Rick Perlstein

You're shitting me. The "Rays" play in a stadium with a roof so low you get an automatic homer when you hit beyond the "C Ring"? What is this, whiffle ball in their mommy's backyard? (Go Crew.)

What could be more fucking Florida than naming your baseball team after a critically endangered fish you decimated by overfishing. (Go Crew!)

Fuuuuuuuck.

Just nabbed this pic of Pete Hegseth's ill-fated encounter with Eisenhower's globe via FOIA.

I feel like "Digger" straight- up answers the call. prospect.org/2024/01/31/2...

From my pen pal in Gaza: "For the past eight days, no vegetables or flour have entered Gaza. Today, I stood in a long queue for three hours, hoping to get a kilo of bread—but to no avail. We haven’t eaten bread for three days. Famine is slowly returning, my friend."

Prediction: Trump will finally call out the Army to overrule the Supreme Court, but it will be to fix up a golf course. Whatacountry!

Next-level time feel. The kind that turned Miles' head around. youtu.be/P8c5P3w4YaE?...

Under conditions of fascism, "polarization" is not bad. It is, in fact, imperative, lest government of the people, for the people, and by the people, not perish from this earth.

Greatest real-life names of jazz musicians: Giveton Gelin. Jazzmia Horn. Sirabhorn Muntarbhorn.

Now they're selling Callista Gingrich action figures.

A post about a friend. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/make-a-mor...

Is it really possible to translate 2,000 year old poetry like this? Like: how can this not just be considered an original poem, inspired by, and shaped like, another in Latin?

After the crap that David Brooks wrote on the cusp of the Iraq War, no one should have published him anywhere again. Instead, it earned him a New York Times column.

The president admits a mistake.

Spend 10,000 hours with these, you'll turn you into a me.

As a historian, I learn with my fingers, typing the most important words in what I read into notes as a way to literally embody the information. To tell an "AI" to answer a question, then proceed according to what it outputs, is the opposite: the lobotomization of thought.

The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters.

I'm sorry, this is the sexiest picture I've ever seen. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...

Quite the bolt from the blue, this whole MAGA "takeover" of the Republican Party....

A classic from the not-so-dearly departed Jim Bakker... www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UUm...

A Democrat got drunk once. A Republican made his fortune swindling sick people. We report, you decide. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...

Remembering Denny Hastert. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/politics-i...

A Hasidic Jew, with the sidecurls, hat, and everything, is being deported. For the alleged crime of antisemitism. For peacefully protesting Israel. Where he is a citizen; and to which he is being deported.

University of Michigan today. The most tipping-point image I've seen to exemplify our fascist descent. And the surrender was won with the weapon of false antisemitism charges against people protesting genocide--making administrations complicit in genocide. A moral nadir. This is how republics die.

Very important observations here. Important stuff to mentally assimilate if you think that Democrats getting many more votes than Republicans in November is the whole ballgame.

Wrong platform. Subscribe here! www.patreon.com/franklin17/p...

One of my favorite front-line reporters on the fascist assault wants to cover the planned action tomorrow at the Broadview ICE facility but can only afford to do so if she gets ten more Substack subscribers. Hasten thither! substack.com/@noturtlesou...

Hope no one tells him about what's going on in the FBI...

Some serious Woodward and Bernstein energy... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/n...

May do.

I am so there for Kash under the lights at this Senate hearing. You thought the bestiality was a good? www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

Spending these days fact-checking and endnoting, I've been Googling at industrial scale, which has given my a brain-melting lesson in how fucked we are as a civilization. In today's installment, a quote from Geo W. Bush's 2nd inaugural in 2005 is depicted—why not?—as one from Obama's in 2013.

A financial death star was assembled by the "rules based international order" to pin outlaw states, with the U.S. at the controls. Now it is being deployed by the outlaw running the U.S., against the "rules based international order." Aimé Césaire's imperial boomerang. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...