John Archibald

Who's a good boy?

The Legislature, with about a month left to go in the session, has superbly done its job. It has rolled over to its big business masters, fetched political sticks and buried the bones. It has fed on so much red meat it will inevitably soil itself.

This is really good stuff by @crowejam.bsky.social, documenting the deportation of Fonzie Andrade in graphic novel form. You won't see this just anywhere.

Alabama has never cared about protecting its air or water. Or its people, for that matter.

It’s why the state has a sniveling, equivocating, kowtowing, toothless Alabama Department of Environmental Management instead of an environmental protection agency.

did I just explain that on the wrong thread? Lord

Click document stats and run it and this will come up. All of the fields are helpful but I pay particular attention to the Flesch-Kincaid grade level.
Keep it under 6.

Go to Review>Spelling and grammar
And this will come up:

'Deported for that?': Football referee forced to leave Alabama for Mexico Fonzie had to leave behind his fiancée and 18-month-old son in rural Alabama.

Fonzie thought he was an Alabamian. He lived for football and his fiancee and a little too much fun. I followed him to Mexico when he was deported to a place he did not know or understand. This is his story. As it is with any deportation, it is not his story alone.

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Why do Alabama schools need Commandments our politicians don’t follow? Blessed are the hypocrites, for they shall inherit the Education Policy Committee.

This place is a lot.

He doesn't. Which is why I gave him his "due" respect.

Archibald: Oh yeah, white people have been ‘very badly treated’ The Civil Rights Act – the Movement itself – didn’t just make life better for Black people. It made life better for poor whites too, no matter what the anger mongers might say.

With all due respect, Mr. President, you've got a lot of damn nerve.

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Which Jan. 6 rioter would you invite to a dinner party? Pelts, horns, Molotov cocktails or feet on the furniture?

You know the answer.

Archibald: Did Alabama’s pricey prison lawyers just use AI to file motions? The judge wants answers A lawyer paid $42 million by the state is among those facing the wrath of a federal judge.

As the threat of AI looms over us all, @johnarchibald.bsky.social's multi-part story for
@al.com highlights just how quickly (and quietly) the technology is creeping into the criminal legal system, almost always in ways that will make the lives of incarcerated people and their loved ones worse:

Thanks so much!

Tommy Tuberville wants a war; he could learn from this GOP governor “I believe that instead of resisting change, Alabama should embrace change, hold it tight, and never let it go,” the GOP governor said.

You know Tommy Tuberville is bad. If you want see just how far we have fallen, take a look at the words of this former Alabama GOP governor. Not so long ago.

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YouTube video by Todd Snider - Topic This Land Is Our Land

Just because

Archibald: Trump’s environmental triple whammy threatens lifeblood of Alabama Are we parasites or stewards of this place?

I find myself thinking of water often.

Fascinating book. Come talk about it.

Would-be Alabama Gov. Doug Jones: ‘We are going to be OK” "I recognize that this is an uphill battle, that we’re the underdog. But there is a lane." -- Doug Jones

Can Doug Jones do it again?

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Amen to that. :)

It's kind of life changing, isn't it.

I love that, and I feel that.

Archibald: Loss of beloved folk singer feels like a death in the family He was a storyteller, a poet, a philosopher who gave voice to those who “didn’t want to throw a fishing line in that old mainstream.”

I'm so very sad over the death of Todd Snider. This is why.

Sim left Alabama to protect his family. He has since written a book “And the Dragons Do Come: Raising a Transgender Kid in Rural America.” Give it a read.
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He fled Alabama to protect his family, and now he warns the world “The weight of living in Alabama, of living in fight or flight every day, was something I didn’t realize I was carrying until I got out of there."

We live in a world where it's hip to be mean.

Mean is the point, whether we’re talking SNAP benefits or immigration or prison or economics. Human rights, civil rights and common decency are 20th century concepts. Like retirement. Or conversation.

Consider the case of Sim Butler and his family.

Defeating the Far-Right “Blob Man” The story of Eric Rudolph, the Atlanta Olympics bomber, offers lessons about the persistence of violent extremism, and how to combat it.

The Atlanta Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph may not be a household name these days, but he is talked about reverently by extremists on online forums, where the phrase “do a Rudolph” is used as a shorthand for terrorist attacks.

Defeating the Far-Right “Blob Man” The story of Eric Rudolph, the Atlanta Olympics bomber, offers lessons about the persistence of violent extremism, and how to combat it.

Check one off the bucket list.

Fonzie lost in immigration court. Now Alabama father will move to a country he knows nothing about “There’s nothing about this kid that’s not American,” said a former Blountsville Town Council member.

Perhaps we should go ahead and rip that plaque off the Statue of Liberty and stop pretending to be something we are not. Kiss those huddled asses goodbye and claim it is all in the name of liberty and justice for all.

Thanks!

Archibald: What happened when I Googled myself AI created a phony national controversy, a fake Miss Alabama and a life in hiding.

We have to take our stories back.

Alabama’s Kadyn Proctor thunders into big man history Proctor is no William "The Refrigerator" Perry. Just call him "The Walk-In Freezer."

Just a little ode to the big man.