josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026When I lived in Chapel Hill, I grew fond of duck tacos at a place in Durham. Now, whenever I eat animals I feel a bit ill in the middle of the night. 020
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I’m almost entirely vegetarian, but I do love duck tacos. I know I know! Hypocrisy! I feel guilty enough on my own and don’t need remindin’. 110
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If it’s not obtrusive, please tell me a story. 010
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 06/10/2026You’ve never met me on putt putt. I’m ruthless. 230
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My short game stinks, but can I drive the ball with precision. When they were younger, I’d take my boys to an indoor driving range. The twins were playing baseball and tried to slug rhe ball. Their brother would relax and nail it for 200+ yards, spot on. No coaches. Kept buying buckets of balls. 220
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I just want him to live to see every one of his “accomplishments” undone and torn down. Though restoring our membership in the ICC and seeing him in the dock would warm my heart, too. 120
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This morning my brother asked me whether I’d seen the latest outrage. I told him, No. I refuse to look at his face or hear his grating, whiny voice. Reading about this shit raises my blood pressure enough, thank you 120
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I have a dog in this fight, since I’m disabled. (I have ankle braces and use a cane and ride to live, live to ride in a wheelchair when I need to run neighborhood errands). Get myself to the polls on my own, but my heart breaks for people in nursing homes. www.propublica.org/article/disa...propublica.orgThis White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans VoteA new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restrict voting access. 020
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 06/10/2026When in doubt, vilify transgender people, even if the target of your ire isn’t trans. What a fucking fool Trump is. 010
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Chef’s kiss www.currentaffairs.org/news/mamdani...currentaffairs.orgMamdani’s “Richard Scarry Socialism” Can Make City Life Simple AgainThe NYC mayor is trying to build a city that functions like a city in a children's picture book, where people aren’t caught in a web of lies and scams. 130
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I agree. The Post ran a story about how worried WH staff is that he is undercutting GOP support across the country. He’s too dim to stop talking. 000
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026And if you don’t like this car, I—personally—will buy it back! 000
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 17/09/2026When’s the last (only time you saw Princess Di crack a joke, much less laugh?) Only in the opening episode. She’s the devil. I’m pulling for Jackson Lamb’s motley retinue (credit Melville) to outsmart her: 000
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is how autocrats wear us down. Until we’re exhausted. Despite the full bore of the federal government, resist! We’ve got them back on their heels. And they lose round after round. Push push push. This unique experiment ain’t dead yet. 000
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 17/09/2026How is it that the original Nazis took my uncle prisoner and he lived behind enemy lines for 18 months after escaping and then my sons’ family escaped to Chicago and we met in grad school and our sons are resilient? Go figure. 000
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Standish is such a brilliant part of the puzzle. This early review from the Guardian seems impatient. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...theguardian.comSlow Horses season six review – it gets harder to enjoy Gary Oldman’s spy thriller every yearThe show’s creator has gone, it’s been retooled as a conventional thriller and it feels like it’s starting to run out of ideas – even if it’s as slick and confident as ever 010
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Princess Di’s black hole where a soul belongs left me gasping. And if Hugo Weaving doesn’t at least an Emmy nom … I have no power over such things. 220
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026He kept muttering “Navy bean soup.” That’s adorable. 030
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026And lookeeloo who dissented: Alito and Thomas. Wonder what it’s like to be unfettered by the plain language of the Constitution as well as common decency. Vergogna, as someone once said. 091
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The senator’s spokes-gurney declined to comment on McConnell’s lengthy absence. www.cnn.com/2026/09/14/p...cnn.comMitch McConnell returns to the Senate after three-month absence due to health issues | CNN PoliticsSen. Mitch McConnell returned to Capitol Hill on Monday for the first time after a three-month absence due to health issues. 000
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Apartheid Elon good not give a shit. He’s simply terrible. 051
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 02/09/2026“Top” is doing a lot of work in that headline. 000
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 31/08/2026My man looks like John Smith’s HR administrator 000
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 29/08/2026We’re all living in Thomas Szasz’s mad house now. 000
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I’m old enough to remember when Ohio was a reasonable state and the Ohio GOP wasn’t a snake pit of fascists. 010
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 25/08/2026How long before Trump posts something derogatory about Dolly? 010
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Oh no! www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...rollingstone.comDolly Parton, Hardscrabble Storyteller Turned Global Entertainer, Dead at 80Dolly Parton, country music legend, dead at 80. 000
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Some guys… I … won’t go on about dildos. I’m Texas it’s illegal to own more than six dildos but the number of guns is limitless. I just can’t. Ot, as is pronounced in Texas, “cain’t.” 020
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Had a huge disagreement with my ex when we lived in Iowa. She was pro-Hillary. I was behind Barack. I told her people just don’t like Hillary, for right or wrong she’ll never win. Of a Black man from Chicago carries Iowa, you’ve got a winner. My money’s on the Jewish guy from Georgia. 010
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Because this weirdo was born in an outer borough we have to pay the price? 000
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Ossoff is the GOP’s worst nightmare. He’s smart, he’s handsome, he’s white, PLUS he’s Jewish. Hard to deny antisemitism with this guy on the platform. 1172
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The Electoral College is an undemocratic vestige from a different era, meant to appease slave states. Much like the Senate. 130
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 17/08/2026A presidential candidate who gives a Four Freedoms message will sweep the Electoral College. 110
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Because the New York Eighth is notoriously ostentatious, with neighborhoods like Bed-Stuy and Flatbush, both of which I adore. Guy needs a day job. My son works at Goldman. I can put in a word. 000
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Really wish he knew where the knife is buttered. How about we knock down the fascists before debaters’ points over ideological purity? I’m DSA in Ohio, but I’ll vote for anyone on the left who takes down a GOP candidate. We can debate later. 052
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I’m certain she had found a great place. My boys landed at Princeton, Carolina, and Brown. The twins share a roof on the Upper West Side while their baby brother studies medicine at USC Columbia. Much more accomplished than their state-school dad (Michigan and Illinois). 000
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 16/08/2026All I know is had such a thing for Apollonia in “Purple Rain.” As I recently told a friend, I was in the Twin Cities right after Prince died. Flew in, took the light rail downtown for an academic conference, and walked past dozens of impromptu shrines. Overwhelming. 020
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Most recently seen at a truck stop on the Indiana Toll Road. (Will that joke get me banned from Bluesky?) 030
josparsons.bsky.social @josparsons.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Wanna understand lynching? Stew and Amy and I published this meticulous book at UNC Press. A trove of data to back it up. uncpress.org/979889084738...uncpress.orgLynchedOn July 9, 1883, twenty men stormed the jail in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, kidnapped Henderson Lee, a black man charged with larceny, and hanged him. Event... 000
