Holy shit! @rickperlstein.bsky.social is on @majorityreport.bsky.social with @emmavigeland.bsky.social and @samseder.bsky.social to FINALLY be able to look back on the life of Alan Greenspan. Will they discuss his truly bizarre sexual partners? RIGHT NOW!!

Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social on the harms done by the late Allan Greenspan, now on Majority Report @majorityreport.bsky.social with Sam Seder @samseder.bsky.social and Emma Vigeland @emmavigeland.bsky.social : www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOlE...

do not miss this @majorityreport.bsky.social you want to hear @rickperlstein.bsky.social talk about Greenspan www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOlE...

Well, Brooksley,” Federal Reserve chair Greenspan said, “I guess you and I will never agree about fraud.” She asked why. He replied, “you think there should be laws against it.” — Melville couldn’t top this.

Mr. Greenspan, he dead. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/speak-ill-...

I pull a few things together. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/the-party-...

Sheer unmitigated horseshit.

Just a reminder....

This is called furherprinzip, and there is nothing "beautiful" about it.

It is said that, in the spring of 1945, anguished Berliners stood in the rubble and apologized for failing the Furher...

I'm hearing people presume Trump is stung at supporters' anger at him for Iran. I do not think so. I think he thinks, "I got away with being a military dictator. Cool! On to the next thing. "Nothing for him to particularly mind regarding the opinions of the little people.

To be fair, here's Mrs. P. in effect on the other side of the building.

They paved it, the motherfuckers.

Axios don't need no stinkin' recordings!

Once again

My account was spooked by militant Zionist who speaks of Arabs exactly as Nazis spoke of Jews. For the record.

A post in tribute to Dr. Robert Coles, who died this week at the age of 97. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/escaping-t...

I feel like this might be the day a certain country jumps the shark.

"Not that far down the road, in busy Channahon State Park, there is a monument specifically dedicated to PTSD sufferers. Those are just two installations I’ve stumbled across within forty miles of each another." also always read @rickperlstein.bsky.social

Not surprisingly, the MAGAts are lining up their next target

The Blaze is my Early Warning Beacon.

A shocking number of people don't even have a concept of what redemption IS, and why the world's great wisdom traditions converge on it as a human ideal.

The people politically loyal to Graham Platner are, largely, rural people. The people baffled by political loyalty to Graham Platner are, largely, not; and do not understand that the things they consider demerits are a foundation of his political appeal. open.substack.com/pub/rickperl...

This frog fixing to become the world's biggest frog by eating up all the little sunfishes stuck in the spillway. Check out how he treats the competition!

Long piece in transcript form, but with nuggets liberally strewn throughout. Especially good on possibly horrific scenarios possible under a fractured, but controlling radical Right Wing. Equally good, on Democrats as a cynical, feckless, corrupt party.

democratic governors doing stuff like this is worse for voter turnout than anything the american left has said or done

This interview is terrific

This is very good. If you have an hour, it is well worth your time.

Informative @citizencohn.bsky.social piece, as always. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Date night. La Salle, Illinois.

Donald Trump has never been more unpopular than now. And yet the Democratic Party is even more disliked. @rickperlstein.bsky.social joined @matthew.flux.community for a discussion on where former Trump supporters might go now, and Democrats' refusal to listen to their own voters:

I can see from some responses that people are still confused about what's going on. A lot of us liberals are very literal! So we assume Trump is "confused" about this. He's not. "Trans" is an all-purpose category on the right now to describe anyone who doesn't conform to rigid MAGA gender roles.

Now, Newark. Don't look away. www.cnn.com/2026/05/29/u...

I spoke with historian Rick Perlstein about how abortion became a defining issue in rural America, why Dobbs changed the political landscape, and what abortion rights advocates can learn from rural voters. Read here: reprorights.substack.com/p/what-rick-... @rickperlstein.bsky.social

A little too on the nose.

Don't laugh that a corrupt lunatic became Texas's senate nominee, and might win, just because Trump endorsed him. This is how politics, and human beings, WORK. We follow validators we love and trust. We need more such in the non- fascist party. Which doesn't happen parties ruled by polling.

This happened. substack.com/@michaelpodh...

Doing a live chat with the great progressive strategist Mike Podhorzer in fifteen minutes. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

The honorable thing for David Frum to do is to apologize for his role in helping make Trumpism happen, then retire. t.co/CAssfQkeI6

I guess it wasn't enough.

open.substack.com/live-stream/... Something to make your Memorial Day bright.

And cut the "but it's great for radiology!" Fine. But 'LLMs are indispensable for the following categories of human endeavor" IS NOT HOW AI IS BEING PURSUED. It is, "AI must be forced into every conceivable use case, no matter the unpopularity or unfeasability."

The surrender to “Generative AI” (as its propagandists call it) is degrading, basically, everything that actually advances genuine human self-cultivation: thinking, notvbeing thought for, for a start. It is shading into a surrender of liberty at a very profound level. Just ask any good teacher.

AI would be so much less dangerous if there were a norm or even a law banning chatbots from calling "themselves" "I," and pretending to have opinions, feelings, etc.

Did Donald Trump just call his son "a person I've known for a long time"? And, camera right: is that an, um, pregnant person?

Folks interested in my practice of 30 years arguing with right-wingers, partially as psychic release, partially in the fantasy it can do good; partially as participant-observation that has helped form my ideas about the right: sample a spicy version here. Meet Chet! substack.com/@laserhead/n...

Bonus "Infernal Triangle" content preview ... rickperlstein.substack.com/p/e-coli-con...