Greg Jarrell

Thoughts (derogatory) and prayers (imprecatory)

North Carolina has not been a democracy for a while. This result would be an enormous win for the state.

Next up: North Carolina General Assembly.

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Maaaaaybe this quote makes sense a decade ago. Today it just makes you look like either a liar or a fool.

I think one of the best aspects of this story is just how *average* the cop is. This is pretty much what most cops are like. They believe they are doing a good job.

"Still seeking his calling, he arranged a ride-along with a police officer outside Austin. What sold him on policing was the suburban officer’s power to enforce the law as he saw fit."

“This, like so many laments about what things cost in America, is a housing story. Public schools that provide a residential undergraduate education are also selling undergraduates an education in what it means to afford a residence.”

I went to Memphis to learn about state representative Justin J. Pearson’s run for Congress. I wrote about it here: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Beer Also, solar energy equipment keeps getting more efficient and accessible.

Helluva ballgame.

Pretty nearly the whole actual point of getting white college students to go to Mississsippi for Freedom Summer was to draw national media attention

Best subscription ever

I spent last night writing about Trump's waterfront land grab in DC. Things are crazier than I thought, and MAGA has the National Park Service seriously gaslighting the public over it. 🧵

"Providence" is the elastic doctrine of choice for sanctifying all kinds of crimes. Lots of good theological work on this from many folks, chief among them Willie Jennings. Also MAtt Jantzen's excellent "God, Race, and History," plus a book called "Our Trespasses" written by little old me.

This is awful news.

This is a faithful witness to the Good News.

Got a fancy welcome from @thetattooedprof.bsky.social institution today.

this is wild

D-R turnout gap swing is everywhere, including key Black Belt counties, the huge vote blocks in Wake and Mecklenburg, and almost all of Western NC. The breadth of these numbers are so strong that I think the NCGA House is in play.

A 56-year-old Mexican man held at a federal immigration facility in Laredo was found dead in his cell Saturday morning. His family says the center would not give him medicine for diabetes, high blood pressure and a heart condition. He is the 7th person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year.

A perfect summation of my tastes.

Wasn't that the Apostle Paul?

anybody doing analysis on what this implies about the broader US capitalist class? are they just free riding or does this indicate some other kind of cultural response / coordination strategy with respect to the current administration

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry began on October 16, 1859.

This could yield incredible results in our state legislature. NCGOP has held a veto-proof majority in both houses for most of the last 16 years, and have destroyed public institutions in the process. Even if Ds can't flip the houses, breaking the veto-proof majorities will be a terrific victory.

Dozens of masked settlers attacked Palestinian villagers and savagely beat a Washington Post photographer today. "Israeli troops arrived shortly before the attack, which seemed to embolden the settlers. Soldiers fired tear gas at Palestinians and 'did absolutely nothing about the settlers.'"

of american life. the same indignities you and i have had to endure all our lives. they broke him. they made him a nazi who is married to a person of color. a man who, as a matter of public policy, hates his own children. he is one of the weakest creatures you will ever lay eyes on. finish him

to be jd vance means you ate so much shit -- just legendary amounts of shit -- that one day, teary eyed with rage, you shook your fists at the godless sky and swore you would never again be in a position to be humiliated again. it means you were so fundamentally broken by the every day indignities

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Right so the war against social science. Yes it’s ideological. It’s also a termination letter from the state saying it no longer needs legitimation. that’s the public crisis — ask yourself why it doesn’t need legitimacy.

JON OSSOFF: “Will you commit tonight that for the remainder of this campaign, it’s just three weeks Mike, you won’t allow any more neo-Nazi propaganda to be produced from your house. Can you make that commitment?” MIKE COLLINS: *does not make that commitment* bsky.app/profile/atru...

They say AI will save you work. They mean AI will save them on labor.

Times have gotten so interesting here that I'm watching the board of education meeting for entertainment.

Don't know if y'all have heard about this, but it's pretty good. Definitely worth a read.

Cops? Acting racist? In a group text that sounded like a Klan meeting? Surely you jest.

"AI, which is not a coherent set of products and services, but rather a commercial and political project, can be understood as a full-spectrum class-war offensive." @mskellymhayes.bsky.social with an excellent expansion of a great thread from yesterday.

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket