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 421600272
Reposted by Greg JarrellArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 23hCircus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 168120922574
Reposted by Greg JarrellDavid A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 19hFascinating transformation from denying that racial dog whistles were present to demanding that they be present 324050
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 20hWe got more news in the past hour www.wsoctv.com/news/local/n...wsoctv.comNew CMS board chair’s 2008 fraud conviction surfaces amid controversyThe new chairman of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education pleaded guilty to one count, which was count 39, for conspiracy to commit mail, bank, and wire fraud in a $20 million mortgage fraud sc... 100
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. 21074382422
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) 252291442
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
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 25/09/2026Also,fuck off. NC is full of amazing people and places, and gerrymandered to shit. 100
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… 315174763302
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 24/09/2026Gentle on The Ford now. And next time you're there call me and I'll meet you here.... www.archiveclt.comarchiveclt.comArchive CLTThe celebration of preservation and reimagining Black History and Black Ephemera in a modern way. Discover your nostalgia. 010
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 · 24/09/2026static.klipy.comLilet Esteban & Bettina Rosales: What's Happening Here?ALT: Lilet Esteban & Bettina Rosales: What's Happening Here? 210
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 · 22/09/2026Threadgill: "He was like a glue trap that I never stepped out of." Jesus, what a thought. 000
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 22/09/2026I have not but I can be ready to discuss by Christmas also 110
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 · 22/09/2026I've been trying to figure out how to explain that she thought she was being kind, but I'm short circuiting in the process.  010
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 · 22/09/2026We've got the Niemoller poem now. Getting to the silly part of the evening. 010
Greg Jarrell @gregjarrell.com · 22/09/2026Now they're laughing at a real estate developer. It's a wonderful night. 130
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