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Jim Jasper

@jamesmjasper.bsky.social

I have written about politics and culture for forty years, more recently focusing on social movements and emotions. I split my time between Asheville, NC, and Anna Maria Island, FL.

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Jim Jasper @jamesmjasper.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I wasn't a fan of Jimmy Carter as president (I had voted for Gus Hall in 1976). But he wrote a powerful book in 2006: Palestine: Peace not Apartheid. He sensibly compared Israel and apartheid-era South Africa. The pro-Israel tools like Alan Dershowitz went after him like vicious yellow jackets.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Florida students are giving up Saturdays to learn Black history lessons their schools don’t teach

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Florida students are giving up Saturdays to learn Black history lessons their schools don't teach

Thirty years after Florida required schools to teach African American history, how the subject is taught remains inconsistent across Florida classrooms, a review by The Associated Press has found.

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Jim Jasper @jamesmjasper.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Representative Kay Granger, Republican from Texas, has been in a memory care facility with dementia since last summer. Metaphor for the GOP, or harbinger of the next four years?

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Jim Jasper @jamesmjasper.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Messrs. Musk and Ramaswamy are so unappealing, arrogant, and selfish, I wonder if they could help inspire a backlash against our billionairocracy? Of course I wondered the same thing about Trump in 2026.

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Jim Jasper @jamesmjasper.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

So a man worth $500 billion was upset about members of Congress getting a raise of 3.8% or $6,600 a year? Welcome to Billionaire World.

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Jim Jasper @jamesmjasper.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

In a stroke, those lovable, imaginative pranksters become tormenters of an enslaved man (James, not Jim) who cannot fight back and indeed has to play along. James rewrites from his own POV and in his own voice the most influential novel in US history.

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Jim Jasper @jamesmjasper.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Percival Everett opens his wonderful novel, James, by utterly reframing two of the best known figures in American literature, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: "Those little bastards were hiding out there in the tall grass."

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