Billy Jarrett
billjarrett.bsky.social
Billy Jarrett
@billjarrett.bsky.social
I had a headlamp blow in Douglass Park.

As I was leaving, a black man working in the church lot I parked in waved me down. The part of that conversation that still sits with me today was him saying:

“The cops are the worst gang here and they won’t care you‘re white”.
November 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
JD didn’t take his sofa to pound town either but a year later it still pops up in memes and other places.

Who cares if it’s true when the opponent is a fascist? If it’s working then run with it.
November 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Looks like her attempt to get in line with the other scumbags at Trumps Discount Pardons.
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
@revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social wrote this for faith leaders this week.

He’s the pastor from the pictures in the national news this week being pinned to the ground in Broadview by @govpritzker.illinois.gov‘s Illinois State Police jackboots.
Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE
(RNS) — For people wanting to experience God, we are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church.
religionnews.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I keep telling the Christians in my life they need to actively admonish the MAGA churches and their beliefs or the rest of us are going to assume they are all the same.

So far it's been mostly, "My church is welcome and accepting".

The man in this picture is a huge minority. He also wrote this.
Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE
(RNS) — For people wanting to experience God, we are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church.
religionnews.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
And the churches who do not speak out against them are at least not opposed.

We’ve seen more speaking up lately. The Pope for one. We‘ve had faith leaders assaulted by jackboots for months down in Broadview.

If more do not stand against it we will have to assume they are for it.
November 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Was surprised to see this. It was great.

Then I saw it’s from a new album they just threw out there with no fanfare at all? They just dropped this amazing album on bandcamp and walked away without saying a word?

Still the best.
November 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I felt It’s about the size you said. I don’t know if it will bring him down, but it is a crack in the dam. It’s one less loyalist in the house which could inspire a few others to break ranks.

He doesn’t have huge margins in Congress.
November 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Charlotte is almost 39% white, 32% black, 16% hispanic. Whites are the largest group by themselves but are not a majority of the city.

Charlotte also has a democrat black woman mayor.

They want to publicly bully Vi Lyles like they've done other mayors while beating non-whites.
November 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Well, volunteer now if your area needs it.

We had 1/3 to 1/2 full shifts until Nov 1. Now shifts outside of 8-5 M-F are full through Christmas. Plenty of space after that.

It’s nice people step up for the holidays. It would be better if they committed, esp those who claim to follow Jesus.
November 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Our food bank gets $8 in food for every $1 donated.

I volunteer there. It’s hard to get a spot in my normal shifts because church groups are filling it for their holiday 2 hours of good work.

People are hungry Jan-Oct also. Donate now, but make it a yearly commitment. Volunteer starting in Jan.
November 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Not really. The signs and messaging are all over the place. They only say power to the people and not a dictator. Outside of that the messaging is all over the place.

There is a lack of centralized demands and purpose. There is a lack of actual resistance, it's just people hanging out with signs.
November 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
JD Vance didn’t actually write about going to pound town with his sofa either.

Doesn’t have to be true to have legs.
November 15, 2025 at 2:48 AM
There is correlation here.

“Utilizing an intersectional theoretical approach, this article investigates the convergences of (1) white entitlement, (2) middle-class instability and downward mobility in the postindustrial economy, and (3) heterosexual masculinity and its relationship to violence.”
(PDF) Triple Entitlement and Homicidal Anger: An Exploration of the Intersectional Identities of American Mass Murderers
PDF | In the Unites States, middle-class Caucasian heterosexual males in their teenage years and in middle age commit mass murder, the killing of at... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
www.researchgate.net
November 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I started off way too broad and burned myself out. And then again.

Now I volunteer at the food bank. On top of helping people I just love going there. I always leave feeling better than going in. And it’s enough.

I can’t say I wasn’t warned. Had to learn the hard way.

bsky.app/profile/pris...
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This really answers questions I had.

Trump said he would release them and then suddenly backed out. He would have been aware of the information they had through 2021.

Now we can see why Trump was blindsided by it.
November 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
“The two countries will complete the selection of investment plans by January 2029, Kim said.”

A lot can happen between now and then lol.
November 14, 2025 at 7:06 AM
11/22 is the first date that meets those requirements.

Johnson is probably going to make sure the house has all of Thanksgiving week off.
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
More than that. They will negotiate in the senate.

It still needs to pass the house, where Johnson will do everything in his power to make sure it doesn't get voted on.

And if it somehow passes both of those, Trump will veto it.

Dems got nothing even if they get everything they asked for.
November 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Either change the rules or take advantage of their flaws.

Allowing the GOP to use those flaws but feeling we need to “go high” and not take advantage of them is not how we win.

The GOP taught the Dems they are trapped in a box with no walls.
November 12, 2025 at 4:32 AM