Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 20hA post about a friend. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/make-a-mor...rickperlstein.substack.comMake a Moral Wilderness Bloom...and help out a friend of mine in need. 172
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 12/10/2026www.youtube.com/live/uJidKbY...youtube.comChicago Jazz Fest Citywide Jazz Series: Corey Wilkes Trio, Whisker w/ Lia KohlYouTube video by Elastic Arts 130
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I like the translation I'm complaining about better, as poetry. 110
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I'm not dissing Ann Carson. Is she the translator? She doesn't say that. 100
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I guess that's why Herbie said their gig at Mr. Kelly's in 1970, like, levitate the room... Go deeper on Wilkes' newer stuff, much tripping than Headhunters. 110
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Is it really possible to translate 2,000 year old poetry like this? Like: how can this not just be considered an original poem, inspired by, and shaped like, another in Latin? 9110
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I'm sure somewhere, someone is. Try Chicago's Corey Wilkes. He is on that sort of vibe for sure. 110
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 12/10/2026After the crap that David Brooks wrote on the cusp of the Iraq War, no one should have published him anywhere again. Instead, it earned him a New York Times column. 29312
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 12/10/2026You mean that Herbie Hancock album. Which is to say: he created the context for previously incommensurate geniuses to solve the problem of collective improvisation in a new way; which is to say, he accomplished the benchmark of all the true geniuses of jazz. 110
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Them, too. But they're not album- oriented. 010
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 11/10/2026It was the record that got him into jazz. His trumpet-playing brother had it. 110
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Spend 10,000 hours with these, you'll turn you into a me. 8320
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026As a historian, I learn with my fingers, typing the most important words in what I read into notes as a way to literally embody the information. To tell an "AI" to answer a question, then proceed according to what it outputs, is the opposite: the lobotomization of thought. 68018
Reposted by Rick Perlsteinmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters. 1203075539
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I'm sorry, this is the sexiest picture I've ever seen. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...nytimes.comMargaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has DiedMargaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90. 2858
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Quite the bolt from the blue, this whole MAGA "takeover" of the Republican Party.... 3438
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Who among us does not like the occasional nip?? 010
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A classic from the not-so-dearly departed Jim Bakker... www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UUm...youtube.comRWW News: Reagan, 1979: We Could See ArmageddonYouTube video by Right Wing Watch 3276
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A Democrat got drunk once. A Republican made his fortune swindling sick people. We report, you decide. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...nytimes.comThe Campaign for Ohio’s Next Governor May Be the Ugliest in the CountryThe candidates for Ohio governor have significant policy differences, but the campaign ads have been strikingly personal, with exaggerated portrayals of one candidate as a con artist and the other as ... 829372
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Remembering Denny Hastert. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/politics-i...rickperlstein.substack.comPolitics is Teaching... so let's connect some Three Dots. 0205
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A Hasidic Jew, with the sidecurls, hat, and everything, is being deported. For the alleged crime of antisemitism. For peacefully protesting Israel. Where he is a citizen; and to which he is being deported. 611540
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026University of Michigan today. The most tipping-point image I've seen to exemplify our fascist descent. And the surrender was won with the weapon of false antisemitism charges against people protesting genocide--making administrations complicit in genocide. A moral nadir. This is how republics die. 46015
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026They don't make 'em like they used to: this item features crooked glasses, just like her wore during his nominating convention. 010
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ask and we shall receive. Before the Storm by Rick Perlstein | Hachette Book Group share.google/tzAxQSVYsQeJ...share.googleBefore the StormFrom a bestselling historian and journalist, a whirlwind account of how Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential belly flop shaped the political world we kno... 221
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Wasn't until last night when I dropped on for the final performance of the day Joshua Redman, solo, in the cathedral-style church. A friend with big ears saw her and bought the CD--a good recommendation. 020
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Very important observations here. Important stuff to mentally assimilate if you think that Democrats getting many more votes than Republicans in November is the whole ballgame. 34716
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I mean, at least these folks are putting out a charming, high-quality product! 100
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026www.facebook.com/share/r/1Epw...facebook.com 020
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Can these videos possibly be real? www.facebook.com/share/r/1FCK...facebook.com 720
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Wrong platform. Subscribe here! www.patreon.com/franklin17/p...patreon.comA Year After Operation Midway Blitz | Frank The TurtleThis is 22-year-old Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, an asylum seeker from Somalia. He’s currently being held at Guantanamo Bay by the Trump administr 150
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026One of my favorite front-line reporters on the fascist assault wants to cover the planned action tomorrow at the Broadview ICE facility but can only afford to do so if she gets ten more Substack subscribers. Hasten thither! substack.com/@noturtlesou...substack.comAmanda Moore | Substack 36917
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Hope no one tells him about what's going on in the FBI... 6688
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Some serious Woodward and Bernstein energy... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/n...nytimes.comMamdani Aides Give City Council Little Insight Into Influencer EffortAt a New York City Council hearing, frustration grew as Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s representatives were unable to answer questions about the mayor’s use of influencers. 3152
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I am so there for Kash under the lights at this Senate hearing. You thought the bestiality was a good? www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...nbcnews.comFBI investigating hacking group’s claim of massive breach of agent infoShinyHunters, a cyber-extortion outfit, said it hacked into the FBI’s jobs portal and used that access to steal a major tranche of sensitive files. 3312
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Real answer: I am but an egg. Knew very little about the subject when I started; few knew much, really. The existing narrative came FROM the right: that the Goldwater movement "started" modern conservatism. So I piggybacked off that. My next book explains that the right loves rebranding exercises. 200