Rick Perlstein
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"O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
The land that never has been yet..."
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Lo, we have an answer about how ICE would handle ice: they chickened out and did Picture Day instead.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Lo, we have an answer about how ICE would handle ice: they chickened out and did Picture Day instead.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
The Goddess has favored Chicago with several inches of snow today. Let's see how ICE handles ice.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The Goddess has favored Chicago with several inches of snow today. Let's see how ICE handles ice.
November 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Reposted by Rick Perlstein
initially thought that this was a shadow being projected on his face. didn’t realize he was in blackface
November 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
initially thought that this was a shadow being projected on his face. didn’t realize he was in blackface
Read the whole thing. "Feds Tell Faith Leaders No More Prayer."
Happening now in Broadview—outside Chicago:
A procession of Illinois Handmaid’s, with the Illinois Democratic Women of Cook County, walks in procession to the ICE detention facility.
“Even though we are silent, we are powerful,” an organizer told the group before starting.
A procession of Illinois Handmaid’s, with the Illinois Democratic Women of Cook County, walks in procession to the ICE detention facility.
“Even though we are silent, we are powerful,” an organizer told the group before starting.
November 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Read the whole thing. "Feds Tell Faith Leaders No More Prayer."
Hate to sound like a broken record, but I'm not sure people outside Chicago are really getting their minds around what's happening here. Every decent human needs to watch this.
substack.com/@danielbiss/...
substack.com/@danielbiss/...
Daniel Biss talks with detained ICE protestor Jennifer Moriarty
In this recording from our live conversation, I spoke with Evanston resident Jennifer Moriarty, who was "grabbed by the neck" and then detained while peacefully protesting against ICE.
substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Hate to sound like a broken record, but I'm not sure people outside Chicago are really getting their minds around what's happening here. Every decent human needs to watch this.
substack.com/@danielbiss/...
substack.com/@danielbiss/...
MUST-WATCH firsthand account of state terrorists inentionally causing traffic accidents, then beating those who object, and pulling sidearms of them.
substack.com/@danielbiss/...
substack.com/@danielbiss/...
Daniel Biss talks with detained ICE protestor Jennifer Moriarty
In this recording from our live conversation, I spoke with Evanston resident Jennifer Moriarty, who was "grabbed by the neck" and then detained while peacefully protesting against ICE.
substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
MUST-WATCH firsthand account of state terrorists inentionally causing traffic accidents, then beating those who object, and pulling sidearms of them.
substack.com/@danielbiss/...
substack.com/@danielbiss/...
How much you wanna bet Dana White paid Glenn Beck to run this on his website. Or, owns a piece of his web site.
By the way: did you know that Dana White is SHOCKED, SHOCKED to find gambling in his sport.
By the way: did you know that Dana White is SHOCKED, SHOCKED to find gambling in his sport.
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
How much you wanna bet Dana White paid Glenn Beck to run this on his website. Or, owns a piece of his web site.
By the way: did you know that Dana White is SHOCKED, SHOCKED to find gambling in his sport.
By the way: did you know that Dana White is SHOCKED, SHOCKED to find gambling in his sport.
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There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
Tesla shareholders have approved a pay package that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire. https://cnn.it/43KZnkA
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
It's amazing that a pianist can still approach the instrument in a fresh and individuslly identifiable way in 2025. Kit Knowles. ALMOST (sometimes) atonal, arhthymic. Yet melodic and swinging. open.spotify.com/album/77Uysf...
The Betrayal
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November 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
It's amazing that a pianist can still approach the instrument in a fresh and individuslly identifiable way in 2025. Kit Knowles. ALMOST (sometimes) atonal, arhthymic. Yet melodic and swinging. open.spotify.com/album/77Uysf...
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The several simultaneous federal trials happening in Chicago are especially important for the fact that they are the only thing so far cracking open the Black Box of who these ICE agents are, how they think, and how they interact.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Border Patrol agent 'bragged' about shooting woman in Brighton Park, defense attorney says
Testimony from the agent who shot a woman multiple times in an immigration enforcement action revealed how he touted his marksmanship in leaving seven wounds despite firing five bullets. He later text...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The several simultaneous federal trials happening in Chicago are especially important for the fact that they are the only thing so far cracking open the Black Box of who these ICE agents are, how they think, and how they interact.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Very important investigatiom. These are the techniques by which people become persuaded that, some day, people like you and me need to die, to preserve their safety.
If you can stomach it, check into right-wing media occasionally.
Don't look away.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
If you can stomach it, check into right-wing media occasionally.
Don't look away.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Watch how government ‘propaganda’ techniques portray Chicago as a city at war with the feds
The government’s social media storytelling doesn’t always match what’s happening across the city and suburbs. The diverging sources of information are creating “parallel universes," Professor Nick Cul...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Very important investigatiom. These are the techniques by which people become persuaded that, some day, people like you and me need to die, to preserve their safety.
If you can stomach it, check into right-wing media occasionally.
Don't look away.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
If you can stomach it, check into right-wing media occasionally.
Don't look away.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Chicago welcomes migrants. Sorry, MAGA.
November 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Chicago welcomes migrants. Sorry, MAGA.
The kidnapping was Wednesday morning. A thousand neighbors rallied in solidarity Wednesday night. That's how mobilized Chicago is.
We shall overcome.
We shall overcome.
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The kidnapping was Wednesday morning. A thousand neighbors rallied in solidarity Wednesday night. That's how mobilized Chicago is.
We shall overcome.
We shall overcome.
Congratulations to my friends in New York. Now can we please shift the focus to Chicago? (These items are all from today.)
November 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Congratulations to my friends in New York. Now can we please shift the focus to Chicago? (These items are all from today.)
Something for the history books, billionairws advocating "working well" with the dictator.
November 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Something for the history books, billionairws advocating "working well" with the dictator.
If you're still doing your DeJohnette deep dive--or if you're not. This is one of the epic blowing sessions of all time.
youtu.be/2WyeEySgwps?...
youtu.be/2WyeEySgwps?...
J.DeJohnette, C.Corea, P.Metheny, A.Braxton, L.Konitz, M.Vitous & others -full concert-
YouTube video by Francesco Salvatori
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November 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
If you're still doing your DeJohnette deep dive--or if you're not. This is one of the epic blowing sessions of all time.
youtu.be/2WyeEySgwps?...
youtu.be/2WyeEySgwps?...
The definitive account of the Watergate-style coverup Dick Cheney orchestrated after shooting that one guy in the face.
www.salon.com/2006/02/15/c...
www.salon.com/2006/02/15/c...
Shoot first, avoid questions later - Salon.com
The White House's secretive response to Cheney's misfire cannot be understood apart from the society of Texas royalty.
www.salon.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The definitive account of the Watergate-style coverup Dick Cheney orchestrated after shooting that one guy in the face.
www.salon.com/2006/02/15/c...
www.salon.com/2006/02/15/c...
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"The Chief Executive will on occasion feel duty bound to assert monarchical notions of prerogative that will permit him to exceed the law."
Donald Trump has been following Dick Cheney's playbook.
Donald Trump has been following Dick Cheney's playbook.
In honor of the dearly departed, a preview from Chapter Two ("The 9/11 Lobotomy") my forthcoming (hopefully in a year) book THE INFERNAL TRIANGLE: HOW AMERICA GOT THIS WAY.
November 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
"The Chief Executive will on occasion feel duty bound to assert monarchical notions of prerogative that will permit him to exceed the law."
Donald Trump has been following Dick Cheney's playbook.
Donald Trump has been following Dick Cheney's playbook.