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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 2h

I specifically compared it to BLM.

Come to Rogers Park, meet all the people doing anything like this for the first time. I'll tell you how it differs from other firsthand movements I've observed since the 90s, some fresh, but most either driven or coopted by people doing it by habit or for a living

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 2h

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 3h

Chicago is 231 square miles. You never know in what neighborhood where the kidnappers will pop up next. So people literally track the military helicopters always thundering overhead to try to figure it out.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 4h

And since American culture hq in NYC will never give Chicago its due, and we don't do inflatable costumes (which I love!!), you should follow it in Chicago media: Chicago Magazine. Block Club Chicago, In These Times, Triibe, Sun-Times, South Side Weekly. (Trib is for right-leaning suburbanites.)

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 4h

Tons. Read Chicago Magazine. Block Club Chicago, In These Times, the Triibe, the Sun-Times, the South Side Weekly. (Less the Trib, which is for right- leaning suburbanites.)

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Em, spookily 👻 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 5h

This evening’s reminder that you can be a part of a movement of people rising up and caring for each other.

It doesn’t take any particular skill or bravery and nobody will ask you where you were yesterday, they’ll just press work into your hands that badly needs doing.

Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5h

This is what I've had the privilege to watch happening in Chicago:

A genuine social moment, so new and spontaneous (though not without antecedents and seedbeds) it doesn't even yet have a theory or "ideology." Just: people doing....

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5h

I hereby coin a Perlstein's law: when a movement flushes out a critical mass of never-before activists-- like the Christian Right and BLM both did--serious possibilities for change open up.

We shall overcome.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5h

Dedicated cadres of small-d democrat, small-r republican people working extremely hard, in their neighborhoods, with history-making passion, to resist tyranny on the most basic, body-on-the-line level, the most important component being: MANY of the participants never having been activists before.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5h

This is what I've had the privilege to watch happening in Chicago:

A genuine social moment, so new and spontaneous (though not without antecedents and seedbeds) it doesn't even yet have a theory or "ideology." Just: people doing....

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 9h

You have paychecks now?

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 9h

www.jta.org/archive/new-...

New Jersey Young Republicans Hear Accusations Against 'rat Finks' - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Charges that several members of the New Jersey Young Republicans, known as the “Rat Finks, ” have been singing anti-Semitic and anti-Negro songs on several occasions were heard yesterday at a hearing ...

www.jta.org

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

Oddly, it's in the text. Point 13.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

Only now, America directly participates.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to Chicago, fascist.

www.chicagomag.com/news/chicago...

Chicago Is Organizing for All

Everyday Chicagoans are proving to be the first line of defense against the federal incursion into their city.

www.chicagomag.com

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

Just so we are clear, Israel's defense minister just announced that this is a deal to allow them to continue the war even after the freeing of the hostages.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 1d

This is Israel's defense minister. Just to be clear: Israel interprets the deal allowing continueing the violence even after the freeing of the hostages.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 2d

My kinda guy. Swipe right!

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 2d

This was the "Antifa terrorists invading our cities" of 1981. Kind of like that old saw that tyrants practice their oppressive innovations in the colonial hinterlands before bringing them home. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_P...

White Paper on El Salvador - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 2d

A historians small contribution to the struggle...

Don't leave, lead. We Need you.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 2d

Smart!!

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think this applies to the Rodgers Park school-protection signal group.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 2d

No! Do share!

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 2d

All liberals agree contrails aren't a Deep State plot to control our minds and that 2+2=4. This uniformity of opinion is quite concerning.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 2d

Accepting necessary hierarchy requires trust, and also LEADERSHIP-- and we don't have it. This is not sustainable. I hope a Next Step happens in these valorous, loving, courageous nascent communities we are building.

Which is happening. I see history getting made. We shall overcome.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 2d

No move toward some kind of representative leadership that would allow cities to communicate and cooperate with one another, and send that work of strategic decision-making down through the ranks.

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