Edwin Eisendrath
@eisendrath.net
It's the Democracy, Stupid.
Radio: WCPT/ @heartlandsignal.bsky.social
Video podcast: @lincolnsquare.media
Substack: https://edwineisendrath.substack.com/
Long ago: Chicago schoolteacher, alderman, CEO Chicago Sun Times, etc.
Radio: WCPT/ @heartlandsignal.bsky.social
Video podcast: @lincolnsquare.media
Substack: https://edwineisendrath.substack.com/
Long ago: Chicago schoolteacher, alderman, CEO Chicago Sun Times, etc.
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Good that JK called him out on the Walmart lie, but he let Hassett get away with saying inflation is down since Biden. It's not down. October 2024 inflation was 2.6%. October 2025 inflation was 2.9%. Also, average gas price is slightly higher now than November 2024.
KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true?
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
November 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Good that JK called him out on the Walmart lie, but he let Hassett get away with saying inflation is down since Biden. It's not down. October 2024 inflation was 2.6%. October 2025 inflation was 2.9%. Also, average gas price is slightly higher now than November 2024.
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Here's that column -- let me know what you think! www.inquirer.com/opinion/epst...
Epstein’s emails are the end of America as they ruined it
If the evil banality of the world's most powerful people exposed in the Epstein emails doesn't cause a revolution, nothing will.
www.inquirer.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Here's that column -- let me know what you think! www.inquirer.com/opinion/epst...
Everyone in Chicago seems to be finding a way to speak out against Donald Trump's terror campaign here. Now it's a group of retired journalists. I'll talk to one of them- Phil Ponce- about the remarkable public letter they sent about the ICE raids. Join us today on @lincolnsquare.media LIVE.
November 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Everyone in Chicago seems to be finding a way to speak out against Donald Trump's terror campaign here. Now it's a group of retired journalists. I'll talk to one of them- Phil Ponce- about the remarkable public letter they sent about the ICE raids. Join us today on @lincolnsquare.media LIVE.
The shutdown is over. Now what? We talk about that & much more today on WCPT/ @heartlandsignal.bsky.social with these amazing guests:
+ @taraemcg.bsky.social
+ @charlesgaba.com
+ Nissa Rhee of @borderlessmag.bsky.social
+ @michaelemann.bsky.social
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+ @charlesgaba.com
+ Nissa Rhee of @borderlessmag.bsky.social
+ @michaelemann.bsky.social
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November 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The shutdown is over. Now what? We talk about that & much more today on WCPT/ @heartlandsignal.bsky.social with these amazing guests:
+ @taraemcg.bsky.social
+ @charlesgaba.com
+ Nissa Rhee of @borderlessmag.bsky.social
+ @michaelemann.bsky.social
🤳Stream 1-4 CT bit.ly/3DAcG8s
+ @taraemcg.bsky.social
+ @charlesgaba.com
+ Nissa Rhee of @borderlessmag.bsky.social
+ @michaelemann.bsky.social
🤳Stream 1-4 CT bit.ly/3DAcG8s
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Where Does that Leave Us?
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November 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Where Does that Leave Us?
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It's always fun when @mikenellis.bsky.social & I get together. He's not shy about our politics & he's terrific fighter for the democracy.
I hope you'll join us today (Friday) on @lincolnsquare.media LIVE at 12Noon CT/ 1pm ET.
I hope you'll join us today (Friday) on @lincolnsquare.media LIVE at 12Noon CT/ 1pm ET.
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
It's always fun when @mikenellis.bsky.social & I get together. He's not shy about our politics & he's terrific fighter for the democracy.
I hope you'll join us today (Friday) on @lincolnsquare.media LIVE at 12Noon CT/ 1pm ET.
I hope you'll join us today (Friday) on @lincolnsquare.media LIVE at 12Noon CT/ 1pm ET.
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"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong."
Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong."
Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
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ICYMI: @sjdemas.bsky.social and @eisendrath.net went live to discuss how the administration's assault on freedom is coordinated and deliberate.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
ICYMI: @sjdemas.bsky.social and @eisendrath.net went live to discuss how the administration's assault on freedom is coordinated and deliberate.
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Their job in this moment was to help us continue to win. Instead, they defaulted to the more comfortable job as Washington dealmakers.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Their job in this moment was to help us continue to win. Instead, they defaulted to the more comfortable job as Washington dealmakers.
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ICYMI: @eisendrath.net sat down with Philip K. Howard to discuss how we fix a government that most are frustrated with at this point…
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'Nothing Works Anymore.' So How Do We Fix It? | Edwin Eisendrath & Philip K. Howard
Everyone is frustrated with the government these days.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
ICYMI: @eisendrath.net sat down with Philip K. Howard to discuss how we fix a government that most are frustrated with at this point…
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Just as I predicted.
We just had our first snow. Soon there won’t be any lawn work, so there won’t be Latino men doing low-wage work standing outside that they can find by chopper & drone & direct Border Patrol from the air to the right house to kidnap men for gardening while brown.
We just had our first snow. Soon there won’t be any lawn work, so there won’t be Latino men doing low-wage work standing outside that they can find by chopper & drone & direct Border Patrol from the air to the right house to kidnap men for gardening while brown.
"Another source with direct knowledge said the number of Border Patrol agents currently operating in the Chicago area will go from 250 down to 100. But in March, that number could increase to 1,000 agents."
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet... w/ @jonseidel.bsky.social
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet... w/ @jonseidel.bsky.social
U.S. Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino, fellow agents expected to leave Chicago soon
Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin insists “we aren’t leaving Chicago,” but the feds' immigration campaign is expected to begin winding down. However, one source said they could b...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Just as I predicted.
We just had our first snow. Soon there won’t be any lawn work, so there won’t be Latino men doing low-wage work standing outside that they can find by chopper & drone & direct Border Patrol from the air to the right house to kidnap men for gardening while brown.
We just had our first snow. Soon there won’t be any lawn work, so there won’t be Latino men doing low-wage work standing outside that they can find by chopper & drone & direct Border Patrol from the air to the right house to kidnap men for gardening while brown.
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Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
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the fuck
HASSETT: We're comfortable that inflation has come way down
QUINTANILLA: Even though it's been increasing for 5 straight months?
HASSETT: Well I guess there's ups and downs and seasonals
November 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
the fuck
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The job of these eight Senators in this moment was to help us continue to win. Instead, they defaulted to the more comfortable job as Washington deal makers. That a choice that tells me they have been insiders for too long. NEW from me:
open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...
open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...
8 Senators failed our Democratic coalition
The job of these eight Senators in this moment was to help us continue to win. Instead, they defaulted to the more comfortable job as Washington deal makers.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The job of these eight Senators in this moment was to help us continue to win. Instead, they defaulted to the more comfortable job as Washington deal makers. That a choice that tells me they have been insiders for too long. NEW from me:
open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...
open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...
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In case it's not obvious, none of this is true. He's either innumerate, or lying.
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
In case it's not obvious, none of this is true. He's either innumerate, or lying.
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That old metaphor about the frog and the boiling water isn’t true: If you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly raise the heat, the frog will jump out before it gets boiled to death.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
How news coverage eases us into tyranny
When the media act like things are normal, they don’t reassure us – they gaslight us
www.stopthepresses.news
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
That old metaphor about the frog and the boiling water isn’t true: If you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly raise the heat, the frog will jump out before it gets boiled to death.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
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Bluesky, a reintroduction!
I’m an investigative reporter @chicagotribune.com covering big stories. Now focused on immigration. But I’ll take any tips about people being hurt by government, junk science, healthcare, business or anybody else. Reach out [email protected] or Signal grp.27
I’m an investigative reporter @chicagotribune.com covering big stories. Now focused on immigration. But I’ll take any tips about people being hurt by government, junk science, healthcare, business or anybody else. Reach out [email protected] or Signal grp.27
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Bluesky, a reintroduction!
I’m an investigative reporter @chicagotribune.com covering big stories. Now focused on immigration. But I’ll take any tips about people being hurt by government, junk science, healthcare, business or anybody else. Reach out [email protected] or Signal grp.27
I’m an investigative reporter @chicagotribune.com covering big stories. Now focused on immigration. But I’ll take any tips about people being hurt by government, junk science, healthcare, business or anybody else. Reach out [email protected] or Signal grp.27
Former Senator Jon Tester knows a thing or two about agriculture and he says what the Trump administration is doing to farmers is political malpractice. I talked to Tester and his co-host Maritsa Georgiou of the @groundedpodcast.bsky.social:
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Former Senator Jon Tester knows a thing or two about agriculture and he says what the Trump administration is doing to farmers is political malpractice. I talked to Tester and his co-host Maritsa Georgiou of the @groundedpodcast.bsky.social:
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This is an absolutely insane administrative process. Within the space of a week, states were told by judges/White House
*no SNAP benefits
*half benefits
*full benefits
*pause provision of benefits.
Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.
*no SNAP benefits
*half benefits
*full benefits
*pause provision of benefits.
Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This is an absolutely insane administrative process. Within the space of a week, states were told by judges/White House
*no SNAP benefits
*half benefits
*full benefits
*pause provision of benefits.
Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.
*no SNAP benefits
*half benefits
*full benefits
*pause provision of benefits.
Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.
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at a basic level a huge amount of the actions of the federal govt amount to shitposting channeled through executive power. sounds like a snark. it’s not. it’s the language and impulse these people know. a mixed of bad humor and aggression driven by impulse.
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
at a basic level a huge amount of the actions of the federal govt amount to shitposting channeled through executive power. sounds like a snark. it’s not. it’s the language and impulse these people know. a mixed of bad humor and aggression driven by impulse.
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"Even those passengers who successfully reach their destination are encountering long departure delays, extended tarmac times and highly unpredictable arrival times; many flight crews are timing out...or missing connections." - Airlines for America www.airlines.org/news-update/...
Latest Data Shows Huge Impact of the Government Shutdown on Airlines and Our Customers – Airlines For America
www.airlines.org
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"Even those passengers who successfully reach their destination are encountering long departure delays, extended tarmac times and highly unpredictable arrival times; many flight crews are timing out...or missing connections." - Airlines for America www.airlines.org/news-update/...
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ICYMI: Hosts of @groundedpodcast.bsky.social Jon Tester & @maritsageorgiou.bsky.social joined @eisendrath.net on It's the Democracy, Stupid to discuss the collapsing MAGA credibility and moral fatigue shaping the electorate.
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November 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
ICYMI: Hosts of @groundedpodcast.bsky.social Jon Tester & @maritsageorgiou.bsky.social joined @eisendrath.net on It's the Democracy, Stupid to discuss the collapsing MAGA credibility and moral fatigue shaping the electorate.
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The REPUBLICAN run House. REPUBLICAN.
November 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The REPUBLICAN run House. REPUBLICAN.