John Archibald
@johnarchibald.bsky.social
Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Pulitzer x 2. Granddad.
Reposted by John Archibald
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:
@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:
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.
www.al.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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:
@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:
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.
www.al.com/news/2025/12...
www.al.com/news/2025/12...
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.
www.al.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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.
www.al.com/news/2025/12...
www.al.com/news/2025/12...
Just because
This Land Is Our Land
YouTube video by Todd Snider - Topic
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Just because
I find myself thinking of water often.
Archibald: Trump’s environmental triple whammy threatens lifeblood of Alabama
Are we parasites or stewards of this place?
www.al.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I find myself thinking of water often.
Fascinating book. Come talk about it.
Hey #Birmingham! Come discuss megachurch abuse with me and @johnarchibald.bsky.social tonight at Burdock Book Collective!!
bhamnow.com/bhamn-event/...
bhamnow.com/bhamn-event/...
December 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Fascinating book. Come talk about it.
Amen to that. :)
Excited to have @mindahoney.bsky.social back this week at @niemanstoryboard.org, in conversation with the reporting team behind the serialized podcast "American Shrapnel." Thanks @johnhammontree.bsky.social @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social @johnarchibald.bsky.social
niemanstoryboard.org/2025/11/20/a...
niemanstoryboard.org/2025/11/20/a...
How the team behind the ‘American Shrapnel’ podcast helped their sources feel safe - Nieman Storyboard
As a reporting team revisited a series of bombings across the South in the 1990s, fears of political backlash remained prevalent
niemanstoryboard.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Amen to that. :)
I'm so very sad over the death of Todd Snider. This is why.
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.”
www.al.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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.
thenewpress.org/books/and-th...
thenewpress.org/books/and-th...
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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.
thenewpress.org/books/and-th...
thenewpress.org/books/and-th...
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.
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.
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."
www.al.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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.
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.
Reposted by John Archibald
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.
www.newyorker.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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.
Check one off the bucket list.
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.
www.newyorker.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Check one off the bucket list.
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.
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.
www.al.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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!
Loved this piece!
We have to take our stories back.
October 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Thanks!
We have to take our stories back.
Archibald: What happened when I Googled myself
AI created a phony national controversy, a fake Miss Alabama and a life in hiding.
www.al.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We have to take our stories back.
Just a little ode to the big man.
Alabama’s Kadyn Proctor thunders into big man history
Proctor is no William "The Refrigerator" Perry. Just call him "The Walk-In Freezer."
www.al.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Just a little ode to the big man.
When you find yourself without internet or cell service you realize what's important.
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?
www.al.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
When you find yourself without internet or cell service you realize what's important.
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.
Those who want to divide us want chaos. Don’t let them win.
Archibald: What a serial bomber can teach America in this perilous moment
We are not at war.
www.al.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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.
Those who want to divide us want chaos. Don’t let them win.
Thanks! Y’all read Jordan Green.
Check out this podcast by @johnarchibald.bsky.social and @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social.
It's an incredible yarn that captures the violence, loss and inhumanity of Eric Rudolph's 1990s terror campaign, and shows how it echoes forward to our current national crisis. Can't recommend it enough!
It's an incredible yarn that captures the violence, loss and inhumanity of Eric Rudolph's 1990s terror campaign, and shows how it echoes forward to our current national crisis. Can't recommend it enough!
In the final episode of American Shrapnel, hosted by @johnarchibald.bsky.social and @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social, about Olympic & abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph, hear clinic bombing suvivor Emily Lyons give the SHIT to Rudolph in court.
September 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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.
www.al.com/news/2025/09...
Call me crazy.
www.al.com/news/2025/09...
September 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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.
www.al.com/news/2025/09...
Call me crazy.
www.al.com/news/2025/09...
In the final episode of American Shrapnel, hosted by @johnarchibald.bsky.social and @kbeccaandrews.bsky.social, about Olympic & abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph, hear clinic bombing suvivor Emily Lyons give the SHIT to Rudolph in court.
American Shrapnel
History Podcast · Weekly Series · The Olympics explode on a July night in 1996. The largest pipe bomb the country has ever seen. A string of bombings shakes Atlanta for the next year.
Thousands of pho...
podcasts.apple.com
September 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A thread.
In the summer of 2005, more than 7 years and 20 surgeries after Eric Rudolph pressed a button on his homemade detonator and forever changed her life, Emily Lyons faced her bomber in a Birmingham, Alabama courtroom.
In the summer of 2005, more than 7 years and 20 surgeries after Eric Rudolph pressed a button on his homemade detonator and forever changed her life, Emily Lyons faced her bomber in a Birmingham, Alabama courtroom.
September 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A thread.
In the summer of 2005, more than 7 years and 20 surgeries after Eric Rudolph pressed a button on his homemade detonator and forever changed her life, Emily Lyons faced her bomber in a Birmingham, Alabama courtroom.
In the summer of 2005, more than 7 years and 20 surgeries after Eric Rudolph pressed a button on his homemade detonator and forever changed her life, Emily Lyons faced her bomber in a Birmingham, Alabama courtroom.
Redditors, join us for an AMA this morning from 10:30 to 12:30 to talk bombers and the damage they left behind.
www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrimeP...
www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrimeP...
From the TrueCrimePodcasts community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the TrueCrimePodcasts community
www.reddit.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Redditors, join us for an AMA this morning from 10:30 to 12:30 to talk bombers and the damage they left behind.
www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrimeP...
www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrimeP...
Reposted by John Archibald
The great survivalist Eric Rudolph was caught by a rookie cop while dumpster diving. This is that story.
Listen here: https://www.al.com/news/2025/08/american-shrapnel-part-7-how-a-rookie-cop-caught-the-uncatchable-eric-rudolph.html
Listen here: https://www.al.com/news/2025/08/american-shrapnel-part-7-how-a-rookie-cop-caught-the-uncatchable-eric-rudolph.html
August 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The great survivalist Eric Rudolph was caught by a rookie cop while dumpster diving. This is that story.
Listen here: https://www.al.com/news/2025/08/american-shrapnel-part-7-how-a-rookie-cop-caught-the-uncatchable-eric-rudolph.html
Listen here: https://www.al.com/news/2025/08/american-shrapnel-part-7-how-a-rookie-cop-caught-the-uncatchable-eric-rudolph.html
It really is. :)
"my knees were knocking so hard I almost answered"
SUBLIME
SUBLIME
August 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It really is. :)