Wednesday, July 8 for our final watch-along of THE LAST CLASS: actionnetwork.org/forms/last-c...

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RSVP For Our Last Class Live Watchalong

We're excited to offer one final live online watchalong of The Last Class film on Wednesday, July 8, at 5:30 p.m. PT/8:30 p.m. ET, with Professor and Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich. Professor Re...

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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🚨🚨🚨 Professor Robert Reich recently taught his last class. (Although great scholars like Reich never really stop teaching) Join him in an interactive watch party for "The Last Class" 7/8/2026, 5:30 pm PT/ 8:30 pm ET Sign up 👇 actionnetwork.org/forms/last-c... #Voices4victory #USDemocracy #DV1

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RSVP For Our Last Class Live Watchalong

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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

As a refresher for media outlets. The definition of a TRUCE: : a suspension of fighting especially of considerable duration by agreement of opposing forces. Not seeing a suspension of fighting let alone of considerable duration. If it ain’t a truce let’s maybe not call it one.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

“.. The extensive damage done to America’s sole naval base in the Middle East .. has the U.S. re-evaluating its entire footprint in the region, according to U.S. officials ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This morning scrolling Bluesky, there is nothing at all in my feed about Putin’s barbaric attack on the Ukraine’s holiest site, the UNESCO protected Lavra so I’m posting this here.

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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I hate when the press uses “baseless claims” to explain Trump’s lies.

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Abbey Rhodes @abbeyr28.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

“Weiss does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it, and she’s doing exactly that.” - Elliot Kirschner, former CBS News producer, applauds Scott Pelley's heroic confrontation with the new 60 Minutes producers. @elliotkirschner.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/elliotki...

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Tick, Tick, Tick

Scott Pelley says what needs to be said

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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Gee. I see symmetry. Whatever helps Republicans

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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Thanks for your support. Would love to know what you think of it.

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Alan Stamm @alanstamm.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

"Polls continue to show that Trump’s approval ratings are plummeting. And that means many people who voted for him in the last election, and likely in the previous two, have become disillusioned." — @elliotkirschner.bsky.social [1/2]

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Exploiting Trump's Weaknesses

An opportunity to renew American democracy

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Inequality Media Civic Action @imcivicaction.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The Last Class film about Robert Reich’s final semester of teaching is now available for home viewing! In the film, Prof. Reich says to his 1,000 students: Pessimism is fine, cynicism is not. Together, we will triumph over cynicism. Watch it at home today. www.thelastclassfilm.com

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The Last Class Film

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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Thanks for supporting our film. Grateful you are spreading the word

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Jackie K. @jackiek1.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I just finished the “The Last Class with Robert Reich”. It is excellent, in addition there are juicy clips at the end. He is a true champion of the working class.

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