John Archibald

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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.

How to disconnect and still keep your Wordle streak alive How does one survive in a world without news alerts and sports scores, without the latest memes and Reddit reaction to the day’s threat to our fractured nation?

When you find yourself without internet or cell service you realize what's important.

Archibald: What a serial bomber can teach America in this perilous moment We are not at war.

Eric Rudolph wrote this of his targets: “It was irrelevant to me which particular issue – taxes, abortion, gun rights – ended up being the spark that ignited this revolution. This was a war between two entirely different world views.”
Those who want to divide us want chaos. Don’t let them win.

Thanks! Y’all read Jordan Green.

Am I nuts to get bent out of shape about kids getting Bibles in schools? At a time when the president autographs them for cash and tells supporters he needs their $15 to further his unlikely bid to get into Heaven?

Call me crazy.

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“Life knocks everybody down. What counts is how you stand up afterwards,” she said. “You are nothing more than a schoolyard bully, and I am not afraid to stand up to you.

“I am living proof of your failure … I am still here."

“The joint in my middle finger had to be fused, and it is indeed an injury I have longed to show you,” she said.

And then she flipped him the bird with two hands.

Double barrel. People in the courtroom laughed, and the judge was none too pleased, but Emily Lyons did not give a shit.

"I have more guts in my broken little finger than you have in your body,” she said.

And then Emily Lyons did the only thing to do in that situation.

“You damaged my body, but you did not instill the fear in me you hoped for," she said. “But you did not get the silence you longed for. I found a voice inside me I didn't know existed, and you're the one who brought it out."

Emily wanted a reaction. She challenged Rudolph.

“Look at me, Eric,” she said. “Do I look afraid?

Rudolph had agreed to plead guilty to save his own life. She goaded him, defiant.

“It's easy to be brave when holding the good end of a shotgun; or in this case, the remote control of a bomb," Lyons said to him. "When it was your turn to face death, you weren't so brave anymore."

“We tend to think of a terrorist as someone in a foreign country who dresses differently, looks different and speaks a different language,” Lyons said. “Thank you for drawing attention to the home-grown terrorists in our own backyard”