Jarvis Dortch
@jarvisdortch.bsky.social
ED @ the ACLU of Mississippi. Recovering Mississippi legislator.
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With talk of absurd GOP proposals to replace Marketplace tax credits with HSA contributions & require people to buy health services directly, this is just like a Project 2025 proposal to eliminate #Medicaid coverage & convert funding to vouchers/HSA contributions: ccf.georgetown.edu/2024/06/17/p...
November 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
With talk of absurd GOP proposals to replace Marketplace tax credits with HSA contributions & require people to buy health services directly, this is just like a Project 2025 proposal to eliminate #Medicaid coverage & convert funding to vouchers/HSA contributions: ccf.georgetown.edu/2024/06/17/p...
They’re going to help Trump pass a terrible plan to send people checks or fund HSAs. It’s going to be terrible policy with the bonus of giving Trump and republicans a “win.”
Shaheen on Fox & Friends: "I believe there are number of Republicans who are gonna join us in trying to address healthcare costs ... we are gonna be able to continue to right about healthcare because we're gonna have a vote in December."
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
They’re going to help Trump pass a terrible plan to send people checks or fund HSAs. It’s going to be terrible policy with the bonus of giving Trump and republicans a “win.”
A federal court ordered MS to create 3 new legislative districts that gave Black voters an opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. Black voters didn’t pass on that opportunity!
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 AM
A federal court ordered MS to create 3 new legislative districts that gave Black voters an opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. Black voters didn’t pass on that opportunity!
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
Ponzi scheme. Right?
WEIL: “.. Circularity can be virtuous on the upside, and vicious on the downside. The deals can work fine, until they don’t.”
@wsj.com $NVDA $ORCL
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October 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Ponzi scheme. Right?
So. Much. Fuckin. Crazy.
RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."
October 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
So. Much. Fuckin. Crazy.
This. Is. The. Way.
Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
September 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This. Is. The. Way.
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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Can we spend 24hrs posting direct quotes from Charlie Kirk? No commentary. Let’s share the great debater’s thoughts and ideas #RememberingCharlie #InHisOwnWords.
DEADLINE: “Nexstar says that it will pre-empt Jimmy Kimmel’s show from its ABC stations “for the foreseeable future” following his remarks about the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination.” deadline.com/2025/09/nexs...
September 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Can we spend 24hrs posting direct quotes from Charlie Kirk? No commentary. Let’s share the great debater’s thoughts and ideas #RememberingCharlie #InHisOwnWords.
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Here's how to support my work:
I'll be teaching a version of my Columbia class on Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 next month for @resistanceschool.bsky.social.
The course is online/ hybrid. Deadline is Sept. 19th! Sign up!
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I'll be teaching a version of my Columbia class on Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 next month for @resistanceschool.bsky.social.
The course is online/ hybrid. Deadline is Sept. 19th! Sign up!
www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
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September 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Here's how to support my work:
I'll be teaching a version of my Columbia class on Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 next month for @resistanceschool.bsky.social.
The course is online/ hybrid. Deadline is Sept. 19th! Sign up!
www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
I'll be teaching a version of my Columbia class on Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 next month for @resistanceschool.bsky.social.
The course is online/ hybrid. Deadline is Sept. 19th! Sign up!
www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
Thee Jackson State University
“Severance" actor Tramell Tillman has won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. He is the first Black man ever to win the award #Emmys
September 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Thee Jackson State University
How can you not trust a guy with such great command of the facts ?
Reporter: The president of Venezuela called the strike on the boat illegal
Trump: What’s illegal is the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs
Trump: What’s illegal is the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs
September 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
How can you not trust a guy with such great command of the facts ?
Roll Damn Tide
"I'll tell ya exactly what I'd do with the first $70 million- I'd pay off Kalen DeBoer and get him the heck out of the University of Alabama. And then I'd take whatever else it took to get rid of the AD."
- Susie Conerly, if she won Powerball. 🏈💰🎙️ #CFB
- Susie Conerly, if she won Powerball. 🏈💰🎙️ #CFB
September 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Roll Damn Tide
You would think this kind of post would result in an avalanche of media coverage. At least on the level of Obama in brown suit
Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday
September 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
You would think this kind of post would result in an avalanche of media coverage. At least on the level of Obama in brown suit
Please guys. i get the point. But don't think the Gov of MS would give a shit if Trump sent in the 82nd Airborne. Don't encourage this
September 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Please guys. i get the point. But don't think the Gov of MS would give a shit if Trump sent in the 82nd Airborne. Don't encourage this
I renounce the cowboys
a man in a suit and hat is riding a subway train
Alt: a man in a suit and hat is riding a subway train
media.tenor.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I renounce the cowboys
Aggressive Ignorance
Trump: "I'm trying to have people learn about wind real fast and I think I've done a good job, but not good enough, because some countries are still trying and they're destroying themselves. I hope they get back to fossil fuel."
August 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Aggressive Ignorance
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BREAKING: A federal court ruled that Mississippi’s Supreme Court district lines must be redrawn to ensure Black people in the state don't have their voting power diluted.
August 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
BREAKING: A federal court ruled that Mississippi’s Supreme Court district lines must be redrawn to ensure Black people in the state don't have their voting power diluted.
" It is hereby DECLARED that the current Mississippi Supreme Court electoral map violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The Defendants are hereby ENJOINED from utilizing the current electoral map in any further Mississippi Supreme Court elections." - waiting to read those words for 3 years.
August 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
" It is hereby DECLARED that the current Mississippi Supreme Court electoral map violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The Defendants are hereby ENJOINED from utilizing the current electoral map in any further Mississippi Supreme Court elections." - waiting to read those words for 3 years.
100% accurate
I think a lot of it comes out of elite Democrats' fundamental contempt for American voters - they don't believe voters can be trusted to recognize that authoritarianism and lawlessness is bad. They think voters are stomachs with mouths who can only be convinced by appealing to their self-interest
August 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
100% accurate
we're fooling ourselves if we think this won't happen outside large democratic leaning precincts across the country during next year's midterms.
BREAKING: @governor.ca.gov’s press conference in Little Tokyo has just been crashed by a massive CBP presence…witnesses report 50 vehicles and 100+ agents left the MDC toward Little Tokyo.
From the gov’s press office:
From the gov’s press office:
August 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
we're fooling ourselves if we think this won't happen outside large democratic leaning precincts across the country during next year's midterms.