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Ryan Jerome LeCount
@hoosierbluesman.bsky.social
Sociologist. Race & Politics; Policing; Religion; Firearms. Lover of ideas and music. Shepherd of cats. Seeker of Justice and prisoner of Hope. Views my own.
July 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
My politics are whatever this is. 🥴
April 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
If we extend the metaphor out a bit, it’s with noting that the Chicago Bears, whom Green was referring to, got all the way to the Super Bowl but in fact did *not* win that year. One hopes that our institutions will prove just strong enough to prevent the ultimate expression of this movement’s goals.
January 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
There’s been a fair amount of writing (some more recent than the linked piece) suggesting that Vance is anything but an outlier today. Along with tattoos, beards are increasingly associated with reactionary politics.

www.salon.com/2015/12/25/t...
The right-wing beard revolution: Look out, hipsters, here come the counterculture Christians
The newly sprouted beards of American evangelicals are a social rather than a religious statement
www.salon.com
January 8, 2025 at 5:45 AM
There’s the everyday calling out of hypocrisy kind of comment, and then there’s the call-is-coming-from-inside-the-house deep and fundamental moral indictment kind of comment, and this is rather…the latter. Damn.
a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with his mouth wide open .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with his mouth wide open .
media.tenor.com
January 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I would also add (now Nobel Laureate) Claudia Goldin’s pioneering work on this phenomenon- I teach this piece every semester. The analogy with higher ed here is compelling given that there is an evident correlation between enrollment demos & public support for HE

scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/publi...
A Pollution Theory of Discrimination: Male and Female Differences in Occupations and Earnings
Goldin C. A Pollution Theory of Discrimination: Male and Female Differences in Occupations and Earnings. In: Human Capital in History: The American Record. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press ; 2...
scholar.harvard.edu
January 2, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Tikkun!
December 26, 2024 at 2:14 AM
Dude, you have no meeting.
December 21, 2024 at 8:40 PM
I especially appreciate this frame (and approach!) given another oft-used meaning of the phrase:

www.footballarchaeology.com/p/the-origin...
The Origin and Rise of Pancake Blocks
Football’s noblest players, offensive linemen, toil in relative obscurity.
www.footballarchaeology.com
November 18, 2024 at 4:53 PM
FWIW, also born in Virginia.
November 15, 2024 at 6:35 PM
TBH, and I cringe at how cynical a take this is, but the timing in particular of the new night at the garden and the other very nakedly bigoted comments by other surrogates makes me wonder if this isn’t an effort to draw out this exactly this reaction; to provoke a reactionary counter-mobilization.
October 29, 2024 at 12:55 PM
With the introduction by John Schmitz, no less! Reminds one of that other bizarre piece of trivia that this particular right wing zealot was also the father of Mary Kay LeToureau
September 6, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Here’s my novel contribution- and relevant to the extent that punks and metalheads might be grouped together:

x.com/hoosierblues...

Btw, the clever invocation of early Floyd in the handle suggests that maybe your tastes- musical and otherwise- we’re not so much aligned with those metalheads, rite?
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August 23, 2024 at 2:01 PM