The plasticity and telepathy if this rhythm section is as masterful as anything you'll hear outside Tony, Herbie, and Ron. Freddie riding the knife's edge of outness and inness. Next level. A discovery. youtu.be/MyO3HcyuipE?...
"O, let America be America again— The land that never has been yet..."
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The plasticity and telepathy if this rhythm section is as masterful as anything you'll hear outside Tony, Herbie, and Ron. Freddie riding the knife's edge of outness and inness. Next level. A discovery. youtu.be/MyO3HcyuipE?...
54:14 OJ...
Can I unsee the CBS guitar mime pls??
Technically, this is Millennium Park, to Grant's north. But your statement is still correct!
A friend writes: "A pogrom is definitely their agenda. I received a mailer from Charles Kirk’s Turning Point USA about a month ago. (Strange because most of my mail is from the other side.) The outside of the envelope screamed about 'TRANS THUGS' shooting people."
One of the greatest modern song stylists in jazz, Chicago's own Patricia Barber, at the Chicago Jazz Festival: "I don't know, it doesn't look like a hellhole to me.
This is what they're doing. They're making up a "trans school shooting" epidemic. If you're not ready for pogroms being next, then you're either not paying attention or in denial.
Federal Circuit en banc holds that Trump’s tariffs are not authorized by Congress www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/fede...
I did an Al Jazeera panel on MAGA assaults on journalism, taking off on inane racist rant aimed at a Beirut press pool from a WH Middle East envoy that made no news here but was a huge deal over there. youtu.be/fPwtBmjI6Ek?...
RFK Jr. is a eugenicist. Dr. Strangekennedy - The American Prospect share.google/scAWN8bMr2iE...
A lot I don't know.
I don't know who Rudy Perpich is.
All four of them, two of them on of thy front pages, all raves.
#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
Don't laugh. That's what people did with the Nazis.
629,000 followers on X.
Yes ish
This is lot like how Kristallnacht kicked off.
They want to win, just not in the "wrong" way.
The intellectual standards for claiming the Democratsmic Party is shot through with woke purists are scandalous low, as this study demonstrates. dcinboxinsights.substack.com/p/was-it-som...
...me, March 2016: The Truth About Donald Trump’s Populism - In These Times share.google/Dh2QxHSLkKzG...
I like this site, but this one is on the level of a neo-Nazi saying "...but Hitler built the autobahn!"
Nixonland wrote itself.
Sharon Tate in "A Beginner's Guide to Mao Tse-tung." Esquire, Dec. 1967. cc: @peterapeel.bsky.social @rickperlstein.bsky.social
Wow. Want.
Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'neill Burke needs to day this too. Individual ICE thugs need to live in constant fear of following illegal orders.
A big theme in my next book.
Not Pritzker.
(Fun fact: the New York Times Book Review killed this piece, according to the gossip, because it was read as a partisan attack on George W. Bush.)
My piece from '07 about not fearing a billionaire like Pritzker as populist anti-fascist leader. Can be feature not bug: why FDR, the functional equivalent of a billionaire in the '30s, could see through, and savage with extreme prejudice, his class's bullshit. www.baltimoresun.com/2007/09/09/t...
Sisyphus writes. A long 2004 essay of mine on why Democrats suck that could have been published yesterday. www.bostonreview.net/forum/rick-p...
NEW: Utah judge orders legislature to redraw GOP's 4-0 congressional map in time for 2026 elections. Republicans are hoping to appeal and at least slow things down to run out the clock for this next election.
#WartimeConsigliare www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q04p...
No. It just takes a few. That becomes a permission structure for the next wave. This is a common finding in studies of mass violence.
They will be shot. Watch Fox. They're among the untermenschen.
Spectacular graffiti on the fishin' rocks at River Park in the Chi.
He sends troops to escort ICE. This is so, if people resist ICE's illegitimate authority, they will be shot dead. He wants this. He wants to be a dictator.
That was before. This dropped last night at 8 cst.
Impeachment resolutions would make sense. youtu.be/mXTcjY_5E5o?...
Are there reports of developments since last night's Washington Post report on the National Guard mobilization for #Chicago? Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown - The Washington Post share.google/9sjfZ58AJqmX...
Compare web site front pages of the Sun-Times and Trib. What the ever-living fuuuuuuuck, Chicago Tribune??
Hands: not tiny!
Nope. Still there.
How fix?
Weird, this is what I get when I open Bluesky on my Android phone. I'm in Illinois, not Mississippi.
That's it!!
Help a brother out. I'm looking for a quote from Chuck Schumer recently praising the era of George W. Bush in the context of Trump. Had it, lost it.
Some day not far off, those of who've survived will talk about the Big One, the preventable mega-disaster MAGA will be responsible for having let happen, with deaths in the millions. We've been in this reality for seven months so far. Over/under on when? unredacted.com/2025/08/22/d...
Hauled something out of my archives from a brief window between book projects when I was playing the piano A LOT, and nabbed a rare uninterrupted take, maxing out my abilities. Look for more once I finish this book, which may well be my One Last Score... photos.app.goo.gl/o4DHC6kMzhQj...
I got s lot of responses to recent posts hating on "AI" saying, smugly, "well, I don't use AI." I thought: well, um... youtu.be/86nhP8tvbLY?...
All true. That's what is so melancholy about the series.
