Jim Meadows

Some Notes on Grief and Gratitude - Ambush Magazine Acquaintances when I see them: “How are you doing?”  Me (usually) prior to November 5, 2024: “Pretty good, how about you?” That little bit of small talk is so ubiquitous that I usually don’t give it m...

My newest piece for Ambush Magazine. I've felt so pessimistic lately that I almost missed the publication deadline; I had no idea what I could write that wouldn't be depressing. But I surprised myself, and ended up feeling a little better once I was done.

Literally all of us know why, and that it’s the same lot, but a different house.

Finding Peter Putnam The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind

One of the most interesting stories I've read this year. This is a tour-de-force of reporting, about the most fascinating person you’ve never heard of. #PeterPutnam

She’s entering her Joan Crawford Pepsi Board era.

If you want to see the original political playbook for the era we’re living through now, you should read this book.

YouTube video by LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana History of Pride in New Orleans

As we move into Pride weekend in New Orleans, I'm reminded of this fantastic panel discussion on the history of Pride in New Orleans from five years ago. Panelists included: Frank Perez, Valda Lewis, Michael Hickerson, Mark Gonzalez, and the late Catherine Roland. #NewOrleans #Pride #History

American Scare: An Interview with Robert W. Fieseler - Ambush Magazine Robert W. Fieseler is a local journalist and historian whose first book, Tinderbox, won multiple major awards and has become the preeminent publication on the topic of the UpStairs Lounge fire. I rece...

Robert W. Fieseler's new book, American Scare, is a fascinating exposé of the Johns Committee, which devastated the lives of countless people in 20th C. Florida. This is an absolute page-turner, with plenty of lessons for our times. Here's my brand-new interview with @wordbobby.bsky.social

City pauses 311 partnership with local tech mogul - Verite News New Orleans Internal emails show, and officials confirm, that the city gave Matt Wisdom’s team full access to residents’ personal information entered into its 311 system.

The city gave "Matt Wisdom, a local tech entrepreneur...and his team access to everything in the 311 system — without any kind of contract or other formal agreement outlining what they could or could not do with the data."

The trans lifeline has now confirmed that the memes being shared about this are false information.

#SuicideHotline #FalseInformation

Wait, why are we focusing on the woman?

Gay Easter Parade pop art, acrylic on canvas by Chris Tassin #peeps #GayEasterParade #NewOrleans #LittleDebbieSnatchcake

#CatSky #GoldenAfternoon

“When the range of factors that can get a person arrested stretches from political speech to a paperwork error, we are in territory described by the Russian saying, ‘Give us a person and we’ll find the infraction.’”

“In 1775, George Washington personally warned British General Thomas Gage not to mistreat Continental prisoners…Even amid the brutalities of war, Washington understood that how we treat captives speaks to the soul of what American democracy was supposed to be.”

Thousands held a rally to demand the release and safe return of Rumeysa Ozturk, who was disappeared by the Trump regime, one of many people that have been kidnapped nationwide. #3E

Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk being detained by ice

Via @bedford.bsky.social

Who and What I'm Following During This Stupid Coup - Ambush Magazine Beginning on November 5 and until late January, I felt an intense need to ignore the news media, social media, and any other media that might remind me of what was coming. It was too much. It was over...

This list is by no means comprehensive, and any astounding omissions are my fault entirely. #StupidCoup

In which she quotes: “If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.”

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

US Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its building Employees of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have entered the U.S. Institute of Peace despite protests from the nonprofit that it is not part of the executive branch and is instead an ...

DOGE broke into the U.S. Institute of Peace headquarters in Northwest D.C. Monday evening, the independent nonprofit’s CEO said.

This is a coup! U.S. Institute for Peace called the DC police on the Musk team members in an effort to stop them from trespassing because the institute has control of its own building and the land it sits on. But instead, the DC police allowed them to enter and kicked out the institute’s officials.

Mad world, mad kings, mad composition!

I'm not tired of winning. You're tired of winning.

“[Nathan] Hooven, a disabled Air Force veteran and former Trump supporter, was fired from his VA job without warning. ‘I think a lot of other veterans voted the same way, and we have been betrayed.’”

“The Trump administration…climbed over the backs of a bloodied but hopeful people to reach the man that ordered their suffering.”

King of Olympus - 64 Parishes Patrick "Skip" Kibodeaux was New Orleans's first public PWA (Person With AIDS), and an activist for gay rights in the 1980s.

“No one was left in the city to speak his name. All memory of the King of Olympus lay scattered and fallow like an ancient statue in pieces, waiting to be reassembled.”

The shouting and roaring of rude men is so hideous.