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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 11h

TOMORROW: Join us in Chicago for the launch of our 50th anniversary issue with Cathy J. Cohen, Adom Getachew, @rickperlstein.bsky.social, and Joshua Cohen.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 15h

Barry associations have emerged as among our most important Constitutional watchdogs, in the face of Democratic recklessness.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

"National Lard."

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

Caption contest. Me first: "Da Bears!"

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

I asked for clarification as to what I stole from whom. Will update as things develop.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

Pompous intellectually insecure wingnuts are a delightful evening's entertainment.

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 1d

At @rickperlstein.bsky.social's recommendation I read Thomas Ricks' Waging A Good War, on the Civil Rights Movement as a military campaign. Quite useful. Dovetails well with @erinrpineda.bsky.social's Seeing Like An Activist. Both look at nonviolence as it really was, not how many pretend it was.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

My friend agrees.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

"Hamas is finished. It has lost everything: it has lost the tunnels, it has lost the weapons, and it has lost the fighters who are fighting.....Hamas is a small organization that has finished." Pretty much what I intuited, that treating it, functionally, as a martial equivalent to the IDF = bonkers.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

I don't often talk politics with my friend in Gaza, but in a discussion following from an anguished query from him last week about whether the bombing might really actually stop, I asked him whether he thought Hamas can be counted on not to plan future massacres. He replied:

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

Emergency protest in Chicago tomorrow (Wednesday) at 5:30, Michigan and Ida B. Wells. Do it for Ida!

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

Whether with IQs of 300 or 30, all right-wingers are the same: "deep fear...Fear of death, fear of terrorism.'... a lack of trust and a craving for security... 'a need for protection...And if your main thing is seeking protection, you play with fire.'”

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The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

Never heard of her!

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

An orthogonal issue.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not worried for me. I'm worried for the wide world.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

If you don't understand that a civilization can't survive systematic degradation of information like this, you are no friend of mine. Not "by" Christina Perri in "2019," for fuck's sake. By Louisiana governor Jimmy Davis, in 1940. Seriously: this shit is death to culture and knowledge. A bludgeon.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

Not helpful.

Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 2d

The show wasn't bad!

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 2d

Chicagoans chasing off ICE, kidnappers.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 2d

A few more million Americans like these and we can go back to being a worthy nation again. These are the kind of neighbors I want. "When in the course of human events...."

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 2d

That's in REAGANLAND!

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 2d

Trump LOCKED IT DOWN on 1/20/2017. Didn't you know??

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 2d

Chicago!

Join Cathy J. Cohen, Adom Getachew, and @rickperlstein.bsky.social for a celebration of 50 years of @bostonreview.bsky.social

Thursday, October 9th at 6:30 pm
Haymarket House

RSVP to attend:
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Boston Review 50 Celebration
Cathy J. Cohen, Adom Getachew, Rick Perlstein
October 9th at 6:30 pm CT
Haymarket House, 800 W. Buena Ave in Chicago

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you sir may I have another?

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