You just said "there's nothing 'human' about these machines." How do you know?
Machines don't "hallucinate."
You just contradicted yourself, acknowledging these machines are NOT human, then demanding that I have to DEFINE what is human. I don't. It's enough that they aren't, and that programmers program them to say they are.
Not in the U.S.
What is the problem? I'm not following your argument.
You are being manipulated by bullshit. There's nothing "human" about these machines.
Hawt
It's not a likeness.
This is exactly he story of thing the Federal Trade Commission used to do in the 1970s until it was crushed by a corporate backlash. I write about that in REAGANLAND.
More great American creativity. youtu.be/oU1_mrBxml4?...
We treat computers like those mauled people treated their chimp. Writers, your job is to tell the truth and expose lies. So do not do this. When quoting or citing a person or corporation speaking as if a computer has feelings, or ideas, etc., point out, parenthetically, that this is not true.
One resists having her illegal chimp seized by faking its death, terrified that the chimp will be miserable at the sanctuary because it no longer knows how to behave like a chimpanzee. It is finally released to the sanctuary, where it immediately thrives by...behaving like a chimpanzee.
The gr8 doc "Chimp Crazy" (by the guy who did "Tiger King") is about people who adopt baby chimps, dress them and train them to appear human; then, after they grow up to monstrous size, get mauled to death for insting on believing that these animals, their "children," have become close to humans.
No. They are being written into the books of law. That's the fascism: using it as a tool, for as long as it's useful as a tool, by any means necessary, whatever its popular warrant.
and also banning that fake typing sound when you're talking to AI support WE KNOW YOU'RE NOT ACTUALLY TYPING
This would be an excellent start to the imperative work of wrenching society from its calamitous acceptance of commercially motivated lies about what computers are and do.
Weaponized anti-"antisemitism" as key instrument in the fascist toolkit. Institutions like the ADL helped this happen. Shame all around. jeffreycisaacdesign.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/i...
My all-purpose AI reform is banning computers from pretending they are human. Having names, saying "I," pretending to have feelings, representing what they emit as "advice," etc. That's where much of the mischief starts.
Miles. Miles. Miles.
One of my favorite scholars of reaction, Carol Mason, has a new joint out. www.npr.org/2025/08/02/n...
No teenager reads this dinosaur platform....
Discovered by way of a splendid searching soul named @frankhudson.bsky.social. There is far too much beauty that this nation makes to give up on it. We shall overcome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VkA...
Check out the preface to my book "Invisible Bridge," where I explain the phenomena with an example from the 1870s. While I check out your awesome blog!
Re-read the end, where I talk about how there's plenty of conflict about horserace-level trivialities, as a way to obscure the deeper structural conflict about basic things. Think of the metaphor of Pandora's box. What's in the box starts with...enslaving Africans, while calling America "free."
New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.” Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.
This I believe. 2020 interview in which I state my ideas, more directly than anywhere else, about elite political media and its failures regarding incipient fascism. www.cjr.org/q_and_a/rick...
Next time I'm visiting my sis we can stage some kind of scene where I stumble across the two of you together in public and start fawning: "You have no idea how COOL this man is..."
Try this. www.cjr.org/q_and_a/rick... Meanwhile, the part of Invisible Bridge that gets at it most specifically is just the preface!
Let me know what you think.
Have you read my book "The Invisible Bridge"?
As I point out in the book I'm working on now, using several reviews from elites like that including the Clinton White House big-wig who wore "Nixonland is over. Obamaland, anyone?", that sort of fetishization of its alleged consensus is a major media contribution to how we got this way.
This behavior is indistinguishable from the worst secret polices of fascist regimes of the 20th century.
Now do "Rain Man."
The anti vax movement is not just a radicalization funnel for the broader fascist movement it is also a networked stochastic violence vector that appears to be causing more and more open violence against governmental officials and those seen as a threat.
The creativity of the New York Times in inventing fresh false equivalences is bounteous. Today: TASS, and Some Unnamed Guy On The Internet.
I'm usual a skeptic on Trump "doing X is a distraction from Y" when both X and Y = dangerous insanity, but wow: if he wanted to distract from something else, this would be the way to do it.
RFK Jr. et al seem to have bred stochastic terrorism. MN political assassin tells Glenn Beck's outlet his plan was "citizen arrests" of lawmakers responsible deaths from taking the Covid vaccine. www.theblaze.com/news/exclusi...
Gets better and better. Wait until you hear her explain why she continues (as of that interview) to work as a typist for an ad agency, the better to guard her artistic freedom.
Two of my heroes, Sheila Jordan and Terry Gross, riffing together back in '81. freshairarchive.org/topics/music...
Free idea for deli owners: Deep Steak Sandwich.
The mayor!
What with the specter of the military terrorizing Chicago being an actual possibility, hearing fighter jets boom overhead is no longer merely a nuisance. It's trauma. Time to end the Air & Water Show, or limit it to the actually charming and entertaining stunt pilots, wing-walkers, and such.
WHY DID YOU MAKE ME HIT YOU!?!? (Reposted by marquee "never-Trump" conservative, note...)
"Norwegian schoolteachers refused to adopt pro-Nazi curricula. At least a thousand were fired." It's time, people. Resist where you can. prospect.org/politics/202...
I get similar stuff from childhood friends, except it's, "as a historian, I would you would know that..."
One of my fave passages.
