Rick Perlstein

The American Prospect @theprospect.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:52 UTC

Joe Biden's refusal to step down and let someone else take the reins, when the stakes are as high as democracy itself, is an indictment of his character in a career full of selfish and narcissistic decisions. From @rickperlstein.bsky.social:

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 18:52 UTC

The former president openly calls Mexicans poison and vermin. It's kind of insulting to imply we have it worse.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:00 UTC

I grew up among bumper stickers like this. It was popular culture. www.ebay.com/itm/16237132...

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 14:58 UTC

Hiding. Ok.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 03:11 UTC

This is not true. It really creeps me out that we are supposed to pretend that antisemitism is a worse problem in American than Islamophobia.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 02:27 UTC

Fears on the right are fungible.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 02:11 UTC

Drinking game: every time Trump says "millions of people streaming across the border," insert "Jews."

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 01:37 UTC

They're both such selfish men.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 13:40 UTC

Prezzy debates were always ridiculous. washingtonspectator.org/unmaking-pre...

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 14:53 UTC

Reagan.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 02:34 UTC

News flash, Elon Musk thinks Black people and women are not intelligent. finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-mu...

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 19:53 UTC

Or maybe he just needs $700 for a new tent because the sun is wearing down his current one to uselessness.

www.gofundme.com/f/ahmeds-fam...

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 19:52 UTC

I pointed out that the IDF had just tortured a Gazan doctor to death .She suggested that, well, maybe he was a secret terrorist ("Lets face facts"). So maybe Ahmed, the former humanitarian aid worker, is playing a cunning game, just waiting to strike.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 19:49 UTC

"We are here governed by sword and fire. We cannot change the reality in which we live. We hate and condemn what Hamas did. It is the innocents who pay the price of wars."

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 19:49 UTC

"This may sound naïve, but short of that it sounds like they approve it. What is Ahmed’s moral perspective on the seven women who were raped and then held captive?" So I asked Ahmed. He responded:

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 19:49 UTC

"Seeing as you have a friend in the heart of Gaza, I am curious if you have discussed the American and Israeli hostages with him. I don’t understand why the Gazans are not pounding at the door of Hamas to return them...."

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 19:48 UTC

On another platform, I asked for donations for a family in Gaza, as I did here. From a "human rights activist," I received the following response:

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 18:09 UTC

Yesterday: "...we don't know where we're going. I hope the sea swallows us and we can rest. We hated this life. We have been displaced 7 times, and each time the displacement costs us a lot of money."

How you can help this man I trust: www.gofundme.com/f/ahmeds-fam...

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 18:07 UTC

Two days ago, after I sent him the latest money received from the GoFundMe: "I got half a kilo of meat for my children. For your information, we have not seen meat for 9 months. Its price is very expensive."

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 18:05 UTC

One week ago: "The day after tomorrow is Eid al-Adha. Unfortunately, we have not seen any kind of meat for 9 months." Six days ago: "The temperature in the tent is boiling."

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 18:04 UTC

Eight days ago he sent the picture: "My child, Obada, started sewing shoes for people so that he could help me support his younger siblings and buy some food... My child is supposed to be in school now, and he is an outstanding student with an average of 96%. We have no future here."

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 18:03 UTC

Nine days ago: "The Israeli army asked us to evacuate the camp...which it designated for us as a safe zone. It will bomb the place with planes, starting at 6 a.m. and ending at 6 p.m. This is what the Red Cross told us. We do not know where we will go in this extreme heat. Bye. My friend."

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 18:03 UTC

Eleven days: "We are suffering from kidney pain due to drinking water that is not suitable for animal use"; " we are dying of hunger. I swear to you that my children now eat one simple meal every 24 hours. They cry every moment. I don't know what to do. I hope we all die and rest from this life."

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 18:02 UTC

Twelve days ago: "The markets have become empty, and if anything is found, its price is very expensive. Today, my kids and I only got one meal, a small can of beans. Here we die. We lose our lives.. Here there are no vegetables, no meat, and no kind of fruit."

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 18:02 UTC

Seventeen days ago, Ahmed sent me this picture, observing, "For your information, these foods are exposed to sunlight. There are many children who have been infected with liver disease and jaundice due to these foods.."

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 18:01 UTC

Presently, he is hoping to raise $700 for a new tent ("It has become bad from the sun"). $300 for transport ("our lives here are tied to an amount of one thousand dollars. It may be small for someone living outside Gaza, but this amount in Gaza may be the reason a family is saved from death").

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 17:59 UTC

Today's news: "We are now hiding in tents that do not protect us from anything. Since the morning, we have been subjected to severe bombardment by tanks. Until this moment, 25 martyrs have died in the tents." Here is a picture he took from the tent of a tank shell exploding.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 17:45 UTC

Every few weeks, I post an update about the messages I've received from my friend Gaza, whose family I have started a GoFundMe to help support. I'll post that URL here, then at the bottom of the thread. www.gofundme.com/f/ahmeds-fam...

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 22:14 UTC

Fave find in the Heritage Foundation's 2025 Project: point blaming "Biden Administration" for something, citing chart documenting said something from 2010-19. If you have expertise in any federal dept, especially if a past employee or even present one who wants to pull a Mark Felt, get in touch!

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 17:18 UTC

And Dem neoliberaliam! :-)

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 15:55 UTC

Yes.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 15:23 UTC

Agree! I put a theory of time at the center of my account of the right in my next book.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 15:22 UTC

Don't mind saying so: this piece of mine I linked to in my Josh Marshall profile to illustrate how hopeless is mainstream media coverage of prezzie primaries, from 2015, is BOSS.

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