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"O, let America be America again— The land that never has been yet..."
@rickperlstein.bsky.socialGreatest real-life names of jazz musicians: Giveton Gelin. Jazzmia Horn. Sirabhorn Muntarbhorn.
@rickperlstein.bsky.socialAnd how did he get, say, Jeff Bezos turning around 180% into one of his vassals?
@rickperlstein.bsky.socialThanks.
@rickperlstein.bsky.socialeeeeeeeek.
@rickperlstein.bsky.socialNow they're selling Callista Gingrich action figures.
@rickperlstein.bsky.socialReally? I've seen many many selling it straight.
@rickperlstein.bsky.socialThis is very much not true. Extremely not true. Something like the One Big Beautiful Bill will do more to transform everyday life in the country than anything else imaginable. The degrading of the administrative capacity of the federal government: same. Politics is the power to do work. He did work.
@rickperlstein.bsky.socialIn 2026, I slag TNR for taking money from a union to publicly sponsor a special section about the midterm elections. Unions interested political parties. (@inthesetimes.com gets little labor money because their coverage of individual unions is unflinching, the better to serve the labor movement.)
@rickperlstein.bsky.socialIn 2013 I slagged The New Republic for taking money from a military drone manufacturer to publicly sponsor a special section of the magazine abut military drones....
@rickperlstein.bsky.socialBingo!! Wild, right?
@rickperlstein.bsky.socialWas he not the most boring human alive?
@rickperlstein.bsky.social... and the guy in charge of that CIA program, Tom Braden, wrote the memoir upon which the corny TV show "Eight Is Enough" was based on.
@rickperlstein.bsky.socialFun facts: Frances Stonor Sanders, who died this week and wrote the definitive study of CIA art funding, ghostwrite Eartha Kitt's memoir "Confessions of a Sex Kitten," and...
@rickperlstein.bsky.socialDeleting.
@diplomatofnight.comReposted by @rickperlstein.bsky.socialIsrael's foremost natsec think tank says Israel's new doctrine rests on these principles 1. Jewish supremacy over democracy. 2. Peace is illusory 3. No such thing as an independent Arab state 4. War is key to security 5. The US is declining, Israel does not need it 6. Settlement is key to security.
@rickperlstein.bsky.socialI don't know them! Checking it out.
@rickperlstein.bsky.socialI've heard 'em all!!
@rickperlstein.bsky.socialA post about a friend.
@rickperlstein.bsky.social@rickperlstein.bsky.socialMore trippy.
