Listen to this cat. I'm crankin' it out every day.

This is the best book to read if you want to understand why AOC is right, basically, when she says you become a billionaire by taking. www.amazon.com/Enshittifica...

PSA for white people: Wanna know how we got here? Read @rickperlstein.bsky.social’s Reaganland.

BLURBSDAY! rickperlstein.substack.com/p/this-thurb...

Will the UK radical right break thru? While we wait...my book on how the US right got lost in its own nightmares is out in paperback! With thanks to: @fotoole.bsky.social @jamesrball.com @rickperlstein.bsky.social @oliverbullough.bsky.social @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @notjessewalker.bsky.social

Saudia Arabia knows the wisdom of Sacramento politics boss Jessie "Big Daddy" Unruh when it comes to taking bribes: "If you can't eat their food, drink their booze, screw their women and vote against them, you don't belong in politics." www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Try denying this one, "Ka$h"... www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

You can talk all you want about sauces and rubs, but if I'm the judge, consistently producing the perfect level of done-ness throughout is what wins derbies. Oh, and exciting news on the publishing front!! rickperlstein.substack.com/p/before-the...

It is great to see this recognition. As a labor journalist, rank Kim Kelly among the greats, the Ida Tarbells, the Steven Greenhouses, the Barbara Koppel. Read someone DOING THE WORK! inthesetimes.com/authors/kim-...

May 4, 1970. Say their names: Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer, William Schroeder, rickperlstein.substack.com/p/the-score-...

Betting line on whether Giulinani's corpse will get put on display under the Capitol dome?

If it's Monday, it must be Rickpedia's Document Fun Day. This week: a Republican authoritarianism origin story. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/monday-doc...

If it's Thurbsday it must be Blurbsday! rickperlstein.substack.com/p/thurbsday-...

The Blaze never gets much MSM or left media attention because its site design is deliberately bland. But it's actually incredibly popular and very good at churning tribalist narratives to evangelicals. @rickperlstein.bsky.social is writing a series on how they do it

I'll be there!

This is all extremely true. "Institutionalism" was a crucial failure in getting us to where we are.

I love over-the-top championship events for obscure.

Have a pancake, Mandrake. youtu.be/yP2_CTeo5Q8?...

This is how I party.

Oceania will never not be not at war with Iran. (...Adding, however, that Oceania has always been at war with wokeness.) www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

I point out here that an important function of right-wing media is providing acolytes ready answers to stumpers like this from liberals. (Scroll down to "Liz Wheeler delivers 'the best Catholic response' to Trump's controversial Jesus post.") rickperlstein.substack.com/p/blazing-sa...

If it's Thurbsday, it must be Blurbsday! rickperlstein.substack.com/p/thurbsday-...

This is exactly what Southern segregationists and, before that, slavery defenders, said, that relations with our Negroes were exemplary before those outside agitators stirred things up.

Woke up at 2 & read the “Meanness” chapter of @rickperlstein.bsky.social’s Reaganland. No mystery how this racist country got to this corrupt court. Saint Ronnie would be genially grinning.

This is what Obama said...

Oh. The shooter's dad is an elder in a denomination that split from the CRC because they thought the CRC was too liberal. That explains a lot about why someone with those follows would radicalize himself into a shooter, because those conservative Reformed denominations are all a ticking time bomb.

The Pitt sticks the landing.

Human shield much?

Read all about it! www.amazon.com/Invisible-Br...

Daddy issues.

Nobody doesn't love a Mel Brooks reference. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/blazing-sa...

Blurbsday Thurbsday. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/blurbsday-...

🧵A former president reading books to preschoolers is a routine sort of thing in America, but last Saturday's joint appearance of Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani deserves much more coverage than it has received. Here's why: With this event, Obama has given Mamdani the seal of approval he's needed.

The Gospel According to Rickipedia. Let us pray... rickperlstein.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

This is really worth reading

To put it bluntly, this post is about how the fascists are scoring a victory in crushing liberty that could take decades, if ever, to reverse. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/an-ignoran...

"Someone called all the hotels within walking distance of Books of Wonder....and saying, 'Is Samira Ahmed staying at your hotel?'... I have begun checking into hotels under a pseudonym." Harrowing from @rickperlstein.bsky.social on book-banners terrorizing children's book authors.

Way too important to paywall. Please share with reporters you know in the national media. Children's book authors now have to sign into hotels under assumed names. Two book imprints have gone under, partially from the hit they took from censorship. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/an-ignoran...

Tomorrow afternoon, on rickperlstein.substack.com, I'll be breaking national news about a major victory authoritianists have scored in getting a major U.S. industry to comply in advance on MAJOR production decisions, while both devastating their sales and incinerating its labor model. Guess which?

Free post. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/tuesday-tw...

"There’s always more, and it’s always worse. But it’s never new." rickperlstein.substack.com/p/monday-doc...

Former leftists, infected by Trumpism, are the most dangerous as they abandon history, compassion and reality. inthesetimes.com/article/form...

Ask Larry Summers anything. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/perpectual...

Pro tip: If you wake up with insomnia at 3 tomorrow a.m., open up @rickperlstein.bsky.social's "Reaganland." Carter-era heds all like today's news.

Hobby up! rickperlstein.substack.com/p/x-marks-th...

Country livin': a political parable. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/newsmaxxing

They went with a click-bait headline that will be easy to take out of context (the gift is that when fascists post on platforms consumed by the general public and not just fascists ones, we can better see what they're up to), but I stand behind what I say here, and would be glad to discuss it.

If you love freedom, thank a lefty journalist. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/thurbsday-...

Toyoga.bsky.social, if I go to your house and point to all the books you have published by publishers whove published fascists (including Hitler!) will you no longer read anything from those publishers?