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Greg Jarrell

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Organizer, The Redress Movement Author, Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American N'hoods. bit.ly/3vacJsG I study the political theologies of US urban renewal and organize for repair. He/him. CLT

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 21h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 17h
Fascinating transformation from denying that racial dog whistles were present to demanding that they be present
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 29/09/2026
Expletives in discourse by public officials ought to be rare, perfectly placed, and used only when nothing else will suffice. Like this one.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Cadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“We want to destroy patronage networks” “Ban university-endorsed Greek life” “We also want to reduce sexual assault” “You’re gonna love hearing our answer again”
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 28/09/2026
A few reflections from a turbulent week.
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For Those Who Struggle
A meditation on social movements and loss
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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 26/09/2026
It's really comin down out there (civilization)
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 25/09/2026
The brain trust is working overtime.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 24/09/2026
We've reached 11th grade math here, which is the point where I can't help anymore. Send tutor for young man (and bourbon for me)
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 23/09/2026
Two photos for Trane's 100th birthday: One from the building where he was born, the other a mural several blocks away. Hamlet, NC
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 23/09/2026
This week my city council voted to expand an urban highway, further destroying historically Black neighborhoods in the process. Their justifications relied on intentionally misremembering the brutality of urban renewal and urban highway projects.
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Forgetting and Mis-remembering
Charlotte is determined to repeat the bad old days
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Jaleel Shaw @jaleelshaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy 100th Birthday to the great John Coltrane! Tonight, Wednesday, September 23rd at 6pm, I’ll be in my hometown - Philadelphia, to perform a FREE admission concert celebrating his birthday in Love Park with Philadelphia’s own - Alex Claffy on bass & the Master, Jeff “Tain” Watts on drums.
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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If highways through the city are "good" and "needed," why aren't there any through the wealthy white part of Charlotte?
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"It is perfectly honest to say, 'I chose a private school because I want the best for my kid, but it is also true that private schools are bad for society and do more to reproduce inequality than to remedy it." Great @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social piece. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-sc...
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Private Schools Are Bad for Society
The starting point for any honest discussion.
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 22/09/2026
We're all watching an escalation here, happening in real time.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
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Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 22/09/2026
Not all that surprising but JD and Dr. Oz don't seem to understand how insurance works.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
“About three months after Grady’s warning, a caravan of Klan and Nazis, led by a former FBI informant also working with the police, drove into a Black public housing community in Greensboro and opened fire on an anti-Klan march”
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the basic points in Mills' The Racial Contract (originally published in 1997!) was that, if nothing else, White Supremacy deserves to be taken seriously as one of the great motivating ideologies of modernity and it's bizarre that political philosophers are so disinclined to treat it as such.
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Lithuanian Skeletor @tarheeldead.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Never believe vampires.
Lazlo “I am just a regular human guy.”
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 22/09/2026
I was told the war criminal was now a quirky, charming painter with no more interest in politics.
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 22/09/2026
"No permanent friends, no permanent enemies, only permanent interests." Sorry, bud, I got a growing roster of permanent enemies.
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 22/09/2026
I left the city council meeting when the council person voting for a highway expansion said she was doing so "in memory of urban renewal."
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 22/09/2026
My version of cat videos: The whole city council chamber just laughed out loud at the ridiculous statements of the head of the real estate lobby.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Sub-30% presidential approval alert 🚨🚨🚨
American Research Group's poll of 1,100 adults shows Trump at 29% approval, and one away from the cool sex number in disapproval.
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 19/09/2026
On the city level, this is what is happening with some Charlotte city council members right now, and I am livid.
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 19/09/2026
A couple of recent action shots.
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
man what do you even say anymore
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Logging off the zoom meeting
john brown
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 17/09/2026
Somebody stole a spindle of burned CDs from my car not too long ago. It was all obscure jazz records from the 70s and 80s, which I hope they enjoyed as much as I did. But I suspect they were awfully disappointed.
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 17/09/2026
Governor @joshsteinnc.bsky.social is doing the easy thing here, but we need him to do the harder thing of stopping an ill-conceived highway expansion thru downtown Charlotte.
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 17/09/2026
I am currently trying to convince my city council people that this is the virtuous course. They'd rather roll over and let bad people do whatever with impunity, it seems.
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 17/09/2026
I'm just so happy for Michael Whatley, and for all of us here in the Old North State who will soon forget who the hell Michael Whatley is.
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 16/09/2026
Two Annie Dillard books are lodged permanently in my head: The Writing Life and Holy the Firm. I hear these texts when I'm writing and turn to them often.
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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
RIP Annie Dillard, one of the great, if not the greatest, non-fiction stylists of our time www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
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Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81
Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 16/09/2026
"The question I asked myself this morning was whether I love my people and my place, and this city where I have made a home, more than the people who love money love money. That is the challenge, I think, for all of us who take on work that does not yield easy results."
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A Night of Magical Thinking
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fuck you, make me
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 16/09/2026
At my son's high school soccer games, the national anthem version they play is always Whitney Houston.
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Whitney Houston in 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody'
ALT: Whitney Houston in 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody'
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 15/09/2026
We're fighting a highway expansion here in Charlotte, but our elected officials are helping the state extort us instead of fighting for their constituents.
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A Night of Magical Thinking
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 15/09/2026
We're fighting a highway expansion here in Charlotte, but our elected officials are helping the state extort us instead of fighting for their constituents.
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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
didnt know they'd invented racism that was too racist for karl rove
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/09/14/bo-french-kal-rove-endorsement-jon-rosenthal/
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 14/09/2026
North Carolina (the governmental body) is extorting North Carolina (the people).
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North Carolina is Extorting North Carolina
And Charlotte City Council seems to be playing along
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 13/09/2026
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Fake signatures found on forms to keep inmates in jail for ICE, NC sheriff says
Detention officer at North Carolina jail accused of forgery after fake magistrate signatures found on 20 forms to hold inmates in jail for ICE, sheriff says.
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Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 12/09/2026
Look who is being honored in my neighborhood coffee shop. #blessed
A handsome man playing saxophone (it's me) with long locks blowing in the wind. The photo is printed and framed with a caption reading "customer of the month."
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 11/09/2026
This is a stunning fucking lie about the vile Islamophobia Republicans espoused at the time
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
republicans seeing the hasan piker pic on the jumbotron:
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