Edwin Eisendrath

Trump is in Mississippi tonight campaigning for Cindy Hyde-Smith—but tomorrow the man challenging her for that Senate seat stops by Lincoln Square. https://bit.ly/4zaTXNj Subscribe to watch @sjdemas.bsky.social & Edwin @eisendrath.net’s sit down with Scott Colom for U.S. Senate LIVE at 11 AM ET!

Wisconsin has been ground zero in the battle against GOP overreach for two decades. It's a divided state, and now a consequential governor's race is too close to call. Voters may not vote for Dems, but they sure know what the GOP is:

https://bit.ly/3VRmyZr Jen Bendery of @huffpost.com stopped by Lincoln Square to discuss Mike Johnson’s role in the effort to challenge the 2020 election results—and whether he could try something similar again. Subscribe to watch It’s the Democracy, Stupid! with @eisendrath.net

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

Well, that is surely a sign that good governance and fufilling their oaths of office is a top priority for this crew of pirates.

Of course they did.

Good piece here by @willbunch.bsky.social on freakin' Jared Kushner, who may well wind up being the evilest of them all. www.inquirer.com/opinion/hype...

HOLY SHIT. In a sworn statement yesterday, an ICE agent told a federal judge that an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea had been cancelled and so couldn't be used to bring Ahmed Soliman back to the United States. The plane just landed in Equatorial Guinea. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

Ending decades-long government corruption is urgent. https://bit.ly/4jIFm7f @lisagraves.bsky.social of @truenorthresearch.bsky.social stopped by Lincoln Square to discuss overhauling SCOTUS & ending Citizens United with Edwin @eisendrath.net on It's the Democracy, Stupid—Subscribe to watch!

@walshfreedom.bsky.social thinks today’s anger dwarfs what sent him to Congress in the Tea Party wave. We talked about that & much more here: I hope you'll watch. edwineisendrath.substack.com/p/unvarnishe...

Thanks @walshfreedom.bsky.social

News just broke that Elon Musk made a $1 billion investment in the Ellison family's Skydance, which owns CBS and CNN. Anoher step toward right-wing "media capture," as I wrote about recently in my Stop the Presses newsletter.

🚨 THIS IS AN EMERGENCY. IT'S TIME TO SOUND ALL THE ALARMS! 🚨 We need scientists, healthcare workers, educators, advocates, organizers, students, retirees, EVERYDAY AMERICANS from all walks of life, and EVERYONE who believes in democracy to come together for this critical moment.

NEW from me: Beth Fuller was a 10-year CDC contractor when she was DOGE'd last year by Trump + Elon Musk, a mass layoff process cheered by the GOP. Now she's a candidate in a key swing district that could end the GOP’s decades-long grip on total power in Georgia. www.huffpost.com/entry/beth-f...

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: MeidasTouch obtained NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN photos and videos revealing devastating damage to U.S. bases from Trump's Iran war. Troops and military families describe being abandoned by their own government. “It’s so much worse than people realize.”

While many universities caved to Trump, Wesleyan University did not. I talked to Michael Roth about standing up for universities and Americans: edwineisendrath.substack.com/p/higher-ed-...

Should a country’s freedom depend on one billionaire’s decisions? https://bit.ly/4hZMgDS @sjdemas.bsky.social & Edwin @eisendrath.net discuss how Elon Musk, Starlink, and Ukraine exposes the danger of the broligarchy’s power. Subscribe to watch their latest sit down on Lincoln Square!

Freedom cannot rise and fall based on the whims of Big Tech CEOs. https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/big-techs-war-on-democracy-edwin Edwin @eisendrath.net & @sjdemas.bsky.social discuss Big Tech’s war on democracy on their latest sit down. Subscribe to watch— only on Lincoln Square!

Republican control of Texas has resulted in a failure to protect water supplies, syphoning money away from public schools, and deporting hard working Texans. My conversation with @gelliottmorris.com digs into that and much more: edwineisendrath.substack.com/p/the-gop-go...

NEW: From an airplane, Aristides Fernandez Garcia—one of the Cubans ICE expelled to the Central African Republic—says he’s on his way to Bolivia via Ethiopia, Turkey and Colombia. He thanks supporters & the other third-country nationals in CAR. “God willing, soon we’re all going to go to the US.”

THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

LIVE SOON: Big Tech’s War On Democracy https://open.substack.com/live-stream/418563 Subscribe to watch Edwin @eisendrath.net & @sjdemas.bsky.social latest sit down LIVE— only on Lincoln Square!

Efforts to buy our votes with Russian oil won’t work. https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/two-desperate-dictators-the-trump Subscribe to read the latest from Edwin @eisendrath.net for Lincoln Square!

NEW: Another controversy involving taxpayer-funded Trump ads Democratic Natl Committee alerts court that MAGA Inc Super-PAC is paying to air a "no tax on tips" commercial that was produced by White House staff "whose salaries are paid using Congressional appropriations"

The disgrace and debasement of CBS News continues to accelerate.

Americans are pissed about the economy, but we are also clear that Trump’s values aren’t our values.

it's pretty f'd up that the Trump administration is trying to deport my duly-elected member of Congress

This piece by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social is one for the ages. "The logic of this brand of politics moves inexorably toward atrocity...If there’s one lesson of the last decade, it’s never believe it can’t happen here." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/o...

MAGA has one vision for the country. Americans have another. @walshfreedom.bsky.social and I talk about how that will likely impact the midterms. I hope you’ll watch: edwineisendrath.substack.com/p/why-are-am...

Voting rights groups are suing Texas over an alarming backlog ahead of the election. trib.al/HMRV3w2

🎙️ MIDTERMS!! Campaign consultant Pete Giangreco + WCPT host Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net will predict everything from Chi school board elections to the battle for Congress. 🍺 Join Indivisible Chicago's Blue Beginning chapter for Show Up Chicago at The Hideout, Mon 10/19 7:00 pm 🔗 Info/RSVP ⤵

"In February 2024, Blanche & his partner Emil Bove — now Judge Bove — insisted that 'a fair trial cannot be conducted this year.' And yet, 22 days before the midterms, with early voting already underway in MN, Blanche’s DOJ searched a candidate’s home over paperwork a dead man filed 3 decades ago."

🚨 72 retired senior military officers speak out "We ask the President, our Congressional representatives, and our fellow citizens to act to prevent this barbaric abuse of authority: Livestreaming an execution debases the... commitment to basic human dignity..." www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

The new White House Press Secretary had a bad first day— Thankfully, @sjdemas.bsky.social and Edwin @eisendrath.net watched her first briefing so you don’t have to! Subscribe to hear their analysis of the new character in the White House— only on Lincoln Square! https://bit.ly/4euPsou

Donald Trump has screwed up so badly that even Alaska is in play. I talked to Alaska reporter James Brooks about this unusual turn of events including how rural Alaskans are leaning Democratic these days. I hope you’ll watch our chat: edwineisendrath.substack.com/p/unpopular-...

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BREAKING: Kimberly Guilfoyle Resigns https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/breaking-kimberly-guilfoyle-resigns Plus @eisendrath.net & @sjdemas.bsky.social discuss Trump’s Bogus Russia-Ukraine Ceasefire Announcement on their weekly sit down! Subscribe to watch— only on Lincoln Square!

As Trump heads to Alaska to salvage a Senate race, I talked with James Brooks @alaska.bsky.social. James is a great guide to the state's politics. On Trump's last visit he rolled out the red carpet for Putin. Could we see a blue wave in the last frontier this year?

"The amount of fuel Russia could export is too small, the impact on pricing too slight, the narrative too late to shape electoral outcomes: This looks, instead, like something very different: an abrupt, Hail Mary attempt to force Ukraine to surrender" www.theatlantic.com/idea/2026/10...

Zelensky on bombing the Russian data centers: “It’s pretty clear where the bots were coming from.”

Nixon’s Most Dangerous Idea Is Back https://bit.ly/4rZQX3Q @democracyprof.bsky.social of Brown University stopped by Lincoln Square to discuss why Nixon’s infamous claim about presidential power haunting America. Subscribe to watch It’s The Democracy, Stupid! with Edwin @eisendrath.net

My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.

Americans are getting ready to vote, and we are angry. Donald Trump thinks that he can buy our votes. He told us if Republicans win, he will cut us $5,000 checks. His poll numbers went down. Now he’s trying to buy our votes with Russian oil. My latest: edwineisendrath.substack.com/p/two-desper...

St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago has placed more than 100 crosses outside the parish. Each bears the name of someone who died in ICE custody or during an immigration enforcement action. Union workers built the traveling memorial, which began at Holy Name Cathedral last month.