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Edwin Eisendrath
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It's the Democracy, Stupid.
Radio: WCPT/ @heartlandsignal.bsky.social
Video podcast: @lincolnsquare.media
Substack: https://edwineisendrath.substack.com/

Long ago: Chicago schoolteacher, alderman, CEO Chicago Sun Times, etc.
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eisendrath.net Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 2d
In Europe Donald Trump's sell out of Ukraine is a gift to Putin and an outrage everywhere else.

open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...
November 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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jilldlawrence.bsky.social
Lying under oath? Seriously? The case against Comey is as hypocritical as it is weak and incompetent. From Trump on down, this is an administration people who got their jobs by misleading and outright lying to Congress. My latest at @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-admi...
We’re Led by an Administration of Liars
Trump insisted Comey be prosecuted for supposedly lying to Congress—but his own administration is full of officials who lied to Congress.
www.thebulwark.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
eisendrath.net
In Europe Donald Trump's sell out of Ukraine is a gift to Putin and an outrage everywhere else.

open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Slava Ukraine
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d
Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day. Trump is marking it by selling Ukrainians into slavery under his friend, Vladimir Putin.
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Is it too early to ask how may people Donald Trump has turned into criminals by directing them to break the law?
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d
“Junior officers, fearing potential legal exposure, asked military lawyers for written sign-off before taking part in strikes...

“It does not appear that such memos were furnished.

“Some personnel are worried they might need attorneys” under a new administration

wapo.st/43FXQfO
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
wapo.st
November 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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vermontgmg.bsky.social
This story, phrased as always in vague obfuscations about the horror involved, interposed with the timeline’s other RFK Jr. storyline is quite something this morning.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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When corrupt marries incompetent…
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d
ICE, which has seen its budget triple, said it did not have the resources to maintain videos of detainees
newrepublic.com The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 5d
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
eisendrath.net
“Off with their heads,” says the queen of hearts.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Trump calls for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged
Trump on Truth Social reposts someone who says of Democratic lawmakers, "HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD!!"
November 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
eisendrath.net
Worse than writing this is believing it.

We have a heavy lift in front of us.
lawrencehurley.bsky.social Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 6d
Um.... This is an actual judicial opinion (dissenting in the TX gerrymandering case)
November 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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bobcesca.bsky.social
Good that JK called him out on the Walmart lie, but he let Hassett get away with saying inflation is down since Biden. It's not down. October 2024 inflation was 2.6%. October 2025 inflation was 2.9%. Also, average gas price is slightly higher now than November 2024.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d
KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true?

HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--

KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.

November 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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willbunch.bsky.social
Here's that column -- let me know what you think! www.inquirer.com/opinion/epst...
Epstein’s emails are the end of America as they ruined it
If the evil banality of the world's most powerful people exposed in the Epstein emails doesn't cause a revolution, nothing will.
www.inquirer.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Everyone in Chicago seems to be finding a way to speak out against Donald Trump's terror campaign here. Now it's a group of retired journalists. I'll talk to one of them- Phil Ponce- about the remarkable public letter they sent about the ICE raids. Join us today on @lincolnsquare.media LIVE.
Live today 5pm ET: Lincoln Square Media LIVE from Chicago with Edwin Eisendrath and Phil Ponce
November 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
eisendrath.net
The shutdown is over. Now what? We talk about that & much more today on WCPT/ @heartlandsignal.bsky.social with these amazing guests:

+ @taraemcg.bsky.social
+ @charlesgaba.com
+ Nissa Rhee of @borderlessmag.bsky.social
+ @michaelemann.bsky.social

🤳Stream 1-4 CT bit.ly/3DAcG8s
Sat 1-4pm It's the Democracy Stupid
November 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Where Does that Leave Us?

Subscribe to read the latest article from @eisendrath.net for Lincoln Square!

www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-eight-...
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
eisendrath.net
It's always fun when @mikenellis.bsky.social & I get together. He's not shy about our politics & he's terrific fighter for the democracy.

I hope you'll join us today (Friday) on @lincolnsquare.media LIVE at 12Noon CT/ 1pm ET.
it's the democracy, stupid with edwin eisendrath and guest mike nellis nov 14 on lincoln square live 12N CT/ 1pm ET
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong."

Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
You know us. For years, you watched and listened to our coverage of the Chicago area. As journalists, we did our best to bring you accurate, objective information about the people, events and issues that mattered. We hope we gained your trust. So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong. The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done and what they may do in other cities. We are retired, but our colleagues who are still on the job have shown you a brutal and illegal campaign against fellow Chicagoans, mainly Latinos: violent abductions, gutting families, using tear gas around children, roughing up witnesses, ramming cars and even taking a day care teacher from her school.
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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lincolnsquare.media
ICYMI: @sjdemas.bsky.social and @eisendrath.net went live to discuss how the administration's assault on freedom is coordinated and deliberate.

Subscribe to watch the full episode!
www.lincolnsquare.media/p/are-dems-p...
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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lincolnsquare.media
Their job in this moment was to help us continue to win. Instead, they defaulted to the more comfortable job as Washington dealmakers.

ttps://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-eight-senators-who-failed-our

Read the latest from @eisendrath.net for Lincoln Square
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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ICYMI: @eisendrath.net sat down with Philip K. Howard to discuss how we fix a government that most are frustrated with at this point…

www.lincolnsquare.media/p/nothing-wo...

Subscribe for free to watch, now!
'Nothing Works Anymore.' So How Do We Fix It? | Edwin Eisendrath & Philip K. Howard
Everyone is frustrated with the government these days.
www.lincolnsquare.media
November 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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danahoule.bsky.social
Just as I predicted.

We just had our first snow. Soon there won’t be any lawn work, so there won’t be Latino men doing low-wage work standing outside that they can find by chopper & drone & direct Border Patrol from the air to the right house to kidnap men for gardening while brown.
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16d
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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the fuck
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

HASSETT: We're comfortable that inflation has come way down

QUINTANILLA: Even though it's been increasing for 5 straight months?

HASSETT: Well I guess there's ups and downs and seasonals
November 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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#BREAKING: Over a public dissent from Justice Jackson, #SCOTUS *extends* the temporary pause of the district court’s order that had mandated full SNAP payments for November—keeping that ruling (and those payments) on hold through the end of the day this Thursday:
Image of Supreme Court order.
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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The job of these eight Senators in this moment was to help us continue to win. Instead, they defaulted to the more comfortable job as Washington deal makers. That a choice that tells me they have been insiders for too long. NEW from me:

open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...
8 Senators failed our Democratic coalition
The job of these eight Senators in this moment was to help us continue to win. Instead, they defaulted to the more comfortable job as Washington deal makers.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM