Reposted by Greg Jarrellrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026there'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 421590271
Reposted by Greg JarrellArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 21hCircus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 165119282537
Reposted by Greg JarrellDavid A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 17hFascinating transformation from denying that racial dog whistles were present to demanding that they be present 323950
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 29/09/2026Expletives in discourse by public officials ought to be rare, perfectly placed, and used only when nothing else will suffice. Like this one. 010
Reposted by Greg JarrellSpokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Send Stephen Miller to The Hague. 20973932408
Reposted by Greg JarrellCadence “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” 540371
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 28/09/2026A few reflections from a turbulent week.gregjarrell.beehiiv.comFor Those Who StruggleA meditation on social movements and loss 000
Reposted by Greg Jarrellandy vs. @im-all-id.me · 26/09/2026It's really comin down out there (civilization) 252291440
Reposted by Greg JarrellTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh. 322235585
Reposted by Greg JarrellThe Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s… 315174753301
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 24/09/2026We'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) 020
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 23/09/2026Two photos for Trane's 100th birthday: One from the building where he was born, the other a mural several blocks away. Hamlet, NC 051
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 23/09/2026This 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.gregjarrell.beehiiv.comForgetting and Mis-rememberingCharlotte is determined to repeat the bad old days 05414
Reposted by Greg JarrellJaleel Shaw @jaleelshaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Happy 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. 213628
Reposted by Greg Jarrellpatrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If highways through the city are "good" and "needed," why aren't there any through the wealthy white part of Charlotte? 14412
Reposted by Greg JarrellPerry 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...hamiltonnolan.comPrivate Schools Are Bad for SocietyThe starting point for any honest discussion. 48896313
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 22/09/2026We're all watching an escalation here, happening in real time. 010
Reposted by Greg JarrellBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There 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.nytimes.comLaid 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. 762477762
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 22/09/2026Not all that surprising but JD and Dr. Oz don't seem to understand how insurance works. 030
Reposted by Greg JarrellI 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” 36649
Reposted by Greg Jarrelllastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026One 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. 191280280
Reposted by Greg JarrellLithuanian Skeletor @tarheeldead.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Never believe vampires. 001
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 22/09/2026I was told the war criminal was now a quirky, charming painter with no more interest in politics. 030
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. 020
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 22/09/2026I left the city council meeting when the council person voting for a highway expansion said she was doing so "in memory of urban renewal." 160
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 22/09/2026My 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. 150
Reposted by Greg JarrellBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026🚨🚨🚨 Sub-30% presidential approval alert 🚨🚨🚨 1413800584
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 19/09/2026On the city level, this is what is happening with some Charlotte city council members right now, and I am livid. 000
Reposted by Greg JarrellQuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026man what do you even say anymore 4067448806
Reposted by Greg JarrellBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Logging off the zoom meeting 102298137
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 17/09/2026Somebody 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. 010
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 17/09/2026Governor @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. 000
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 17/09/2026I 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. 1141
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 17/09/2026I'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. 160
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 16/09/2026Two 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. 010
Reposted by Greg JarrellAdam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026RIP Annie Dillard, one of the great, if not the greatest, non-fiction stylists of our time www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...nytimes.comAnnie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81Her 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. 1124779
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."gregjarrell.beehiiv.comA Night of Magical ThinkingA 030
Reposted by Greg JarrellKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Fuck you, make me 1128040
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 16/09/2026At my son's high school soccer games, the national anthem version they play is always Whitney Houston.static.klipy.comWhitney Houston in 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody'ALT: Whitney Houston in 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody' 160
Reposted by Greg JarrellGreg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 15/09/2026We're fighting a highway expansion here in Charlotte, but our elected officials are helping the state extort us instead of fighting for their constituents.gregjarrell.beehiiv.comA Night of Magical ThinkingA 054
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 15/09/2026We're fighting a highway expansion here in Charlotte, but our elected officials are helping the state extort us instead of fighting for their constituents.gregjarrell.beehiiv.comA Night of Magical ThinkingA 054
Reposted by Greg JarrellFlorida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 14/09/2026didnt know they'd invented racism that was too racist for karl rove 491566322
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 14/09/2026North Carolina (the governmental body) is extorting North Carolina (the people).gregjarrell.beehiiv.comNorth Carolina is Extorting North CarolinaAnd Charlotte City Council seems to be playing along 000
Reposted by Greg JarrellSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 13/09/2026www.newsobserver.com/news/state/n...newsobserver.comFake signatures found on forms to keep inmates in jail for ICE, NC sheriff saysDetention 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. 18254
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 12/09/2026Look who is being honored in my neighborhood coffee shop. #blessed 020
Reposted by Greg JarrellMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 11/09/2026This is a stunning fucking lie about the vile Islamophobia Republicans espoused at the time 68015
Reposted by Greg JarrellMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026republicans seeing the hasan piker pic on the jumbotron: 1489376