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"O, let America be America again— The land that never has been yet..."

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5m
I'm sorry, this is the sexiest picture I've ever seen. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...
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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 3h
It's a living....
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 3h
Quite the bolt from the blue, this whole MAGA "takeover" of the Republican Party....
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 8h
Who among us does not like the occasional nip??
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A classic from the not-so-dearly departed Jim Bakker... www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UUm...
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RWW News: Reagan, 1979: We Could See Armageddon
YouTube video by Right Wing Watch
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You're one of the heroes of my next book.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A Democrat got drunk once. A Republican made his fortune swindling sick people. We report, you decide. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...
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The Campaign for Ohio’s Next Governor May Be the Ugliest in the Country
The 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 ...
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Remembering Denny Hastert. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/politics-i...
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Politics is Teaching
... so let's connect some Three Dots.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A 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.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
University 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.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thanks. Something to watch.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They don't make 'em like they used to: this item features crooked glasses, just like her wore during his nominating convention.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Looks like he's heading for a raise!
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ask and we shall receive. Before the Storm by Rick Perlstein | Hachette Book Group share.google/tzAxQSVYsQeJ...
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Before the Storm
From a bestselling historian and journalist, a whirlwind account of how Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential belly flop shaped the political world we kno...
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wasn'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.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Very 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.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I mean, at least these folks are putting out a charming, high-quality product!
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do they write the dialog?
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.facebook.com/share/r/1Epw...
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can these videos possibly be real? www.facebook.com/share/r/1FCK...
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wrong platform. Subscribe here! www.patreon.com/franklin17/p...
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A Year After Operation Midway Blitz | Frank The Turtle
This is 22-year-old Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, an asylum seeker from Somalia. He’s currently being held at Guantanamo Bay by the Trump administr
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One 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...
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Amanda Moore | Substack
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh, ewe...
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hope no one tells him about what's going on in the FBI...
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Some serious Woodward and Bernstein energy... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/n...
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Mamdani Aides Give City Council Little Insight Into Influencer Effort
At 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.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
May do.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am so there for Kash under the lights at this Senate hearing. You thought the bestiality was a good? www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
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FBI investigating hacking group’s claim of massive breach of agent info
ShinyHunters, 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.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Real 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.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Now it starts with 1619. Live and learn.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We, as citizens, failed, too.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
That too.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I study Republicans for a living! <3
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm not looking for advice. As a writer, it's important to me to learn how unsophisticated consumers are led astray.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Every time I make this social criticism I get personal advice! I'm a writer, I'm interested in studying how the world works, and seeing what normal non-sophisticated users are presented is extraordinarily important to me.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Córey Dotorow's book "Enshitification" explains why. $$$$$$$$
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Spending these days fact-checking and endnoting, I've been Googling at industrial scale, which has given my a brain-melting lesson in how fucked we are as a civilization. In today's installment, a quote from Geo W. Bush's 2nd inaugural in 2005 is depicted—why not?—as one from Obama's in 2013.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I don't know that he's said that for a while. But, if he did, he means that he is the law, so no contradiction.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A financial death star was assembled by the "rules based international order" to pin outlaw states, with the U.S. at the controls. Now it is being deployed by the outlaw running the U.S., against the "rules based international order." Aimé Césaire's imperial boomerang. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | Trump Ramps Up Bid to Dismantle International Criminal Court
The U.S. administration is preparing sweeping sanctions that would cut the court off from much of the global financial system.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Read the book! It's a classic.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
He was part of a team, and not the leader.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Comes from this. The Selling of the President 1968 - Wikipedia share.google/4Q7PHc3aK74N...
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The Selling of the President 1968 - Wikipedia
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good he realizes what is going on. What's scary is those who don't.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Phew.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good times.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Democrats don't agree on an agenda.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
whatnow ?? ?? ??
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When the people say there's an invisible river, build them an invisible bridge.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We're staking our economy on forcing a technology down people's throats that outputs misinformation as a matter of course. Someone asked me about my interview with Gil Duran. This is happened when I googled our names together. I have not interviewed Gil Duran. This path: civilizational death.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you don't mind, I'm going to do a little political organizing here. If this gets to, say, ten million hearts, the message could have a discernible effect on defeating fascism before it devours us. Pls forward.
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